Early on Saturday the wind shifted to the southeast, and rain fell heavily during the forenoon. In the afternoon it cleared, but again came down during Saturday night and Sunday. Yesterday was a ...
Article : 428 wordsConsequent on a suggestion received by the Premier that Victoria is losing its intercolonial trade because of the shippiug facilities existing at Sydney, the Customs Department was instructed to make ...
Article : 211 wordsA dynamite outrage has been perpetrated by anarchists at Fuenterrebollo, near Sogovia, in the province of Old Castile, Spain. ...
Article : 52 wordsA telegram from Capetown states that Major Elliot has been instructed to annex Pondoland, in South Africa, on behalf of Great Britain. ...
Article : 38 wordsTHE conference of representatives of the city and country branches of the Labour Electoral League began its sittings on Saturday. The question of the pledge to be signed by labour ...
Article : 9,113 wordsA manifesto has been issued by Commandant General P. J. Joubert, a member of the Executive Council of the South African Republic (Transvaal), urging the ...
Article : 69 wordsSir Thomas M'Ilwraith, of Queensland, had a lengthy interview to-day with the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the course of which several ...
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Article : 112 wordsPresbyterian Church General Assembly: Meeting 7 p.m. Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Lillie Bridge Pony Racing and Bicycling To-night. Mr. E. M. Clark will Address the Electors Centennial ...
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Article : 314 wordsThe French Government has been defeated by a majority of 68 on a motion brought forward in the Chamber of Deputies in favour of treating the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Colonial Office regards the case of the Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria, as analogous to that of the Earl of Kintore. It is willing to grant Lord ...
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Article : 41 wordsThe gentlemen interested in the establishing of the frozen most industry at the port of Geelong have finally agree to a scheme to be submitted to the public for approval. A prospectus ...
Article : 63 wordsThe German Reichstag has adopted the commercial treaty between Russia and Germany by a majority of 54. ...
Article : 26 wordsPresident Cleveland states that he will veto Senator Bland's bill providing for the issue of silver certificates on the seigniorage of bullion in the American ...
Article : 48 wordsThe shareholders of the Panama Canal Company have decided to form a new company to complete the canal. ...
Article : 30 wordsAbout 2 o'clock this morning a dairy produce dealer named John Mackay, a resident of Port Melbourne, was disturbed by a sound in his shop. Carrying a ...
Article : 180 wordsH.M.S. Crescent, which put back to Portsmouth in consequence of her cylinders having broken down in the Channel, will undergo repairs for four ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Rev. Campbell Rogers, pastor of the Congregational Church at West Devonport, and his congregation refuse to acknowledge the Congregational Union. On Thursday night ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Provisional Government at Honolulu has enacted stringent laws against immigration into Hawaii. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. J. Theobald, Conservative member for the Romford division of Essex in the House of Commons, has been killed at Romford through attempting to enter a ...
Article : 45 wordsSir Frank Lascelles, G.C.M.G., the British Envoy, Minister, and Consul-General in Persia, has been appointed Ambassador to St. Petersburg, in ...
Article : 37 wordsA meeting was held in Carlton last night to urge the Melbourne City Council to accept a tender for Victorian coal, and so give employment to people in the colony. Two tenders had ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. J. Gordon, S.M., on Saturday dealt with the cases of six unemployed who haa been arrested early that morning on a charge of having unlawfully occupied Crown land, a portion of ...
Article : 123 wordsCoughlin, a member of the Clan-naGael secret organisation, who was charged with the murder of Dr. Cronin, of Chicago, in 1889, has been tried and acquitted. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe bronze statue of Queen Victoria to be presented to the city of Adelaide by Sir Edwin Smith has been successfully cast. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the sittings of the Wesleyan Conference yesterday a resolution was passed to the effect that it is contrary both to the spirit and the letter of the Methodist law for its ministers to engage in any ...
Article : 325 wordsThis afternoon the district coroner (Mr. G. C. Martin, J.P.) held an inquest at the Federal Hotel, Stockton, on the body of Robert Donaldson, a miner, who was killed in the Stockton Colliery this ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has allowed, with costs, the appeal in the case of the West Australian Land Company v. Forrest. ...
Article : 31 wordsLord Deerhurst, who visited Australia some years ago, has been married to Miss Victoria Bonynge. The ceremony was a brilliant one. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe chairman of the Railway Commissioners received a telegram from the resident engineer at Murray Bridge this evening, stating that the line was now perfectly restored, and that traffic would ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia is issuing £135,530 worth of 5 per cent, debenture stock at 98 to pay off terminable debentures. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe deadlock over the election of the Mayor of Brisbane was concluded on Saturday. The council met at noon on Saturday, and after a stormy meeting, which lasted about half an hour, ...
Article : 160 wordsWork on the wharfs at Port Adelaide is proceeding quietly, and it is not expected that the dispute precipitated by the Working Men'h Association in reference to the employment of free ...
Article : 70 wordsMessrs. F. L. Cox and G. M'Culloch have been appointed London directors of Bailey's Reward mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. ...
Article : 26 wordsOn Friday evening a young single woman, of highly respectable character, was crossing the South Parks Lands, when a man came running up from behind, and, grasping her, stabbed her in the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe latest betting on the annual boat race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is 5 io 2 on the Oxford crew. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 12 Mar 1894, Page 5
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