The Savings Bank Department of the Commonwealth Bank opened for business to-day. Members of the Federal Government were the first to open accounts at the Melbourne ...
Article : 164 wordsThe southerly gale which commenced in the city early on Sunday morning, and blew all that day, continued with unabated force yesterday. Shipping along the coast was greatly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsMr. A. R. Cant, speaking for the Colliery Proprietors' Association yesterday, said he had noticed a report in the press that at nine collieries the employees had tendered 14 ...
Article : 1,055 wordsThe negotiations for the settlement of the litigation between the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and the Commonwealth are still proceeding. Naturally, the representatives ...
Article : 369 wordsStar of Scotland, s, 6230 tons, Captain Beck, from London. Tyser and Co., agents. Adelaide, s, 5872 tons, Captain Wellhope, from Hamburg. German-Australian S.S. Company, agents. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 812 wordsFrankby, s, for Brisbane. Werribee, s, for Melbourne, via Newcastle. July 16. Wakatipu, s, for Newcastle. ...
Article : 19 wordsVan Wacrwyck, s, for Batavia, via ports; Wyreema, s, for Melbourne; Wodonga, s, for Cooktown, via ports; Cooloon, s, for Co[?]'s Harbour and Woolgoolga; Moruya, s, for South Coast; Karuah, s, for Port Stephens; ...
Article : 79 wordsWakatipu, s, 1915 tons, for Launceston, via Newcastle. Yarra, s, 2140 tons, for Adelaide, via Newcastle. Werribee, s, 3871 tons, for Melbourne, via Newcastle. ...
Article : 193 wordsAbout 130 branches of the Government Sayings Bank have been removed from the postoffices and established in other buildings, and about 190 new branches have been opened in ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Bryce visited the University to-day, and was presented with an address by Sir John Madden, the Chancellor, on behalf of the University. ...
Article : 388 wordsMimiro, s (Tyser line), sailed from London on Thursday last, for Australian and New Zealand ports. St. Albans, s (E. and A. line), arrived at Kobe on Sunday from Australia. She leaves to-day on the ...
Article : 155 wordsA memorandum has been drawn up by the trade and industry committee of the Royal Colonial Institute for presentation to the Royal Commissioners appointed by the British ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 718 wordsThe E. and A. liner Empire, en route from Kobe, left Brisbane on Sunday, and should reach Sydney to-day. It is expected that the voyage to Melbourne will be continued on Thursday next. ...
Article : 41 wordsInspector Gregory was busy making inquiries throughout the day on behalf of Mr. J. C. Holme, the special commissioner. Mr. John Searle, district secretary of the ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S. Otranto, due at Sydney on Thursday, left Gravesend on June 8. She had moderately cool weather in the Red Sea, and fresh southwesterly winds to Colombo. Moderate SE trades and ...
Article : 128 wordsThe twin-screw passenger steamer Warilda, specially built for the Australian trade (8000 tons), ran her trial trip on the 10th inst in England. The run was most satisfactory, the steamer averaging 15½ knots ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 455 wordsEaster Island, which possesses special interest for its wonderful ruins and colossal stone images, is the greatest mystery in the Pacific, but it is not the only one. Traces ...
Article : 421 wordsThe R.M.S. Otway has for some time been advertised to sail from the N.D.L. wharf, Circular Quay. She will now sail for London on 20th inst from Orient wharf, and the R.M.S. Otranto will sail for Brisbane ...
Article : 59 wordsThe steamer Kapunda, 3097 tons, which passed through Sydney Heads at 12.45 a.m. on Sunday en route to Newcastle to discharge general cargo and take in coal for her next ...
Article : 267 wordsThe committee of management of the New[?]astle District Wheelers' and Shiftmen's [?]nion was hurriedly called together to-night. At the conclusion of the meeting it was ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Adelaide Company's steamer Allinga was found, upon examination at Fremantle, to be undamaged as the result of her seven hours' detention on an uncharted sh[?]al near Onslow. ...
Article : 40 wordsNYDIA BAY.—Dep: July 15, Inga, s, for Newcastle. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. George Fletcher, late foreman boilermaker at the Government Docks, who was tendered a social evening by his fellow-workers at the Balmain Working Men's Institute Hall on Saturday evening, was ...
Article : 230 wordsThe first of the Oceanic Company's steamers to perform the running on the new passenger and mail service for that company between San Francisco and Sydney is more than fulfilling her builders' and owners' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 wordsThis morning Mrs. Elizabeth Carey, 54, a cook, employed at the Royal Oak Hotel, Hindley-street, Adelaide, was in the pantry making preparations for lunch, when under her ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S. Orvieto met with heavy weather running across the Bight, which accounted for her being nine hours late reaching Fremantle. For two or three days a fierce westerly ...
Article : 233 wordsRovic, s, 6583 tons, Port Pirie to U.K. or Continent— concentrates. Delphic, s, 8273 tons, Port Pirie to U.K. or Continent—concentrates. Crosby Hall, s, 4052 tons, Middlesborough to Melbourne—rails; thence Australian ...
Article : 63 wordsTelamon, from Glasgow, via ports. Manapouri, from Apia. Empire, from Kobe, via ports. Moeraki, from Wellington and other N.Z. ports. ...
