The little Parliamentary "bolt from the blue," which so unexpectedly struck the Federal Government on Thursday night in the House of Representatives ...
Article : 495 wordsA tragic occurrence, the immediate outcome of the recent election riots, is reported from Lisbon. Two soldiers were attacked and shot dead in a street ...
Article : 84 wordsIt has transpired that the Prime Minister, Mr. H. H. Asquith, has submitted to King Edward the proposed Ministerial changes, but nothing will be ...
Article : 79 wordsThe yield of gold for March was 49,463oz. gross, or 46,291oz. fine, valued at £196,633. Compared with the return for March of last year, a decrease of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe disorganisation of the telegraph service in India is complete, and its effect on the commerce of the country is very serious. ...
Article : 63 wordsWhat happened on Thursday night in the House of Representatives recalls what was almost a parallel situation nearly four years ago. ...
Article : 214 wordsIssues for the trial of the Poppens divorce case were settled by Mr. Justice a'Bockett to-day. It is a suit by Wm. Poppens, seeks a dissolution of his ...
Article : 394 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that the telegraphists have begun a strike throughout India and that the Calcutta office is nearly deserted. ...
Article : 109 wordsA telegram from Lisbon states that the Portuguese Cabinet has ordered a searching inquiry into the recent election riots. ...
Article : 57 wordsLord Curzon, presiding at a Unionist mass meeting at Basingstoke last night, re marked that it was 10 years since he had addressed any political gathering in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe anti-gambling bodies in the State of New York have just missed achieving a very important success. A bill had been introduced into the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Daily News" claims authority for the announcement that Mr. John Morley, Secretary of State for India, will go to the House of Lords and retain his ...
Article : 40 wordsA special meeting has been convened by the A.M.A. for Sunday afternoon to consider a notice of motion that all members who are contract miners, and who ...
Article : 63 wordsPresident Roosevelt in a special message to Congress, declares that compared with the suppression of anarchism all other questions sink into insignificance. ...
Article : 37 wordsOn Thursday afternoon a fatal accidont befel an infant girl named Myrtle Pottigrove, 20 months, who lived with her parents in Maugie-street, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe market for Australian butter is quiet, but prices are unchanged. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War in the Campbell-Bannerman Ministry, is issuing an appeal to employers throughout Great Britain, asking ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the end of March there were 26,504 Chinese coolies still working in the Rand mines. [During the recent attack on the ...
Article : 98 wordsAt half-past two this morning a special goods train ran over and killed Charles Crowley, a railway employe, at Petersburg. The engine caught Crowley ...
Article : 76 wordsA feeling of profound satisfaction was created yesterday by the official statement from the Diocesan Registry that Archbishop Clarke had dismissed the ...
Article : 651 wordsThe trial of Mrs. Hamilton, one of the Druce witnesses, on a charge of perjury arising out of the evidence given by her in the Druce case, has concluded. She ...
Article : 63 wordsA painful accident yesterday befel a wharf laborer, named Henry Robinson, 56 years, of Park-street, West Melbourne, while he was assisting to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe continued dry weather is steadily reducing the level of the Yan Yean reservoir, which is now down to 12ft. 9½in., a fall of close on a foot since 12th ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is announced that Canada's intermediate tariff will in future be applied to French goods coming direct from France or through British ports. ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the close of the meeting the Prime Minister stated they had arrived at a decision, the nature of which would be officially announced on Monday ...
Article : 297 wordsThe railway which connects Blocmfontcin, the capital of the Orange River Colony, with Kimberley, the diamond centre in Cape Colony, has been formally ...
Article : 36 wordsMrs. A. Doyle, 31 years, of 10 Nicholson-street, Footscray, was melting some beeswax over the kitchen fire when her apron caught fire. She was severely ...
Article : 50 wordsA series of shipping mishaps is reported from Ballina, a port on the New South Wales coast, about 65 miles north-east of Grafton. The steamer Sophia Ann left ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. Reid, the leader of the Opposition, left Melbourne at six o'clock yesterday by mail train for Sydney, where he has some important private business ...
Article : 333 wordsSir,—As having had a long practical experience in dairy farming upon varied country and soils, a few remarks upon the venture of the Sparrovale Farm by ...
Article : 585 wordsM. Pouteaux, a chemist, carrying on business at Dijon, the capital of the French department of Cote d'Or, has invented an electric gun. He claims that ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Justice a'Beckett agrees with the Woods Point magistrates in thinking that a man who goes out to settle a difference of opinion with fists instead of ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. Herbert Clayton, with the Merry Makers' Concert Company, sailed for Australia by the R.M.S. Orotava. They open a tour of the Commonwealth at ...
Article : 76 wordsMrs. Baxter, who, with her five children was attacked with an axe on Wednesday morning by her husband, an Invercargill seedsman, died this morning ...
Article : 110 wordsConstable Hudson to-day arrested an engineer named Thos. Drane, 31 years, on a charge of forgery. It is alleged that the accused went to Mr. J. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe eleventh round has been concluded of the Inteniational Chess tournament, now in progress in Vienna. Schlechter is leading with nine ...
Article : 44 wordsLate yesterday afternoon Mr. Deakra made the following statement to the presis:—"The proceedings in the House of ...
Article : 987 wordsThe new issue or Consolidated Debenture stock, which the London County Council has just placed on the market, was subscribed for over tenfold. ...
Article : 35 wordsFor the first time in the history of wireless telegraphy a message sent 560 miles across the ocean—from Copenhagen to Newcastlo-on-Tyne has been ...
Article : 277 wordsA painful sensation was created in the city this morning when it became known that the Hon. Frederick Thomas Humphrey, M.L.C, of New South Wales, had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 346 wordsFurther proof that 1908 is a very bad year for shipbuilders is furnished by Lloyd's returns, which have just been issued. These show that the tonnage of ...
Article : 67 words"Yes. There is a general feeling of intense relief now that the tension is over," remarked one of the Melbourne supporters of Canon Nash yesterday, ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Sat 11 Apr 1908, Page 3
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