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Advertising : 183 wordsAn the Post Office permits human beings to he despatched by "express letters" two women advocated of woman suffrage, were delivered as "letters" by a telegraph messenger at the house ...
Article : 167 wordsThe nautical inquiry into the loss of the steamer Penguin was opened in New Zealand on Monday. The captain contended that he set a course that made him absolutely safe under normal conditions. ...
Article : 727 wordsA tragedy occurred in the Empire Hotel bar, at the comer of Pitt and Hunter streets, city, a few minutes before 6 o'clock on Friday evening, when a young man, said to be named Thomas ...
Article : 495 wordsThe American Fleet anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on Monday, after an absence of one year two months and six days. Thirty thousand people welcomed the ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the Bombay Medical Congress on Tropical Diseases, Captain Williams, Residency Surgeon at Bushire, in the Persian Gulf, announced that as the result of eight months' treatment he had ...
Article : 57 wordsAbout 9 o'clock on Thursday morning Michael de Lace, on old fisherman, was in his boat, just arriving at his fishing ground, hall-a-mile outside Long Bay Heads. A shark charged the boat, ...
Article : 501 wordsProfessor Heeker, of Potsdam, during observations extending over six years, measured the diurnal oscillations of the solid earth, which he declares are analogous to tides rising and falling ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the Bendigo (Vic.) Court, Mrs. Amelia Murray, of South Yarra, was charged with obtaining £15 from John Hynes, by a false pretence. Charlotte Mary Hynes said her boy Jack, five ...
Article : 465 wordsVisitors to the National Gallery, London, on Wednesday, were startled by a well-dressed man suddenly shooting and killing his woman companion and then committing suicide. The man ...
Article : 66 wordsThe first full and complete story of the gold that was smuggled out of the Transvaal just before the Boer war has just come to light from the diary of Colonel ...
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Advertising : 185 wordsThe minority report of the four Labor Members on the Poor Law Commission is attracting the attention of the Radical Press. The minority recommendations include ...
Article : 81 wordsA stabbing affray occurred in Pacific-Street, Newcastle, on Monday. Shortly after 5 o'clock a Chairman named Ah Cow ran into the police station, and stated that ...
Article : 287 wordsMr. W. J. Little, a partner in the Mackay exploring party, which is working in Papua, interviewed at Thursday Island, stated that they had fairly good luck. Excepting one boy killed ...
Article : 1,087 wordsFifty thousand acres of country in the valleys of the Elbe and the Havel, North Germany, were inundated, and eighty towns and villages under water as the result of floods. Ice-breakers and ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for freland, speaking in the House of Commons in reply to Mr. J. H. Lonsdale (Unionist), said there had been 576 agraian offences in Ireland during 1908, ...
Article : 425 wordsKing- Edward directed that the Cullinan diamond in the Imperial Crown should be detachable for the Queen's use on State occasions. Hence the Queen wore it on the opening of Parliament. ...
Article : 37 wordsA supplementary estimate laid on the table of the House of Commons adds £910,000 to the original estimate of £1,200,000 for old-age pensions for the first quarter of 1969 (the last quarter ...
Article : 42 words"Are you going to revoke, sir ?" asked the lady in the reception office of the hotel. Then she blushed and corrected herself hastily. "I mean-er-that is to ...
Article : 555 wordsSince the recruiting campaign started two weeks, ago, 11,000 men, the number required, have been added to the London Territorial Regiments. ...
Article : 29 wordsA mass meeting at Broken, Hill protested against Tom Mann and his colleagues being tried at Albury. It was contended that the change of venue was a slur on the honesty of Broken Hill jurors. ...
Article : 214 wordsIn the Melbourne Divorce Court on Friday, John Bunyan Flitton, aged 39, of Prahran, draper, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Ethel Flitton, aged 20, on the grounds of misconduct, ...
Article : 245 wordsSamuel Roebuck, a wire manufacturer, late of Brooklyn, and a reputed millionaire, left £500,000 to his daughter, Elizabeth Bird, the wife of a small baker in Northampton. Roebuck, ...
Article : 47 wordsThee sum of £2500 in notes and gold was stolen from the treasury of H.M.S. Indomitable while the warship was anchored at Sheerness. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe London Education Committee propose to spend nearly £l,O0O,O0O during the ensuing 1b months on elementary and secondary schools. The London School Board had adopted the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Wade), in opening the Tamworth Show on Wednesday, said the Government realised that if it wanted to have a country in the future that would be capable of securing more ...
