From all sides we have heard approval of our criticism of the policy of the central committee of the Bush Fires Relief Fund, and there is a consensus of opinion ...
Article : 3,723 wordsThe British Foreign Office confirms the report that China has agreed to open her internal waterways to foreign trade in June. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe trial of M. Zola, who is charged with libelling military officers in connection with the Dreyfus case, was continued to-day, when M. Labori concluded his address ...
Article : 159 wordsIn the House of Lords last night an important statement was made by the Marquis of Salisbury respecting the position of affairs in West Africa. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe vexations delays in the cable service between Australia and Great Britain have at last proved too muchh for the patience of commercial men, and they ...
Article : 2,304 wordsAt the meeting of the Executive to-day the resignation of Mr. Thynne, the Minister of Agriculture, was tendered, owing to private affairs requiring his undivided ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Cabinet was occupied for three hours last night considering the comprehensive scheme devised by the Water Supply department to provide the mallee country ...
Article : 979 wordsThe arrangements for the issue of a Chinese loan of £10,000,000 have now been completed. The loan, which will bear interest at the ...
Article : 61 wordsNo event has so deeply stirred musical circles here as the debut of Madame Albani in the town-hall to-night. Outside among the public generally had been heard ...
Article : 411 wordsThe latest information to hand of the relations between England and France on the Niger are the most reassuring character, and the London Stock Exchange, which was ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Justice Wright, of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, recently ordered, at the instance of the New Zealand Shipping Company, the winding-up of ...
Article : 200 wordsIn view of the importance of the subject of cable communication with Great Britain, and of the statement of Mr. Duffy, the Postmaster-General, when replying to ...
Article : 1,394 wordsAt the instance of Japan, China has pressed Russia to renew her assurance that she will withdraw from Port Arthur after the winter. ...
Article : 76 wordsFour hundred additional infantry from Bombay have been ordered to Mombassa, the port of British East Africa, in order to replace others who are being sent on to ...
Article : 57 wordsIt was reported at Hong Kong a few days ago that 7,000 French troops were mobilised at Mong-Kai, a port of Tougking opposite the island of Hainan, and that it ...
Article : 69 wordsIt was recently stated that despite the successes of the punitive force sent under Major Macdonald against the rebels in Uganda the trouble was by no means ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Government of Newfoundland has agreed to transfer the railway and telegraph systems of the colony to Mr. Reid, a contractor, by whom they will in future be ...
Article : 103 wordsArrangements have been made for the despatch of a German expedition to the Antarctic regions. It is intended to explore the west coast ...
Article : 44 wordsA meeting was held here last night, called by the Deakin Shire Council, to consider the proposed exportation of wheat. The shire president, Mr. Thorneton, was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Stock Board's Council to-day strong disapproval was expressed at the proposal of the Minister of Lands to let stock route No. 19,922 ...
Article : 309 wordsThe 4 per cent. debentures, amounting to £300,000, issued by the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company at par, have been over-subscribed. ...
Article : 198 wordsWheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,217,000 quarters, as against 3,030,000 quarters last week, and ...
Article : 63 wordsAt Newcastle to-day the Marine Board began an inquiry into the loss of the brig Minora off Broken Bay on January 1 last. W. Gallant, the master of the vessel, having ...
Article : 371 wordsMr. E. Mansfield, Crown prosecutor, has been appointed-fourth district judge, owing to the requirements of the Land Act of 1897. Mr. B. A. Ross, of Townsville, ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the criminal sittings to-day, Josef Pedro, a Portuguese, and Johann Anderson, a Russian Finn, were charged with having killed John Lee, an English sailor, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Victorian banks, in opposing the proposal to make the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth the final court of appeal, are receiving the support of the banks of New ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the Warden's Court to-day 11 persons were summoned for having disobeyed an order of the Court to ecase working on the Ivanhoe Venture lease. The proceedings ...
Article : 426 wordsThe Union Company is claiming £3,500 for the salvage of the ship Nelson, which recently struck on a rock in Cook Strait, and was towed off by the Tarawera. ...
Article : 49 wordsSir,—Surely the ways of bakers are past finding out. I pay and have been paying 5d, for the 41b, loaf, while I find other people are paying 8d. My baker stands ...
Article : 83 wordsAn assemblage of 200 persons met in the town-hall this afternoon, on the occasion of the presentatin of an address from the employes of the "Hobart Mercury" and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 378 wordsThe land board to-day continued the hearing of the proposal for a supplementary exchange at Brookong. After Mr. Barrow, surveyor, had testified that the continuity ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 24 Feb 1898, Page 5
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