Interviewed this morning, Mr. C. H. Hoskins whs asked if he had heard the result of the secret ballot with regard to the settlement of the strike. ...
Article : 958 wordsIt has been ascertained that some members of the Australian team were desirous that Mr. Ransford should join the team; and the Board of Control was asked it there would ...
Article : 204 wordsFurther evidence was taken by the Public Works Committee yesterday afternoon as to the expediency of amplifying the plant at the State Brickworks with a view to increasing ...
Article : 816 wordsA writ was issued yesterday on behalf of Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins, of Lithgow Ironworks, in an action commenced by that firm against the Government for the cancellation ...
Article : 79 wordsA graphic description of the experiences of the Mawson expedition is contained in a letter, dated from Adole Land, January 18, received by Professor David, of the Sydney ...
Article : 678 wordsIn connection with the loss of the P. and O. liner Oceana in consequence of a collision with the German barque Pisagua, it is now believed that 17 of those on board the Oceana ...
Article : 91 wordsAltogether 1,342,000 persons have been thrown idle through the coal strike, and their losses in wages is estimated at £5,643,000. A thousand travellers for firms in ...
Article : 49 wordsThe strikers and police came into conflict at Rosehall pits, Lanarkshire, where 200 non-unionists are working. A sergeant was badly injured. Ten arrests were made, ...
Article : 33 wordsDockers at Middlesbrough refused to discharge a cargo of German coal for the municipal gasworks. ...
Article : 21 wordsSpeaking at the Education Congress dinner last week the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) stated that anything the Commonwealth Government could do to assist in advancing the ...
Article : 252 wordsAt a conference held between representatives of the Bremen and Hamburg shipping interests, a decision was arrived at to increase freight rates to foreign ports by 10 per cent., ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. W. J.Thorne, M.P. (general secretary of the Gasworkers and General Labourers union), in a speech at Blackfriars, said that if the coal strike were continued for six ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Oceana remained afloat for seven hours after the collision took place. The pilot who was on board the liner declares that any loss of life was unnecessary ...
Article : 92 wordsWith a view to allaying anxiety, the Premier, M. Silvestre Falcao, has denied the existence of an Anglo-German treaty menacing the Portuguese colonies, and has published ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Weish mineowners have sent a circular to members of the House of Commons, pointing out that forward contracts for 25,000,000 tons of coal were made on the basis of the ...
Article : 126 wordsHalf a dozen men presented themselves at the State Premier's Office yesterday at midday to ask for work. They purported that they represented 47 ...
Article : 193 wordsDuring recent years Papua has developed dysentery to quite an alarming extent. This scourge is spreading along the whole coast line, and threatens to become a far greater ...
Article : 338 wordsMr. W. G. Nicholson, M.P. (Unionist), addressing his constituents at Petersfield, said that the Minimum Wage Bill, if carried, would be the prelude to every trade union ...
Article : 74 wordsHerr Wermuth, who resigned the Imperial Treasurership because the Government is financing the armaments bills by means of anticipated surpluses on existing taxation ...
Article : 87 wordsIn the case of a man named Alfred Jones, who pleaded guilty to stealing some stone at Balmain, police statements that he was an old offender have been shown to be ...
Article : 272 wordsMr. Hartshorn, who is one of the guiding spirits of the miners, speaking at Maesteg, in Glamorganshire, said that no bill would be acceptable to the miners if it deprived them ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture is sending an expert to South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, and France, to inspect the ostrich farms there, and secure some first-class birds for importation ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. G. H. Roberts, M.P. (Labour), member for Norwich) speaking at Sheffield, said the Labour party must watch any bill introduced from the standpoint of the general trade union ...
Article : 114 wordsA corporal and two soldiers at Muelheim surprised three burglars in a canteen. The burglars showered bottles, glasses, and plates at the soldiers ...
Article : 57 wordsA majority of the suffragists who were in gaol for declining to find sureties for their good behaviour, or for their appearance on the date of their trial, have been released, as ...
Article : 95 wordsSince the transport workers' strike the union membership has rapidly increased, and a quarter of a million men are now enrolled. The syndicalist element is fomenting a ...
Article : 80 wordsAccording to advices by yesterday's mail from Papua, a large public meeting was held at Port Moresby on January 10 to devise means to prevent the spread of dysentery, ...
Article : 338 wordsMr. Herbert Dyce Murphy, who was to have commanded the third landing party of Dr. Mawson's expedition, has written, in the course of a letter to his parents, as follows:— ...
