While Christmas Eve is a time of lighthearted [?]cing, crowds parading the streets and looking at the brilliantly lighted shops, a night of seeking and spending, pleasure and ...
Article : 399 wordsFive years of continued prosperity and a record for 1908 is the position of the building trades of Sydney to-day. In the work of rebuilding the city proper, combined with the ...
Article : 3,669 wordsA serious accident happened at Benalla shortly before midnight yesterday to a party of 11 persons, who were returning home from Benalla to Winton on a railway quadricycle. ...
Article : 452 wordsA gratifying response to the recent appeal by the Earl of Minto, the Governor-General, to the people of India is embodied in the presentation at Calcutta ...
Article : 121 wordsOne of the most sensational shipping disasters for some years past occurred off the port of Newcastle at a late hour last night, when the steam-tug Advance, owned by ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Times" telegraphs that there are indications that the least injury which can befall German interests at Constantinople will come ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that Austria-Hungary firmly refuses to pay an indemnity to Turkey as compensation for the annexation of ...
Article : 124 wordsEighty leading citizens of Venezuela have cabled to General Castro in Berlin that his power has been destroyed, his property confiscated, and that he will be ...
Article : 142 wordsEight men perished by the foundering of the Advance, including:— Captain ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, of Sydney, master. ...
Article : 55 wordsAccording to a Constantinople message to Reuter's agency, a Note to Turkey from M. Isvolsky, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, declares that Austria-Hungary has ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Advance, one of the best known tugs employed in Sydney and Newcastle harbours, was built in the year 1884 at Williamstown, Victoria. She was an iron vessel of 181 ...
Article : 58 wordsAt St. Andrew's Cathedral on Christmas Eve, evensong and carols were hold, a short address being delivered by Archdeacon D'Ar[?]yIrvine. On Christmas Day at 7 a.m. and 8 ...
Article : 313 wordsA telegram from Washington implies that the cruise of the American battleship fleet has cost £10,000,000, coaling alone costing £5,500,000. ...
Article : 41 wordsCaptain Williams, who is in charge of the lugger Nebraska, reported a few weeks ago as having been lost on[?] Green Hill Island, about 100 miles from Port Darwin, and ...
Article : 476 words"After the very able and pointed leaders in your paper there is little need for me," remarked Mr. Joseph Cook, M.P., yesterday, "to further notice Mr. Hughes' observations. ...
Article : 1,127 wordsThe barque Inverna arrived here at 2 o'clock this morning, in tow of the steamtug Commodore, and Captain Fegan, the master, made the following statement to the representative ...
Article : 438 wordsThe Lancashire ironfounders and workmen, meeting in conference, decided to establish a conciliation board to avoid strikes and lockouts. ...
Article : 29 wordsEvery railway bridge and culvert and all the mountain passes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are guarded by Austrian troops, as a rising is feared. ...
Article : 37 wordsWilliam Warren Henry, claiming to be well connected in Australia, has been Sentenced at Manchester to five months' imprisonment for housebreaking and stealing ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Daily Mail" reports that 5000 Russian horses have arrived at Belgrade, the capital of Servia. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Australian Rugby Union football team this afternoon played North Glamorganshire, and was victorious by two goals and a try (13 points) to one goal (5 points). ...
Article : 145 wordsAt St. Mary's Cathedral masses were held half-hourly between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. At 11 o'clock Cardinal Moran presided, and preached on the high mass, assisted at the throne by ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Supreme Naval Prize Court at St. Petersburg, in overruling the judgment of the Prize Court at Libau on the sinking of the British steamer St. Kilda by the ...
Article : 220 wordsAt St. James' communion celebrations took place at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 9.45. At the 11 o'clock service the Rev. W. I. Carr Smith preached. In the course of his sermon he said ...
Article : 109 wordsDr Coulter, Deputy Postmaster-General of Canada, arrived in Sydney yesterday from New Zealand, where he has been negotiating with the Dominion Government in relation to ...
Article : 159 wordsAn examination of the Inverna, made shortly after the impact, disclosed the fact that she had sustained a good deal of damage in collision with the Advance, and she reached ...
Article : 77 wordsA little before midnight on Christmas Eve John Paten, carter, aged 27, was found by his wife lying dead on a sofa in their house in Bullanaming-street, Redfern. There were ...
Article : 570 wordsAt Christ Church, St. Laurence, holy communion was celebrated at 6.30, 7.30, 8.30 a.m., matins were at 10.30 a.m., followed by the choral eucharist (Schubert in B flat). ...
Article : 64 wordsParticulars of the desecration of the Royal tombs in the Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark, show that nearly £1500 worth of gold wreaths was stolen. The tomb of ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Joseph Harwood had a narrow escape from death at Mooroopna yesterday. He had loaded a gun, and placed it on the floor with the stock on the ground. His left hand was ...
Article : 100 wordsServices were held at Christ Church, Enmore, and holy communion celebrated at 7.15, 8.15 a.m., and midday, all of which were largely attended. The officiating clergymen ...
Article : 95 wordsThe great contest between Tommy Burns (the holder) and "Jack" Johnson (the coloured champion) will take place this morning at the Stadium, Rushcutter Bay. The ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Duke of Westminster, who it was reported had stopped paying pensions to septuagenarians on his estate on account of State old-age pensions, explains that his ...
Article : 55 wordsThere was a very large congregation at St. Paul's, Redfern, yesterday morning. The church was decorated with flowers and greenery, which helped the already fine ...
Article : 74 wordsWhile he was at Kyneton yesterday the Premier received telegram from the private secretary to the Governor regarding the landing of a party of men off the German survey ...
Article : 193 wordsThe first mass on Christmas morning was celebrated at 6.30 by Rev. F. Bough, followed by others at frequent intervals till 11 o'clock, when a Missa Cantata was sung, the celebrant ...
Article : 109 wordsHottentots in the southern portion of German South-west Africa have killed several farmers and three troopers, and have captured a quuntity of arms and ...
Article : 47 wordsA few days ago the Premier, Sir Thomas Bent, sent a cable message to Mr. Levien, the Government representative in the Far East, advising him that, as the Commonwealth ...
Article : 126 wordsLarge congregations allended the masses. At the 11 o'clock service Missa Cantata was sung, the Rev. Father Hogan being the celebrant. A large choir, under the direction of ...
Article : 103 wordsAbout a fortnight ago the Governor General whose motor car broke down on the way to Ballarat completed his journey on the engine of a ballast train. His Excellency ...
Article : 103 wordsThe French Posts and Telegraphs Commissions, in its report to the Chamber of Deputies, recommends the instituting of penny postage with England. ...
Article : 58 wordsSolemn High Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick's Church at 11 a.m. by the Very Rev. Fatehr Ginisty, S.M., the Rev. Fathers Laurent and Chatelet, S.M., acting as deacon and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 26 Dec 1908, Page 9
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