The nineteenth yearly meeting of the Royal Building Society was held on Wednesday There was a moderate attendance, and Mr. w Shierlaw ooenpied the chair. The directors ...
Article : 185 wordsSir-My attention has been drawn to a latter in Thursday's issue by a shareholder of the [?] Mining Company wanting to know something about ...
Article : 169 wordsThe officers of the Victorian battery of artillery and the detachment of New South Wales cavalry now visiting England spent some time yesterday in ...
Article : 128 wordsA debate on French interests in Africa took place in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. The position of affairs in relation both to Madagascar and Egypt was ...
Article : 148 wordsGreat excitement has been occasioned in Paris by the report of the discovery of a factory fox the manufacture of infernal machines. Five anarchists . who were, ...
Article : 45 wordsAh Pong, a Chinaman, was to-day committed for trial at Geraldton for wounding Mr. Maynard, the manager of the White Peak station. The Chinaman ...
Article : 44 wordsAn important case, Ogilvie v. The West Australian Mortgage Agency, was concluded yesterday, the sixth day of hearing. Ogilvie sued for £1,460, the amount ...
Article : 57 wordsNo cases of smallpox have occurred this week, and the epidemic is now believed to have been stamped out by vaccination and other precautionary measures. There ...
Article : 46 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the bodies of Michael and Catherine Healy, who were found dead in a house in Courtney-street, North Melbourne, ...
Article : 93 wordsFrederick Ogle was arrested to-day in connection with the Post-office Savings Bank frauds, and, with a second man ...
Article : 61 wordsThe funeral of James Dawson, an engineer, and Richard Dennis, a stoker, who were accidentally killed on board H.M.S. lizard, took place to-day. The ...
Article : 101 wordsA Gazette Extraordinary was issued tonight summoning Parliament to dispatch the business of the country on May 25. ...
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Advertising : 203 wordsThe Attorney-General has delivered his decision in the matter of Sir Matthew Davies and Mr. Millidge, chairman of directors and manager respectively of the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Imperial Government has decided to shelve the question of the establishment of an Australian silver mint until the colonies are unanimous on the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing the Church Congress to-day on the Welsh Church Suspensory Bill, said the Church was really the nation and the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Parliamentary Secretary for the Colonial Office (Mr. S. C. Buxton), in replying to a question asked in the House last night by Mr. J. F. Hogan, member ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsArchduke Ferdinand of Austria left for a tour in the west to-day. A special train was placed at his disposal. The ...
Article : 41 wordsLewis's stables at Tenderfield were destroyed by fire last night, and an old man, Christie Carston, living on the premises was burnt to death. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir Anthony Brownless, who yesterday afternoon met with a serious accident, passed rather a restless night, and suffered great pain. His leg is not broken as was ...
Article : 72 wordsIn connection with the proposed reduction of the hewing rates to the extent of 6d. per ton at the Western collieries the miners' committee on Saturday made ...
Article : 146 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day Frederick Humphries, formerly secretary to the Employers' Union, was charged with embezzling £300, the moneys of the union. ...
Article : 65 wordsThis afternoon a heavy thunderstorm passed over the northern portion of the colony. A terrific cyclone swept through Ulverstone, coming in a north-westerly ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Metropolitan Board of Works has been practically deprived of the use for some time of a loan of £1,000,000 which was floated last year. There is over ...
Article : 90 wordsThe French are taking vigorous measures to prevent the Siamese from extending their dominion on the left bank of the Me-Kong River, to the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Estimates gave rise to another allnight sitting of the Legislative Assembly. The House went into committee after the dinner hour last night on the Railway ...
Article : 573 wordsSome days ago Robert Burls was arrested at Albury on a charge of selling blocks of land in Perth, West Australia, under false pretences. Burls, it was alleged, on representation that he ...
Article : 120 wordsMetry Hayes, the widow of one of the victims of the Creswick mining disaster, to-day sued A. C. McDermott and R. O. Brooks, solicitors, to recover £16 6s. 5d., ...
Article : 148 wordsA terrible accident occurred at Moonta mines this afternoon, when two men were killed. John Thomas and Ernest Faull had their heads shattered by a blast. The affair ...
Article : 173 wordsMessrs. King, King & Co., Australian merchants, of 26, Fore-street, E.C., London, have called a meeting of their creditors. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe proposal mooted in the United States House of Representatives in favor of the deportation of unregistered Chinamen to their own country has given great ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. Gladstone has accepted the amendment to the Home Rule Bill proposed by Sir Henry James, declaring in express terms the Imperial supremacy over ...
Article : 58 wordsThe annual meeting of the A.M.P. Society was held to-day, Sir J. P. Abbott, M.P., chairman of the board, presiding. Mr. W. A. Zeal, M.L.C., ...
Article : 398 wordsThe weather forecast for New South Wales is—"Generally fine with ground frosts and a moderate sea." ...
Article : 24 wordsSir- Permit me to say a few words in reply to your correspondent, "One who is always there," with regard to the Saturday night concerts. I am and have been a most regular attendant ...
Article : 435 wordsRetrenchment in public expenditure was strongly demanded at the recent general election, and whatever political changes ...
Article : 5,130 wordsSir—A "Teetotal Fanatic" writes in your voluble paper of to-day that the drunkard [?] from the ranks of the respectable moderate drinker. Allow me, with all due ...
Article : 276 wordsThe long innings of the Australians was brought to a close to-day, when the last wicket fell for a total of 603 runs. Graham again gave a splendid display ...
Article : 387 wordsHaving disposed of the Australians the home team commenced their first innings. The weather was again beautifully fine, but the attendance small The ...
Article : 350 wordsThe last two wickets of the Gloucester Eleven fell without the score being increased, the innings closing for 41 Play has been stopped by a steady fall ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Gloucestershire County Cricket Club yesterday entertained the Australian Eleven at a dinner, when the toasts of the two teams were reciprocally proposed. ...
Article : 46 wordsA surveyor named Parker, residing at Taringa, committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Gloucester Eleven resumed their innings this morning, when Giffen and Trumble went on bowling. Ferris before many runs skied a ball and was ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor to-day received a cablegram from the Marquis of Ripon to the effect that her Majesty had created Sir Alfred Stephen a privy ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Times, referring to the financial crisis in Australia, says it is impossible for the run on the banks to last always. The Union Bank of Australia and the ...
Article : 178 wordsThe hearing of the petitions for the voluntary liquidation of the Australian Joint Stock and Queensland National Banks has been postponed. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Royal Bank of Queensland suspended payment this morning pending reconstruction. The suspension is attributed chiefly to the continual ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Royal Bank of Queensland, Limited, is incorporated under The Companies Act of 1863. Its authorised capital is £1.000.000, subscribed £755.000, paid-up capital £375,000. ...
Article : 627 wordsA much quieter tone with regard to banking matters prevailed in Sydney to-day. Beyond a continuance to some extent of the increased withdrawals at the Government Savings Bank, where due ...
Article : 473 wordsSeven large banks have now succumbed to the financial panic. The suspension of the City of Melbourne Bank caused great surprise here, as the colonial depositors ...
Article : 504 wordsAn informal meeting of shareholders and depositors in the Commercial Bank of Australia, recently opened after reconstruction, was held to-day for the purpose ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Premier states that there is no necessity for the Tasmanian Government to take action on the line of New South Wales regarding the rendering of notes ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 18 May 1893, Page 5
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