The statement made in the House of Commons on Thursday evening by Sir Edward Grey, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, with respect to the ...
Article : 221 wordsGeneral Duchesne, the commander of the French expedition for the conquest of Madagascar, has issued a proclamation to the soldiers warning them that ...
Article : 113 wordsAn important statement was made to-day by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in replying to an Armenian deputation which waited upon ...
Article : 135 wordsThe powers decline to entertain the appeal by China that they should insist on Japan granting an armistice pending the peace negotiations. They also refuse ...
Article : 153 wordsThe annual boat race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge was rowed to-day over the usual course on the Thames, from Putney to ...
Article : 335 wordsA leading shipowner engaged in the Australian trade has been interviewed with respect to the prospects of the live cattle trade between England and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe revenue returns for the quarter ending on Saturday last were issued by the Government printer on Saturdny evening. The receipts were £1,757,526, being a decrease of ...
Article : 738 wordsA story more remarkable, in some features than that of the man whose name is given as William Robert Rand, the claimant of the estate of the deceased squatter Robert ...
Article : 1,780 wordsThe weather was fine for the continuance of the cricket match yesterday. The attendance early in the game showed signs of a large crowd. On the previous day £237 was ...
Article : 708 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Herbert Gardner, the President of the Board of Agriculture, was asked if the Government would impose import ...
Article : 69 wordsAdvertisements have appeared in the English papers inviting steamship-owners to tender for the conveyance of butter, cheese, meat, poultry, rabbits, fruit, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Armenian question was discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday it was decided that Mr. William Court Gully, Q.C., Liberal member for Carlisle, should be nominated for the ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. J. H Dalziel, Liberal member for the Kirkcaldy district, moved the resolution of which he had given notice, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Japanese fleet is bombarding Taiwan, the principal port on the western side of the island of Formosa. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe report and balance-sheet of the Bank of Australasia for the year ending October 16 last has been issued. The profit and loss account shows a profit of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Paris journal Le Temps says that a friendly agreement between England and France with regard to the valley of the Nile is still possible if both powers will ...
Article : 47 wordsAfter the adjourned annual meeting of the London and Australasian Debenture Corporation to-day when an amendment calling on the directors to resign was ...
Article : 67 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver is 29¾d. per oz. standard, being an advance of [?]d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. E. M. Nelson, of Nelson Bros. Limited, who had announced his intention of contesting in the Conservative interest the seat for Warwick and ...
Article : 85 wordsThe death is announced of Admiral Lord Alcester (Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour), aged 74 years. Lord Alcester, who commanded the ...
Article : 84 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at from 39s. to 40s. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Cabinet sat for two hours yesterday, when among the questions discussed was the reported aggression by the French in the territory of the Royal ...
Article : 38 wordsWHEAT.—The English wheat market is lifeless. The Continental markets are dull. The American market is changing a little for the better. The cargo of old ...
Article : 136 wordsMajor-General J. F. Owen, R.A., formerly military commandant in Queensland, has been appointed to the command of the artillery at Malta. ...
Article : 30 wordsA rumour has been current that a British detachment under Lieutenants Edwards and Fowler has been cut to pieces by the tribesmen at Reshun. The ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day a good catalogue was offered. Continental buyers were the principal purchasers. Prices were unchanged. ...
Article : 294 wordsA report has been issued by a majority of the members of the Royal Commission appointed in January, 1893, to consider whether any alterations in the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Midland Railway Company of Western Australia is about to [?]sue 5 per cent. debentures, amounting to £125,000. The debentures are to be ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the appeal, Abbott v. The Minister of Lands, New South Wales, with costs. ...
Article : 216 wordsSir William Macgregor, who has been Administrator of British New Guinea since 1888, has been gazetted LieutenantGovernor of that colony. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe expedition to Chitral, under the command of Major-General Sir R. C. Low, has left Mardan, in the extreme north of the Punjaub, and some distance ...
Article : 34 wordsThe bicycle carnival held under the auspices of the New South Wales League of Wheelmen was begun on the Sydney Cricketground yesterday. The weather was pleasant, ...
Article : 615 wordsThe following new mining companies have been registered:—Londonderry Extended, Coolgardie, capital £70,000. Golden Plum Consolidated, Western ...
Article : 96 wordsThe body of James Vemment, one of the victims of the Botany boating disaster, was found on the rocks at Henry Head yesterday. ...
Article : 302 wordsAn open-air meeting of miners and others was held here this afternoon, Mr. Garrett, the president of the Coal Creek Miners' Association, presiding. Among the speakers ...
Article : 479 wordsA rupture of diplomatic relations between France and Paraguay has taken place in consequence of the manner in which the French consul at Ascuncion ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Spanish Governor of the Philippine Islands reports that the rising among the natives of Mindanao has been suppressed. ...
Article : 31 wordsA sad case of burning was reported by Senior-constable Jordan, of Caulfield East, to the district coroner yesterday. A little girl named Lily Ridgeway was left to take charge ...
Article : 368 wordsIt is reported that Paris speculators have taken 60,000 vendors' shares in the Londonderry G.M. Company, Coolgardie. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe outrage in the Bendigo train on the afternoon of the 14th of last month, when the Hindoo hawker Hulh was garotted and robbed of £54 by four men, will be ...
Article : 487 wordsThe rebellion in Cuba is likely to collapse, as the leaders of the insurgents have fled. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe revenue of the United Kingdom for the quarter ending to-day is £32,750,000. ...
Article : 22 wordsRecently a cable message was received from Lord Ripon to the effect that William Humphreys, a farmer, charged with uttering forged promissory notes and other felonies, had ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Reichstag has refused to allow Count Kanitz's motion, that the importation of cereals should be a state monopoly, to be referred to a committee. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 wordsThe Customs revenue collected at Brisbane for March amounted to £54,019, being an increase of £5,078 compured with March, 1894. The total collections for the quarter were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsLord and Lady Gormanston had a narrow escape from accident in Liverpool-street on Saturday. A restive horse nearly capsized their landau, but the occupants alighted in ...
Article : 36 wordsAnother of the "New Australians," in the person of a Mrs. Cameron with three children, returned by the Sachsen on Saturday afternoon. She went with the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes Company's mail steamer Australien, G. Didier commander, arrived from Marseilles at a quarterpast 6 a.m. She brings the following saloon ...
Article : 71 wordsIn accordance with the wish of leading members of the House of Assembly, arrangements have been completed for the inscription of stock by the Agent-General's office, and ...
Article : 120 wordsSales and rents of Crown lands. The revenue for the nine expired months of the financial year is £1,737,417, against £1,798,876 last year. The estimated revenue for the year is ...
Article : 70 wordsAs a consequence of the system of differential railway rates levied between Albury and Wagga, numbers of teams are now competing with the railway. The average ...
Article : 83 wordsR.M.S. Victoria left Suez outwards on March 28. F.M.S. Polynesien arrived at Marseilles on March 29. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 1 Apr 1895, Page 5
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