At Melbourne on May 10 a daring outrage and robbery was perpetrated in the afternoon at the office of James M'Dougall and Company, wine and spirit merchants, Queen-street. A few minutes ...
Article : 221 wordsAt the inquest held on the woman Dauzie at Port Lincoln on May 9 a verdict of wilful murder against George Page was returned by the jury. The evidence showed that prisoner shot the young ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 wordsImmediately after the arrival of the steamer Manapouri at Lyttelton from Wellington the captain reported that Mr. A. Beaumont, a well-known station-holder in the Marlborough, ...
Article : 111 wordsIt has been at last officially announced that the Ministry has been reconstructed by the inclusion of Mr. J. Moule, member for Flinders, and Mr. J. W. Castine, member for ...
Article : 79 wordsThe decision of the Appeal Court in New Zealand has been given on an appeal against a sentence imposed by Mr. W. B. Edwards while he was sitting as a judge of the Supreme Court. The ...
Article : 69 wordsA meeting of 400 unemployed was held on May 13 at the instance of the promoters of an unofficial labor bureau. It was reported that during the 10 weeks the bureau had been in existence, only a few ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Government have determined, in consequence of the agitations against the influx of alien laborers, to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the best method of working the Auckland ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is stated that despite the fact that a reduction of a quarter of a million sterling in the railway expenditure has been made during the year, there will be a deficiency of about ...
Article : 131 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce on May 10 a lengthy circular letter was received from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce urging the necessity of ...
Article : 111 wordsA steerage passenger named Charles Abernethy committed suicide by jumping overboard during the passage of the steamer Wakatipu from Sydney to New Zealand. ...
Article : 171 wordsHenry Douglas, shot by William Belcher at Georgetown while attempting to commit a burglary last week, died in Port Pirie Hospital on Monday morning after suffering great agony ...
Article : 113 wordsOn Monday last it was officially stated that communications have passed between Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith and Sir George Dibbs with regard to the abolition of border customs in Queensland and ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is said that a dastardly attempt to commit a murder was perpetrated at the Police Stud Depot, near Dandenong, on Saturday evening, by a Swede named Charles Camp. He had ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is stated that it has been arranged, when Parliament meets early next month, that Mr. Playford will move a vote of no confidence in the Downer Ministry. The attack will ...
Article : 122 wordsOn May 12, at the Cairns Circuit Court On Gee was sentenced to death for the murder of another Chinaman at Hambledon Plantation. At an early hour on Monday morning an ...
Article : 183 wordsOn Tuesday morning the Kaiserin Elizabeth, with the Archduke of Austria on board, anchored in Farm Cove. At 11 o'clock his Excellency the Acting Governor (Sir Frederick Darley), his ...
Article : 109 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. David R. Willie the representative of North Melbourne in the Legislative Assembly. The Premier, on May 11, sent a cable message ...
Article : 253 wordsBishop Kennion and Mrs. Kennion left Adelaide for England by the R.M.S. Valetta on May 10. The Cabinet, decided at a meeting on May 12 that the opening of Parliament shall take place a ...
Article : 128 wordsA cablegram, dated London, May 15, stated that the steamer City of Hamburg on May 14 came into collision off Lundy Island, at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, and about nine miles from ...
Article : 159 wordsThe steamer Rosedale was successfully floated into deep water on May 16. During the operation on May 14 a chain stopper carried away, and a block weighing about 28lb, flew back, ...
Article : 155 wordsIn the Supreme Court on May 12 the hearing of the new trial of Ogilvie against the West Australian Mortgage and Agency Corporation was begun before a special jury. The plaintiff seeks to ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Tasmanian Government have received a dispatch from the Victorian Government asking them to join in a protest to the Home and Canadian Governments against the proceedings of the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe new Governor (Sir R. W. Duff) is expected to reach Sydney about the 29th of the present month, and the official reception will probably take place on the following day, when the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. Harrie Wood) on Monday introduced Mr. Walter Scott Campbell to the officers of the Department of Agriculture, and that gentleman the following day took ...
Article : 133 wordsThe body of Mrs. Robert Mann, wife of a messenger in the Civil service, was found floating in Hobart harbor on the morning of May 13. She had been to see her son off by the steamer ...
Article : 85 wordsSeveral mild cases of smallpox have been reported during the week, and two deaths from the disease occurred on May 12. One of the victims was a little boy named Houlabran, aged 9 years. ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Southern Cross district heavy rains are reported to have fallen. The principal wells at Coolgardie are full, and the country in the vicinity has been thoroughly soaked. These rains ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Tasmanian Government is issuing locally £50,000 worth of 4 per cent, debentures, redeemable in 10 years. Parliament has been prorogued until June 21. ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 20 May 1893, Page 13
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