The question of amending the Act which controls the administration of the Miners' Accident Relief Fund has been agitating the minds of miners throughout the State for some ...
Article : 1,299 wordsA feature of the shipping trade of Sydney is the large number of vessels flying the German flag. There is an increasing demand on the Continent for Australian products, and ...
Article : 1,727 wordsThe city man passing in the river steamer may hear a dim, metallic rat-a-tat striking across the water from Mort's Bay and Woolwich. "Mort's Dock," he comments mentally, ...
Article : 1,977 wordsA large weatherboard building, known as Barry's Half-way House, situated about a mile from Bourke, on the North Bourke-road, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday ...
Article : 174 wordsPilbarra, s, 2663 tons, Captain Ward, from Geelong. [?]uddart, Parker, and Co. proprietary, Ltd., agents. Pelotas, bqta, 251 tons, Captain cozens, from Wellington. Union B. and P.C. Co., agents. ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Minister for Customs received a cable from the Commonwealth representative in London that four of the leading English watch manufacturers have expressed ...
Article : 68 wordsIn spite of the efforts to cope with the demand, the daily output falls from two to three hundred tons short. Between eleven and twelve hundred tons is the present daily ...
Article : 132 wordsColonel Stanley, Australian representative of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., Limited, returned to Sydney from Melbourne last week, after having placed an offer before ...
Article : 433 wordsWhen opening a jumble carnival in aid of the Women's Hospital Fund yesterday, the Premier said that the Charities Tax Bill would be introduced shortly. He intended to ...
Article : 67 wordsLate last night an empty five-roomed house in Lydiard-street, Ba[?]larat, was found to be on fire. The outbreak was extinguished, but an hour later flames burst out in the house ...
Article : 72 wordsBritannia, R.M.S., for London, via ports. Palma, s, for London and Antwerp, via Suez. Marathon, s, for Capetown and London, via ports. Ilymettus, s, for Calcutta, via ports. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Humula Railway League is getting a petition largely signed in favour of the construction of a railway line from Wagga to that place. The petition is to be presented ...
Article : 123 wordsA fire in a dwelling-house at West Melbourne last night was attended by an unusual incident. The adjoining shed was occupied by 200 pigeons. As the flames threatened to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Corowa Anglers' Club has decided that the attention of the Fisheries Board should be directed to the flagrant evasion of the Act relating to the close season in the Murray ...
Article : 146 wordsSt. Louis, s, for Noumea; Karori, s, for Strahan; Bega, s, for Eden; Duroby, s, for Tweed River; Rosedale, s, for Bellinger River; Namoi, s, for Newcastle; Pyrmont, s, for Port Macquarie; Wauchope, s, for ...
Article : 65 wordsBLUFF.—Dep: Oct. 13, Wainui, s, for Hobart. ...
Article : 9 wordsOwing to detention by [?]erce south-westerly gales, the steamer Wyrallah arrived at Bairnsdale at half-past 3 yesterday, after two days overdue from Newcastle. On the steamer's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsSomerset, s, 7010 tons. Captain Hayward, for queensland ports. Orange Branch, s, 3435 tons, Captain M'Clelland. for Vladivostock, via Townsville. ...
Article : 142 wordsA large audience at the Princess Theatre gave an enthusiastic welcome to "Brigadier Gerard," which was produced for the first time by the Julius Knight Company last ...
Article : 101 wordsThe spring show of the local Horticultural Society was well attended. The show of flowers and plants was particularly good, and the judge (Mr. Boles, of Adelaide) gave some ...
Article : 115 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Davies, who is with the Tasmanian marksmen at Brisbane, telegraphed from there to-day that it had been arranged for the British team of marksmen ...
Article : 46 wordsWakatipu, s, for Launceston; Ajax, s, for London, via ports; Pacifique, s, for New Hebrides and Noumea; Victoria, s, for Auckland. ...
Article : 29 wordsPilbarra, s, from Geelong: 220 bgs onions, 2900 bgs chaff. Pelotas, bqtn, from New Zealand: 195,000ft pine. ...
Article : 17 wordsA Charleville telegram states that a large bush fire is raging towards lower Augellala. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe A.N.A. competitions concluded on weanesday, when the band contests took place. City Band won both the quick-step contest and the selection contest, the Australian ...
Article : 84 wordsBritannia, R.M.S., for London, via ports: 500 bls wool, 180 bls skins, 60 bls leather, 200 tons lead, 145 tons tin, 70 tons copper, 45 tons ore, 60,000 cres lamb, 3000 bxs butter, sundries. ...
Article : 207 wordsA deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the Premier to-day to urge the Government to take measures to gat Tasmania exempted from the coastal and ...
