Both the last incoming [?] trains to Geelong on Saturday evening were behind scheduled time in arriving. The ...
Article : 80 wordsA San Francisco cable states that the passenger steamer J. A. Kilborn, when off the coast of California, caught fire and narrowly escaped total destruction. ...
Article : 171 wordsLondon. August 3rd.—Numerous members of the House of Commons have announced their intention of visiting Canada during the recess. ...
Article : 445 wordsGeelong is to set an example to the Commonwealth in giving due recognition and proper encouragement to the Citizen Force. Two months ago the ...
Article : 850 wordsTo-morrow afternoon in the house of Representatives Chamber, 13 questions are to be put to Ministers. These deal with the plans of the ...
Article : 169 wordsJuly contributed the lowest total of any mouth this year to the export output from Corio Bay. The total was only £975, as compared with £42,776 ...
Article : 536 wordsThe suspension of Frank Wootton, the crack Australian jockey, by the Jockey Club, has been the cause of Mr. R. Wootton, sen., coming to an ...
Article : 169 wordsA Sale correspondent telegraphs:— Canon Nash on his return was met at the railwiy station by 60 parishioners, and accorded a war in welcome. He ...
Article : 72 wordsGeneral improvements to the Lookout resene and approaches at Ceres have just been carried out by the trustees with the aid of the annual ...
Article : 96 wordsA terrible catastrophe has occurred at Nuremberg, in Germany. An iron scaffolding in the engine room at the local power station collapsed. Ten ...
Article : 91 wordsLord Desborough. president of the London Chamber of Commerce, an old Oxford "blue," swimmer and Alpine climber, presided at a meeting of ...
Article : 80 wordsBoth Houses of the State Parliament will meet to-morrow afternoon. The Legislative Council has plenty of work before it to keep members occupied ...
Article : 126 wordsEarly on Saturday evening a horse belonging to Mr. R. Grey, and attached to a four-vheeled vehicle, bolted down Belierine-street and collided with a ...
Article : 60 wordsToronto, August 3rd.—Edward Durnan, champion sculler of America announces that he is ready to meet Barry in the autumn on the terms for ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Postmaster-General has accepted the tender of the Australian Portland Cement Co. Proprietary, Ltd. for the supply of 10,000 bags of cement at ...
Article : 43 wordsA railway mishap, which, cost seven lives, occurred at Garrison (Montana). A day caboose and line repairers' outfit car. belonging to the Northern ...
Article : 39 wordsA prominent member of the Country Party on Saturday confirmed the statement that in the Country Party there was now a so[?]d ...
Article : 373 wordsSerious floods, attributed to cloud bursts, have occurred in Western Nevada. Traffic and telegraphic communication has been interrupted in ...
Article : 43 wordsAn exceptionally big crowd was attracted to the Geelong West Recreation Reserve better known as "The Birdcage." on Saturday afternoon, to ...
Article : 167 wordsLondon, August 3rd.—The "Daily Mail" correspondent at Berlin states that Herr Doering, an engineer of Hoilgenstadt, has conveyed electric ...
Article : 46 wordsLondon, August 3rd.—Lindsay Campbell, an Australian, was killed whilst monoplaning yesterday. He started from Brooklands, and when passing ...
Article : 171 wordsLondon, August 3rd.—The executive committee of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association has passed a resolution assuring Mr. Bonar Law of the ...
Article : 38 wordsBritish suffragettes have decided upon making John Bull's life a weariness to him until he gives them the vote. Their latest exploit was at ...
Article : 68 wordsMexico City, August 4.—The German Minister (Paul von Hintze) has requested the American Ambassador (Mr. Nielson) to ask the American Consul ...
Article : 50 wordsDr. Dunstan attended to two injured footballers at the Geelong Hospital early on Saturday evening. James Knell, aged 21. of Ann-street, Geelong, ...
