With the customary intention of perverting public opinion and duping credulous readers, our Jesuitical local distortionists on June 28 dealt with the deposits in ...
Article : 585 wordsFurther particulars have been received concerning the week of the P. and O. Company's Royal mail steamer Aden. on a reef off the island of Socotra, not far from the ...
Article : 331 wordsThe revenue returns confirm the hope that with the present financial year the melancholy era of deficits in the Victorian revenue has finished. If so ...
Article : 8,422 wordsIn consequence of the disaffection prevailing amongst the native populition at Poona, owing to the preventive measures taken in connection with the plague, a ...
Article : 139 wordsBy the R.M.S. Valetta, which arrived to-day, further particulars were obtained of the rescue of the passengers of the steamer Sultan, near Socotra, on June 10. Every ...
Article : 231 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons last night, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exehequer, made important references to the questions of the contribution ...
Article : 291 wordsThe third show of the New South Wales Sheep-breeders' Association was opened on the Moore-park ground to-day. The bad season has had the effect of reducing the ...
Article : 1,450 wordsThe gift of frozen meat from Australia for distribution amongst the poor of the United Kingdom during Jubilee week has met with a singular reception in some ...
Article : 151 wordsThe quarterly revenue returns for the United Kingdom have been published. They show the total receipts from all sources to be £25,415,860. The Customs yielded ...
Article : 39 wordsA meeting of ship-owners was held yesterday at the offices of the Employers' Union to consider the question of federal quarantine. Mr. George Withers, superintendent ...
Article : 1,196 wordsThe conference of colonial Premiers was resumed yesterday at the Colonial Office, Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, again presiding. ...
Article : 96 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27 9-16d. per ounce standard, or a decline of 1-16d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 28 wordsSevere penalties may be imposed for nonobservance of the provisions of the Companies Act 1896, and from all appearances this fact is either being overlooked by ...
Article : 469 wordsAt Oxford University to-day the honorary degree of docter of civil law (D.C.L.) was conferred on the following Premiers:— Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada; Mr. G. H. ...
Article : 119 wordsTallow.—At to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 2,375 casks were offered, of which 675 were sold. Prices were unchanged, as follows:—Fine mutton, ...
Article : 72 wordsLieut.-Colonel Hoad, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Victorian Forces, who has been attached to the Imperial army in England for the purpose of gaining military ...
Article : 59 wordsThe business of J. Bycroft and Co. Limited, millers and steam biscuit manufacturers, of Auckland, New Zealand, is being converted into a limited hability ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, Premier of New South Wales, has been elected an honorary member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. This is a unique compliment, as the membership ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Pan-Anglican Conference opened its sittings at Lambeth yesterday, the ceremony being attended by devotional exercises. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe latest list obtainable in Melbourne of the officers attached to the ill-fated steamer Aden discloses the names of several who are well known in the colonies. The ...
Article : 292 wordsThe revenue returns for the year ending June 30, 1897, were issued to-day. The receipts are £9,309,269, as compared with £9,251,845 for 1895-6. In the financial ...
Article : 205 wordsThe colonial Premiers and their wives were entertained at dinner last night by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. ...
Article : 246 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly the debats on Mr. Young's motion to refer to the Standing Committee the proposal to extend the railway into the city by way of Hyde-park ...
Article : 365 wordsHer Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will attend the free dinner to the poor of Chelsea in person. ...
Article : 34 wordsA conference of inner area representatives on the Metropolitan Board of Works was held at the Town-hall yesterday to consider the amending bill circulated by the ...
Article : 628 wordsThe ambassadors of the powers in constantinople are strongly pressing the Ports to settle the question of the frontier between Turkey and Greece without delay. ...
Article : 47 wordsAt a preliminary meeting of merchants of Sydney to-day, a committee was appointed to co-operate with the different associations of the colony desirous of taking steps ...
Article : 210 wordsThe articles affected by the tariff reorganisation, brought about by the present Government, on which lower duties are paid from to-day, are as follows:— ...
Article : 212 wordsMajor-General Sir Francis Wallace Gre[?] fell, at present Inspector-General of Auxiliary Forces, War Office, and who was Sirdar of the Egyptian army from 1885 to ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. G. H. Reid will return to New South Wales by way of the United States and Canada. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt has transpired that the reason why the authorities are keeping such a close supervision over the prisoner Butler is that they discovered a long jagged wound across his ...
Article : 60 wordsThe mercantile associations on the Rand have asked the authorities in Pretoria to constitute a Chamber of Agriculture, which should have for its object the ...
Article : 70 wordsAll the railway companies in the United kingdom have presented the colonial Premiers with free passes over their lines. ...
Article : 33 wordsOnly the Assembly sat to-day. Mr. Wood asked the Government to legislate giving the police power to clear the streets of all loiterers, male and female, ...
Article : 450 wordsThe Customs revenue for the year ending June 30 was £717,924, or a decrease of £30,623 as compared with the returns for the preceding 12 months. ...
Article : 107 wordsMessrs. Norton, Smith, and Co. have telegraphed to Mr. Hooley that the New South Wales Frozen Meat Companies are not prepared to entertain any proposal ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Earl of Onslow, formerly Governor of New Zealand, and Lady Onslow, entertained a number of colonial visitors at a garden party yesterday. Amongst those ...
Article : 63 wordsTowards this fund we have received the following additional subscription:— Toorak and South Yarra Try Society's Brass Band................£l 10 0 ...
Article : 32 wordsIn his speech at the prorogation of the Volksraad of the Orange Free State, President Steyn said that although the presence of British troops on the frontier kept alive ...
Article : 46 wordsMessrs. Matheson, Parsons, and Henning have been elected to the Legislative Council. The list of June crushings is as follows:— ...
Article : 50 wordsThe colonial troops paid a visit, by invitation to Portsmouth yesterday, to inspect the dockyard and the vessels of the navy in harbour. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe trafile returns of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company Limited for the month of June has been issued. They show that the number of passengers ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Masonic choral service held in Brunswick on June 20 in aid of the Infectious Diseases Hospital resulted in a collection of £15/15/. The expenses amounted to ...
Article : 219 wordsSir,—We live and learn—at least some of us do. Then, again, there is a reverse to the picture, for many live and do not take advantage of the opportunities afforded ...
Article : 186 wordsThe value of minerals exported during June was £95,865, or £40,680 more than in June, 1896. The increase is due to the Mount Lyell output. ...
Article : 155 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Sir Horace Tozer moved the second reading of the Federation Bill. In doing so he asked the House to forget the past. Mistakes might have been ...
Article : 236 wordsAt the meeting of the Council of Defence held yesterday, at which the Minister of Defence and the military commandant (Sir Charles Holled Smith) were present, ...
Article : 120 wordsJohn James Hehir, of shepparton, butcher. Approximate schedule—Liabilities, £2,100; assets, £400; deficiency, £1,700. Mr. John White, assignee. Filed at ...
Article : 71 wordsHeathfield v. Wilks (part heard), Wright v. Rovida, Stiles v. Firman, Grant v. Fairlam, Edgar v. Sawyers. ...
Article : 40 wordsQ.R.M.S. Fifeshire arrived at Colombo on June 29. R.M.S. Victoria arrived at Colombo from Australia on June 29. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Mayor of Wellington has requested Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co. lo instruct the captain of the Warrimoo, on which Lord and Lady Ranfurly are ...
Article : 66 wordsWith advancing years greyness increases. Stop this with LOCKYER'S SULPHUR HAIR RESTORER, which darkens to the former colour and preserves the appearance.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. E. G. Fitzgibbon, honorary treasurer, acknowledges with thanks the following further subscriptions to the fund:— Directors, general manager, and officers ...
Article : 47 wordsOur Australian Diamond Jubilee Song Album (Just out) containing National Airs of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Poland, and ...
Article : 45 wordsOf all the boons to weary men, When worried or distressed, A pipe of "Main-top Navy" stands A "cut" above the rest.—[Advt.] ...
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Article : 24 wordsThe retail, wholesale, half-price, and secondhand departments of Cole's Book Arcade, Melbourne, contain the largesr and most varied assortment of books, we believe, in any trading ...
Article : 37 wordsPear's Soap is fragrant, refreshing, and soothing.—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 2 Jul 1897, Page 5
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