Cape Portland (Hobart) advised on Saturday morning:—9 a.m.—Large barque sinking on Foster's Island, near Cape Portland. Later.—Barque struck reef near Foster's Island this morning, and ...
Article : 171 wordsReuter's correspondent at Helena, Montana, United States, states that during a dense snow storm a passenger express and a freight train on the Northern Pacific railway line came into ...
Article : 69 wordsThe tender of E. A. Windsor, of Scone, has been accepted for road works, Scone to Barry, Newcastle district contract. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Daily Mail" declares that 300 corpses awaited interment in the Preobajensky Cemetery, St. Petersburg, yesterday. Many ...
Article : 51 wordsHaving had the benefit and assistance of splendid weather for their self-imposed duties, the ladies who undertook the work of making the annual Hospital Saturday collection in aid of the Maitland ...
Article : 987 wordsThe following weights for the A. J. C. Spring Meeting were declared this morning by the handicapper (Mr. John Daly):— KENSINGTON HANDICAP:—Soultline 10-8, ...
Article : 322 wordsA cottage at Canterbury, owned and occupied by Mr. George Kitt, was destroyed by fire this morning. The inmates had a narrow escape. ...
Article : 27 wordsUnemployed in Manchester to the number of 2000 threatened to raid the Town Hall yesterday. The police gathered in force, and using their batons dispersed the crowd. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe members of the Australian League of Footballers have arrived and all are well. ...
Article : 16 wordsSir Arthur Renwick is seriously ill, and his condition is causing considerable anxiety. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Swedish Olympic Committee have thanked Lord Desborouph for the fair play shown the Swedish competitors at the Olympic Games in London. ...
Article : 28 wordsA man named Alick Flanagan was charged at the police court to-day with maliciously wounding Constable Clinton, who it was alleged had been stabbed three times in the shoulder with a pen ...
Article : 40 words'Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, in the Course of an interview, said that he had been much impressed by the Eucharistic Congress. He was greatly surprised at the ...
Article : 110 wordsLate news from Cape Portland states that four survivors of the wreck have been found, having landed in one of the ship's boats. They are Scandinavians. The lost ship was the Loch ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Customs officials at Calcutta have discovered an attempt on the part of a number of Bengalis to smuggle German guns, bayonets, and swords into the country on ...
Article : 39 wordsA labourer was working on a scaffolding at Mark Foy's new building, Castlereagh-street, to-day, when the structure collapsed, and he fell to the basement, a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Porte has appealed to the Powers to compel Bulgaria to restore, the portion of the Orient railway, which passes through her territory. Bulgaria proposes to ...
Article : 76 wordsA peculiar outrage was perpetrated at Messrs. Pitt and Sons produce store, on Sunday night, when the safe was shattered by dynamite and the whole of the books ...
Article : 88 wordsSeven guardians and ex-guardians of Poplar were charged at the Thames Police Court with conspiring to defraud the board of managers of the Poplar and Stepney Sick ...
Article : 76 wordsA reporter with the Wybia telegraphs from Cape Portland:—"The Marine Board tug Wybia arrived this morning (Sunday) at Foster's Island, where the disaster occurred. The Wybia ...
Article : 637 wordsThe weather information received at 9 a.m. to-day at the West Maitland Telegraph Station reported fine at all stations. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe third German Dreadnought Rheinland has been launched at Stettin. ...
Article : 14 wordsA shooting case occurred in John-street, West Perth, early on Saturday morning. Charles Philips (72) shot his paramour, Annie Lynott, or Ellis, in the chest. The ...
Article : 268 wordsMr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Ladybank, Scotland, and referring to the unemployed trouble. said that thee Army Council had offered ...
Article : 42 wordsNew South Wales: Some showers and fresh southerly winds on the coast, more especially south from Sydney, extending to parts of the southern highlands; fine generally west of the ranges, and ...
Article : 248 wordsA contract, amounting to £360,000, has been placed at Greenock for the construction of five steamers of the Russian volunteer fleet, to be used in its subsidised ...
Article : 76 words'A terrible railway accident has occurred on the Berlin Elevated Electric Railway. A train, disregarding a danger signal at a junction. continued without slackening ...
Article : 167 wordsA London magistrate refused to discharge a abitual criminal, with a view of allowing him a last chance m Australia. Captain Collins, representing the ...
Article : 54 wordsAntwerp wool sales closed yesterday. Prices were animated, and all qualities were firm: 8885 bales of La Plata wool were offered, and 3354 were sold by ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Shah 'has summoned the Mejliss Chamber of Deputies) and the Senate of Persia to meet on November 14. ...
Article : 22 wordsAt the Kurri Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. V. B. Cox, J.P., Alexander Miller was fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been guilty of riotous ...
Article : 86 wordsThe committee of the Manufacturers' Association of Great Britain warmly thanked Mr B. H. Morgan for the excellent results of his mission to Australia. Mr. Morgan ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. W. R. Hearst has published additional letters, showing that eminent politicians of the Republican and Democratic parties tendered Legislative service to the financial corporations upon ...
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Advertising : 325 words'A' new Salvation Army Barracks, erected In Barlon-street, Kurri, was officially opened on Saturday afternoon by Councillor T. L. Johns, in the presence of the local ...
Article : 340 wordsThe Sunday School anniversary of the above church was held yesterday afternoon and evening. The church had been tastefully decorated with flowers, ferns, and ...
Article : 588 words'At Wallsend on Saturday evening Mr. A. A. Ross, who for 13 years had been the surveyor for the Wallsend Coal Company, and who is about to enter into dairying ...
Article : 119 wordsAt East Maitland the collections totalled £24 16s 2d. The ladies who collected were: —Ley's Corner—The Mayoress (Mrs. J. H. F. Waller), president, Misses Sparke, Clarkson, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsThe Australian Rugby football team played Devon yesterday in its first match in England, and won by 3 goals 3 tries to 1 try. ...
Article : 131 wordsAt Largs and surrounding district the collections totalled £9 9s 7d as against £6 18s last year. Hinton contributed £9 8s 3d compared with £10 6s 10d last Hospital Saturday, and the effort at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 266 wordsThe employees of Chant and Co., Ltd., will hold a bicycle race on Wednesday afternoon, over the Rutherford, to Oswald and back course, a distance of 14 miles, ...
Article : 161 wordsThe election of Mr. George Rendwick, Conservative, to fill the vacancy in the representation of Newcastle-on-Tyne in the House of Commons, has had an inspiring ...
Article : 160 wordsEDWARD HIGGENS, PARKINSON, & CO., in conjunction with C. L. Griffith and CO.—At the yards, Muswellbrook, 1050 head of store cattle. ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Mon 28 Sep 1908, Page 3
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