From Hong Kong files to date, 18th December, just hand, the following items of news have been extracted:— Admiral P. H. Colomb, R.N., has accepted ...
Article : 709 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the District Mining Engineers' Association was held, in the Western Star Lodge Hall, on Saturday night last, Mr. G. Wood (president) occupying the ...
Article : 700 wordsAt the Baptist Church, Brisbane-street, yesterday morning, the Rev. W. V. Young, in the course of his sermon referred to the death of the late Mr. Phelps, of Walloon. The rev. ...
Article : 961 wordsA very serious outbreak of smallpox has occurred in Guatemala (one of the republic of Central America), and 20,000 deaths from the disease have already been reported. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe usual weekly meet was held, at the Breakfast Creek Grounds, on Saturday afternoon last, under the auspices of the Pony and Galloway Association of Queensland. About ...
Article : 1,200 wordsJ. L. Sullivan, the celebrated pugilist, intends visiting Australia, in June next, on a the atrical tour. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Queen of Portugal and the patricien ladies are arranging a solemn mass for the success of the Mozambique expedition. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is reported that a Victorian loan of £2,450,000 will be put on the market next week at a minimum of 98 or 99. The Bank of England doubts the advisability of the ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Justin M'Garthy and Mr. Sexton are proceeding to Boulogne (presumably to confer with Mr. W. O'Brien, and other prominent members of the Irish party with regard to the ...
Article : 131 wordsA carious fatal accident happened near New-castle. On Friday night, Mr. Robert Ramray, a miner, was taking home two bottles of beer, when he fell and broke one of the bottles, a ...
Article : 251 wordsThe British Admiralty are increasing the personnel of the navy by 6000. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Hon. A. J. Balfour's fund for the relief of those persons in Ireland who were not benefited by the public works instituted now amounts to £10,000. Her Majesty the Queen ...
Article : 60 wordsThe B.L.S.N. Company's R.M.S. Bulimba, from Brisbane 25th November, left Suez to-day, for London. ADEN, January 7. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Plymouth Recorder has decided that strikes are illegal if conducted with a view of compelling employees not to employ non-unionists. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere has been forty-six day's fro[?]y in England, and the weather is the severest that has been experience during the present century. Intense cold also prevails on the continent, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe balloting for the Council of the Queensland Electric Telegraph Association took place on Saturday. The following were elected:—President, Mr. Henry J. Dodd; ...
Article : 122 wordsJohn Musgrave, a well-known actor, died in the Melbourne Hospital yesterday evening from cancer in the-throat. He leaves a wife and six children. ...
Article : 434 wordsIt is reported that the Cape loan of £1,190,000 has been issued. ...
Article : 6 wordsThe Government troops are trying to force the Indians to a decisive battle. The Indians are fighting among themselves, and consequently their troops are being ...
Article : 51 wordsAlthough Dr. Moorhouse, Bishop of mancheater, denies the persistent reports, he is likely to become Archbishop of York. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe agitation in connection with the new increases railway freights, on farm and dairy produce, still continues in this district. Public, meetings were held yesterday, at Emu Vale, ...
Article : 125 wordsThe St. James's Gazette asserts that General Booth lent Mr. William Stead £5000 of the Salvation Army funds to purchase the Nownes interest in the Review of Reviews. ...
Article : 34 wordsA very sad accident occurred at Ralph's coal-mine, Huntly, Auckland, on the night of the 22nd, by which four miners lost their lives, and, it is feared, a fifth may have ...
Article : 718 wordsThe New Zealand Loan, Mercantile, and Agency Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent., and carried forward £20,000. The reserve brought forward is £3600. ...
Article : 27 wordsEmin Pasha having fortified his stated on Lake Victoria Nyanza, he returning to the coast. ...
Article : 7 wordsThe saw-millers here are talking of closing their mills in consequence of the excessive railway charges for the carriages of timber. ...
Article : 27 wordsA French committee report that Dr. Koch's consumption cure bewilders the ablest physicians. They advise that it would be better to well further result. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe steamer Palmerston, which took a cargo of coal to Samoa, for the use of the German warships there, returned to port yesterday, having successfully, carried out her charter. ...
Article : 391 wordsThe prospectus of the "Welcome" (gold-reefing) Association was published to-day. The company is to consist of fifty shares of £25 each. The present shaft is to be straighened ...
Article : 116 wordsThe North British was is now the world hampered by the strike. The strikers are less hopeful on the Calade[?]an, Glasgow, and South Western line. They insert that their strike ...
Article : 24 wordsA fire broke out at Norwood, one of the eastern suburbs of the city early this morning, demolishing three shops and damaging a fourth, situated on the parade at the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe above match was played on the cricket reserve at North Ipswich on Saturday afternoon last, and resulted in a victory for St. Thomas's team. The first innings of the ...
Article : 107 wordsRussia is supplying Servia with great quantities of arms and pontoons to enable them to throw 60,000 troops on the Hinngarian side of the River Danube. ...
Article : 30 wordsSnow storms Austria have deranged the whole traffic. The shipping industry is suspended in Holland and Belgium owing to the severity of the weather. Antwerp Harbour ...
Article : 43 wordsThe condemnation of the Premier's proposals was concluded, at a meeting of the Separation League, to-night, and Messrs. Lennon, Jameson, Benwell, Goldring, and Parkes, with the ...
Article : 57 wordsThese two teams met at Dinmore on Saturday afternoon last, and the game resulted in a victory for Blackstone by 6 runs. The Blackstone men went to the wickets first, and ...
Article : 132 wordsThe British Government agrees not to oppose the Austrian occupation of Salonika (in the south of Turkey) if Austria will support the British claims in Turkey, Armenia, and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Moonstone Blocks crushed fifty-six tons of stone for a yield of 336oz. gold, but the gold is of poor quality. The London crushed eleven tons for 77oz. The Iguana spare ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Geo. Anderson, a theatrical agent, was changed at the Police Court, to-day, with uttering a forged consent to marriage. Mr. Anderson has been running a theatre, and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Hon. W. E. Gladstone in a letter to the Liberal candidate for Hartlepool (in the place of Mr. Richardson, deceased) announces his opposition to the immediate introduction of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe above clubs met on the Grammar-school wicket on Saturday last, when the Stars won by one innings and 42 runs. The Traffic were the first to bat, but failed to make ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Premier has been re-elected for a seat in the Legislative Assembly for Bunbury. He has declined to send a veterinary surgeon to King's Sound to report on the alleged outbreak ...
Article : 52 wordsThe French Minister for Foreign Affairs will on February 1st denounce all commercial treaties, except conventions based on the most favoured nation clause. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe annual meeting of the Ipswich District Rifle Club will be held, on Thursday next, at the Court house. The Rev. E. Armstrong Telfer, of London, ...
Article : 100 wordsNews has been received here that Thomas Fox and Engene M'Carthy recently committed suicide in the Northern Territery, the latter by blowing out his brains, and the former by ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the Standard denies that Germany has any intention of extending her protection over the Gilbert group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. ...
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Advertising : 171 wordsA flour ring has been projected in the North of England with a capital of £2,000,000. ...
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