The officials at the War Office are actively engaged in making preparations for placing the military establishment on war footing, if such a step should become ...
Article : 142 wordsThere is much speculation as to the personnel of the new Ministry to be formed in France to replace the Cabinet of M. Brisson, who resigned owing to a vote of want ...
Article : 215 wordsThe public interest aroused by yesterday's development in connection with the trial of the directors of the Queensland National Bank was shown by the large ...
Article : 738 wordsAs the senior naval officer on the Australian naval station, His Excellency Rear Admiral Pearson, is now in Melbourne, an opportunity was taken yesterday of ...
Article : 1,547 wordsLord Charles Beresford, who has been visiting China ot the request of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Great Britain, with a view to inquiring in to the ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the House went into committee to further consider the amendment in the federal resolutions proposed by Mr. M'Gowen suggest ...
Article : 507 wordsThe cool change in the weather experienced on Wednesday evening continued throughout yesterday. Some light showers fell during the afternoon, and in the ...
Article : 1,610 wordsA party of Chinese soldiers attacked a British officer, a railway engineer, and Mr. Henry Cockburn, the Chinese Seeretary of the British legation at Peking while they ...
Article : 124 wordsA millionaire named Knowlton had committed suicide at Brooklyn, New York. He committed the act by shooting himself. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe thunderstorm which broke over Adelaide on Wednesday night has found its way well into the country, and reports received to-day show that rain fell at a good ...
Article : 720 wordsIn view of the possibility of war, the British Government have invited the Clyde ship-building firms to tender for the construction of a number of new war-ships. ...
Article : 86 wordsBar silver is now quoted at 27 15-16d. per ounce standard, being a decline of 1-16d. per ounce since yesterday. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe recent occurrence of bubonic plague in Vienna has caused considerable perturbation in that city. A servant in the Pathological Institute was the first to succumb to ...
Article : 187 wordsThe death is announced of Lieutenant the Hon. Edward George Boyle, son of the Earl of Glasgow, formerly Governor of New Zealand. ...
Article : 67 wordsTallow.—At to-day's public auction sales of Australasian tallow 1,650 casks were offered and 375 casks were sold. Prices were unaltered, as follows:—Fine mutton, ...
Article : 69 wordsVisitors to the spring exhibition of the Victorian Artists' Society, which is to be opened to-day, at the National Gallery, will admit that, in the number and ...
Article : 1,223 wordsSir William Harcourt, the lender of the Opposition, in a speech delivered at Aberystwith, declared that it was the duty of all to support the Government at ...
Article : 46 wordsA terrible storm of hail and rain has occurred in Macedonia. The storm caused such floods that many bridges were swept away, and a entire ...
Article : 51 words"We are always full at Cup time," say the hotelkeepers: "but we are turning away more people now than we have done for many years." ...
Article : 786 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes,, ex-Premier of the Cape, and now member for Barkly West, and leader of the Progressive party, in the Cape Parliament, has made an ...
Article : 149 wordsThe race for the Cambridgeshire Stakes took place at Newmarket to-day, with the following result:— CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES, ...
Article : 761 wordsThe Railways Committee met yesterday to finally decide the Collingwood railway, which, at the meeting the day before, was left in an undecided state owing to the ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Orient Co.'s R.M.S. Austral, which recently lost a propeller blade on the voyage to Australia, and put into Suez for repairs, has now been refitted. She resumed ...
Article : 49 wordsThis afternoon a woman named Mrs. M'William entered the refreshment-room at Kirealdie's establishment, Wellington, and fired three shots from a revolver at ...
Article : 128 wordsHalf of the rabbits consigned to London by the New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Otarama, which arrived on October 17, have been found to be rotten. ...
Article : 37 wordsA semi-official announcement has been made with regard to a settlement of the difficulty between France and England over the occupation of Fashoda by ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. R. P. Hardy, F.I.A., ex-president of the English Institute of Actuaries, has been appointed consulting actuary to the Citizens' Life Assurance Company, Sydney. ...
Article : 461 wordsThe French Geographical Society has greeted Sir H. H. Kitehener the Sirdar of the Anglo-Egyptian foree recently operating on the Nile. The sirdar was ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day, the Married Women's Property Bill and the Henley Beach Railway Bill were read a third time and passed. ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Stock Exchange which has been showing signs of great perturbation in consequence of the Fashoda incident, is now steadier. A general recovery has ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Accused Persons Evidence Bill was read a third time. The Supply Bill was passed through all ...
Article : 139 wordsThe British press continues to write calmly on the situation, and to strongly support the maintenance of an unflinching attitude with regard to Fashoda. The ...
Article : 52 wordsIn response to the urgent appeal on behalf of the Children's Hospital which has been made by the committee, and warmly seconded by Lady Madden, we have ...
Article : 196 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Council Reform Bill was discharged from the notice paper. In the course of the discussion the ...
Article : 141 wordsNews from Samon states that the natives held a meeting on the 13th inst., for the purpose of discussing the kingship. A number of conciliatory speeches were delivered, ...
Article : 56 wordsSplendid rain fell inland last night. It came from the west, and covered almost the whole colony, save the extreme northeastern districta. The rain, however, was ...
Article : 656 wordsThe thirteenth annual meeting of the Colonial Permanent Building and Investment Society was held at Scott's Hotel, Collins-street, yesterday afternoon. Mr.J. ...
Article : 171 wordsThe latest information upon the critical position is to the effect that prepurations for was are being coutinued on both sides, but that there are indications of a pacific ...
Article : 41 wordsRobert Bennetts, of Lee-street, North Carlton, railway employe. Causes of insolvency—Sickness of self and family, reduction in salary, and having salary garnisheed ...
Article : 43 wordsThe R.M.S. Alameda arrived from San Francisco to-day. Passengers:—Mr. A. Staley, the Hon. Royle, Mrs. A. M. Jones and child, Mrs. T.R. Bcaumont, two daughters, and son; Mr. and Mrs. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 28 Oct 1898, Page 5
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