A thousand free labourers are offering their services at the docks, and offices are being opened to register the non-union dockers. It is proposed that if the block is continued in ...
Article : 91 wordsWith reference to the strike of Rankie Bros.' employees, Mr. P. O'Reilly, secretary to the Boot Trade Union, who is also an employee of the firm, says that since the formation of the ...
Article : 588 wordsThe first meeting of the Intercolonial Postal Conference was held this morning. The delegates present were:—For Victoria, the Hon. S. G. Duffy, Postmaster General, and Mr. Jas. ...
Article : 245 wordsThe pastoralists executive state that the report that additional free labourers are coming here is incorrect, they having sufficient labourers here, but other men may be coming ...
Article : 399 wordsEdwin Waltor, timber merchant, of London, has failed. His liabilities are estimated at £400,000. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe following letter has been sent simultaneously by Mr. Edmond Mitchell, secretary of the Pasto alists' Union of Victoria, and Mr. Whiteley King secretary of the Pastoralists' ...
Article : 448 wordsA writ £17,000 has been issued at the instance of Lord Salisbury against Mr. O'Brien M.P., being the coats of the Late action for slander O'Brien v. Salisbury. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 wordsThe British column have captured Barmah, killing fifty of Isawbar's followers. The British casualties were thirteen killed and wounded. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe quiet village of Narbethong which lies midway between Healesville and Marysville was thrown into a state of great excitement on Saturday by the news that a settler ...
Article : 2,751 wordsIt is reported that a company is being promoted in New York with the object of laying a Pacific cable without a Government subsidy. The proposed company, however, ask that ...
Article : 55 wordsA purse of 300 sovereiegns has been offered by the Californian Athletic Club, for Fitzsimmons and Jem Hall to fight to a finish. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe excitement in the district of Durham, consequent upon the action of the Marquis of Londonderry in evicting 600 families on his Silksworth estate, is now subsiding. The ...
Article : 69 wordsThe farmers in the scrub are greatly agitated yet about the ways and means of sending their eggs to market. Some are for sending them all in one basket, others think the contrary. ...
Article : 448 wordsThe civil war in Chili is causing extreme bitterness among the people, and the conduct of President Balmaceda is considered not only cruel, but grossly ...
Article : 63 wordsShowery weather has prevailed all day and there is no sign of it clearing up. It is estimated that 450 tons of sugar have been manufactured at Yeppoon this season. ...
Article : 53 wordsA resolution has been moved in the United States House of Representatives propoeing that the Constitution be amended with the view of providing for the impeachment of any Speaker ...
Article : 70 wordsThe shearers are much incensed at being searched by the police when travelling to Clermont. Mr. Lindes declares that when he goes to the Capella camp on Friday, he will ...
Article : 100 wordsMrs. Jamieson, who went out to Zanzibar for the purpose of collecting information where-with to refute the charges made by Mr. H. M. Stanley against her late husband, who was ...
Article : 745 wordsA large quantity of wool ha arrived, the carries evidently expecting the wet season and are pushing in with the remnants of last season's' clip. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. James Kenny has been elected Chairman of the Divisional Board. Work on the railway is going on smoothly and well. ...
Article : 26 wordsH.M.S. Lizard has been recommissioned for Sydney. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe stevedores who issued a manifesto which threatened to bring about a strike of over-3000 of their men employed in the London Docks have withdrawn under pressure ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Oswald Keatinge, who was sentenced to five years for criminal assault on a girl aged twelve, died in Darlinghurst Gaol last night. At the inquest held this afternoon, ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Shearers' Union sat in conference to-day, and approved of the agreement for shearers to shear during the season 1891 1692 in New South Wales subject to the following ...
Article : 482 wordsThe usual Court was held this morning before Messrs. Wyman and Duncan. Harry Oberthar was charged by Anna Dieke with having used abusive and issulting isnguage to ...
Article : 152 words"During the battle between the Egyptian troops and the dervishes before Tokar, the result of the fight was for a few minutes very doubtful. ...
Article : 89 wordsW. J. Egerton, a member of the Anti-Vaccination League, yesterday appeared before the District Court on a charge of neglect to pay a fine imposed, some time ago, for ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., is at present in Dublin, and threatens to support the election of Tory members to the House of Commons. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the Laenfield Band of Hope was held on Monday least in the Baptist, chapel, presided over by the president, Mr. E. R. Makin. The meeting was ...
Article : 110 wordsThe British Admiralty have suspended the regulations so that vessels of the fleet shall only stay five years on the Australian station. This action is taken for the purpose of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Empress Frederick of Germany has gone to Paris, where she will spend a week incognito. The object of her visit is to try and overcome the scruples of the French printers to exhibit ...
Article : 50 wordsFour seamen on the barque Airlie and Dr. Morrison who has been attending them will be released from quarantine on Thursday. Dr. Springthorpe, of Melbourne, arrived by ...
Article : 333 wordsWe have bad some very hot weather here lately, varied by extremely cool, pleasant days. The Mutual Improvement Society met on Thursday, and there was a good attendance. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Times states that a Royal Commission has been appointed to examine the extent of the right of the United States of America to interfere with the existing hours of labour, and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Hon. C. H., Tupper. Minister for Marine and Fisheries in the United States Ministry, has accused Mr. J. Richard Cartwright, Q.C., and a number of Canadian Liberals with ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Agents-General have written to Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the colonies, urging legislation authorising the investment of trust funds in colonial securities, but city ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsA full meeting of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon, when the following resolution was adopted:—" That it is desirable that this chamber should take ...
Article : 113 wordsAt a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr. Flynn. chairman of directors, said that the profits for the half-year were sufficient to ray six per cent. It ...
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