Reuter's Telegram Company has received a message giving details of the wreck of the P. and O. Company's Royal mail steamer Aden on a reef off the island ...
Article : 271 wordsHer Majesty the Queen yesterday reviewed at Windsor Castle 4,000 boy volunteers from the public schools of England. The volunteers were under the command of ...
Article : 182 wordsAdvices from Athens state that the Turkish military authorities at Larissa, in Thessaly, have arrested three leading citizens of the town and sent them over the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Conference of Colonial Premiers was resumed yesterday at the Colonial Office, Mr.Chamberlain (the Secretary of State for the Colonies) presiding. ...
Article : 299 wordsA most satisfactory report has been received from Dr. Hunt in relation to the experiments in inoculation with the tick fever. It gives a striking confirmation of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsThe following circular has been largely distributed among manufacturers and storekeepers enjoying the advantages of the High Tariff. It speaks for itself:— ...
Article : 212 words"The effects of the free-trade policy" is the title given by our High Tariff contemporary to the discussion of the last vote of censure moved by Mr. Lyne on ...
Article : 8,456 wordsThe Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the Jameson raid on the Transvaal and the grievances of the Uitlanders has decided to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsThe revenue returns for the financial year 1896-7, which closed yesterday, were issued by the Treasury last night, and they show that, despite the bad season experienced by ...
Article : 1,275 wordsThe bicycle sports which were postponed from last Saturday on account of the downpour of rain will be run off on Saturday afternoon and evening next, commencing ...
Article : 73 wordsThe first annual show of the newly-formed Poultry Club of New South Wales was held to-day in the grounds of the Benevolent Institute, Redfern. Close upon 1,200 ...
Article : 320 wordsOn Friday last Mr. A. Renfrew, mayor of Fitzroyo, received from Mrs. W. J. Turner, on behalf of the Princess Ida Court, the sum of £20, the result of the dance held ...
Article : 64 words"Dominion Day," the anniversary of the constitution of the Dominion of Canada, was celebrated yesterday by a banquet, at which Sir Donald Smith, the Canadian ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the debate in the Legislative Assembly on Mr. Lyne's motion for the adjournment, in order to call attention to the effect of the provisions of the Customs Duties Act of ...
Article : 612 wordsIn aid of the Queen's Memorial Fever Hospital Fund, the Victorian Operatic Society will perform the romantic military opera "The Hermit's Bell," at the Bijou ...
Article : 67 wordsLast session the Treasurer (Sir George Turner) induced Parliament to pass an act anthorising the Governement to give 12 months' notice of its intention to redeem ...
Article : 406 wordsIn connection with the recent shooting of officials charged with the carrying out of measures for preventing the spread of the plague at Bombay, it appears that for ...
Article : 118 wordsH.R.H. the Prince of Wales is desirous of making the acquaintance of the colonial military contingents, and will inspect them at Buckingham Palace on Saturday next. ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Richard Seddon, the Premier, and Mr. W. P. Reeves, the Agent-General of New Zealand, and Sir John Hall, formerly Premier of the colony, yesterday discussed ...
Article : 144 wordsThe total revenue for the year ending June 30 shows receipts £2,624,353, or an increase of £44,620 on the estimates. Customs receipt have produced £597,111, or ...
Article : 198 wordsSince the death sentence was passed on the prisoner Butler, it has been found necessary to place him in a specially-prepared straight-jacket, as the authorities ...
Article : 187 wordsTwo additional Jubilee honours are announced. A baronetcy has been conferred on Sir James Reid, physician in ordinary to Her ...
Article : 46 wordsAt Sir Henry Irving's reception at the Lyceum Theatre the colonial Premiers, who were present, met Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress, who said ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. John Dillon, the leader of the main division of the Irish Nationalist Party, moved a resolution in favour of a reduction of the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe colonial bishops who are visiting England in connection with the approaching Lambeth Conference were entertained last night by the Bishop of London, the ...
Article : 111 wordsMeetings of commercial men, produce merchants of Sussex-street, and fat-stock salesmen decided to-day to take part in the general movement to establish some ...
Article : 44 wordsYesterday morning "Commander" Booth, accompanied by Mrs. Booth and several of the leading officers of the Salvation Army, waited upon His Excellency the Governor ...
Article : 1,033 wordsA sale of Government lands was held at Brisbane to-day. Sixty lots in the county of Musgrave, parish of Corowa, area 18,060 acres, were sold at an upset price of 10/ per ...
Article : 341 wordsThe Commissioner of Customs yesterday dealt with a case in which the firm of Blogg Bros. were charged with improperly passing a consignment of arrowroot, which is ...
Article : 716 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Ashton said that it had been stated outside that the box used in connection with motions for the adjournment of the House ...
Article : 630 wordsA serious stabbing case, the principals in which are well known residents, was brought under the notice of the police last night. It would appear from statements ...
Article : 235 wordsFor several weeks past a verv important trail has been proceeding in New York, in connection with the methods of combination adopted by the gigantic trusts ...
Article : 140 wordsThe question of the construction of a tunnel under the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland was yesterday brought under the notice of Mr. Ritchie, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsA peculiar scene occurred in the City Police Court this afternoon during the hearing of a case in which a Frenchman, named Louis Donot, was charged with stabbing ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Perim Coal Company Limited (Messrs. Hinton, Spalding, and Co.), of Liverpool, has been awarded the sum of £11,000 for salvage in connection with the ...
Article : 74 wordsColonel Frank Makin will act as commandant of the military forces during the absence on leave of Colonel Gordon. Mr. Harry Furniss, who has finished a ...
Article : 90 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders in the General Gordon Extended Gold-mining Company to-day a shareholder characterised the mine as a swindle, and the opinion was expressed ...
Article : 71 wordsThe House of Lords last night, by a majority of 17, rejected a bill, introduced by Lord Hobhouse, a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsWheat and Flour.— The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 950,000 quarters, as against 978,000 quarters last week, and ...
Article : 64 wordsThe total railway revenue of South Australia proper for 1896-7 was £1,020,924, which, although some £9,000 less than the Treasurer's estimate when the Budget ...
Article : 160 wordsSydney George Mander, of Walhalla, bootmaker. Liabilities, £56/17/; assests, £1/10/; deficiency, £53/7. Mr. Rothwell, assignee. Filed at Walhalla. ...
Article : 87 wordsR.M.S. Occana arrived at Suez from Australia on June 20. R.M.S. Duke of Buckingham arrived at Suez on June 28 from Australia. ...
Article : 30 wordsOur Australian Diamond Jubilee Song Album (Just out) containing National Airs of England, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy. Denmark, Poland, and ...
Article : 46 wordsOf all the boons to weary men, When worried for distressed, A pipe of "Main-top Navy" stands A "cut" above the rest.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 38 wordsThe retail, wholesale, half-price, and secondhand departments of Cole's Book Arcade, Melbourne, contain the largest and most varied assortment of books, we believe, in any trading ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe constant use of Pears' Soap.— [Advt.] ...
Article : 12 words"Of the highest degree of purity."— "Health."—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 1 Jul 1897, Page 5
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