After an extended trip through Europe and America, Mr. J. C. Williamson is returning to Melbourne by the Otway, which arrived this morning. Among the engagements which ...
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Article : 1,062 wordsMr. Richard Jebb, M.A., in a letter to the "Times" on the subject of Imperial organisation, says that the last two Imperial conferences displayed the difficulties connected with ...
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Article : 104 wordsIt is officially statd that 3500 troops will line the streets of Belfast to the Celtic Park on the occasion of Mr. Winston Churchill's meeting. ...
Article : 74 words"Supposing that the Brisbane Tramway Company wins," said Mr. Prendergast, president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Tramway Employees' Association to-day, ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Justice Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, has granted the application for a compulsory conference in connection with the ...
Article : 463 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Evans, addressed a meeting of 200 loyal workmen at the Ipswich workshops yesterday. The Commissioner and his loyal employees ...
Article : 207 wordsA revolutionary force landed at the mouth of the Yalu and defeated the Imperialist troops who had been sent from Mukden to oppose it. The revolutionaries lost 20 men ...
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Article : 57 wordsAmongst the first motormen to take a car out of the Tramway Company's shed yesterday was a "poor deluded fellow" who in spite of the "brutal treatment" meted out to ...
Article : 193 wordsQueen Alexandra, the Prince of Wales, and Princess Victoria boarded the steamer Medina at Portsmouth, and accompanied King George and Queen Mary to London. ...
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Article : 46 wordsGeneral Yuan Shih Kal has cordially agreed to the proposals of the Republican leaders, and has terminated hostilities. ...
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Article : 101 wordsThe "Athletic News" states that the tour of the Australasian Rugby League Team has been an unqualified success from a playing standpoint. The players generally have upheld ...
Article : 244 wordsThe tariff fight opened in the Senate last night, when the finance committee began the hearing of bills revising the iron and steel schedule of the Payne-Aldrich tariff. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Bushmen's camp in the Domain grows apace. This morning two further contingents rode in—an eloquent response to last Thursday night's appeal. The first to arrive was a ...
Article : 351 wordsWhen the swearing[?]in of special constables took place at Toowong the other night the applicants for enrolment included a young man who wore a red ribbon in his coat. ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Iredal[?], one of the selectors for the Australian Board of Control, arrived in Melbourne to-day with Bardsley, Carter, and other members of the Australian team selected to play ...
Article : 426 wordsThe British steamer Consols, laden with a cargo of cotton from Galveston for Hamburg, caught fire, and sank south of Cape Haney. The wireless operator called for aid, and the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Howard Smith Company, Limited, and the Adelaide Steamship Company, Limited[?] which are advertising to run the steamers Cooma and Wollowra, respectively, to ...
Article : 319 wordsAt a meeting of the International Socialist party last evening the following resolution was carried:—"That the branch secretary be instructed to write to the Brisbane strike ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. A. Fischer, Minister for Lands, in moving the second reading of the Land Settlement Bill in the House of Assembly last night, stated that the Government intended to ...
Article : 92 wordsThe thermometer has registered 12 degrees, below zero. Icebreakers have been requisitioned to release the cruisers at Kiel. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe naval correspondent of the "Frankfort Gazette" states that the fact that while the German high seas fleet was carrying out manoeuvres in the North Sea in August a ...
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Article : 174 wordsIn a special article contributed to the London "Evening News," J. B. Hobbs, the English batsman, takes strong exception to the unsportsmanlike "barracking" the Englishmen ...
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Article : 81 wordsThe Ministers in the New South Wales Cabinet are naturally content to hold their peace on the subject of an industrial war in another State. They consider their own ...
Article : 160 wordsThe International Arbitration League has issued a protest against the use of aerial vessels in warfare, and is urging an international agreement to abstain from their use. ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Swiss Government has refused to allow 14 railway truckloads of German shells for Italy to pass through the Simplon tunnel. ...
Article : 29 wordsA novel strike occurred on Sunday night at a picture show at Wonthagg[?]. During the week the management of the show discharged the pianist, and a man ...
Article : 147 wordsAt a meeting of the local branch of the A.W.U. to-night it was decided to strike to-morrow. The strike will include carters, mill and ...
Article : 70 wordsH. W. Stevenson (champion of England) and George Gray, the young Australian, commenced their third billiard match to-day. At the close of play Stevenson led by 293 points, ...
Article : 69 wordsDuring the debate in the Senate last night, on the Moroccan treaty Senator Leon Jenouvrier, in opposing the treaty, declared that Germany wanted a great empire in Central ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsHot and sultry conditions, still persisted throughout the State during yesterday. The maximum temperatures recorded over the inland districts were chiefly over 90 degrees, ...
Article : 139 wordsSome of the shipping offices here were to-day visited by a gentleman, who made anxious inquiries as to the prospect of chartering a special steamer to take a cargo of provisions ...
Article : 149 wordsA big meeting of strikers was held in the Town Hall to-night, at which vitriolic attacks were made on the Commissioner for Police, and the special constabulary. The ...
Article : 337 wordsThe executive of the Dockers' Union has persuaded the dockers at Tilbury who struck over the non-union question[?] to resume work. Feb. 6. ...
Article : 87 wordsA man on Saturday lost a purse containing £56, near the Hillside. Two other men found it, and returned it to the owner. The owner, as reward, asked them to have a drink. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 7 Feb 1912, Page 19
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