The position of clerks Is just now attracting some attention. The salaries paid for clerical work are, as a rule, very small, and the supply is usually in excess ...
Article : 6,780 wordsThe feeling as to the prospects of the forthcoming Victorian 3½ per Cent. Loan of £4,000,000 is more sanguine. It is believed that it is likely to average £101 ...
Article : 100 wordsAn additional gang of 100 navvies with timber and implements to be used with a view of strengthening the embankments around Bourke was dispatched by special ...
Article : 297 wordsSir Frederick Napier Broome, K.C.M.G., late Governor of Western Australia, and Sir Thomas Cockburn Campbell, Bart, one of the delegates ...
Article : 113 wordsComment has been made about the conduct of the President of the French Republic (M. Sadi Carnot). He was lately at Aix-les-Bains, where the Queen ...
Article : 54 wordsThanks to the combined influences of along dry summer and the depredations of locusts the outlook from Morphettville on Cup Day was not as green and ...
Article : 5,104 wordsBar silver is quoted at 45d per oz. The rise in price is owing to the effect that important legislative proposals are pending in the Congress of the United States ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is reported that Mr. H. M. Stanley will shortly be appointed as Governor of British East Africa. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Joint Committee of the Senate and the Home of Representatives in the United States propose that the Treasury shall buy 4,500,000 oz. of silver monthly. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Standard, in Its financial article this morning, states that there is no enthusiasm about the loan, but interested Syndicates will secure its being well covered. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe sittings of the Pan-American Congress have been discontinued. The Congress is generally regarded as a failure, and its proceedings will be virtually resultless. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Governors of the Bank of England have to-day reduced the Bank rate of interest to 3 per cent. ...
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Article : 45 wordsThe Directors of the Hoffman Brick Company to-day notified to their men on strike that one of the brickyards would be closed for alterations, and that those ...
Article : 375 wordsTenders for the Victorian Loan have been opened. The amount required has been far more than covered, and the premium is estimated roughly at 36s. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the wool tales to-day the market was brisk. Scoured Merinos realized one penny, good greasies a halfpenny, and inferior greasies a penny below the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Committee of Ways and Means has reported the Republican Tariff Bill to the House of Representatives in the United States. After making hides and sugar ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Upper House of the York Convocation, which ia now sitting, has upon the motion of the Right Rev. Dr. Moor-house, Bishop of Manchester, formerly ...
Article : 144 wordsAn Australian cargo of wheat for prompt shipment has been told at 35s. per quarter. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Hon. James White's colts, Narellan and Kirkham, performed a good striding gallop of a mile and a half to-day. ...
Article : 32 wordsMadame Melba (Mrs. Armstrong), the well-known Australian singer, appeared last night in Paris as Marguerite. In this character she scored the greatest success made since Patti appeared. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. S. H. Parker, one of the delegates from Western Australia in connection with the Enabling Bill, intends to return to the colony by the P. & O. s. s. Oceans, ...
Article : 42 wordsA native cashier employed in India by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, has been found guilty of large defalcations. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Right Hon. James Lowther, M.P., has resigned his position as Steward of the Jockey Club. Mr. J. H. Houldsworth has been elected in his place. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Socialists declare that there need be no fear about the observance of May Day in honour of the eight-hours movement, They assert that the day will be observed peacefully everywhere. ...
Article : 47 wordsCaptain Kane, who commanded H.M.S. Calliope during the storm at Samoa that year, is now an applicant for the command of the gunnery ship Excellent, now ...
Article : 31 wordsA meeting of members of Parliament to-day decided to welcome Mr. Munro, leader of the Opposition, on the return to the colony from Europe, by a popular ...
Article : 181 wordsThe police during last night made a raid upon the Fidelio Club, a low betting resort In Soho. They succeeded in arresting fifty-seven ...
Article : 44 wordsThe attempt of the Portugese Government to float a loan for the building of railways has been a complete fiasco. ...
Article : 24 wordsMiss Amy Horton, the well-known burlesque actress, who lately played in Adelaide, will shortly appear in London in a new burlesque written by Mr. Fergus Hume ...
Article : 39 wordsThe miners In Silesia are out on strike for higher wages and shorter hours of work. Serious riots have taken place in various parts of the province, but these have now been suppressed by the military. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe strike of bootmakers in the East-End of London still continues. The masters, however, have decided to submit the difficulty to arbitration. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe lifeboat Storm King, which left London on September 7 and arrived at Cape Town on March 2, has sailed from the latter port for Melbourne. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the Water Police Court to-day Solomon Josephs, proprietor and editor of the Tamworth News, was charged with having published an article reflecting on ...
Article : 129 wordsA warrant has been issued for Alfred G. Jones, mercantile broker, who disappeared on March 24 under circumstances apparently indicating that he had been ...
Article : 73 wordsInfluenza is becoming very prevalent throughout the city and suburbs, but the disease is not of a virulent form. Auckland, April 17. A death from influenza occurred at Christchurch to-day. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe R.M.S. Tara, which was floated this morning, resumed her voyage in the evening after again taking in the cargo which had been lightered. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Government contemplate offering a large reward for an improved process of treating flax. The approximate trade returns for the ...
Article : 79 wordsBoudoir passengers per express to Adelaide:—Messrs. Wald, P. Begg, J. Arthur, Cumming, C. H. Anderson, Kirby, J. P. Segoe. C. Booth ...
Article : 105 wordsThe trial of Henry Bennett, charged with the murder of his uncle, George Thomas May, at St. Kilda, on March 24, commenced to-day. A plea of ...
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Advertising : 269 wordsThe trial of Thomas Cosgrove, auctioneer, on at charge arising out of the dynamite explosion which caused such a sensation in the city months ago, was ...
Article : 70 wordsThe earnings of the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway for the week ended April 12 were £335. The Chingtu arrived on Tuesday ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. McGregor, Chairman of the Broken Hill Proprietary Board, accompanied by the metallurgist, Mr. Schlapp, inspected the Refinery Works to-day. Mr. McGregor left ...
Article : 160 wordsA child named Victoria Bromley, three year of age, was run over by a tramcar in Queensberry-street to-day. She was taken to the Melbourne Hospital, but expired almost immediately after admission. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Victoria left Colombo on Monday evening, 14th inst, outwards. ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Fri 18 Apr 1890, Page 5
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