The following transcript of the official minutes of the proceedings of the Post and Telegraphic Conference on Saturday has been courteously supplied to us by the Postmaster-General, the Hon. Joseph ...
Article : 1,846 wordsThe People's Federal Convention will commence its sittings to-morrow, and the fêtes which have been organised will occupy the remainder of the week. The movement is an ambitious one, and ...
Article : 1,587 wordsThe Venezuelan Government is satisfied with the clause in the settlement arrived at between Great Britain and the United States providing that a 50 years' ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the Bow-street Police Court to-day Edward J. Ivory alias Edward Bell, a New York hotelkeeper, was brought before Mr. James Vaughan charged on ...
Article : 287 wordsAlthough the Premier has not received any reply from the Queensland Government with regard to the appeal made by him to that colony to be represented at the convention which is to ...
Article : 148 wordsOn Saturday the Postal and Telegraphic Conference, was commenced at the General Post Office, the Postmaster-General presiding. Representatives of Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, ...
Article : 6,449 wordsOne need not be thought guilty of hyperbole in saying that federation is the burning question of the moment in New South Wales, for all the other political questions have ceased to burn with the close of an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsThe annual championship events of the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association and the Victorian Amateur Cycling Association were contested on the St. Kilda Cricket Ground yesterday afternoon ...
Article : 259 wordsSpeaking at War[?]ambool on Friday evening Lord Brassey said he hailed with deep thankfulness the announcement that the Venezuelan question had been adjusted by peaceful means. ...
Article : 108 wordsPeople in the city will not soon forget the thunder-storm of Saturday afternoon last. The forenoon had been sultry, the kind of closeness which is peculiar to the atmosphere when it is heavily surcharged with ...
Article : 458 wordsA British expedition will be despatched from Akassa, a station of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, about the middle of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe yachting season was opened yesterday. There was a strong south-easterly breeze blowing. About 60 vessels, including the Governor's new racing yacht the Helen, hoisted canvas and took ...
Article : 43 wordsThe annual champion, four-oared race was rowed yesterday afternoon over a three-miles course, on the Lower Yarra. Crews representing the Mercantile, Yarra Yarra, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Lund line steamer Yarrawonga, Captain Thomas, which left Sydney on the 23rd September for London via Melbourne, lost her propeller when off Cape ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Daily Telegraph states that the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition on the Khalifa's stronghold at Omdurman will commence in June next. ...
Article : 73 wordsNo further communication has been received from Mr. L. Wells about the missing members of the Calvert Exploring Expedition, but the president of the Geographical Society here entertains ...
Article : 150 wordsAt the sitting of the Supreme Court at St. Arnaud yesterday, a young fellow named Jackson, who was found guilty on a charge of the manslaughter of a Chinaman, was sentenced by the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Bishop of Marlborough, Dr. Alfred Earle, suffragan to the Bishop of London, recently stated that he some time ago prepared for admission to the Church of ...
Article : 106 wordsAn important experiment in the running of motor cars was made on Saturday, when 30 cars of all types of construction started from London for Brighton, a distance of ...
Article : 144 wordsVery trying weather prevails. A thunderstorm occurred on Friday and again at night. It yielded 15 points of rain. Yesterday morning was exceedingly hot. In the afternoon black clouds enveloped ...
Article : 742 wordsEverything in Somoa is still quiet. The relations between the Government and rebels continue as heretofore. If taxes are not demanded the rebel party will not cause trouble. ...
Article : 163 wordsThe P. and O. R.M.S. Australia accomplished a swift run from Albany. She anchored off the Semaphore early on Saturday afternoon. As the steamer left again during the evening the mails ...
Article : 151 wordsIn February last the Court of Appeal decided that the executors of the late Mrs. Frances Louisa Tollemache, widow of the Hon. Algernon Gray Tollemache, who ...
Article : 75 wordsA comparison of the fond expectations cherished in the southern colonies with the hard realism of accomplished facts in Queensland leaves rather a depressing feeling about the nearnesss of federation. ...
Article : 236 wordsSpeaking at Birmingham last night, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, dwelt upon the subject of foreign competition in regard to British ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Perseverance Gold-mining Company, which was formed with a capital of £112,500 to work a mine at Stuart Town, New South Wales, and in which shares to ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Tongan people are a little bit excited just now. They want to have their King married. His young majesty's sentiments are, however, in the opposite direction, so that this quiet little kingdom ...
Article : 317 wordsMr. John Cooke, chairman of the Riverina Frozen Meat Company, who returned by the Australia, speaking about the prices of frozen meat, says that, in order to secure an ...
Article : 164 wordsThe financial newspapers approve of the Queensland National Bank Bill, which has been passed by the Queensland Legislature, guaranteeing the current ...
Article : 60 wordsAugust Lawson died at the Sydney Hospital yesterday, the result of a fall from a window a week ago. He was residing at 65 Windmill-street when he felt out of a window a distance of 10ft., and was ...
Article : 123 wordsWhen an invitation to the Bathurst Federal Convention was first received by the council it was decided not to send delegates; but when the receipt of three free passes was announced at the last ...
Article : 104 wordsH.M.S. Ringdove arrived in the Tamar on Thursday morning but was not reported at Launceston. She leaves for Sydney, via Twofold Bay, next Thursday. ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the Sunlight Gold-mining Company crushing was resumed on the 6th instant with a fair probability of steady work for the month, there being a good supply of water. The stones throughout ...
Article : 287 wordsAt the Liverpool Autumn meeting to-day the contest for the leading item on the programme resulted as under:— LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CUP, a handicap of 1000 sovs. ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,—Some two years or more ago you were kind enough to give space to a letter of mine advocating the cause of federation, and calling for a popular convention on the question, when all shades of ...
Article : 406 wordsThe report and balance-sheet of the directors of the Agency, Land, and Finance Company of Australia, Limited, show a net profit of £1316 for the year. A sum ...
Article : 52 wordsThe consecration of Dr. Lenihan to the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Auckland took place to-day, Bishop Grimes being the consecrating prelate, assisted by Bishops Gallagher and Verdon. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday. Business was less brisk than on the previous days. The rise obtained on River Plate wools at the opening of the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe rifle shooting at 500 and 600 yards for prizes in connection with the Camden Reserve Rifle Club came off this afternoon. The results were:—H. Farmdon, scratch, 57; Jno. Moore, scratch, 56; W. R. Cowper, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 16 Nov 1896, Page 5
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