Frank Denison Brown, 51, and John Macpherson, 40, were charged at the Water Police Court on Tuesday that during the month of December, 1907, they did conspire together to cheat and defraud the Singer ...
Article : 1,768 wordsThe some while back discovery at the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, of a Hebrew Bible in MS. adds one more instance of a valuable literary find unearthed from the unexpected ...
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Advertising : 351 wordsIn introducing the Naval Estimates in the House of Commons on Monday night, Mr. Winston Churchill. First Lord of the Admiralty, said that the fertile Budget of 1908 had made possible an increase in armaments ...
Article : 940 wordsThe boiler of a locomotive exploded in the round house of the Southern Pacific Railway at San Antonio, Texas, and the free laborers who were working in the building were killed. ...
Article : 110 wordsIn Adelaide (S.A.) on Monday a number of farmers began operations at the various phosphate manufactories in the direction of obtaining fertiliser supplies for the coming seeding. Large quantities of artificial manures ...
Article : 192 wordsIn the New South Wales Legislative Council on Friday night the Savings Banks Amalgamation Bill, which has for its object the amalgamation of the Government Sayings Bank and the Savings Bank of 'New South ...
Article : 55 wordsAt Atlantic. Georgia, U.S.A., a section foreman dreamed he saw a neighboring trestle bridge collapse, and on awakening found that the bridge had really been wrecked He know that a train was approaching ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the N.S. Wales Legislative Assembly on Monday the Treasurer (Mr. Dacey) gave notice of his intention to move for leave to introduce a loan bill for £200,000. When subsequently asked what the bill was for, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following was the voting in the N.S. Wales As-sembly on the third reading of the Bill to raise the salaries of members from ,£300 to £500 per annum:— For the Increase. 41.—Jones. McDonald. Bruntnell, ...
Article : 147 wordsThe German barque Pisagua collided with the P. and O. Company's liner Oceana, outward bound for Bombay, oft Beachy Head (Eng.), in the dark, early on the morning of Friday, March 15. ...
Article : 346 wordsThe [?]ull of the battleship Maine, which was blown up in 'Havana Harbor just prior to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, was towed into deep water and sunk amid the thunder of ...
Article : 71 wordsJudge Johnson, in sentencing three young men—Henry Bolton, Thomas Kenneth, and Thomas Murphy—for robbery in company, in Melbourne, said they were members of a gang which frequented Queen's Bridge. They seized ...
Article : 124 wordsA corporal and two soldiers at Muclheim surprised three burglars in a canteen. The burglars showered bottles, glasses, and plates at the soldiers. Eventually one of the thieves surrendered, but the ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Tuesday morning John Mackel, a screen-hand, working at South Greta Colliery, near Maitland, was crossing a paddock at Farley, on his way to work, when he was attacked by a young Alderney bull. The animal ...
Article : 147 wordsThe death of Mr. John Manifold Gibson, who retired from the post of Under-Secretary to the Chief Secretary in 1910, occurred at Ocean-street, Woollahra, on Tuesday morning. The late Mr. Gibson was a brother of ...
Article : 109 wordsOwing to the police having seriously injured a schoolboy during a demonstration at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, the students at the grammar schools in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia struck. ...
Article : 56 wordsA gas explosion occurred at McCurtain, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, entombing 80 men. Twenty bodies have, so far been recovered. They are blackened beyond recognition. ...
Article : 78 wordsFollowing on the action taken by members of the various athletic bodies during the recent Brisbane strike in helping to maintain order in the city, the Eight-Hour Union decided at a recent meeting that the ...
Article : 107 wordsAt a magisterial inquiry held at Murwillumbah into the circumstances surrounding the death of Minnie Bashfora, aged 15, the Coroner found that she died from the effects of strychnine poisoning, administered by herself. ...
Article : 103 wordsOn Wednesday night an overhead tram wire in Loftus-street, Sydney, broke, with startling results. It fell to the roadway, and became entangled with a passing motor-car an occupant of which. John Poolman, of ...
