It is a merry Christmas, with merry Christmas weather and very merry crowds. People have been wishing one another a merry Christmas for a week past, and they ...
Article : 1,422 wordsThe body of a girl named Annie Holzworth, employed at Mrs. Habermann's boarding-house, was found about 2.30 a.m. on Saturday, and it is supposed that she was murdered. ...
Article : 238 wordsTrouble between members of the Fremantle Lumpers' Union and the Steamship Owners is not yet settled, and from present indicatons there appears to be every prospect ...
Article : 972 wordsTwo names loom large in the history of wheatgrowing in New South Wales—Farrer and Greene. The former made two ears of wheat grow where one grew before. The latter ...
Article : 1,059 wordsThe Government's view of Mr. Willis and his treatment of the "Hansard" leader and the attendants of Parliament House, was clearly indicated on Saturday by the fact that a ...
Article : 547 wordsThe "Times" Peking correspondent reports that it is confidently expected Yuan Shih Kal will yield to the inevitable, and [?]come the first President of a Chinese ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Ramsay M'Donald, speaking at Aberdeen, said that the Labour party in 1912 would use the utmost pressure it could to secure a grant of at least £1,000,000 to the Education ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Italian warship Puglia has seized in the Red Sea the British steamer Menzaleh, which was bound in the direction of Hodeidah, Arabia. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Chinese everywhere throughout the north are celebrating the success of the revolutionaries in China. Recently at Chinatown, Atherton, the Manchu flag was burnt, ...
Article : 56 wordsAdvices from Azizie, Asia Minor, state that the Italians have been repulsed with a loss of 200 in an engagement, in which the Turks had 12 killed and 30 ...
Article : 75 wordsThe transport workers have blocked at Dundee cargoes from Leith, Hull, Grange-mouth, and Liverpool. The shipping firms at Dundee, arguing that ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. Bourassa, [?]eader of the Nationalists in the Canadian House of Commons, attacks the Minister of Defence, Colonel Hughes, on the ground of the latter's advocacy of ...
Article : 147 wordsIn the Ipswich Police Court on Saturday morning John Gottlieb Jenner was charged with the wilful murder of Annie Holzworth, and was remanded till December 30. ...
Article : 31 wordsThirty mills have been closed at Dundee owing to the absence of coal through the strike of carters and dockers, and 10,000 people have been thrown out of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe mutineers at Braga who resented discipline and entrenched themselves at the barracks, were overawed and sent to Ooorto, 27 miles distant. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe advent of Christmas finds the State Parliament still wrestling with its work, The debate on the Appropriation Bill was continued in the Legislative Council on ...
Article : 166 wordsSome miscreants at Pere la Chaise opened the coffin containing the body of Madame Lantelme, the celebrated actress, who was drowned in the Rhine in July last, and stole a ...
Article : 132 wordsThe cotton mill owners met in Manchester to-day and decided to declare a lockout on Wednesday, which will affect 160,000 employees. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Australasian Rugby League team defeated Rochdale Hornets at Rochdale to-day by 18 points to 6. The weather was better than that ...
Article : 284 wordsReferring on Saturday to the new travelling allowances which Federal Ministers have decided to pay themselves, the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) said:—"People residing in large ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "Times" states that the demand of the Miners' Conference recently for minimum wages is one of the untoward results of eight-hours men earning less than formerly. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Russian Minister states that the Persian Cabinet has given a general assurance that it will comply with the demands of Russia. Mr. Shuster, Financial Adviser to the ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is feared that the steamer White Rose of Liverpool has been lost off Plymouth, with eleven ha[?]is. Other wrecks are reported in the North ...
Article : 80 wordsThe president of the Mail Branch Association of N.S.W., Mr. Wallace Henderson, introduced a deputation to Mr. Frazer, Postmaster-General, on Saturday, when complaints ...
Article : 624 wordsThe Government has informed the provincial authorities of the termination of the conflict with Russia, and instructed them to stop hostilities. ...
Article : 37 wordsFollowing on a recent decision of the Minister of Mines to enforce the provisions of the Mines Act in regard to the employment of foreigners on mines, the Laverton inspector of ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. R. M'Kenna) has been interviewed in regard to the letter he wrote to his election agent, in which he was reported to have said: "Nobody attaches any ...