Article : 543 wordsJudge Johnson, in sentencing three young men—Henry Bolton, Thomas Kenneth, and Thomas Murphy—for robbery in company, to-day, said they were members of a gang which ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the Police Court on Saturday a Chinese shopkeeper named Sue Kong appeared on a charge of doing grievous bodily harm to two men. A. Brady and W. Beasley. It was ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Victor Grayson, in the course of a speech at Crewe, said he had received one hundred letters from soldiers declaring that they would refuse to shoot at Btrlkers if ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Treasurer (Mr. Dacey) gave notice of his intention to move for leave to introduce a loan bill for £200,000. ...
Article : 116 wordsM. Poincare, Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, said that while determined to respect Spanish rights in Morocco, France was ...
Article : 43 wordsSeveral pits near Swansea have been flooded owing to the suspension of pumping operations ...
Article : 17 wordsAh Gip, a Chinese gardener, while driving his waggon to market, lost control at the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets. The horse bolted, and swerved towards the ...
Article : 176 wordsA revision of the tariff is not likely to be made, owing to divergent opinions in the Cabinet over the report of the Royal Commission. ...
Article : 34 wordsTowards the end of last year, Evelyn Womersley, of Murrumbeena, spinster, commenced an action in the Supreme Court against William Thomas Gordon Liley, then chief officer ...
Article : 474 wordsMessrs. Huntley and Palmer, biscuit manufacturers, intimate that if the strike is prolonged they intend to turn their factory into a bread factory to keep the workers as long ...
Article : 35 wordsThe effects of the Lithgow strike are becoming more widespread, the trades using iron being now seriously menaced. The last refusal of the Lithgow striken, to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsKing Manoel, replying to an address pre sented to him by monarchists who bad been expelled from Portugal, expressed the hope that the hour would not be long delayed ...
Article : 46 wordsSubscriptions towards the fund established for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of the late Mr. A. B. Weigall, C.M.G., head master of the Sydney Grammar School, will be received by us and ...
Article : 72 wordsAt about 9.10 last night, as tramcar No. 916 was inward bound along George-street West, an elderly woman tried to cross in front of it near St. Benedict's Church. She was not ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Court of Aldermen has decided that Sir Thomas Brooke-Hitching is unfit to be an alderman. He was recently elected for Farrington ward. Sir Thomas Brooke-Hitching ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsAt the Glebe Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., Captain A. P. Thompson, area officer and adjutant of the 29th Battalion of Senior Cadets, proceeded against 25 youths ...
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Advertising : 148 wordsThe following financial statement dealing with the recent visit of the English Eleven was presented to the Victorian Cricket Association by Treasurer Rush to-night:— ...
Article : 83 wordsDr. Richard Arthur, M.L.A., writes:—I am glad to be able to state that my appeal to your readers on behalf of a boy in Warrington has met with a most generous response. ...
Article : 409 words"The most wise and far-seeing measure yet introduced for promoting successful settlement by industrious small settlers." This tribute was paid to Mr. Beeby's land ...
Article : 227 wordsThe majority of members of the Victorian Assembly are in accord with the proposal of their confreres in New South Wales to raise Parliamentary salaries to £500 a year. ...
Article : 76 wordsEighty-five boys were charged at the police court to-day under the compulsory military training scheme, having failed to attend the statutory parades. All the informations were ...
Article : 70 wordsAs the result of the conference held in Sydney last week between representatives of the Lithgow Coal Association and the Western Miners' Association, an agreement has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsOn Friday night a female warder at the Kew Lunatic Asylum was returning to the institution, and when near the bridge between the Yarra Bend and Kew a man rushed out and ...
Article : 99 wordsIt was stated by the Minister for Worke (Mr. Griffith) in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that the expert engineer who is to investigate and report upon the ...
Article : 98 wordsSome time ago hope was expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fishor) that the time would come when New Zealand would recognise the advantages to be gained from closer ...
Article : 117 wordsBy proclamation in the Commonwealth "Gazette" the Federal Parliament has been further prorogued to May 1. There will be a subsequent prorogation, probably to June 26, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe new Savings Bank at Rochester was robbed early this morning, and £184 in gold, notes, and silver stolon. The keys were extracted from the pocket of Mr. E. F. Wheeler, ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. M'Wllllams, M.P. (Tas.), Laving signified his acceptance of membership on the Pearl Fishing Commission, there is how only one place to fill. This has been offered to Senator ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 19 Mar 1912, Page 9
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