Particulars have been received respecting the destruction of Captain Wilson's force by the Matabele. It appears that Captain W[?]son and his ...
Article : 232 wordsAdvices from Nyassaland, in Central Africa, report that heavy fighting has taken place between the British and the slave dealers. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe question of strengthening the navy continues to excite much public attention in England. The Ministry is being urged to sell a ...
Article : 99 wordsIntelligence has been received from Sierra Leone that a body of the frontier police has inflicted a severe defeat on a large force of Sofas numbering 4,000 ...
Article : 196 wordsDuring Friday night a burglary was per-a per petrated at the premises in Castlereagh-street occupied by Messrs. Campbell Bros., tailors. Tweeds, coatings, and other goods ...
Article : 967 wordsThe House of Commons met yesterday, when the third reading of the Parish Councils Bill was carried. The House then adjourned for a ...
Article : 95 wordsThe outrage by the two burglars Knox, alias Jamieson, and Jent at Mr. Michael Crawcour's pawn office, Nelson-place, Williamstown, early on Friday morning, has ...
Article : 350 wordsThe execution of Mrs. Knorr will take place at the Melbourne gaol at 10 o'clock this morning in the presence of the sheriff, Mr. L. Ellis, the governor of the ...
Article : 1,932 wordsThe Coinage Weights and Measures Committee of the United States House of Representatives has reported in favour of the silver bill introduced into Congress ...
Article : 111 wordsThe death is announced of M. William Henry Waddington, the distinguished French statesman, and for ten years French Ambassador in England, a ...
Article : 774 wordsA petition, signed by 94 members of the House of Commons, has been presented to Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asking him to ...
Article : 74 wordsIn connection with the embezzlements by an employe of Messrs. Lorimer, Rome, and Co., Frederic Augustus Thomas, the bookkeeper of the firm, and a man well-known in ...
Article : 204 wordsDuring the closing months of last year there were few violent crimes in the city, and when Mr. Joseph Brown took charge of the detective police in succession to Mr. Kennedy ...
Article : 747 wordsIt is reported in Paris that further troubles have occurred in the German settlement of the Cameroons, in West Africa. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Union Bank of Australia pays a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum for the half-year ending August 31, 1893, and carries forward £15,000. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe provisional Government at Hawaii have refused to resign, stating that they will await the decision of Congress. [A recent cable message reported that ...
Article : 77 wordsSome European travellers from the Zambesi have been murdered by the Matabeles at Inyoya. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe British South Africa Company has superseded Major Forbes, who was in command at Buluwayo, on the ground of incapacity. ...
Article : 166 wordsIn response to a telegram from the Marquis of Ripon, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Charles Tupper, the High Commissioner for Canada, the ...
Article : 109 wordsBUTTER.—Danish butter is selling at 123s. per cwt. [This telegram appeared in a portion of Saturday's issue.] ...
Article : 153 wordsA telegram from Charters Towera to-night states that a long letter has been published by the Northern Miner, written by one of the "New Australia" settlers to a friend at ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee of the United States House of Representatives recently proposed that an income tax of 2 per ...
Article : 76 wordsA destructive fire has occurred at the Jesuit's College, Antwerp. The damage is estimated at l,000,00 of. (£40,000). [This telegram appeared in a portion of ...
Article : 38 wordsNotwithstanding the opposition of the police, arrangements have been made at Jacksonville, Florida, for the boxing match between Charles Mitchell, of ...
Article : 144 wordsLady Duff having sent to the Queen a collection of wild flowers frozen into a solid block of ice, Sir Henry Ponsonby, writing on December 7 from Windsor Castle ...
Article : 186 wordsImportant discoveries have been made at Rome by the police which indicate that Italy has had a narrow escape from a revolution fomented by the workmen's ...
Article : 43 wordsNo further discoveries of phylloxera-affected vineyards have been made. Mr. Hopton returns from Melbourne to-morrow, and on Tuesday various vines will be dug up with ...
Article : 632 wordsFive tons of Queensland beef sent to Vienna by Messrs. W. Weddel and Co., of London, has been sold at a satisfactory price. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's R.M.S. Coptic, during her recent homeward voyage from New Zealand, while at anchor in the harbour of Rio ...
Article : 62 wordsThe first of the Mount Morgan gold robbery cases was concluded ot the Rockhampton District Court yesterday. Duncan Macgregor was found guilty on the second ...
Article : 68 wordsIntelligence from German New Britain, brought by a recent resident in the country, states that the war between the German authorities and the natives was finally ...
Article : 132 wordsThe coroner's orderly, Senior-constable W. R. Davidson, has preapred and submitted to the city cornoer (Dr. Youl) a return of inquests held in Melbourne during the year ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Mining department has prepared the annual statement of the gold return of the colony for the year, and it is a very encouraging document, for it shows that the ...
Article : 287 wordsMr. N. J. Brown, late Speaker, has petitioned the Supreme Court against the return of Mr. Urquhart for Cumberland, on the ground that the Remine polling booth was ...
Article : 170 wordsThe R.M.S. Himalaya arrived at half-past 7 yesteday morning, and sailed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The Bishop of Adelaide and Mrs. Kennion are amongst the ...
Article : 143 wordsSir,—Will you allow me space to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following additional contributions in aid of the charity:— ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Newcastle men in the Duckenfield pit have decided to strike, because Messrs. J. and A. Brown have refused to allow them to share the work at the mine with the ...
Article : 253 wordsThis afternoon Mr. Max Hirsch addressed a large number of farmers and others at Messrs. Young Bros.' sale-rooms on free trade and the taxation of land values. ...
Article : 227 wordsIt is again asserted that Sir W. B. Perceval, the Agent-General, is anxious to resign his position and return to the colony. Sir Walter Buller and Sir Patrick A. Buckley are ...
Article : 103 wordsThe revenue returns for the last quarter of 1893 have been published. The receipts from land fell off by £21,063 compared with those for the same period of 1892, this being due to ...
Article : 202 wordsInquests will be held to-morrow by the coroner for Bourke, Mr. Candler, concerning the circumstances of the deaths of three children, the offspring of unmarried women, ...
Article : 105 wordsEdmond Coleman, of Bay-street, Brighton, licensed victualler. Causes of insolvency— Falling off in business, being obliged to pay excessive rent for the Devonshire Hotel, ...
Article : 113 wordsGeneral Meetings at Half-past 10.—Alex. Moffatt, Isaac George, David W. Cassin, Ambrose Bray, Robert L. Heath, Richard S. Ireland, Susanna M. Howard, John Braden, Arthur Turner, W. J. Potts, ...
Article : 49 wordsSir,—Myself and several friends were intending to take a trip to Gippsland, when imagine our surprise on finding that the excursion tickets were only available by the ...
Article : 93 wordsWe have received the following further contributions towards fund for the assistance of the sufferers by the recent floods at Orbost:— ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 15 Jan 1894, Page 5
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