Article : 84 wordsTerrific gales have occurred throughout France, and the foreign telephone lines have been interrupted. Several aeroplanes at Etampes were ...
Article : 43 wordsColonel Foxton has circulated a motion to be discussed at the next meeting of the Board of Control in Melbourne on Friday next, to the effect that a representative of the Board of ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, has written a letter to the "Sunday Times" replying to the criticisms of that journal, and its assertion that the Commonwealth ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Octobrists have introduced a bill retaliating for the abrogration of the treaty of 1832, which doubles the duties on American goods, taxes goods hitherto undutiable 100 per ...
Article : 54 wordsWilliam Stannard, an Eastern Suburbs identity, who for nearly half a century kept a boat-shed at Double Bay, has passed away at the age of 90 years. ...
Article : 546 wordsA British cement combine has been formed by an agreement with the Associated Cement Company. The capital of the combine will be ...
Article : 43 wordsSir Donald Mann, head of the Canadian Northern Pacific Railway, announces that he is contemplating the establishment of Australian and Oriental steamship services after ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is rumoured here, in circles which are usually well-informed, that a proposal is being seriously considered by France and Great Britain for a division of the New ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Board of Water and Sewerage expects that the normal water service will be restored by Wednesday. All requirements were met yesterday, and ...
Article : 270 wordsMr. Gibson Bowles has written a letter stating that he is rejoining the Conservatives, because the Liberals are controlled by the Nationalist and Socialist allies, and have ...
Article : 44 wordsThe members of the Young Australian League were entertained at a banquet, and received a great ovation. Lieutenant Simons, responding to the toast ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsFor some time past there has been a systematic robbery of mails in transit going on, particularly in the Midlands of the State. The matter had been causing a good deal ...
Article : 65 wordsProfessor Barnes, of McGill University, has invented an instrument for recording the presence of icebergs or land by vessels at sea. The risk of collision it is hoped will thereby ...
Article : 43 wordsEarly yesterday morning taxi-cab No. 86 collided with an unlighted gas lamp at the corner of Victoria and Carrington streets, Waverley. ...
Article : 194 wordsThere are known to be about 85 mineral springs in Victoria, but the majority of these occur in what is now private property. In order that the remainder may be developed ...
Article : 83 wordsThere is no sympathy with the militant methods of the women suffragists. The women of Tacoma refused to invite Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst to address them. ...
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Advertising : 135 wordsJust after leaving the pier at Sorrento on Friday afternoon the bay steamer Hygela was driven on to a sandbank by a south-easterly squall. The passengers were transhipped to ...
Article : 56 wordsA serious fracas occurred in Oxide-street, about midnight, on Friday night, when several young men assaulted two other men, and were ill-treating them when two plain-clothes ...
Article : 161 wordsSpecial services were held in many of the city and suburban churches on Saturday evening in celebration of the Christmas season. Short addresses were delivered and carol[?] ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Joint Court adjourned on the 15th instant until February 18 for its vacation. The French steamer Pacifique left for Noumea and Sydney on the 17th, with almost the entire ...
Article : 138 wordsThe British steamer Chesapeake, 4521 tons, caught fire and was abandoned at sea. Two of her boats with 15 of the crew were picked up. Two other boats with an officer ...
Article : 45 wordsA poisoning case occurred at Prahran on Friday, when Mrs. Sarah Brown, a middle-aged woman, living in Perth-street, and her son, Ralph, 11 years of age, became violently ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Postmaster-General, Mr. Frazer, has cancelled an order (made on July 15) prohibiting the delivery of correspondence to Miss Harvey Manresa, Lower Sandy Bay, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Chief Justice in the Supreme Court on Friday heard the last of three actions by members of the late Government against the proprietors of the "Kalgoorlie Miner" for the ...
Article : 121 wordsPolling in connection with the by election for the Covan division of Lanarkshire took place to-day with the following result:— Holmes (Liberal)....... 7508 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsA general advance of 6d a day has been granted the police force, entailing an increased expenditure of £5023. The rates for constables are now from [?]s ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Christmas services at St. Andrew's Cathedral were ushered in by a bright carol service on Saturday evening, at which the attendance was larger than at similar ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 25 Dec 1911, Page 7
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