Much confusion and delay occurred with regard to the mail train to Sydney last night, owing to the poor accommodation. The train left Guyra with as many as 17 passengers in ...
Article : 70 words[?]SYMON, JOSIAH (A.S.)............... 33,606 RUSSELL, WM (S.)................... 31,793 CROSBY, D. A. T. (S.)................. 31,525 VARDON, J. (A.S.)................... 31,511 ...
Article : 53 wordsThe holidays will cause a cessation of work at the South Coast mines for Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The exigencies of trade demand a resumption of operations on ...
Article : 1,058 wordsThe position in regard to the building strike is unchanged. A well-attended meeting of strikers and sympathisers in Fitzgerald's circus to-day passed a resolution of sympathy ...
Article : 53 wordsAfter the Lindsay had left Gavutu with the Gela natives for distribution to their respective villages, the Commissioner (Mr. Woodford) sent away 98 boys for Guadalcanar and ...
Article : 1,300 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying in the House of Commons last night to a question asked by Mr. J. B. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Dublin correspondent of the "Times" reports that Sir Antony MacDonnell, Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland, will succeed Mr. James Bryce as ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Public Worship Bill introduced into the Chamber of Deputies of France by M. Briand, Minister for Public Worship, was adopted yesterday by the Chamber of ...
Article : 678 wordsThe nugget found at the Poseidon rush on Thursday, weighing 56oz, smelted out at under 25oz. Williamson's 383oz nugget, when smelted, weighed just over 306oz. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt a meeting last night it was decided to urge the Premier to have Coff's Harbour one of the starting places of the North Coast railway, as material can be conveyed cheaper ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. J. Downing Sheriff, divisional returning officer, made the official declaration of the poll for West Sydney soon after noon on Saturday from the steps of the Sydney Town Hall. There ...
Article : 155 wordsPolitical parties in Manchester are preparing for an election, as it is expected Mr. Winston Churchill (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies), who represents ...
Article : 49 wordsA rumour is current that the Premier will shortly approach Mr. Mackinnon, lender of the Opposition corner party, with a view to amalgamation, thus making the Labour party the ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the last meeting of the council the Mayor submitted a minute stating:—"During the three years ended August 6, 1906, each year shows an actual increase in the amount of ...
Article : 275 wordsWith a view to encouraging trade with the East, it is now proposed to subsidise a regular shipping service, and tenders will be received by the Minister for Agriculture up to ...
Article : 131 wordsParliament has been prorogued to February 12. Dec. 22. Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor, ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society meeting yesterday a letter was read from the South Coast Union asking if the society was agreeable to endeavour to hold a milk test ...
Article : 376 wordsThe returning officer officially announced the result of the poll to-day as follows:— LIDDELL (A.S.)............ 6843 KEARSLEY (S.)........... 6617 ...
Article : 35 wordsWalter Dawson, of Auckland, chemist, was fined £100 under the provisions of the Opium Prohibition Act and £50 on a charge of making a false declaration relating to Customs duty. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe poll for Werriwa was officially declared to-day, when Mr. Hall's majority was announced as 498. Mr. F. Yates responded for Mr. Hall, and ...
Article : 64 wordsIt has been suggested since the defeat of Mr. Allan M'Lean, that Sir John Quick would be asked to take the position of leader of the Victorian anti-socialist party. When ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. F. R. Moor, Premier of Natal, has resigned, on the ground of being interested in a Government contract. Dec. 22. ...
Article : 77 wordsIn connection with the shortage of labour at Broken Hill, the mines to-day are advertising for engine-drivers, carpenters, winchdrivers[?] fitters, turners, and miners. ...
Article : 31 wordsHoliday makers will have no lack of amusements during the Christmas holidays. If the prediction of fine weather is fulfilled the ferry steamers should have a record number ...
Article : 627 wordsThe scarcity of honorary magistrates who will sit on the bench is causing serious inconvenience. On Thursday a man was before the Court on a charge which necessitates two ...
Article : 67 wordsStrong winds from the north-east have ruled generally for the past couple of days, and attained at times very high rates of speed. On Saturday, in the city, the mean hourly ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Marylebone advisory committee, by eight votes to seven, rejected the proposal of the Kent County Club to extend the residence qualification of men coming to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe necessity for more police protection here was emphasised last night. Six offenders had to be arrested. The two local constables were violently resisted, and civilian aid had ...
Article : 80 wordsYesterday a bill to amend the Printers and Newspaper Act, 1895, came before the Legislative Council. It proposed that registered friendly societies might be allowed to publish ...
Article : 454 wordsThe installation of Wor. Bro. James Stuart as worshipful master of Lodge Hiram took place in the Masonic Hall yesterday evening, the installing master being Wor. Bro. B. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe New York lawyer, Patrick, who was sentenced to death in 1901 for chloroforming Mr. Rice, a millionaire client, in order to obtain his fortune, exerted every trick ...
Article : 82 wordsMrs. A. R. Morton gave a garden fete at her residence on Thursday, in aid of the Nowra School of Arts. The fete was opened by Mr. Fuller, M.P. There was a large attendance, ...
