A new switchboard for working the alarms to the residences of members of the Brigade have been put in at the North and Chilwell fire stations, and ...
Article : 150 wordsBerlin, August 23rd.—M. Vonstann, Director of the Political Department at the Foreign Office, in receiving an Adrianople deputation, is reported to have ...
Article : 183 wordsCapetown kept up its fetes in honor of the Australian warships right to the end of the week. The crews of H.M. A.S. Australia and H.M.A.S. Sydney ...
Article : 713 wordsA brutal assault was committed last evening in Hope-street, Geelong West, by two men upon a young fellow named Hector, who is ...
Article : 352 wordsWellington, Saturday.—The dreaded disease known as pellagra has made its appearance in New Zealand. A women has died from it at Westport. ...
Article : 442 wordsMr. Marconi, presiding at the annual meeting of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, said that the company was shortly initiating cheaper ...
Article : 97 wordsAt last a track has been made up, or half up the higher point of the You Yange; and on Saturday it was declared open, wattle trees planted—the ...
Article : 1,585 wordsSo well has the Belmont Bowling and Recreation Club been patronised in the last year, that the committee on Tlunsday night decided to pay off £40 to ...
Article : 91 wordsThe rioting which has accompanied the strike of miners at Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, has been practically suppressed. The troops have arrested ...
Article : 133 wordsEarly on Saturday loading of wheat into the Japanese steamer Yasukuni Maru was completed, and with nearly 71,000 bags of wheat in her holds the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Government of Bulgaria has now ratified the treaty of Bucharest, which ended the second Balkan war. The treaty had been ratified previously by ...
Article : 31 wordsA meeting of the City Council is to be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock. A deputation of representatives from the football clubs, Eastern Park ...
Article : 88 wordsMexico City, August 23rd.—Nine fights between the Federalists and Constitutionalists are reported to have taken place during the past few days. ...
Article : 65 wordsAt a special meeting of the Fuel and Fodder Trades Union, held at the Trades Hall, Melbourne, it was decided that a cordon of pickets shall be placed ...
Article : 163 wordsDuring Saturday and Sunday the following cases were treated at the Geelong Hospital:—Doris Catterall, 6, of Pleasant-street, Newtown, fell on a ...
Article : 191 wordsAbout 2.30 a.m. on Saturday morning police on duty near the Fitzroy football ground noticed that the western end of the pavilion was in flames in ...
Article : 532 wordsA serious naval mishap has occurred off the Island, of Hveen, which lies five miles off Landskroaa. The Swedish battleship Oden, 3,700 tons, collided ...
Article : 57 wordsPrivate Basham has been remanded as the result of a fatal boxing match, charged with manslaughter. Basham was engaged in a bout with Harry ...
Article : 135 wordsEaglehawk, Saturday.—The eighth week of the miners' strike at Eaglehawk was concluded to-day, and there are no prospects of a settlement in ...
Article : 55 wordsSydney, Saturday.—Dr. R. T. Paton. Director-General of Public Health, stated this afternoon that if compulsory universal vaccination were in ...
Article : 192 wordsSince his arrival in this State a few years ago from the old country, David Stockley has done no good for himself. About twelve months ago he was found ...
Article : 159 wordsA petition, signed by 477 boot repairers in the metropolitan area, has been received by Sir Alexander Peacock, Minister for Labor, asking that ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the International Peace Congress at the Hague, it was decided to recommend a Franco-German rapprochement, and also to urge the submission to the ...
Article : 51 wordsBroken Hill, Sunday.—At the New Masonic Hall on Saturday a meeting convened by a number of shop assistants independently of the Barrier ...
Article : 116 wordsSuffragettes set fire to the mansion of a stockbroker in Edinburgh. The flames were extinguished before very much damage had been done. The occupier ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. Will Crooks. Mr. E. Jones, and Mr. A. W. Block (who had objected in the first place), together with the other members of the British Parliamentary ...
Article : 35 wordsMessrs. Laird & Buchan have completed the plans for the new Presbyterian Church and Sunday School buildings proposed to be erected at the ...
Article : 163 wordsSir George Farrar, Bart., chairman of the Fast Rand Proprietary Mines, recently protested against a statement made by Viscount Gladstone, ...
Article : 116 wordsWellington, Sunday.—Mr. Bell, the Minister for Internal Affairs, has been officially notified that the Emperor of Austria has commanded that three ...
Article : 60 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of Francis Armstrong, who was killed during the riots in Londonderry last week, has concluded. Armstrong was hit by ...
Article : 53 wordsWashington, August 23rd.—The fight on the wool schedule has now begun in the Senate. The Republicans throughout the day strongly objected to ...
Article : 100 wordsSydney, Saturday.—A[?]rich discovery of gold has been reported from the Trunkey field in the Bathurst district. A parcel of 50 tons of ore was taken ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is understood that the Canadian immigration authorities have agreed to allow Harry K. Thaw to choose his own route back to the United States when ...
Article : 55 wordsThe London "Shipping Gazette" expresses surprise that the Royal assent should have been granted to the Australian Navigation Act. The only ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting of the Municipal Band Ball committee is to be held at the Town Hall to-morrow afternoon. Ladies are invited to attend. ...
Article : 75 wordsOn Saturday evening a fire occurred at a six-roomed weatherboard house in Stewart-street, East Brunswick. The property belonged to Mr. Smith. Mrs. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsEnglish railway statistics for the year 1912 show that compared with 1911 there was a large decrease in the number of passengers carried by the ...
Article : 53 words"Jack" Johnson, the champion boxer, has been interviewed in Paris with reference to the opposition raised in London to his engagement to appear at ...
Article : 72 wordsZeehan, Saturday.—The management of the Bald Hills Osmiridium Mines is pushing work ahead. More men are being put on building huts and surface ...
Article : 125 wordsA terrible accident has occurred at the Mysore gold mine. A cage is said to have fallen from the top or the Edgar shaft to the bottom, with the ...
Article : 41 wordsLondon, August 23rd.—Mr. Smillie. president of the Scottish Miners' Conference, administered a rebuke to the Derbyshire miners for not showing ...
Article : 94 wordsSydney, Sunday.—Speaking at a gathering of Liberals on Saturday evening. Mr. Kelly, Assistant Minister for Home Affairs, asked the electors to ...
Article : 119 wordsA picturesque teat has been accomplished by a South African motorist named Chaplin. He left Johannesburg in a Clement-Talbot car at the same ...
Article : 52 wordsSydney, Sunday.—When trying to arrest a man outside the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday night Plainclothes Constables Maher and ...
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Advertising : 198 wordsA splendid result has attended the effort to raise £260,000 in celebration of the centenary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in October next. So ...
Article : 35 wordsToronto, August 23rd.—Heavy rain interrupted the match between the Australian cricketers and All America. The Australians scored 83 for the loss ...
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Advertising : 94 wordsLieutenant Schmidt. a. German military airman, lost his life while flying at Halberstadt. in Saxony. The machine Lieutenant Schmidt was using fell from ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 25 Aug 1913, Page 3
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