Article : 48 wordsMessrs. John Sanderson and Co. have received the following telegraphic advice of rain:—Belalie station, Bourke, 13th inst: "Flood falling now; 105 points rain here to-day." ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsWith reference to lifeboat accommodation on steamers, particulars have been received as to the certificate granted by the Board of Trade to the Blue Funnel passenger steamers' live-saving equipment. The Board ...
Article : 150 wordsAt the annual Sunday services of the Loyal Orange Institution in the Brunswick Town Hall yesterday, a motion was carried unanimously, amidst cheers, attacking Archbishop ...
Article : 277 wordsThe following particulars were posted at the G.P.O. yesterday evening:—Camden Haven Heads, bar 9ft, rise 3ft 3in. ...
Article : 23 wordsHerr Kretschmann will direct the annual concert of his pupils at the Town Hall next Saturday night, when there will be a violin ensemble of nearly 50 players. Miss Peterson has composed a "Concerto ...
Article : 79 wordsA remarkable railway smash occurred at Sandgate terminal railway station early this morning. A cleaner was cleaning the tank of an ...
Article : 212 wordsBRISBANE (516m).—Arr: July 14, Eumerella, s, from Rockhampton. July 15, Peregrine, s, and Marloo, s, from Melbourne; Glabo, s, Tarcoola, s, and Mindini; s, from Sydney. Dep: July 14, Empire, s, for ...
Article : 646 wordsMessrs. Charles Council and Co., Scotstoun, launched, on June 5, the screw steamer Indrakuala, of 9000 tons d.w., for the Indra Line, Liverpool. She is a sister ship of the Indrani, launched in April, and has been ...
Article : 152 wordsThe death of Maggie Wilson, an elderly woman, lately residing at 598 Crown-street, Surry Hills, formed the subject of an inquiry at the City Coroner's Court yesterday ...
Article : 144 wordsA meeting of the friends of Mr. Frederick Whitlow, the young character actor from the studio of Mr. A. Bertram Flohm, will be held at 2 p.m. to-day to arrange to tender him a farewell concert. ...
Article : 43 wordsA film showing the opening of the flood gates at Yanco, on Saturday last, by Mr. Griffith, as chairman of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust, was screened last night at the Lyceum Theatre. Despite ...
Article : 101 wordsConsequent upon the stress of weather, the French mail steamer Pacifique, which was timed to sail to-day for the New Hebrides and Noumea, will not get away before 1 p.m. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Ayr, launched, before the mail left London, the twin-screw steamer Bermagui, for the Illawarra and South Coast S.N. Company's coastal trade. Her special features are her ...
Article : 93 wordsOn Sunday morning two large punts laden with timber broke away from their moorings in Johnstone's Bay, Balmain, and drifted down the harbour. Senior-constable M'Master, of ...
Article : 102 wordsA caddies' match will be played on the Killara links this afternoon, commencing at 2 o'clock. A prize fund of several pounds has been subscribed by the members, and as several of the boys play a very fair game, an ...
Article : 50 wordsThe steel shelter-deck steamer Indravelli, 4828 tons gross, built at Glasgow in 1897 by Messrs. C. Connell and Co. (Indra Line), has been sold to Japanese for about £28,000. ...
Article : 33 wordsA servant employed by Mrs. W. Brown, 268 Johnstone-street, Annandale, found the dead body of the coachman, Matthew Stell, in his room on Sunday morning. Deceased was 70 ...
Article : 37 wordsFrank Callaghan, a commercial traveller, from Sydney, was charged at the police court to-day with having agreed to raffle a gold chain in Bathurst on Saturday, and absconded ...
Article : 195 wordsThere are now about 175 persons employed at the small-arms factory, and everything is reported to be running smoothly. Members of the Engineering Society arrived at Lithgow ...
Article : 65 wordsThe new steamer Ajana, which has been specially built for the trade between London and Western Australia, is described to be a fine type of vessel. Her chief dimensions are:—Length overall, 470ft; beam, ...
Article : 265 wordsNathaniel R. Swadling, 29 years of age, and a member of the carrying firm of Swadling and Sons, was asphyxiated by an escape of gas from a bathheater at his residence, Piper ...
Article : 122 wordsAlthough the gale has abated here, a heavy sea was running to-night, and there was a strong range in the harbour. The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Namol ...
Article : 155 wordsThe steamer Changsha arrived at Port Darwin from Hongkong on Sunday afternoon, and resumed her voyage after a brief stay. Commander Curtis, who has been inspecting Port ...
Article : 77 wordsThomas Brewer, 42, was yesterday afternoon found dead in an outhouse at the rear of the Town Hall Hotel, St. Johns-road, Glebe. On the floor beside him was a partly emptied ...
Article : 70 wordsH.M.S. Drake, flagship of the Australian squadron, arrived to-day from Sydney. The Admiral, Sir G. F. King-Hall, and his officers will be entertained at a public social on ...
Article : 47 wordsA new tug named Wyola, for service at Fremantle, is due to leave London. She has a length of 125 feet by 24ft 6in beam, by 13ft 6in draught, [?] triple expansion engines capable of developing 1200 ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 16 Jul 1912, Page 10
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