A net increase in revenue and receipts of £126,401 for the five months of the financial year Just ended, as compared with the same period of last year, is the outstanding feature ...
Article : 531 wordsThe proclamation under which the Commonwealth will take over the Federal capital territory will be issued next week. The date upon which the actual transfer ...
Article : 231 words"The position is unique," said Mr. M'Kie, secretary of the Marine Board to-day, when questioned regarding the possibilities of the steamer Papanul leaving port. ...
Article : 511 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, in the course of an interview, stated that he had forwarded to the Australian Government information ...
Article : 166 wordsRecord prices for city property were realised yesterday, thus further demonstrating in a marked manner the wonderful prosperity of the State. ...
Article : 230 wordsIn the Dominion-House of Commons on Tuesday night Sir Frederick Borden, the Minister of Defence, complained of articles in French Nationalist newspapers, and ...
Article : 181 wordsThe "Westminster Gazette" says the Tories have uproarious welcomed the referendum as a device to enable them to escape the presumed unpopularity of tariff ...
Article : 354 wordsConsols closed yesterday at £70 12s Gd, an advance of 15s since Thursday last. The rise in consols is due to the declaration of Mr. Balfour that he is willing [?]t ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for India, speaking at Devonport yesterday, deprecated the issue of a naval loan, which, he said, would endanger the peace ...
Article : 34 wordsLord Joicey in a letter to the electors of Newcastle says:£"The Socialists have captured the Cabinet just as they have captured trade unions, though they are in ...
Article : 60 wordsA sequel to the late strike of coal miners at the Burwood colliery came to light to-day at the Newcastle Courthouse, when William Brennan, secretary of the Colliery Employees ...
Article : 418 wordsLast night for the first time the three gas buoys imported by the Sydney Harbear Trust, from which to light the fairway, near the Heads, were showing occulting lights. One, ...
Article : 533 wordsThe amended estimates of the Pacific cable for the year ending March 31, 1911, are: Receipts, £135,000; expenditure, £189,546. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe National Mining Bank in Salt Lake City was held up at noon and £25,000 taken. The robbers escaped. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe condition of Lisbon is rapidly approaching a state of anarchy. The most potent force is Labour, which is dictating to the Government and employers. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Rev. John Scott Lidgett, D.D., editor of the "Methodist Times," giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Divorce on behalf of the Wesleyan Church, said ...
Article : 72 wordsDr. Frederick Cook in an article in the "Hampton Magazine" confesses that he does not know whether he reached the North Pole or not. ...
Article : 34 wordsA party of sailors landed from a gunboat at Macao, a Portuguese possession on the Canton River, and joined by soldiers marched to Government House, where they ...
Article : 52 wordsThe taking of the German census is in progress. The census asks whether a person is blind, deaf, dumb, or insane, or whether he is weakminded, or subject to ...
Article : 63 wordsShortly after noon yesterday banked-up clouds broke over the city, and brought down a deluge of rain, which thoroughly cleansed the gutters, but unfortunately the storm was ...
Article : 785 wordsThe complete official returns of the late State election, issued yesterday by Mr. Coghlan, the Chief Electoral Officer, show that out of a total of 844,381 electors in the contested electorates ...
Article : 388 wordsMr. Frederic Harrison, President of the English Positivist Committee, giving evidence, said that the Positivist Society was opposed to, divorce. Positivists believed that ...
Article : 44 wordsThe recruiting of Labour from the Portuguese possessions in Angola, West Africa, for the Sao Thome cocoa plantatious, will henceforth be entrusted to Government ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Asquith the Prime Minister in a manifesto to the people of Scotland, says that the tardy and wholly delusive proposals of reform of the House of Lords. ...
Article : 77 wordsForty of the leading steel producers of the United States refuse to cut prices below the present standard. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Duke of Connaught laid the foundation stone yesterday of the memorial to the members of the Rand regiments who fell in the war. The ceremony was most ...
Article : 71 wordsSir.J. W. Tavermer, Agent-General for Victoria, read a paper before the Australasian Chamber of Commerce on "The Encouragement of Oversea British Enterprise and ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Company has declared a dividend on deferred shares of 6½ per cent, with a bonus of 3 per cent. ...
