A special issue of the "Government Gazette" published yesterday contained the promised proclamations, prohibiting the importation into New South Wales of potatoes grown in ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Kidston, in an interview to-day, took exception to the method of accounting adopted in the Budget papers in connection with the amount to be returned to the States. He ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Rennie liner Insizwa reports having passed four supposed bodies near the mouth of the Boshee River, about 110 miles north of East London. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Australians commenced a match to-day at Blackpool against an Eleven of England. The weather was fine but windy, and the wicket was good. There was a ...
Article : 753 wordsThe reinsurance on the steamer Waratah amounts to 90 guineas, which is the highest over paid on a vessel of that size. The underwriters suggest that she may ...
Article : 112 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, in reply to a question by Mr. W. W. Ashley (Conservative), regarding Lord Kitchener's ...
Article : 221 wordsAfter an all-night sitting the House of Commons exempted London squares from the undeveloped land tax, and increased the size of gardens exempted to five acres, ...
Article : 79 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Chelmsford entertained the following at dinner at State Government House last evening:—Mr. W. H. Wood (Chief Secretary); Mr. ...
Article : 599 wordsThe match between the Australians and an Eleven of England was continued at Blackpool this morning in brilliant sunshine, on a good wicket and in the presence ...
Article : 420 wordsFollowing upon public meetings held on the north-west coast of Tasmania in connection with the exclusion of Tasmanian potatoes from the Sydney market, Mr. H. A. Nichols and Mr. ...
Article : 642 wordsMr. Balfour vainly inquired the reason for the Government's change of front in regard to the land taxes, particularly in connection with the substitution of a duty ...
Article : 117 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Johnson (N.S.W.) asked the Prime Minister if, in view of the expressed opinion of naval experts that the steamer Waratah is ...
Article : 156 wordsIt is stated in connection with the Imperial Defence Conference that the South African Union has assumed the liability for the £85,000 contributions of Cape Colony ...
Article : 42 wordsAs an example of the severity of the storms which sweep the Indian Ocean at this season of the year, the experiences of the Tyser liner Marere, which arrived here to-day, are ...
Article : 348 wordsClause 13, providing for the recovery of the undeveloped land duty from the landowner, notwithstanding any contract to the contrary, led to a strenuous protest from ...
Article : 297 wordsCommenting on Federal Budget proposals to-day the Premier, Mr. Murray, said it seemed to him that the issuing of Treasury bonds by the Commonwealth amounted realty ...
Article : 188 wordsThe intense heat now being experienced has caused eight deaths in England. The thermometer registered 86 deg. in the shade in London. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe United States has denounced the treaty of commerce with Holland to terminate in August, 1910. The commercial agreements between the United States and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Prime Minister, it is understood, has accepted the Premiers' invitation to discuss the Hobart resolutions, and will attend the conference on Monday. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe suggestion of Mr. Kidston that the States should pay this year's old-age pensions has been favourably received by the other Premiers. It is understood that they will ...
Article : 367 wordsA motor-van at Tilshead, Wiltshire, dashed into a party of London Territorials, who were returning to the Roplestone Camp from the manoeuvres. ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Beaumont Smith has engaged Miss Muriel Matters, a leader in the woman's franchise agitation, for a lecturing tour in Australia. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Murray River rose an inch an hour at Wodonga to-day, and the rise has been maintained to-night. Reports from Tintaldra, Walwa, and Jingellic ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Kelvin Grove tram, outward bound from the city, when passing down a long incline near the end of the journey, got beyond the control of the motorman and came down the ...
Article : 114 wordsMacWhirter, Clelland, and Stafford, directors of the Mutual Bank, Glasgow, have been sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of falsifying the 1905 ...
Article : 52 wordsDr. Tidswell, Director of the Bureau of Microbiology, when seen subsequent to the interview which the Tasmanian representatives had with him, stated that it was ...
Article : 309 wordsRussian guards fired on a German balloon, which was crossing the Silesian frontier, near Prozelaika, and compelled its descent. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Murray River is lift 2in above summer level and rising. Reports from up the river state that the body of water coming down is considerable, and already low-lying portions ...
