A number of carriages left the rails this morning at Penrith, and traffic was held up for a considerable time. No damage was done. ...
Article : 40 wordsII is semi-officially announced that no opinion can be expressed whether a definite Franco-German agreement is impending. "La Chronique," which is credited with ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the House of Lords the debate on the [?] submitted by the House of Commons for rejecting the amendments of the Veto Bill made by the House of Lords was opened. ...
Article : 180 wordsSir H. Dalziel, Liberal member for Kircaldy Burghs, will introduce his Scottish Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Hon. H. Willis, representative of the Upper Hunter; addressed a large and representative meeting in the School of Arts on Wednesday, upon "The Political Situation. ...
Article : 739 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsA carter named John Carroll, was backing a pair of horses into a lorry when he was struck in the stomach by the pole of the waggon, sustaining a ruptured liver and other internal ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Government has reintroduced in the Coal Alines Bill in amended form, the clause relative to the provision of baths for miners. It stipulates that the owners shall provide ...
Article : 110 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Paris that negotiations have not yet led to any basis for final agreement. Germany has abandoned its claim to the ...
Article : 100 wordsSir Joseph Carruthers, referring to the political situation, says it he were Premick he would resign to-morrow, as he considered the circumstances warranted an appeal to the ...
Article : 72 wordsAll the thoroughfares leading to the docks are picketed. Carmen picketing the Goswell-road unharnessed the horses from several of ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Government amendments to the Parliament Bill make it clear that Provisional Order Bills are not included in the term "public bills. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe High Court reversed the judgment in the sulphide ore cases, and respondents were ordered to pay the costs of the appeal. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere is some uncertainty as to whether Lord Halsbury's followers (the irreconcilables) will be able to outvote the Government. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe secretary of the Journeymen Felt Hatters, giving evidence before the Labour Commission, stated that ten half-finished journeymen were required to pay £10 each to join the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe M.C.C. has invited F. E. Woolley (Kent). C. P. Mead (Hampshire), and Geo. Gunn (Notts), to join the team to tour Australia; and it is rumoured that J. W. ...
Article : 187 wordsDuring a fog the British steamer Silverton collided with the French steamer Emir near Tarifa, on the extreme south coast of Spain. The Emir foundered. Twenty-four ...
Article : 115 wordsLord Morley, replying to Lord Lansdowne, said that if the Parliament Bill were defeated, a sufficient number of Peers would be created to guard against a future ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Marine Court has suspended the certificate of Captain Davis, of the steamer Peterborough, for three months, in connection with the recent stranding of that vessel. ...
Article : 30 wordsWilliam Bryant pleaded guilty at the sessions to a charge of bigamy. Accused said he lived with his first wife for 19 years, when she left him. He afterwards found she was ...
Article : 91 wordsThe House of Lords division on the Parliamentary Bill abolishing the House of Lords' veto resulted in a Government majority of 17. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe fire at the Carlton Hotel, originated in the kitchen lift, and quickly involved the three upper floors and the roof of the building. The outbreak occurred at dinner time, and ...
Article : 297 wordsMr. George Perkins, a director of the United States Steel Corporation, who was threatened with imprisonment for contempt for refusing to answer certain ...
Article : 114 wordsThe situation at Liverpool is threatening, Pickets prevent goods leaving the docks and railway depots, and in consequence the goos service of the district is held up. The ...
Article : 100 wordsJames Conway was fined £30, in default four months' hard labour, for sly grog-selling in a house in York-place. Constable O'Connor said that while he was on the premises fully ...
Article : 47 wordsThe pooling agreement between the British and German steamship lines trading to South Africa has terminated, and negotiations for its renewal have so far proved ...
Article : 49 wordsOwing to the strong weather and heavy seas ruling on the Queensland and New South Wales coast, it is understood that the Adelaide Company's steamer Mintaro, which ...
Article : 84 wordsThe carmen of the Great Western, Great Northern Midland railways, and South-eastern railways, are supporting the strike, and the last-named is unable to ...
Article : 195 wordsE. Heaton started from Dover to swini across the English Channel, but was compelled to abandon the attempt when within five miles of Cape Grisnez. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe official report states that the temperature was 99 degrees in the shade. A mirage appeared on the Bois de Bonlogne, and promenaders there saw a "lake" receding ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the second innings of the match at Canterbury, Hampshire v. Kent, C. B. Fry made 112. ...
Article : 19 wordsYesterday the Colonial Sugar, Refining Company, Ltd., announced a further advance of £1 per ton in the price of sugar. This step has ben taken consequent upon the ...
Article : 107 wordsA drought, with intense heat, is seriously affecting the corn and wheat-growing areas, and according to the report of the Department of Agriculture, a shortage in the yield ...
