Agreements, and understandings notwithstanding, the Federal capital question in the House of Representatives has passed through another sitting without sottloment. All day ...
Article : 3,520 wordsWhile the revenue receipts, as disclosed by the Treasury returns issued last night, show an increase of upwards of £15,500 for September, as compared with September, 1907, the ...
Article : 588 wordsThe Postal Commission continued it sittings to-day at Federal Parliament House. Mr. J. Hume Cook, M.P., presided. The examination of J. Hesketh, chief electrical engineer ...
Article : 426 wordsIn the course of his criticism of the Budget in the Legislative Assembly last evening Mr. M'Gowen referred on several occasions to the Auditor-General's report. ...
Article : 340 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. Fell launched out into a sharp criticism of the railways administration under Mr. Johnson. ...
Article : 632 wordsIt is understood that Turkey is willing to submit her case in regard to the section of the Orient railway seized by Bulgaria to the Hague Arbitration Tribunal. ...
Article : 188 wordsDisastrous floods have occurred in Haidarabad and the Deccau, India, with heavy loss of life. Fifteen inches of rain fell in 36 hours. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe tourist steam yacht Argonaut, 3274 tons, while proceeding with a party of tourists to the Mediterranean, came into collision with the collier Kingswell, 2355 ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. D. J. Shackleton, M.P. (Labour), addressing his constituents at Collie (Lancashire), said that the unemployed numbered 1,250,000, half being general ...
Article : 109 wordsA sensational accident happened to Captain Abereron and a companion, Lieutenant Goltzheim, while ballooning at Dusseldorf, Germany. ...
Article : 106 wordsCopious rains have extinguished the forest fires in the United States except in the Adirondack Mountains. ...
Article : 25 wordsAppended are the full terms of the Auditor-General's references to royalty on coal:— The action taken by this department to effect a more complete check on royalty payable on coal has resulted ...
Article : 565 wordsCanada is issuing at par a loan of £5,000,000, bearing interest at the rate of 3½ per cent. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Rev. John Drew Roberts, formerly curate of Hawarden, and now vicar of St. Swithun, Lewisham, is so impressed with the seriousness of the unemployed ...
Article : 117 wordsMessrs. De Burgh and Burrows, officers of the Works Department, visited Gundagai to-day in connection with the water supply trouble. After inspecting the site in company with the ...
Article : 457 wordsThe King has created a long-service decoration for commissioned officers of the Territorial force. ...
Article : 21 wordsM. Isvolsky, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has had a cordial interview with Signor Tittoni, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Desio, Lombardy. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe fifth series of wool sales opened this afternoon. Bidding was brisk, and prices for good wools wore firm. Faultles were 5 per cent, lower. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe questions in the House of Representatives to-day were almost entirely confined to queries regarding the naval scheme of the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 301 wordsChitty Bey, adviser to the Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs, has declined the offer of the Sublime Porte to take charge of the reorganisation of the finances of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that the German Government will submit to the Reichstag not later than 1010 a bill embodying the proposal of the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Langlands Jack, of Melbourne, aged 5S years. Mr. Jack, accompanied by Mrs. Jack, left Melbourne in May last on a six months' visit ...
Article : 213 wordsIn our "On the Land" columns our Bradford correspondent gives publicity to a statement on the other side of the world which will cause some ...
Article : 254 wordsThe "Standard" strenuously supports the suggestion of Sir Joseph Ward that a man-of-war should be lent to Now Zealand for the purpose of training 1000 ...
Article : 146 wordsLater in the evening a memo, dealing with certain aspects of the Auditor-General's report, prepared by Mr. Boyce, Comptroller of Accounts, for the information of the ...
Article : 1,014 wordsTotal number of men employed on the Barrier mines and mining industries at the end of September is 6752, against 6807 at the end of June, and 10,030 at the end of ...
Article : 175 wordsAlderman Sir George Truscott has been elected Lord Mayor of London, In succession to Sir John Bell. Sir George Wyatt Truscott was elected a ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the Railways Act of 1907 there is a provision to the effect that no person, unless authorised by the Railway Commissioners, shall sell or exchange in the State of ...
Article : 325 wordsA London correspondent writes:—"Quito a regiment of wool-buyors left last week on the Britannia. Some are going overland to join the boat this week at Marseilles, and all the ...
Article : 623 wordsDr. Arthur Newsholme, M.D., un English authority on public health, informed the Tuberculosis Congress in Washington that Mr. John Burns, President of the Local ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Rev. Dr. Donaldson, sails for Australia by the R.M.S. Ophir, which leaves on October 2. ...
Article : 28 wordsA great sensation was caused in regard to the perjury case at Westport. Connolly, who was sentenced to seven years for perjury, a principal witness against Hallinan and ...
Article : 152 wordsThe tour of Australasia Mme. Ada Crossley is making under J. C. Williamson's management will begin at the Town Hall, Sydney, to-night. Seldom has a tour begun under ...
Article : 172 wordsThe "Daily Mail" reports that the Earl of Shaftesbury has declined an offer of £1000 a week for a 30 weeks' concert tour of America. The newspaper adds ...
Article : 96 wordsThe "Daily News" states that the "Times" has joined the Publishers' Association, thus ending the book war. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn accordance with a resolution passed at the last Premiers' Conference, the Government has instructed the Railway Commissioner that a preferential and differential rate such as ...
Article : 71 wordsAt last night's meeting of the New South Wales A.A.A. a letter was received from Mr. F. W. E. Bush, of Nowra, with reference to the proposal to hold an Australian Marathon ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Joint Committee of the House of Lords and House of Commons, of which Mr. Russell Rea is chairman, lins reported that it is expedient to proceed with the ...
Article : 51 wordsMiss Evelyn Millard, actress, has purchased a one-act Australian comedy, by Mr. H. C. Scott, of Sydney, for early production at the Garrick Theatre. ...
Article : 36 wordsKarl Altget, a Gorman, aged 22, lately, following the occupation of a wool-buyer, was found, dead in a bedroom at his residence, in Kurraba-road, Neutral Bay, yesterday ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Wade) said last night that he could not understand the telegram from Adelaide respecting differential and preferential railway rates. No doubt the ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Argentina Republic has approved of an arbitration treaty with Brazil. The three Dreadnoughts which are being built in England for Brazil have given rise to a ...
Article : 116 wordsGeorge Towns and Ernest Barry, who will compete for the sculling championship of England, are both in fine condition, and training hard. ...
Article : 45 wordsWhile a man named John Duckett, employed by Mr. W. F. Stephenson, of Highfield, Maryville, was riding along the road, his horse tripped over a were stay projecting on to the ...
Article : 123 wordsF. Wootton, the Sydney jockey, has been, until November 2, suspended for foul riding at Manchester. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 1 Oct 1908, Page 7
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