Article : 96 wordsShortly after 6 o'clock last night, Sydney and the suburbs suddenly subsided into darkness, owing to the fusing of a high-tension cable at the City Council's Power station in ...
Article : 648 wordsReuter's correspondent reports that Johnson and Jeffries signed articles yesterday for a boxing match for the championship of the world. Jeffries has started for ...
Article : 93 wordsCricket experts and the newspapers heartily congratulate the Australians on their brilliant performances in the test matches, and eulogise Noble's splendid ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. John Lemmone, who is directing the Melba tour, telegraphed from Toowoomba yesterday to say that the great singer was dissatisfied with the state of her throat, and ...
Article : 276 wordsPaul O'Neill, who was in charge of a butcher's delivery cart, was crossing Black Dog Creek at Chiltern to-day when he got slightly off the track, and the cart and horse were ...
Article : 57 wordsThe resolutions arrived at in Hobart were as follow:— "In order (1) to insure the financial independence and solvency of the States, upon ...
Article : 344 wordsTurkey demands of Greece a more explicit declaration in regard to Crete. The Cretan Government has intimated that it will yield to the wishes of the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Sydney Chamber of Commerce is making complete arrangements for the entertainment of visiting delegates at the Empire Congress, next month. ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Ovens and Buffalo rivers are again in high flood, all the flats at Myrtleford being submerged. Communication by Rocky Point bridge is completely cut off, the water over ...
Article : 144 wordsIt is nearly 10 or 11 years since such a larg[?] number of potatoes were offered for auction as were submitted yesterday. In all, there were about 3900 bags submitted. Although ...
Article : 179 wordsIn the Senate this afternoon Senator Givens (Q.) said that when Parliament decided that the Federal Capital should be in a certain district it was reasonably expected that the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe executive of the recent Franco-British Exhibition has relieved the guarantors of all liability, and has handed Sir Edward Grey £10,000, the balance of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe contractors for the first section of the North Coast railway (Carey, Simpson, and Carson) paid out to-day to the men employed on the work £14,867 for the past month. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Prime Minister was asked in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. McDougiill whether, in his opinion, Dalgety was a better site for the Federal Capital than Canberra? ...
Article : 118 wordsConsiderable inconvenience is caused at the Dungowan end of the Peel River Estate through the absence of a bridge for new settlers to cross over the Peel River. The river, ...
Article : 101 wordsWhen the steamers Peregrine and Perth arrived with about 5000 bags of potatoes between them from Melbourne there was a rush on the part of consignees, who were anxious ...
Article : 148 wordsThe South African delegates, after discussing the franchise question, finally decided upon the single transferable vote system for the election of senators in the ...
Article : 47 wordsTo-day the Postmaster-General (Sir John Quick) explained that one of the principal new features in the Postal Estimates was the employment of new hands to the extent shown ...
Article : 181 wordsA preliminary meeting of the constituents of Sir Thomas Bent will be held on Tuesday next at Brighton to initiate a larger movement to express confidence in him in view ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Christchurch to-day Mrs. Crosbery reprimanded her son, aged 16, for omitting to perform some trivial duty. The boy seized a pea-rifle, saying, "I will ...
Article : 60 wordsThe outcome of barracking at a football match at Colac by a young married woman named Charity was that Henry M'Crickard was fined £10 at the local police court to-day ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Government has every reason to be satisfied with the results of the State hotel at Gwalia. Allowing for depreciation, the profit for the your ended June 30 was £1580 ...
Article : 108 wordsA fatal accident occurred at the Alum Mountain to-day. While the men were working in the tunnel part of it fell in. One of the miners was entombed, and two others were ...
Article : 96 wordsThe proposed sculling match on the Munawatu River between Whelch and Day has been declared off, Whelch's deposit not having been covered. ...
Article : 33 wordsYesterday morning a party of Customs searchers in charge of officer Cobb discovered a plant of 175 tins of opium among the coal in the bunkers of the steamer Eastern, which ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Government Pathologist, Mr. McAlpine, has submitted a report to the Minister for Agriculture on the results of his examination of Gippsland potatoes, suspected of being ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Barrier Labour Federation has decided that all unionists must wear the union button on and after next Eight Hours' Day. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Aug 1909, Page 13
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