The Dunlop dispatch cycle ride from Adelaide to Sydney was commenced on Thursday night. The first relay (C. Boulderstone and C. Richard, latter carrying the dispatch) left Adelaide ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 142 wordsThe camp duties at Liverpool this morning partook of the character, described among soldiers as fatigue. In ordinary English it would be denominated as cleaning up and settling ...
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Advertising : 457 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The Board of Trade Returns state that during March the imports into the United Kingdom show a decrease in value of £81,316, and exports of £1,006,087, and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe wonderful invention of Dr. C. M. Jordan, the great Aural Specialist, has revived hope in the hearts of the legion of unfortunate sufferers who for years past have been martyrs to ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Home Office has arranged for physical drill and gymnastics to be given daily to prisoners between the age of 16 and 21 years. Special instruction in useful industries will also ...
Article : 38 wordsThe steamer Hero, from Bristol, came into collision with the destroyer Blackwater, 550 tons, last night off Dungeness, and sank her. The crew of the destroyer was saved. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe body of the man found drowned at Jibbon Head, Port Hacking, on Thursday morning, has been identified as that of George Lee, 57, a contractor, who had resided with his ...
Article : 311 wordsA complaint by the Department of Public Instruction concerning a nuisance caused by the ventilating shaft in the vicinity of the For-est Lodge Superior Public School was ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, announced in the House of Commons the approaching abolition of the pauper disqualification of persons otherwise ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Army Annual Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons on Wednesday night. The Bill contains clauses enabling colonial Legislatures to apply the Army Act to local ...
Article : 76 wordsIn referring to the case in which the proprietor of a small restaurant at New Crossroad, London, was fined for selling Australian wine as Burgundy, Mr. J. W. Taverner, ...
Article : 85 wordsOfficials of the Young Men's Christian Association of Sydney are having an extremely busy time, in meeting representatives from the other States, who have come over to take part in ...
Article : 136 wordsA discursive debate preceded the adjournment of Parliament over Easter till April 19. Captain E. C. Pretymann (Conservative formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the ...
Article : 160 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Chapman-Alexander mission, held at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, the Rev. P. J. Stephen presiding, the proposed arrangements for a mission by Dr. Chapman and ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Council of the Royal Colonial Institute has unanimously passed a resolution expressing its warm admiration at the generous offers of the oversea Dominions to co-operate with the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsThe troops now in camp at Middle Head were engaged in fatigue duties this morning. They were conveyed by steamer to Balmoral on the previous evening, and the final arrangements ...
Article : 528 wordsThe London wheat market is very strong. May wheat in Chicago touched 1 dollar 253/4 cents. There was a sharp corresponding advance in New York. ...
Article : 230 wordsDiscussing Mr. Deakin's speech, the Federal Attorney-General, said:—"We think that this amendment of the Constitution, referring to new Protection, should go the length of ...
Article : 67 wordsThe main shaft at the Napoleon Reef Mine has been sunk a further depth of 50ft, making the total depth about 240ft. The reef has improved in thickness all the way down, and is ...
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Advertising : 112 wordsAt last meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board, an application was received from Alderman H. Green for an extension of the sewerage system in the vicinity of Long Bay and ...
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Advertising : 447 words"I'm tickled all over. I've made a sale!" exclaimed James White, a tall, good-looking young man, as be approached in Bathurst-street, Sydney, on April 2, a visitor from ...
Article : 361 wordsA large meeting was held in the Windsor School of Arts, under the auspices of the Warrigamba-Nepean Conversion and Irrigation Association, the Mayor presiding, regarding the ...
Article : 133 wordsThomas Adams, 28. a laborer, was fishing in the Harbor on Thursday night, when he was stung by a catfish. Adams, who resides at 56 Bettington-street, Miller's Point. hastened to ...
Article : 65 wordsMessrs. Cornford Brothers, at Sofala, put through a small crushing of 8 tons from the south slope, which averaged over loz to the ton. They are putting through the battery ...
Article : 88 wordsJohn Flannagan, 55, fell off a balcony at his residence, in Riley-street, Surry Hills, this morning. He was talking to a girl in an adjoining yard, when he lost his balance, and ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Nemingha Dredging Company's dredge at Happy Valley has been closed down for the past fortnight owing to the poorness of the wash. Quite a stir in mining matters has ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Goobong Shire Council has decided t ask the Government to undertake the survey and resumption of the roads of access to the Trundle-Tullamore Railway (writes our ...
Article : 145 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Gunner Coghill, of the Permanent Artillery, stationed at Victoria Barracks, is supposed to have shot himself with a rifle to-day. He was invalided from the ...
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Advertising : 128 wordsNo. 1 Company of the Australian Garrison Artillery, as usual, is quartered at South Head, and it was not surprising this morning to find that there was a strong muster. This ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Fri 9 Apr 1909, Page 5
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