A new vessel, one of the Allan line of steamships, named the Castilian, while on her maiden trip went ashore in a dangerous position in the Bay of Fundy during a ...
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Advertising : 957 wordsDuring the debate on the naval estimates in the House of Commons last night, Mr. W. G. E. Macartney, Secretary to the Admiralty, replying to a question by Sir Ughtred ...
Article : 94 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons last night, Mr. Balfour promised that the Government would appoint a Ministry of Agriculture for Ireland. ...
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Article : 462 wordsReports from Berlin state that Mr. Cecil Rhodes, who is visiting the German capital with the object of furthering his Trans-African railway scheme, has been offered a ...
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Article : 276 wordsIT is estimated that since the first outbreak of the bubonic plague in India not less than 200,000 persons have died from the disease. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. J. M. Sinclair, the produce expert and commercial representative of the Victorian Government in London, has notified his Government that overwork is affecting ...
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Article : 51 wordsNews has been received from the Soudan that the Khalifa's force, which was recently reported to be within half-a-day's march of the Upper Nile, has been considerably ...
Article : 62 wordsThe issue of a loan of £1,000,000 by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, bearing 3 per cent. interest, has been proposed, but the opinion in financial circles ...
Article : 53 wordsSir Wilfred Laurier, the Canadian Premier, states that the result of the poll taken throughout the Dominion in September last on the question of the entire prohibition of ...
Article : 137 wordsNews from Paris states that Colonel Picquart, who has for a considerable time past been confined in the military prison of Cherche-Midi, has now, in deference to the ...
Article : 47 wordsReynolds, at Auckland, paced by a triplet and tandem, did a mile on the grass in 2min. 10 315sec., which is claimed as the world's record. ...
Article : 33 wordsM. Lockroy, French Minister of Marine, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday with reference to the recent disastrous explosion at the naval magazine near Toulon, ...
Article : 56 wordsNews is to hand that Major Merchand, who evacuated Fashoda on the 11 December last, and is proceeding by way of Abyssinia to the French port of Jibutil, on the ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is reported from Sofia that the Bulgarian Government have declined the offer of the Viennese bankers to float a 5 per cent loan of £8,000,000, for the conversion of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Canadian Government are taking measures for settling 4000 Russian immigrants of the Dukhobortsy sect in the north-eastern portion of the Dominion. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe steamship Duke of Westminster, outward bound for Queensland ports, left Sue to-day. BATAVIA, March 14, ...
Article : 36 wordsLAIDLEY annals do not record a busier day than Saturday last, for in addition to the ordinary business of Saturday it was polling day for the Lockyer, and when some 470 votes were ...
Article : 431 wordsYESTERDAY a lad named Hayes, aged 16 years, while riding a young horse, was thrown, and suffered concussion of the brain. His father afterwards rode the same horse, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsThe Australian-bred borse Levantor has been scratched for the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase. ...
Article : 18 wordsIt is announced that Captain A. T. Anderson, of the Native Mountain Artillery, India, has been secured for service in the Queensland Permanent Artillery. ...
Article : 31 wordsSPORTSMEN in the town and district who love to see a good horse sporting the silk on our racecourses will be sorry to hear that the bay gelding Orphan Boy has been disposed of by ...
Article : 432 wordsThe appeal in tho case ot the Bulli Coal Company v. Osborno has been dismissed with costs by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ...
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Article : 82 wordsReports are to hand that numbers of the inhabitants of Tigre, the Northern province of Aby[?]inia, are migrating to Kassala, which is now occupied by an Anglo-Egyptian ...
Article : 48 wordsIt has been discovered that the Khalifa is suffering from leprosy, contracted through marrying the wife of ah Emir who had the disease. It is stated that his face is affected, ...
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