THE committee of the Rockhampton Agricultural Society decided on Saturday afternoon to hold a show on the 5th and 6th of June next. The secretary was instructed to ...
Article : 509 wordsTHE Daily Chronicle states that in withdrawing the Employers' Liability Bill the Government have vindicated the action of the House of Lords and brought about a ...
Article : 43 wordsLEOPOLD VERMESCH, a young married man, employed in the cashier's department of the Post Office, was arrested to-day, charged with embezzlement. ...
Article : 29 wordsTHERE being no mail down to-day I cannot send usual budget of local intelligence. Mr. John Cameron, M.L.A., arrived by Friday's mail train, intending to go right through to ...
Article : 93 wordsNEWS from Rio Janeiro states that the loyalist troops were conveyed in boats and launches, and made an attack on the rebel position at Villigagnon. The rebels, ...
Article : 51 wordsMR. C. W. ROBERTS, an old pioneer of New South Wales, died to-day, aged 72. Deceased was the father of Mr. C. Roberts, C.M.G., at one time Mayor of Sydney, and ...
Article : 48 wordsERASMUS WEIMAN has been arrested in New York, charged with having defrauded the Mercantile Agency Company of £50,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsDETAILS of a sad fatality at Capella have just arrived. Thomas Holland, a young selector, accompanied by a boy relative, Ms mother, and a girl about 16 years of age, went ...
Article : 166 wordsAT the Circuit Court to-day Robert Mills found guilty of shooting a young woman named Martha Helonsley, was sentenced to 15 years penal servitude. ...
Article : 51 wordsLEON LAUTHIER, 19 years, who in November last made an attempt in Paris to murder M. Georgevitch, the Servian Minister, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE shareholders in the Freehold Investment Company have passed a resolution requesting the liquidator to manage the affairs of the company. ...
Article : 30 wordsTHE remains of Martial Bourdin, the anarchist, who was killed by the explosion near Greenwich Observatory on the 15th inst., were buried to-day. The funeral was attended ...
Article : 89 wordsJUSTICE WINDEYER to-day sentenced a young man named John. Moore to seven years penal servitude for stealing £100 worth of clothing from Gardiner & Co.'s warehouse. ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE Times, commenting on the meetings yesterday of the creditors and shareholders of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, at both of which ...
Article : 74 wordsA BOAT collided with the wharf at Hay last night, when the seven occupants were precipitated into the water. Two were drowned, Mrs. Davy and Stella Percival. ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE revenue derived from the taxes under the Meat and Dairy Produce Act have been apportioned as follows:—Southern district, £23,000; Northern district, £11,000; Central ...
Article : 39 wordsTHE West Indian troops, with several companies of mariners from the flagship Raleigh and the gunboat Widgeon, landed and attacked some slavers near Bathurst, Gambia. ...
Article : 63 wordsIN the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday a motion was proposed by a member of the Socialistic section of the Chamber that the time had arrived for the State to assume ...
Article : 100 wordsTHE whole of the southern colleries are in full work to-day, being the first occasion that operations were carried on at all pits since the strike. ...
Article : 34 wordsA DEPUTATION of Presbyterian ministers waited on the Premier to-day, to ask whether the Batavia River Mission still retained the confidence of the Government, as the Press ...
Article : 151 wordsA PRISONER, John West, who is confined in Pentridge Stockade, made a deliberate attempt to commit suicide on Sunday last. He climbed the wall 12ft. high and threw ...
Article : 82 wordsA DISASTROUS cyclone has visited Mauritius. During the storm a train near Port Louis was blown off the rails into the river and fifty persons killed. ...
Article : 33 wordsIN the event of a Servian revolt, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria have agreed to remain neutral. ...
Article : 25 wordsIT is reported in diplomatic circles that a meeting is being arranged between the Emperors of Austria and Germany, to be held at Affazia, on the Adriatic Sea. ...
Article : 36 wordsJOHN ROBB, the well-known railway contractor, has filed his schedule in insolvency. His liabilities amount to £663,000, and the assets to £582,000. ...
Article : 29 wordsTHE Italian Budget shows a deficit of £7,000,000. The Government have proposed to the Chamber of Deputies to retrench to the extent of £1,750,000, and to ...
Article : 45 wordsA MEETING of about 70 creditors of the Queensland Deposit Bank was held yesterday, at which was passed a resolution in favor of the liquidation of the bank as ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE international football match between Wales and Ireland was played yesterday, the Welshmen winning bo four goals to one. ...
