The Premier was entertained at a banquet to-night. In response to the toast of his health, he said that the fiscal question always had been a great bar to social ...
Article : 654 wordsIn connection with the stoppage by Portugal of the landing in Delagoa Bay of rifles and ammunition intended for the Transvaal a serious report is current. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe re-tail of Captain Dreyfus by courtmartial was continued to-day at Rennes. A letter from a French spy named Cuers was read, which showed that the accused ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsWith reference to the report in our issue yesterday of the delay in removing the body of a gentleman who died suddenly in the Wattletree-road, Malvern, on Tuesday, ...
Article : 761 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly it was decided after midnight on Wednesday that the matter of Mr. Neild's receiving £350 from the Government should be referred to ...
Article : 886 wordsWhile many members of the Legislative Assembly are willing to give the Premier credit for having made an honest endeavour to bring forward a practicable ...
Article : 193 wordsWe regret to announce the death of Mr. Robert Walsh, Q.C., which occurred last night, at his residence, East St. Kilda. For the past four or five weeks Mr. Walsh ...
Article : 1,079 wordsAt the Opposition caucus held this afternoon the attendance was smaller than on the previous day. The leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lyne) states that only a very ...
Article : 221 wordsAt the meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures on Wednesday, the president, Mr. F. T. Derham, took the Chief Secretary to task for a statement he made while ...
Article : 719 wordsAt the court-martial yesterday the evidence given by Major Esterhazy before the Court of Cassation and his letters to the late President Faure were read. ...
Article : 151 wordsA force of 300 Boers has formed a larger, or camp, on the Transvaal border, 50 miles south ot Mafeking, and nearly opposite Potchefstroom. ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Newtown Police Court to-day Henry James Miles, signalman at Ashfield station, was committed for trial at the quarter sessions on a charge of having ...
Article : 186 wordsThere was an impression in the earlier part of the season that Ranjitsinhji was not as brilliant a batsman as when the last Australian team visited England. Some ...
Article : 526 wordsA correspondent of the "Standard" states that widespread treason exists among the Boers in Cape Colony and Natal. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" states that the generals are wavering with regard to the position they should assume respecting the guilt or innocence of ...
Article : 91 wordsIt has transpired that a Birmingham firm lately received an order for 14,000,000 Mauser rifle cartridges. In connection with this fact, it is pointed ...
Article : 64 wordsA telegram just received from Newcastle states that blue-lights were flaring from the direction of the Oyster Bank shortly before midnight, which gave the alarm that ...
Article : 117 wordsYesterday Esterhazy, who is at present in London, was recognised when walking along Oxford-street. The crowd groaned at and hooted him, ...
Article : 48 wordsVarious reports are current which indicate that President Kruger has made strong efforts to obtain the abolition of British suzerainty over the Transvaal. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Premier was asked to-day to consider the desirability of sending three members to Australia to make inquiries regarding the reciprocity treaty, which might be ...
Article : 144 wordsIn the Banco Court to-day, before the Chief Justice and a jury, Mary Grant, a spinser, proceeded against John Thomas Alston to recover damages for breach of ...
Article : 177 wordsM. Jules Guerin, member of the Chamber of Deputies, and president of the AntiSemitic League, who some days ago barricaded himself in his house with M. Max ...
Article : 165 wordsMajor-General Sir William F. Butler, who has been recalled by the British Government from the Cape, where he held the position of commandant of the Imperial ...
Article : 133 wordsInspector Sharp, the officer in charge of the Melbourne police district, was interviewed yesterday in reference to the delay in removing a dead body from the ...
Article : 199 wordsA month ago Queensland would I believe, have polled a substantial majority against the Commonwealth Bill. At present the issue is doubtful, with rather a ...
Article : 1,947 wordsThe inquest on Ernest Williams, who was shot dead in Fig-street, Ultimo, on the 16th inst., was resumed to-day. Sydney Frederick Giblett was present, in ...
Article : 169 wordsThe members of the Western Wimmera Water Supply and Irrigation Trust are, generally speaking, quite satisfied with the proposals of the Government bill for the ...
Article : 714 wordsAt a meeting of the Opposition yesterday Mr. Barton, the leader, voluntary resigned his position, and Mr. Lyne was unanimously elected in his place. The ...
Article : 861 wordsRegarding the possibility of the Imperial Government requiring forage for South Africa, the Premier said to-day that the means of transit was the first ...
Article : 58 wordsAdditional particulars are published respecting the murder of Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant Meunier in the French Soudan by Captains Voulet and Chanoinc, whom ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Holder) delivered his eighth Budget to-day, being his sixth consecutive annual statement. He mentioned that before the next Budget speech ...
Article : 475 wordsThe annual agricultural returns issued by the registrar-general show that the acreage under wheat for the 1898-9 season was 74,731 acres, compared with 38,705 acres in the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe attendance was very large at the show to-day, about 6,500 being present. No such fine show of sheep has ever been seen here before. The parade of horses evoked ...
Article : 223 wordsIn the Free State, Boers and English live side by side in peace and unity. There are no disturbing elements at all, and, were it not for the Transvaal, there would also ...
Article : 460 wordsMr. Leslie Jolly has been appointed chairman and Messrs. Augustus Simson and R. H. Price vice-chairmen of the mining section of the Chamber of ...
Article : 31 wordsMajor-General Otis, the United States commander in the Philippines, is enforcing the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the islands. ...
Article : 48 wordsWhile shifting her moorings by means of a hand capstan, H.M.S. Ringdove's cable suddenly jerked and took charge of the capstan. A number of men at the ...
Article : 110 wordsAlfred Edmund Jeffs, of Cotham-road, Kew, coachbuilder. Compulsory sequestration. Causes of insolvency—Want of remunerative employment. Debts, £432 ...
Article : 34 wordsIt was recently announced that two Australians had offered to contribute £500 each towards the expenses of an Australian bowling team, which it is proposed shall ...
Article : 151 wordsKALGOORLIE, Thursday.—The eastern vein at the 400ft. level of BLOCK 45 has widened in driving north to nearly 4ft. The values, which are confined chiefly to about 2ft. of the lode, are the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 453 wordsROCHERSTER.—Mr. P. Farquharson, chairman of directors of the Rochester Butter Factory, has resigned, and Mr. Simon Graham has been appointed in his stead. The local factory is new ...
Article : 232 wordsRanjitsinhji has this season scored in first-class matches the large total of 2,837 runs. This is the record aggregate for an ...
Article : 36 wordsIt was decided at the meeting of the Caulfield Council on Wednesday, on the motion of Councillors Riddell and Klrkham, that a deputation wait on the Postmaster General to urge the ...
Article : 121 wordsIn the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice yesterday Mr. Justice Cozens-Hardy made an oeder for the compulsory winding-up of the Coolgardie ...
Article : 49 wordsThe House of Assembly has appointed a select committee, on the motion of the Minister of Lands, to inquire into the circumstances connected with the Macquarie ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 25 Aug 1899, Page 5
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