The Dowager Empress of China has held a reception on the occasion of the anniversary of her birthday, at which the wives of foreign diplomatists in Peking ...
Article : 126 wordsThe announcement that the French Government had not yet ratified the convention entered into with Great Britain in June last, delimiting the boundaries of ...
Article : 184 wordsA revival has taken place in Canadian interest in connection with the proposed Pacific cable. It is now expected that Canada and ...
Article : 140 wordsJohn Bull has suffered much from the car[?] even from such of them as are of his own blood. Ten[?] indeed, usually chooses a Hon—kingly, ...
Article : 7,407 wordsThe direct railway to Collingwood, the construction of which has now been authorised by Parliament, will be two miles in length, and is estimated ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 562 wordsStrong terms were used yesterday by members of the Legislative Council in condemning the state of affairs in the military department, as disclosed by the report ...
Article : 833 wordsBaron Strathcona and Mount Royal of Glencoe, G.C.M.G. (Sir Donald Smith), the High Commissioner for Canada in London, has presented another million ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Chinese Government has granted the British a new concession at Niuchwang, the principal port of the province of Manchuria. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" announces that Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State for the Transvaal, is arranging to form a syndicate to enter into ...
Article : 120 wordsSir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister to Peking, has strongly protested against the extension of the French concession at Shanghai. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn influential syndicate has made application to the Colonial Office and to the Agents-General for the Australian colonies for a grant of 100,000 acres of land in New ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. W. T. Stead[?] the editor of the "Review of Reviews," denies the announcement recently made that the international conference convened by the Czar Nicholas ...
Article : 78 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has authorised the flotation of a loan of 200,000,000 francs (£8,000,000) to defray the cost of construction of railways in ...
Article : 97 wordsMessrs. Edward Tremchard and Co. report having sold by private contract The Barham Station, situated in the counties of Cadell and Wakool, in the Central ...
Article : 525 wordsA robbery of an unusual character is reported from Hounslow Barracks, near London. Fifty thousand rounds of Lee-Metford ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. M'Kinley, the President of the United States, to-day delivered an address to an audience of 10,000 people, at Atlanta, in Georgia. ...
Article : 80 wordsLord Curzon, who has been appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of india, in succession to the Earl of Elgin and [?] cardine, has started upon his journey to ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. M'Culloch, Minister of Defence, told the Legislative Council last night that he had been kept quite in the dark regarding the Lilley-Skene affair at headquarters. ...
Article : 604 wordsAnother addition to the long list of shipping disasters on the northern coast was made to-day,when the Government steamer Little Nell, of about 30 tons register, ...
Article : 635 wordsA German steamer which has arrived in Chesapeake Bay has landed the captain and seven members of the crew of the four-masted steamer Londonian, wrecked ...
Article : 158 wordsA meeting of the appeal committee of the League of Victorian Wheelmen was held yesterday evening to consider the appeal made by W. M'Donald against ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsThe precautions recently adopted by the Admiralty in view of the possibility of hostilities with France, have now been relaxed. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Assembly only met to gather up the ravelled ends of its work. A question by Mr. Be[?]tt eli[?] a reiteration of the statement about the penny post from the ...
Article : 1,301 wordsThe new battle-ship irresistible was launched at Chatham Dock-yard to-day. The displacement of the vessel is 15,000 tons, and her horse-power 15,000. Her ...
Article : 51 wordsArrival.—S.S. Essen, from Adelaide Oc tober 4. Departures.—For Brisbane—City of Delhi. For Sydney—Fi[?] of Stronsa, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe open money market rate for the discount of three months' bank bills is 3½ per cent., being ½ per cent[?] under the Bank of England rate. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsThe [?] has expressed his preference for the appointment of Coptic rather than of Latin missionaries to the Egyptian Soudan. ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. J. H. Scammell, of Western Australia, who is travelling on the Continent on behalf of the mining exhibition to be held at Coolgardie, reports that Europe ...
Article : 66 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at [?] per [?] standard, being a rise of 1-16d[?] since yesterday. ...
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Article : 385 wordsThe hearing of the charge against William Henry Moore, master of the ship Republic, of maliciously shooting at Martin Schmidt with intent to inflict grievous ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Bradford Wool Market.—Business is improving. Tops, common sixties, are [?] dearer, at 19½d. Super sixties are unaltered at 20½d. ...
Article : 277 wordsHugh Kavanagh, of No. 24 Epsom-road, Kensington, railway employe. Causes of insolvency—Sickness, pressure of creditors, and having salary garnish[?] Liabilities, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Dec 1898, Page 9
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