Business men of Sydney yesterday protested in no uncertain manner against the "absurdly unjust and iniquitous" Income Tax Act of 1911. They also unanimously decided to take steps ...
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Article : 197 wordsThe Department of Home Affairs is about to call for tenders for the installation at the Federal capital at Canberra' of machinery which will form the first unit of generating ...
Article : 428 wordsFollowing the decision which the Brisbane Tramway Employees' Union came to at a meeting held in the Trades Hall last evening, all its members at 11 o'clock to-day displayed the ...
Article : 933 wordsFurther news is to hand regarding the canefields fire. The fire at Cudgen plantation started about 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and ...
Article : 1,098 wordsA gale which has swept over Britain, has resulted in numerous fatalities and much damage to harbour works and shipping. A German steamer was wrecked on the ...
Article : 90 wordsSir William Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, in the course of an interview on the proposed Canadian-Australian trade agreement, said that New Zealand was ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Chinese who attempted to assassinate General Yuan Shih Kai with a bomb is 24 years of age and a native of Kweichau. He declares that the assassination of ...
Article : 180 wordsMany meetings are being held to test the feelings of the cotton operatives in regard to the proposed half-year's truce. Protracted snowstorms in the North of ...
Article : 143 wordsReports to hand from Shens[?] and Honan show that a state of anarchy and outlawry prevails there, the revolutionaries and Imperialists being equally lawless. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe shock was clearly recorded by four out of five seismographic instruments at St. Ignatius' College Riverview, at nine minutes past 6 o'clock yesterday morning. The shock ...
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Article : 322 wordsThe rallwaymen who are on strike have agreed to accept the offer of the Government to mediate. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe negotiations for a peaceful settlement are now drawing to a close. The Manchu princes are prepared to accept the Republicans' terms. ...
Article : 33 wordsA fire occurred to-day which swept through a seven-story warehouse of the Terminal Warehouse Company near North River. The loss is estimated at £200,000. ...
Article : 44 wordsLord Kitchener, British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, and Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Wingate, Governor-General of the Soudan, greeted King George and Queen Mary ...
Article : 147 wordsThe State Government to-night entertained the delegates to the Premiers' Conference at dinner at State Parliament House. Amongst those present were the Governor, the Prime ...
Article : 228 wordsA fire broke ond last night in the packing plant of Messrs. Schetartschild and Sulberger. The firemen confined the outbreak to the one building, which was destroyed. ...
Article : 34 wordsThere was a recrudescence of the fire at Osaka in the evening, and it was not extinguished until midnight. The damage caused by the fire is estimated ...
Article : 38 wordsA gang of bandits broke into a lonely house at Bozenclan, near Warsaw, belonging to M. Weinberg, a wood merchant's cashier. They murdered M. Weinberg, his wife, and three ...
Article : 103 wordsThe United Mine Workers of America, at their convention yesterday, agreed to a resolution in favour of the Government ownership of industries. ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Justice Kenny, in the High Court, Dublin, has held that the Ussher marriage is invalid in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, yet capable of being validated, but ...
Article : 361 wordsIn accordance with the arrangements made between the miners of the Western Association and the Lithgow Coal Association, the conference appointed to prepare a working ...
Article : 281 wordsThe strike at Newnes yesterday assumed such serious proportions that it was deemed advisable to send up a detachment of police from Sydney. ...
Article : 77 words"Hold-up" robberies have become so numerous in Vancouver that the Mayor has sworn in special constables, and additional detectives. ...
Article : 56 wordsMuch interest is being taken in a consignment of Australian mutton complying with the meat inspection law which is now being distributed in various centres. ...
Article : 70 wordsIn regard to the supposed attempted suicide of Lieutenant Trench, a British officer, who is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment in a German fortress for espionage, his recent ...
Article : 122 wordsThe question of extending the Japanese Mail Line to New Zealand is looked upon by the directors of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha as one that will have to be seriously ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsA meeting of the badge men was held in the market square to-night, when several thousands of people, many of whom were impelled by curiosity, attended. Mr. P. ...
Article : 189 wordsThe supporters of President Rojas, who was recently captured by the revolutionaries, are endeavouring to check the revolution. There has been considerable street ...
Article : 51 wordsRebels attacked Colonel Dalbiez's French column, and Major Bremond's Moorish troops, but were repulsed. The rebels, who left, many dead, were pursued and routed. ...
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Article : 228 wordsA memorial, signed by some of the leading artists and writers of Australia, has been presented to the Federal Government urging certain amendments to the existing Copyright ...
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Advertising : 154 wordsThe Hamburg-America Steamship Company has declared a dividend of 9 per cent. The profit for the year totalled £2,020,000, compared with £1,830,000 in 1910. The company is ...
Article : 50 wordsThere is nothing more stirring in the whole world than the songs of warriors going into battle. This is true of the "Marseillaise" and "The Men of Harlech," "The British ...
Article : 251 wordsAn engine exploded in the power-house of the local coal and iron company yesterday, and as a result four persons were killed and another was fatally injured. ...
Article : 78 wordsAt a meeting of clerical workers (employees) of Sydney, held a tew days ago, it was unanimously decided to petition Parliament in connection with proposed industrial legislation. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe scores in the Inman-Lindrum match now stand:—Inman, 12.001: Lindrum, 8391. ...
Article : 21 wordsAt a social evening given in the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday evening, it is reported that 20 persons who attended were seized with sudden illness the following morning, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways has decided that, in view of the increasing quantities of oil carried by the Railway Department, a reduction will be made in the cost ...
Article : 61 wordsThe iron collier Mount Kembla, owned by the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company, Limited, ran ashore on Tuesday night on Bellambi Reef, about five miles this side of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsThe only development in the strike at the railway workshops to-day was the temporary cessation of work by apprentices in the moulding, fitting, and boiler-making trades. ...
Article : 64 wordsNegotiations are in progress between the State authorities of Victoria and New South Wales for the establishment of five Joint punt services across the River Murray. Three ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 19 Jan 1912, Page 9
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