With an impish humour the weather kept racegoers on tenterhooks up till the last moment yesterday. The morning broke dour and forbidding, and enrly in the forenoon ...
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Article : 966 wordsUnder the auspices of the Women's Political Education League, Mr. Campbell Carmichael, M.L.A. for Leichhardt, delivered an address last night at the Sydney School of ...
Article : 299 wordsReuter's correspondent at Calcutta telegraphs that Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P. (socialist), publishes in the local newspapers telegrams exchanged with the "Daily ...
Article : 194 wordsAn apparently semi-officially inspired article in the "Cologne Gazette" strenuously protests against the attempts of French newspapers to show that Germany ...
Article : 98 wordsThe First Committee of the International Conference at The Hague, by 30 votes to 6, adopted the principle of obligatory arbitration on specific subjects ...
Article : 156 wordsThe German National Liberal Congress at Wiesbaden, at its sitting on Saturday, recommended a further strengthening of the fleet. The Congress urged that new ...
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Article : 495 wordsAt a meeting of the Midland Merchants and Traders' Association it was urged that an effective remedy for the threatened railway crisis would be the intervention of ...
Article : 69 wordsA new Ausgleich between Austria and Hungary has been arranged. The agreement settles the economic relations between the two countries for ten years, and ...
Article : 199 wordsIf the weather was not perfect, the pageant itself was all that could be desired. Over fifty sturdy guilds footed it beneath blazoned banners and between vehicles ...
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Article : 433 wordsA conference at Manchester of the various railway trade unions, representing 138,000 workers, approved of the principle of federation, and then adjourned to ...
Article : 48 wordsDuring the trip of the British airship Nulli Secundus on Saturday the machine was manoeuvred in the vicinity of Buckingham Palace, being a rehearsal of a visit ...
Article : 121 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" infers from the speech of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Prime Minister, at Edinburgh, that a dissolution will not occur in 1908 unless ...
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Article : 175 wordsThe steam whaler Nimrod, the vessel of the Antarctic expedition, in command of Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton, has arrived at Capetown. ...
Article : 50 wordsRobert Thomas Wood, an artist, has been arrested on a charge of having wilfully murdered Emily Dimmock, alias Shaw, at Camden Town on September 10. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe surprising feature in the holiday attendance at the various places of amusement was not the universal crowding at night, when a rich harvest was confidently ...
Article : 241 wordsMr. John Redmond, leader of the Nationalists, speaking at Portumna, said that while Nationalists were working to obtain redress of material grievances the ...
Article : 49 wordsJapan is unfavourable to a formal revision of the treaty with Canada for the checking of the entrance of Japanese into Canada, and prefers administratively to ...
Article : 44 wordsA Chinaman known as Ah Guy, a gardener at the top of Bingara, to-day walked to Barraba and went to Pong Suey's garden for the purpose of buying two bags of potatoes. ...
Article : 275 wordsOwing to the passive resistance of Indians in the Transvaal to the Act providing for the registration of all Asiatics, the colonial Government notifies that after ...
Article : 72 wordsEnormous coalfields have been discovered in the Knysna territory, Cape Colony. Knysna territory is situated on the south coast of Cape Colony, and is watered by a ...
Article : 63 wordsAbdul Aziz, the Sultan of Morocco, who recently sent his Minister of Finance to Paris with the royal jeweis to negotiate a loan, is now asking for accommodation ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Mayer of Brisbane extended a welcome on behalf of the citizens to the members of the British riffc team this morning. Colonel Lyster, in proposing the health of ...
Article : 219 wordsThe opening of Wonderland City, which had been postponed owing to unfavourable weather on Saturday evening, took place yesterday. The early morning, with its rain ...
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Article : 1,636 wordsMany ruffians have been arrested at Calcutta on a charge of looting during the riots. An inquiry has been opened into the allegation that a number of native ...
Article : 40 wordsPrince Ranjitsinhji, Jam of Nawanagar, is coming to England to recuperate after an attack of enteric fever. BILLIARDS. ...
Article : 246 wordsDuring the last eight months 216,805 immigrants arrived in Canada, being 50,066 over the corresponding period last year. ...
Article : 38 wordsSenator Reating rectured at a meeting of the St. Kilda branch of the A.N.A. to-night on "Federation." He said he had noticed that a cable message stated that during eight ...
Article : 194 wordsT. Burns, the American champion, has been matched to box Gunner Moir for the championship of the world and £500 a side in London on November 25. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Victorian Cricket Association to-night docided to ask the Melhourne Cricket Club to accept the following terms for the use of their ground for the four matches against the ...
Article : 122 wordsA request was recently made by the Chinese residents of Melbourne that their representatives should be heard at the Bar of the House when the Legislative Assembly was ...
Article : 70 wordsThe death is announced of Lord Brampton, better known as Mr. Justice Hawkins, aged 90 years. He was conscious to the Bud. ...
Article : 296 wordsFour aboriginals took shelter from the rain on Friday afternoon in the kitchen of an unoccupied house. They had some flour, and declded to make a damper. They espied a tin ...
Article : 77 wordsOn Saturday night it was rumoured that at the miners' delegate meeting, held in the afternoon, it was resolved: "That the secretary write to the Lithgow Coal Association ...
Article : 190 wordsAt the Police Court to-day William Riley, on remand from Glen Innos, was charged with unlawfully burning Coongoola woolshed on November 10, 1894. ...
Article : 158 wordsOwing to the unfavourable weather during the early portion of yesterday, the number of people who patronised the excursions made available by the railway authorities was ...
Article : 91 wordsIn all the Kilmore churches yesterday sympathetic references were made to the recent railway smash at Moranding. The Rev. J. M'Intyre, at the Presbyterian ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Government to-day decided not to entertain the request made by E. M. Pascoe, who asked for compensation for the loss of £1630 worth of gold stolen from the Mint in ...
Article : 45 wordsThere was a luncheon for officials and specially-invited visitors during an interval between the sports programme, at which Mr. John D. Travers, the president of the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 Oct 1907, Page 7
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