A very larze party of Richmond schoolboys, accompanied by about 20 adults. including Messrs. Cotter and Webber. M's.L.A., visited Geelong on ...
Article : 215 wordsLondon, August 31st.—The ''Daily News" says the proposals for a single Imperial fleet under single control, have no chance of acceptance by the ...
Article : 285 wordsWashington, September 1st.—Public opinion is becoming more and more ir favor of the British attitude regarding the Panama tolls. President Taft's ...
Article : 452 wordsMr. Watt, the Premier, is to-morrow to meet the Ministerial party and lav bofore them his proposals for the more rapid despatch of business in the ...
Article : 334 wordsWashington. August 1st.—Mr. Roosevelt is campaigning in the State of Vermont. He is aiding the progressives. who are making a determined ...
Article : 143 wordsWith a place to retain in the final fours, Geelong took no risks against Richmond on Saturday, and won by 43 points. They finished fourth, in the home and home round, and ...
Article : 1,014 wordsWas not observed in Geelong on any set programme, but in the streets buttonhole sprigs of Australia's national flower were very plentiful. Odd ...
Article : 62 wordsDuring the past month 09[?]s a[?] 36 deaths were registered with Mr. J. C.Bennett. the district registrar, as compared with 66 births and 24 deaths ...
Article : 55 wordsAn inquiry at the Water Trust Office on Saturday morning for details of the cost of the existing reservoirs, confirmed the claim ...
Article : 367 wordsOttawa. August 31st.—It is understood that Mr. Borden, the Primo Minister. will not introduce marriage legislation during the coming session of ...
Article : 203 wordsA prize of £7/7/-, offered by the Grand Lodge of The United Ancient Order of Druids for competition amongst the country branches, has. ...
Article : 80 wordsAn engine attached to a goods train "stalled" at the hill between Pettavel and Mt. Moriac on Saturday evening; the load had to be divided and brought ...
Article : 48 wordsBetween 10 p.m. on Friday and 6 a.m. on Saturday, the window of Mr. Jas. Veal's butchers shop. Melbourneroad, North Geelong, was broken, and ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Admiralty is expediting the construction of the super-Dreadnought Iron Duke, and the vessel will be launched one month, earlier than was ...
Article : 116 wordsRecently it was stated that there were some members of the Country Party who were not pleased with the way in which the Government was ...
Article : 223 wordsAt a meeting on Friday evening the Sailors' Rest Committee passed another sum of £300 in connection with the erection of their new building ...
Article : 54 wordsPolice-Commissioner Waldo has made public a list of gambling resorts raided by the police in New York. Among the owners of these places are ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. B. Brown, postmaster at Geelong. will enter on three weeks' leave of absence to-day, and his duties will be temporarily taken over by Mr. Arthur ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Geelong Social Reform Council, held in the Sons of Temperance Hall. Ryrie-street, a scheme was drawn up for a more ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the "Berliner Tageblatt" its naval expert (Captain Persius) gives an account of a recent visit he paid to England, during which he witnessed a ...
Article : 92 wordsA railway disaster involving the loss of several lives, occurred near Pittsburg. Owing to a misunderstanding of ...
Article : 93 wordsIn Malop-street, opposite Freeman and Sons' shop, a pony owned by a young man from the country took fright at a train going to the station, ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. McKenzie, Minister for Lands, had something further to say on Saturday regarding the policy of the Government in connection with settlement on ...
Article : 208 wordsPirates are again busy in the China Sea. Reports received here state that bands of marauders attacked and looted the Customs houses on the islands ...
Article : 60 wordsNew Yor, August 31st.—Mr. Jas. Sullivan, United States Commissioner of Olympic Games, has made a statement replying to charges made against ...
Article : 66 wordsAfter a very severe bout with influenza. Senior-constable O.J. Trainor resumed duty on Saturday. Pending a permanent appointment to Lara, one of ...
Article : 57 wordsA serious mining disaster was narrowly averted on Friday at Aberdare, in Glamorganshire. An inrush oi water from old workings flooded a colliery ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Fodder and Fuel Union, which recently held a benefit concert at His Majesty's Theatre to help a distressed member, Mr. S. Locke, has netted the ...
Article : 76 wordsSan Francisco, August 31st.— Al. Williams, of San Francisco, "the white hope," defeated Ed. Kennedy on a knock-out in the first round of a four ...
Article : 145 wordsSydney, Sunday.—Mr. Willis, the Speaker. to-night reiterated that the "Daily Telegraph" was guilty of contempt. He says the assurance of the ...
Article : 53 wordsEmma Jones, aged 67, an ex-inmate of the Benevolent Asylum, was arrested on Saturday morning by Constable McMillan on the charge of having ...
Article : 85 wordsNews Of fighting on the Greco-Turkish frontier has been received. The reports state that the Turks attacked four Greek block houses on the ...
Article : 155 wordsA long discussion on the Workmen's Compensation Act took place at a meeting of the Geelong branch of the Fodder and Fuel Union at the Trades Hall on ...
Article : 197 wordsAdelaide, Saturday.—Speaking at the Exhibition, to-night, Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister, argued in favor of Jarge powers for the Commonwealth ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Victorian revenue for this month which for official purposes nded at noon on Saturday was £663,216, or £3824 less than for August last year. ...
Article : 153 wordsMessrs. Hamilton, Randell, Sargeant and Walter attended at the Police Court on Saturday morning. The business was limited to a charge of ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the close of the game, Cr. Admans, mayor of Richmond. and Cr. Beachcroft, secretary of the Richmond Football Club, entered the Geelong team's dressingroom, ...
Article : 189 wordsWashington. September 1st.—It is announced that the United States Government does not intend to oppose the action of Great Britain in forwarding a ...
Article : 268 wordsAdelaide. Sunday.—The celebration of Wattle Day passed off most successfully on Saturday. Hardly anyone could be seen in the streets not ...
Article : 133 wordsA dastardly outrage was perpetrated in Vancouver on Friday, but, fol tunately, in the main, it miscarried. Some miscreants attempted ...
Article : 78 wordsIncidental to an announcement received by the Geelong Tip Dray Carters' Union on Saturday that Germantown Creak had been made available ...
Article : 123 wordsAt the Melbourne Exhibition, in the presence of a number of prominent citizens, the Governor (Sir John Fuller) formally declared the Victorian Motor ...
Article : 109 wordsA return is being prepared by the railway authorities, with a view of ascertaining the working results of the running of the McKean motor tram on ...
Article : 116 wordsSir,—From conversations I have had with ratepayers, it appears to use there is some misconception with reference to the draft regulations passed by the Geelong City ...
Article : 212 wordsThe centenary of the first steamship on the Clyde. the Comet. was celebrated at Glasgow on Friday. An imposing maritimo pageant, in ...
Article : 97 wordsAn interesting presentation of longservice badges is to bo made this evening by Chief Officer T. S. Marshall, at a meeting of the Newtown and Chilwell ...
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Advertising : 198 wordsAdelaide, Saturday.—The annual report of the Savings Bank indicates that the people have readied the high-water mark of thrift. Deposits reached £18 ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Watt, the Premier, and Mr. McKenzie, Minister for Lands, had an. other conference with the Closer Settlement Board regarding the Innishowen ...
Article : 114 wordsThe damage caused by the inundations at Norwich is estimated at £100.000. The water is now receding rapidly, and the flood gauge has again ...
Article : 62 wordsA well-dressed man named J. W. Oliver. who was arrested in Geelong last week, and is under remand to appear at the City Court to-morrow ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 2 Sep 1912, Page 3
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