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  2. STRENGTHENING THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The proposed expenditure upon the enlargement of the British Navy has dwindled down from £100,000,000 to £21,500,000, and the reported loan for ...

    Article : 6,320 words
  3. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    Mr. James G. Blaine, the new American Secretary of State, mentioned officially yesterday that he has not received any intimation verifying the report by a ...

    Article : 121 words
  4. AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.

    The Chamber of Deputies has adopted the proposal of M. Tirard, the French Premier, by rescinding the references in the Expulsion Act to the Duc d'Aumale ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.

    The Directors of the Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris, finding that the extraordinary run upon them for specie continued in spite of the support of the ...

    Article : 156 words
  6. COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The funeral of the late Mr. Henry Keiley (late musical critic for the Argus) on Saturday afternoon was largely attended. A musical service was ...

    Article : 434 words
  7. THE COPPER MARKET.

    In consequence partly of the rapid accumulation of the quantity of copper in stock owing to the stimulus given to the production ...

    Article : 255 words
  8. THE CROWN PRINCE OF AUSTRIA.

    Many conflicting statements are current respecting the circumstances of Prince Rudolph's death. The following narratives supply the details of the versions ...

    Article : 731 words
  9. [RECEIVED March 10,10.15 a.m.]

    The Directors of the Quayle Gold-Mining Company, which was formed a few weeks ago, the allottees receiving their shares only at the end of last month, now ...

    Article : 86 words
  10. THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET.

    In the House of Commons yesterday Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated in answer to a question that difficulties obtaining the necessary supply ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. A NEW AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP.

    A new steamship, named the Westwater, built for the Australian trade for Messrs. Haddart, Parker, & Co., of Melbourne and Sydney, was successfully ...

    Article : 40 words
  12. [RECEIVED March 10, 10.15 a.m.]

    It has been arranged that the whole of the assets of the Comptoir d'Eacompte shall be pledged as security for the repayment of the advance of 100,000,000 francs ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. [RECEIVED March 10,10.15 a.m.]

    M. Vischnegradsky, the Russian Minister of Finance, has successfully carried out his scheme in Paris and Berlin for the conversion of the 1873 loan ...

    Article : 41 words
  14. ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

    On Wednesday next, March 13, a grand banquet will be given at the Hotel Metropole to celebrate the twenty-first of the foundation of the ...

    Article : 204 words
  15. DEATH OF MR. JOHN ERICSSON.

    Mr, John Ericsson, the famous mechanical engineer, inventor of the screw propeller and designer of numerous warships and special forms of naval armaments ...

    Article : 40 words
  16. WEAVERS' STRIKE AT ARMENTIERS.

    A satisfactory settlement has been made between the factory owners and the 10,000 operatives who struck work at Armentiers. in France, at the beginning ...

    Article : 64 words
  17. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Four men have been committed for trial from Cobar, charged with impersonating at the late election in the Bourke district. ...

    Article : 91 words
  18. [Received March 10, 6.50 p.m.]

    The shares in the Comptoir d'Escompte have now fallen to 350 francs, which is a further decline of 150 francs upon the minimum quotation recorded yesterday. ...

    Article : 71 words
  19. [RECEIVED March 10, 6.50 p.m.]

    The Nymph, a double-screw composite war sloop of 1,140 tons displacement, with eight five-inch breechloaders and eight machine guns, 2,000 horsepower, and an ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. WRECK OF THE SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

    The wreck of the ship Sir Walter Raleigh, which stranded off. the coast of France whilst proceeding from Sydney to London five weeks ago, will be offered ...

    Article : 38 words
  21. NEW ZEALAND.

    A fire took place in Duke-street, a main thoroughfare of Wakato, early this morning. Twenty shops and dwelling houses, with a large Quantity of stock and ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. THE MAORI FOOTBALLERS.

    The Maori footballers scored two goals and two tries at Widnes (Lancashire) yesterday against one try by the local team. ...

    Article : 24 words
  23. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Liberal-Unionist party in the House of Commons, led by he Marquis of Hartington, have announced that they will support the proposal of Lord George ...

    Article : 137 words
  24. THE MELBOURNE LAND BOOM.

    The Statist, a London financial paper, publishes in this week's issue an article upon the land boom in Melbourne, and the results of the extraordinary ...

    Article : 85 words
  25. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.

    The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have delivered judgment In the cases of the Bank of New South. Wales versus O'Connor, and Harding versus ...

    Article : 160 words
  26. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

    It is understood that several Ministers are likely to be opposed when they go before the electors. The Opposition has not yet made any arrangements, but ...

    Article : 90 words
  27. THE COSSACK EXPEDITION.

