The scheme of the promoters of the Assets Realisation Company, which proposes to consolidate the assets of the Federal, City of Melbourne, English and Australian Mortgage, ...
Article : 651 wordsThe Lancet, referring to a report which circulated immediately after Jubilee day, says the deterioration of the Queen's eyesight has been grossly exaggerated, and that the loss of ...
Article : 63 wordsPrices tit the London wool sales to-day were again firm and there was good competition. LONDON, July 8. At yesterday's London wool sales high ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Atteridge, who served the London Daily Chronicle as its correspondent in the Greco-Turkish war, has recovered £1,000 damages in an action for libel against Mr. E. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe sub-committee representing the freezing companies are still considering Mr. Hooley's proposed amalgamation. A cablegram has been received extending the offer till ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Cooper's gelding Newhaven, which won the last Melbourne Derby and Cup, is resting in Blackwell's training stable at Newmarket. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day bidding was spirited, and prices were very firm. Elder, Smith, & Co., Limited, have received telegraphic advice from their London house of ...
Article : 104 wordsA conference of agricultural societies was commenced at Hawkesbury College to-day, when there were present 180 delegates from agricultural societies throughout the colony. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe colonial riflemen are preparing for the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley. The Victorians yesterday made excellent practice, their average being over 90, whilst ...
Article : 123 wordsThe annual cricket match between the Oxford and Cambridge Universities resulted yesterday in a win for Cambridge by 179 runs. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe death, in his 65th year, is announced of Henri Meilhac, the French dramatic author, several of whose plays, notably "Barbe Blue," "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein," and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe tribesmen at Toshi, on the borders of Afghanistan, who recently made a raid on coolies engaged on public works for the Indian Government, are still turbulent, and recently ...
Article : 52 wordsThose bookmakers who do business on a cash basis are at last to be permitted to follow their calling on racecourses without police interference. At the Kensington races ...
Article : 61 wordsThe latest reports from Calcutta are to the effect that all the up-river millworkers have struck work, and that bands, each several thousands strong, are marching to Calcutta to ...
Article : 63 wordsThe New South Wales Mounted Rifles under Lieutenant-Colonel Lassetter, Major Onslow, and Captain Thompson attended a field day at Aldershot to-day. ...
Article : 108 wordsAt Tocumwal, John Kennedy, while asleep near a camp fire, rolled into the flames and was terribly burnt about the lower part of the body. He was attended to at the hospital but ...
Article : 93 wordsOwing to the frequent attacks which have been made on the combined forces landed by the Great Powers in Crete, the Admirals in command have sent a joint note of warning to ...
Article : 70 wordsThe imports into the United Kingdom last month as compared with the corresponding month of last year, show an increase of £1,092,554 and the exports a decrease of ...
Article : 39 wordsSheep sales to-day were conducted by Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, & Co., and the New Zealand L. & M. Association. Then were heavy catalogues of Tasmanian and New ...
Article : 80 wordsNews has just reached London that the pilgrim steamer Sultan, bound from Bombay, was wrecked in the Indian Ocean during a monsoon on the same day (June 9) that the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe colonial Premiers and their wives, at the invitation of the Queen, visited Frogmore yesterday and inspected the tombs of the Dukes of Albany and Clarence. ...
Article : 227 wordsThe latest information received by the Egyptian Intelligence Department shows that the Khalifa's position has been greatly imperilled by the numerous desertions from his ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. D. O'Connor moved the adjournment of the Legislative Council to-day to call atten-to Sunday closing of shops by the Government. He said the action was most arbitrary. Dr. ...
Article : 266 wordsMr. G. N. Curzon, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that the treaty between England and Abyssinia in ...
Article : 97 wordsSilver is quoted at 27½[?]d. per oz., a rise of [?]d. on the previous quotation. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. R. Rees, the senior partner of the firm of Messrs. Hawke & Co., engineers, of Kapunda, South Australia, has just returned from Bendigo, having completed an important ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 233 wordsThe directors of the South Australian Company have arranged to entertain Mr. Kingston at dinner on Friday, July 16. Mr. and Mrs. Kingston will visit Ireland ...
Article : 107 wordsA deputation of unemployed waited on the Minister of Industry and Labor (Mr. Garrard) to-day and asked for work. The Minister said if any work of a reproductive character could ...
Article : 42 wordsA deputation of unemployed, accompanied by Labor members of the Legislative Assembly, bad before the Acting-Premier to-day some pitiful cases of distress. The men represented ...
Article : 167 wordsBaron Hindlip (whose father, the well-known brewer, Mr. S. C. Alsopp, was the first holder of the title) is dangerously ill. His lordship recently underwent a critical ...
Article : 39 wordsAn engineer named James Henderson died suddenly at the Petersham railway-station this morning while awaiting the arrival of a train. Heart disease is supposed to have been the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe American Senate yesterday passed the new tariff by 38 votes to 28. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsThe strike of engineers is extending, the remaining 75 per cent of unionists in London having left their employment. As soon as the lockout in the North of England begins ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Russian Government have sent a circular note to the Great Powers suggesting that steps should bo taken to expedite the conclusion of a treaty of peace between ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Metropolitan Bill passed through all its stages in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon. It extends for four months the time during which an accountant can audit for a ...
Article : 140 wordsJudge Murray, appointed to enquire into mining accidents in the Broken Hill and surrounding distrusts, arrived here this morning with Mr. Wright, his secretary, and Mr. Little ...
Article : 81 wordsComplaints are made in Canada of the harshness shown in the enforcement of the American alien laws, and it is stated that Canadian workmen in search of employment experience ...
Article : 60 wordsA small auxiliary screw cutter, the Mavis, with four men aboard, is believed to have been lost. A boat resembling her has been seen floating, bottom upwards, near Mongonui. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe scheme submitted by the directors for the reconstruction of the London Bank of Australia has been unanimously approved by the shareholders. The depositors ...
Article : 66 wordsThe importation of grape vine cuttings from Australia is now allotted if they are accompanied by a certificate. Rooted vines and grapes are still prohibited. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe directors of the Queensland National Bank have sued the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company for £500 to cover the loss sustained by that institution in connection with the ...
Article : 80 wordsA young man about 6 o'clock this evening went with a companion to the British mine seeking work. While waiting he went to the boiler-house to clean his pipe, and when there ...
Article : 75 wordsA white seal was captured on the beach at St. Kilda this morning. It was a splendid specimen, being nearly 8 ft. in length, and weighing about 7 cwt. Unfortunately some ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Peel River Land Company have declared Aa interim dividend of 2 per cent. ...
Article : 22 wordsA magisterial enquiry into the causes of the sudden death of Martin Tyrell, aged 60, on the Central Blocks, yesterday, was held to-day. The finding was that death was due to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Old-Age Pensions Commission heard further representatives of friendly societies on the subject today. One witness said be would compel friendly societies to abolish sick-pay ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 10 Jul 1897, Page 14
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