In our last article reference was made to the necessity for the adoption of more modern methods of farming amongst our wheatgrowers. In this case the reference is to the ...
Article : 1,180 wordsThe Naval Loan Bill was further considered in committee in the Senate to-day. Senator Clemons (Tas.) moved, as an amendment, that the loan should be raised at 3[?] ...
Article : 296 wordsThe House of Representatives was engaged all to-day's sitting in discussing the Estimates. They began at 11 o'clock. The first department taken was that of the Minister ...
Article : 289 wordsUnder the auspices of the Dapto School of Arts, Mr. Sussmilch, geological lecturer from the Technical College, delivered an address on the coal measures of Illawarra. ...
Article : 81 wordsOn Sunday morning Mr. A. B. Tunmer, living at The Peel, Elizabeth Bay-road, was riding a bicycle down a hill towards the Australian Golf Club, at Kensington, when he fell from ...
Article : 41 wordsA Robertson cowkeeper writes:—"In a recent issue I notice, with much gratification, that the dairymen of Sydney took a day off and devoted it to picnicking and general ...
Article : 853 wordsFrank Boyle, 18, living in Livingstone-road, Petersham, was wicket-keeping at a Cricket match in Petersham on Saturday afternoon when he was struck on the forehead by a ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Robert L. Gilmour, president of the Rockley Railway League, has returned to Bathurst with Inspector Usher, of the Railway Department, after visiting Rockley, where ...
Article : 143 wordsConstable John Hamilton, stationed at Merrylands, was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of George-street and Sydney-road, Parramatta, on Sunday. He was riding a ...
Article : 59 wordsMrs. Martha Drew, aged 60, mistook [?] quantity of iodine for medicine on Saturday, She drank the iodine, and was poisoned. The Civil Ambulance took her to Prince Alfred ...
Article : 39 wordsWilliam Hilly, an employee at the Crescent Coffee Palace, was cleaning a fanlight, when he fell through and dropped on to a table 20ft below. He was taken in a semi-conscious ...
Article : 7 wordsA fire broke out at Treweeke's buildings, Summer-street, at 3.30 o'clock this morning. The alarm was given by Constable Rochford and Watchman Ryan, who saw the fire blazing ...
Article : 136 wordsOn Saturday night last about midnight two young men named Crake and Murphy noticed a fire in a shed at the rear of Mr. Francis Gilmartin's residence, in Goulburn-street, ...
Article : 152 wordsCOOMA.—1450 merino wethers. Dry Plain to Gunningrah, G. Cruickshank; 112 mixed dairy cattle, Bega to Goulburn, Charles Higgins; 840 merino ewes and lambs, Cooma to Lake Plain, Mrs. Sands; 250 fat ...
Article : 349 wordsYesterday Robert Cheescman, a painter, was standing on a ladder painting a cottage in Reservoir-street, Surry Hills, when he fell from a height of 7ft to the ground, fracturing ...
Article : 54 wordsAs sure as a farmer sends cream regularly to a butter factory he will some day be dissatisfied with the returns received. Consideration of the process by which suppliers are ...
Article : 1,346 wordsThe Prime Minister, in reply to Mr. Fisher, in the House of Representatives to-day, said that the Government had not yet dealt with the appointment of the High Commissioner. He ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Galbraith, Acting City Coroner, held an inquest regarding the death of Lorna [?]ean Just, aged three weeks, and returned a verdict that the child was smothered last ...
Article : 46 wordsThe twenty-first anniversary of the Sulphide-street Wesley Church was celebrated on Sunday. GULGONG, Monday. ...
Article : 306 wordsAn inquest was held by the Acting City Coroner touching the death of George E. T. Taylor, a wharf-labourer, who died in Sydney Hospital last Thursday, from the effects ...
Article : 106 wordsWhen postal officials were sorting the mails at the local post-office last night a packet containing chocolates, which had been posted locally, was found to have been broken. A ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Dr. Maloney (Vic.) asked the Prime Minister the following questions:—1. Has the Government abandoned the principles of the new ...
Article : 159 wordsEsme le Brun Breton, a recent arrival from England, was thrown from his horse at Northam on Saturday, and kicked so severely that he died half an hour later. ...
Article : 41 wordsDuring the past month the Teachers' Guild of New South Wales held several meetings under the presidency of the Rev. C. J. Prescott, M.A., and discussed Mr. Board's report ...
Article : 502 wordsFrank Whitman, a timber-getter and a wellknown resident of Bishop's Bridge, was killed on Friday. He did not return home at the usual time, and a search party found the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe House of Representatives has passed through all stages the bill relating to compensation to seamen for injuries suffered in the course of their employment. The ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Sydney Marriott, while travelling in the express from Melbourne, on Sunday morning, had a marvellous escape from death. The train was very crowded. His wife, child, and nurse ...
Article : 196 wordsJames Joseph Barrett, who fractured his pelvis at Tarago on Thursday through his horse propping while be was yarding bullocks in his slaughter-yard, died at the hospital last ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Rev. S. J. Hoban, in an address at the Methodist Church, Ballarat, yesterday, stated that despite what had been said by the State Treasurer (Mr. Watt) there was no city in ...
Article : 51 wordsMrs. Martha Lewis, of 112 Elswick-street, Leichhardt, was making tea yesterday near a gas-ring at her home, when her clothing caught fire. She called for help, and ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the Kempsey School of Arts a display was made in connection with technical dressmaking classes, when a number of prizes were awarded by townspeople. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt rained on Thursday night almost continuously, for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. Friday 575 points being recorded. 650 points were reported at Hambledon. Mulgrave River is in ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. B. Shearer writes:—The lash of industrial warfare, so ably wielded by the coalminers at present, has fallen on all classes of the community. Not last to feel its sting ...
