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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsAn important speech on the subject of the British Navy was made last night at the Iron and Steel Institute dinner by Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Treasurer has approved of the following extra grants to municipalities for road and bridge making:—Ararat borough, towards maintenance of main ...
Article : 160 wordsThe inquiry before the coroner and a jury into the circumstances attending the death-of one of the victims of the railway disaster, will be. resumed to-day ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Town Council will meet at 7.30 this evening to consider and order on the recommendation of the Sanitary Conference that Mr. Martin's scheme for ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the meeting of the committee of the Progress Association, held on Friday evening, the following resolution was, after a short discussion, carried:— ...
Article : 570 wordsAnother bomb outrage is reported from Calcutta. A bomb laid on the tram line exploded and seriously injured four ...
Article : 38 wordsThe envoys from the Pretender to the Sultanate of Morocco, Mulai Hafid have received hospitable treatment at the hands of the Berliners. They were shown ...
Article : 174 wordsA British force has occupied Knatak Pass, 30 miles north-west of Peshawur, after sharp fighting. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Ewing, the Minister of Defence, to-day had a consultation with the Premier with regard to the question of the reception of the American fleet. They ...
Article : 69 wordsThousands of persons interested in the hop growing industry took part in a great demonstration in London yesterdays. ...
Article : 64 wordsAll opal robbery of a rather extensive character is reported to the Postmaster-General. It appears that two parcels of opals addressed to T. C. Wollerston, ...
Article : 125 wordsA French column has routed the hostile tribesmen assembled at Budenib, on the southern Algerian frontier. The enemy lost very heavily, and on ...
Article : 43 wordsSome further particulars concerning. the motor accident which occurred on Friday evening near Digger's Rest, and caused the death of Mr. Alfred Z. Clark, ...
Article : 357 wordsThe latest regarding the rescue by the British warship H.M.S. Pegasus of 22 castaways from the French barque President Felix Faure, state that the men ...
Article : 169 wordsSome time ago two white men named Buchanan and Charpertier were attacked by a cannibal tribe of natives on the Kaipani River, near the head of the Gulf ...
Article : 74 wordsThough. Abd-el-Aziz, Sultan of Morocco, has made considerable headway of late in his efforts to retain his throne, he is still harassed by a scarcity of ready ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Postal department require 50,000 porcelain insulators for telegraph posts, but acceptance of tenders was deferred as it was represented that the ...
Article : 55 wordsConsiderable comment has been created in America by an incident which occurred at the Canadian Club, New York. ...
Article : 88 wordsIn order to still further restrict the issue of opium the Postmaster-General has decided to try and prevent it being sent through the Post Office, and an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsThe Postmaster-General to-day received from a lady a letter in which she withdrew her previous complaint that a letter had gone astray as she had found it ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Dawn Tennis Championships were brought to a close on Saturday at the Double Bay Courts of the Sydney Club. There was a largo attendance. R. W. ...
Article : 59 wordsTrouble has arisen in Dublin between the local car-drivers and the employes of the Motor 'Bus Company, which recently commenced operations in the Irish ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. A. J. Martin, tho London expert, whose comprehensive report on the sewering of Geelong has been recommended to the municipalities interested for ...
Article : 2,788 wordsThe Hawkers and Dealers' Union, most of whose members now have their stands at Prince's Bridge, are anxious to see a wholesale market erected, and ...
Article : 59 wordsSpeaking to the representative of the "Advertiser" at the close of the send-off, Mr. Martin said he could not leave Geelong without making reference to the ...
Article : 107 wordsMuch disappointment has been caused in Brisbane by the refusal of the House of Representatives to accept the Senate's request that the duty on ...
Article : 68 wordsA young lady, named Ruby Perkins, 24 years, of Fitzroy, met with a painful accident while crossing Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, on Saturday. Just as she ...
Article : 82 wordsMiss Frances Newport, whose differreices with her directors culminated yesterday in her crest on the charge of embezzlement, [?]ppeared before the City ...
Article : 164 wordsAfter a lull, a fresh arrest for sedition is reported from India. The editor of the "Indian Home Ruler," a weekly journal printed in ...
Article : 46 wordsA woman named Linda Quittenton, 32 years of ego, and residing at Glenferrie, sustained very severe burns on Saturday night, and was admitted to the ...
Article : 55 wordsAt All Saints Church, Geelong, yesterday morning, the Rural Dean, the Rev. Henry Kellyy as vicar of the parish, before delivering, his sermon on the ...
Article : 434 wordsThe well-known actress, Miss Carrie Moore, who began her stage career in Geelong, came down by the Courier yesterday afternoon for the trip and spent ...
Article : 54 wordsHis Holiness the Pope has granted an audience to the Most Rev. Michael Kelly, Titular Bishop of Acrida, and Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney. ...
Article : 36 wordsLate yesterday afternoon a youth named Albert Frazor, 19 years of age, living at 6 Kent-street, Coburg, was boarding a tram, when another ...
Article : 75 wordsNow that the singular idea of removals the public Library from its present the position in Swanston-street to a site in the St. Kilda road. has been dropped, ...
Article : 101 wordsA mite of a boy who had wandered from the members' reserve at the Geelong oval on Saturday to watch thirty-six thirsty footballers devour oranges, was ...
Article : 201 wordsThe third series of London wool sales for the present year were continued today, when there was again an animated sale. ...
Article : 83 wordsA youth named Benjamin Gulliver, 18 years of ago, of Anderson-street, North Richmond, was yesterday crossing a street in Kew, when he was knocked ...
Article : 95 wordsDr. Cole, the City Coroner, to-day held an inquest on the death of an unknown man who was found drowned in the Yarra River, near the Queen's ...
Article : 96 wordsIn connection with the visit of the United States fleet to Australia, the manager of the Scaham Coal Company as received a cablegram from the ...
Article : 60 wordsA servant girl named Elsie Anderson, employed at the Bush Inn Hotel, Carlton. last night gave birth to a child in her bedroom. ...
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Advertising : 215 wordsOn Sunday evening a sensation was caused by a bolt on the part of two horses attached to a milk waggon belonging to Mr. W. Baker, of Carlton. ...
Article : 155 wordsArthur Long was brought up on remand at the Police Court this morning, charged with having on May 9th stolen at Beasconsfield gold to the value of £106. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 18 May 1908, Page 3
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