Article : 46 wordsA manifesto issued by the national committee of passive resisters against the payment of the educational rate threatens a strong revival of the movement, in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe residence of Mr. W. W. Twigg, farmer, near Cowra, was totally destroyed by fire between 11 and 12 last night. The inmates had a narrow escape. The origin of the fire is ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" telegraphs that none of the Powers save Great Britain favours discussing the subject of disarmament at the Hague ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the presence of a large congregation a new Presbyterian church was dedicated by the Moderator of the General Assembly, the Right Rev. John Kemp Bruce, assisted by the Rev. ...
Article : 325 wordsM. Theotokis, Premier of Greece, states that Greece will possibly be compelled to [?]ntervene by arms in Macedonia. The Greek Government has informed ...
Article : 202 wordsA westerly squall of terrific force but short duration swept over the port between 2 and 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, causing some damage among shipping. A narrow escape ...
Article : 184 wordsThe steamer Rangatira (Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company), which is 21 days overdue on a voyage from Manila to Newcastle (N.S.W.), is insured for £35,000. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe second interstate engagement of the New South Wales team now on the southern tour will begin to-day against Victoria. On paper the home team are strong, and it would ...
Article : 119 wordsA shooting affray took place at Guildford, about 10 o'clock on Friday evening. It appears that a man named George Frederick Skafte had been visiting the house of Henry ...
Article : 222 wordsThe tenth cremation carried out in the Adelaide Crematorium took place on Saturday, when the remains of the late Mr. J. Z. Sellar, M.L.A., were thus disposed of. There was ...
Article : 45 wordsThe five women suffragists, who were arrested for creating a disturbance in the lobby of the House of Commons, were brought before the police court and fined ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day a bill to amend the Constitution, and also to provide for the appointment of additional Ministers, was considered, and the clause providing for ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Canadians mistrust Mr. James Bryce, who has been appointed British Ambassador at Washington, as they consider he has overlooked Canadian ...
Article : 42 wordsThe district coroner, Mr. C. Hibble, held an inquest to-day on the body of Mrs. Emma Peatt[?]e, 52, lately residing with her family at Cardiff, whose death occurred suddenly on ...
Article : 80 wordsOn Saturday the Board of Health inspector, with the police, having seized the carcase of a pig exposed for sale on the promises of a [?]utcher, brought it before the Bench, who ...
Article : 840 wordsIn the claims made by George Hollamby Druce to the estates of the fifth Duke of Portland the Court has issued Commissions to take the evidence of aged ...
Article : 42 wordsWanganui were badly defeated by the Englishmen, chiefly owing to the splendid bowling of Douglas, who in the second innings took ten for 23. Wanganui, first innings, 124 ...
Article : 59 wordsThe following team has been selected to play against Victoria and New South Wales at Melbourne and Sydney respectively:—D. R. A. Gehrs, N. Claxton, J. H. Pellew, J. O'Connor, ...
Article : 76 wordsFrance and Spain are each sending 1000 additional troops to Morocco, but if Raisu[?] is removed from the Government of the Tang[?]er district it will possibly not be ...
Article : 38 wordsA coal miner named Thomas Unwin, 64, residing at Teralba, died suddenly yesterday. Deceased appeared to be in his usual health in the morning, when he suddenly experienced ...
Article : 52 wordsOn the arrival of the second Western mail after midnight on Saturday a serious accident happened at Bathurst station to an employee, John Edwards. He was engaged supplying ...
Article : 181 wordsCount Alexis Ignat[?]ff, a member of the Council of the Empire of Russia, was yesterday assassinated in the Zemstvo Hall of Tver, Central Russia. ...
Article : 32 wordsTsitihar, Northern Manchuria, at the head of the navigation of the Nonni, has been opened for international residence and trade. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsThe following vessels cleared at the Customs-house to-d:—New Guinea, s, for Wallaroo and Port Pirie, with 3350 tons coal; Maroro, sch, for Wanganui, with 304 tons ...
Article : 93 wordsAt the police court this morning Samuel George Bryant, hotel licensee, was charged with fraudulently converting to his own use £153, the property of Henry Yates. ...
Article : 182 wordsNew Zealand and South Africa have concluded a reciprocal tariff arrangement. The Premier states that, supposing such new tariff had been in force during the past year, ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Hamburg-American liner Prinzessin Victoria Luise, wrecked at Jamaica, was not insured. Her value is placed at [?]£75,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe bill introduced in the Dominion House of Commons by the Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, recognising naturalisation conferred in any part of the British ...
Article : 43 wordsRegulations for the management of military canteens have been issued, including a new one, which prohibits all alcoholic liquors, except ales and wines. A committee of management is to be appointed by the ...
Article : 102 wordsElizabeth Miller has been convicted at Leeds of charges of baby farming, of administering drugs to females, and of burning the bodies of dead children. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe master butchers met last night, and unanimously decided to confirm the determination of the delegates not to increase their offered, advance in wages. ...
Article : 40 wordsYesterday the South African football team defeated Cornwall by 9 points to 3. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 24 Dec 1906, Page 5
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