On Saturday afternoon George Towns regained the sculling championship of the world from James Stanbury, after a struggle that must rank as one of the most remarkable ever ...
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Article : 752 wordsThere was an extraordinary occurrence at the Commercial Travellers' Association banquet on Saturday night. The banquet was given in the great hall of the clubhouse in ...
Article : 1,238 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, leader of the Opposition, addressing a meeting at the Albert Hall yesterday, said he regretted that the Constitutions for the Transvaal and the ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Edmund Robertson, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, in the House of Commons last night explained the Government's programme of shipbuilding. The ...
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Article : 122 wordsIt is understood that about 36 members of the Federal Parliament will avail themselves of the invitation of the State Government to visit a number of the sites proposed as the ...
Article : 57 wordsSir William Lyne, Minister for Trade and Customs, who is to be opposed by Mr. J. Gibb at the coming Federal elections, takes exception to certain statements that appeared ...
Article : 142 wordsA meeting of Moderates, held at Bloemfontein, has decided to appeal to the Imperial Government to avoid placing the State under the Bond and Hetvolk. ...
Article : 32 wordsCount Witte, formerly Prime Minister of Russia, in the course of an interview with a representative of the "Daily Telegraph," stated: ...
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Article : 48 wordsMr. Rudyard Kipling has written a stirring poem against the restoration by the Government of the supremacy of the Boers in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe by-election for the Cootamundra seat was held on Saturday, and resulted in a decisive win for Mr. Holman by a majority of 650 votes. ...
Article : 1,052 wordsA conference of delegates to the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations was held yesterday to consider a scheme for the reorganisation of the ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Postmaster-General had a few words to say yesterday about the toll telephone proposals. "There are a large number of people in some of the States," he said, "who are ...
Article : 132 wordsTen Polish revolutionaries held up a train with a saloon carriage conveying General Zukato, chief of the Frontier Guards, General Westenring, chief of the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Prime Minister's attention was called to a letter to Mr. Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales, from Mr. Valder, South Africa, on the subject of reciprocal tradr. It was ...
Article : 122 wordsThe letter of the Rev. H. Worrall asking for a police escort and reserved compartment in the train from Bendigo on Tuesday, wan laid before the Speaker yesterday by the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Bishops of Nizhni Novgorod, Kieff, and other cities, have held services of thanksgiving to celebrates the dissolution of the Duma. ...
Article : 25 wordsOfficial returns of interstate trade for June show an aggregate of £2,802,812, against £2,487.045 for June, 1905. The total for the six months is £16,603,980, against £15,180,176 ...
Article : 38 wordsReferences have been made in nearly all the city churches to-day to the Worrall affair. At pleasant Sunday afternoon gatherings speakers have alluded to it, and the criticisms of the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Trades' Disputes Bill introduced by the Government allowing peaceful picketing in case of strikes, and declaring the non-liability of trade unions and officials ...
Article : 62 wordsGreat Britain, Russia, France, and Italy, the protecting Powers of Crete, propose to introduce fresh reforms in that island, as recommended by the recent International ...
Article : 256 wordsA proclamation appears in the "Gazette" establishing a port at Botany, in the State of New South Wales, for the loading and discharge of free goods only," and also the ...
Article : 132 wordsTowns rowed a remarkable race, just as [?] he were out for a trial over the full course. He seldom looked at his rival, and kept going as hard as he could, putting his weight ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Natal militia will be demobilised next week unless there are untoward developments denoting a fresh outbreak of rebels. ...
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Article : 704 wordsThe Chicago Board of Revenue, considering that the late Mr. Marshall Field during the last seven years of his life escaped taxation on £21,000,000, have presented to his ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe Premier of Manitoba estimates that in the north-west provinces the wheat surplus will be 100 million bushels. "Beerbohm's" of June 22 states:—"In the ...
Article : 149 wordsAt the Princess Theatre last night Mr. R. G. Knowles gave his entertainment "Songs and Stories of the Stage." Mrs. Knowles acted as accompanist, and a splendid series of blograph ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has given its decision in the Victorian appeal case, the Colonial Bank of Australasia versus Marshall and Day, ...
Article : 92 wordsIt was a matter of difficulty to get near Towns after the race, as numerous friends lined the way from the boatshed to the Palace Hotel, Mortlake, walting to congratulate him. ...
Article : 421 wordsMr. Bent, the Premier, and Mr. Gill, Under— Treasurer of South Australia, had an interview yesterday on the subject of State loans, and it is understood that it had reference to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Glen[?]g River flood is higher than that of 1893 by 3ft. The immense body of water renders the course of the river quite indistinguishable. So far no losses of stock have ...
Article : 375 wordsIn a county match Surrey versus Yorkshire, concluded yesterday, Surrey won by nine wickets. The match, which was played as a benefit for W. Lees, the Surrey ...
Article : 70 wordsMrs. Gardiner, from Australia, was robbed of £40 and jewellery worth several hundreds of pounds, while travelling between Marseilles and London. It is ...
Article : 136 wordsThe water was perfectly smooth, and the tide fairly fast. The course was very well kept. The umpire, Mr. M. Rush, ordered the scullers out at 4 p.m., and 16 ...
Article : 849 wordsThe wood morchants and woodcarters, headed by the Mayor, Alderman Ivey, asked the Western Lands Board on Saturday to open up certain timber reserves in the district to ...
Article : 149 wordsA rather sensational gas explosion occurred in a street at Nelson. Kenning and Vercoo, two corporation labourers, noticed a smell of gas from a memorial fountain bearing a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 30 Jul 1906, Page 7
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