    The Czar of Russia has ordered that a searching enquiry shonld be made into the conduct of Aschinoff in connection with the recent bombardment of the ...

    Article : 69 words
  28. THE GAMEKEEPER'S STORY.

    From this point the stories differ, some telling the gamekeeper's story, and making the girl who committed suicide' not the Baroness von M—, but another ...

    Article : 474 words
  29. FATAL FIRE AT CRESWICK.

    A telegram from Creswick states that Information of a distressing occurrence has been received from Smeaton. George South, miner, woke up about 2 o'clock ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. GLADSTONE AND HOME RULE.

    The Hon. C. R. Spencer, Liberal member of the House of Commons for Mid-Northamptonshire, and an ardent Home Baler, spoke last night at a dinner ...

    Article : 146 words
  31. CABLE NEWS.

    Dr. James Anthony Froude, the eminent author of "English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century," and other works on modern and ancient history, has announced ...

    Article : 67 words
  32. WRECK OF THE WARSHIP SULTAN.

    Further examination of the wreck of H.M.S. armoured screw battleship Sultan, which ran ashore last Thursday on the Island of Comino, between Malta and ...

    Article : 58 words
  33. THE WOOL MARKET.

    A public auction has been held of Australasian woolled sheepskins. There was an average attendance of home and foreign buyers. Competition was good ...

    Article : 74 words
  34. EX-KING MILAN.

    It is believed that ex-King Milan, of Servia, who recently divorced Queen Natalie, and subsequently abdicated his throne, is about to marry a daughter of M. Chriatich ...

    Article : 46 words
  35. CRICKET IN VICTORIA.

    The match, M. C.C. versus South Melbourne, for the Metropolitan Challenge Chip was continued on Saturday afternoon. The South already had had two afternoons ...

    Article : 146 words
  36. FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

    The Chinese of Chee-Chow Foo, and inland city on the Yang-tse-Kiang, are reported to be plotting against the lives of all foreigners residing in their midst. A British corvette ...

    Article : 47 words
  37. THE BREADSTUFFS MARKET.

    The English wheat market is lifeless, the Continental market inactive, and the American market showing a general decline in prices. ...

    Article : 103 words
  38. [RECEIVED March 10, 6.50 p.m.]

    The Antwerp wool sales will begin on, Tuesday week, March 19. For the series 11,600 bales have been catalogued, this number including 1,100 from the ...

    Article : 40 words
  39. BANK FRAUD.

    Two clerks in the Irish Provincial Bank have been arrested on a charge of having embezzled £25,000. They had absconded, but were, traced to Barcelona, in Spain ...

    Article : 37 words
  40. THE TALLOW MARKET.

    At yesterday's public auction of Australian tallow 1,675 casks were offered and 750 sold. Mutton, medium, realized 23s. 6d. and beef, medium, at 23s. ...

    Article : 38 words
  41. FLOODS IN ENGLAND.

    Heavy floods have occurred throughout the West of England. At Taunton, about twelve miles from Bridgewater, the River Tone overflowed its banks and deluged all ...

    Article : 120 words
  42. PITMAN'S SHORTHAND.

    The jubilee of the establishment by Mr. Isaac Pitman, the inventor of the well-known system of shorthand writing which bean his name, of the Phonetic Institute in ...

    Article : 55 words
  43. THE QUEEN IN FRANCE.

    Her Majesty the Queen arrived at Biarritz, on the French coast of the Bay of Biscay, yesterday, and was received by the towns people there with great enthusiasm. Floral ...

    Article : 82 words
  44. NEWCASTLE MINERS.

    The annual demonstration of the Hunter River Miners' Association was held at Newcastle on Saturday. It was mentioned that the Association had 4,600 ...

    Article : 78 words
  45. THE COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE

    The Manager of the Sydney agency of the Comptoir d'Eacompte of Paris has received a cablegram to the effect that the Bank of France is advancing the Comptoir ...

    Article : 51 words
  46. COMMERCIAL

    The latest quotation of New Zealand frozen mutton is from 4d. to 4¼d. per lb., and of frozen beef from 41/8d, to 4½d. ...

    Article : 33 words
  47. Advertising

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    Advertising : 108 words
  48. Advertising

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    Advertising : 83 words
  49. SUICIDE OF THE BARONESS.

    According to another story the game keeper's tale is all false. The truth said to be as follows:—The Prince went to Meyerling and the Baroness Marie ...

    Article : 336 words
  50. BROKEN HILL.

    Dennis Trinadad, well known in South Australia, has been arrested for burglary. ...

    Article : 20 words
  51. Advertising

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    Advertising : 26 words
  52. SALT.

    The price of course London salt has advanced 2s. since the latest previous quotations. ...

    Article : 17 words
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