The "Evening News" publishes a cablegram from Sir Joseph Ward, Premier of New Zealand, explaining his offer of Dreadnoughts to Great Britain. ...
Article : 98 wordsAt the meeting of the Health and Bylaws Committee of the City Council yesterday, Alderman Mengher said that if his statement at the council meeting the previous night ...
Article : 524 wordsHerr von Schon, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, speaking before the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on behalf of Prince von Bulow, the Imperial Chancellor, ...
Article : 725 wordsThe "Times," dwelling upon the statement by Herr von Schon, and the renewed faith of the Reichstag in the intangibility of the German Naval Act, appeals to Mr. ...
Article : 161 wordsProfessor David reports that the northern party, consisting of Mr. Mawson, Dr. Mackay, and himself, started on October 5. The route by which they went was difficult, and after many hardships they reached on January 16 the magnetic pole in latitude 72 deg. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe details of the expedition to the Antarctic regions led by Lieut. Skackleton were telegraphed to the "Daily Mail" on the arrival of the Nimrod at Stewart Island yesterday. Lieut. Shackleton's cablegram states:—Lient. Adams, Sir Philip ...
Article : 491 wordsLieutenant Shackleton, aboard the Nimrod on his homeward voyage, after encountering pack-ice, discovered from a position in latitude 69deg. 48min., and longitude 166deg. 11min. E., a new range of coast mountains trending to the south-west, and then west for 45 miles ...
Article : 75 wordsProminent Canadians, stirred by Australia's lead, are raising the question of offering a Dreadnought to Great Britain. ...
Article : 23 wordsX POINT AT 88.23—97 MILES FROM THE POLE—REACHED BY SHACKLETON. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 14 wordsLord George Hamilton, a former First Lord of the Admiralty, in a letter to the "Times," after remarking that every financial year is a watertight compartment, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe telegram of Lord Plunket, Governor of New Zealand, containing the offer of the Dominion of one Dreadnought and two if necessary, was immediately conveyed ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Lord Mayor, Sir George Truscott, will preside at the meeting to consider the position of the Royal Navy to be held at the Guildhall on March 31. The speakers ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-night at 8 the Lord Mayor will put to a public meeting in the Town Hall basement resolutions to the effect:— (1) That it is time for the Commonwealth ...
Article : 841 wordsAt the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., Charles Alfred Bros, an officer of the city council, proceeded against Alfred Kraushaar, confectionery ...
Article : 101 wordsThe "Star" commends Mr. Asquith for "smashing an artificial naval agitation." The "Manchester Guardian" describes Mr. Balfour's motion of censure as a war ...
Article : 44 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Times" says that the text of the Tariff Bill drafted by Mr. S. E. Payne (Republican) on behalf of the Republican party ...
Article : 89 wordsThe strike of post-office officials in Paris ended largely owing to the emphatic refusals of the Premier, M. Clemenceau, to discuss with the strikers the resignation ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. M'Kenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying in the House of Commons to Mr. Lonsdale (Conservative), said the Government did not intend to make an offer ...
Article : 46 wordsA train of 26 trucks of coal broke away at the dyke this morning at the top of the gradient leading down to the Memyler hoist, and crashed to the dead end at the bottom, ...
Article : 447 wordsColonel Cooper and his son Robin were found guilty of murdering ex-Senator Carmack in a street duel at Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.A.), owing to a political feud, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe southern party, consisting of Lieut. Adams, Dr. Marshall, Wild, and I, with four ponies, and a supporting party, viz., Sir Philip Brocklehurst, Joyce, Mr. Mawson, Mr. Armytage, and Mr. Priestley, left Cape Royd on October 29. We left Hut Point on November 3 with ...
Article : 546 wordsAn anonymous donor has given £70,000 towards a National Shakespeare Theatre. ...
Article : 19 wordsColonel Seely, Parliamentary UnderSecretary for the Colonies, replying to a question in the House of Commons last night respecting the heavy terminal tax ...
Article : 48 wordsThe annual report of the Bank, of Australasia shows that deposits amount to £15,205,568, cash and securities £5,822,370, and bills £15,496,182. ...
Article : 29 wordsWidespread sympathy is expressed with Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay, in the death of his daughter Viola, who succumbed to an attack of ...
Article : 140 wordsAt the wool sales this afternoon there was good competition at hardening prices. March 24. At the wool sales yesterday prices of the ...
Article : 53 wordsAdmiral von Tirpitz, German Minister of Marine, speaking in the Reichstag in defence of the Krupp monopoly, claimed that the naval administration during the ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is officially stated that Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, a barrister, will succeed Mr. H. E. Richards, K.C., as legal member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Channel Squadron yesterday accorded an enthusiastic farewell to Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, the Commander-in-Chief, on vacating the command. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Lincoln Spring Meeting, which was opened on Monday, was continued to-day, when the race for the principal event resulted as under:— ...
Article : 356 wordsAt the sales of Australian and New Zealand tallow to-day 1346 casks were offered and 772 were sold. Interior advanced /3 to /6. Others were unchanged. ...
Article : 35 wordsBubonic plague is not stamped out of Sydney as yet. Yesterday two patients, suffering from it, were taken to the Coast Hospital. The names are:— ...
Article : 155 wordsWhen walking along the sand at the edge of an offshoot from the harbour near Carriagton to-day, a man named William Knight noticed an object lying just out of the water, ...
Article : 237 wordsFrom Ireland last year there emigrated 23,295 natives, the fewest of any year since 1851. ...
Article : 26 wordsGeo. Lapham, miner, aged about 40 years, was killed at the North Lyell mine shortly before midnight last night. Deceased, with a mate, was sinking on the ...
Article : 105 wordsPersian Nationalists have seized the Government Customs at Bushire, the principal entrepot of Persia, on the Persian Gulf. ...
Article : 29 words"I think the scare is exaggerated," said Colonel Foster, lecturer on military science at the Sydney University, who has just returned from a trip round the world. ...
Article : 480 wordsWhen the Fire Drigade turned out late on Tuesday night to a small fire is the Vienna Luncheon Rooms, 48 Oxford-street, city, they found Constable Surridge and one or two ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "Mercury" says the Commonwealth Government in their scheme of reorganisation of the defences decided on the construction of a battery on Mount Nelson and the mounting ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Swiss Government announces that it will allow the importation of frozen meat from July 1 under the same regulation as that controlling the importation of ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Deakin's tour by rail is now at an end. He started away down the broad waters of the Clarence this afternoon in a steamer for Maclean. After having attended the ...
Article : 130 wordsOn the return journey, which was accomplished slowly, the party met with fresh and severe hardships, and some of the members were afflicted with dysentery. Dr. Marshall especially suffered, but with relief from the ship all reached Hut Point on February 4, having ...
Article : 149 wordsSeveral cases of typhoid have occurred of late. It is thought that the epidemic is caused by the drainage which comes down a rather steep hill into the town from the ...
Article : 130 wordsFrank Wootton obtained on his mounts two first places and one second on the opening day of the Lincolnshire Spring Meeting. He rode Arranmore, which [?]an ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Dudley had a busy day in the 4th Light Horse Brigade camp at Colac. This morning he was present at the stables, and went out on parade with the two regiments. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Argentine Government is ordering three Dreadnoughts, which are to be built in Germany. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Customs officials made a search on promises occupied by Lee Kim in Murray-street, and in the celling of one of the rooms discovered eight tins of opium, 104oz in all, valued ...
Article : 49 wordsA youth named Gillon shot a diamond snake on Mount Brown 8ft. long, which, on being opened, contained a half-grown hare. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 25 Mar 1909, Page 7
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