Article : 63 wordsSydney, Saturday.—Though it was raining to-night, it did not affect "the Langford-McVca fight, as the Stadium has recently been roofed over. There ...
Article : 498 wordsThe Aberdeen liner Norseman, 10,333 tons homeward bound from Australia, put into Plymouth, owing to her engines having been damaged. ...
Article : 25 wordsDuring the junior football match at the Geelong Oral some of the players became rough. In one incident which occurred in the second quarter blows ...
Article : 44 wordsThe (House of Commons sat all night debating the Finance Bill, the Opposition resenting what they deem the inadequate time allotted for the ...
Article : 31 wordsFollowing on the [?]sion of the union leaders to terminate the London dock strike the strike committee has been formally dissolved. ...
Article : 36 wordsLondon, August 3rd.—A committee with Professor Biles as chairman, has been appointed to advise the Board of Trade as to the most efficient ...
Article : 78 wordsThe price of beef is higher than has ever been known in the history of the city. The cause is described to be the increasing scarcity of land, coupled with ...
Article : 38 wordsAnother burglary has been reported to the police, this time at Chilwell. A house standing in an isolated position near the Barwon River at Chilwell was ...
Article : 86 words"Kid" M'Coy, formerly well-known as a boxer in Australia, was presented at the Bow-street Police Court on an extradition warrant charging him with ...
Article : 192 wordsThe third series of London wool sales closed on Friday. To-day's sale was spirited, but slightly irregular. Top prices were not always realised, owing ...
Article : 35 wordsRecently the Victorian Government proposed to build a public weir on the River Murray at Torumbarry, at its own cost. In order to do so, however, ...
Article : 104 wordsAn old woman who was arrested on Friday by Senior-constable Trainor for offensive behaviour came before Messrs. Read Mirphy, P.M., L. "Walter and R. ...
Article : 178 wordsAt 2.30 on Sunday afternoon ConStable Brennan was called into the Palace Hotel, Bourke-street, and in one of the rooms he found Stephen Nelson ...
Article : 125 wordsBaker (Oregon), August 4th.[?] A great cloud burst yesterday, and caused a freshet in Bragg Creek. Mrs. John Powed and her three children were ...
Article : 58 wordsThe 69B football team journeyed to Melbourne on Saturday to play the return match against Area 55, Abbotsford. They were met at the station. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Victorian Government some months ago endeavored to induce the States and the Commonwealth Governments to join in a scheme for the ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is stated in Mexico City that the Sierra Juarez Indians are joining the rebels. General Orozeo, the loader of the insurrectionists, says that no peace ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Melbourne Central Telegraph Office has a reputation for unsightliness, and this was augmented on Saturday morning when a motor car ran ...
Article : 111 wordsChicago, August 4th.—Jacob W. Guthrie, a college graduate, alias Harry Brown, has been arrested on suspicion of robbing houses of goods valued at ...
Article : 50 wordsAfter an illness of several weeks. owing to the effects of a heavy blow on the lead from a bottle. Constable Gardiner of East Geelong. has now ...
Article : 516 wordsSome time ago the Victorian Government prepared a Bill which had for its object the prevention of inferior hoots being placed on the market. In ...
Article : 143 wordsBerlin. August 3rd.—The '"Taeglicho Rundschau" states that Dr. Morrison's appointment for five years as political adviser to President ...
Article : 47 wordsThe residence of Sir Thomas a'Beckett one of the judges of the Victorian Surireme Court, was entered by a thief on Friday night while the ...
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Advertising : 350 wordsPerth, Friday.—The secretary of the School of Mines at Kalgoorlie, John Thornton Dixon, aged 34 years, was arrested yesterday evening on a charge ...
Article : 50 wordsPort Darwin, Sunday.—The following j resolution was carried at a public meet- ' ing held in the Town Half on Saturday evening:—"That this meeting ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Graham, Minister for Agriculture, has received from the Agent-General a communication relative to the forthcoming Colonial Wine ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 5 Aug 1912, Page 3
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