The following is the result of the election of a member of the House of Commence for Bermondsey:— Dumphreys 4278 ...
Article : 100 wordsThe total annual rent paid by the Commonwealth for premises in the various states is £31,085. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Belgian Colonial Minister has outlined the Congo reforms. He says that between July, 1910, and July, 1912, freedom of trade will be established in the ...
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Advertising : 1,001 wordsArrangement have been made by which at least £1,215,000 will be made available during the current year for railway development. A large portion ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the Mansion House Field-Marshal Earl Roberts Announced the results of the Roberts Imperial Trophy Competition as follows:— ...
Article : 108 wordsMrs. Braham has been re-elected president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania. After a short rest and taking the cures ...
Article : 682 wordsThe State Ministry intend to have the Boxing Bill restored to the notice paper of the Legislative Assembly by, resolution. ...
Article : 25 wordsA balloon, which was being inflated with hot air in Prince Alfred Park to- day, caught fire. It had to be released, and floated to Redfern. There it ...
Article : 54 words"Bird Day" in schools, which is to be an annual event, was observed to-day throughout the state schools of Victoria. The ornithologists connected with the ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the House of Commons the First Lord of the Admiralty, in reply to Mr. Renwick (C.), admitted that the con- tractors had lost the confidential ...
Article : 63 wordsThe profits of the Colonial Sugar Company for the half-year amounted to £168,880. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent was declared. ...
Article : 33 wordsMrs. Chap and Miss Nielans, members of the Women's Freedom League, entered two polling-booths, and emptied bottles of corrosive fluid into the ballot-boxes, ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Natal Assembly has refused to pass the bill providing for compulsory arbitration in labour disputes. After a lively debate the second ...
Article : 33 wordsGeo. Harris, the life sentence prisoner who escaped from the Parramatta asylum yesterday, is still at large. The authorities of the institution say Harris ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Hunt, the Government Meteorologist, has written to the daylight saving committee stating that unless the Day-light Saving. Bill was made to apply to ...
Article : 69 wordsPremier Merriman in the Cape Assembly announced that he had asked Lord Crewe to publish the deliberations of the Imperial Defence Conference. He added ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. W. T. Stead opened a bureau for "Snook Julia" to enable people to communicate with the departed. Mr. Stead reports remarkable ...
Article : 67 wordsExemplary punishment was meted out to an opium importer to-day. A fish hawker named. Henry Clay was seen leaving the steamer Taiyuan, and on ...
Article : 60 wordsApplication has been made by the various colliery owners and shipping companies, who are said to be connected with a trade combine, to the injury of the ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Rockefeller has given 1,000,000dol. (£200,000) to the commission of doctors which is investigating the hookworm disease prevalent in the rural districts ...
Article : 58 wordsForty-four out of the 114 members of the Folkething support the Zahle Cabinet, which is Radical. Ministers decline to wear Court dress or use the title ...
Article : 53 wordsDetails of the massacre of a native wife, two children, two labour boys, and a female servant of Joseph Binskin, a planter, at Bagga, Western Solomons, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe King's prize was won to-day by J. H. Williams, of the Melbourne Club. The 75 men shot as though their lives depended upon every, cartridge, and ...
Article : 698 wordsIt is stated that a suffragette in the Strangeways Gaol, in Manchester, barricaded her cell with a plank and a bed-stead. ...
Article : 102 wordsWhile Mr. J. Keir-Hardie was entering a tramcar at Bermondsey, his watch was stolen by a pickpocket. The timepiece was a valuable one, and ...
Article : 49 wordsNews is to hand from Glasgow that the steamer Mineric has been launched. The vessel is intended for the San Francisco-Australasian mail service. ...
Article : 28 wordsNews of another outrage by the natives of German New Guinea has reached Sydney. A well-known resident named Dammkohler, and a small party ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Russians mail steamer Rousso collided with a Roumanian vessel near Galata, on the Danube. The latter vessel sank, and her crew of 21 were drowned. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Astronomical Society reports on the recent observations of Mars. It says that a gloomy yellow veil en- shrouds immense tracts, obliterating the ...
Article : 61 wordsH.M.S. Indefatigable was launched at Devonport, and christened With Australian win. Her dimensions are secret, but she is the longest warship In the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe two boats which were missing after the wreck of the British steamer Hestia, 3700 tons, in the Bay of Fundy, Canada have been washed ashore, and ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Rattle said during the railway management debate in the Assembly that he had been shocked at hearing that last Sunday a train had left Hobart for ...
Article : 178 wordsAllegations of neglect in the treatment of Thomas Pyne in the Sydney hospital on Friday last, were answered by the officer of that institution to the ...
Article : 148 wordsAt Lloyd's the following notifications have been posted— Arrivals.—From Australian ports—Somerset, s. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe returns of the. Bank of England for the past week are:—Coin, £30.927,100; reserves, £21,974,000; proportion of reserves to liabilities, 45.80 ...
Article : 50 wordsLord Gorell is chairman of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the divorce law and its administration, particularly in relation to the poorer classes, ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Devitt has been elected chairman of Lloyd's. Mr. William Lund was also nominated for the position, but with- drew. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bank bills in London is 4¼ per cent. The market rate in Paris is 2¾ per cent., and in Berlin 43/8, ...
Article : 43 wordsTorrential rains have fallen in London and in the south-eastern counties, causing floods in the Medway Valley and the wholesale destruction of crops in ...
Article : 33 wordsLunds, Ltd., the owners of the steamer Waratah, cannot co-ordinate the story told by the captain of the s Harlow with the known position of the Waratah ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 wordsA sensational attempt was made early this morning to rob the Post Office at Hopetoun. The intruder fired almost point blank at the postmaster, Mr. E. J. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe hearing of the libel action, in which the Mutual Life and Citizens' Insurance Company is seeking to recover £20,000 as damages from the National Mutual ...
Article : 259 wordsIf you don't your food does not do you much good. There is no way to maintain, the health and strength of mind and body except by nourishment. ...
Article : 256 wordsLord James of Hereford is chairman of the Royal Commission appointed to consider a system of selecting justices of the peace irrespective of creed or ...
Article : 37 wordsThe bill presented by Mr. Hogg, 'ex Minister of Labour, for the abolition of the flour duty, was negatived by 38 to 21 votes. ...
Article : 28 wordsA German shoemaker left the gas turned on in his shop one night, and upon arriving in the morning struck a match to light it. There was a terrific ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Trades Council Conference has carried a resolution affirming the principle of voluntary defence, and an Australasian navy as proposed by the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe return visit of Mr. E. G. Tempest- Warman, F.G.O.C., F.S.O.C., the well- known oculist-optician, of Hobart and Sydney. will be at the Metropole. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 30 Oct 1909, Page 7
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