In view of the critical condition of affairs in China, the British Admiralty are taking active steps in Hong Kong to prepare for emergencies. ...
Article : 635 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, Premier of New South Wales, addressed a crowded audience at the town-hall to-night. The mayor (Alderman Harris) presided. ...
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Article : 327 wordsThe elections for the Legislative Council of Cape Colony have been held, and the supporters of Mr. Cecil Rhodes are in a majority of four. ...
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Article : 85 wordsThe death is announced of Mrs. Parnell, mother of the late Irish political leader, Charles Stewart Parnell. Mrs. Parnell died at Avondale, county Wicklow, Ireland, in ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. Justice A. H. Simpson, sitting in Equity to-day, granted an application of Patrick Maher, of Surry Hills, for an injunetion restraining Thos. E. Bellamy from ...
Article : 573 wordsA by-election has been held for the return of a member to represent Maidstone in the House of Commons. Mr. Cornwallis, Conservative, has been returned by a majority ...
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Article : 87 wordsSome months ago the Premier wrote to the Agent-General, asking him to lay before the Admiralty proposals for making Albany a naval base, and undertaking to ...
Article : 242 wordsDr. Morris having pronounced Mr. Henry Gyles Turner sufficiently recovered to be able to bear removal here, he made the journey to Christchurch to-day. He is as ...
Article : 560 wordsThe official trade statistics of Great Britain and Germany for the year 1897 have been published. The statistics show that the imports of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Government of the Porte, who have been resisting the appointment of Prince George of Greece, the nominee of Russia, for the Governorship of Crete, have put ...
Article : 74 wordsFive hundred and fifty shares in the Auckland Gas Company offered to the public by the board of directors were taken up to-day at £14/12/9. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe billiard match between F. Weiss, of Australia, and John Roberts, the English champion, ended in a win for Weiss. The match was 21,000 up, and Roberts ...
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Article : 396 wordsH.M.S. Barfleur, a first-class armoured battle-ship, has been ordered to Nagasaki, Japan. [The Barfleur was launched at Cha[?]ham ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 29 Mar 1898, Page 5
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