The wool importers recently appointed a committee to consider the advisability of having six series of wool sales in the year instead of five. ...
Article : 70 wordsA great sensation has been caused in Austria by the action of the Government in suddenly proposing to introduce a bill conferring universal suffrage. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe difficulty in the shipping trade, which yesterday morning threatened to assume alarming proportions, and to postpone indefinitely the settlement of an agreement ...
Article : 1,081 wordsThe Railway estimates, which were passed through committee in the Legislative Assembly at an early hour yesterday morning, were reported to the House last night, and ...
Article : 457 wordsThe Imperial Government and the British South Africa Company are continuing their military preparations in view of the hostile action taken by the ...
Article : 145 wordsThree elections occurring at one time in the colony, and marked by the same features, may certainly be taken to give an insight as to the present views ...
Article : 9,079 wordsThe bombardment of Rio de Janeiro has been renewed by Admiral Mello, the commander of the insurgent fleet. This is attributed either to an act of perfidy ...
Article : 103 wordsThe directors of the British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company Limited have declared the usual interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per ...
Article : 132 wordsAs already reported, the mayors of six of the chief towns in the Midland counties, whose mediation was accepted by the miners and the mine-owners, ...
Article : 105 wordsThe members of the Parnellite section of the Irish party have decided that if the autumn session is to be devoted entirely to the consideration of English measures ...
Article : 57 wordsThrough the breakage of the rope holding the staging in the Aberdare Collier, Ipswich, to-day, three men, named John Connolly, John Hughes, and Francis Rubessa, were ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Parliamentary Club Hotel, in Bourkestreet, better known, perhaps, under its former name of the Redleap Hotel, narrowly escaped destruction by fire last night at 10 ...
Article : 296 wordsIn the Legislative Council this evening, the Medical Bill was carried through committee, and the House adjourned. In the Assembly, Sir Henry Parkes ...
Article : 447 wordsThe miners in the important coalmining district of Borinage, in Belgium, who to the number of 125,000 recently went out on strike, have resumed work. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following letter, found on the body of Mr. Theodore Sampson, the well-known bookmaker and racehorse-owner, who committed suicide at Coogee yesterday, gives his reasons ...
Article : 166 wordsWHEAT AND FLOUR.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom compares with that at previous dates as follows:— ...
Article : 76 wordsThe principal event at the Newmarket meeting to-day resulted as under:— CESAREWITCH STAKES. A handicap of 25 sovs. each, with 500 sovs. ...
Article : 86 wordsEmily Emmerson alias Woodward was shot to-day by her husband, George Henry Woodward, at the Commercial Hotel, Roma, where she was staying pending taking a ...
Article : 83 wordsThe trial of Bertie Glasson for the Carcoar murders has been postponed for a week, in consequence of the slow convalescence of Mrs. Phillips. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a recent meeting of the Colac Farmers' Union a debate upon Freee Trade and Protection was initiated by Mr. William Young, a well-known farmer, who spoke from the ...
Article : 197 wordsSo far the returning officer, Dr. Nicholson, has been unable to give his casting vote to determine whether Colonel Templeton or Mr. Thomas Kennedy shall represent the ...
Article : 239 wordsIn the Council to-night the Land Tax Bill and the Probate Duties Bill were further dealt with. When the latter was under discussion Mr. Grubb said he would test the ...
Article : 99 wordsSamoan advices report that measles ia very prevalent. Mr. R. L. Stevenson has gone to Honolulu for the benefit of his health. ...
Article : 58 wordsIsaiah Taylor, of New-street, North Brighton, coachbuilder. Approximate schedule. Causes of insolvency—Falling off in business, inability to collect debts, pressure ...
Article : 385 wordsActive measures are being taken by the labour societies, to reorganise the working classes and formulate a platform for submission to candidates at the approaching ...
Article : 225 wordsIn the Legislative Council this evening the Chief Justice's Salary Bill was read a second time. After considering the Legislative Council ...
Article : 184 wordsAt the local police court to-day, before Mr. Smallman, P.M., and Messrs. Furze and Moran, J.P.'s, a well-known farmer and racing man named Allen Sutherland was ...
Article : 222 wordsAt the sitting of the County Court to-day, a point of much Importance to those whose land is flooded through the action of irrigated trusts was raised. Mr. Tyndall sought to ...
Article : 226 wordsA public meeting was held at the Wesleyhall, Lonsdale-street, last evening, to consider a proposal for the licensing of registry office keepers. Mr. W. J. Lormer presided. ...
Article : 200 wordsOn the arrival of the express at Hobart tonight a large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled, when Mr. Harry Conway, inember of the House of Assembly for Georgetown, ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon, Mr. Gilbert moved the second reading of a very stringent Sunday Closing Liquor Bill, but intimated that there was no possibility of its passing. ...
Article : 216 wordsA miner named Charles Hoare, engaged in tributing in the Nil Desperandum mine, Landsborough, was crushed yesterday afternoon by a fall of washdirt in the 120ft. level. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following telegram from Gabo Island has been received at the Melbourne Telegraph-office:—"Wednesday, 8.48 a.m.—The schooner Mary Warner is out of danger. She ...
Article : 44 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Jarvis v. Hornby (part heard), Munt[?] and another v. Meaney, Paterson and another v. Foster, Seleg v. Agency, Land, and Finance Company. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe R.M.S. Arcadia arrived at Suez on the 10th inst., homewards. An adding machine has just been invented and patented by Mr. A. Erskine Muirhead, of ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Seddon, the Premier, has received a letter from the Premier of Victoria asking for the co-operation of New Zealand in a protest against the proposal of the Imperial ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 12 Oct 1893, Page 5
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