Article : 25 wordsTHE V. A. T. Club races were held yesterday. The principal event resulted as follows:—OAKLEIGH PLATE—Moorite, 1; Hova, 2; Wallington, 3; Grand Brig, 4. Time— ...
Article : 40 wordsWITH the exception of the rain which fell during last winter, the western country has not experienced such a thorough downpour as is reported from the various telegraph stations ...
Article : 818 wordsTHE Investors' Review, in criticising the New Zealand Farming Mortgage Bill, declares the scheme to be worthless unless public works are continued, for the people will cease ...
Article : 38 wordsTHE Castlemaine Brewery and Quinlan, Gray and Company, Limited, have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. ...
Article : 23 wordsMR. BRUCE, of New South Wales, strongly advises the appointment of an expert to watch the New South Wales meat trade in London. Mr. Bruce opens his tour in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsTHE barque Jennie Parker, bound from Newcastle to the Phillipine Islands, put into Moreton Bay yesterday with a leakage, and also short of water. She encountered a ...
Article : 68 wordsNEWS are to hand stating that at the village of Maliekoff, about 50 miles from Moscow, a horrible series of murders have been committed by a maniac. It seems the man, ...
Article : 88 wordsTHE Tory and Liberal Unionist bodies in Scotland have received instructions to prepare for a general election in one month's time. Candidates are already being talked ...
Article : 57 wordsTHE Norwegian barque Aornus, bound from New York to Brisbane, arrived at Cape Moreton on Saturday night, and signalled for a pilot, but there was no response. The ...
Article : 107 wordsTwo leaders of the unemployed movement, Henry M'Cormack and Charles Stewart, were this morning sentenced to 14 and 10 days' imprisonment respectively for leading a ...
Article : 46 wordsIT is expected that the entire silver mines of Colorado will suspend operations owing to the low price of silver. ...
Article : 28 wordsTHE Anarchists in London threaten to explode the mill and residences of three wealthy manufacturers at Blackburn, Lincolnshire, in order to assert the rights of the ...
Article : 35 wordsTHE forts at Nictheroy, Brazil, have sunk the insurgent warship Jupiter. ...
Article : 19 wordsTHE Coolgardie goldfield is now almost deserted, all the men on the field having flocked to the rush at the Pinnacles. Good water has been struck near No. 1 South, ...
Article : 48 wordsTHE Government of the Republic of Guatemala, Central America, have suspended payment of interest in the external debt. [The external or foreign debt of Guatemala is ...
Article : 64 wordsMR. E. J. SYDES, barrister, intends contesting the Toombool elections. ...
Article : 17 wordsTHE Sultan of Turkey has presented the Khedive of Egypt, who is shortly to marry the Sultan's daughter, with a palace on the Besphorus. ...
Article : 31 wordsRAIN is reported by various stations between Cairns and Brisbane, apparently reaching further inland than heretofore. [Very much so.—ED.] ...
Article : 27 wordsDUFF, a Melbourne cyclist, rode the journey from Christchurch to Dunedin (N.Z.), in 26 hours 5 minutes. The 24 hours Australian record, which stood at 223 miles, was broken, ...
Article : 47 wordsFEVER is increasing in Rio Janiero owing to obstruction in the discharge of the city refuse into the Bay. ...
Article : 28 wordsTHE silver market is completely demoralised, and a further fall is feared. ...
Article : 19 wordsTO-NIGHT'S forecast states that conditions are not unfavorable for further rain throughout all parts of the colony, including the west and south-west. Squally from between ...
Article : 38 wordsSPAIN insists upon Morocco paying £600,000 indemnity in connection with the Melilla revolt. The Sultan replied that he is unable to exceed £200,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsTHE Committee of the North Queensland Separation League ere awaiting directions from Townsville prior to taking further action. ...
Article : 24 wordsREWI MANGI, the famous Maori fighting chief, who is believed to be dying, requests that he and Sir George Grey be buried in one grave. ...
Article : 33 wordsMR. SHERIDAN, who is on a visit from Sydney on behalf of Stoddart's English team of cricketers, has succeeded in making arrangements for a match to be played in ...
Article : 39 wordsA BOXING match has been arranged between Steve O'Donnell and Fitzsimmons for a purse of £2000. ...
Article : 23 wordsTHE Duke of Devonshire, leader of the Liberal-Unionist party in the House of Lords, holds that insisting upon the detailed amendments in the Parish Councils Bill will ...
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