Yesterday is likely to prove memorable in the minds of the present generation of State school children. Under instructions from the Department of Public Instruction, the ...
Article : 1,283 wordsThe bush fires round Dannevirke destroyed many houses and outbuildings. Almost every settler lost grass, and some lost stock. In Gisborne the back country settlers had a ...
Article : 267 wordsWhat old residents describe as the heaviest storm over experienced in Gilgandra broke over the town on Saturday afternoon. Over an [?]ch of rain fell in 18 minutes. ...
Article : 244 wordsThe first State Minister summoned to appear before the "heresy hunt" committee appointed by the Labour Conference, was Mr. Griffith (Minister for Works), who was ...
Article : 531 wordsMahmud Shefket Pasha, the Grand Vizier, has intimatch that the resumption of peace negotiations is imminent with the great Powers alone. ...
Article : 83 wordsQueen Alexandra telegraphed to Captain Scott's mother:—"My whole heart goes out to you and to your poor daughter-in-law in this fearful calamity which has befallen just ...
Article : 40 wordsMany deserters from the Bulgarian army are entering Roumania. The Bulgarian authorities demanded the return of a law student who was wounded at ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Rov. G. T. Griffiths, vicar of Dursley, preached yesterday from Matthew, chapter 10, verse 30 ("He that findeth his life shall loso it; and he that loaeth his life for my ...
Article : 63 wordsMajor-General Greely, the American explorer, who is in Rome, has telegraphed to Lord Curzon, President of the Royal Geographical Society, a high tribute to the Antaretic ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Engineer" states that Germany is building a new type of ship for the navy. It is low in the water, the deck being little more than awash, and it is said the vessel will ...
Article : 149 wordsEnver Bey's force is in a sorry plight. It included the whole of the reserves from Anatelia. The expedition to Charkeut was an utter ...
Article : 92 wordsSpecial church services were held to-day, and references were made from hundreds of pulpits to the death of Captain Scott and his companions. ...
Article : 98 wordsAfter two days of distressing heat a storm of particular severity broke over the town on Friday night. The wind for some time blow with hurricane force and the lightning was ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Albanians in the vicinity of El Bassan [?]ght a Servian patrol in an ambush, and [?]illed 12 out of 18. ...
Article : 27 wordsWhat appoared to have been a case of murder and attempted suicide occurred in a lane off Bouverie-street, Carlton, late to-night. A man named Greenlees while passing along ...
Article : 192 wordsIt is officially stated that 16,000 Montenegrins who commenced an attack on Tarabesh and Barditza, near Skutarl, last Monday were routed, leaving 3000 dead and wounded ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Governor-General, Lord Gladstone, Rear-Admiral H. G. King-Hall, many politicians, and notable people, attended a memorial service held to-day in memory of Captain Scott and ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Delacroix, in a speech yesterday, drew attention to the formidable lead of Germany in aviation. He pointed out that Germany possessed 20 ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Atua has sent a wireless message that a terrific hurricane swept over Tonga on the 9th instant. No lives were lost, but heavy damage to ...
Article : 34 wordsThe wreck of the Turkish ironclad Assar-I-Tewfik at Karaburn was due to a Bulgarian mine. A Bulgarian mining detachment has now ...
Article : 33 wordsThe cabled account of the scientific researches and the results obtained by the members of Captain Scott's expedition were referred to yesterday by Professor David. ...
Article : 1,672 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that Captain Hutchinson, of the steamer Port Lincoln, on which Knight, the Hunslet clergymen, is sailing for Australia, has transmitted by wireless ...
Article : 217 wordsGales in Ashburton and Invercargill did much damage. The latter place experienced a blizzard. Some buildings were partially unroofed, and a four-story woolshed nearing ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Turkish cruiser Hamid[?]h will remain here until the 17th to complete repairs to her machinery. Creek torpedoers are awaiting her outside ...
Article : 31 wordsWhile Mr. Alexander Weir, traveller for Robertson and Co., wholesale jewellers, of Melbourne, was walking along Lydiard-street, Ballarat, last evening, to catch the last train ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) announced to-day that he had received cable messages from Mr. Powers, Federal Crown Solicitor, and Mr. A. B. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe attention of Professor David was drawn last night to the statement recently made to the effect that if the Russian dog boy Dimitri had been allowed to make a ...
