The general elections for the Legislative Assembly took place yesterday under the Hare-Clark system, with grouped electorates. Fifty-nine candidates contested the thirty seats— ...
Article : 1,112 wordsMr. J. Ruddell, of Dreadnought-street, Belmore, had an unnerving experience on Tuesday night, being attacked and robbed by two men in a patch of bush near his home. ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Royal Commission, appointed by the Federal Government to inquire into the sugar industry resumed its sittings at the Custom House yesterday. There were present his ...
Article : 1,330 wordsA meeting of citizens held in Vickery's-chambers, Pitt-street, yesterday, uttered an indignant protest against the proposed action of the State Government in doing away with ...
Article : 510 wordsOn several occasions recently unemployed deputations have interviewed the State Premier and the officer in charge of the Public Works Labour Department. Mr. M'Gowen was ...
Article : 550 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in moving the second Reading of the Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons, said the question of Home Rule for ...
Article : 367 wordsThe steamer Mackay Bennett, willen was sent to the scene of the disaster to recover ns many bodies as possible, reports that bodies were found over an area ...
Article : 283 wordsSubpoenas have been issued for Mr. Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the White Star Line, Mr. Lightoller, second officer of the Titanic, Mr. Boxhall, fourth ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Carnegie Hero Fund Commission at Pittsburg has struck a gold medal, inscribed: "The Titanic's Heroes and Heroines." The medal is to be deposited ...
Article : 36 wordsLloyd's Agency learns that Mrs. Widener's necklaces, one of which was worth £80,000 and two £30,000 apiece, were saved from the Titanic. ...
Article : 30 wordsMrs. Robbins, who lost her husband through the wreck of the Titanic, is suing the White Star Company for damages. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Astor's will amply provide[?] for his first and second wives, but the bulk of his immense fortune he left to his son, William Vincent Astor, who will receive about ...
Article : 44 wordsScarcely had the Howard Smith liner Peregrine commenced her trip to Queensland ports, via Sydney, to-day when it was brought to an abrupt and startling ...
Article : 388 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in opposing the Opposition amendment (which sought to compel the payment into the sinking fund of the surplus remaining ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Texas, which was sunk in the Gulf of Smyrna through coming in contact with a submarine mine, was a mailboat, and owned by a local company, whose steamers were ...
Article : 134 wordsOne of the Titanic's stokers states that when the vessel struck the iceberg the staraboard side crashed in with a noise like the explosion of a big gun, and there was ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Carmichael) commented yesterday on the large increase in revenue disclosed by the monthly returns published in the "Herald." ...
Article : 582 wordsThe figures received to-day in connection with the Queensland elections have had the effect of making the position of affairs decidedly interesting in at least two instances. ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Australians and South Africans are steadily practising at Lords, the wickets being hard and fast. First impressions of the newcomers are ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Harold Smith (Unionist) moved for leave to introduce a bill to repeal the preamble of ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Senate Committee continued the hearing of evidence in regard to the Titanic disaster yesterday. Mr. Boxhall, fourth officer of the ...
Article : 151 wordsA motor, car stopped opposite a jeweller's shop in Brixton at midday, and a man alighted. He promptly broke a window, then seized a tray containing 50 rings, re-entered the ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Rosenthal, a diamond merchant ol Holborn, was hustled while landing from a Steamer at Folkestone, and robbed ot £8000 worth of gems. ...
Article : 28 wordsA violent explosion, involving loss of life and great damage to property, occurred in Homebush-road, Homebush, shortly after 11.30 yesterday morning. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 wordsAfter lengthy litigation, the Dominion Government has ordered the deportation of two Hindoo women, the wives of Hindoo residents of Canada. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe cargoes held up owing to the closing of the Dardanelles are now valued at £4,000,000. Shipowners are losing £3000 daily. ...
Article : 37 wordsA United States district Judge has dismissed three indictments charging restraint of trade against the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Town Hall, Alexandria, presented the scene of a general election last evening. The Labour leagues ware selecting a candidate to run in the interest of Labour at the ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Government has just begun the longplanned suit against the International Harvester Company, and the Court dealing with the case is now sitting at St. Paul. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsThe cruiser Challenger, which left Sydney on Sunday afternoon last to engage in a search for the missing dredge Manchester was in communication with Garden Island by means ...
Article : 343 wordsThe police are besieging Garnier and Vallet, two well-known anarchists, and a third member of Bonnot's gang in a suburban building. May 1. ...
Article : 101 wordsReferring to the Prime Ministers remarks regarding the Tasmanian elections, it may be pointed out that the figures of the present general election, when compared with those ...
Article : 232 wordsA fire occurred at Guy's Hospital, which severely damaged the Biology Department. The patients were not disturbed owing to the promptitude of the fire brigades. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsAt the Queen's Club to-day in the covered court doubles championship final, Wilding and Doust defeated Gobert and Ritchie, 6-1, 6-4, 10-12, 4-6, 6-2. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir T. W. Smartt, leader of the Unionist party, gave notice in the House of Assembly last night of his intention to ask the Go[?] ernment to consider the question of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe revenue returns from the Customs and Excise for the month of April were made available to-day. The figures show that the Commonwealth has enjoyed another buoyant ...
Article : 141 wordsOwing to the confusion that prevailed just prior to the adjournment it was difficult to catch exactly whit Mr. Knox was saying. Mr. Knox was, however endeavouring to state that ...
Article : 147 wordsThe foreign Ministers are satisfied with the Government's explanation of the Anglo-Belgian Ioan, and have authorised the resumption of the negotiations for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsA woman named Couturier has been sentenced to imprisonment for ten years at Evrecy for fastening her two-year-old daushter to a post and burning her to death. She ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the sales of Australian and New Zealand tallow to-day 1862 casks were offered, of which 1248 were sold. The prices were:—Mutton, fine 37/6, medium 34/6; beef, fine 35/9, medium 34/. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 2 May 1912, Page 9
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