Sorrow over the calamity which occurred on Monday night, the most awful event in connection with the history of our railway system, is unabated. Never, one may safely say, ...
Article : 414 wordsConsiderable excitement was occasioned at about 4.30 p.m. yesterday, when a live electric wire fell in Castlereagh-street, about half-way between Liverpool and Goulburn ...
Article : 531 wordsSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, late Prime Minister, died at his residence, No. 10 Downing-street, S.W., this morning, aged 71 years. ...
Article : 1,608 wordsThe Superintendent of Navigation, Captain Henry Newton, upon investigating the serious allegotions made by a passenger in regard to the condition of the steamer Allowr[?]e on her ...
Article : 640 wordsMr. L[?]oyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Manchester in support of the candidature of Mr. Winston Churchill, predicted that old-age pensi[?] ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Standing Committee of the United Irish League in Great Britain has recommended Irish Nationalists to vote at the election for North-west Manchester for Mr. ...
Article : 189 wordsSome interesting information is disclosed by the report of Guard W. Darcy, who was in charge of the Bendigo train. The report shows the times at which the train should ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Porte has conceded the demand of Italy to permit the immediate resumption of the passenger and goods service by the Italian mail boats between Horns in Syria ...
Article : 44 wordsSir Alexander Acland-Hood, M.P., Whip to the Conservative party, speaking; at Wellington last night, said that Mr. Churchill was not entitled under the Constitution to ...
Article : 51 wordsThe newspapers contain sympathetic references to the railway collision at Braybrook, Victoria. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. James Fitzalan Hope (Unionist), who formerly, represented Brightside division of Sheffield in the House of Commons, has been elected for Central Sheffield ...
Article : 70 wordsSympathetic references to the railway disaster at Braybrook were made in the Federal Parliament this afternoon by the Prime Minister, Mr. Deakin, the deputy leader of the ...
Article : 602 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, in a letter to Mr. Joynson-Hicks, who is contesting the North-west Manchester seat in the Conservative interest, predicts for him a win. ...
Article : 271 wordsin the course of an interview Mr. Tait, the Railway Commissioner, showed that the signals which were given to the trains on Monday night from Braybrook were not those ...
Article : 790 wordsA Labour conference, which has been sitting in New York, Chicago, and [?] where, has adopted resolutions containing ve[?]led threats of political retaliation ...
Article : 56 wordsMillie Giles Richmond, who had both legs and one arm broken, died to-day in the Melbourne hospital. There are 27 patients, and several are in ...
Article : 139 wordsAn inquest was conducted before the Acting City Coroner, Mr. Stephen Murphy, yesterday afternoon concerning the death of John Hartley, [?]4, lately employed as a railway fuel man, ...
Article : 244 wordsYesterday afternoon the Illawarra and South Coast S.N. Co. purchased and took over the steamer Kempsey from N. Cain's Coastal Co-operative S.S. Company, and she will in ...
Article : 173 wordsWhile Senor Cabrera, President of the Republic of Guatemala, was proceeding to the palace in the capital to receive the American Minister, a number of men ...
Article : 56 wordsOn Tuesdny the number of the injured passengers was 128, but to-day the Railway Department was notified of 63 additional persons who claim to have sustained injuries in ...
Article : 471 wordsKing Edward and Queen Alexandra received a warm ovation on their arrival [?] Copenhagen. ...
Article : 28 wordsEven before the awful catastrophe at Braybrook occurred to shock the confidence of the railway man all over Australia, it was obvious that the succession of serious accidents in ...
Article : 417 wordsMr. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, in a letter to the London Chamber of Commerce, said he had no intention to support at tim National Telegraph Conference at ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Nash defence committee is in receipt of anothor important letter from Mr. G. S. raulkner, giving further information concerning the inquiries made into the English ...
Article : 198 wordsThe steamer Mount Temple, which was wrecked on the coast of Ironbound Island, British Columbia, in December, has been refloated and taken into port. The ...
Article : 261 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General received the following telegram from the Earl of Dudley yesterday:- "Hope will not be considered pres[?]mptious ...
Article : 74 wordsA party of moonlighters attacked the house of Rountree, Kingscourt, country Cavan, on Sunday. His wife ran out to try to identify the assailants, when her ...
Article : 66 wordsThe statement by Bishop Dwyer at the grand annual moveable meeting of the A. H. C. Guild at Maitland on Saturday, that "the duty was incumbent upon him to put before them ...
Article : 549 wordsMessages of sympathy were received by the Premier (Mr. Bent) from the Grand United Order of Oddfellows of New South Wales, in annual session; from Sir George Turner, from ...
Article : 92 wordsTo provide money to carry out further purchases by tenants under the Irish Land Act, £2,000,000 worth of guaranteed 2¾ per cent stock has been issued to the National ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the annual session of the council of representatives of the Australian Natives' Association last night it was resolved,—"Tha[?] the deep sympathy of this association [?] ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Kelly drew the attention of the Minister for Defence to a statement in Sydney newspapers that a battery of field artillery had taken 31 ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. W. J. Evans, M.L.C., general secretary of the Locomotive and Engine-drivers' Association, in an interview, said:—"It was with deep regret that I read in the press to-day ...
Article : 194 wordsMajor-General Willcocks commands the punitive expedition from Peshawar, which is operating against the Mohmands, who number 10,000 fighters. ...
Article : 107 wordsPelaw Main colliery was idle this afternoon owing to a strike of wheelers. A wheeler, ia said to have used bad language to an official, who reported him. The manager ...
Article : 174 wordsThe mail train leaving Bourke this morning was delayed an hour through the engine and tender which were to have taken the train, running off the line at the points ...
Article : 53 wordsIt was officially stated that the two drivers, the two firemen, and the guard of the Bendigo train, and the stationmaster at Braybrook, who was responsible for the working ...
Article : 466 wordsThe Prime Minister to-day received the following message from New Zealand:— "Takitmu Moari Council have heard of the great calamity in your State. Friend, we ...
Article : 78 wordsThe condition of the patients shows a general improvement. To-night Nurses Wills and Hamilton arrived from Sydney. ...
Article : 24 wordsGreat Britain and the United States have resolved to enforce their treaty rights in the Congo Free State, whoever the ruler may be, and have invited Belgium to ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Chairman of the Commissioners for Railways (Mr. Tait) has obtained details of the arrangements made for relief to the unfortunate victims of the accident. The ...
Article : 518 wordsThe coroner, Dr. R. H. Colo, P.M., who has fixed the date of the inquest for Monday, May 4, will hold the inquest without a jury Dr. Cole, when interviewed, stated that no ...
Article : 126 wordsA complaint is made that the Brisbane mail did not stop at the East Maitland Railway Station this morning thus leaving eight or ten pashengers for Sydney on the railway ...
Article : 34 wordsThe m[?]rs employed at the Burwood colliery held a meeting to-night to discuss a means of setting the stike of wheelers. The president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. ...
Article : 80 wordsA man named John Smythe dropped dead in M'Namara's-lane yesterday afternoon while coming out of a restaurant. Deceased had been having dinner. It is believed that ...
Article : 49 wordsSydney University gained the lawn tennis premiership of the Universities of Australia. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 23 Apr 1908, Page 9
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