Fine weather, a cool breeze, and a sky that stood at set fair favoured the final day of the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting at Flemingten on Saturday. None the less, in spite of the ...
Article : 4,404 wordsThe Marquis of Queensberry, who was arrested a week ago on a warrant charging him with having criminally libelled Mr. Oscar Wilde, the well-known author ...
Article : 201 wordsLord Brassey, the newly-appointed Governor of Victoria, states that he will not sail for Melbourne before July. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery, the Prime Minister, who has been suffering from a severe attack of influenza, continues to slowly improve, but it will be necessary ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Japanese have continued their operations at the treaty port of Newchwang, the native part of which they recently captured after a desperate ...
Article : 99 wordsThe latest information respecting the R.M.S. Oroya, which lies aground in the Bay of Naples, is of a more favourable character. The gale is abating, and the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Banking Commission took evidence in the shire-hall to-day, the members present being Messrs. Winter, Kennedy, and Cook. There was a small attendance, and little ...
Article : 753 wordsThe sittings of the Wesleyan United Conference were resumed to-day, the Rev. W. H. Fitchett in the chair. Dr. Watkin moved his resolution relating ...
Article : 898 wordsAt the meeting of the Dimboola Shire Council yesterday the shire valuer in submitting his valuations showed that during the past year no fewer than 1,200 persons ...
Article : 105 wordsA serious accident has occurred to Lord Richard Nevill, son of the Marquis of Aborgavenny, and a member of Lord Brassey's staff. ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the last meeting of the Stawell Shire Council a very strong opinion was expressed by resolution in favour of giving relief to selectors in arrear by reducing the yearly ...
Article : 130 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the competition was keen and prices were well maintained. The following prices were obtained for ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, who has been Speaker of the House of Commons sinco 1884, has announced his intention to retire at an ...
Article : 48 wordsThe butter market is demoralised. Australian is selling at 90s. for choicest, from 84s. to 86s. for finest, and 80s. for fine. ...
Article : 171 wordsTelegrams from Tokio state that the view held in official circles there is that the prospects of the conclusion of an early peace between China and Japan ...
Article : 73 wordsWe have had several letters from correspondents arising out of the determination of the Minister of Lands to press selectors to pay up arrears of rent, included in which ...
Article : 149 wordsThe serious financial troubles through which Newfoundland has recently passed has led that colony to seriously consider the advisability of joining the Dominion ...
Article : 69 wordsDifficulties are impending with the South American Republic of Venezuela. The Government of that country, ...
Article : 78 wordsThe South African Republic has dispatched a force of 1,000 burghers for the purpose of enforcing its supremacy over Swaziland, in accordance with the ...
Article : 96 words"A Selector" writes from Goroke:— Kindly allow me a small space to explain the condition of a number of selectors in regard to their arrears. In the district I live, ...
Article : 366 wordsAn Imperial league is being formed for the purpose of arranging a system of mutual trade relations between Great Britain and the colonies. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe live cattle shipped at Sydney by the steamer Culgoa on January 9 have arrived and been slaughtered at Deptford. One was rather wasted, but the ...
Article : 72 wordsWHEAT.—The English market is dull. The Continental markets are advancing with increased firmness. The American market is changing a little for the ...
Article : 167 wordsThe prohibition of the importation of American cattle into France on the ground of the alleged prevalence of plouro-pnoumonia in the United States ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Sir Wm. Harcourt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was questioned regarding the report published in the Daily ...
Article : 75 wordsSome of the turkeys which have arrived by the Maori King have been found to be very old birds. The poulterers object to their being killed by ...
Article : 67 wordsNegotiations are being concluded at New York with Russia, France, Japan, and Hawaii by which these four powers agree to take shares in an American ...
Article : 60 wordsBanking matters are engaging the attention of the Government and the heads of the principal financial institutions, with a view to the introduction of legislation. It is ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. John Young, of Nhill, writes:— Mr. Irvine's lette re arrears and reduction of selectors' rents has brought to a head the ferment that has been growing for the past ...
Article : 494 wordsIn connection with the recent ship ments of frozen rabbits from Australia and New Zealand, the salesmen state that it is useless sending the animals ...
Article : 38 wordsThe strike, in the boot trade is assuming a serious complexion. At Leicester 10,000 operatives have struck work. They demand that the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe plasterer who murdered his wife and five children at Tooting, a suburb of London, yesterday, by cutting their throats, afterwards committed suicide. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a telegram from Hobart stating that the Governor had not passed a good night, and was much the same as on the previous day. It is ...
Article : 63 wordsThree leases at the 23 Mile have been purchased by Mr. A. J. Arthur on behalf of an English syndicate. The properties have been opened up to a depth of 40ft, or 50ft. The ...
Article : 308 wordsHis Holiness Pope Leo the Thirteenth has expressed strong disapproval of the persecution to which the Jews are subjected in several European countries, and ...
Article : 42 wordsA large quantity of poultry and game was received on Friday at the refrigerating works for shipment by the s.s. Aberdeen at the end of this month. The poultry are of good ...
Article : 126 wordsGreat regret was felt here this morning when it became known that Mr. Henry Beresford de la Poer Wall, M.A., warden of the Hamilton and Western District College, and ...
Article : 329 wordsThe foundation stone of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College was laid yesterday by the Minister of Agriculture. The new structure has cost £7,417, and will ...
Article : 182 wordsKingston's Isabella mine, at Coolgardie, has been sold to a London syndicate [Published in Saturday's Second Edition.] ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Marquis of Ripon has informed Lord Kintore that his successor as Governor of South Australia will soon be appointed, and that he has had numerous ...
Article : 55 wordsWhen the train from Portland last evening had reached four miles on this side of Branxholme a woman was seen falling or jumping out of a carriage window on to the permanent ...
Article : 203 wordsA trial shipment of timber will shortly be exported from this district to the London market, and considerable interest is naturally centred in the experiment ...
Article : 158 wordsThe following now Australian mining companies have been registered:— The New Hampton Plains Exploration Company, Coolgardie, capital £180,000. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. James Bryce, the President of the Board of Trade, and the author of "The American Commonwealth," writing to Sir Henry Parkes, expressions his warm concurrence in the policy of ...
Article : 152 wordsThe labour schooner Sybil has arrived from the South Seas, and anchored at the mouth of the river. An epidemic of dysentery has broken out among the islanders on ...
Article : 47 wordsThe shares in the Sydney Harbour Collieries Company, which has been formed to work the coal seam struck at Cremorne, are being allotted. ...
Article : 55 wordsArrangements continue in progress for shipments of Victorian fruit to London, and on Friday a consignment of about 50 cases of apples arrived per rail, for the purpose of ...
Article : 59 wordsA strike which, though small in its beginning, may develop into one of considerable extent, has taken place at Mr. W. Graham's Premier Boot Factory, ...
Article : 132 wordsCaptain Livingstone reports that the Government steamer Lady Loch proceeded to the wreck of the schooner Martha on Friday last, but it being found that the schooner ...
Article : 273 wordsA fire occurred last evening at a block of buildings at the corner of the Semaphore and Military roads at the Senaphore, Messrs. Jones Bros,' drapery shop being completely gutted ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Dodgshun and Sons v. Middleton and another (part heard). Fartiere v. Taylor and another, Falkingham others v. the Victorian Railways Commissioner, Webb v. Smith, the ...
Article : 211 wordsTwo men named Boyd und Warby were committed for trial at Tocumwal yesterday on the charge of setting fire to Tattersall's Hotel on the 25th ult. The committal was ...
Article : 108 wordsThe elation of the Premier at defeating the amendment on clause 12 of the Land and Income Tax Bill, proposed by Mr. B. R. Wise, who endeavoured to establish the land tax on ...
Article : 160 wordsThe department ot Agriculture is anxious to encourage the export of honey, and the Minister has sanctioned the payment of a bonus on honey exported outside ...
Article : 268 wordsThe cricket match between Stoddart's English Eleven and Eighteen of North Tasmania was commenced yesterday. The weather was magnificant, but the attendance ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 11 Mar 1895, Page 5
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