Mr. Staniforth Smith, Administrator of Papua, and his party are safe. They have reached Thursday Island, after several months of the most thrilling adventure ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 804 wordsAn accident, which at the time of happening appeared more disastrous than it fortunately turned out, occurred in the race for the Threeyear-old Handicap at Warwick Farm on ...
Article : 440 wordsA torrific cyclone occured here and at Mossman on Thursday night Hundreds of persons are homeless. Walsh's stores were levelled to the ground. The Roman Catholic and ...
Article : 143 wordsSir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a speech while presiding at the annual dinner of the Interna[?]onal Arbitration League, acknowledged ...
Article : 224 wordsThe "Times" says it is curious, and perhaps significant, that in the debate on the naval estimates in the House of Commons there has been practical silence in regard ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Toronto correspondent of the "Times," who reflects Eastern opinion, states that there has been nothing more remarkable in Canadian political history ...
Article : 105 wordsA United States official, who has just arrived from Mexico, reports that a demonstratlon against President Diaz took place last week, the palace being stoned by ...
Article : 49 wordsSenhor J. Y. Limantour, the Mexican Minister for Finance, who has just spent a fortnight in New York, is now en route to Mexico. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Acting Promier received a wire from Port Douglas, stating that practically overy building in the town had been levelled, and asking assistance. Instructions have been ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Ewart, a noted lawyer, has attacked Earl Grey, the Governor-General, because of the activity the latter has displayed on behalf of the Overseas Club. ...
Article : 71 wordsDuring the early hours on Saturday the residence of Mr. Geo. Winter, at Daysdale, caught fire. The inmates, Mr. Winter, his wife, three children, and a lady relative, had ...
Article : 163 wordsIt took the party 10 days to reach Thursday Island from Goaribari, where they were picked up by one of the reliet boats. This boat took them across ...
Article : 873 wordsPresident Taft is preparing a special message explaining the reason of the mobilisation of United States troops on the Mexican frontier. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Union Parliament has adopted the clause in the Post Office Bill excluding from mail contracts any shipping company maintaining the rebate system. ...
Article : 31 wordsPresident Taft has expressed himself as delighted with the favourable reception in England of the proposed Anglo-American arbitration treaty. ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Provincial Legislature a motion was tabled against the proposal for reciprocity between Canada and the United States, and the members cheered the King ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Bishop of condon, Dr. Winnington Ingram, states that he had practically decided to offer himself for missionary service in Canada as an example to the ...
Article : 61 wordsIn a report submitted to the House of Assembly last night the Education Committee recommended that an arrangement should be arrived at in regard to the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. John Fitgorald Burns, who was a prominent member of the Legislative Assembly many years ago, died at his residence in Regent-street, Paddington, late last night, ...
Article : 179 wordsTwo deaths have occurred here from plague. ...
Article : 16 wordsSpeaking on Saturday at the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the new Mosman Presbyterian Church, Mr. Dugald Thomson said that politics was supposed to be the ...
Article : 306 wordsSpeaking last nicht in reference to the proposed arbitration treaty between Britain and the United States, Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the Labour party ...
Article : 90 wordsThe death is announced of Bishop Edward Craig Stuart, who has been a missionary in Persia since 3894, and was formerly Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. J. E. Redmond, leader of the Nationalist party in the notise of Commons, in an article in "Reynolds" newspaper, cites the granting of autonomy to ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Brazilian authorities are alarmed at an outbreak of plague that has occurred. Twenty cases have been reported at Porto Alegre alone. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe final scores in the billiard match Gray versus Harverson were:—Gray, 8000; Harverson, 3804. Gray made an unfinished break of 2196, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe University College School at Hamstead has decided to forego the yearly grant of £3000 from the London County Council, which carries the condition of free ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Pice Chinch Council has arranged that there shall be special references to the proposed arbitration treaty between Britain and the United States in all the ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. W. A. Redmond, M.P. for East Tyrone (son of Mr. John Redmond, M.P. for Waterford), Mr. R. Hazelton, M.P. for North Galway), and Mr. J. T. Donovan, ...
Article : 60 wordsA party of Rochabitos from Sydney have come to the conclusion that the celebrated quest of Diogenes would be speedily ended in Melbourne. Carrying many parcels, the party ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Porte has allowed the Bagdad Railway Company to extend the line to Bagdad. The company renounces its lien on the 4 per cent increise in the Customs ...
Article : 69 wordsJohn Roberts, on behalf of George Gray, has challenged Stevenson to a match 18,000 up, level, for £1000 a side, ivory balls to be used. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe steamer Northpoint, bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of creosote, when leaving the Thames, suddenly burst into flames in every part. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe trial of the Camorrista at Viterbo is proceeding. Murra, who is said to be the lender of the actual murderers of Cuoculo and his ...
