The Cuban insurgents have accepted the armictice, and all fighting on the island has been discontinued. In dealing with the campaign which has ...
Article : 154 wordsTelegrams from Shanghai state that Russia is intriguing at Peking with the object of obtaining the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs, now under the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" publishes a letter from its correspondent at Rome respecting the health of Pope Leo the Thirteenth, who, a few days ago, was reported to be suffering ...
Article : 84 wordsSome days ago a cousin of Major Esterhazy, who has made himself so notorious in connection with the Dreyfus case, confessed having assisted the Major and Colonel du ...
Article : 196 wordsTo one portion of the Budget the Treasurer has properly called attention, as involving a doubtful principle. He proposes to continue and extend ...
Article : 7,957 wordsFullet information is now available of the wreek of the American barquentine C. C. Funk on Flinders lsland, as to which a meagre report only was forthcoming ...
Article : 1,061 wordsThe Post-office clock was chiming 8 as we steamed down Sydney Harbour on the evening of Thursday, June 2. The city was all bustle and excitement, and party feeling ...
Article : 2,161 wordsParliament having been prorogued on Friday, all the members of the Cabinet except Mr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury, have left London. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Hungarian Cabinet and members of the Reichstag have decided not to accept an ausgleich, or arrangement fixing the respective contributions of Austria and ...
Article : 434 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee on Telephones has brought up a report in which it recommends drastic changes, in order to break down the monopoly of the National ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Boers of the Transvaal have lately been trekking in considerable numbers into Rhodesia, and across the Zambesi. Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape ...
Article : 135 wordsThe divided duty which devolves upon the Premier of providing for his rejected colleagues and at the same time filling their places sits very lightly upon him. ...
Article : 764 wordsThe weather is intensely hot, more particularly over the southern portion of England and in France. Many cases of sunstroke are reported both ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is estimated that the cost of the war to the United States up to date is 150,000,000 dollars (—30,000,000). ...
Article : 28 wordsA fortnight ago news was received of a [?]erious disaster to a French expedition in West Africa. A small force of Senega[?]ese troops, under the command of Captain ...
Article : 126 wordsIn a cricket match between the counties of Middlesex and Leicestershire, which was finished yesterday, Albert Trott, formerly of Melbourne, playing for the first-named ...
Article : 70 wordsOn Saturday morning several shots were fired from Morro Castle, at Havana, at the cruiser San Francisco, the flagship of Commodore John A. Howell. One shot hit the ...
Article : 86 wordsA terrible railway accident has occurred in France. An excursion train from Paris was derailed at Lisi[?]ux, in the northern ...
Article : 55 wordsPercy Cavill, the Sydney amateur swimmer, who has been in England for some time past, and has been successful in a good many matches, has joined the ranks of the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe American force under Lieut. Colonel Theodore Schwan, which a few days ago repulsed a large body of Spanish troops near Mayaguez, a seaport on tne west coast of ...
Article : 76 wordsHawaii has paid Japan the sum of 75,000 dollars (£15,000), in settlement of the difficulty arising out of the exclusion of Japanese immigrants from Honolulu some time ...
Article : 41 wordsVery rich gold discoveries have been made at Lake Tagish, beyond the Chilkoot Pass, on the road to the Klondike goldfield. ...
Article : 69 wordsIf the statement made to the Chief Secretary at Ballarat on Saturday is correct, the wandering band of gipsies, who recently crossed the South Australian border ...
Article : 380 wordsA receiving order has been made against Mr. A. F. Calvert, the West Australian mining speculator, and promoter of the Wells exploring expedition into the ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the meeting of the Fitzroy Council last evening, the question as to the acceptance of the offer of Mr. J. W. Hutchinson to supply gas for lighting the street lamps within the municipality, which ...
Article : 971 wordsThe Governments of Spain and the United States have heartity thanked m. Cambon, the French ambassador at Washington, for his valuable services, which ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Bernard Ingleby, one of the observers at Mount Kosciusko, arrived at Cooma today, en route for Sydney, where he will have an interview with Mr. Clement ...
Article : 194 wordsAn inquiry was held to-day at Tamworth into the cause of death of Elizabeth Warden, the victim of the shooting case at Nundle last week. The evidence showed ...
Article : 299 wordsAdmiral Cervera, who was taken prisoner by the Americans on July 3, when his fleet was destroyed outside the harbour of Santiago de Cuba, and who subsequently ...
Article : 149 wordsAn inquest was opened to-day, before the district[?]coroner, Mr. Dwyer, P.M., concerning the death of the cabman, Isaac Potter, who died in the hospital from injuries which ...
Article : 452 wordsConsiderable excitement was occasioned in police circles this morning by the escape from the Albury Gaol of a young man named Patrick White. ...
Article : 363 wordsAt a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association held to-night, a letter was read from the University Cricket Club applying for re-admission to the association, ...
Article : 214 wordsA horrible accident took place on the Flinders-street viaduct about 6 o'clock last evening, when an old man of 77 named Michael Hufford was run over by an ...
Article : 361 wordsThe manager of the Electric Telegraph office received the following telegram from Port Albert yesterday morning:—"Captain R. R. Anderson, of the s.s. Charlotte ...
Article : 164 wordsAnnie M'Coll, licensee of the Globe Hotel, Port Melbourne, was charged yesterday, before Messrs. Burroughs and Francis, J.P.'s, with Sunday trading on the 31st July. Defendant pleaded guilty, ...
Article : 351 wordsThe cargo and wreekage are now in charge of the Customs officer at Flinders Island, and will probably be sold in Melbourne, where the inquiry will be held. ...
Article : 163 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Montgomery v. Applegate (summons), Cayron v. Russelt (part heard). First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice Holroyd and a jury of six.) ...
Article : 204 wordsThe w[?]ne judging at the Corowa show commenced to-day, 13 sections being dealt with. The following is the result:— Dry Red Full, One Year and Over.—M'Laurin ...
Article : 198 wordsA dangerous character has gone back to gaol for three months. His name is William Green, and in person he is young and powerfully built. Youth, however, has been no bar in his case to ...
Article : 180 wordsAn application was made to Messrs. Burroughs and Francis, J.P.'s, at the Port Melbourne Court yesterday, by F. T. Warren, to obtain an order absolute to recover the sum of £11/5/ from the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 16 Aug 1898, Page 5
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