The weather on Saturday was in every way suited to outdoor sport, and in consequence the Melbourne Cricket-ground was crowded with some 20,000 people to ...
Article : 2,212 wordsAdmiral Dewey, the American naval commander at Manila, has reported to the United States Government that he expects serious trouble with the insurgent ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Court of Cassation is pursuing its investigation in the Dreyfus case, with the object of deciding on the question of a revision of the proceedings. ...
Article : 199 wordsIt is unnecessary to say that the discussion and decisions of the New South Wales Legislative Council with regard to the amendment of the ...
Article : 6,210 wordsAdvices from the north-west frontier of India state that the situation is now more favourable. The tribesmen, impelled by religious ...
Article : 128 wordsWhen a large quantity of the pastoral and dairy produce of Victoria, representing the harvest of some hundreds of the smaller, and consequently poorer, of the producers ...
Article : 2,716 wordsIn the Cape House of Assembly last night Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Premier, introduced a bill to provide that the colony should annually contribute the sum of ...
Article : 178 wordsIntelligence was received to-day that Mr. James Tyson, M.L.C., died yesterday, at Cambooya, on Darling Downs. The death of James Tyson has removed ...
Article : 578 wordsThe outbreak of the bubonic plague at Tamatave, the principal port of Madagascar, is very severe, and is spreading. [IT was announced 10 days ago that the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe latest news from the Philippines states that the hostility of the insurgents to the United States is increasing. A republican government has been ...
Article : 76 wordsThe amount subscribed for the Gordon College at Khartoum, for which Lord Kitchener has appealed to the public for £100,000, is already £50,000, or half the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe steamer Clan Drummond, 2,908 tons, of the Clan line, owned by Messrs. Cayzer, Irvine, and Co., of Glasgow, and bound from Liverpool to Delagoa Bay, has ...
Article : 59 wordsIt appears that the Court of Cassation is powerless to postpone the court-martial on Colonel Picquart. Neither is it able to enforce its decisions if these are opposed ...
Article : 241 wordsMr. Russell Alger, the United States Secretary for War, suggests that a force of native troops should be raised by America in the Philippines. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe International anti-Anarchist Conference, which is sitting in Rome, has had under consideration the question of formulating amendments to extradition treaties ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Imperial Parliament has been summoned to meet on February 7 next for the despatch of business. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Chinese Minister at Washington, Wou Ting Fang, has appealed to the United States Government not to exclude the Chinese from the Philippines. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe London press is strongly supporing an appeal by Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, M.P. for Canterbury, to the Australasian Premiers to agree to an Imperial penny ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Oliver, the chief Railway Commissioner, states in reply to what has been already published concerning the attitude of Mr. Gray, the Queensland ...
Article : 425 wordsDr. Sidswell, the medical officer, having certified that no risk of infection existed in connection with the case of small-pox on the ship Orpheus, at Newcastle, it was ...
Article : 84 wordsSuggestions have been made by Mr. Russell Alger, the American Secretary for War, with a view to the pacification of Cuba. He proposes that America should ...
Article : 66 wordsIntense heat still prevails in the Western districts. Some highest shade records yesterday were:—Hillston, 106; Bourke, 105; Balranald, 104; Broken Hill, 102; and ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day, the competition was animated. Merinoes were firm, and crossbreds showed a slight improvement. ...
Article : 301 wordsThe jubilee of the accession of the Emperor Francis Joseph to the throne of Austria was celebrated yesterday in Vienna and the other chief cities of the empire. ...
Article : 139 wordsEarly last night it was found that a fire had occurred in the forecastle of the iron steamship Nithsdale, 1,890 tons, commanded by Captain Haddon, and lying at ...
Article : 216 wordsThe attitude of Russia with regard to Persia is causing some uneasiness. Eleven thousand troops are being sent to the Caucasus to reinforce the Russian ...
Article : 43 wordsIn April last Herr J. Stadling and a companion were despatched from Stockholm to the Arctic regions to search for the missing Andree expedition. ...
Article : 239 wordsFurther serious disorders are reported from Morocco, which is already ravaged by piracy, rebellion, and civil war, and menaced by external troubles. ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. David Wilson, the head of the Export department, when these facts were brought under his notice, indignantly repudiated the suggestion of favouritism ...
Article : 488 wordsThe temperature during the last couple of days has risen considerably. It was 102 deg. in the shade to-day. Sir Charles Todd states that the warm weather is ...
Article : 35 wordsSome comments made in Melbourne recently on the morality of church bazaars were alluded to by Cardinal Moran yesterday when opening a fancy fair at ...
Article : 272 wordsThe arrivals in the colony by sea during November were 1,204, and the depatrures 2,528, the excess of departures being 1,264. During the corresponding month last year ...
Article : 39 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27½d. per ounce standard, being an advance of 1-16d. since Thursday last. ...
Article : 24 wordsA young man named Burns, brother of Mr. Burns, the auctioncer, has been missing since Friday from town. He was seen at the Springs, Mount Wellington, in the ...
Article : 77 wordsIn accordance with the recent decision by the Government to give generous assistance to the sufferers by the disastrous hurricane in the West Indies in September last, it ...
Article : 118 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:— Mount Lyell, £6/13/9. Broken Hill Proprietary, North Lyell, £2/7/6. £2/3/9. ...
Article : 51 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—In re Henty v. Henty (part heard motion), Perpetual Executors and Trustees Associaion v. Johnson. First Civil Court. ...
Article : 312 wordsQuotations for frozen meat are ns follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (551lb. to 651lb.)— ...
Article : 151 wordsAn action has been begun at the Blenheim Supreme Court, in which the General Exploration Company is suing E. Purser to recover £30,000, for fraud and conspiracy ...
Article : 137 wordsDetective D. G. O'Donell, who is investigating the mysterious discovery of the human arm and leg in the River Yarra, received an anonymous letter on Saturday, ...
Article : 238 wordsNew castle has an unenviable reputation among managers of theatrical troupes as providing the roughest audiences in Australia. A portion of the gallery last night ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 5 Dec 1898, Page 5
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