Article : 191 wordsBombs manufactured on a barber's premises at Oporto, Portugal, exploded and wrecked four houses. Four bodies have been recovered. Five persona were also injured. ...
Article : 30 wordsDuring a pony race at Pyramid Hill (Vic.) on Thursday, one of the horses dashed off the course and headed for the spectators. Several persons were knocked down and injured. Sir. J. M'Cready's jaw was broken, ...
Article : 129 wordsThe steamer North Briton, bound from Sundarland to Sumna (Roumania), foundered, and 20 of the cerw of 21 were drowned. The sole survivor landed at Spezia, near Genoa, Italy. ...
Article : 34 wordsOn Friday night a female warder at the Kew Lunatic Asylum (Vic.) was returning to the institution, and when near the bridge between the Yarra Bend and Kew a man rushed out and struck her in the face, knocking ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Walter Simpson was alighting from a Bondi-bounrt tramcar at the corner "of Oxford and Elizabeth streets, on Wednesday, when he slipped on the wood blocks and fell under the car. His left leg was severed below the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,092 wordsNews received in Goulburn shows that last Sunday's storm was of unprecedented violence at Bronte (N.S.W.). Hailstones of abnormal size fell, killing thousands of rabbits and all sorts of birds. Miles of fencing were ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Mexican rebels captured General Mills, the Federal leader, following on a sharp engagement in the Laguna district. They have ordered him to be shot. Ail the foreigners in the Laguna district are fleeing ...
Article : 45 wordsA case which Mr. Justice Edwards said was the most amazing ever brought under his notice was heard in the Supreme Court, Wellington, N.Z. Plaintiff, a married woman claimed from her borther damages for ...
Article : 76 wordsA balloon manned by two officers broke from its moorings at Berlin on Tuesday, and drifted, dragging a steel rope. The latter touched a high-tension electric wire, causing ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Government of West Australia proposes to utilise 400 acres of Claremont Asylum Reserve for a State dairy farm, carrying 70 cows, to supply the hospitals and sick children with pure milk. There is an artesian bore on ...
Article : 57 wordsFour alleged German spies have been arrested in the precincts of St. Helen's Fort, which forms the eastern defence of the Isle of Wight (Eng.). ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. R. T. Mitchell, of Casterton (Vic), recently lost several head of healthy cattle. He was at a loss to account for the mortality. While resetting some troughs eat which the cattle were accustomed to ...
Article : 65 wordsWhen returning from a fishing trip on Friday, Stanley and William Parrot found the bodies of a young woman and a male child in a bay near the St. Kilda pier (Vic) The woman was about 30 years of age, of ...
Article : 88 wordsThe body of Maggie O'Donnell (25) was found on Sunday afternoon in an underground tank at the residence of her stepfather, Patrick Freel, Railway-street, Mere-wether. Newcastle. Miss O'Donnell had been missing ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Russian court-martial at Tabriz, since the recent troubles commenced, has sentenced 37 persons to death, and the acting Governor of Azerbaijan has sentenced an additional 50. Quiet has now been restored. ...
Article : 36 wordsTwo new series of great interest have commenced in "The Globe." "Life Stories of the Living Great" deal with the great ones of to-day, as did the "Life ...
Article : 116 wordsThe personalty of the late Lord Wandsworth has beer sworn for probate purposes at £1,488,000. Of this sum £1,000,000 goes to found an orphanage. ...
Article : 27 wordsA taxi-cab at Firmborough (Eng.) dashed into a company of infantry which was engaged carrying out night operations. Many were severely cut, and two are in a critical condition. ...
Article : 38 wordsHerr Wermuth, German Imperial Treasurer, has' resigned owing to the fact that the Government is financing the armament bills by means of anticipated surpluses on existing taxation instead of reintroducing the inheritance ...
Article : 45 wordsA writ was issued on Monday on behalf of Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins, of Lithgow Ironworks, in an action commenced by that firm against the Government for the cancellation of the steel rails and iron contracts. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe super-Dreadnought Ajax, 23,600 tons, was launched at Greenock (Eng.) on Thursday. The designed speed of the vessel is 22 knots. ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 24 Mar 1912, Page 14
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