The Premier, Sir James Patterson, addressed the electors of Castlemaine to-night, and claimed that the Government had done good work. It had determined to retrench so as to ...
Article : 72 wordsThe convention between Great Britain and China with regard to the northern frontier of Burmah has now been ratified. Under the convention the British will be ...
Article : 179 wordsIn the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, yesterday, Mr. Bell’s resolutions in favour of a tax on stallions were agreed to in committee, and on the resumption of the House adopted. ...
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Advertising : 95 wordsNews has been received from the West Coast of Africa of serious fighting between Nana, the chief of the Benin district, and the British forces there. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe present session has been notable for the large attendance in the galleries, but invariably it has been the evening sittings which attracted notice. Yesterday was an exception to the ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. Barlow’s speech did not furnish much additional information. He simply juatifled the introduction of the bill by the circumstances, and argued that while of a severe nature it was ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Berliner Tageblatt, a prominent German newspaper, states that Great Britain is parleying with Turkey for the exchange of Cyprus for the island of Crete. It further ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Labour leader followed Mr. Barlow. The attitude of the Premier had impressed him. He was certain that gentleman had been pained when he found himself compelled to approach ...
Article : 423 wordsMr. Dunsford was inclined to admit that even his speech might be an infliction on those who were compelled to listen to it at 4 a.m. Great latitude in respect to the emission of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Inter-Parliamentary Conference now sitting at The Hague has appointed a committee to draft a scheme for establishing a European tribunal of arbitration. ...
Article : 30 wordsA large haystack was burned down last night at Elderslie station, in the Winton district. Reliable information has been received ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Kerr took up the tale of woe, for such it was regarded by the members of tho Labour party. Like some of the previous speakers the member for Barcoo admitted that when in ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Salvation Army Temple in Ann-street was filled last night with an enthusiastic audience on the occasion of the farewell of Colonel and Mrs. Dowdle, the "International ...
Article : 547 wordsNine hundred and sixty bullocks are passing for sale at Esk on the 14th instant, T. W. Gilliam, of Rockwood, Nebo, owner, J. Randell drover. ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. Bell wisely, under the circumstances, did not occupy much time in getting his resolutions adopted by the House in committee. This over, Mr. Glassey opened his advocacy of ...
Article : 244 wordsA telegram from Sofia states that M. Stambonloff, the ex-Premier of Bulgaria, has been charged before the magistrates with having used insulting language ...
Article : 36 wordsThe shares of the Empress of Coolgardie Gold Mining Company have now been alloted. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Colonial Secretary to-day, replying to a request from the pastoralists at Wagga Wagga, that the unionist intimidation should be repressed, stated that the police were using every ...
Article : 301 wordsThe revenue officers to-day made a raid on the office of the Million, one of Mr. George Newnes’s publications, on account of imitations of postage stamps having been ...
Article : 39 wordsThe masons for the consultations of the Colonial Secretary and the Attorney-General and the apppearance of Mr. Grimes with a copy of the Standing Orders soon became apparent. ...
Article : 225 wordsFrank P. Slavin, the Australian pugilist, has issued a challenge to box any man in the world, barring Jackson and Corbett, for a stake of £2000. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe activity of Mr. Dalrymple during the speech of the member for Burke indicated that he intended to follow Mr. Glassey. He opened with the remark that woman's franchise was ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Attorney-General read the crime-roll of recent strike outrages, and referred to the protective measures taken by tho Government to show that the means at their disposal had ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Trades Union Congress now sitting at Norwich has by an overwhelming majority passed a resolution in favour of a general eight hours' day of labour, the ...
Article : 72 wordsA meeting of ratepayers was held in the Bulimba Divisional Board Hall on Wednesday evening for the purpose of protesting against the now by-law for the ...
Article : 430 wordsIt was now thoroughly apparent that the Ministerialists had outwitted their opponents. On the division which was called for 32 votes were recorded for the second reading and only ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Board of Agriculture has decided to prosecute persons selling foreign fruit as English. ...
Article : 21 wordsSo far Mr. Dalrymple’s speech had been devoted to an attack on that portion of the bill dealing with males. He now looked to the ladies in a double sense. After eyeing the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe committee of the Mount Taylor Prospecting Syndicate met yesterday afternoon and adopted a report, which contains a confession of utter failure to realise the hopes once ...
Article : 597 wordsAs Mr. Byrnes sat down and Mr. Drake rose many of the Ministerialists who had remained during tho Attorney-Goneral’s remarks filed out of the Chamber, and in this respect they ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Tozer took the bill in hand and moved that the House go into committee. But after some parleying, and on being informed that private business would give way to the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Right Hon. J. Chamborlain, in a speech delivered at Liverpool last night, referring to the agitation conducted by Mr. W. O'Brien and Dr. Tanner against the ...
Article : 50 wordsJust before the adjournment a rather amusing incident occurred. The Chairman of Committees had been moved into the chair, and immediately afterwards he had to report to the ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. Wraggellast evening issued the following supplementary advice, dated Capemba, 9 p.m.:—The disturbance which we have named "Samech" has developed northerly towards ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Drake regarded tho outrages in the West as the climax of four years of Government without principle. The Government had received a warning in 1891; they were made ...
Article : 116 wordsA sensational incident occurred at Aldershot yesterday, while a trial was being made of a military balloon. Four soldiers who were holding the wire ropes attached ...
Article : 75 wordsThe arrival of a cart adon with blankets and other articles of bedding at the House shortly before tea conveyed the impression that a late sitting was probable. That the Peace ...
Article : 282 wordsA memorandum from Moroya Heads to the Telegraph Department at Brisbane states that the steamer Trident was crossing the bar coming in when she broached to and ran on top ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Cabinet to-day decided to support the protest of the New Zealand Government against the annexation of Neckar Island by the Republic of the Sandwich Islands, and ...
Article : 224 wordsSpeakers followed in quick succession after Mr. Dawson, members on both sides contributing to the debate. At half-past 11 Mr. Daniels walked into the Chamber with a ...
Article : 248 wordsTo-day the first business of the Assembly will be the consideration in committee of the Peace Preservation Bill, and another protracted sitting is expected. ...
Article : 26 wordsNo less than £80 has been subscribed towards tho fund to succour the shipwrecked grew of the Cambuswallace. Each of the crew has been provided with a complete suit fo clothes, ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Premier of New Zealand has written to the Government suggesting the cession of Macquarie Island to New Zealand on the basis of operations against seal poachers. ...
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Advertising : 58 wordsThe Premier states that he has telegraphed to the Premier of New South Wales asking to be advised if he had any definite proposals with regard to federation, and suggesting that ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Powers announced his intention to approach the question entirely uninfluenced by party considerations, a statement which met with all-round approval. The Opposition felt, ...
Article : 301 wordsAt half-past 3 o’clock rather more than a score of members stuck manfully to their posts. The ordinary appearance of the Chamber had at course undergone a considerable change. ...
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Evening Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1887 - 1907), Fri 7 Sep 1894, Page 5
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