A magnetic storm rendered most of the telegraphic lines in Great Britain, America, and the Continent useless for two hours after mid-day on Saturday. ...
Article : 93 wordsDangerous weather conditions ruled yesterday right along the New South Wales coast, and as a result shipping operations were very severely handicapped—indeed, the coastal ...
Article : 208 wordsThe American four-masted schooner Alpena, which was anchored in a dangerous position off Stockton Beach last night, is new dragging her anchors in shore. She ...
Article : 214 wordsFinality in connection with the wool trade deadlock appears as far off as ever. Yesterday there was a record attendance of buyers and selling brokors in the saleroom. The ...
Article : 1,128 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Times" to the Imperial Congress of Chambers of Commerce telegraphs from Melbourne:—"Australia never before ...
Article : 158 wordsSir S. T. Evans, K.C., Solicitor-General, speaking at Swadlincote on Saturday night, said: "Mr. Balfour has declared that the Budget has created insecurity. The ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Heligoland, the first German super-Dreadnought, has been launched at Kiel. She has a displacement of between 19,500 tons and 20,500 tons, and is armed with ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Walter F. Gale, F.R.A.S., writes from Newcastle as follows:—"I had the good fortune to secure an excellent view of the magnificent aurora of Saturday last. The colours ...
Article : 793 wordsA contributed article, published in the "North German Gazette," says Germany's watchword is: "If we cannot have the most we must have the best ships." ...
Article : 31 wordsSir C. B. B. M'Laren, M.P. (Liberal), speaking at Bosworth, said that he would consider the general election upon the Budget as one in which the existence of the ...
Article : 44 wordsOwing to the boisterous and dangerous conditions at sea the Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. "Company's passenger steamer Hunter, timed to sail from Sydney for Newcastle ...
Article : 292 wordsAt 6 o'clock this evening the Alpena could still be discerned at anchor, though fierce squalls frequently hld her from view. She appears to be riding safely so far, though she ...
Article : 852 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain will stand for West Birmingham at the next elections, and as a mark of sympathy the Liberals have arranged not to oppose him. ...
Article : 33 wordsRear-Admiral Schley presided at A banquet given to Dr. Cook in New York, at which 1200 were present. The New York correspondent of the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Times" writes that far more important than the privileges of a changing House of Commons are the privileges of the nation at large. These are of such ...
Article : 74 wordsThe greatest velocity of the wind officially recorded in the city was practically 60 miles an hour—to be precise, 59.8 miles, from due south. This rate was attained during a gust ...
Article : 180 wordsThe "Times" reports that the King has granted a charter and diploma to the Royal British and Colonial Society of Artists, which has sent a collection of pictures to ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Tariff Reform League is arranging a series of 1200 meetings, and will distribute 20,000,000 pamphlets during the next three weeks. ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. John Dillon, M.P., and thousands of Manchester Irishmen welcomed Patrick Lennon, convicted on February 12, 1808, and sentenced to death for his share in the ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Whitney, who was hunting in Greenland at the time of Dr. Cook's return from his, northern trip, states: "Commander Peary would not allow anything belonging ...
Article : 59 wordsSince the Aurora Australia, on Saturday night much rain has fallen, and exceptionally heavy weather has prevailed throughout to-day, occasioning general interruption of telegraphic communication. On the ...
Article : 61 wordsFroltzheim (Germany) defeated Parker, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 at the Rheims tournament. ...
Article : 18 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsThe St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that M. Kokovtzolf, the Russian Minister for Finance, is considering the offer of a ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Sydney stated yesterday that in all probability the naval college which it is proposed shall be founded at Sydney, will partake largely of the character of the ...
Article : 1,004 wordsFurther details regarding the terrible disaster which occurred at Moulins, France, yesterday, show that the military dirigible balloon Republique made, an ...
Article : 99 wordsSir James Mills the managing director of the Union S.S. Company of New Zealand, is at present on a visit to Sydney, and proposes to remain here for nearly a fortnight. On his ...
Article : 539 wordsGeorge Helm, lately a prospector for a company in Damaraland, German Southwest Africa, has been arrested at Berlin, and charged with accomplices, now ...
