Mr. J. H. Cann, M.L.A., ex-Speaker, in the course of a speech to his constituents last night, referred to Mr. Willis' occupancy of the Speaker's chair. ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Long Tunnel mine still continues to yield phenomenally rich ore. This afternoon 50lb. of ore gave 156oz., and for the past eight days since yesterday week ...
Article : 84 wordsThe red-flag victory at Potsdam is all the more notable because Herr Liebknecht was recently in prison for 18 months for circulating anti-militarist propaganda. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe annual Labor Conference under the auspices of the Political Labor League was continued yesterday at the Trades Hall, Mr. H. Lamond, president, being in the chair. About ...
Article : 822 wordsPierre Pierri, a sweep, surrendered himself to the police and confessed to having murdered a girl in her bedroom at the Montmartre Hotel. ...
Article : 97 wordsSteamers frequenting the northern waters of the North American continent report an extraordinary change in the Japan current. One vessel was carried twenty miles out of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe British Labor Conference sitting at Birmingham passed a resolution demanding an amendment of the National Insurance Bill on the ground that the contributions are unjustly ...
Article : 166 wordsPolish voters, enraged at the defeat of a compatriot, wrecked the windows of the German tradesmen in the town of Schewtz. Two German students were severely wounded. ...
Article : 39 wordsTwenty thousand rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition from Germany traversed Russia en route for Peking. SHANGHAI, Friday Afternoon. ...
Article : 61 wordsAdditional workmen are being engaged for the building and construction at Acton, in the Federal Capital territory. The water supply works will commence immediately, and the ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is officially announced that the Franco-Italian incident has been settled. The Carthage will convey the doctors, arrested with the Manouba, to Marseilles. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe report of the Royal Commission (Judge Backhouse) appointed to inquire into matters leading up to the suspension of Mr. Robinson, chief of Hansard Staff, by Mr. Speaker, was ...
Article : 102 wordsWhat will be the effect of the German elections? This question was put to a member of the German Consulate yesterday morning by a ...
Article : 860 wordsThe judge trying the case in which Mrs. Hazzard, the "starvation cure" doctor, who has a sanatorium in Washington State, is charged with the murder of Claire Williamson, an ...
Article : 131 wordsFrance undertakes to establish the identity of the Manouba's passengers. Matters of principle involved in the seizures are to be submitted to the Hague International ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Duke of Connaught spent forty minutes at the White House in formally chatting with President Taft. His Royal Highness afterwards received a ...
Article : 113 wordsAbout 500 enthusiasts congregated about the statue of Bobbie Burns, in the Domain, yesterday, to celebrate the 153rd anniversary of the birth of the illustrious Scotch poet. His natal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 362 wordsThe Italians have seized the French steamer Tavignano off the coast of Tunis. It has been taken to Tripoli. [The incident was reported in last issue of ...
Article : 72 wordsThe annual report of the Rhodes scholarship trustees was issued to-day. There were 176 scholars last year, and all put in sound, but not brilliant work. ...
Article : 83 wordsSpeaking at the Albert Hall, Mr. A. Bonar Law, the Unionist leader, said the Government could not keep going at its present pace. The result would be either the destruction ...
Article : 103 wordsA large quantity of dynamite lodged in 1909 has been found in a storage house following on the search by detectives in connection with the nation-wide dynamite conspiracy. ...
Article : 66 wordsPetro Montero, the rebel general, until recently a popular hero, was captured on the 22nd and lynched by an angry crowd. He was dragged through the streets before ...
Article : 50 wordsA sub-committee of the mine owners and workers sat at London for three days endeavoring to find a basis of settlement for a minimum wage. ...
Article : 67 wordsLord Londonderry, replying to Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that the main objection of the Ulster Unionists had been removed, and, therefore, he would ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is now over two years since a start was made on the Murrumbidgee irrigation scheme, and recently it was intimated that early in the previous year the Government would make ...
