Fine weather was experienced yesterday when the a[?]tumn meeting of the Victoria Racing Club was continued at Flemington. The atmoshpere was, however, muggy, and ...
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Article : 389 wordsSensational evidence has been given at the trial which is taking place at Madrid of three men on a criminal charge arising out of the claim of Mr. Ernest ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. James Davies, secretary of the Commercial Travellers' Association, hired a Brown 22[?]h.p. motor-care yesterday from the Shields Motor Co. for a run to Black ...
Article : 311 wordsThe by-election for the representation of Central Glasgow in the House of Commons was held yesterday, the seat having been rendered vacant by the death of Sir ...
Article : 299 wordsAn important announcement has been made in connection with the movement for promoting enlistment in the territorial army. The Alliance Assurance Company, ...
Article : 136 wordsYesterday was by far the most oppressively hot day Melbourne has experienced this summer. Yet it was far from having the highest temperature. The thermometer ...
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Article : 97 wordsCOBRAM, Wednesday.—A very severe thunderstorm, accompained by vivid lightning, occurred at Barooga last night. Mr. John Toohey, farmer, had a draught horse ...
Article : 119 wordsDuring the storm which swept across Brunswick about 5 p.m. yesterday, a large hoarding abutting on Sydney-road, next to the Retreat Hotel, was blown down, and ...
Article : 73 wordsBACCHUS MARSH Wednesday.—A terrifie thunderstorm broke over bacchus Marsh at half-past 6 o'clock this evening. An inch of rain fell in 15 minutes. The ...
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Article : 143 wordsA message received by "The Times" from its Vienna correspondent indicates that Austria is firmly resolved not to be led by Servian clamour into agreeing to any ...
Article : 142 wordsA cable message from our London correspondent announced that the Queen, who has been indisposed since the Royal visit to Berlin last month, is suffering from a severe ...
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Article : 77 wordsA reported attempt by the natives of the Cook Islands (which are administered by the New Zealand Government) to haul down the British flag was the subject of a ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom is meeting for the last time before its members visit Australia to be present at the Imperial ...
Article : 112 wordsRear Admiral Sperry, who was in command of the United States battleship squadron during the latter part of its memorable voyage round the world, has ...
Article : 75 wordsBURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. Deakingl, accompanied by Senator Keating, returned to Burnie this evening, and left by the [?]ah for Melbourne at night. ...
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Article : 1,219 wordsA conference of the Chambers of Commerce of Great Britain has lately had under consideration the tariff proposals recommended by a committee of the French ...
Article : 105 wordsThe future of Basutoland under South African Union was referred to yesterday by Lord Selborne, British High Commissioner for South Africa, who reviewed 20,000 ...
Article : 80 wordsThe charge against Mr. John Burns (President of the Local Government Board) of want of sympathy in the administration of the Unemployed Workmen Act, was ...
Article : 164 wordsTwenty ancient and valuable books have been stolen from the splendid law library of Lincoln's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court in London which has the privilege ...
Article : 64 wordsWhen the hearing of the evidence in the charge of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the affairs of the Joint Stock Trust and Finance Corporation, brought ...
Article : 120 wordsAn announcement, which means much for the Transvaal has just been made by the Colonial Secretary (Mr. J. C. Smuts). Mr. Smuts states that steel of the highest ...
Article : 117 wordsAn avalanche in the Austrian Tyrol, near the Brenner Pass, which leads into Italy, completely overwhelmed six officers and 25 men forming an Austrian detachment. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe conviction of Mr. J. P. Farrell, Nationalist member for North Longford, in December last, on a charge of publishing intimidating notices of the United Irish ...
Article : 122 wordsThe committee at Rome entrusted with the disbursement of the central fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Messina earthquake reports that to date the sum ...
Article : 128 wordsIn spite of the vigilance of the frontier guardsmen, a gang of desperate raiders succeeded in getting across the hills from the Khost Valley, in Afghanistan, to as far ...
Article : 97 wordsPrivate firms have joined the nations in the contest to secure supremacy within their borders in the knowledge and manufacture of air-ships. ...
Article : 63 wordsNo hope is entertained by the officials of the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau of any change in the weather for at least two days. Melbourne has been for some ...
Article : 338 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. G. H. Reid addressed a meeting in a vestibule of the Town-hall to-night in connection with the British Empire League on questions of ...
Article : 274 wordsWireless telegraphy is now being used on travelling railway trains. The fast through express trains from New York to Chicago (700 miles) have been ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. H. D. M'Intosh, the Sydney promoter of the Burns-Johnson boxing championship contest, has sold the French rights of the cinematograph pictures for £5,000. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe International Opium Commission, convened by the United States to deal with the opium problem in the East, has concluded its sittings at Shanghai. In ...
Article : 196 wordsThe management announces that extra laws of reserved chairs in the guinea and half-guinea sections of the hall will be opened this morning. The sale of the 5/ ...
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Article : 27 wordsThe second round in the Talbot Cup tournament will be played to-morrow between Caramut B and Camperdown A at 2 o'clock and between Colac and Caramut A at a ...
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Article : 335 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—In an action decided in the County Court to-day the jury practically at Judge Box's direction brought in a verd[?]t for one sh[?] damages ...
Article : 311 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver per ounce standard is 23 5-16d., which is a fall since the previous day of l-16d. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsThe lowest and highest range of values on the Stock Exchange yesterday in Broken Hill Proprietary shares was 36/3-37/6. ...
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Article : 135 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—The White Star liner Ru[?]c, after a stay in port of three days, was despatched for London and Liverpool to-day. The vessel is very deeply laden, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 4 Mar 1909, Page 5
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