A meeting of the stewards of the Geelong Racing Club held yesterday afternoon was attended by Messrs. H. A. Anderson (in the chair), James ...
Article : 184 wordsYesterday afternoon the members of the Board of Health visited Black Rocks and inspected the site of the outfall for the Geelong sewerage scheme. Mr. M'Kay, the ...
Article : 827 wordsPeking, February 13th—Following upon the Imperial edicts, commissioning, the organising of a Republican Government for China, active measures ...
Article : 174 wordsLondon, February 13th.—Parliament will be opened by his Majesty the King to-morrow, when, it is expected, the changes in the Ministry will be ...
Article : 155 wordsLondon, February 13th.—A settlement of the dispute between the coal miners and the mine owners has not yet been effected, and a crisis is ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. Justice Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, yesterday heard, in Chambers, an application by the Perth ...
Article : 364 wordsCommenting on the result of the fourth test match, Clem Hall, the Australian captain, remarked that the Australians had been fairly and squarely ...
Article : 442 wordsAngus M'Laren, whose left leg has been amputated at the knee through being mangled at the Excelsior Woollenmills on Tuesday, is doing fairly well at ...
Article : 110 wordsA good supply of ammunition for the Wesley-Richards rifles held by the cadets of the two Geelong areas came to hand from the Ordnance Stores yesterday at ...
Article : 56 wordsIt has been arranged that his Majesty the King shall turn the first sod of the New Royal Albert Dock in London in July. The cost of the new dock is ...
Article : 257 wordsLondon, February 14th.—Consols were quoted yesterday at 78½ The rise was due to optimistic opinion regarding the international situation ...
Article : 87 wordsThrough the capsize of a plumber's fire pot at the end of the Yarra-street pier yesterday morning, the decking was ignited. Refuse in the crevices fed ...
Article : 51 wordsis the only considerable contingent of the present Chinese National Army, and is known as the Lien Chun—i.e., drilled troops. It was first started ...
Article : 363 wordsA call is to be made at Geelong by the Japanese steamer Hokotu Maru, which is now at Port Pirie. She is bound for the East, and will lift ...
Article : 83 wordsLondon, February 14th.—A demonstration organised by the Labor Party on behalf of adult suffrage took place in the Albert Hall last night. Mr. ...
Article : 264 wordsMost of the unions represented at a meeting of the Geelong Eight Hours' Demonstration. Committee last night reported that the Melbourne union ...
Article : 80 wordsBrisbane, Wednesday.—Mr. H. Coyne, the strike loader has varied his exhortations to his followers to stand firm by a series of criticisms of the action ...
Article : 477 wordsLisbon, February 13th.—A fierce encounter took place yesterday at the town of Chamusca, on the on the river Tagus, between a band of smugglers and some ...
Article : 74 wordsIn consequence of constant complaints of the obstruction of lanes at the rear of city business premises by empty boxes, barrels, etc., the city inspector ...
Article : 63 wordshave not yet replied to the invitations to join the team. The Board allowed them ten days in which to make up their minds, and the time is not up till ...
Article : 175 wordsA meeting of the directorate of the new pictorial theatre for Geelong will be held in Melbourne to-morrow, and it is hoped to finally deal with the ...
Article : 43 wordsTokio, February 13th.—A collision between two Japanese steamers, involving great loss of life, has occurred. After the collision the vessels, believed ...
Article : 50 wordsMessrs. J. C. Brown and Co., engineers, of Geelong, were notified yesterday that their tender had been accepted for the supply of the machinery for ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Cotter, member for Richmond, has started a campaign for an increase in Parliamentary salaries. Legislators now get £300 for attending an average ...
Article : 184 wordsRome, February 13th.—The Italian forces have revenged their recent reverses at the hands of the Turce-Arab troops in Tripoli. At Derna, [?] of ...
Article : 269 wordsOttawa, February 13th.—The Dominion Government is contemplating the appointment of a number of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries similar to ...
Article : 94 wordsApproval has been given by the Chief Commissioner of Police to the acceptance by Constables Day and O'Neil, of Geelong West, of the reward of £2 ...
Article : 49 wordsThe annual conference of the Methodist Church of Victoria and Tasmania will be held in Melbourne in a few days. The committee to prepare the ...
Article : 302 wordsAn inspection of Barwon ward was made yesterday afternoon by Ald. Anderson and Crs. Brownbill and McDonald and the surveyor (Mr. Tisdall), who ...
Article : 248 wordsWilliam Blake, a member of the crew of the steamer Coogee, reported to the police on Tuesday' ight that between the 1st and 13th inst a silver ...
Article : 60 wordsA deputation waited on Mr. Herbert Louis Samuel, British Postmaster-General, in regard to the employment of boys in the Post Office service. Mr. ...
Article : 49 wordsCanon Godby will unveil the Canon Goodman memorial at Christ Church on Sunday morning. The Mayor and City councillors have been invited. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is announced that Sir Walter Egerton, K.C.M.G., Governor of Southern Nigeria, has been transferred to British Guiana. Sir Frederick Dealtry ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Presbytery of Geelong met at the High Church yesterday, when there was a large representation of ministers and elders. The Rev. A. Yule, M.A., ...
Article : 410 wordsThe business at the Police Court yesterday was disposed of by Messrs. W. R. Anderson and J. E. tufts. J's.P. Orders were made in seven debt cases, ...
Article : 112 wordsMadrid, February 14th.—Latest news received regarding the terrible suffering caused by floods states that 12 riverside villages on the banks of the ...
Article : 72 wordsNewcastle, Wednesday.—Several telegrams have been received by the unions in this district, and also by the Labor Council, from the strike committee in ...
Article : 209 wordsNew York, February 13th.—The question as to whether Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States, will allow himself to be nominated as ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-night the steamer Coogee will run another of her popular evening trips around Corio Bay, sailing from Moorabool-street wharf at 8 o'clock. These ...
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Advertising : 366 wordsUnpacking of the parts of the Geelong automatic telephone system has been completed, and the installers are pleased that not a single breakage ...
Article : 443 wordsSydney, Wednesday.—A large fire which occurred at Wee Waa early this morning swept away the main portion of the business block, five places being ...
Article : 129 wordsLondon, February 13th.—H. W. Stevenson, the English billiard champion, to-day increased his lead over George Gray, the Australian, in the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe secretary of the Trades Hall Council is forwarding between £250 and £300 to Brisbane to aid the strikers. This sum is in addition to £500 already ...
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