The Corporation of Greater New York, which came into existence it the beginning of the year, has declined to recognise the contracts entered into by its predecessors, ...
Article : 150 wordsLater advices from Manila, where a great naval engagement between the Spanish and American Squadrons took place yesterday morning, report that the disaster to Spain ...
Article : 130 wordsThe death is announced of Prince Kung, brother of Hien Fung, Emperor of China, who died in 1861. [In March last Prince Kung, who was ...
Article : 87 wordsPrompt action has been taken by the Minister of Agriculture in regard to the spread of the tick disease among cattle in the southern portion of Queensland ...
Article : 232 wordsAccording to the statement of the Government statist which we published on Saturday last, the commerce of the seven Australaisan colonies for ...
Article : 7,567 wordsA few days ago it was announced that a large American force was mobilised, and ready to embark at Tampa, in Florida, for Cuba. ...
Article : 51 wordsAs already announced, seriours bread riots have occurred at Naples, Foggia, 80 miles north-east of that city, and Bari, a town of 55,000 inhabitants, on the east coast of ...
Article : 84 wordsFollowing the example of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Mexico, Portugal and Japan have issued proclamations announcing their intention of remaining neutral in ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Stock department has sent four inspectors to Bundaberg, to trace the locale of the late outbreak of tick in the areas south from that town. Measure are being ...
Article : 405 wordsThe Russian railway from Merv to Kushk, on the Afghan frontier, about 93 miles from Herat, is now practically completed. [It was reported from St. Petersburg on ...
Article : 401 wordsH.M.S. Torch has been ordered to Hokianga in connection with the native trouble there. The New Zealand land forces have already arrived. The Rawene natives, who ...
Article : 346 wordsRussia has at last issued a proclamation of neutrality during the war. ...
Article : 19 wordsDuring the fight in Manila harbour the commanders of two Spanish war-ships were ...
Article : 135 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has appointed CaptainH. G. Feilden, of the 79th Battalion King's Royal Rifles, his private secretary, vice Captain A. F. H. Ferguson, ...
Article : 614 wordsThe Spaniards have destroyed the wreck of the United States war-ship Maine, which was sunk by an explosion in Havana harbour on February 15. ...
Article : 67 wordsFurther details of the battle in Manila ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 143 wordsThe Spanish steamer Argonauta, 938 tons, owned by Messrs. Menendez and Co., of Cienfuegas, Cuba, has been captured by the Americans, who are blockading that ...
Article : 53 wordsFor the Chester Cup (about two miles and a quarter), to be rua to-day, the Australian-bred horse Mermaa, owned by Mrs. Lily Langtry, has been backed at 6 to 1. ...
Article : 56 wordsFifty cases of lemons and oranges shipped from Sydney for Auckland by the steamer Elingamite have been condemned by the Government entomologist, on the ground ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsThe Finance Committee of the United States Senate has omitted from the War Revenue Bill the provision increasing the tonnage dues on foreign shipping in American ...
Article : 66 wordsThe revenue returns for April are £332,000, against £293,000 for the corresponding month of last year. The chief increases were—Taxation, £13,000; ...
Article : 154 wordsThe flags at the American consulate here and on the American ships in the harbour were flying to-day in honour of the American victory at Manila. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe fever seourge is apparently dying hard, for when the report of Dr. Molloy, the medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital, was read at the meeting ...
Article : 235 wordsThe apples shipped by the R.M.S. Ormuz, which left Melbourne on March 22, have arrived in excellent condition. Mrs. Camilla Nicholls, of Kensington, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Tasmanian Fire Brigade Boards are arranging for reports by Chief-officer Stein, of Melbourne. HOBART, Tuesday. ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. C. Delohery, S.M., at the Redfern Police Court to-day, refused the application of a number of Syrians for hawkers' licenses, on the ground that the men had ...
Article : 117 wordsFor some time past there has been a comsiderable increase in the exports of coal to Manila from Newcastle. The exports during 1896 were 62,782 tons, which increased ...
Article : 223 wordsDuring the month of April 84,082oz. of gold, valued at £319,517, were exported from the colony. The eight Bulong alluvial miners who ...
Article : 258 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Australasian, from Melbourne March 10; Ncotsfield, from Sydney January ...
Article : 227 wordsA telegram has been received from the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Charles Mitchell, giving important particulars of the engagement. ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. W. Anderson, M.L.A., died to-day from an extension of facial crysipelas the brain and news of his demise followed so quickly upon the announcement of his ...
Article : 374 wordsGreat exultation is felt in the United States at the decisive victory achieved by the American fleet. It is generally anticipated that Spain will ...
Article : 90 wordsThe rainfall, which came in from Queensland on Sunday, has now extended right along the coastal districts and into the apper portion of Riverina, where no rain ...
Article : 213 wordsOn March 7 last the Eastern Extention Telegraph Company's officials stationed at Bolinao, in the Philippine Islands, where the cable from Hong Kong was landed, ...
Article : 782 wordsThe Mayor of Melbourne, hon. treasurer of the Central Relief Fund, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following additional subscriptions:—Amount previously acknowledged, £11,145 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 228 wordsThe disaster sustained by the Spanish in Manila has caused intense excitement in Madrid. Martial law has been proclaimed in the ...
Article : 74 wordsJames Keir Leitch, of 39 Havelockstreet, St. Kilda, clerk. Causes of insolvency—Sickness and deaths in family, want of remmerative employment, and pressure ...
Article : 185 wordsR.M.S. Britannia left Colombo for Australian on the 2nd inst. R.M.S. Tokomarn left MOnte Video on the 1st inst. ...
Article : 38 wordsAt Halt-past 11 a.m.—White v. Gr[?]thead, Brich claimant; Cowie v. the Berry Consols, &c., G.M. Co., Rayner v. the Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society Ltd.; in re trade mark of ...
Article : 208 wordsIt is reported that Senor Sagasta, the Spanish Premier, has informed the Queen Regent that the port of Cavite, about eleven miles south-west of Manila, has been ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 4 May 1898, Page 5
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