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  2. NEW LEGISLATION.

    During the past four months the Cabinet has sat early and late thrashing out the different measures drafted by individual Ministers with the assistance of the departmental heads and ...

    Article : 1,886 words
  3. NEW SOUTH WALES BUDGET.

    Mr. Reid made his Budget statement in the Assembly this evening to a full House. He spoke in justification of his action in remitting the tariff reform question to the middle of the ...

    Article : 981 words
  4. TRADE WITH RIVERINA.

    The Cabinet met yesterday principally for the purpose of considering the agreement entered into by the Railway Commissioners of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia in ...

    Article : 678 words
  5. THE WILDE SCANDAL.

    The facts which have been elicited in the course of the trial of Lord Queensberry for a criminal libel upon Oscar Wilde, have created a strong feeling of disgust amongst all decent ...

    Article : 1,818 words
  6. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery, who has been for some weeks incapacitated from public appearance by a severe attack of influenza, accompanied by persistent ...

    Article : 212 words
  7. CABLE MESSAGES.

    Stoddart's team of English cricketers, which returned from Australia in the R.M.S. Ophir, received a popular ovation on landing yesterday. ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. CABLE MESSAGES.

    Telegrams from Shanghai report that a hitch has occurred in the negotiations between Russia and Japan with respect to the terms of Japan's concessions in the ...

    Article : 60 words
  9. THE DIFFICULTY SETTLED.

    Information has just been received that the new difficulty which arose in connection with the Chinese peace treaty has been satisfactorily settled. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. THE REVISED TARIFF.

    A meeting of the Protection Association was held last night at Cromwell-buildings, Bourke-street, to further consider the proposed new tariff. Mr. Gray, M.L.A., presided. ...

    Article : 688 words
  11. SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.

    In the German Reichstag yesterday the Imperial Chancellor, Prince von Hohenlohe, asked the House to reinstate in the Anti-Revolutionary Bill the clauses which ...

    Article : 106 words
  12. BANK NOTE FORGERIES.

    The London police have ascertained that accomplices of the man Howard, recently arrested in Belgravia on a charge of forging bank notes, with a most complete ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    In the House of Commons this afternoon a sensational scene occurred during the second reading debate on the bill introduced by Mr. E. F. V. Knox (Nationalist), ...

    Article : 198 words
  14. STATE OWNERSHIP OF RAILWAYS.

    The Governments of the united kingdom of Norway and Sweden have decided to purchase from the companies which own them the principal railway lines in the two ...

    Article : 43 words
  15. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.

    The death is announced of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., at the age of 73 years. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., ...

    Article : 287 words
  16. THE EXPORT TRADE.

    Some of the Victorian grapes recently imported have sold as high as 17s. per case, and the average price realised was 9s. per case. ...

    Article : 72 words
  17. WHEAT.

    New Victorian wheat is now quoted at 24s. 3d. per quarter. ...

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  18. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were obtained for Australian brands:- Urisino, 13d.; Purrumbete, 8⅝d.; But, 7⅛d. per lb. ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. THE CRIMES ACT REPEAL BILL

    In the House of Commons this afternoon the second reading of the Irish Crimes Act Repeal Bill was carried by a majority of 14 votes. ...

    Article : 33 words
  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA ENDORSES THE AGREEMENT.

    The Cabinet, on the recommendation of the Chairman of Railway Commissioners, to-day approved of the agreement arrived at by the intercolonial railway conference of ...

    Article : 72 words
  21. RAILWAYS IN CUBA.

    The Government of Spain, which has already made large concessions in the way of local control in Cuba as a means of meeting the Cuban agitation for Home ...

    Article : 96 words
  22. GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, states that a decision will shortly be arrived at as to the appointment of a Governor of New South ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. WATER SUPPLY COMMISSION.

    The Water Supply Commission sat again yesterday at the public offices. Present Messrs. Langdon (in the chair), Craven, White and Grattan, M's.L.A. ...

    Article : 229 words
  24. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINES.

    The Londonderry West Consols have cut the reef at 60 feet. The stone carries splendid gold and looks permanent. A drive is now being put in to tap a second reef which the manager ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Arrived. From Lyttelton: Pakeha, s., sailed 16th March. AT DUNKIRK. Arrived. From Sydney: Wilcannia, s., sailed ...

    Article : 85 words
  26. RACING IN ENGLAND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 words
  27. A MISSING BARQUE.

    Cable news has been received that the barque Eolus, 1245 tons, of Bremen, which left Sydney 4th October last for London, has been posted as missing. ...

    Article : 32 words
  28. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    The F.M.S. Polynesien passed Suez inward on 9th inst. ...

    Article : 12 words
  29. NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT.

    In the Assembly to-day, Mr. Brunker promised to take steps to prevent poisoned rabbits being exposed for sale. The Vine Diseases Bill for the better combating of phylloxera was passed ...

    Article : 98 words
  30. NEWS FROM FIJI.

    A Fiji correspondent, writing under date Suva, 3rd May, states that a horrible murder was committed at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's Nausori plantation on the night of ...

    Article : 330 words
  31. THE PACIFIC CABLE SCHEME.

    At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-night, a resolution was carried that, "In the broadest interests of the British Empire, the early establishment of a cable connecting Canada ...

    Article : 57 words
  32. A LAND AGENTS SUICIDE.

    The circumstances attending the death of Paul Francis Co[?]telloe, a land agent, residing at 165 Mills-street, Albert Park, and who shot himself on the Spencer-street railway platform ...

    Article : 142 words
  33. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK.

    Sir Henry Loch, the retiring Governor of Cape Colony, will succeed Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor designate of that colony, on the directorate of the London ...

    Article : 38 words
  34. BREACH OF CITY BY-LAWS.

    On the information of Inspector Kidney, of the City Council, James O'Brien appeared before Mr. Nicolson, P.M., at the District Court, yesterday, upon the charge that he, "Not ...

    Article : 157 words
  35. CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF A SHOPLIFTER.

    Frequent complaints have recently been made to the Carlton police respecting the theft of goods from the business establishments of that suburb. Shoplifting would appear to have ...

    Article : 317 words
  36. TRADING AND INVESTMENT COMPANY.

    A meeting of the Guardian Investment and Finance Company was held at Normanby-chambers on Wednesday, for the purpose of finally winding up the company; Mr. R. Gladstones, ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. PRICE OF SILVER.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 27 words
  38. THE FIRE IN COLLINS-STREET.

    The particulars of the insurances on the buildings, 92 and 94 Collins-street, which were destroyed by fire on Wednesday night, show that the premises, which are owned by Mr. S. ...

    Article : 110 words
  39. THE ESCAPED LEPER.

    Whilst the police were engaged yesterday in searching the haunts of the Chinese in the city for A.h Song, the escaped leper, Constable Lawford stumbled across him in Brunswick. ...

    Article : 210 words
  40. AUTHORISED NEWS AGENTS' ASSOCIATION.

    SIR, With reference to an advertisement in the daily papers announcing that 100 news agents are prepared to push the sale of a new evening paper, in the event of such being ...

    Article : 79 words
  41. THE PORT MELBOURNE SEWER ACCIDENT.

    Dr. Youl held an inquest at the Morgue yesterday afternoon, on the body of James Phillips, a laborer, who was killed on Tuesday last by a fall of sand in a sewer tunnel, in which ...

    Article : 69 words
  42. A DISCLAIMER.

    SIR, Mr. James Fallon, of Broken Hill-chambers, and Milton House, Grey-street, St. Kilda, has had his attention drawn to a paragraph in your issue of the 8th inst. relative to a ...

    Article : 107 words
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