Additional cases of corruption in Canada are coming to light. It transpires that the officers connected with the Printing and Stationery Bureaus have ...
Article : 135 wordsThe "Appendices relating to the Treasurer's financial speech, 1891," contain some interesting particulars. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe French fleet was received at Spithead to-day. There were great ovations in the shape of processions of yachts and steamers, and much enthusiasm was ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following are the nominations for East Bourke for a seat in the Assembly in place of Mr. Wilkinson, deceased:—Messrs. Robert Harper, John McMahon and W. Haslam ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Emperor of China refrains from yielding to the pressure of the European Powers in favour of giving adequate protection to foreigners. because he is ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Commissioner of Police is entitled to some commiseration in respect of his report for the year ending June 30, which appears in this week's Gazette. Though ...
Article : 6,677 wordsThe unexpended balances amount to £95,235 10s. 3d. (within about £200 of last year's total), of which £62,228 are in the department of the Commissioner of Public Works. The amount ...
Article : 304 wordsMr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., has reasserted the charge made against Mr. J. Dillon, M.P., to the effect that he asked for £1,000 of the National League funds ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Chinese Government has complained, through its Ambassador at Berlin, of Germany joining with Great Britain, France, Russia, and America in ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the Coroner's Court to-day a woma named McDonald was committed for trial on charge of manslaughter of her son, Benjamin McDonald. When the body was discovered it ...
Article : 86 wordsMussulmans and Christians in Crete have united in an appeal for British protection. ...
Article : 27 wordsDr. Tanner, the well-known Home Rule M.P. for Mid-Cork, insulted a Captain Pickard at a Boulogne casino, and arrangements are being made of the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe City Council to-day negatived a motion that £300 be voted for the reception of the officers and men of the Squadron. The Mayor intends to call a meeting of citizens to-morrow ...
Article : 87 wordsThe estimated revenue for the year ended June 30, 1891, to £2,617,677, and the actual revenue £2,732,222. The actual revenue for the same period in the previous year was ...
Article : 698 wordsThe trials of the conductors of native newspapers in India for the use of seditious language have begun in the superior Courts. The defendants plead ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. W. O'Brien, M.P., has appealed to Mr. Parnell to keep the case of the Irish tenants above party conflict. He has also intimated that personally he is ...
Article : 53 wordsEdward Isaacs, a very old Australian and New Zealand colonist, and a resident in Auckland during the past quarter of a century, died to-day. One of his daughters is the wife ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, about whom grave fears have again been entertained, is now somewhat stronger than he was at the date of the last reports. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Legislative Assembly to-day at once went into Committee on the draft Federation Bill. A discussion ensued on Sir B. O'Loghlen's amendment on clause 9. Part II.. which ...
Article : 230 wordsThe action of Russia in buying grain in very large quantities is creating a war scare in Europe. Alarmists maintain that the partial ...
Article : 90 wordsShares in the Bank of South Australia, which on August 7 were quoted at £21 10s., have fallen to £19. It is alleged that the cause of the fall is the forced ...
Article : 42 wordsA most devastating forest fire is raging at Annmmoussa, in Algeria. Already 35,000 acres of timber have been burned, and the conflagration is spreading. ...
Article : 36 wordsAs a result of the fall of a scaffold in Nordenbamm, Oldenburg, ten persons have been killed. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe accident to a freight train on the Pacific coast, by which twenty-two cars were derailed and fell into the sea, took place at Mendocino. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Egyptian Patriotic Committee have adopted a resolution urging an appeal to the Powers in the event of Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, refusing ...
Article : 56 wordsThe White Star liner Majestic, 9,500 tons, has made the journey from Queenstown to Sandyhook in 5 days 16 1/2 hours. The average speed was 22 1/2 knots per ...
Article : 33 wordsWith the object of grappling with the agrarian problem in Russia a proposal has been made for the creation of the office of Minister of Agriculture. ...
Article : 40 wordsNice showers of rain tell to-day, O'270 points being registered. It will not be enough to save the crops. This has been a peculiar season so far. Further east from here where there are a ...
