Towns once more proved his right to the World's Championship yesterday. Though there were several features of cote about this race, it could not bear ...
Article : 733 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, in tho course of the debate on the new Army scheme in the House of Commons, deprecated the extinction instead of the reform of ...
Article : 73 wordsA sensational incident occurred in Pitt-street last evening. A man who wan standing near the corner of Goulburn-street was attacked with a tomahawk. ...
Article : 287 wordsJust ninety-nine years ago in such stress was the British army for recruits that levy and bounty money of £40 a man was being paid (equivalent to at least ...
Article : 953 wordsSir Thomas Sutherland, chairman of the P. and O. Company, in a letter to the "Times," asserts that he is unaware of any conspiracy against the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe increased facilities for immigration offered by the New South Wales Government are causing numerous applications to be forwarded to Mr. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe United States House of Representatives, by 134 to 100, has omitted from the Ship Subsidy Bill the clauses relating to fast services to the Orient. ...
Article : 78 wordsDurnan apparently took his defeat to heart. After returning to his dressing-room, he rested for five or ten minutes before anyone was allowed to see him. ...
Article : 256 wordsHector Fraser, McIntosh, and Greig divided 17,328 franca (about £650) at the Triennial Championship pigcon-shooting meeting at Monto Carlo ...
Article : 83 wordsKing Edward, hearing that the Houses of Parliament had arranged for a luncheon to be tendered to the Colonial Premiers on their arrival in ...
Article : 87 wordsA petition is being circulated in Cape Colony praying for the reprieve of Ferreira, the Boer raider, and his companions, who were recently ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Deakin, spoken to to-day about what was described as the unseemly conflict of statements between the two sections of the Melbourne Pross as to the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Radicals in the Reichstag warned Prince von Bulow, the German Chancellor, that the price of their support must he the granting of liberal ...
Article : 40 wordsAbout a month ago Messrs. Atkins, Barker, and Tu[?]ffe, unsuccessful candidates for tho Victorian Senate, and Mr. Russell, one of the successful ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. R. W. Peaks, Liberal Member for Louth, declared in the House of Commons that the Noncomformists would not allow the question of ...
Article : 79 wordsThe rebellious Bimal tribe attacked an Italian primitive expedition in Italian East Africa, but was repulsed near Danae, 200 being killed. ...
Article : 38 words"I think it was a good race," remarked Jim Stanbury. "Was Towns fully extended?" "I think so. He was rowing like a very ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Bill introduced by Mr. Ramsay McDonald (Labor), to extend the provisions of the Meals to School Children Bill to Scotland, and Mr. Walter Rea's ...
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Article : 267 wordsIt is reported that the German Government proposes to widen the North Sea Canal sufficiently to admit of the passage of the new warships of the ...
Article : 69 wordsDr. Oldham, opthalmic surgeon at Brighton, who died recently, has bequeathed £60,000 for Higher Education. ...
Article : 28 wordsOn the umpire's boat while going to the starting post Bill Beach expressed the opinion that Towns would win by about seven lengths. ...
Article : 40 words"There can be no doubt that the Act is being fully availed of," said Mr. O'Malley Wood, who is in control of tho Advances to Settlers' branch of the Government ...
Article : 243 wordsWhile Durnan was being rubbed down in his dressing-room Mr. Upward entered and shook the Canadian warmly by the hand. "Well, Durnan," said the umpire, "you ...
Article : 71 wordsFehim Pasha, Chief of the Secret Police at the Yildiz Kiosk, the Sultan's palace at Constantinople, who was reported recently to have been ...
Article : 119 wordsBefore the race started Peter Kemp considered it would be "the softest race Towns ever had," judging by what the two men had done while training. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Germain mailboat Konigin Wilhelmina stranded outside Flushing, Holland. A tug rescued 90 passengers and ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, Friday Afternoon.—Mr. Pierpont Morgan, the millionaire, has purchased lour paintings of Vandyck in Italy for £100,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. James Field, of London, a gentleman well known and highly esteemed in sporting circles, was asked his opinion of the race. "Well," he said, "we were ...
Article : 126 wordsThe water was smooth as glass. The start was delayed owing to a smart shower, and also to the fact that the challenger seemed to be unaware of the ...
Article : 277 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company's ship Kanowna was found to be on fire at the wharf on the Yarra this evening just as the men had completed loading her with produce ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsThe "Daily Mall" states that J. R. M. Mackay has been invited to join the South African team to shortly leave for England. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe people on the hill in the vicinity of the finishing post were the victims of a false alarm. "Durnan Talks in," yelled a ...
Article : 134 wordsThe members of the Roads and Bridges staff of the Works Department, whoso positions have become vacant owing to the new Local Government Act, yesterday ...
Article : 95 wordsAn alarm or fire was received about halt-past 11 yesterday morning at the Paddington Fire Station from the Sydney Cricket Ground. The outbreak was ...
Article : 145 wordsWrites a Pekin correspondent to the "Japan Weekly Mall": "As to the enforcement of the edict that the use of opium must be prohibited within ...
Article : 273 wordsOn Monday and Wednesday last large parties of prominent citizens, including newspaper people, visited the offices of the "Sunday Times," ...
Article : 183 wordsThe attendance altogether was estimated at 14.000 or 15,000, including the Sydney contingent, that from, the mountains and Lithgow and the local ...
Article : 28 wordsAs usual there were number of photographers at the finishing post Six of these pictures and also a moving picture show that there was just daylight between ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is notified in yesterday's Commonwealth "Gazette" that application has been made for registration of the New South Wales branch of the Boot Trades ...
Article : 41 wordsP[?]rith was the hub yesterday. Representatives of all countries were in evidence. Mr. Jim Field, from England, Mr. Abo Solman, Canada, Mr. Geo, Upward ...
Article : 90 wordsTowns was in a bath of perspiration as he came up the path leading from the river to his quarters. He carried his boat up the ascent and appeared to be in ...
Article : 330 wordsThe sudden death took place yesterday of Mr. Herbert S. Thompson, a well-known architect, of Castlereagh-street, city. The deceased was a prominent Freemason ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Saturday Morning.—The death is announced of the Marchioness of Ripon. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe amount of wool received at Darling Harbor, &c., during the week was 3242 bales, representing an increase of 1798 bales, as compared with the corresponding ...
Article : 133 wordsThe railway truffle was one of the disappointments in connection with the race. It had been expected that the trains from Sydney would be patronised by an ...
Article : 113 wordsThere was virtually no betting, offers to lay 2 to 1 or longer odds on Towns not meeting with any response from the other side. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe railway revenue for the week ending February 23 amounted to £88,414, as against £79,423 for the corresponding week of last year—an increase of £9991. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Lord Mayor will hand over the stakes at Bat[?]man's Hotel on Monday night. The race was for £500 aside. ...
Article : 24 wordsSydney Fleming, 24, who resides at Alexandria, was playing cricket in the Erskineville Park yesterday afternoon, when he slipped and fell, fracturing his leg. He was admitted to the Prince ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Charles Harrison, secretary of the Northern Tasmania Fish Acclimatisation Society, has arrived in Sydney to take delivery of 50,000 salmon ova to arrive ...
Article : 56 wordsTowns' weight was 10st. 7lb.; Durnan's, 10st. 10lb. ...
Article : 11 wordsUnder Inspector Mitchell, of No. 1 Station, about 60 members of the metrop[?] ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 3 Mar 1907, Page 7
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