At yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Citizens' Committee members were in fighting trim. The Lord Mayor presided, and the sub-committee's reports were presented ...
Article : 922 wordsThe committee of the Ironworkers' Association held a meeting yesterday evening. As a result a member of the committee made the following statement:—"The executive are ...
Article : 763 wordsProfessor Henry Jones, of Glasgow, delivered the third lecture of his series on "Philosophy and Modern Life" in the Great Hall of the University last night. The ...
Article : 627 wordsWithin the next two or three weeks the Australian League Football Team will be leaving for England; consequently the selectors, Messrs. A. Hennessey, D. Lutge, and ...
Article : 713 wordsSpeeches bearing upon the financial relations of the States of the Commonwealth were delivered at a dinner in the Town Hall to-night. The Mayor (Alderman Waugh) ...
Article : 1,720 wordsLancashire has initiated a movement to secure another meeting of the Advisory Committee, when the Hon. F. S. Jackson will propose a resolution authorising the ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the House of Lords last night the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, made a statement regarding the unoccupied native lands' of Viti Levu, ...
Article : 614 wordsA state of extraordinary unrest is manifest in Macedonia. Major Niarzi Bey and many other officers of the Young Turkey party quitted ...
Article : 238 wordsMr. W. E. Denison, representing Nottinghamshire on the Advisory Committee, affirms, as the result of inquiries in Nottinghamshire and several other leading ...
Article : 206 wordsAccording to the "Novoe Vremya," St. Petersburg, the Sultan, fearing that Britain's aim is the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, is negotiating through a ...
Article : 57 wordsBetween June 26 andJuly 13 the Japanese, in a hundred encounters, killed 542 Korean insurgents and captured 228. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the matter of Reardon versus Rora Hokowaka, and Tepamoa versus Rora Hokowaka, has refused special leave ...
Article : 211 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony, Dr. Viljoen has given notice that he will move a resolution declaring that the reasons given for the Australian ...
Article : 108 wordsFrederick Gee, aged 41, lately living with his wife in Leinster-street, Paddington, was found at 2.15 p.m. yesterday lying on his back on the floor of a room in a house in course ...
Article : 206 wordsClaudians, a Greek, has confessed that he was promised £1000 to dynamite the house of Gallagher, the principal State witness against Abe Ruef, Eugene ...
Article : 89 words"Don't worry, there will be no deficit," said the Lord Mayor (Alderman Hughes), when asked for an expression of opinion on the City Treasurer's report last night. ...
Article : 197 wordsAs far as can be ascertained, the proceedings instituted by the Attorney-General at the instance of the Eskbank Ironworkers' Association against Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins ...
Article : 137 wordsThe "Daily Express" learns on good authority that Britain will purchase three first-class battleships of the Dreadnought type, now being built on England. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Times" has been authorised to [?]eny the report that the Government has decided to abandon the scheme for constructing a dockyard at Rosyth, on the ...
Article : 33 wordsWarships to the number of 321, divided in two squadrons, the "Blue," commanded by Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, and the "Red," by Vice-Admiral Sir Francis ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a meeting of the Newcastle Eight-hours committee last evening reference was made to the appointment of Mr. J. Travers to the Legislative Council, and ...
Article : 115 wordsHer Excellency Lady Northcote, attended by Captain G. B. Stephens, A.D.C., and Captain H. A. N. Fyers, A.D.C., M.V.O., arrived in Sydney by the express from Melbourne on ...
Article : 563 wordsThe Commissioner for Public Health (Dr. Ham) has returned from his northern trip. He visited every port as far as Thursday Island, at which place he selected a site for ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant, Liberal member for Berwickshire, speaking at the Colonial Club, expressed the hope that under the wise guidance of the Earl of Crewe, ...
Article : 100 wordsThe meeting between Father Bernard Vaughan, the well-known London priest, and "Tommy" Burns, the world's heavy-weight boxing champion, is described in a recent issue ...
Article : 290 wordsWhile the Citizens' Committee is on the horns of a dilemma with respect to funds, the Commonwealth and State Governments have been steadily proceeding with the work ...
Article : 2,787 wordsIn the final of the 400 metres swimming race, H. Taylor (England) beat F. Beaurepaire (Victoria), by five yards; time, 5m 36 4-5s. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Governor-General was entertained at a smoke concert at Mildura on Thursday night. His Excellency said that the question of irrigation was vitally and inextricably ...
Article : 259 wordsLord Burnham, principal proprietor of the "Daily Telegraph," has been appointed president; Lord Northcliffe, head of the Harmsworth group of newspapers, ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the St. Kilda Court to-day a young woman, named Ada Elizabeth Davis, charged John George Robson, of Foster, with having left her illegitimate child, of which he was ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Canadian House of Commons has voted 15,000 dollars (£3000) towards the expenses of athletes representing the Dominion at the Olympic Games. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe United Mine-workers of the United States have also promised to support Mr. W. J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Master of the Rolls has upheld the Great Western Railway signalmen's claim to submit to a conciliation board the items of the national programme ...
Article : 100 wordsAn inspection by a Government diver of the north-western side of the Eden Wharf was completed to-day. With reference to the startling statement that at the piles Nos. ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture is waiting the report from the detective's carrying out inquiries concerning the adulteration of chaff. It is said that tests by analysts will ...
Article : 51 wordsA rumour of much alarm for Melbourne housewives is being circulated. There is said to be reason for belief that domestic servants are exchanging views on the idea that they ...
Article : 111 wordsThe new State Land Valuation Bill has been circulated. The measure provides for making the valuation of all land in the State upon its improved, and also its unimproved, value, ...
Article : 70 wordsWhile a Customs officer at Boston, United States, was trying to open with an axe a box of detonating caps, just landed from the Hamburg-American liner ...
Article : 57 wordsGraziers in the Stratford district are asking for a permit for one month for the purpose of destroying kangaroos. At present their properties are overrun with them, owing ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Times" deprecates the idea of the House of Lords rejecting or delaying the Old-age Pensions Bill, since members would place themselves in a very difficult ...
Article : 58 wordsA heavy burst of rock occurred at noon to-day in the stopes of No. 17 level at the Baker's Creek mine. Four men—Nichols, Cox, Austin, and Thompson—were covered by falling debris, ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the wool sales this evening, there was very spirited bidding, and prices had a hardening tendency for all descriptions. July 17. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe charges of manslaughter in connection with the Braybrook disaster were mentioned in the Criminal Court to-day, when Mr. Corr asked that the trial of the men might ...
Article : 52 wordsThe overland motorists, Dutton and Aungor, have reached Horseshoe Bend. The car is going splendidly without, stops, although the track is heavy in places, and has been washed ...
Article : 37 wordsThe steamer Janeta, 4271 tons, running under the auspices of the United States and Australasia S.S. Company, arrived at Sydney at 2.15 this morning from New York, via ports, and cast anchor in Watson's Bay. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 18 Jul 1908, Page 13
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