It was not a very large or eager crowd that assembled in Macquarie-street at noon yesterday to watch the ceremony attendant on the opening of the seventeenth Parliament. And the absence ...
Article : 1,234 wordsThe opening of Parliament by Commission yesterday was of a very uneventful character, and there was but little oeremony or display. This will be reserved for the V ice-regal opening of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsThe new House of Commons formally met to-day. The Right Hon. William Court Gully, Q.C., M.P. for Carlisle, was re-elected ...
Article : 46 wordsAn examination of the Canadian-Australian liner Warrimoo, which grounded at Carmanah Point, Vancouver, but was subsequently floated again, shows that the ...
Article : 80 wordsA body of hostile natives attacked the Zanzibar garrison at Tekkaunga, but were repulsed after heavy fighting. Fifty natives were killed, also 10 men of the garrison. ...
Article : 8,451 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Executive was held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clook at the Colonial Secretary's buildings. The chief business was the approval of the Coal Mines Commission. As ...
Article : 95 wordsAfter the meeting of the Executive Council yesterday a meeting of the Cabinet was held, and various matters connected with the approaching session were dealt with. ...
Article : 33 wordsOwing to France having claimed the River Mekong as the dividing line of the British and French frontiers of Siam, it has been found impossible to constitute a ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. M'Intyre, the district coroner, resumed the inquest to-day at 2 p.m. on the three bodies recovered from the wreck of the s.s. Catterthun. Alfred W. Lanfear, second officer of the ...
Article : 519 wordsThe Daily Post urges the subdivision of Western Australia at an early date. ...
Article : 19 wordsSoft rain has fallen all day. It is thick all around the mountains, and looks like continuing. BEGA, Tuesday. The showers of the morning settled into steady ...
Article : 1,039 wordsThe Railway Commissioners were sued to-day, before Mr. Justice Holroyd and a jury, by Abraham Brodie, of South Melbourne, commercial traveller, for £2000 damages on account ...
Article : 149 wordsThe British Government proposes to expend £60,000 on additional supplies of cordite for the army. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Tucker tabled a notice of motion for a substantial reduction in the port charges with a view to cheaper freights, for the abolition of the tonnage dues, and the ...
Article : 497 wordsAdvices from Zanzibar state that a body of hostile natives attacked the Zanzibar garrison at Tekkaunga. The garrison, after heavy fighting, repulsed the attack. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe new scheme of compromise of the Australian Deposit and Mortgage Bank provides—first, that 30 per cent. of indebtedness shall be paid in cash without interest by 1901; ...
Article : 150 wordsPrince Ferdinand of Bulgarin, who has been on a visit to the health resort at Carlsbad, in Bohemia, ha returned to Bulgaria. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn addition to the offer which the Minister for Agriculture has received from the local agent of a shipping firm for the carriage of perishable products to London the Agent-General has received ...
Article : 191 wordsIt is understood that, if the Victorian Government will guarantee a reasonable quantity of produce shipments, the Manchester Direct Trade Committee will ...
Article : 111 wordsThe master of the steamer Wyoming, Captain W. Rice, reports:—When off Charlotte Head, four miles due cast, passed one boat's oar, one small hatch, and some broken cabin fittings ...
Article : 38 wordsGreat satisfaction was felt, especially in shipping and underwriting circles, yesterday, when it came to be known that Mr. Lanfear, the second officer of the steamer, had decided to throw a much ...
Article : 401 wordsAt a meeting of the Standing Committee on Railways to-day, Mr. F. Rennick, Engineer-inChief, gave further evidence upon the question of narrow-gauge lines, and the beat method of ...
Article : 280 wordsThe Rev. Edward Stuart Talbot, D.D., Vicar of Leeds, has been appointed Bishop of Rochester, in succession to Dr. Randall Davidson, who has been translated to the ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day the Commissioner of Public Works stated that the Government had taken steps to facilitate the transfer of railway workmen to Western Australia. Several ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. Seward has been appointed vicepresident of the jurors in the foreign wine section of the Bordeaux Exhibition. The tasting of the Victorian wines is ...
Article : 36 wordsMessrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Company, the well-known brewers, state that the malting barley forwarded by the New South Wales Government in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe whole of to-day's sitting of the Assembly was spent in discussing the action of the Speaker in counting out the House last Friday, several members claiming that they ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Hon. Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, K.C.M.G., was yesterday re-elected as Speaker for the fourth time. He was first elected on 22nd October, 1890, in succession to Mr. J. H. Young, the ...
Article : 66 wordsArrangements for the formal opening of the Exhibition to-morrow are nearly completed. To-day was judging day. The weather was fine, and the attendance for the judging day larger than in ...
Article : 292 wordsIt is scarcely likely that the insurers of the 10,000 sovereigns on board the steamer will write the loss off as total without an effort to recover some of it. Already negotiations are afoot to ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Hon. E. Blake, Q.C., M.P., formerly Ministor of Justice in Canada, will visit New Zealand to arbitrate on the points in dispute between the Midland Railway ...
Article : 41 wordsThe PRESIDENT took the chair at noon, and directed the Clerk to read the proclamation convening Parliament to meet for despatch of business. The Clerk accordingly read the proclamation. ...
Article : 665 wordsA meeting of the Opposition was held at Parliament House yesterday afternoon. The Opposition room was crowded, and there were only two or three absentees. Between 35 and 40 members of ...
Article : 292 wordsMadame Enriquez Benefit Concert: Centenary Hall, 8 p.m. Waverley Congregational Church: Lecture on "The Apology of Artstids; or an Early Christian Appeal to ...
Article : 283 wordsThe New Zealand mutton brought by the s.s. Timaru has been sold for Manchester direct. ...
Article : 23 wordsMessrs. Kidman Brothers are shipping by the steamer Colae 231 bullocks, averaging 800lb. weight, for Western Australia. The animals came from the Bulla River, Queensland. The ...
Article : 60 wordsThe London and Australasian Debenture Corporation offered £50,000 4½ per cent, debentures for subscription. The amount was fully applied for. ...
Article : 36 wordsLast evening a magnificent moteor was seen here at a quarter to 8. There was a rambling noise after the bursting of the meteor. The meteor seen from other places on Saturday ...
Article : 79 wordsOfficial statistics issued from Washington indicate that the wheat yield of the United States will be 386,507,000 bushels. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe member, of the labour party held a meeting at Parliament House yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance. Mr. M'Gowen was re-elected leader of the party, and Mr. Griffith ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 14 Aug 1895, Page 5
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