Article : 436 wordsReuter's correspondent, at Santiago, Chill, telegraphs that investigations into the death of a porter at the German Legation, and into the charge of misappropriation against the Chancellor, ...
Article : 136 wordsIn the Melbourne Criminal Court on Friday, Mr. Justice Cussen ordered two men to be flogged. Patrick M. Lynch had been found guilty of an assault upon a constable, occasioning actual bodily ...
Article : 185 wordsWilliam Hall Verinder, secretary of the Penge Building Society (Eng.) has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment. His defalcations amounted to £20,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the Adelside Criminal Court, Pieter Gerardus Berahard was charged with the larceny of £16, the property of the Postmaster-General. According to the evidence for the prosecution defendant was ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Supreme Court of the United States has upheld a line of £21,00O imposed on the New York Central Railway Company for granting rebates to the American Refining Company. ...
Article : 49 wordsE. G. Alloy, a seven-year-old boy, of Russian parentage, born in America, and living in Houston, has been discovered to be a human storage battery of electricity, ...
Article : 263 wordsA train at Riobamba, Ecuador, became derailed, and was hurled from a ciff 100ft. high. Twenty-five people were killed, and 40 others were injured. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe village of Currawarna, about 22 miles from Wagga, has become famous for large codfish that have been taken from the Murrumbidgee River lately. A few weeks ago a fish weighing 871b ...
Article : 112 wordsLord Chelmsford will enter upon his duties as Governor of New South Wales early in June. The Acting Chief Justice will act as Deputy-Governor on the departure of Sir Harry Rawson on ...
Article : 41 wordsSir John Hay, I.L.D., of Coolangatta, died at 2 p.m. on Friday, at Crow's Nest, North Sydney, from heart failure. Sir John Hay was born at Coolangatta, on the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe steamer Presidents Roca, while running between Southern Argentina and Buenos Ayres, caught fire and sank. Forty people were drowned, and 360 saved. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Harkness, chairman of the Wellington (New Zealand) Chamber of Commerce, in his annual address, said the revival in the price of wool the steady market for frozen meat, and the phenomenal ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Argentine Republic has consented to permit the entry of Australian live stock, provided the Commonwealth gives certain assurances regarding the freedom of the stock from disease. ...
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Advertising : 211 wordsMr. Rato, Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain, interviewed in London, emphasised the excellent relations of Japan with all Powers and her honest love of peace. ...
Article : 143 wordsH.M.S. Bellerophon, 18,000 tons, has been commissioned for service 20 months after her keel was laid at Portsmouth. Mrs McKenna, wife of the First Lord of ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Drysdale, formerly factor of the Dalmeny estate, is suing the Earl of Rosebery for £10,000 damages for alleged libel. ...
Article : 25 wordsMilan detectives have arrested four ringlcaders of a well-known International gang, operating chiefly in London and New York. Forged notes and cheques valued at many thousands of pounds ...
Article : 42 wordsThe French Press in utilising the German Emperor's telegram to Prince Radolin, German Ambassador at Paris, warmly thanking him for concluding with France the treaty regarding Morocco, ...
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Advertising : 314 wordsA report was received by the Newcastle police on Tuesday that a man named Rennex, a miner, living at Back Creek, Miami, had been found dead in a room in house. It was stated ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Chief Protector of Aboriginals has received a report concerning the experience of an aboriginal at Ayr. The report states that last week three, aboriginals were fishing in Klondyke Lagoon. One ...
Article : 123 wordsThe authorities in England are determined that temperance drinks, at any rate, shall not be easy to obtain in London after 10 p.m., and a campaign of ...
Article : 147 wordsThere is much correspondence in recent English newspapers respecting disloyal Indian natives living and studying in Europe. A circular has just reached the Sikh Regiments at Lahore from ...
Article : 78 wordsDuncan McIntyre [?] in the employ of Younghushared, [?] was remanded in the [?] charge of the forgery of a telegraps, by[?] ...
Article : 87 wordsA railway accident happened at one o'clock on Wednesday morning at Oodla Wirra (S.A.), 15 miles from Peterburg, on the Broken Hill line. The guard, Schomburgh, aged 53, was run over ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Rev. Mr.Whitten, Methodist minister, of Marranders is greatly in demand owing to his success with the divining rod in finding water. Round Barelian and elsewhere has largely ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 28 Feb 1909, Page 12
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