A berth was taken at the railway pier yesterday by the four-masted barque Margretha to load the first cargo of this season's wheat. Only five trucks, or 100 ...
Article : 79 wordsThe French Senate is engaged in the discussion of a Bill to limit the number of hotels. It is estimated that there are now 500,000 cabarets in Paris and the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe frequency with which fire follows a collision, and what might have been a minor accident becomes a holocaust as the train blazes, has compelled the ...
Article : 51 wordsPARIS, December 27th.—Prompted by the English criticism of the interview which "L'Humanite," the Socialist news paper, had with Mr. Lloyd-George, the ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, December 27th.—Throughout yesterday and to-day the rescue partics continued their work at the Hulton colliery in Lancashire, where an ...
Article : 130 wordsIn his report to the Education Department on the work of the year, Mr. J. Holland, senior inspector, suggests that there is too much insistance on ...
Article : 497 wordsIn a letter to the harbor master, Geelong, written in quaint English and peculiar construction, the director of the Maine Observatory of San Francisco ...
Article : 409 wordsDr. Small, chairman of the markets committee of the City Council, proposes to call the committee together at the end of next week to consider matters ...
Article : 101 wordsSerious objections have been raised to the gas reservoirs underneath the carriages. A leading official of the Victorian service said yesterday. that gas ...
Article : 195 wordsJOHANNESBURG, December 28th—Several serious native faction fights took place during the holidays. Six natives were killed on the Langlaagte mine. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe funeral took place yesterday afternoon of the victim of the Leopold tragedy. William Kiddle, eldest son of Mr. William Kiddle, of Ryrie-street. ...
Article : 160 wordsMr. Hughes, the Acting Prime Minister, has noticed with interest that the New Zealand Government, in addition to expressing sympathy with the ...
Article : 148 wordsBritish Radicals are quoting Mr. Chamberlain against the threats by the peers that they will not accept the results of the election as final on the ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, December 28th.—Tuesday was observed as an extra bank holiday. Shops and businesses generally were closed. The shipbuilders on the Clydo ...
Article : 35 wordsTEHERAN, December 28th.—The Persian Foreign Minister has resigned owing to the fact that the situation in Southern Persia has not improved and ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, December 27th.—The "Daily Chronicles" Johannosburg correspondent says that the Conciliation Board is considering a demand by ...
Article : 67 wordsCorrespondence has been received by the postmaster, Mr. W. G. Williams, relating to the appointment of census takers for Geelong. It is intended to ...
Article : 58 wordsThe State coal mine is free from fire damp, black damp and white damp, according to Mr. G. H. Broome, general manager of the mine. Referring to the ...
Article : 127 wordsWASHINGTON, December 28th.—The annual report issued by Mr. Nigel, secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe squally weather on Monday evening resulted in the abandonment of the municipal concert in Johnstone Park. A sum of £20 was obtained from Tuesday ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, December 28th.—The detectives acting on information received proceeded yesterday to a house in Stepney and raided the lodgings of the man ...
Article : 143 wordsVANCOUVER, December 28th.—The Mayor, Chief of Police and seven State officials at Gary. Indiana, have been arrested. It is allowed that they altered ...
Article : 38 wordsAt a meeting of the Melbourne Trainway Employes' Benefit Society last night, a motion was earned on the voices to allow members of trades union ...
Article : 73 wordsFor the first time for forty years the festival of Christmas was not celebrated in the Vatican. Acting under the advice of his doctors, the Pope did not ...
Article : 334 wordsIt has been arranged to hold the opening wool sale in Geelong after the holidays on January 12th. There are not likely to be any more double wool sales ...
Article : 34 wordsKANSAS (Missouri), December 28th. —Two persons were Killed and 50 injured in a street car collision which occurred here yesterday. The cars met on ...
Article : 45 wordsJ. H. McCracken, a young cyclist residing at Fenwick-street, was riding along Ryrie-street east yesterday morning when his machine struck a p[?]ece of ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the annual meeting of the Executive Council of the Railway Workers and General Laborers' Association to-day, some ...
Article : 255 wordsA special meeting of directors of Comunn Na Feinne was held at the hoard room last night; Dr. Small presided over a large attendance. ...
Article : 313 wordsLONDON, December 27th.—It is announced that his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught will be in supreme, command of the troops taking part in ...
Article : 43 wordsMount Etna is again in a state of activity, and large quantities of stones are being scattered over the surrounding country. ...
Article : 29 wordsHarold Cunningham, 15, North Geelong, was struck by a lever on the shoulder at the Oriental Timber Works. Annie Bush, 23, Waurn Ponds, was ...
Article : 48 wordsPARIS, December 28th.—The trial of Francols Medaille, an artist charged with the murder of his divorced wife, took place yesterday. He was acquitted ...