Article : 70 wordsThe German Emperor's warm personal condolence to the French Government over the airship disaster is deeply appreciated in Paris. ...
Article : 23 wordsSome conception of the violence of the conditions may be formed from the fact that Commander Jenks, of the Orient Company's now 12,000-ton mail steamer Osterley, ...
Article : 191 wordsFrench aeronauts now for the first time, owing to the airship disaster, recognise that there is some merit in the multiple gasbag system of the Zeppelin dirigible. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe estate of the late Marquis of Ripon has been valued for probate purposes at £125,574. He bequeathed to Mr. St. Quentin, sometime his private secretary, ...
Article : 69 wordsReferring to the Aurora Australis visible in the southern sky on Saturday night, Mr. Cook, Government Astronomer, explained the connection between magnetic storms and the ...
Article : 287 wordsPresident Taft, while at Montrose, Colorado, opened the Gunnison tunnel, which is cut a distance of six miles through a mountain in order to water the ...
Article : 61 wordsAs the Canadian-Australian mail steamer Marama was outward bound from Sydney yesterday for Vancouver, via ports, she was noticed to suddenly stop when about a mile off ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. H. W. Wright, a member of the Buyers' Association, summed up the position from a buyer's point of view, thus:—"Among our members are a number of foreigners who ...
Article : 573 wordsMr. Heniker Heaton, in a letter to the "Times," commending the examples of the Dominions to the motherland in the cheaper conveyance of newspapers and ...
Article : 68 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsThe Alpena is having her full share of sensations. For about a mouth prior to her arrival in Melbourne on August 24 from Tacoma, the vessel underwent a very trying ordeal. ...
Article : 189 wordsThe correspondent of the "Standard" at Rome says that the authorities have collected unclaimed jewellery, coin, bank notes, and pay to bearer cheques and shares ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Postal Commission took further evidence at Federal Parliament House to-day. Mr. S. L. Monaghan, assistant manager at the Melbourne Telephone Exchange, was further ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. Garland, M.L.C., addressed a meeting of the women's branch of the Liberal and Reform Association, at the rooms of the association last night on the Industrial Disputes ...
Article : 285 wordsOn account of the tremendous seas running outside the Heads, the waters of the harbour were exceptionally rough, and the Manly ferry steamers were compelled to use the ...
Article : 234 wordsBATEMAN'S BAY.—About 11 o'clock on Saturday night the sky was illuminated with electric coloured lights flashing from east to west with great vividness, resembling ...
Article : 1,385 wordsLieutenant Shackleton, who was a guest of the King at Balmoral yesterday, delivered a lecture in the presence of the Royal Family and a distinguished ...
Article : 46 wordsThe steamer Yangtze, from Glasgow, the Federal liner Norfolk, and the Swedish steamer Australie, from Gothenburg, which have arrived at Port Adelaide, kept a look-out for ...
Article : 47 wordsA boating fatality occurred at Bundalong on Saturday evening. Angus McColl, accompanied by his cousin, Alan James McColl, was crossing the old Murray River in a small ...
Article : 194 wordsMr. L. P. Brodeur, Canadian Minister for Marine, replying to a deputation at Quebec, said that the character of the Canadian navy was still open to question, but ...
Article : 51 wordsThe commerce delegates were busy this morning registering their addresses and obtaining information at the rooms of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. After the civic ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Manly ferry steamers had a lively time in battling against the gale. The company, under ordinary circumstances, have four boats on the run, but after 3 o'clock in the ...
Article : 432 wordsGerty Isley to-day sued her husband, George F. Isley, miner, for desertion, on the ground that he intended to leave the State. Isley is only 20, and his wife younger. They were ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Hudson Fulton pageant in New York in celebration of the centenary of the Fulton steamboat on the Hudson River was opened on Saturday, amid scenes of ...
Article : 40 wordsIt was reported at an early hour this morning that distress signals had been seen from the direction, of Botany Heads just before mid-night. Tramway officials on reaching Sydney ...
Article : 70 wordsThe victim of the yachting fatality on the Swan River was not Mr. W. A. Goland, the well-known amateur carsman, but his brother David Goland, aged 80 years. ...
Article : 33 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 28 Sep 1909, Page 15
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: