Details of the awful theatre fire at Acapulco, in Mexico, when 300 persons lost their lives, explain the reason why the fatalities were so numerous. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe bill to provide for a half-holiday every Saturday in shops in the metropolitan district was also circulated yesterday evening. It provides that all shops must ...
Article : 180 wordsThirty-seven men have been rescued from the colliery at West Stanley where the frightful explosion occurred. There are, however, 107 men still entombed, and fears ...
Article : 109 wordsThe speech from the Throne, which was read by King Edward at the opening of Parliament, and referred to the warmth of his reception at Berlin last week, is the ...
Article : 145 wordsThere is every prospect of a lengthy debate in the House of Commons on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply to the King's Speech at the opening ...
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Article : 3,860 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Dudley, accompained by Mrs. Philip Ruthven, the Chief Secretary of South Australia (Mr. Kirkpatrick), and ...
Article : 807 wordsThe crisis in Turkish politics, winch led to the retirement of Kiamil Pasha from office, has caused interest to be centred in the formation of the new Cabinet. ...
Article : 145 wordsPathetic scenes are witnessed at the pit's mouth, where thousands of people, including the wives of the entombed miners, have remained throughout the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Convocation committee of the archdiocese of Canterbury in the Church of England, after sitting two years has presented a report regarding proposed ...
Article : 434 wordsThe Australian Board of Control for international cricket matches met at the Port Phillip Club Hotel yesterday after-noon. Colonel Foxton, M.H.R. ...
Article : 1,050 wordsFurther evidence of the widespiead character and the appalling results of the earthquakes which during January occurred in Southern and Eastern Europe and the ...
Article : 90 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—Mr. H. Holland, secretary of the Sydney Socialists, spoke very briefly to a small open-air gathering to-day, and was subjected, to a few ...
Article : 352 wordsDr. Jameson, who was one of the representatives of Cape Colony at the Convention which drafted the scheme of South African union, has been interviewed on the ...
Article : 136 wordsA great convention to consider the revision of the American tariff has opened its sittings at Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana. Delegates numbering 3,000 have ...
Article : 129 wordsThe brutal outrages which have startled the Berlin public, recalling as they do the methods of "Jack the Ripper," have now reached a total of 31. The efforts of the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe naval committee of the United States Senate has returned to the question which was raised while the battle-ship squadron on its voyage round the world was in Pacific ...
Article : 109 wordsThe ocean-going torpedo-boat destroyer Swift has equalled the record for speed, established by the Tartar about the middle of January. In a series of trials, conducted ...
Article : 220 wordsThe trial of Mrs. Haskell, a widow, living at Fisherton, Salisbury, on a charge of murdering her son, Edwin, a cripple, aged 12 years was concluded at Devizes yesterday. ...
Article : 278 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The Premier (Mr. Wade) stated to-night that it had been decided to change the venue for the trial of Tom Mann and the other four ...
Article : 65 wordsThe trial of two students, charged with conspiring to murder Colonel Ferris, political agent at Kolapur, has been concluded. Both prisoners were found guilty, and ...
Article : 82 wordsHOBART, Thursday.— The Premier (Captain Evans) delivered his policy speech at Port Cygnet to-night. He intends to defend state rights, promote closer ...
Article : 332 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Thomas William Daly was charged at the Water Police Court to-day with having proposed on February 3 to abstain from printing, and to ...
Article : 547 wordsFurther particulars are to hand of the circumstances under which a Russian anarchist, named Seiliger, shot two police-constables at Ghent, in Belgium. Seiliger's ...
Article : 104 wordsRobert Snowden, of Stanwell-hall, Hobart, gentle-man, who died on October 14, left by a will dated March 24, 1905. personal estate in Victoria of the value of £3.047 to his widow and children. ...
Article : 118 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver is 23 11-16d., being an advance of 1-16d. since Tuesday. ...
Article : 24 wordsPERTH. Thursday.—Thunderstorms occurred in various parts of the eastern districts yesterday and last night. The railway line was, after a heavy deluge of rain, ...
Article : 130 wordsThe vote of money by the state Parliament for the constitution of roads and bridges was made so late last year that a large portion of the grants remained ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsThe death of the Grand Duke Vladimir, one of the sons of the Emperor Alexander [?] and uncle of the present Czar, has occurred at St. Petersburg, at the age of 62. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe accounts of the Australian Agricultural Company for the year ending December 31, show a profit of £116,284. Of this amount £10,000 is added to the reserve ...
Article : 46 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Lawn tennis enthusiasts will this year have the pleasure of welcoming a team of English players. Mr. T.H. Hicks, hon, secretary of the ...
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Article : 354 wordsSome interesting newspaper comment on the selection of the Australian Eleven for the English tour appears to-day:— "The Times" regrets C. Hill's absence ...
Article : 204 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—A case of small-pox was discovered on the s.s. Paroo before she reached Broome on Wednesday from Singapore. There are 66 Manila men on board, ...
Article : 87 wordsA patient jumped out of one of the windows in the Melbourne Hospital late last night, fortunately without fatal results. His name is Alfred Andrade. He is 26 years ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following private advice has been received by Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company Limited, dated 17th inst.:— "Tallow.—Prices are unaltered since our last ...
Article : 55 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.—No further bodies have been recovered from the Penguin. Efforts are to be made to-morrow to ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Sydney Labour Council to-night condemned the state's immigration policy. It passed the following resolution:— ...
Article : 106 wordsWilliam James Keates, of Asling-street, North Brighton, horse exporter. Causes of insolvency—Losses in connection with the business of a horse-exporter here and ...
Article : 120 wordsIn response to the appeal of the Rev. A. O. Hardic, of Boort, on behalf of a lad of 18, named Lionel Virtue, who has had one leg amputated, as the result of an accident with a thrashing-machine, ...
Article : 53 wordsA married woman named Mary Lacey, residing at 322 Gore-street, Fitzroy, was arrested at Prahran last night by Plainclothes Constable Kinleyside on two charges ...
Article : 81 wordsGEELONG, Thursday.—To-day a letter waa received from L. E. Wilson, who set out about the middle of January to walk to Sydney, stating that when at Gerogery he ...
Article : 72 wordsYesterday forenoon William Taylor, 19, resident with his parent at 242 Douglasparade, Newport, had his right hand badly maimed by machinery at Messrs. Wischer ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 19 Feb 1909, Page 5
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