Article : 107 wordsThe third wool sale of the 1907-8 series in the Brisbane market was held on Saturday. There was a very large attendance of buyers, representing the various manufacturing and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 311 wordsThe plans and specifications in connection with the proposed new infection ward at the local hospital have been accepted by the hospital committee, and tenders have been ...
Article : 41 wordsYesterday was observed as Hospital Saturday in the Newcastle district, collections being made in aid of the Newcastle Hospital. The morning broke fine and cool, and those ...
Article : 439 wordsA conference of timber workers, sitting at Perth, has decided to recommend to the conference branches that the whole of the mills belonging to Millar's Karri and Jarrah ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to continued drought, Wednesday, October 23, has been set apart as a day of humiliation and prayer among Protestant denominations in Dungog and district. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Wimmera left on Saturday for Wellington[?] Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gibbs, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes and maid, Mr. and Mrs. Tripe, Mr. and Mrs. B. Chambers, Mr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 250 wordsThe ceremony of unveiling the memorial windows erected in memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Jardine, of Curry Flat station, took place this afternoon in the ...
Article : 208 wordsThe leading features of the bill before the Legislativa Council dealing, with the protection, control, maintenance, and reformation of neglected and destitute children and youthful ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Guthrie, from Singapore, left Port Darwin at layinght on Saturday, and has on board the following passengers:—Messrs. Pope, Woollatt; Wood, Ste[?]ens, Schultze, Scheepens, Wool, Aspin, Cox, Abdul ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Buninyong left Brisbane at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, rounded Cape Moreton at midday on Thursday, having anchored on account of fog, and arrived at Sydney Heads at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday. She ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the Circuit Court case Dwyer v Smith, the claim being for £75 for a promissory note, was continued yesterday. After consultation the jury returned a cerdict for ...
Article : 2,081 wordsThe barquentine Pelotas, with a cargo of white pine from New Zealand, arrived at Sydney early on Saturday. Strong westerly and north-west gales were encountered almost throughout the voyage. The vessel ...
Article : 39 wordsCorrespondence intended for transmission by this [?] sel must be specially endorsed with the name of the ship. [?]tters for Queensland will be accepted without, ...
Article : 197 wordsHercules Bray, 8 years of age, was sitting in front of the fire at his parents' residence, Botany-street, Waterloo, early on Saturday, when his clothing caught fire. He was taken ...
Article : 55 wordsTelegraphic communication from Manning Heads northwards and from Eden southwards is interrupted. Newcastle, fresh WSW, bazy. sea smooth; Sydney Heads, light S, sea slight; Wollongong, strong WSW; ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Wilton, managing director of the Lithgow Valley Colliery Company, Limited, when seen in reference to the coal trade, stated that it remained in the brisk condition that ...
Article : 166 wordsMrs. M. Jordan had a wonderful escape from death to-day. She fell from the balcony to the ground, and escaped with a sprained ankle and slight injury to the back. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Monaro left Newcastle on Saturday for Aibany, W.A., direct. Tim Hobart is due at Fremantle to-morrow from E. States. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe following vessels cleared at the Customs-house yesterday:—Oonah, s, for Hobart, via Sydney, with 920 tons coal; Victoria, s, for Auckland, via Sydney, with 1000 tons ...
Article : 124 wordsDespatched overland to Adelaide, and t[?]encc [?]er P. and O. Co.'s steamer Britannia, Tuesday, October 15, 1907. Letters.—Registered, 8.30 p.m.; ordinary, 5.30 p.m. ...
Article : 279 wordsA man named George Hiskins, about 40 years of age, was missed from his home on Thursday evening. Search was made, and resulted in tracks being found indicating that ...
Article : 60 wordsCAIRNS.—Arr: Oct. 12, Wodonga, s, from Cooktown. TOWNSVILLE.—Arr: Oct. 12, Mintaro, s, Winfield, s, from Sydney. Dep: Maranoa, s, for Burketown. ...
Article : 925 wordsShortly after the Adelaide Steamship Company's Marloo left Bowen on Friday morning, one of the sailors fell overboard. A boat was put out and the man picked up, little the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe proceedings of the Christian Endeavour Convention yesterday were mainly of a devotional character. The senior delegates practically took the day off, and devoted it to ...
Article : 61 wordsShortly before 7 o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in a large shed used as a lamp-room on Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s wharf, Sussex-street. James Curry, a ...
Article : 150 wordsCharles Henry Davies, 56, tailor, was found dead hanging in his bedroom, at the corner of Beryl and Gossan streets, this afternoon. He was last seen by his wife at 9 o'clock last ...
Article : 164 wordsTo-day a huge tract, of country was on firs up the south arm of the river. Much damage was done to fencing and grass at Terragon Heights. The cattle had to be moved for ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 14 Oct 1907, Page 8
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