It is reported from New York that the American marines who were landed at Guantanamo for the purpose of establishing a navel base at that port, which is about ...
Article : 229 wordsRussia is displaying extraordinary diplomatic activity at Peking. She has secured from China the right to construct a railway, commencing from a ...
Article : 130 wordsThe convention concluded between Great Britain and France, by which the disputed claims of the two countries to territory on the Niger, and in other parts of West ...
Article : 118 wordsLord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, read a paper before the Royal Colonial Institute last night, on the "Social and Political Progress of Victoria." ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Premier has abandoned his southern trip, and is making his way back to Sydney overland as fast as he can. He left Bodalla this morning, and travelled 66 ...
Article : 704 wordsThe fruit inspectors state that a quantity of the fruit now shipped to Sydney from the other colonies is so free from disease that when samples are required for ...
Article : 366 wordsWith the impending landing of a small American army corps on the southern coast of Cuba the war enters upon a new phase. So far it ...
Article : 6,989 wordsA special inquiry was made from Mr. Reid to-night at Milton whether the rumours that Parliament would not meet and that the general election would be ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Barton is unlikely to contest the King division against the Premier as his colleagues on the election committee of the Federal Association think that he should ...
Article : 161 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies last night a resolution was moved by the Radicals pledging the Government to rely exclusively on the republican majority in the ...
Article : 135 wordsActing under instructions from their Governments, Sir Andrew Clarke, AgentGeneral for Victoria, and Sir Daniel Cooper, Acting Agent-General for New South Wales, ...
Article : 58 wordsYesterday a deputation representing the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom waited on the Marquis of Salisbury, and urged that the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe City Council to-day discussed the report of the committee on the various departments of the corporation. The aldermen, who spoke strongly, advocated the ...
Article : 79 wordsA statement of interest was made to-day by Mr. Garrard, Minister of Labour. He, with Mr. Reid, Mr. Carruthers, and Dr. Garran, were the only members of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe latest advices from Guantanamo state that the American marines are in a critical position. They are exhausted by the incessant ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Earl of Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada, who is retiring from that position, delivered a farewell speech to the Dominion Parliament to-day. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe sheep-owners at Goodooga and other districts are protesting against the circular from the Board of Health stating that greasy wool must not be scoured in creeks ...
Article : 128 wordsThe final returns are now to hand, the full totals being—Ayes, 906; noes, 200. The following complete the list of polling-places in this electorate:—Bendoe—Ayes, 36; ...
Article : 77 wordsAlthough the United States squadron under Rear-Admiral Sampson has twice bombarded Santiago de Cuba there is no likelihood that it will run short of ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. T. J. Byrnes to-day, after a meeting of the Cabinet, sent telegrams to the Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria, stating that he is giving serious ...
Article : 70 wordsThe local authorities in South Wales have made another appeal to Mr. C. T. Ritchie, president of the Board of Trade, to intervene in the dispute between the ...
Article : 335 wordsThe council of the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, has for some time past been considering the advisability of making important changes in the ...
Article : 434 wordsThe United States Congress has unanimously voted the immediate payment of the amount awarded to Canada in connection with the Behring seal fisheries ...
Article : 41 wordsBar silver is quoted at 26?d. per oz. standard, being an advance of ?d. since the 10th inst. ...
Article : 25 wordsTo-day the Premier and Ministers of Mines, Agriculture, and Education proceeded to Moreton Bay, on board the Government steamer, for the purpose of ...
Article : 115 wordsWheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,680,000 quarters, as against 2,690,000 quarters last week, and 1,110,000. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Holder), replying to the suggestion by Mr. Reid and others in New South Wales that the less populous colonies are relying upon New South Wales ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Spanish reserve fleet, formed at Cadiz, under Admiral Camara, has bee strengthened by the addition of the new cruiser Lepanto. ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. P. D. Armour, the "pork king" of Chicago, Mr. Joseph Leiter's chief competitor in the recent heavy wheat speculations, which have ended so disastrously ...
Article : 101 wordsA meeting of the members of the Anti-Convention Bill League was held last evening in the Trades-hall. The chairman of the league Mr. Stephen Barker, presided, ...
Article : 1,471 wordsThe Cabinet to-day approved a reduction in the telegraphic rate between Queensland and New South Wales, making the rate 1/ for ten words, exclusive of address. ...
Article : 32 wordsA number of the swiftest American war-ships are assembling at Hampton Roads. An impression prevails that the Americans contemplate an attack upon Admiral ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the sessions to-day Dennis, Peter, and Benjamin Thomas Mullavey, sons of a wellknown farmer and grazier at Wyndham, were charged with shooting a valuable ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Colonial Secretary, Mr. George Randell, M.L.C., intends shortly to introduce an amending bill, with a view of doing away with certain anomalies of the present ...
Article : 254 wordsThere was general rejoicing in political circles to-day when it was known that the Premier was speeding at post-haste back to Sydney. Legislators generally want to be ...
Article : 695 wordsThe Royal Ascot meeting was commenced to-day. The principal event on the card was the Gold Vase, which resulted as under:— ...
Article : 161 wordsA telegram was sent yesterday by the Minister of Agriculture to Mr. Sydney Smith, the Minister of Agriculture of New South Wales, congratulating him on having ...
Article : 136 wordsThe four German war-ships under the command of Admiral Diedrichs, which were reported as being at the Philippines, have arrived at Manila. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe mystery of the return of vacant houses in the Melbourne suburbs, which was challenged in our columns by Messrs. F. L. Flint and Co. and Messrs. Forbes and ...
Article : 406 wordsA few days since it was reported that cattle ticks had been discovered upon cattle slaughtered at the Eagle Farm Meat Works. Mr. Pound, the bacteriologist, states that ...
Article : 50 wordsA bill for the centralisation of the police passed the second reading in the Assembly this evening on the voices, after a brief discussion. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice and a special jury, the action of Joseph Williams v. the Adelaide Steamship Company for £3,000 damages, was ...
Article : 156 wordsThe wrecked steamer Grafton is still on the sand spit near Macquarie Bar. The steam launch visited the wreck to-day, and the sea being smooth several people boarded ...
Article : 135 wordsThe debate on the question of the annexation of Hawaii by the United States is still proceeding in Congress, the chief argument used in favour of annexation being ...
Article : 100 wordsFrancis Henry Capper, of Victoriaparade, Collingwood, plumber, Causes of insolvency—Adverse judgment in the County Court, Melbourne, and depreciation ...
Article : 267 wordsMr. Wilson Hall, a well-known landowner, was charged at the Invercargill Police Court with using indecent language on the occasion of the Governor's recent ...
Article : 65 wordsThe barque Otago, which recently made the voyage to Natal and back, had a very unpleasant experience in the suicide of the chief officer, Mr. Bush, who jumped ...
Article : 140 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Re Hughes, deceased (part heard). First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice Hood.) ...
Article : 172 wordsAn American paper describes the emergency ration given to each soldier on occasions when, for the regular field action, has to be substituted that carried on the ...
Article : 211 wordsNo further tidings have been received of the missing barque Fido. Her officers and crew were:—S. Morison, master; George Steward, mate; Richard Vaughan, second ...
Article : 62 wordsShortly after day break this morning the body of a man named George Fisher was discovered on a vacant allotment in Dudleystreet, West Perth, face downwards in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 16 Jun 1898, Page 5
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