A fearful domestic tragedy took place this afternoon, at the Peninsula, near Windsor. William Jones, a coach-painter, residing at Pitt-street, Peninsula, was arrested this ...
Article : 269 wordsOf all the stories of the Antarctic that have been told by the members of the Scott and Amundsen expeditions, few hold one's interest to the same extent as that narrated for ...
Article : 1,760 wordslion, and pearls valued at half a million, on the ill-fated liner. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded last night, when the debate on the Home Rule Bill was resumed. Mr. A. J. Balfour, ex-leader of the Unionist ...
Article : 947 wordsA message has been received from Halifax, stating that all the passengers from the White Star liner Titanic, which struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast, had left ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Titanic has sunk. It is known that 675 persons have been saved, but it is feared many have perished. 4.15 a.m. ...
Article : 106 wordsIt is reported that Mr. B. R. Wise will submit his name to the Wentworth Political Labour League for selection to contest the sent at the next Federal elections in the ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Defence Bills have been published. The navy measure proposes to permanently commission three battleships and three large and three small cruisers beyond the existing ...
Article : 101 wordsThe duplication of the raliway lines between Sydney and Newcastle is now complete, and the double line will make possible an accelerated train service between the two great ...
Article : 542 wordsVarious liners report having recently encountered an icefield one hundred miles long and thirty-five miles broad off the Newfoundland grand banks. They all had perilous ...
Article : 140 wordsMr. Franklin, vice-president of the White Star Company, admits that there has been heavy loss of life in connection with the Titanic disaster. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe distinction of being the largest vessel afloat was held conjointly by the Titanic and Olympic, both White Star liners. This distinction had not been held for long by one ...
Article : 436 wordsThe Olympic reports that when she reached the scene of the disaster floating wreckage was all that remained of the Titanic. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Titanic cost £1,250,000. The hull and cargo were insured for £2,350,000. Reinsurances have been effected at 50 guineas per cent. ...
Article : 25 wordsA Canadian lady, while travelling in Mexico, was robbed by bandits who stopped the train on which she was a passenger. They beat the soles of her feet in order to make her disclose ...
Article : 99 wordsHuge floating masses of ice, which break away from a glacier or [?]rom an ice sheet, frequently drift from the polar regions into navigable waters. They are occasionally ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Carpathia, while on her voyage to New York, picked up several of the Titanic's lifeboats, in which were 866 passengers, mostly women. ...
Article : 72 wordsFour additional appointments of inspectors in the Industrial Department have been made. The duties of inspectors are to inquire into the working of awards under the Industrial ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Titanic sank between Sable Island and Cape Race, at a spot where the ocean is known to have a depth at two miles. There were diamonds to the value of a ...
Article : 37 wordsThe South Wales enginemen and stokers have declared their strike off. Simultaneosly they have protested against the miners' leaders' betrayal of trades ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsMr. W. T. Wilson, M.P. (Labour), has received £250 in connection with the New Zealand press fund for the relief of strike distress in West Houghton. ...
Article : 37 wordsReplying to a question by Mr. G. Lansbury, M.P. (Socialist), in the House of Commons yesterday, the Home Secretary, Mr. R. M'Kenna, said twenty-five of the suffragists at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Hydrographie Bulletin," published under the authority of the Secretary of the United States Navy gives the following ice reports for February last:— ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Centennial Hall was crowded last evening, when Mr. Fisher (Prime Minister) delivered an address with the local Labour candidates. ...
Article : 493 wordsNotwithstanding the advance made in an matters pertaining to navigation, the present decade has been marked by a grim series of calamitous misadventures at sea. For sheer ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 712 wordsAt a recent meeting of the North Sydney Council attention was called to certain evidence given by the Under-Secretary for Public Works before the Public Works Commitee ...
Article : 373 wordsA vault of bronze, which it is considered was constructed six hundred years before the birth of Christ, has been unearthed at Neuchatel, in West Switzerland. It contained a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsAt the Central Station-Hotel, Glasgow, yesterday detectives arrested Angard Carl Greaves, who described himself as an Australian. The detectives took action under the Official ...
Article : 61 wordsReplying to a question, the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, stated that the Irish Legislature, after three years, might alter the qualification for electors and the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "North German Gazette" describes as "a malicious invention" the report from Rome that the German Emperor had said to Signor Clrment: "If I had people as intelligent as ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. J Birmingham, organiser of the General Raliway Workers' Union, speaking at a meeting at Hammersmith last night, demanded that the Government should promote ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Liberal Unionist Association of Ulster has issued a manifesto, in which it states that the Home Rule Bill confirms Ulster's stern resolve against being relegated in any ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Masonic Hall was entered by burglars land thoroughly ransacked. Drawers were broken in, and desk contents strewn on the floor. In a drawer of a small table the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsThe Postmaster-General, Mr. H. L. Samuel, has announced that Ireland will probably have separate postage stamps like the colonies. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt the wool sales to-day there was good competiton for all sorts, and prices were firm. The demand from Germany and France was keen for good merinos. ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Simcox, Lord Mayor of Cork, has resigned, owing to the criticisms that have been levelled at him for accepting the invitation to attend the forthcoming National ...
Article : 95 wordsA straying bullock passing the saddlery establishment of Mrs. Hall, in Macquarie-street, was attracted by his reflection in the glass window, and made a rush at it. with the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 17 Apr 1912, Page 19
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