The loan of £2,500,000 for the construction of the Ninchwang Railway, China, has been subscribed fivefold. ...
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Article : 114 wordsThe Queensland Government emigration lecturer (Mr. G. Randall) has been on a lecturing tour throng Shropshire, and many state-aided passages to Queensland ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. W. Finucane, commercial representative of the Queensland Government in Southern Europe, has been decorated by the King of Italy with the Order of St. ...
Article : 37 wordsTenders for the New Zealand three per cent loan of £1,000,000, the minumum price of which was £96, were opened to-day. The total amount offered was £3,027,000. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Italian Senate has ratified the Convention recently concluded with France. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. J. Kensit, whose name has come prominently into notice of late in connection with the anti-ritual agitation in England, has been requested by the Protestants of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales will be held on the 21st and 23rd instant. The quantity of wool to be offered in 6668 bales, of which 850 bales will be Australian. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe German Minister for Foreign Affairs (Herr von Bulow), in replying to an interpellation in the Reichstag, strenuously denied that the Government had any ...
Article : 81 wordsTenders are invited for a Victorian Government loan of £1,600,000. It will bear interest at the rate of three per cent, and the minimum price is £95. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsMr. Middlemore (Liberal Unionist) has been returned unopposed to represent the Northern Division of Birmingham in the place of Mr. W. Kenrick (Liberal Unionist) ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Coal Conciliation Board has decided that wages shall be increased by five per cent from April next, and by an additional seven and a-half per cent from October ...
Article : 39 wordsCount Tolstoi, the eminent Russian novelist and social reformer, in a letter to the "Daily Chronicle" on the subject of the conference of the Powers summoned by the ...
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Article : 92 wordsThe Transvaal Chamber of Mines has offered the Government of the republic a loan of £500,000, but it is made a condition that the dynamite monopoly should be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe Cretan Constitution Commission recommends that the Governor(Prince George of Greece) should be granted wide executive powers for a period of two years; the ...
Article : 59 wordsA British syndicate has secured a concession from the Chinese Government for the construction of a railway from Canton to Hankau. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsSouth Wales has been visited by a tidal wave. Rising to a height of 40 ft., it flooded the country, and among other things, displaced the railway between ...
Article : 70 wordsThe voluntary offerings in the Church of England last year amounted to £7,500,000, exclusive of the sums received as payment for pew sittings. This amount is £500,000 ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe young [?] in the Austrian Re[?]chsrath have issued a manifesto, defying the Germans and advocating federalism as the only means of rescuing the state ...
Article : 40 wordsThe German loan for the administrative requirements of the Government for the year 1899 (portion of which was recently taken up by the Deut[?]ch Bank and the rest ...
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The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1875 - 1929), Sat 18 Feb 1899, Page 24
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