In the House of Commons last night a bill authorising a war loan of £60,000,000 was read a second time by a majority of 180 votes. ...
Article : 3,016 wordsThe intense heat in the eastern states of America continues unabated. In New York yesterday the number of deaths from sunstroke was 189. The asphalt ...
Article : 51 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons last night, Mr. Chamberlain stated that he was communicating with the colonies with reference to the style and ...
Article : 102 wordsAn important announcement has been made in connection with the split in the Liberal party that is threatened in consequence of the banquet to be given to Mr. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe most interesting and picturesque feature of the Royal visit to Tasmania was the review held to-day in the Queen's Domain. The troops paraded numbered a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,609 wordsSenator De Largi[?] was the principal performer at the usual Friday matinee performance, but he proved a very unamusing jester. His burlesque motion affeeting to ...
Article : 571 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor has returned from Frankston, where he has been spending a faw days' vacation, and will attend the races at Flemington to-day ...
Article : 842 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day there was fair competition. Best parcels sold at prices equal to the closing rates of the May series. Medium wools were unchanged. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Roman Catholic peers are dissatisfied with the amendments recommended by the select committee of the House of Lords, which was appointed on June 13 to ...
Article : 151 wordsThe railway trouble came to a head at midnight last night, when the strike was declared on. As soon as 12 o'clock struck the electric lights were turned off in all ...
Article : 523 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated last month, in the House of Commons, that he was considering the possibility of imposing a lower ...
Article : 114 wordsA meeting was held in the city yesterday to consider the establishment of an Australasian Chamber of Commerce, as proposed by Mr. J. H. Geddes, late of ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Duke of Cornwall and York's charger and three other horses belonging to the members of His Royal Highness's staff reached the city by the Melbourne express ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsA correspondent of the "Otago Witness" thus describes some of the incidents of the Maori gathering at Rotorua:— The finest dance of all was yet to come, ...
Article : 636 wordsThe secretaries of a number of institutions have forwarded receipts for donations received from the estate of the late Mr. Edward Wilson, of "The Argus," as ...
Article : 618 wordsThe arrests of Her A. H. Exner and Dr. Gentzsch, the managers of the Leipsiger Bank, which has suspended payment, have been followed by the arrest of Herr Sumpf, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe sitting lasted a little over an hour. Mr. O'Malley gave notice of motion,couched in true spreadeagle fashion, setting forth the intentions of Australia with regard to ...
Article : 522 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills at the close of the day on Thursday was 2 7-16d. per cent., being 9-16 per cent. below the Bank of England ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsThe Kharkoff Commercial Bank has suspended payment, the deficit being estimated at 5,000,000 roubles (£500,000). The suspension has caused a financial ...
Article : 36 wordsA representative gathering of members of the Chamber of Mines was held this afternoon, at which the managers of all the leading mines were present. The situation ...
Article : 177 wordsThe death is announced of Dr. Peter Guthrie Tait, professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, aged 70 years. ...
Article : 220 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27d. per ounc[?] standard, being a declin[?] of [?]d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn excited scene occurred in the council-chamber to-day. After general business had been disposed of, a letter appearing in local papers bealing Councillor Carolin's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—Bradford—Business is quiet. Quotations for tops are 18d. for common sixties ...
Article : 192 wordsThe sensational report which was brought to the Coburg police on Thursday evening of a sticking-up case near Greensborough was investigated by Sub-Inspector Ward ...
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Article : 96 wordsThe annual series of stud sheep sales was concluded today by Hill, Clark, and Co. (in conjunction with Powers, Rutherford, and Co., of Melbourne). The catalogue ...
Article : 313 wordsEvery attempt at salving the stranded barque Magnat having failed, it has now been decided by her purchasers to blow the hull to pieces, and then to dispose of her ...
Article : 178 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Waimate, from Auckland April 19; Afric, from Melbourne May 10; ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Baldwin-Ziegler expedition to the North Pole, which is under the leadership of Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin, takes out a motor car to be used on the great ice ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Victorian commission, appointed to inquire into the operations of the factories and shops legislation in various slates, took evidence to-day. Several ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsThe Gordon Drafts Band have arranged to give an open-air band performance in aid of the fund in the Botanical-gardens on Sunday afternoon, July 14. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe P. and O.R.M.S. Arendia arrived at Colombo from Australian on the 3rd inst. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 6 Jul 1901, Page 13
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