In order to encourage whalers to visit this port before setting out for or on returning from a cruise, the Customs Department has decided to reduce the fees for docking vessels in the Alfred ...
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Article : 89 wordsColonel Saunderson, Conservative member for North Armagh, addressed a great gathering of Ulstermen at Lurgan, in Armagh, last night. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Legislative Council bestowed further consideration last evening upon the Mining on Private Lands Bill, with the result that it was amended in such a way as to ...
Article : 1,803 wordsBY 59 votes to 32 the Legislitive Amenably last night agreed to suspend the Standing Orders to permit tho passage of the Appropriation Bill at one sitting. The second reading ot the bill was ...
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Article : 178 wordsThe Westminster Gazette in commenting upon the proceedings of the recent Intercolonial Postal Conference at Wellington, N.Z., says that it is absurd to endeavour ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. R. C. Munro-Ferguson, who accepted the office of Patronage Secretary to the Treasury, has been re-elected for Leith, although his former majority (1643) ...
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Article : 220 wordsH.M.SS. Rapid and Lizard have been re-commissioned for service on the Australian station. ...
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Article : 39 wordsWilliam Scrensen, one of these who left the New Australia settlement at Paraguay, has written to his mother at South Brisbane, confirming what has already been reported concerning the ...
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Article : 35 wordsSir Thomas M'Ilwraith, of Queensland, will sail on his return to Australia by the R.M.S. Austral, which leaves London on the 20th April. ...
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Article : 44 wordsAn inquiry has been held by Sir Henry Loch, British High Commissioner for South Africa, into the authenticity of the report that two troopers of the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe new Canadian tariff will operate beneficially to British trade. Ad valorem duties are to be substituted for the present mixed system of specific and ad ...
Article : 84 wordsThe annual meeting of the Modern Permanent Building Society was held to-day. The report showed that the balance to the credit of the profit and loss account was £42. The report also stated ...
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Article : 96 wordsIn a letter to the Times, Sir John Colomb, the well-known writer and lecturer on Imperial defence, says that the British taxpayer would never ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Victorian, South Australian, and Western Australian delegates who attended the recent Intercolonial Postal Conference at Wellington, New Zealand, reached Melbourne from Sydney by ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Hon. John See. Colonial Treasurer, left Grafton early this morning for Copmanhurst. En route he was shown, near the Junction-road, two miles out of town, a very bad piece of road, which a ...
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Article : 129 wordsThe son of the late Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot and exile, will take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. ...
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Article : 210 wordsOn Tuesday notice was posted at the Junction Smelting Company's works, Port Adelaide, notifying that in future the rate of wages will be 5s per day for labourers, slag and charge wheelers; ...
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Article : 129 wordsA dispute has arisen at the Corrimal mine, in consequence of the management having deferred the pay for a week. The men have knocked off work. The reduction to district rates at Corrimal was to take ...
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Article : 341 wordsAt the Lincoln Spring Meeting to-day the contest for the leading event resulted as under:— LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP of 1000 sovs., added to ...
Article : 104 wordsLast evening the postponed banquet in honour of St. Patrick's Day took place in the schoolroom of St. Mary's R.C. Church, Newcastle, Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, in the chair. The order of the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Probate Tax Bill was taken through committee to-day and amended so as to reduce the tax on properties up to £1000 from 1d to ½d per cent., exempting the first £500. The Income Tax Bill ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Civil sittings of the Supreme Court commenced this morning before Mr. Justice Foster. There were 11 cases for hearing, six being against the Bank of Now South Wales, in which the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 29 Mar 1894, Page 5
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