Article : 211 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's liner Beltana has been launched on the Clyde. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is understood that strong representations have been made by the Roman Catholic authorities in Canada, requesting the Vatican not to apply the Ne Temere decree in the Dominion. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Czar gave audience to the British deputation of Parliamentarians at the Palace to-day. Afterwards the dignitaries of the Court lunched with them. ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—The battleship Malborough has been laid down at the Devonport yards. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe suburban police are busy ascertaining the whereabouts of four children, two of whom have been missing for the past week, whilst of the remaining two one has not been heard ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. Kendall, Supervising Engineer of the Railways, in reply to questions by a "Sunday Times" representative yesterday, stated that the Glenbrook deviation works were ...
Article : 204 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—Messrs. Burroughes and Watts, the promoters of the annual billiard tournament in London, have offered £200 to the winner of the third match, of 18,000 up between ...
Article : 39 wordsTen thousand pounds worth of gems stolen with the effigy of the Virgin at Czenstochowa in 1910, have been discovered in a jeweller's shop in Dublin. ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Saturday Morning.—In his match with Reece F. Lindrum has scored 6667 and his opponent 4583. ...
Article : 23 wordsArmed men held up the manager and several clerks of a suburban branch of the Royal Bank. They herded all the bank officials into a vault, with the exception of one, who, on ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. E. Riley, M.H.R. for South Sydney, yesterday spoke out regarding the resumptions by the Government for railway purposes of a big block of land in Alexandria, accommodating ...
Article : 166 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday Night.—The tariff revision fight has opened in Congress with the consideration of the Metal Tariff Bill, which is first, on the list. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of Fife were absent from the ceremony of consecrating the Gordon memorial cathedral owing to the Duke having contracted a severe chill at Wady Halfa. ...
Article : 69 wordsLOS ANGELES, Friday Night.—Owing to his motor stopping whilst engaged in a night flight at Dominquez, Howard Gill fell 300 feet, and escaped with broken ribs. ...
Article : 32 wordsRt. Rev. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, consecrated the cathedral at Khartoum on the twenty-seventh anniversary of General Gordon's death. ...
Article : 51 wordsAlexander Burtenshaw (37), residing at Lawson-street, Pyrmont, employed as a belt-mender at the railway workshops, Eveleigh, got caught in a belt yesterday morning, and was whirled ...
Article : 125 wordsParticular attention is invited to the notice by the Commissioners of Taxation (published in another column of this issue) calling for returns for 1912 income tax. ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Saturday Morning.—Arrivals: Dunkirk—Port Hunter, Norseman; San Francisco—River Forth, Clatecolos, Bedford. Departures: For Sydney, Port Caroline; for Newcastle, Falls ...
Article : 37 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner, has completed the purchase of a site in the Strand for Commonwealth offices at a cost of £379,756. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe project for the establishment of a Labor daily paper in Sydney is gathering strength and the prospects are bright for its publication well ahead of the next Federal elections, ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Executive of the N.S. Wales Public Disaster Relief Fund acknowledge the receipt of the following contributions towards alleviating the distress occasioned by the recent ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, Friday Night.—Wool: There is good competition at full rates for fine merinos. American buyers are keen on best cross-breds, but faulties are irregular. ...
Article : 137 wordsEarthquake shocks were felt in Perthshire and Monmouth Valley last night. Hundreds of residents of the latter place left their homes and remained in the streets till ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the City Police Court to-day two firemen were sentenced to a month's imprisonment for absenting themselves from the ship Carpentaria without leave, while three other firemen who ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Horseshoe Mine, Kalgoorlie, this morning Harry Redman and Frank Dockring were working at the 1400ft. level when the lights went out owing to a hose coupling blowing ...
Article : 85 wordsThe question of street watering is to be taken up by the City Council at its next meeting, when Alderman Walker will move:— "That it be referred to the Works Committee ...
Article : 78 wordsMrs. Catherine Montgomery yesterday afternoon drank carbolic acid, and when her husband returned to his home at Cowper-street, Waterloo, he found her writhing in pain on ...
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Advertising : 61 wordsThe English mail per R.M.S. Orsova, which left London on December 29, is expected to reach Sydney in time for the delivery of the mails from the G.P.O. to-morrow. ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 28 Jan 1912, Page 7
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