Article : 40 wordsDuring the debate on the second reading of the Finance Bill in the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Lloyd-George, stated that 800,000 properties had ...
Article : 42 wordsThe weather information received at 9 a.m. to-day at the West Maitland Telegraph Station reported fine weather all round. ...
Article : 26 wordsGeneral Sir John French, Inspector-General of the Home Forces, has been gazetted Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Douglas, General ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is stated that the Government has refused the request of the Irish members (Nationalists), to exempt Ireland from the payment of members, but the nationalists have ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. George von L. Meyer, Secretary of the United States Navy, is at present on a visit to England, making inquiries with a view to reducing the expenses of the United States ...
Article : 215 wordsThere were no fresh developments this morning in regard to the Transport Workers' trouble. Everything will hinge upon the result of the conference at Brisbane this ...
Article : 165 wordsThe employers are willing to recognise the Stevedores' Union, and to concede their demands. The conference arranged by Mr. G. R. ...
Article : 61 wordsNew South Wales.—Generally fine, but unsettled, showery and thundery weather is setting in in the far west, with northerly winds and fogs at night on the central coast. ...
Article : 36 wordsM. Vedrines flow 808 kilometres, winning the Michelin Cup. ...
Article : 13 wordsIt now transpires that the Englishman who was recently arrested for espionage is Mr. Bertrand Stewart, a member of the firm of Markby, Stewart, & Co., well-known ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Premier of West Australia, Mr. Wilson, responding to the toast of "The State Parliament" at the annual dinner of the Perth Chamber of Commerce, referred to the fact that at ...
Article : 176 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. John Gates, the well-known American millionaire. Deceased was the inventor of barbed wire for fencing. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe London General Omnibus Company has withdrawn one-third of its omnibuses from service owing to the shortage of petrol only three days' supply remaining. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Australian cadets' camp has been shifted from Crystal Palace, London, to Brighton. ...
Article : 15 wordsOne hundred workmen at the Port Sunlight mills have struck work for higher wages. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. H. W. Bottomley, proprietor of the "John Bull" newspaper, announces a settlement of the judgment Mr. Curtis obtained for £50,000, the terms of which are not ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. J. Keir Hardie, M.P., has published a cablegram from the Anti-Militarists' Council of Christchurch, New Zealand, to the effect that a number of New Zealand youths, ...
Article : 67 wordsHoward, Smith, and Co.'s steamer Gabo, which is under charter to the A.U.S.N. Co., arrived here this morning from Brisbane with a general cargo, including 60 tons of ...
Article : 113 wordsAlthough London is in no worse condition, all the Aldershot commands are moving towards London forthwith, the cavalry, dragoons, and hussars by road, and the infantry by rail ...
Article : 62 wordsW. Fogwell is training well, and rowing the full course almost daily. His weight is 11st. 4lb. E. Barry is in excellent condition, and weighs 11st. 9lb. ...
Article : 31 wordsA serious hitch has occurred in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate in regard to the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, who has been operated on for appendicitis, is now convalescent. ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsSome of the London streets are as quiet as Sundays, commercial vehicular traffic having ceased. Extra contingents of police have been ...
Article : 78 wordsPrince Henry of Prussia, while motoring, swerved in order to avoid another car, and his own machine was dashed against a tree. ...
Article : 69 wordsMajor Buckley will represent Australia at the army manoeuvres in September. ...
Article : 14 wordsA fire, resulting in serious injury to two officers, occurred early this morning in the officers' quarters of the collier Wallarah, while lying at Catherine Hill Bay. Chief Officer ...
Article : 179 wordsTwenty-two thousand metal workers have been locked out in Lepzig and the Thuringian Forest towns. Anxiety is felt in case the trouble should extend to Berlin. ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. G. R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade, has arranged a settlement between the coalporters and their employers, and an agreement has been signed, giving increased wages ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Supplementary Estimates, which were tabled in the House of Commons, contain an item of £252,000 for the payment of members, and £2000 towards the cost ...
Article : 101 wordsSixteen deaths from cholera occurred in one night at the Marseilles, Asylum. ...
Article : 28 wordsTwo sailors were executed at the [?] range for stabbing a comrade 43 times at Ajaccio Corsien, in January last, and stealing 1½d. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe conditions at Liverpool are becoming rapidly worse, and detachments of Warwickshires and 200 of the Irish constabulary have arrived. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Pope has had a refreshing sleep, and his temperature is lower. The doctors contemplate a slight operation to the knee. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Franco-Danish arbitration treaty has been signed. ...
Article : 38 wordsLatest accounts state that the Aldershot commands have been ordered to be in readiness, and heavy drafts are already moving from Aldershot to London. ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Fri 11 Aug 1911, Page 5
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