In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Snowbull resumed the debate on the second reading of the Compulsory Preference: voting Bill. He expressed satisfaction at ...
Article : 2,124 wordsBerlin, August 29th.—The speech in which the Kaiser said he believed, that the citizens of Hamburg wished to see the navy further strengthened "so that ...
Article : 710 wordsCanon Merrick Long, of Kew, Victoria, has been elected Bishop of Bathurst. Mr. John Murray, the Victorian ...
Article : 236 wordsIn the past it has been the custom to collect tickets at North Melbourne of passengers travelling by rail to the city and at times a good deal of delay was ...
Article : 85 wordsLondon, August 28th.—The Royal Commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the grievances of the railway employes in connection with ...
Article : 228 wordsSydney, Tuesday.— There were further. disorderly scenes in the As sembly this afternoon. Several members of the Opposition refused to ...
Article : 309 wordsLondon, August 29th.—The steamer Bessie, laden with munitions of war, is being detained by the authorities at Barrow. The "Daily ...
Article : 58 wordsPublicity was recently given to the complaints of Geelong travellers of the roundabout procedure necessary to clear luggage reaching their home port before ...
Article : 87 wordsPresident Taft has ordered preparations to be made for what is describedas the most startling game of war ever attempted by the United States Navy. ...
Article : 197 wordsOn Friday last the Harbor Trust barge which sank some weeks ago in the Barwon River at Sparrovale farm was successfully refloated practically ...
Article : 60 wordsSo far the district police have not discovered the whereabouts of Patrick Gleeson, whose relatives at Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, are anxious to gain news ...
Article : 96 wordsEverything is now quiet at Liverpool. The military have been withdrawn, and work is proceeding at the docks and elsewhere as it did before the strike. ...
Article : 31 wordsSydney Tuesday. —A general strike of wheelers is probable in the Newcastle district. The Wallsend wheelers are still on strike, and the Hetton wheelers will ...
Article : 97 wordsThe syllabus item for last night's meeting of the Geelong Branch, of the Australian Natives' Association was an illustrated lecture by Mr. Percy E. ...
Article : 233 wordsA section of the South Wales miners have issued a manifesto urging that the present is an opportune time to make a bold stroke for a minimum wage. ...
Article : 35 wordsVancouver, August 29th[?] admiral Togo, interviewed "re[?] y, paid a tribute to President Tuft for his work in the cause of peace. The Admiral ...
Article : 137 wordsSports arranged by the Trades Council at Dublin had to be abandoned today under peculiar circumstances. The committee had decided that a clerk who ...
Article : 71 wordsSydney, Tuesday; — At the change of shift at the blast furnace at Lithgow to-night the crowd took possession and imprisoned Mr. ...
Article : 118 wordsTwelve bricklayers' laborers employed on the Swanston-street portion of the new building at the Melbourne Hospital were called out by the union secretary ...
Article : 143 wordsNewcastle, Tuesday.—The delegate board of the Newcastle Colliery Employes' Federation has decided to request Mr. Charlton to ask in the House ...
Article : 64 wordsRome, August 29th.—Incensed at the precautionary measures taken to prevent the spread of cholera, the inhabitants of Verbicaro cut the telegraph, set ...
Article : 51 wordsSydney Tuesday.—The president of The Chamber of Manufactures, Mr. Wunderlich, speaking at the annual meeting last night, said: "Recently at ...
Article : 155 wordsBroken Hill. Tuesday.—A resolution has been passed by the Political Labor League approving of the suggestion of the Newcastle Labor League that a ...
Article : 46 wordsA meeting of the stewards of the Geelong Racing Club held last evening was attended by Messrs. H. A. Anderson (chairman), H. B. Hodges. C. P. Sterrer, ...
Article : 221 wordsSavannah, August 29th.—A great storm is raging in the southern States. Water is higher along the Charleton sea front than it has been for 20 years. ...
Article : 45 wordsSydney. Tuesday.—An explosion occurred this morning at the Orange Gas Work by which Mr. A. Ambrose, who was recently appointed manager, Mr. ...
Article : 108 wordsFremantle, Tuesday.— Mr. Hugh Mcintosh, the well-known sporting promoter, arrived by the R.M.S. Malwa to-day. In the course of an interview, ...
