The luck of the Melbourne Bicycle Club is proverbial, and anyone who had observed it closely would not have been surprised on Saturday. A better day could not have ...
Article : 3,300 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in his speech at Wakefield on Thursday night, made some remarks indicating that the entente cordiale established between Great Britain and ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is probable that the decision arrived at by the Court of Cassation in the case of Colonel Piequart will have important results. ...
Article : 224 wordsMr. John Barrett, late United States Minister to Siam, who is visiting Peking, has expressed himself in very decided terms with regard to Anglo-American policy in ...
Article : 172 wordsThe action of the Legislative Assembly in declining to rush the estimates of the Railway department through at a midnight ...
Article : 6,705 wordsFurther particulars are to hand respecting the loss in the Atlantic Ocean of the four-masted steamer Londonian, 5,532 tons, of Hull. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, was totally destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock on Saturday morning, and two boarders, Mr. Greer, a commercial traveller representing ...
Article : 354 wordsA case possessing uncommon and interesting features will shortly be investigated, when a man named Charles Bailey is tried for feloniously pretending that he was the ...
Article : 1,236 wordsM. Dupuy, the French Premier, and the members of his Cabinet are desirous of ending the incident arising out of the speech delivered by Sir Edmund Monson, the ...
Article : 189 wordsM. de Giers, who has succeeded M. Pavloff as Russian Minister at Peking, has had an audience of the Emperor of China. No one else was present at the ...
Article : 105 wordsIn his speech at Wakefield last night, the Secretary of State for the Colonies made some important announcements respecting measures of domestic legislation that would ...
Article : 104 wordsIt was reported in October last that King Menelek had despatched a strong military force to attack Ras Mangascia, Governor of Tigre, and son of the late King John ...
Article : 196 wordsGeneral Jamont, the chief of the staff of the French army, has, on behalf of himself and the other members of the staff, represented to President Faure that the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. William Black, the eminent novelist, aged 57 years. [Mr. Black has been one of the most prolific and popular novelists of the day. His ...
Article : 136 wordsIn the "Judicial and Law Notices" of "The Argus" this morning Messrs. Blake and Riggall, of Melbourne, give notice of their intention to apply to the Supreme ...
Article : 241 wordsA remarkable exploit during the late Soudan war has just been made public. The hero is Lieutenant the Hon. R. H. L. J. de Montmorency, of the 21st Lancers, ...
Article : 196 wordsThe situation in the Philippines continues to cause anxiest in the United States. A further report has been received at ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the market was firm, with an upward tendency. The quantity catalogued to date is 124,642 bales, of which 115,737 have been ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Eastern Telegraph Company have made fresh proposals for the construction of a submarine cable from ...
Article : 130 wordsA magnificent exhibition of batting was given yesterday at the Sydney Cricketground during the continution of the match Tasmania against New South ...
Article : 609 wordsM. Lockroy, the French Minsiter of Marine, has ordered six submarine boats of the Narval type. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsAn action for libel has been brought by Alderman Sir Joseph Savory, M.P., who was Lord Mayor of London in 1890-91, against the proprietors of "London," a ...
Article : 131 wordsSpain having acquiesced in the terms of peace insisted on by the United States, a treaty of peace hsa been signed in Paris by the American and Spanish ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the Cape House of Assembly last night the attention of Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the Preimer, was drawn to the fact that coloured people from the Cape Colony were ...
Article : 76 wordsQuotations for frozen meat are as follows:— New Zealand Sheep.—Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes (55lb. to 65lb.)— ...
Article : 341 wordsThe election of a member of the House of Commons for the Kirkdale division of Liverpool, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir George Baden-Powell, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe question of the extension of the proposed railway to Mildura was considered by an influential meeting, held at Beulah, this afternoon, Mr. S. A. Grace in the ...
Article : 203 wordsThe appeal to the judicial committee of the Privy Council by the New South Wales income tax commissioners against the decision of the Full Court in their ...
Article : 297 wordsLieutenant Robert Wark, of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, who was committed for trail at the Liverpool Police Court on September 23, on the charge of having ...
Article : 66 wordsAn extraordinary incident occurred at the Bank of England last night. At midnight the bell was rung. On the door being opened, a stranger entered the ...
Article : 106 wordsMiss Charlotte Hemming, the public reciter, of Melbourne, has given a series of successful recitals at the Oxford Music-hall, London. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt Half-past 11 a.m.—M'Bean v. Grant, Williamson v. Caledonian Insurance Company. First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice Hood and a Jury of Six.) ...
Article : 286 wordsAt half-past 5 this morning the cylinder covers of the engine at the Block 14 smelting works at Port Adelaide blew off, and necessitated the partial shutting-down of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe s.s. Duke of Argyll, for Brisbane, arrived at Colombo on the 9th inst. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 12 Dec 1898, Page 5
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