Article : 392 wordsIn the District Court, Richard Andrew Ryan sued William James Jeffries, claiming £200 damages for alleged slander. The parties are homestead lessees, and Ryan said ...
Article : 138 wordsA little girl, aged 3, Euphemia O'Hara, who lives with her parents in Balmain, was playing with matches yesterday, when her clothes took fire. She was badly burnt on the legs, arms, ...
Article : 57 wordsA disastrous fire broke out early on Sunday morning, completely burning the premises of Mr. Wallis, photographer, M'Guire and Co., drapers, and Mrs. Brien, confectioner and ...
Article : 114 wordsOn October 29 "Tommy" Burns and his brother-in-law, Laurence Keating, were wrestling in Turkish baths in the city, when the boxer caused keating to put his foot through ...
Article : 104 wordsThe bush fire at Long Bay, which was practically beaten out by the fire brigade on Sunday, revived again yesterday, and came so close to the Penitentiary that ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Gibson, Jas. Kirk, an elderly man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of maliciously wounding Chas. Smith, alias "Scotty," on ...
Article : 112 wordsOn the notice paper of the House of Representatives Dr. Maloney has a motion relating to the Australian experience of women's suffrage. It reads as follows:—(1) That this House ...
Article : 280 wordsAt the Balmain Police Court, before Mr. [?] H. Smithers, S.M., Mildred Lidbury, 1[?], and Louisa Appleton, 23, were charged with stealing a copper boiler, value 1[?]s. from 18 Datchett-street, ...
Article : 84 wordsThe works of the Melbourne meat exporters were closed down to-day, pending a settlement of the dispute between the exporters and slaughtermen as to the payment for the killing ...
Article : 179 wordsA disastrous bush fire broke out between Parkes and Bogan Gate on Saturday, the grass being ignited by sparks from a passing train, which whistled, but did not stop. The fire ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Municipal Appeal Court the magistrate held that properties occupied by the stationmaster and lengthsmen were not rateable. ...
Article : 394 wordsAt the Balmain Police Court, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., Mildred Lidbury, or Bell, 19, married, was charged with stealing one skirt, two blouses, one pair of shoes, and three boys' coats, value ...
Article : 164 wordsBLAYNEY.—Hay harvesting is general, and in the main good crops are being cut, an excellent colour and weight per acre being expected. ...
Article : 41 wordsBELLIGEN.—Pursuant to a suggestion by the shire engineer that the better way to secure equal representation for the Bellinger and Nambucca divisions of the shire would be to constitute six ridings instead of ...
Article : 283 wordsAt the Balmain Court, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Edith M'Kenzie, a married woman, residing in Well-street, Annandale, was charged with obtaining money by means of a false protence from a number of ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the criminal sittings Bruce Ursher. 22, pleaded guilty to charges of having at Hindmarsh, on November 14, shot at Constables Henry Moulden and George Harold Nicholls, ...
Article : 55 wordsDUBBO.—The Dubbo P.P. Board proposes to hand £10 to the Talbragar Shire Council towards the cost of clearing roads and travelling stock routes of Bathurst burr, etc., but ...
Article : 45 wordsA case of mining speculation was threshed out before Judge Gibson in the District Court on Saturday, when Ann Clinch, widow, proceeded against Oscar ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsAlderman R. V. Wilson, who had been on a visit to Sydney, in connection with an improved water supply for Broken Hill, has returned. He states that, as a result ...
Article : 173 wordsMUDGEE.—The Agricultural Society decided that all stallions competing at the next show must have a Government certificate. An inspector from the Department of Agriculture ...
Article : 40 wordsAn interesting parcel of lucerne seed has just been received by the New South Wales Agricultural Department from the United States Department. There are five varieties— ...
Article : 582 wordsFORBES.—The land board dealt with applications for two blocks of land. For the first, a homestead selection area of 46 acres, near Forbes, there were nine applicants. The land ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Hornsby Progress Association, the president called attention to the build ings on the Hornsby railway station. The latest building, he said, reflected discredit on the place, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsWINDSOR.—There is a large falling-off in the milk supplies. ...
Article : 10 wordsDespite unfavourable weather several thousand people visited the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday to witness the Melbourne Bicycle Club's Austral meeting. Shortly after ...
Article : 74 wordsCOOMA.—By using the divining rod on Goodwin Brothers' property, water was found at a depth of 15ft, after a w[?]ll had been sunk 20ft at another spot without striking water. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Thomas Dawson writes:—I have noticed a statement that the wheat crops around Gulargambone were computed to average 32 bushels to the acre. As a resident I wish ...
Article : 182 wordsSir George Reid, K.C., delivered his lecture on "Crises of the British Empire" at St. David's Hall, Haberfield, on Monday night, in aid of a movement to secure a School of Arts for that suburb. ...
Article : 106 wordsDuring a heavy windstorm on Friday night, a house on the Silver Peak's mining lease was destroyed by fire. The three occupants were asleep. Thomas Armstrong, in attempting to ...
Article : 52 wordsRest and peace fall upon distracted households when Cuticura enters. All that the fondest of mothers desires for the alleviation of her skin-tortured and disfigured infant is found in warm baths with Cuticura ...
Article : 101 wordsBLAYNEY.—Cold southerly winds and sharp frosts have prevailed for the last few days. Many farmers complain that early potatoes have been cut to the ground. Gardeners have ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 7 Dec 1909, Page 4
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