The "Standard," in commenting upon the failure of the strike in Victoria, says that Mr. I[?]vine is a hero. He has now a clean slate with his hands sufficiently strengthened to ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, was waited upon yesterday by a great deputation, which urged that the corn tax should not be remitted. ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. J. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, addressed his constiuents in the Birmingham Town Hall last night, and received a tremendons ovation. ...
Article : 544 wordsSir Arthur Lawley, the Lientenant-Governor of the Transvaal, has rejected the petition of the Duth Reformed Church, asking that the control of Government schools should be ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Daneff (Russophil) Cabinet in Bulgaria has resigned owing to an incident between Prince Ferdinand and M. Ludskaneff, the Finance Minister, and Dr. Radeff, the ...
Article : 135 wordsOur Melbourne correspondent telegraphed on Friday night as follows:- "The railway strike ended with the same dramatic suddenncess that marked its commencement a week ...
Article : 665 wordsSubscriptions received at the "Argus" office towards the fund for rewarding the loyalist drivers and firemen who kept the trains going last week total £658 14s 3d. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Premier retired from the excited closing scene in Parliament House on Friday afternoon to the Ministers' room, usually so quiet an exclusive. It was not so on this occasion, however. Most of the other ...
Article : 403 wordsAn edict ordering the expulsion of Jews from Kicff, Little Russia, affects 37,000 people who are distributing themselves throughout Southern Russia. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is regarded by the members of the Board of Health as a very satisfactory sign that so far no more infected rates have been discovered within the area which has been proclamed infected, in order to ...
Article : 147 wordsFifty thousand Russian troops in the Odessa district are on a war footing. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt Saloniks 1000lb, of dynamite has been unearthed. The police have discovered that the French and Russian consulates at Salomka have been ...
Article : 45 wordsAnother case of plague was reported at Brisbane to-day, the patient being a young girl living in the city. ...
Article : 28 wordsDuring the last two months 639 licenses for hotels in England and Wales have been refused renewal. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Government Geologist, Mr. Brown, returned to Adelaide on Saturday, after having been to Winnecke's Depot at Arltunga. With regard to Winnecke's Depot, he said:—"When I was there ...
Article : 228 wordsThe British Board of Agriculture has published an official pamphlet condemning sparrows. Three-fourths of the whole food of these birds was declared to be cultivated ...
Article : 96 wordsIn retaliation for Germany's objection to borax being used as a preservative for meat, the United States Government will in July enforce the law excluding sausages treated ...
Article : 83 wordsThe report circulated this evening to the offect that the Railway Commissioner, Mr. Fitzpatrick, had been arrived of the resumption of the railway strike was received with incredulity, but that something in ...
Article : 578 wordsIt had been arranged that the Board of Inquiry to investigate each individual case of the men who went on strike should consist of Mrssrs. Pitt and Sachse, M's.L.C., honorary members of the Cabinet, ...
Article : 339 wordsThe anarchist Rosseau, who made the infernal machine which was intended to be placed on the Umbria at New York, has sailed for Europe. It is belived he is ...
Article : 66 wordsA brutal assault was committed on Mr. Squire Taylor, a brickmaker, at Ballarat last night. Mr. Taylor was on his way home, when he was set upom by three young men. He was subsequently found ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. H. D. Scorer, secretary of the association, was interviewed on Friday night at the Rialto Rooms. The place, lately the scene of many crowded and enthuaiastic meetings, was strangely quiet. Mr. Scorer ...
Article : 226 wordsBand of Hope.—Crushed [?]20 tons for 498., gold. Queen Cross Reef.—Crushed 870 tons for 2622oz. gold. South Glanmire and Monkland.—Won 423oz. amalgam for the week. ...
Article : 44 wordsJembaicumbene Dredguing Company, No Liability.— During the fortnight on Saturday the dredge worked 216 hours and washed up for 5[?]oz, of retorted gold. ...
Article : 34 wordsA number of the students at Yale University, sympathising with employers, devote a portion of their time in taking the places of tram drivers on strike. ...
Article : 36 wordsA young woman named Mary Kennedy, residing at 9, Forth-street, Woollahra, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital on Saturday morning suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries. She was ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Premier (Mr.Irviue) and other members of the Government conferred on Saturday with Commissioner Fitzpatrick and others regarding the resumption of the train service. The Premier ...
Article : 521 wordsThe Premier, Mr. R. Philp, who is on a tour in North Queensland, speaking at Normanton on Friday said, in referring to private railways, that before leaving Brisbane he had heard from a gentleman ...
Article : 109 wordsAt the inquest on the body of Miss Camille Holland, which was unearlthed from a filledin ditch at Moat Farm, Clavering, a shoe-maker inentified the boots found on the feet ...
Article : 1,034 wordsJames Williams, living at Julius-street, Enmore, was playing football at Bexley on Saturday, when he fell and fractured his left leg. After first aid had been rendered the sufferer was conveyed by train to ...
