It is believed that the Royal Geographical Society of London and the Royal Colonial Institute are hesitating as to whether they should ...
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Article : 684 wordsWe deeply regret to have to announce the sudden death of Mr. William Jardine Smith, who for many years has been one of the leading journalists of Melbourne, and one of the ...
Article : 826 wordsA good deal of criticism has been passed upon the Calcutta Exhibition, because of the discovery of the real relations between M. JOUBERT and the ...
Article : 8,812 wordsThe new steamer Adelaide sailed on her maiden voyage to Melbourne yesterday afternoon. A large number of spectators assembled to see her start, and ...
Article : 159 wordsNews has been received at Cairo that an immense rebel force, estimated at 84,000 men, is advancing upon Khartoum. ...
Article : 45 wordsWith reference to the proposal of the Railway department of this colony to shorten the time occupied by the overland express train between Sydney and Melbourne the ...
Article : 201 wordsActive stops are already being taken with a view to the immediate evacuation of the Soudan. Acting on the suggestion of the Commission, orders have been sent ...
Article : 57 wordsThe tenders for the New Zealand four per cent. loan of £1,000,000 were opened to-day. The minimum price had been fixed at £98 10s. ...
Article : 141 wordsA rumour has been in circulation during the past week that the recent injury to the Czar's shoulder, which was alleged to have been caused by an ...
Article : 91 wordsA complimentary banquet was given to Mr. Griffith last night by the inhabitants of Cleveland. Messrs. Dickson, Garrick, and Sheridan, and several members of Parliament, ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, the Governor-General of Canada, speaking at Toronto, expressed a hope that the federation of the Australasian colonies ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Childers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has informed the agentsgeneral for the Australian colonies that the concession in the duty on Spanish ...
Article : 116 wordsThe French Government is offering great inducements to Frenchmen to emigrate to New Caledonia. ...
Article : 24 wordsA notification appears in the Gazette that the postage via Melbourne and San Francisco has been reduced to 6d. for half-an-ounce, also that a reduction has been made on the ...
Article : 228 wordsMr. Thomas Archer, the Agent-General for Queensland, has received a communication from the Government of that colony, giving him there months' leave of ...
Article : 66 wordsA meeting of the Administrative Council of the Geographical Society was held on Friday. Letters were received from the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Assembly met this morning. The Speaker and the members proceeded to Government-house to present an address to His Excellency. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Rev. Charles Strong has arrived in Scotland, and is now living at Helensburgh, neal Greenock. Mr. Strong will probably endeavour to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Dutch tin auctions will commence on the 31st inst., when 22,000 slabs of Banca will be offered for sale. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir Saul Samuel, the agent-general for New South Wales, is consulting with Captain Shaw, superintendent of the London fire brigades, with reference to the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat this day for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,820,000 quarters, showing a decrease of 50,000 quarters as compared with last ...
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Article : 133 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's new steamer the Valetta, which was launched at Greenock in November last, has been taken for a ...
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Article : 80 wordsThe R.M.S. Anglo-Indian left here to-day with the homeward Queensland mails. ...
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Article : 142 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company have chartered the Great Western Steamship Company's steamer Warwick, which will leave on the 18th inst., with 500 ...
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Article : 223 wordsThe Victorian 4 per cent. loan of £3,200,000 will be advertised in the papers on Tuesday. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe New South Wales 4 per cent. loan, floated last month, is now quoted at a premium of £1 15s. ...
Article : 32 wordsWilliam Rees, of Eaglehawk, grocer. Causes of insolvency—Preasure of creditors [?]nd being unable to collect accouilts. Liabilities, £124 10s. 9d.; assets, £56 5s. 2d.; deficiency, ...
Article : 77 wordsAustralian Wheat.—The new crop is offered at 44s. Buyers are willing to concede 43s. Australian and New Zealand stocks are ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Very Rev. H. B. Bromby, dean of Hobart, is about to resign, having accepted a cure in London, in the vicinity of St. Paul's. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 14 Jan 1884, Page 5
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