The shocking disaster to the torpedo boat destroyer Tiger (400 tons) during the manœuvres of the Home Fleet has caused a great sensation in England. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe value of the work which is being done by Mr. Thos. Price, Premier or South Australia, who is at present in England, in advertising Australia and ...
Article : 170 wordsThe appointment of Dr. D. J. Hill as United States Ambassador at Berlin has been confirmed by the United States Senate. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe mode in which business is conducted at some of our police courts seems to call rather urgently for tho attention; of some reforming and up-to-date ...
Article : 235 wordsAn interesting letter bearing the date of February 27th, and addressed from Loipsic, has been received by tho Mayor of Geelong, Cr. T. E. Bostock, from Mr. ...
Article : 793 wordsSo many complaints continue to reach us concerning the administration of the Harbor Trust Act by the Commissioners that the necessity of a public inquiry ...
Article : 1,146 wordsThe Vicars-General of the Anglican diocese of Melbourne (Archdeacon Hindley) was seen on Saturday with reference to the case cf Canon Nash, to which ...
Article : 123 wordsThe St. Mary's Bay, 1115 tons, owned by Messrs. Hatsfield, Cameron and Co., Glasgow, which left Newcastle for Chili on llth February last, has been ...
Article : 48 wordsA press representative also called on Mr. Neil, of the firm of Wright and Neil, who throughout has been a supporter of Canon Nash. ...
Article : 432 wordsA match of great interest to golfers was decided at Deal yesterday, when Harry Vardon, the English professional, beat Arnaud Massy, the celebrated ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Jenkins, the Agent-General for South Australia, entertained Mr. Price, the South Australian Premier, at a banquet at the Trocadero last night. ...
Article : 86 wordsDuring the last few days the contractors for the erection of the now Telephone Exchange in Lonsdale-street have been excavating in preparation for the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe football team selected by the Rugby Union to visit Now Zealand during the forthcoming season, left England to-day. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe latest regarding the naval collision in the English Channel shows that the night way dark and the sea choppy. The cruiser Berwick was steaming fast, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Standard" describes the Sydney "Morning Herald's" pamphlet regarding British policy in the Pacific as a painful record of Colonial Office mismanagement ...
Article : 49 wordsThe construction and transport of the gigantic girder, weighing 50 tons, which is to carry the tram lines over the railway at Prince's Bridge will remind old ...
Article : 125 wordsOwing to the vapor from some spirit coming in contact with the flame, an outbreak of fire occurred this morning on. board the steamship Kamura at the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe serious noting that took place in Romo yesterday in connection with the funeral of a working man which resulted in the police firing on the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe annual University boat race was rowed yesterday. Cambridge led throughout, and won easily by two and a half lengths. ...
Article : 31 wordsAnother death from bubonic plague has occurred.. The victim was a young man named Sydney Robinson, who was admitted to ...
Article : 47 wordsThe warrant issued for tho arrest of Mr. W. F. Walker, a prominent member of the Stock Exchange, who has been missing for some time, has not yet been ...
Article : 134 wordsNo settlement has yet been arrived at in connection with the wharf laborers' strike. It was; ascertained to-day that the ...
Article : 558 wordsIt was originally proposed to call a meeting of Christ Church parishioners for to-night to elect a parochial nominator in succession to Mr. Goo. S. ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. T. M. Sewell was on Saturday elected president of the Geelong and District State School Teachers' Association. The Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) has ...
Article : 210 wordsThe-keel of the Vanguard, which will be the seventh of the Dreadnought class of battleships built for the British Government, was laid at Barrow yesterday. ...
Article : 37 wordsApparently the policy of the Education Department is not to en courage family people to occupy the position of caretakers. At the Yarra Park State ...
Article : 93 wordsThe announcement that the Savings Bank scheme of home money-boxes has proved a great success in South Australia will revive public interest in the first ...
Article : 456 wordsIt came as a shock to the Minister for Customs some time ago to learn that good, honest, temperance people were producing, and even consuming, alcohol ...
Article : 248 wordsThe annual commencement of the University of Melbourne, which took place on Saturday, was in marked contrast to similar ceremonies in the past, in that ...
Article : 277 wordsA very serious accident occurred at Rosedale on Friday, to a man named Michael Lanigan, one of whose hands was caught in a chaffcutter, which ...
Article : 145 wordsFor some time past, unknown to themselves, W. W. Campbell and Co., furniture warehousemen, of Clarence-street, city, have been robbed of large ...
Article : 185 wordsThe wood workers' trade is a dangerous one, and it is said that many of those who have followed it for long, are able by their mutilated hands to bear eloquent ...
Article : 220 wordsThe teachers representing the local branch of the Geelong and District Sabbath School Teachers' Union hold their usual weekly meeting in St. George's ...
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Advertising : 221 wordsJustice Lawrence, sitting at Cardiff, yesterday; sentenced eight garotters to terms of imprisonment, with hard labor, and ordered each to receive from 12 to ...
Article : 42 wordsThe City Council has agreed to a poll of ratepayers being taken next Saturday on tho question whether a local rate shall be levied for lighting the streets ...
Article : 38 wordsOne of the witnesses in a claim for damages heard at the County Court on Saturday was a particular friend of the defendant, in whose favor he gave strong ...
Article : 81 wordsThe New York Board of Health, in its half-yearly report, draws special attention to the striking increase in the number of deaths from heart disease. ...
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Advertising : 43 wordsThe Vicomte de Mussan a member of a well-known French family, committed suicide at Laon because he could not live on bis income of £350 a year. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 6 Apr 1908, Page 3
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