London, August 6th.—A conference of the Scottish Miners' Federation has adopted the policy of five working days a week, instead of six. The conference ...
Article : 370 wordsAt the meeting of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr. R. J. Fletcher read the letter appearing in a recent issue of the "Advertiser" over the ...
Article : 438 wordsParis, August 6th.—Captain Felix, the French aviator, established a new altitude record to-day. Ascending at Etampes, he reached the great height of ...
Article : 157 wordsRome, August 7th.—Alarming official statements are made in reference to the cholera outbreak in Italy during the last five days. In the Palermo district 157 ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Percy Jones, who has been, spending about three years in the old country completing his musical studies, appeared in public for the first time last ...
Article : 1,570 wordsMr. David F. Griffiths is returning by the R.M.S. Otway, which leaves England September 8th, and arrives in Melbourne about the middle of October. ...
Article : 410 wordsTo the resolution passed at a meeting of the Australian Tramways Employes' Association, giving a month's salary as secretary and his discharge, Mr. ...
Article : 304 wordsLondon, August 7th.—Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has addressed representations to the Moorish Government respecting the ...
Article : 596 wordsDoubts of the availability of the Zeppelin rigid balloon for military purposes have been revived by the destruction of the Deutschland, the biggest and latest ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Attorney-General yesterday made a statement in regard to the controversy in respect to his refusal to sanction the appointment of Mr. Maxwell as counsel ...
Article : 161 wordsAdelaide, Monday.—Arbitration proceedings were begun this morning by Judge Sir John Gordon regarding wages in the liquor trade. The men who were ...
Article : 110 wordsThe last has not yet been heard of the Brunswick shooting case, in which Constable Sleddon and a young civilian named Robinson are concerned. ...
Article : 118 wordsSydney, Monday.—Detailed accounts of the murder of five women in Fiji were received to-day. In the early part of the year the portion of a limb ...
Article : 250 wordsWhile at work on the Australian Portland Cement Coy[?]s new buildings at Fyansford yesterday morning, a well-known swimmer named Leslie Blunt ...
Article : 104 wordsWhat is regarded as the "last cry" in water craft is the unique Fabre hydroplane, the "Goeland," which has been making some wonderful flights at the ...
Article : 325 wordsBrisbane, Monday.—Messrs. Mullen and Theodore, M's.L.A., were the principal speakers at an open-air meeting in sympathy with the sugar strikers in ...
Article : 118 wordsTwo heifers were recently missed by a Camperdown railway ganger named John Maroney, who on the 1st inst. recognised, one of the animals in a sale ...
Article : 83 wordsA young man who is believed to be T. Reeves, living in Acland-street, St. Kilda, stepped from a tram near the Trades Hall corner last night, and was ...
Article : 58 wordsFive head of wandering horses were seized on behalf of the city inspector in Garden-street yesterday morning and driven to the pound, where a good fee ...
Article : 75 wordsSydney, Monday.—The Seamen's Union is sending its president, Mr. George Lewis, to Brisbane, to take part in the general conference to be held ...
Article : 210 wordsSeven destroyers, the Acorn, Rifleman, Lyra, Nymphe. Alarm, Nemesis and Larne, all new boats but recently completed, six of them belonging to ...
Article : 249 wordsTaking advantage of the quiet season the Harbor Trust Commissioners have arranged to clean up the berths at the railway pier devoted mostly to grain ...
Article : 524 wordsBrisbane, Monday.—Mr. Denham, State Premier, says there is no necessity for a Premiers' Conference, to discuss the question of a uniform railway gauge. He ...
Article : 98 wordsBerlin, August 6th.—A desperate shooting affray has occurred between two policemen and two thieves in Friedrichstrasse, one of the city's best known ...
Article : 195 wordsParis, August 7th.—Foot and mouth disease is making serious progress in Saone et Loire department. Cattle, sheep and pigs, valaed at £9000, have ...
Article : 35 wordsBerlin, August 7th.—On the 5th of September the Kaiser will review in Kiel Bay 140 warships, aggregating 100,000 tons. ...
Article : 22 wordsLondon, August 6th.—Mr. E. H. D. Sewell, the well-known cricketer, and writer on cricketing subjects, in a letter to the newspapers, states that the ...
Article : 183 wordsBroken Hill, Monday.—At a special meeting yesterday, the Amalgamated Miners' Association adopted the resolution that a referendum be taken on the ...
Article : 91 wordsLondon, August 6th.—A National Congress of Roman Catholics is being held at Newcastle. Dr. Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, in the ...
Article : 73 wordsDuring the five months ended May 26th, 28,781 boys and girls registered at the London juvenile labor exchanges, and 13,204 were found situations. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Keir Hardie writes of the Queen in terms of high praise in the "Pioneer," a Labor journal published at Merthyr Tydvil. He says: ...
Article : 212 wordsNewport, which is the American equivalent to Brighton, and where members of the multi-millionaire set maintain palatial cottages, is the scene of a ...
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Advertising : 414 wordsMadrid, August 6th.—A Moorish tower collapsed at Bunol yesterday, and wrecked no fewer than 30 houses. The less of life is not known definitely but ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Japan Mail" reports on good authority that changes are imminent in the Japanese Cabinet. According to one rumor the Premier (Marquis Katsura) ...
Article : 87 wordsBombala (N.S.W.), Monday.—A married man named Thomas Buurke was arrested and brought up at the Coroner's Court at Cathcart on suspicion of ...
Article : 143 wordsBrisbane, Monday.—Considerable interest is being evidenced in the Licensing Bill, which will be introduced in the Assembly this week. One important ...
Article : 77 wordsMiss Ida Rubenstein, the well-known Russian dancer, whose recent appearance in a Paris theatre in the role or St. Sebastian, evoked so much ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Tue 8 Aug 1911, Page 3
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