Article : 67 wordsThe town clerk of Perth sent a letter to the Minister for Defence, drawing attention to the fact that a wood and iron structure was being erected in Beaufort-street by the Defence ...
Article : 95 wordsRetter's Constantinople correspondent statis that the Baghdad Railway Company had igreed to the forte arranging for the consruction of the section of the line from ...
Article : 49 wordsA match between Gray and Inman is now almost assured, crystalite balls to be used, and the stake to be £250 a side, the winner taking 60 per cent of the, "gate." ...
Article : 36 wordsAt the wool sales this afternoon there was spirited competition for merinos, with a hardening tendency. Continental buyers were very keen. ...
Article : 114 wordsA special meeeting of the Post and Telegraph Association was held on Salurday night to receive the report of the delegates, Messrs. Hiscock and M'Donald, who had waited on ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Jason, the parent ship of six subsidised trawlers, is shortly to be stationed at Grimsby, where 300 fishermen are enrolling to be specially trained for ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Rugby football match, England versus Scotland, the former won by 13 points to 8. In the Association football match ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Roosevelt yesterday formally "opned" a great storage dam in Arizona in collection With the Salt River irrigation pr[?]t. ...
Article : 109 wordsPassengers by the steamer Wodonga from Sydney are likely to retain recollections of the trip, a considerable stretch of which was attended by weather of an exceptionally ...
Article : 259 wordsThe Minister for Mines, addressing railway and tramway mon at the laying of a foundation stone of a new recreation club hall at Newtown, said:—"You know, I never had a father. ...
Article : 480 wordsM. Clemental, in his report to the Chamber of Deputies on the army estimates, says that since 1883 Germany has increased her military expenditure by 195 per cent., ...
Article : 59 wordsSolomon Beron, a brother of the man murdered on Clapham Common, who caused a sensation during the trial of Stinie Morrison hy interrupting the Court ...
Article : 287 wordsA serious motor car accident happened yesterday afternoon about 12 miles from Moss Vale, on the main Southern road, to Mr. M'Phorson, of Willie Ploma station, Gundagai, ...
Article : 101 wordsThere was a lively scene in the House of Commons last night, when Mr. Glen Campbell, on being accused of not having acted in the interests of the country by ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Colonial Institute, with a view to identifying itself actively with the furtherance of the Empire's trade, has formed a committee to arrange industrial ...
Article : 56 wordsThe local hospital committee has received a further communication from Mr. R. H. Millington whose wife was recently a patient in the hospital, and who, in addition to the ...
Article : 147 wordsWhen Mr. Staniforth Smith and his party set out on the expedition which so nearly ended in disaster, and which has caused so much anxiety, his principal intention was to ...
Article : 573 wordsGiving evidence before the University Commission, the Chancellor, the Chief Justice S. J. Way, who is the only man alive now who was on the original committee of the University in ...
Article : 58 wordsThe schooner Marivonic was sunk at St. Pol-de-Leon, about 10 miles from Morlaix, after colliding with a trawler. Twenty-six persons were drowned. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, lender of the Labour party in the House of Commons, in a speech last night, said that while acquiescing in a readjustment of the ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the morgue on Saturday, Dr. Cole, the City Coroner, committed Wm. Thos. Smith for trial at the Supreme Court on a charge of having wilfully murdered his daughter, ...
Article : 72 wordsFez has been attacked by tribesmen, but after several sorties from the town the attack has been repelled. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe attention of the whole of Australia has been drawn to Papua by the anxiety about the missing Administrator and his party. It will be of interest to our readers to learn ...
Article : 148 wordsThe ex-town clerk of Fremantle, who was recently arrested on a charge of stealing an intorost coupon, valued at £11, the proporly of the council, when out on ball was again ...
Article : 57 wordsLuba Milstein, the young dressmaker who was arrested on suspicion in connection with the Houndsditch murders, and was subsequently discharged, gave evidence ...
Article : 78 wordsAndrew Toth, who was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, has, after serving 20 years, been liberated, it having been proved that he was ...
Article : 40 wordsAs an outcome of the strike in the agricultural implement trade, it has been decided to establish a fund entitled. "The employees and employers' reimbursement and defence fund," ...
Article : 104 wordsSentence was passed by Mr. Justice McMillan on a young married man, Robort Bennett, convicted of an offence on a girl under 13 years of age. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe town is besieged by a plague of grasshoppers. So thick is the pest in places that it is impossible to drive horses. ...
Article : 46 wordsA proclamation was been Issued prohibiting, from August 1 the importation of goods packed in bags or sacks whose contents exceed 2001b, in weight. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 20 Mar 1911, Page 9
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