Article : 148 wordsA New York cable to-day reports that Richard Taylor, the newly-appointed chief of the secret service in that city, is the man to whom the United States ...
Article : 182 wordsFollowing on the recent heavy rains there has been an extraordinary mortality amongst the sheep in country districts in France. The disease is most ...
Article : 47 wordsAs no traces have been round of Richard Gamlin, who d sappeared after bathing at Frankston, it is feared that he has been drowned. He was a resident of ...
Article : 40 wordsSOFIA, December, 27th.—Two thousand armed Albanians, in reply to a Turkish offer of an amnesty if they will lay down their arms, demand the use of ...
Article : 93 wordsA young married woman named Ellen Marshall was yesterday seriously burnt at her home in Brunswick, and is now in the Melbourne Hospital in a serious ...
Article : 108 wordsThe "Novoe-Vremya" publishes an article to-day on the proposed fortification of Holland with German assistance. It states that Russia is not directly ...
Article : 83 wordsOn Saturday next the agreement regarding wages and conditions of labor between the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federations and the Federated ...
Article : 187 wordsLISBON, December 27th.—The Governor of Mozambique proposes that Government officials should supervise the recruiting of natives for the Rand, and ...
Article : 42 wordsAh Ken, a Chinese aged 44, living at Kyte's-lane, off Little Bourke-street, was brought to the Melbourne. Hospital by Constable Stapleton. suffering from the ...
Article : 64 wordsOne of the leading Tokio newspapers, the "Asahi," calls upon the Government to make an investigation into the illicittraffic in arms that is going on. The ...
Article : 96 wordsHundreds of curious sightseers lined the streets of Pavia to witness the extraordinary entry into the place of an English tourist party. Amid torrents of ...
Article : 167 wordsAt the close of Comunn Na Feinne meeting last night, Mr. A. Aikman, a veteran member of the society, asked the chairman to accept for the ...
Article : 79 wordsVLADIVOSTOCK, December 27th.—For some time past there have been rumors of increasing friction between the Governments of China and Japan. ...
Article : 48 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—While cycle sports were in progress at Gilgal on Monday, Mr. W. Pomeroy, of Inverell, mot his death in a tragic manner. He ...
Article : 84 wordsA marrie dwoman named Mary Ann Edwards, 55, living in West-street, Fitzroy, was last night found unconsc[?]ous on the footpath in front of St. Peter's ...
Article : 75 wordsSome statistics relating to last year's Alpine fatalities have just been published in Geneva, Switzerland. The figures reveal that for the 12 months ended ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the police court yesterday the mayor (Ald. Philpott) and police magistrate (Mr. Read Murphy) attended in company with Mr. H. B. Brown J.P., ...
Article : 167 wordsWilliam Hall, aged 28, who came from New South Wales, yesterday called at a chemist's shop in Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, and asked for some arsenic. ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Franz Lehar. the composer of the "Merry Widow," has rehearsed at the Costanzi Opera House in Home a new operetta, "The Brigand's Daughter." ...
Article : 268 wordsReports from Dallas. Texas, state that a great number of cattle and other stock are dying from the long drought in the Panhandle country. The towns in the ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Kash Rowe was instrumental in saving the majority of those saved in the Moonee surf bathing disaster. Mr. Rowe rode ...
Article : 95 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday—The rockchoppers engaged on the section of the sewerage work at Pitt-street struck work to-day to secure an increase of wages. ...
Article : 57 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday—Mr. Holman, Attorney-General of New South Wales, and Mr. Beebo, Minister of Education, left Wellington to-night ...
Article : 24 wordsAt 20 minutes past 8 last evening the South Melbourne Fire Brigade received the alarm of an outbreak of fire in Bench-street, Port Melbourne. A fire ...
Article : 100 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Queensland State Parliamentary Labor party has passed the following resolution:—"That the Queensland ...
Article : 70 wordsHolding that pure milk is one of the Unalienable rights of the baby, a number of prominent New York women have formed an International Pure Milk ...
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Advertising : 248 wordsContracts for large supplies of apricote have already been entered into by the management of the Geelong and W.D. Preserving Company with district ...
Article : 50 wordsThe charitable bequests of a butler who became a knight and left nearly a quarter of a million are announced in the will of Sir James Bailey, of Lofts ...
Article : 121 wordsWith the object of copying the railroad system of America, representatives of nearly all the private railways of the large European countries have met at ...
Article : 67 wordsMessrs. Read Murphy. P.M., E. Philpott and H. B. Brown. J's.P., dealt with the business at the Police Court yesterday. A man named Patrick Connor, ...
Article : 156 wordsSelston Churchyard, Notts, was the scene of the ancient ceremony of placing loaves in which coins had lien inserted on the tombstones for old people to pick ...
Article : 36 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Germanston and Queenstown brandies of the A.M.A. have decided to amalgamate. It is understood that the men will ask the Mt. ...
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