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Article : 96 wordsMr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Bradford yesterday, in referring to the Imperial Defence Conference, said he was glad to be able to ...
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Article : 242 wordsThe Cabinet has cabled to the Federnal Government and the Premiers of the Australian States asking whether the present juncture is not a suitable time to consider the question ...
Article : 89 wordsThe totalisator received another splendid advertisement on Saturday, when three huge dividends were returned. Antiope paid £43 10s, All Colours £30 11s, and Orphan Girl, ...
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Article : 40 wordsMr. W. C. Angwin, M.L.A., who travelled third class per R.M.S. Orsova from England, considers that the food, attention, and general surroundings gave no cause for complaint. ...
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Article : 117 wordsH.M.S. Pandora will search the Aliwal shoal. A tug from Durban hus gone in search of the missing vessel. ...
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Article : 79 wordsThe statement that Tasmanian potatoes had been sent on to Sydney from Victoria is not in any way discounted by the Department of Agriculture. The reports received from ...
Article : 345 wordsHolbein after being in the water 12 hours and covering 20 miles failed to swim the Channel owing to sickness. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Sydney agents for Lund's Blue Anchor line, Messrs Gilchrist, Watt, and Sandorson, yesterday received a catle from the agents at Capetown as follows:— ...
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Article : 96 wordsThe Canadian Pacific Raliway dockmen at Fort William are on strike. During n riot nine persons were injured, three of them mortally. ...
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Article : 56 wordsThere are 285,762 men on strike in Sweden, out of a total of 1,460,000, exclusive of 800,000 agricultural labourers who refused to join. ...
Article : 73 wordsA woman, named Eliza Cooper, 22 years of age, was brought to the hospital on Saturday night in a state of collapse, and she dled early on Sunday morning. ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. S. F. Cody, on his new aeroplane, flew four miles in six minutes at Aldershot After covering the plain with a figure eight, he continued to Farnborough, stopping at ...
Article : 73 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 wordsConsiderable interest is being taken in the proposed extension of the Barraba railway to Yetman. This district generally appears to be in favour of the extension, although some ...
Article : 119 wordsCaptain Marix, reporter to the Central Court-Martial in Paris, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and two accomplices have been imprisoned, for offering ...
Article : 40 wordsA banquet tendered to the Maitland footballers at the Commercial Hotel last night came to rather an abrupt termination. The manager of the visitors complained of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Prince of Wales will open the South African Porliament as representing the King. The Princess of Wales will possibly accompany him. ...
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Article : 56 wordsThe Government of Crete Intimates that It has resigned, owing to the failure of its efforts to persuade the people to lower the Greek flag on Fort Canea. ...
Article : 75 wordsSome swell mobsmen robbed the Russian Princess Gagarine of jewellery and cash valued ot £12,000 in the Savoy Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland. ...
Article : 43 wordsA Chinaman named Jack Chong, living in Foster-street, city, was taken to Sydney Hospital on Saturday, suffering from a broken nose and injuries to his arras. He stated that ...
Article : 47 wordsA team of eight cadets, representing Australia in the Empire rifle match for the Lord Roberts trophy, fired at Williamstown yesterday. In the absence of representatives from ...
Article : 170 wordsGeneral von Einem, Minister for War of Prussia, has resigned owing to ill-health. He is succceded by General von Heeringen, Commander of the Second Army Corps. ...
Article : 33 wordsFrancis Burke, a labourer, died in the hospital last night from tetanus, contracted through a scratch whilst working in a paddock. He leaves a widow, but no children. ...
Article : 44 wordsA priceless collection of Japanese" works of art, never before seen in England and very seldom in Japan, will be included in the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Imperial Maritime League entertained Sir Joseph Ward at luncheon to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe coroner, Mr. C. M;Intyre, held an inquest on Saturday evening in connection with the fatalities resulting from the tunnel caving in at Alum Mountain. The jury viewed ...
Article : 99 wordsSir William MacGregor, Governor-Designate of Queensland, who recently underwent a slight operation, is progressing favourably. ...
Article : 58 wordsYesterday Mr. R. W. Foster and Mr. J. H. Vaughan were nominated for the Wakefield vacaney in the House of Representatives, caused by the death of Sir Frederick Holder. ...
Article : 81 wordsOne of the London Territorials injured by being run into by a motor van at Tilshead, Wiltshire, has since died. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 16 Aug 1909, Page 7
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