Article : 163 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that Roumania has informed the Powers that, in view of the slow and unsatisfactory progress of the negotiations with Bulgaria in connection with ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the last meeting of the local branch of the Political Labour League the delegate to the conference (Mr. J. M'Intyre, president) gave his report. He said that, as usual, the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Conference of Ambassadors has failed to reconcile the views of Austria with those of Russia regarding the boundaries of Albania. It is hoped, nevertheless, that influences ...
Article : 104 wordsReplying to-day to the attack made on him by the chairman of the Pastures Protection Board (Mr. J. J. Sullivan) in connection with his having reported that he thought the vota ...
Article : 283 wordsSir,—Your leader on the proposed appointment of a solicitor to a place on the High Court Bench is timely, and dignified, and while the points which you have raised could ...
Article : 190 wordsThe relief party which set out to rescue Herr Sandlebon, geologist, and two other scientists, constituting a section of the Schroder-Strantz expedition, has returned to ...
Article : 139 wordsAt a conference, in which the Lord Mayor, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes), and the State Attorney-General (Mr. Brown), took part to-day. It was suggested that ...
Article : 89 wordsAt a meeting of the Newcastle Council, held a fortnight ago, it was decided to send a letter to the Minister for Works, approving of the Government's action in ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Czar, in his reply to the autograph letter of the Emperor Francis Joseph, referred to the long-standing friendship between the two countries, but added that the attitude of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Ald. Codes, M.L.A.), referring to a suggestion that the proceeds of the Lord Mayor's Fund should be used for the purposes of a statue, said yesterday ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. R. A. Price, M.L.A., was received by a number of friends, amongst whom were many late Gloucester electors, at Yass this morning, and at the Coolalie railway camp the ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. A. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Warrington, Lancashire, said that the debate in the House of Lords showed that the idea of Home Rule had at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsSince Thursday the men at the ironworks have been engaged in loading steel rails for the Transcontinental Railway, and up to this morning about 400 tons have been sent away. ...
Article : 94 wordsNot long before midnight on Sunday evening thieves audaciously robbed one of Levy Bros[?] jewellery und faneygoods shops, at 62[?] George-street, city; £270 worth of gold and ...
Article : 262 wordsA meeting will be held at the Hotel Australia to-day, at 4 p.m., over which the Lord Mayor, Alderman A. A. Cooks, will preside, to further the success of the concert which is ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. John Scaddon, Premier of Western Australia, in an interview yesteiday, emphasised the progress of his State. He said that they were not only earning interest on the loans ...
Article : 107 wordsThe sale of seats will be entered upon to-day for the Sydney matinee organised by Mr. Hugh J. Ward, on behalf of the J. C. Williamson management, to raise funds for the ...
Article : 477 wordsA middle-aged man. who stated that he recently arrived from Sydney, entered the Royal Hotel, in Collingwood on Saturday. Realising that he had a considerable sum of ...
Article : 173 wordsSir John M'Call, Tasmanian Agent-General, who is touring the West Coast, replying to the toast of his health at a banquet at Zeehan, said he hoped that the result of some ...
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Advertising : 135 wordsThe socialists, as a pretest against the increase in the army estimates, have announced a general strike for April 14. ...
Article : 29 wordsA tragedy, which it is alleged is the sequel to extensive defalcations in connection with the contract of the late Mr. Duncan for the building of the new Melbourne Hospital, was ...
Article : 118 wordsAt about a quarter past 12 o'clock this morning the block watchman discovered that premises 389 Pitt-street, occupied by the N.S.W. Bookstall Company, had been broken into. ...
Article : 141 wordsIn his reply to a deputatton of unemployed which waited upon him, Mr. O'Malley broke forth into strong invective against the State Government on the score of its immigration ...
Article : 196 wordsCharles Alfred Rommers was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for committing burglaries while acting as a constable on night duty in Wellington. The prisoner pleaded that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 wordsAt the district school to-day lessons were given on the disaster to Captain Scott and his party. The school flag was hoisted halfmast. An influential committee has been ...
Article : 104 wordsOn Friday last, near Beemery Station, between Bourke and Brewarrina, a traveller cemped in his tent under a large tree near the roadside. A severe storm, accompanied ...
Article : 69 wordsA sensational bolt, which ended in the overturning of a buggy, and injury to two ladies, occurred on the road between Beveridge and Craigieburn to-day. Mrs. Cassin, of ...
Article : 66 wordsA young woman, formerly of Queensland, a short time ago married a local half-caste named Groom. Yesterday she committed suicide by taking pois[?]. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 18 Feb 1913, Page 9
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