Article : 38 wordsLord Rosebery speaking at Manchester, said he was alarmed at the encroachment an personal liberty under the present Government by means of bureaucratic ...
Article : 215 wordsAt the wool sales this afternoon bidding was animated. Good wools were stiffer, and inferior obtained slightly better prices. ...
Article : 74 wordsPresident Diaz, of Mexico, was sworn in as President for the eighth time. The celebrations were curtalled in consequence of the disturbed state of the country. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe authorities of Cornwall have been endeavouring to discover the relatives of Mrs. Patrick K. 0'Connor who died recently at Illogan Highway, possessed of considerable ...
Article : 544 wordsThe days of apathy in municipal elections seem to be over. For the first time in many years the elections to take place in January are exciting great interest, as evidenced by ...
Article : 467 wordsSir Edward Shackleton has completed a lectures tour in Germany, his subject being "Exploration in the Antarctic Regions." He spoke in German. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe death is announced of John YardeBuller, second Baron Churston, aged 64 years. Lord Churston succeeded his grandfather, ...
Article : 235 wordsThe barquentine Gratitude came into collision with a collier at Gravesend yesterday. The barquentine stink in two minutes, and eight of her crew of ten ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Agent-General (Mr. T. A. Coghlan), in a communication to the Premier, gives a wonderful story of the progress of Budapest, owing, he states, to its municipal policy. ...
Article : 291 wordsThe feeling against Mr. Churchill at Sheffield when he visited the town yesterday was so strong that 200 special police guarded him. All the streets were ...
Article : 86 wordsThe National Assembly in secret session agreed on the memorial to the Throne stating that the Grand Council was formed in the Chunlang period, that its powers ...
Article : 62 wordsThe dispute in the shipbuilding trade which has caused the lockout of the boilermakers, furnished the subject of a speech at West Hartlepool last night by Lord ...
Article : 116 wordsIn the Chancery Division of the nigh Court Mr. Justice Warrington delivered judgment for the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen in the action wherein Mr. ...
Article : 81 wordsHarvey Foulcher, a fifteen-year-old boy, residing with his parents in Park-street, Ryde, was killed through portion of a roof falling on him during the storm which passed over ...
Article : 236 wordsMr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P. (Nationalist), in his election address says:—"The people have at last an opportunity of ridding themselves for ever of their servitude to ...
Article : 150 wordsConsideration by the House of Representatives of the report of the committee on the charge made by Mr. Hine against members and ex-members of Parliament was concluded ...
Article : 254 wordsA deputation of ladies, representing the W.C.T.U. and other societies, waited on the Premier, Mr. Wilson, to-day, and urged the immediate passing of legislation to make ...
Article : 115 wordsThe death is announced from senile decay of Jem Mace, the one-time noted pugilist. Jem Mace, the Swoffham gipsy, was born at Beeston, in Norfolk, England, on Good ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has reserved judgment in the matter of the National Phonograph Comparaversus Menck. ...
Article : 165 words"That's all right. The Federal capital's safe." When Mr. King O'Malloy said that yesterday he put at rest all fears on the part of ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. F. Hawley, secretary of the Newcastle Trade Protective Association, states that the movement to protest against the Saturday half-holiday in Newcastle is meeting with ...
Article : 108 wordsA practice of removing, by the use of chemicals, the cancellation marks from stamps which have been used, has lately been brought under the notice of the Postal ...
Article : 164 words"Truth" (Mr. Luboucbere's newspaper) says that the Peers have suddenly changed front, but they are wise in their generation to offer even halt measures. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Colonial Secretary has received a telegram from Mr. Gale, Chief Inspector of Aborigines, who is at present at Broome, stating that a report had been brought in by Arthur ...
Article : 102 wordsHorbert Rodgers, employed at Gender's saddlery factory, had his left hand reduced to pulp in a machine to-day. His hand was amputated at the wrist at the hospital. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Bank of England rate of discount for best three months bills was to-day lowered to 4½ per cent, from 5 per cent., at which it had stood since October 20. ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. G. Wyndham (Conservative), speaking at Manchester, said that 42 out of every ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 2 Dec 1910, Page 7
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