Jack Johnson, the champion boxer of the World. who is shortly to leave for Australia, where he has contracted to defend his title, was arrested to-day on a charge of abducting a white ...
Article : 79 wordsThe war in the Balkans has now assumed much more serious proportions. Turkey has engaged Bulgaria, and the first regular engagement of the struggle is now in ...
Article : 83 words"Provision has been made for an Australian team to visit Bisley next year, and £2000 has been allotted for the purpose. In addition, £300 will be available, to be divided between the ...
Article : 667 wordsA banana merchant in Melbourne discusses the question of the Chinese in Australia, while conversing on the subject of the product he handles and the methods. of growing it in ...
Article : 559 wordsA leading Sydney grain merchant, who has made continuous analyses over a number of years of our wheat position, intimated yesterday that there was every prospect of a wheat ...
Article : 908 wordsNow that the surfing season is about to arrive in full force, is anything being done to guard against' accident ? Will "the shooter' be restricted from dashing among crowds of bathers, ...
Article : 394 wordsKing Ferdinand has issued a manifesto to his nation, which says:— "War has been declared if or the human right of the Christians in Turkey. ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is officially stated here to-day that the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, has abandoned his proposed visit to Canada. The Press here were unanimous in the opinion ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Servians have occupied several villages. It is reported that Prishtina has been taken, and the Turks are retreating. The "Servians are advancing on Kumanovo ...
Article : 38 wordsA big battle is in progress northward of the Neluna Elassona district. The Bulgarians have occupied the town of Kourtkale, which is near Mustafa Pasha, and is ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Queen, M. Guesshoff (President of the Bulgarian Council), the Bulgarian Cabinet, and the Servian and Greek Ministers attended an impressive service at the Sofia Cathedral, where ...
Article : 99 wordsIn connection with the frauds against the G[?]t Terneuzen Railway Company, Henri Wilmart, a brother of the absconded manager, has been arrested and charged with complicity. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Montenegrin armies are concentrating at Tuzi preparatory to advancing on Scutari in force ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Brewers' Exhibition opens to-morrow. There are 203 entries from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia in the Colonial wine competition. ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. F. S. Cody, the well-known airman, who it was rumored, was coming to Australia to accept the Commonwealth's offer of the position of Director of Aerial Defence, has decided not ...
Article : 61 wordsBesides the destruction of the telegraph lines, many miles of railway from Uskub to Salonika have been dynamited. ...
Article : 22 wordsA telegram from Uskub states that the Turks attacked the Servians at Prepolatz and captured the blockhouse and other positions. The arms, ammunition, and provisions of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsIt is reported that the vanguard of the Servian army has reached Prishtina. The main body has occupied the Ristovac line to the third station in the direction of Uskub. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe External Affairs Department has received [?]cable message from the High Commissioner," stating that the Indian Army Intelligence Department complains about short supplies of ...
Article : 108 wordsRyce Deavan, a farm laborer, who has inherited £200,000 from his father, who was long lost in America, refuses to leave his little cottage in Breconshire. ...
Article : 51 wordsInterviewed in London last month, Mr. George R. Sims said: "In my opinion, the kinematograph will be the chief instructor of the child-mind in the future. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Quinlan Grand Opera Company, which had such successful seasons in Melbourne and Sydney, has given Charpentier's "Louise" at Manchester. ...
Article : 135 wordsAt the City Council meeting on Tuesday it will be proposed :— (a) That the resolution of Council of August 27, 3912, providing "that it is desirable in the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Postal Department has let a contract to the West Australian Government for mail-carrying around the coast to Port Darwin, giving that centre a mail every two months. The route ...
Article : 115 wordsIn last issue it was stated that Alfred Bruce, son of Mr. A. Bruce, of Hunter's Hill, was burned to death at his parents' residence, and that when discovered, practically the whole of ...
Article : 128 wordsFor the six months ended September 30, 273,000 immigrants entered Canada. Of these, 158,000 came from Great Britain and Europe, and 80,000 from the United States. ...
Article : 43 wordsHundreds of Greek and Montenegrin reservists are returning from the United States and Canada to take part in the war. Large sums are being raised by natives of the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Turks are operating against the Bulgarians from Mustapha Pasha. The Bulgarian advance guards are retiring on the main body. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Congress rather shirks straight issues. It approached compulsory arbitration the other day, not with a direct question, but with a request for information. ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—A fire occurred last night at Messrs. Samuel and Son's agricultural engineering works at Banbury. The damage id estimated at £60,000. Over 200 men have been ...
Article : 46 wordsThe fleet has left Phaleron. ...
Article : 16 wordsThree outposts of General Martinovitch's division of the Montenegrin army were surprised by a Turkish patrol. They were taken to Scutari and decapitated. ...
Article : 35 wordsA body of rioters fired on the members of the Shensi Provincial Assembly, wounding several of them. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe number of troops which will actually take part in the conflict seems absurdly exaggerated. Reckoning the population of Turkey for military purposes to be 15,000,000, the rest either being ...
Article : 710 wordsMr. T. H. Roberts, founder, secretary, and treasurer of the Balaclava Light Brigade Charge Survivors' Relief Fund, writing from 41; Blenheim Park-road, Croydon, England, has made ...
Article : 153 wordsBlue-Books were published on September 11 containing census statistics for the Provinces of Ulster and Leinster, in Ireland. Ulster covers 26.3 per cent, of the total area ...
Article : 237 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—The Premier, Mr. Asqiuth, will undergo a slight operation this week-end to remove a growth from his shoulder. ...
Article : 27 wordsAlderman G. T. Clarke, the Lord Mayor, is at present confined to his bed with an attack of influenza. The patient's condition is favoriable and no serious trouble is contemplated. ...
Article : 36 wordsReuter's correspondent at Bucharest states that he has semi-official information that Roumania has decided to prepare immediately to mobilise three army corps and to await events. ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—Stephen Titus, the Armenian who ran amok in a London hotel last month and killed the manageress and shot a [?]maid and several others, was to-day ...
Article : 41 wordsThe dispute between the Wharf Laborers' Union and the Newcastle and Hunter River S.N. Company continues. Mr. J. Woods, the secretary of the Union, informed a "Sunday Times" ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—The Admiralty has ordered a vessel fitted with Vickers' marine oil engines. She will be 460ft in length, and will have oil ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Bulgarian army, 250,000 strong, is concentrated in a quadrilateral area, the points of which are Eski Zagora, Nova Zagora, Hermanli, and Haskovo. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following works have been authorised by the Minister :—Sewering, Kaloomiba post-office premises installation of electric light at Military College ; erection of two additional storeys, ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—Bar silver is quoted to-day at 20[?] per ounce standard (1-16d up). ...
Article : 19 wordsAt the Central Police Court yesterday morning, Samuel Johnson, 40, was charged, on remand, with having maliciously wounded Daniel Timney with intent to do grievous bodily harm. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Defence Department is inviting applications for the position of assistant shipyard overseer. Applicants must have had practical experience, ...
Article : 69 wordsDuring 1913 cadets from the various States will be admitted to the Royal Military College as follows : From N.S. Wales, 10; Queensland, 4; Victoria and West Australia, 2 each[?] South ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Albanian chiefs of Monastir Uskub,[?] ina, and Skroda have intimated to the Porte their willingness to support Turkey.[?] They will bring in with them 200,000 men. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe mails dated London, September 20, per R.M.S. Otway, will, it is expected, reach Sydney in time for the delivery of the latters from tho G.P.O. to-morrow. ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 20 Oct 1912, Page 7
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