Article : 153 wordsIn the Legislative Council a Bill amending the law relating to married women's rights and [?]abilities was read a first time. The Voluntary Conveyances Land Act Amendment Bill was ...
Article : 372 wordsThe Australian horse Ringmaster has beer sold by Mr. Savill and sent to India. ...
Article : 19 wordsA disastrous hurricane has passed over Martinique, one of the French West India Islands, and its neighbourhood. Every vessel in St. Pierre, the capital ...
Article : 50 wordsHops in Kent give promise of the best yield that has been realized for years past. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe British delegates who are attending the Congress of Socialists at Brussels declare that they attend as labour and not as Socialist delegates. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe American visible snpply of wheat is estimated at 24,400,000 bushels. ...
Article : 21 wordsA majority of the German Cabinet urge the Emperor William to suspend the corn duties for three months, in spite of Count Caprivi's refusal to accede to a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 773 wordsMessrs. Fysh and Fitzgerald have concluded the examination of the Van Diemen's Land Bank assets. The result will not be made known till their report is laid before the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Congress of Socialists at Brussels has resolved to organize a permanent La our Commission in every country to collect and exchange information in ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Dutch Government which recently came into power propose to adopt measures to drain the Zuyder Zee. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr. Justice Hawkins, one of the English Judges, who is seventy-four years of age, is seriously ill. ...
Article : 20 wordsA terrible outrage by Turkish brigands is reported from Salonica. They murdered a number of railway workmen near that place, and kidnapped a railway ...
Article : 45 wordsAs the term of Sir Graham Berry's appointment as Agent-General is drawing to a close it will be necessary either to reappoint him or to decide upon a successor. It is understood that ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the Assembly to-day a preliminary motion for the introduction of a Bill to make provision for meeting by the sale of land certain Treasury bills heretofore authorized to be ...
Article : 170 wordsThe population, inclusive of the Northern Territory, as at July 1 was 321,046, or 31,426 more than it was ten years ago. The mean population, excluding the Northern Territory. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Chairman of the Board of Public Health has received intimation that another case of smallpox has broken out at the quarantine station amongst the persons landed from ...
Article : 51 wordsIn reply to a letter from the Secretary of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union, suggesting a conference "with a view to effecting a friendly settlement of the existing differences for this ...
Article : 126 wordsThe recent suspension of Land Companies has had little or no influence upon general business, as the stoppages were expected, and it is quite understood that they arose from ...
Article : 69 wordsSir George Grey's Law Practitioners Bill, abolishing the general knowledge examination for candidates gaining admission to the Bar, passed the Lower House to-night. An ...
Article : 55 wordsThe land sold last year represented a decrease of no less than 614,884 acres compared with the figures of June 30,1882, which were less than a half of the record of 1885 and below that of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe s.s. Menmuir sailed for Hongkong on Saturday with ten Chinese. She took as exports 3 tons of dried fish, gold valued at £300, 4 tons of tin ore. and 23 tons of silver bullion. ...
Article : 262 wordsThe local police have summoned the Broken Hill Municipal Corporation for allowing the Town Hall to be used for a classical concert, the ball not being licensed as a place of ...
Article : 109 wordsNews from Samoa states that all is quiet there. Mataafa's followers have obeyed Malietos's proclamation, and have dispersed to their homes. The German warship Spider ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Insolvency Court to-day was occupied for six hours with the hearing of the matter of Andrew Gibson, of Moonta, insolvent. The persons examined were the insolvent and his ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Presbyterian Churches of Australia having decided to establish a Mission Station on the Gulf of Carpentaria, and made arrangements with the Queensland Government for a ...
Article : 79 wordsThe following figures in continuation of the same comparisons will be interesting:—Land cultivated —1882, 2,613,434 acres, or 9 per head; 1891, 2,649,098 acres, or 8 1/2 per head. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received a letter from the Postmaster-General of the United States, at Washington, asking if the Government of New Zealand is willing to co-operate ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Orlando and the remainder of the Auxiliary Squadron left Thursday Island to-day. ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Fri 21 Aug 1891, Page 5
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