Article : 140 wordsWinnipeg, August 28th.—Men interested in the grain trade report that the, damage done by the recent severe frest to the grain crop is not so serious as was ...
Article : 52 wordsNew York, August 28th.—Mr. Melvin Vaniman, who was the engineer on Mr. Walter Wellmann's airship America, which made an unsuccessful attempt to ...
Article : 283 wordsBerlin, August 28th.—The Berlin police authorities have caused another stir by issuing an edict forbidding women to wear hats or bonnets in any part of ...
Article : 77 wordsA sensational discovery followed a fire that occurred at the house of Samuel Loe in Evansville, Indiana. When the firemen had got the outbreak under, and ...
Article : 151 wordsSydney, Tuesday.—In the Central Court to-day. further evidence was taken in the case in which the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Co., Ltd., is ...
Article : 109 wordsConstable Tobin of East Geelong, is informant in a case to be heard at the Police Court on September 5th against an East Geelong carter, who will be ...
Article : 113 wordsMiddletown (Connecticut), August 28th.—A dastardly outrage was perpetrated on the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.'s line to-day. ...
Article : 47 wordsLondon, Augusts 28th.—The hearing of the charge of espionage against Max Schnltz, described as a doctor of philosophy, and also as a lieutenant of ...
Article : 210 wordsThe stupidity of a soldier in lighting a fire near a powder magazine was responsible for a dreadful disaster at San Jose, in the Central American Republic ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. G. Read Murphy. P.M. conducted an inquiry at the gaol yesterday into the death of a prisoner named Arthur Russell, who was received on June ...
Article : 86 wordsMilthorpc(N.S.W.) Tuesday.—A Greek Gipsy named Ann Demetro was fined £l at the local court to-day for stealing five. leaves of bread from a ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is reported, that the 16-inch gun, which is used in connection with the coast defences at Sandy Hook, and which is said to be the most powerful ...
Article : 66 wordsA sitting of the Gcolong West Police Court was held yesterday before Messrs. R.G. Foyster, J. Ferguson, Jas. Hill and F.J. Bennell, J's.P. Four truancy ...
Article : 313 wordsParis, August 28th.—M. Pourpe, the young French aviator. who flew across the English Channel from Boulogne to Dover yesterday in 40 minutes, returned ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the Police Court yesterday, the business was disposed of by Messrs. Read Murphy, P.M.. F.A. Sargeant and F. M. Douglass, J's.P. In a debt case an ...
Article : 123 wordsBrisbane, Tuesday.—In the Assembly to-day, the Treasurer, Mr. Barnes delivered his official statement. There was, he said. abundant evidence of ...
Article : 73 wordsPort Darwin, Tuesday.—Mr. Basedow, who was appointed some time ago Protestor of Aborigines, is proceeding south by the first steamer. It is officially ...
Article : 38 wordsJapan is building what will be the greatest dirigible that has over yet been constructed. It. will be 600 foot long, thus exceeding the length of the last ...
Article : 108 wordsBerlin, August 28th.—Mr. Bertrand Stewart a member of Markby, Stewart and Co. a well-known firm of solicitors in London, who was arrested at Bremen ...
Article : 74 wordsThere Was a sad end to a special meeting of the St. Kilda Football Club committee. The meeting had closed, and Dr Schlesinger, the senior vice-president, was chatting to ...
Article : 112 wordsA few days ago it was decided to issue a summons against a teamster for driving across a couple of footpaths and channels in Geelong West. and also for ...
Article : 78 wordsMalta August 28th.—The steamer Menelaus (4672 tons), owned by the Ocean S.S. Co. Ltd. arrived here to-day with her No. 4 hold on fire. The next ...
Article : 101 wordsThe British Naval Advisory Committee has set about having constructed a model aerial torpedo. The aeroplane carrying this engine of destruction will ...
Article : 82 wordsAt about 11 o'clock last night, Constable Goffrey saw a man jump into the Yarra from Queen's Bridge. He jumped in after him, and there was a desperate struggle, in ...
Article : 65 wordsAn old offender was before the Geelong West Court on the 22nd inst. on a charge of drunkenness. Mr. Doyle appeared on his behalf. It was ...
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