A telegram received from Berlin states that a carefully planned plot against the Czar's life has been discovered at Sofnowice, in Russian Poland, ...
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Article : 55 wordsIn the Government scheme for clearing the grass lands in the Heytesbury country for settlement, four traction engine will be required. Tenders for the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Olympic Games were continued this afternoon, when one of the principal walking events was decided. This was the 3500 metres (about 2¼ English miles) ...
Article : 82 wordsThe residents of Yea have strong objections to their little town being submerged by the proposed Trawool roservoir, and they have written to the ...
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Article : 136 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture has received a memorandum from Mr Sinclair, Government agent in the East, stating that he has returned to Singapore. He ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Olympic Games were, resumed, and in the swimming contests Frank Beaurepaire, of Melbourne, won his heat. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. L. O. S. Poidevin, the well-known Anglo-Australian cricketer, and representative in England of the Australian Board of Control, has written a letter ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. D. W. Davies. the Attorney-General, has written to the Premier stating that while acting as Agent-General he sent a number of Victorian exhibits ...
Article : 80 wordsA dispute has arisen between two sections of the Irish National League. Some time ago the Rochfort Bridge (Westmeath) branch of the Irish League ...
Article : 154 wordsSir,—The injustice, the inconsistency and withall the un Christian manner in which Canon Nash has been treated by Archbishop Clarke to my mind, and I ...
Article : 249 wordsTwo of the companies in the office of Miss Newport, the lady legal manager, who is now in trouble over another mining company, were the Unknown and ...
Article : 188 wordsRobert S. Sievier, the bookmaker, was formally committed for trial to-day at the Bow Street police court on the charge of blackmailing Mr. J. B. Joel. ...
Article : 44 wordsA preliminary report on the British wheat crop has been issued by the "Times." This states that though the recent weather conditions have been ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the House of Lords last evening Lord Lansdowne complained of the delay in sending up measures from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. This ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. P. Snowden, Labor member for Blackburn, moved an amendment to reduce the duty on tea to 3d, as an ...
Article : 57 wordsIt could hardly be expected that the quarantine provisions of the Gaming Suppression Act would effectually eradicate gaming in the Chinese quarter of ...
Article : 129 wordsDr. Saumarez Smith, Archbishop of Sydney, and Primate of Australia, is a member of the committee deputed by the Lambeth Conference to allocate the ...
Article : 52 wordsYesterday morning the body of a middle-aged man, about 45 years of age, was found lying on the railway line, between Mitcham and Ringwood. From ...
Article : 96 wordsThe July series of London wool sales opened to-day in the presence of a very large attendance of home and foreign buyers. Competition was brisk, with ...
Article : 59 wordsAlthough our Commonwealth is a long way from being out of its teens, we appear to have had already quite a number of gentlemen filling the highest ...
Article : 469 wordsAt the wool sales yesterday merinoes were generally 5 per cent, higher, while crossbreds showed an advance of from 5 per cent, to 7½ per cent. on the ...
Article : 40 wordsThere was an element of romance about a case heard in the Police Court to-day. It was a charge against a young man named William Patrick ...
Article : 176 wordsThe mysterious death of a railway official named Thomas Hourigan, 53 years old, has been reported to the City Coroner. Hourigan was till recently ...
Article : 103 wordsNews of the rise in the price of wool at the London sales has given much satisfaction in New Zealand. A message announcing the advance was read ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Moore) arrived here this morning in connection with the woodcutters' strike. He was met at the station by the Attorney-General (Mr. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe tragic end which recently betel a laborer named James Hodgetts, 62 years yesterday formed the subject of an inquest at the Melbourne morgue. ...
Article : 117 wordsYesterday a deputation representative of the Church of Englarid clergy waited on the Postmaster-General with a view of strengthening his hands and ...
Article : 239 wordsIn the Practice Court to-day Mr. Justice Cussen was asked for permission to make a substituted service on the respondent in an impending divorce case, ...
Article : 138 wordsGeorge M'Keen, a resident of Canterbury, was having tea at Black's Restaurant. Swanston-street, this evening, when he dropped dead. Death is ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Anglo-Welsh footballers have suffered another defeat, New Plymouth beating them by 5 points to 3. ...
Article : 29 wordsA nasty accident yesterday befell Christopher Burnos, a resident of Chilwell (Geelong), on the Yarra Bank-road. He was found lying there by Constable ...
Article : 83 wordsThere was trouble in the gallery of the King's Theatre last night, resulting in the appearance in the City Court to-day of Sammel Crush, who was charged ...
Article : 91 wordsSpecially flavored butter is now quoted at 133/- per cwt. An unexpected rise of 4/- took place to-day. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Loan Bill, which provides for borrowing £1,250,000, has been passed by Parliament. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Thu 16 Jul 1908, Page 3
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