Fifty persons were killed and eighty seriously injured by an explosion of 500 tons of dynamite while the explosive was being loaded on the British ...
Article : 314 wordsThe gas strikers, at a mass meeting yesterday morning, ratified the agreement arrived at on the previous evening, and returned to work in the ...
Article : 832 wordsSeveral Turkish sentries were frozen to death at Chatalja and Bulair. It is reported that Arab troops at the Dardanelles mutinied owing to the ...
Article : 112 wordsSaturday was to have been the big day in connection with the Newcastle Show, but, unfortunately, rain set in at an early hour and continued without intermission ...
Article : 260 wordsMr. E. Peters, acting president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, stated on Saturday that he had received a telephone message from Mr. A. R. Cant, ...
Article : 98 wordsMany detectives are still concentrating their energies in the endeavour to secure a clue in connection with the brutal murder of Esther Porter last week at ...
Article : 153 wordsOne of the most violent storms experienced in Newcastle for many years, raged over the city on Saturday afternoon and evening. At intervals, the wind, which ...
Article : 283 wordsMore trouble is threatening at the Kent-street works of the Australian Gas-light Company. It appears that when the men went on ...
Article : 142 wordsNegotiations are being opened between the proprietors of the Abermain No. 1 Colliery and the miners' lodge with a view to arranging a working agreement ...
Article : 108 wordsLarge contracts for supplies for the trans-Australian railway have been entered into with Messrs. Slemens Brothers and Messrs. Johnson, Clapham, and ...
Article : 146 wordsA gathering at Parliament House last night totalling about 150, including representatives of both branches of the Legislature, the various professions, and ...
Article : 1,025 wordsThe imperial Parliament has been prorogued. A private bill, dealing with the suffrage, will be introduced next session. ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is reported that Sir Samuel Griffith, the Chief Justice of the High Court, will accept a position on the new Imperial Court of Appeal, and will resign his ...
Article : 401 wordsIn conversation with a representative of the "Newcastle Morning Herald," yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. J. Cannington, president of the Agricultural ...
Article : 1,182 wordsThe torrential rains that accompanied the storm that raged on Saturday with such violence over the district were responsible for a considerable amount of ...
Article : 285 wordsRemarkable evidence was given yesterday in a case in which George Thompson Goo Gon and Victor E. Peter. Goo Gon are charged with being prohibited ...
Article : 206 wordsAn examination of the steamer Turakina since the fire on board was extinguished disclosed that there is four feet of water in No. 4 hold. ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Carmichael, the Minister for Labour, has made the following statement: "The dispute in regard to the gas employees claims having been fortunately ...
Article : 1,121 wordsThe newspaper "Germania" asserts that the reason for the increases in the German army is that Turkey having been unable to hold the Balkan States ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Midland Railway Company has reinstated Guard Richardson. The company states that it recognises the possibility of oral ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsThe tram traffic in the Newcastle district on Saturday afternoon and evening was carried on under considerable difficulty owning to the heavy rain. Owing to ...
Article : 209 wordsTwo persons simultaneously entered the office of the Bank of Genoa, and presented cheques each in the amount of £12,000. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Paris newspaper "L'Humanite" alleges that during operations in Morocco General Franchet d'Espery ordered a surgeon-major named ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is rumoured in political circles that Alderman C. M. Jenkinson will nominate for the plebiscite for the Liberal candidate for Brisbane to oppose Mr. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe steamer Redpine was wrecked on Durville Island last night. She is laden with a million and a half feet of timber. All hands were saved. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Edden, M.P., treats in that philosoprical spirit so characteristic of him the prospect of competition in the selection of a Labour candidate for Kahibah at the ...
Article : 104 wordsM. Vitay, while aeroplaning from Hondon, was caught in a wind gust near Farnborough, and his machine, turning turtle, was completely ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Redmond, M.P., is appealing for further financial support for the Home Rule Fund. Scottish miners have obtained an ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Newcastle Hospital severely felt the effects of the storm and at seven o'clock in the evening conditions were pitiable for patients and staff [?]. ...
Article : 469 wordsMr. Rawlin, the general secretary to the Gas Employees' Union, said:—"It was one of the grandest meetings in connection with the final settlement of a big dispute ...
Article : 401 wordsJoyce Locke, a suffragette, charged with being concerned in the burning of a tea-house at Kew Gardens, was yesterday, sentenced to eighteen ...
Article : 73 wordsThe cycling and motor carnival, which was to have been held at the Newcastle Sports Ground on Saturday night, as the concluding feature of carnival week, has ...
Article : 86 wordsThe English steamer Galvados was lost a week ago in the Sea of Marmora. It was then officially denied that there had been any loss of life, but it ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Hunt, Commonwealth Meteorologist, has received the following wireless message via Macquarie Island and Hobart:— "The leader of the Australian ...
Article : 100 wordsAn unknown person ran alongside a, carriage in which M. Constans, the Belgian Director of Customs, was riding with his wife, and fired several ...
Article : 47 words"Surely a great, rich country like ours will see our dependents properly provided for. ...
Article : 21 wordsA great fire has occurred in Yokohama. The Exchange, several silk factories, and 250 other buildings were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 279 wordsDuring February 53 cases were tried under the Customs Act, and fines inflicted for the export of butter which was below the standard, or short in weight. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe battle-cruiser Australia has returned to Devonport after undergoing three-quarter speed trail, lasting thirty hours. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Dominion House of Commons ended at midnight a sitting which lasted 129 hours. A feature of the closing speeches ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that while sparsely-populated Australia has established a national service, and Canada has assumed the ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. E. J. Kavanagh, M.L.C., joined with the other unionists in expressing his pleasure at the settlement of the strike. "I am very pleased, indeed, at the ...
Article : 575 wordsConcerning the threatened strike amongst the Sydney telegraph messengers, Mr. Frazer, the Postmaster-General stated yesterday that he was sorry to ...
Article : 77 wordsA man's body has been found in the mangroves at Broome. There are indications that death occurred about two months ago. There was a wound in the ...
Article : 146 wordsA telegraphic message was received at Newcastle last night from Wilson's Promontory, stating that at 6.40 p.m. it was reported from there that the steamer ...
Article : 102 wordsThere were two cases of drowning in the Newcastle district owing to the flooded state of the watercourses. Ono case occurred at Wallsend, where ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 10 Mar 1913, Page 5
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