At the meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation to-day a motion was considered, which had been received from the Abermain lodge, to the effect ...
Article : 110 wordsA queer situation has arisen in connection with the report presented to Parliament by the superannuation committee. One of the committee, Mr. C. G. L. Boyce ...
Article : 368 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Frazer) returned to his office to-day from a trip to New South Wales and Queensland. Speaking in regard to his journey, he said that from a ...
Article : 311 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Frazer) returned to Melbourne to-day from a tour in the northern States. Before leaving Sydney on Monday he saw the start of the duration test ...
Article : 248 wordsA conference of clergy and laity of the Church of England was held yesterday evening at the Chapter House for the purpose of discussing the question of Church finance. Three ...
Article : 856 wordsThat tree has not been spared—the old historic tree that for 80 years has stood in front of the Public Instruction offices, fronting Bridge-street. ...
Article : 941 wordsAt the Circuit Court, Armidale, before Mr. Justice Sly, Wm. F. N. E. Ball, was charged with murdering his wife, Lois Ball, at Bingara on January 16. He pleaded not guilty. ...
Article : 906 wordsThe following vessels were cleared at the Newcastle Custom-house to-day:—Cavour Per, bq, for Callao, with 2018 tons coal; Alabama, s, for Melbourne, with 2650 tons coal and ...
Article : 48 wordsA stabbing affray occurred at Fitzroy on the evening of April 8, which resulted in the death of William Hughes Parker, a labourer. The circumstances of the case were inquired ...
Article : 137 wordsA verdict for £200 was entered to-day in the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Way, in the case in which Miss Magdalene Ann McConville, of Robe, sued Mrs. ...
Article : 259 wordsAll through the election campaign the Socialist party told their audiences of the women and children who were said to have been maltreated by the police and special ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Secretary to the Commonwealth Treasury (Mr. Allan) to-day exhibited the first specimen print of the proposed Federal Bank notes, having received it from the London ...
Article : 128 wordsThe fiftieth anniversary of St. Stephen's Literary and Debating Society, Phillip-street, was, celebrated at Sargent's Rooms in Market-street last night. The Rev. John Ferguson, ...
Article : 375 wordsMuch dissatisfaction appears to exist amongst the post and telegraph officers on the Goldfields, at the failure of the Postmaster-General (Mr. Frazer) to carry out his specific ...
Article : 89 wordsThe following cable has been received from Mr. R. Philp, M.L.A., dated Durban, April 22: —"Electors of Queensland, Vote Liberal candidates Saturday. Peace, prosperity, Philp." ...
Article : 31 wordsAs a result of the visit of Dr. Karl Kumm, F.R.G.S., to Australia some months ago, great interest throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand has been aroused in the advance ...
Article : 178 wordsAddressing a council of chiefs to-day, the Governor announced that in future all grants of native land, whether to Europeans or to natives, would be restricted to leasehold. ...
Article : 38 wordsTenders are returnable to the Department of Home Affairs to-morrow, for the supply of the first unit of 600 kilowatts for the electric power plant for the Federal capital. ...
Article : 61 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the Town Hall last night, the Rev. M. Williams, of Adelaide, remarked that the Bible was their great hope ...
Article : 143 wordsJohn Gellibrand, an orchardist at South Arm, member of a well-known family, was brought to town after midnight on Sunday, suffering, from gunshot wounds in the chest ...
Article : 134 wordsAccording to advices received by the English, mail, the celebration of the jubilee of Clifton College will take place in the week ending July. On Tuesday and ...
Article : 141 wordsA quantity of wreckage was picked up on the beach near the Ulladulla Lighthouse yesterday evening, consisting of a deck-house and suchlike timbers. Nothing is known of ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Joint Court tried two cases on the 9th inst. The first was against a Tonkinese for selling 4 glasses of absinthe to two natives, and was convicted and fined 50 francs and ...
Article : 314 wordsThe Commonwealth torpedo destroyer Parramatta will shortly visit Newcastle for the purpose of taking in a supply of shale oil, produced in the northern district. When the ...
Article : 65 wordsFLEMINGTON SALEYARDS. At the meeting of the City Council last evening the Lord Mayor's arrangement with the Government in reference to the transfer of the ...
Article : 512 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of a communication from the Prime Minister, in which it is stated that the Minister for Trade and Customs has discovered that steel products from ...
Article : 109 wordsThe steam collier Five Islands grounded on the sand spit at the eastern entrance to Rushcutter Bay yesterday morning, and, despite all the efforts which were made to refloat her, ...
Article : 199 wordsWilliam Sheddon, 15, was drowned while bathing in Kedron Brook on Sunday. He essayed to swim across the brook, got into difficulties, and sank[?] Deceased arrived from ...
Article : 43 wordsThe P.L.L. executive, Sydney, having by letter refused to supply the figures of the recent Senate selection ballot, a meeting of the local branch resolved: "We are of opinion ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Government has decided to establish an inebriates' retreat at Eden Hills, on the lines of the Lara Inebriates' Institution of Victoria. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir,—As a working girl I would like to draw attention, through the columns of your paper, to what appears to me to be an unfair advantage given to one section of the ...
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Article : 236 wordsAnother large batch of immigrants is due to arrive at Sydney to-day by the steamer Pakeha. This vessel left London on March 12, and, except for a call at Capetown, has made ...
Article : 108 wordsThe local branch of the Political Labour League last night carried the following resolution for transmission through Mr. Thomas to the Minister for Trade and Customs:—"This ...
Article : 132 wordsThe dispute at the oilskin factory of S. Weingott and Sons, Ltd., has, been settled, and many of the employees resumed work yesterday. It is anticipated that the balance ...
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Advertising : 1,892 wordsThe Executive Council has approved of the following appointments:— Mr. John D. Fitzgerald, to be trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales, in the room of Mr. ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Mount Pleasant miners held a special meeting on Saturday to ascertain if anything could be done to terminate the wheelers' trouble at present in existence at the mine. ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Bower's residence, Georgo-street, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire. A neighbour called early in the morning to borrow something for a sick child. Mr. Bower ...
Article : 101 wordsA new departure so far as the flotation of Victorian, if not Australian, loans are concerned, is announced by the Commissioners of the Savings Bank in connection with the ...
Article : 182 wordsSir,—Piled high in the yards of the tramway workshops at Randwick are several huge stacks of waste Australian hardwood and broken packing cases. The department owns ...
Article : 177 wordsOn account of the difficulties it has experienced in getting supplies of road metal, the City Council purposes to acquire a quarry of its own. At last night's meeting of the ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Maitland, D.S.M., William Douglas Pilgrim, of Marrickville, was proceeded against by Herbert Alfred Dunkley (Adjutant 25th Battalion Senior' Cadets), ...
Article : 108 wordsOn Saturday afternoon the firemen employed on the Lake View mine ceased work as a protest against the conditions under which they were working. The office staff took up ...
Article : 76 wordsA fox was shot in the back yard of John Anstey's residence Hunter-street, yesterday. It had been seen previously on the river bank at Walsh Park, and is supposed to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 24 Apr 1912, Page 23
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