As it has been asserted in several quarters that the illness from which the islander "Harry" is suffering is not smallpox but merely scurry, the Government, in order to set ...
Article : 521 wordsA lantern lecture, entitled "Egypt, Past and Present," was delivered on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. E. Meeres, in St. Paul's Sunday-Schoolroom. There was a good ...
Article : 678 wordsThe Chairman of the Marine Board received the following wire on Monday from the shipping inspector at Thursday Island in connection with the accident to the R.M.S. Dorunda:— ...
Article : 319 wordsA large deputation, representing the Master Butchers' Association, waited on the Premier to-day in opposition to the proposed stock tax. Mr. Holder, in reply, said the Government had ...
Article : 179 wordsThe cholera epidemic continues to spread in Russia, and has now reached Nishni-Novgorod, one of the most important industrial centres in Russia. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is announced that twenty-five men-of-war, representing the various European Powers, will attend at Huelva, in Spain, on the 3rd August to join in the celebration of the ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the United States Senate Senator West has proposed to offer to Great Britain, Germany, and France, a reduction of 25 per cent in the duties on textile fabrics, hardware, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe debentures issued by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company are now quoted at a premium of 3 per cent. ...
Article : 28 wordsLamentable accounts are being received of the condition of the Jewish colonists sent out to the Argentine Republic by Baron Hirsch. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe great annual fair at Nijni-Novgorod, in Russia, which is attended by traders from all parts of the empire, is to be opened to-morrow (Wednesday), notwithstanding that there are a ...
Article : 72 wordsThe death is announced of the Right Rev. Dr. Claughton, late Bishop of St. Albans, in his 84th year. [The Right Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton, ...
Article : 163 wordsMessrs. Edwin Merrall and Sons, worsted spinners, of Bingley, Yorkshire, have suspended payment. The liabilities of the firm are, however, stated to be only £80,000, while the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Colonial Treasurer submitted his Budget speech, which is to be delivered on Thursday (to-day) to the Cabinet. He will announce that the financial year closed with a deficit of ...
Article : 181 wordsIn connection with the present situation of affairs in Morocco it is affirmed that it was the fanatical hatred displayed by the powerful chiefs against the advent of European ...
Article : 79 wordsIn connection with the strike at Pittsburg, extraordinary reports have been received of the punishment inflicted upon soldiers who showed active sympathy with the strikers. One private ...
Article : 92 wordsThe committee appointed by the depositors in the English and Australian Mortgage and Deposit Bank to consider the proposed scheme at reconstruction are finding some difficulty in ...
Article : 136 wordsThe eruption of Mount Etna, in Sicily, is now subsiding. ...
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Advertising : 539 wordsRoderick M'Namara, late manager of the Australian Banking Company, was to-day committed for trial for embezzling a sum of 15,000, the mony of the company. Bail was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsMr. E. G. Fitzgibbon, chairman of the Melbourne Board of Waterworks, who came to England with the object of floating a loan for the board, will visit Norway in one of Messrs. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe deputation which went to Sydney has returned. In the course of an interview with Mr. Coombe to-day he said he does not take a hopeful view of the present situation. He ...
Article : 719 wordsThe annual meeting of the School of Arts was held to-night, when the report, which showed that excellent work had been done during the year, was adopted, and the following ...
Article : 559 wordsAt a special meeting of the Cleveland Divisional Board, held this afternoon, Mr. Ross stated that he had information from a reliable source that the Dunwich boat's crew held ...
Article : 642 wordsMr. John Ferguson, who was one of the delegates from the Central Queensland Separation League, will sail on his return to Australia by the Messageries Maritimes steamship ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Miowera, another of the new steamers, built for Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co., of Melbourne, by Messrs. C. S. Swan and Hunter, at Wallsend, on the Tyne, was launched ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning (says last night's Observer), before Messrs. G. P. M. Murray P.M., and F. Curnow, J. P., George Soobbie Foord was charged with having made ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 472 wordsLord Sherbrooke is reported to be seriously ill. [Lord Sherbrooke, who is better known in Australia as Robert Lowe, is 81 years of age, ...
Article : 40 wordsA stormy meeting of shareholders of the Imperial and Colonial Finance and Agency Company was held to-day. The meeting was in favour of winding up the company, and a ...
Article : 64 wordsA young Scotchwoman, employed as a dressmaker, has recovered £500 damages against two policemen in Glasgow for arresting her as an immoral character. ...
Article : 29 wordsSir George Dibbs was to-day introduced by Sir Saul Samuel to the Governor and directors of the Bank of England and the directors of the London and Westminister Bank. Sir ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 wordsNews has been received of a disastrous explosion having occurred to-day in the York Farm Colliery, in Pennsylvania (U.S.A). Fifteen miners are reported to have been ...
Article : 33 wordsA serious fire occurred yesterday in Edison's electric works at Schnectady, New York. The buildings were burned down, and a great quantity of valuable machinery destroyed. One ...
Article : 50 wordsNew has been received that the yacht in which several members of the Vanderbilt family were cruising came into collision with the yacht America. The Vanderbilt yacht was ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Financial Times says that Sir Matthew Davies left precipitately and somewhat mysteriously for Melbourne after intimating to the committee of the Mercantile Bank of Australia ...
Article : 60 wordsGeneral Booth held a great meeting at Exeter Hall last night, to celebrate the twenty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the Salvation Army. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe chairman of the Union Bank of Australia has assured the shareholders that there is every reason to believe that the amalgamation with, the bank of South Australia will prove to ...
Article : 53 wordsFive hundred cases of oranges received by the Austral, from Sydney, have been sold at from 5s. to 12s., but the mandarins were worthless. The ordinary sorts of oranges were of ...
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