THE Canadian Government, in the event of a private company laying the cable to Australia, offers to limit the tariff to 3s. a word for ordinary messages, and 1s. 6d. a word for ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the course of a recent debate in the House, the Colonial Secretary mentioned that the Government intended shortly to introduce further ...
Article : 1,214 wordsMR. NELSON has forwarded to the Premier of New South Wales a reply to the latter'b communication, asking whether the Government is prepared to place the question of federation ...
Article : 168 wordsTHE compositors in the Evening News office yesterday struck work because the proprietary desired to replace some vacant frames by unionists, who were regarded as undesirable ...
Article : 45 wordsRUSSIAN cholera is very bad in Poland. Hundreds of deaths are reported, and many villages are entirely abandoned. The inhabitants, fearing infection, are camping in the ...
Article : 35 wordsNEWS is at a premium this week, the little there is not being of a cheering nature. On Thursday morning a young lad named Forbes was admitted to the hospital, he ...
Article : 167 wordsDR. KREMIOUSKY, of Kharkoff University, Russia, claims to have discovered a cure for consumption by inhaling an analine essence extracted from the pine tree. ...
Article : 31 wordsOwing to the heavy rain, the annual race meeting of the Sydney Tattersall's Club has been postponed until Tuesday next. ...
Article : 27 wordsAT the inquest on the body of the woman Jarrett, who died from the effects of an illegal operation, a verdict of wilful murder against Ann Sealy and Emily Fitzjares was ...
Article : 46 wordsTHE meat merchants predict that Nelson's process for thawing meat will revolutionise the trade. The process restores the meat to its original condition, and renders it equal to ...
Article : 39 wordsGODFREY GEORGE GEARY, a clerk m the office of the Curator of Insanity and Intestacy, was yesterday sentenced in the City Police Court to three months' imprisonment ...
Article : 47 wordsWILLIAM LEACH, a lunatic who had camped at and barricaded a tent at the foot of the Flinders Range a number of days past, and who had threatened to shoot anyone who ...
Article : 53 wordsTHE Chinese at Ha-noi have murdered the French Customs Officer and kidnapped his wife and daughter. French troops pursued the murderers, but were unable to overtake ...
Article : 57 wordsA YOUNG man, Thomas Wood, a son of the railway stationmaster at Wooloowin, on the Sandgate line, was yesterday taken to the Brisbane Hospital, having been shot by ...
Article : 39 wordsI MUST again put in an appearance with my usual contributions, otherwise my many anxious friends in Muttaburra will think I am defunct, and no doubt my friend of the ...
Article : 873 wordsTHE Government have decided, after the end of the present year, to intercept all letters addressed to sweep promoters in Queensland. ...
Article : 29 wordsSPECIMEN STONE at the surface in the Londonderry Mine, Coolgardie, has been dollied, and realised £27,000, apart from 1,500 ounces previously obtained. The manager says he ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE Italian Government has sent a special embassy to London for the purpose of asking Great Britain to join in making an advance on Khartoum, the stronghold of the ...
Article : 47 wordsTHE football match played in Brisbane on Saturday between Sydney University and the Boomerangs, of Brisbane, resulted in a win for the latter by 9 points to 8. ...
Article : 35 wordsA MEETING of residents took place on Saturday night, in the town hall, at which about 100 persons were present, the Mayor, Mr. Charles Carkeek, in the chair. The meeting ...
Article : 222 wordsTHE death is announced of General Nathaniel Prentiss, President of the Bank of the United States, in his 78th year. ...
Article : 25 wordsA YOUNG man named Abrahams, who was committed for trial on a charge of perjury, attempted to commit suicide at the Brisbane gaol yesterday. He cut his throat with a ...
Article : 44 wordsGOVERNOR WAITE, of the State of Colorado, who was arrested on a charge of opening letters, and using the information acquired thereby to the injury of his political ...
Article : 42 wordsA MEETING of miners employed in the Aberdare Colliery was held to-day. It was decided to accept the offer of the proprietors to work the mine on the co-operative system ...
Article : 46 wordsTHEEE blocks of buildings in the chief business centre of Austin Town, Texas, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The damage done is estimated at 50 million dollars. ...
Article : 59 wordsTHE Scotch miners now out on strike have taken a ballot on the question as to whether a termination of the strike shall take place. It resulted in a majority of 5000 votes in ...
Article : 146 wordsTHE Queensland Deposit Bank submitted to auction to-day 141 properties valued at £50,000. Only two small lots were sold. ...
Article : 27 wordsTHE Khedive of Egypt has declined to sanction a court martial for the pashas charged with trafficking with girls for immoral purposes. ...
Article : 31 wordsTHE operations of the Government Savings Bank for August show an increase in deposits of nearly £30,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsMR. W. C. CLEMENTS, a very old resident, and at one time town surveyor, died yesterday. Eight lunatics, four male and four female, ...
Article : 232 wordsTHE Vessesche Zettung states that the Cabinets of Germany, Great Britain and America have commenced the necessary repeal of the Samoan tripartite treaty, but ...
Article : 45 wordsTHErevenue of the colony for the month of August was £235,905, compared with £226,599 for Augues of previsous ear. Taxation shows an increase of £10,000, of which ...
Article : 56 wordsONE hundred and fifty Greek officers and soldiers, in revenge for attacks on the army of lack of discipline, wrecked the offices of the Acropolis newspaper at Athens, and ...
Article : 49 wordsAN Anarchist named Dedgard has been arrested at Perpignan, in the south of France, on a charge of being implicated in a plot against the life of M. Dupuy, the Premier of ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE Post and Telegraph Office advise the following message received from telegraph manager at Southport at7.80p.m.:—"Gustave Kindnark, able seaman of the barque Cambus ...
Article : 189 wordsTHE gold medal of the Antwerp Exhibition has been awarded to a Graziers Meat Export Company, of Brisbane, for their tinned meats, and also to Mr. R. Skinner, of Brisbane, for ...
Article : 44 wordsA MAN named Moreman reached the port on Wednesday night, having drifted in a small dingy, which was almost full of water, for three days and two nights. He had ...
Article : 65 wordsCOLONEL RHODES, elder brother of the Premier of Cape Colony, succeeds Dr. Jamieson as administrator to the British South African Company in Matabeleland. ...
Article : 31 wordsIN the Assembly yesterday evening during the debate on the motion for adjournment by Mr. Kingsbury, reference was made to the continued influx of Japanese for northern ...
Article : 87 wordsA DISASTROUD fire has occurred among the river boats mo[?]led at Canton, and used by the Chinese coolly as dwelling houses. Over 100 boats were hurned, and it is estimated ...
Article : 45 wordsGREAT alarm is felt among the foreign residents of Shanghai owing to the menacing conduct of the fanatics among the young Chinese recruits, whose conduct leads ...
Article : 167 wordsA DEPUTATION from the United Furniture Trades Society yesterday waited on the Premier to complain of the unfair competition of the Chinese, of whom 400 were engaged in ...
Article : 145 wordsOFFICIAL intelligence has been received that the British and German Warships shelled and destroyed the rebel village at Samoa. Many rebels were killed, and the remainder finally ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE Customs House collections in Brisbane during August were £62,813, being an increase of £2,198 compared with August of last year. ...
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