Empire Day has come to stay, not because it offers a chance for self-glorification, but because it is a day in which the children of the Empire can be taught one of the most ...
Article : 4,264 wordsAn enthusiastic gathering of pas[?]sts took place in the Royal Hotel last night on the occasion of the usual wind-up social in connection with the show. Mr. Mark Tully ...
Article : 535 wordsFurther details regarding the wreck of the French barque President Felix Faure, and the thrilling adventures of the 22 castaways on Antipodes Island, reached Sydney yesterday ...
Article : 867 wordsAfter conferences between the House of Representatives of the United States and the Senate relating to the subsidy to be paid by the Post Office for the ...
Article : 301 wordsA railway collision has occurred near Antwerp. Twenty-six dead have been extricated, and others are pinned by wreckage. ...
Article : 145 wordsUnionist peers consider that redistribution of seats should accompany any electoral reform scheme which the Government may bring forward. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe debate on fiscal policy was resumed in the House of Lords last night. Lord Avebury declared that if all the rest of the world became protectionist, ...
Article : 374 wordsLady Carlisle in presiding at the meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation, welcomed the statement of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, in regard to granting ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is expected that of 6,500,000 children who will parade on Empire Day, there will be nearly 3,000,000 in the motherland. When the division was called on the ...
Article : 72 wordsTwenty women, agitating for the franchise, assembled outside Mr. Asquith's residence in Downing-strcet, and demanded a more definite statement of the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Senate of the United States has ratified the conventions agreed upon between America and Japan for the protection of inventions, designs, trade marks, and ...
Article : 60 wordsSir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, addressing the Victoria League, said that all implication of subordination and restraint had ...
Article : 47 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Representatives to-day, the Prime Minister dealt with the remarks made by Mr. Wade on the Commonwealth donation of £100 to the ...
Article : 377 wordsHongkong exchanges brought by the steamship Chingtu indicate that the boycott of Japanese is still being bitterly waged. One or two further piratical outrages of a ...
Article : 349 wordsThe King, on his visit to the Czar at Reval, on the Baltic, next month, will not land in Russia. The exchange of courtesies between the two monarchs will ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, announced in the House of Commons last night that be intends to introduce a short bill which will make clear ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Times" says that Lord Cromer in mocking at the classifications in the Australian tariff mocks at the practice of every commercial nation except Great ...
Article : 44 wordsConferences of the Committee of the Houses of Representatives of the United States and the Senate to amalgamate the Currency Bills, proposed by Senator ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. H. H. Asquith, speaking at the Reform Club, ridiculed the proposal to place a duty of 40s on foreign-grown hops, which, he said, would be a ...
Article : 65 wordsThe death is announced, of Mr. C. H. Reynolds, general manager to the Pacific Cable Board. Death occurred at Lisbon, where he was attending the National ...
Article : 142 wordsThe "Standard's" Empire supplement has a good appearance, with interesting and informing contributions. The Commonwealth, Victoria, Western ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. J. H. Carruthers, and Mr. T. Henley, M.L.A. (N.S.W.), attended an enthusiastic ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. William Powell, superintendent of the Leper Home at Bapatla, in Southern India, is now in Sydney. He is a member of the South Indian Baptist Missionary Society, and ...
Article : 398 wordsA sensational incident happened in a shop in Peel-street to-night. An immense alligator over 18ft long, supposed to be 400 years old, was shot dead while endeavouring to ...
Article : 125 wordsUnion labour, as a protest against the employment of non-unionists, exploded dynamite under and partly demolished a new steel bridge on the Newhaven to ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. A. He[?]ier, of this town, who had his leg fractured last Sunday while boxing, has a unique record for accidents. He is but 25 years of age, and has already experienced 19 ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Imperial South African Association has resolved, at the instance of Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. (Conservative), to favour the confederation of the South African colonies ...
Article : 53 wordsAbyssinia and Italy have signed a contention leaving the Lugh district, bordering on the Juba River, to Italy, also conceding other important rights to Italy in ...
Article : 47 wordsYesterday, at the Central Police Court, before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., Jane Balkie, 42, a married woman, was charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered ...
Article : 87 wordsEight of the guardians and two exguardians of Mile End have been charged with conspiracy, in that they, ignoring the warnings and protests of the auditor, aided ...
Article : 240 wordsThree hundred Mohmands seized the water supply of Umrakilli. Heavy fighting followed, leading to many casualties among the enemy. The British lost 25 ...
Article : 62 wordsA belief has gained ground at Bendigo that the report submitted by Dr. Ernest Jones as to the state of the mind of Manning, condemned for murder, is that Manning is a ...
Article : 441 wordsEighty-two thousand school children of Vienna accorded an ovation to the Emperor Francis-Joseph, at Shoenbrunn Castle yestsrday, in celebration of the ...
Article : 42 wordsIn reply to a question by Mr. Bowden (N.S.W.), in the House of Representatives today, regarding disputed territory in Papua, the Prime Minister said the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Morning Post" reports that Russia has sold to Japan that portion of the Manchurian railway from Kwangkhantse to Harbin. ...
Article : 98 wordsOwing to pressure exercised by Germany, the Porte has sanctioned the extension by 500 miles of the raliway to Baghdad, including the section through ...
Article : 155 wordsIn yesterday's issue was published an extract from the American "Cricketer," in which it was thought likely that the preliminary tie between Great Britain and America would ...
Article : 259 wordsMr. Hoskins stated this morning that the blast furnace was working very satisfactorily, and turning out p[?]g-tron equal if not superior to the best Scotch pig. Yet they ...
Article : 124 wordsThe running in the Newmarket Stakes, in which a number of Derby candidates were engaged, has not affected the position of the favourite, Norman III., who ...
Article : 154 wordsAt the wool sales this afternoon there was animated competition for all sorts, and prices were the highest of the series. Americans are operating for best New ...
Article : 69 wordsA fire broke out at the Post Office block, at Wellington, to-night. Fed by a f[?]erce gale, the flames gutted a considerable portion of the o[?]der part of the building. The telegraphic ...
Article : 60 wordsThe King and the Queen were among the guests of the Earl of Dudley, at din[?]er yesterday. ...
Article : 33 wordsA newspnper, called the "Chinese Public Opinion," written in English, though managed by Chinese, has appeared in Peking. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe stranded Norwegian steamer Fido, which was Wrocked in July last on the in[?] danger re[?] a[?]ast of the Fingal lighthouse, totally, disappeared this morning. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe secretary of the A.M.A. has received a telegram warning miners not to go to West Wyalong on account of the local [?]lemployed. ...
Article : 31 wordsAb[?]t three feet of water have found its way in[?] the freezing chamber of the Ionic, and the meat has to be discharged. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 May 1908, Page 13
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