Surprise was expressed in Balmain yesterday when it was reported that the Sydney Harbour Colliories coal mine at Balmain was to be shut down for an indefinite period. ...
Article : 303 wordsMetropolitan Day afforded another gorgeous spectacle at Randwick yesterday. It was our typical spring weather, the kind that makes the Australian holiday like none other in all ...
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Article : 1,152 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, addressing 4000 people at Earlston, Berwickshire, on Saturday, said that the land problem was only part of a wider and more ...
Article : 185 wordsThe independence of Bulgaria was proclaimed at Tirnovo, one of the principal towns of the Principality this morning, in presence of Prince Ferdinand and ...
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Article : 222 wordsThe examination of Mr. John Hesketh, chief electrical engineer to the Postal Department, was continued to-day. Mr. Hesketh, in reply to Mr. Storrer, said ...
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Article : 112 wordsAgain the holiday record was a great one, the very satisfactory attendances at the various afternoon performances' proving that the matinee is now an institution which can ...
Article : 317 wordsThe conference of the International Association for Labour Legislation sitting at Lucerne advised the introduction of legislation for the suppression of sweating in ...
Article : 47 wordsLater the Paris correspondent of the "Times" telegraphs that Count von Khevenhuller-Metsch, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at Paris, greatly ...
Article : 307 wordsReuter's correspondent at New York reports that Democrats accuse well-known Republicans, including relations of Mr. W. H. Taft (Republican candidate for the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent at Hongkong states that the Board of Finance has decided that China shall retain the silver standard. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe death is announced of Sir George Livesey, chairman of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, aged 74 years. Sir George Livesey, who was a civil ...
Article : 74 wordsAll the tube railways in London, except the central, were stopped for several hours on Saturday afternoon owing to a breakdown at the Chelsea power station. ...
Article : 86 wordsGermany intends to clothe her soldiers in war time in grey, discarding all bright uniforms and flashing accoutrements. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following is a statement of the booking at Sydney and suburban railway stations yesterday, between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m., as compared with the bookings on Eight-hour Day ...
Article : 337 wordsThere was a full attendance of members of the Ministry at the Cabinet meeting yesterday, which lasted from half-past 2 o'clock until about 6 o'clock. ...
Article : 99 wordsPresident Castro, of Venezuela, on Saturday, informed the Senate of the Republic that he refused to receive the Second Note from Holland regarding the expulsion of ...
Article : 86 wordsA copy of the special case stated for the opinion of the High Court of Australia in regard to the validity of the Surplus Revenue Act passed by the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 322 wordsThe "Neue Freie Presse" of Vienna asserts that the Emperor Francis Joseph has addressed an autograph letter to the Powers, referring to the necessity of ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the Circuit Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Pring, Alfred James Massey, John Bartholomew Riley, Annie Goode, and Harriet Goode, were charged with conspiring to ...
Article : 361 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General, attended by Lord Richard Nevill, Captain the Hon. Hore Ruthven, and Mr. Callan, drove out early, and lunched with the committee ...
Article : 1,410 wordsA monument has been erected at Noisseville, near Metz, in memory of the French soldiers killed in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The monument was unveiled ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is really the children's day, this Eight-Hour Day. The serious races at the sports were all very well for the grown-ups. Perhaps big brother could see some sense in ...
Article : 930 wordsAfter the procession had passed the huge crowd of onlookers surged down George and Pitt streets towards the Quay. The trams were crowded, people standing on the ...
Article : 132 wordsReuter's agency learns that the British Government has made proposite to Turkey and Bulgaria for the settlement of the Orient railway dispute. ...
Article : 95 wordsAt a meeting at the Town Hall to-night in connection with the Federal capital question, the Mayor (Alderman Waugh), Alderman Tenbrink, and Mr. C. L. Griffith were appointed ...
Article : 56 wordsColonel Seely, Parliamentary Undersecretary for the Colonies, speaking at Liverpool, said that we were drawing very near a better system in the government of ...
Article : 58 wordsThere is every prospect of the manslaughter case arising out of the railway disaster at Braybrook on Easter Monday being concluded this week. ...
Article : 227 wordsBy the time the procession reached Park-street very nearly another £600 of damage must have been done to the banners. Otherwise the display was a big success. First came ...
Article : 1,079 wordsBill Squires has announced his intention of being present at the Burns-Johnson fight, and of challenging the winner. Squires says he was not "too fit" when he met Burns on the ...
Article : 53 wordsBulgaria's diplomatic agent at Berlin States that in the event of war, Bulgaria will enjoy an advantage over Turkey, but his Government expected to obtain great ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Bendigo City Court was crowded to-day, when the hearing of charges against the men arrested in connection with the police crusade against the alleged illicit traffic in gold was ...
Article : 87 wordsH.M.S. Gladiator, which was benched after a collision near the Isle of Wight, and refloated, has been towed to Portsmouth. ...
Article : 30 words[?]n was ratified on August [?]s which are or might be [?]lopments now proceeding [?] ...
Article : 693 wordsThe district coroner, Mr. W. F. Robertson, P.M., held an inquiry respecting the death of the unknown swagman whose body was found under a fallen burnt tree near ...
Article : 77 wordsPresident Roosevelt, in an address before the International Conference on Tuberculosis at Washington, said that no gathering was fraught with greater hope ...
Article : 38 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Tinana went aground on, Sunday afternoon at high water off White Cliff. The vessel win require to be lightered. She is expected to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 6 Oct 1908, Page 7
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