The formal transfer of the Island of Formosa by China to Japan, in accordance with the terms of the treaty of peace, has now been effected. ...
Article : 154 wordsThe most important development of the recent political coalition between Sir Henry Parkes and Sir George Dibbs occurred to-day, when, in answer to a circular issued by Sir ...
Article : 174 wordsThe sitting of the Legislative Assembly, which commenced yesterday still continues. After the report closed last night ...
Article : 451 wordsThe European powers, England, France, and Russia, have received from tlio Porte a reply to their demand that a scheme of reforms shall be carried out in ...
Article : 170 wordsThe situation at Jeddah, the port of Mecca, on the Red Sea, still continues critical. The British, French, and Russian ...
Article : 134 wordsA caucus of the Opposition was held at Parliament-house yesterday afternoon to consider the tariff proposals of the Government. There were about 30 members present, and ...
Article : 365 wordsIn our issue yesterday we challenged the directors of the Coal Creek Company to give the name of the person whom they asserted waited upon them as a representative of The ...
Article : 474 wordsIt is announced that the Opposition caucus yesterday arrived at a decision to heartily welcome the reductions in Customs duties proposed by the ...
Article : 8,839 wordsThe Bank of Australasia was made defendant in a suit instituted in the Supreme Court to-day by Walter Harcourt Palmer, engineer, for the recovery of £5,000 damages for loss ...
Article : 337 wordsBar silver is quoted at 30 9-16d., being a decline of ?d. since Saturday. LONDON, JUNE 5. Bar silver is quoted at 30—d. per oz. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Sultan of Johore, a state in the Malay Peninsula, under British protection, died to-day at Bailey's Hotel, London. ...
Article : 91 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted to-day at 41s. 9d. LONDON, JUNE 5. Broken Hill Proprietary shares are ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Richard Olney, the United StateAttorney-General, has been appointed Secretary of State in succession to the late Mr. Walter Q. Gresham, who died a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsIn accordance with the sentence of the court-martial, Captain Clavijo was to-day shot at Madrid for attempting to murder the Marquis de Estolla, the Governor of ...
Article : 64 wordsThe apples by the R.M.S. Australia, from Melbourne April 20, have arrived in variable conditions. A small lot has been sold at 10s. a case. ...
Article : 31 wordsA meeting of Adelaide shareholders in the Central Broken Hill mine was held this afternoon to consider the question of the offer by the syndicate for the purchase of the ...
Article : 308 wordsWHEAT AND FLOUR.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,870,000 quarters, as against 3,850,000 quarters ...
Article : 136 wordsThe evidence given at the sitting of the Dean Commission to-day was more interesting then it has been lately. Walter Alfred Newcombe, a civil servant, ...
Article : 837 wordsThe tender of Messrs. Kirk Bros, and Frew for £10,30½ has been accepted for the duplication of two miles 32 chains of railway on the South Coast line. ...
Article : 92 wordsMessrs. H. Trengrouse and Co., provision merchants and importors of Australian and New Zealand produce, have promised to co-operate in a scheme for ...
Article : 56 wordsHeavy rain has fallen in the oil region of North Pennsylvania, wher the forest was set on fire by sparks from a locomotive, causing damage estimated at ...
Article : 49 wordsIt has been decided to present an address to Mr. J. H. Smith, late chairman of the Railway Commissioners, next week. Mr. Smith leaves to-morrow for Melbourne on ...
Article : 102 wordsThe butter market is rather firmer. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe directors of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows recommend the establishment of female lodges. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British and West Australian Agency Company lias been registered with a capital of £41,000. The object of the company is to operate in West ...
Article : 40 wordsLarge numbers of diiggers left for the 45mile alluvial discovery last night, but no further news is to hand to-day. The latest news from Lake Darlot is not ...
Article : 180 wordsThe fourth prize in the Bank of Van Diemen's Land lottery, valued in the list at £1,500, realised at auction to-day £620. The winner was a miner named Higgins, at Zulu ...
Article : 102 wordsA startling report is current respecting Oscar Wilde, the well-known auther and dramatist, who on May 26 was convicted of criminal offences, and sontenced to ...
Article : 90 wordsAt a meeting of the shareholders in the Central Broken Hill mine, held this morning, at which 20 persons were present, it was decided to give the atmost support to Mr. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe New Zealand and Australian Land Company Limited pays a dividend of 3 per cent. for the year ending March 31. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe 4 per cent. debontures amounting to £750,000, and redeomable in 1904, issued by the Bank of New Zealand, have been over-subscribed. ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Seddon having returned to Wellington after visiting the Maoris in the Taranak district, a Cabinet meeting was held, at which it appears to have been decided to take ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 383 wordsAt a meeting of the Royal Society to-night Messrs. J. H. Maiden and H. G. Smith announced that in an analysis of the grey box tree and smooth-barked apple they had ...
Article : 108 wordsR.M.S. Massilia arrived at Suez homewards on 4th June. R.M.S. Victoria arrived at Colombo homewards on 4th June. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Banking Conference was continued to-day at the Bank of New South Wales, but the members declined to state the result of their deliberations save that satisfactory ...
Article : 80 wordsA boxing match has been arranged between James Corbett, the American champion, and Fitzsimmons, formerly of New Zealand. It will take place in ...
Article : 32 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Smith v. Syme (part heard). SECOND CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Holroyd.) At Half-past 10.—Roberts and another v. Stewar[?] ...
Article : 271 wordsAt the Hawthorn Council meeting last night Councillor Riddell inquired Whether the council's representative could inform them as to the contemplated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 wordsThe Premier states that it has been arranged between his Government and the Government of New Zealand that the coming into operation of the reciprocity treaty shall ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe inquiry in the Bankruptcy Court as to whether Mrs. Piercy ([?] Miss Augusta Dargon) was entitled, as part of her separate estate, to a sum of £3,366, the amount of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsA young man named David Williams died to-day at Berrigan from injuries received in a fight with a selector named Patrick Corbett. The dispute arose over a waitress at the local ...
Article : 59 wordsFor some time past the residents of Hawthorn have complained of the excessive charge for the sanitary service, 19s. 6d. per annum, and last night the council concluded ...
Article : 168 wordsThe coroner's jury to-day returned a verdict of wilful murder against the woman Dean in connection with the Winton baby farming cases. Theicedu al evieenco showed ...
Article : 56 wordsParliament opens to-morrow, It is understood that the Government policy will embrace a number of measures carried forward from last session and also compulsory early closing ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 6 Jun 1895, Page 5
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