Article : 52 wordsThe consensus of opinion in Unionist circles is that Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham is an earnest, frank, and loyal warning to his colleagues. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe task of acquainting the men on strike of the action which had been taken in their behalf fell to the president of the association, Mr. N. P. Hart. On being interviewed subsequently Mr. Hart ...
Article : 443 wordsThe Premier visited the railway offices again this afternoon, and had a long conference with the Commissioner. While he was there two members of the association came from the meeting of enginemen, but ...
Article : 284 wordsMr. William Harvey Armstrong, president of the New South Wales Pastoral Association, and chairman of directors of the Queensland Silyer and Lead Company, has arrived at Townsville on his way to ...
Article : 69 wordsOn Saturday afternoon William England, 68, living at Mills-street, Pyrmont, was driving a cab along Murray-street, Purmont, when the horse bolted. England was thrown from his seat, ...
Article : 84 wordsAn open-air meeting in connection with the recent bankers' strike, which has now developed into a lockout was held in Brisbane on Saturday night. The public were urged to support the co-operative bakery ...
Article : 67 wordsA disturbance occurred in a wine shop in Market-street on Saturday night, during which Francis Crampton, 24, and Edmund Courtney, seamen on the steamer Queen Elizabeth, were injured. It was stated ...
Article : 136 wordsSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the leader of the Opposition, speaking at Scarborough yesterday, said that if tbe claims for preferential treatment made by the autonomous ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Collie Coal Proprietary has notified the Miners' Union that the hewing rate of 4s 6d per ton is no longer possible with the reduced selling price. The employers suggest an amicable conference, and ...
Article : 147 wordsA railway foreman named William Heydon, 27, living at Hornsby, was cleaning a pea rifle at his residence on Saturday when the rifle exploded. The bullet lodged in his brain. The unfortunate man died ...
Article : 54 wordsAn accident occurred yesterday afternoon at Block 11 Proprietary whereby W. E. Owen Williams was killed and W. Winton was bedly, but not seriously, hurt. Deceased and his mate were engaged during ...
Article : 296 wordsAt its conclusion Mr. Fitzpatrick held a protracted consullation with Mr. Irvine on the telephone, and at half-past 7 o'clock a delegation, consisting of Messrs. Hart, Scorer, Swift, and Anderson again ...
Article : 225 wordsThirty-four of the Leinster Regiment have been court-martialled at Pretoria for various offence since February. The local news papers urge that an inquiry should be held in ...
Article : 42 wordsThe task of balloting for those engine-drivers and firemen who were to return to work was entered upon on Saturday by the officers of the Railway Department entrusrted with the reorganisation of ...
Article : 496 wordsThe Government has decided to appoint two dairy experts, one from Denmark, and the other from Cannda, at a salary of £100 each per annum. ...
Article : 36 wordsBoth Houses of the State Parliament meet on Tuesday. Referring to the Strike Suppression Bill Mr. Irvine said yesterday: "I might as well say at once that it will be necessary for us to pass certain ...
Article : 109 wordsThe usual concert entertainment was in progress at the Trades Hall on Friday afternoon when the news of the settlement of the strike spread abroad through the city. It was confirmed at the Rialto, but at the ...
Article : 836 wordsThere are 22,166 children in the Government schools in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Minister for Lamds speaking at Levin said that the question of State five insurance was before the Cabinet. He belived it was a matter which the Government could very well take in hand. They had ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the wool auctions to-day the sales were brisk. Prices for all sorts showed an upward tendency. May. 16. ...
Article : 156 wordsPeople in the other States appear envious of Victoria in its possession of Mr. Irvine as Premier. On Saturday a Melbourne business man received a telegraphic communication from a commercial gentleman ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Premier has had a conference with Mahuta and other Maori chiefs at Waahi, Auckland. The letter written by the chief withholeding the native lands from the jurisdiction of the Maori Council has ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a meeting of the local council, held on Wednesday evening, a letter was received from the Department of Public Health relative to the annual renewal of licenses under the Noxious Trades ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Irvine) states that to man who is removed from the railway service for miscenduct will receive any compensation at all. It may be also that men will be retained in the service, and that ...
Article : 49 wordsIn a libel action, Eagleton v. the proprietor of the Napier "Daily Telegraph," arising out of statements published in a letter to the effect that plaintiff was unfit to take a prominent part ...
Article : 159 wordsAmong the messages of congratulation received by the Premier on Saturday was the following from Sir A. Rutledge, the Acting-Chief Secretary of Brisbane:—"Heartily congratulate you upon ...
Article : 64 wordsOne of the many idle rumours that were circulated after the termination of the strike was that, though the executive of the enginemen had [?]ade a written statement that the men had uncondidtionally surrendered, ...
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Advertising : 51 wordsThe train service on Saturday maintained the steady imporvement that had been made daily during the past week. Although none of the striking drivers or firemen were allowed to resume duty more ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 18 May 1903, Page 7
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