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SS Aorangi was a passenger and refrigerated cargo ship built by John Elder & Co. of Govan, Glasgow for the New Zealand Shipping Company and launched in 1883. She was chartered by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between April 1914 until 1915. [1]
Premier of British Columbia – Robert Beaven (until January 29) then William Smithe; Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay; Premier of New Brunswick – Daniel Lionel Hanington (until March 3) then Andrew George Blair
The Capture of Nam Định (27 March 1883), a confrontation between the French and the Vietnamese, was one of the early engagements of the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86). In a brief campaign in the last week of March 1883, Commandant Henri Rivière captured the citadel of Nam Định, the second-largest city in Tonkin, with a flotilla of gunboats and a battalion of marine infantry.
In United States tax law history, the Tariff of 1883 (signed into law on March 3, 1883 [1]), also known as the Mongrel Tariff Act by its critics, reduced high tariff rates only marginally, and left in place fairly strong protectionist barriers.
The commission issued its first rules in May 1883; by 1884, half of all postal officials and three-quarters of the Customs Service jobs were to be awarded by merit. [28] During his first term, President Grover Cleveland expanded the number of federal positions subject to the merit system from 16,000 to 27,000.
After a diplomatic conference in Paris in 1880, the convention was signed on 20 March 1883 by 11 countries: Belgium, Brazil, France, Guatemala, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, El Salvador, Kingdom of Serbia, [6] Spain and Switzerland. Guatemala, El Salvador and Serbia denounced and reapplied the convention via accession.
The Germans and Koreans negotiated and approved a multi-article treaty with provisions similar to other Western nations. Ministers from Germany to Korea were appointed in accordance with this treaty; and these diplomats were: Capt. Zembisch, appointed November 18, 1884; T. Kempermann, appointed May 17, 1886; H. Weipert, appointed September 29, 1900.
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