A case in which desperate rescue work at Messina failed. is recorded to-day. Cries for help were heard apparently coming from underneath a big pile of ...
Article : 116 wordsAn important statement regarding the military strength of Great Britain was made last night by Lord Lucas. Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War ...
Article : 71 wordsTo-day there seems to be a feeling that something sensational is going to happen. The police are alert, active, and seem ...
Article : 226 wordsIt has been a complaint in country centres that the grain was not being handled quickly enough by tho Railway Department. ...
Article : 317 wordsThe vital statistics for the year 1903, compiled by the Geelong and district registrar, Sir. J. C. Bennett, were made available on Saturday, and the ...
Article : 799 wordsAt the end of last June the police at Kiel claimed to have frustrated an attempt to reveal to the French Government the secret of the composition of ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Premier has received from His Excellency the Governor a lengthy statement containing his reasons for granting the recent dissolution. It is not ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Murray, the new Premier, stated frankly on Saturday that in his opinion there was no other course open to Sir Thomas Bent, when he obtained a ...
Article : 108 wordsA mining catastrophe has occurred near Veszprem, the capital of the Hungarian province of the same name. An explosion of firedamp occurred at the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe British Mansion House Fund is growing steadily. It now totals £100,000. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Gordon Technical College was held at the College on Friday evening. The president (Mr. G. M. Hitchcockch) occupied the ...
Article : 569 wordsNominations for the Nelson and Northern Provinces, for which the Attorney-General (Mr. J. D. Brown') and the Minister for Public Works (Mr. W. L. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe latest news from Messina states that the rescuers yesterday found under the ruins a boy. aged nine. He stated that his sisters, aged 20 and 12. were ...
Article : 61 wordsOn Saturday trouble was expected, but the day passed quietly. At a mass meeting Mr. Hewitt was cheered when he advocated a general strike of the ...
Article : 78 wordsSerious industrial riots have occurred at Rio do Janeiro, Brazil. The trouble started with labor deraonstrations against the Tram, Light ...
Article : 90 wordsAll world's records for express-steaming have been broken by the British ocean-going torpedo-boat-destroyer. Tartar. 770 tons, attached to the Home ...
Article : 72 wordsAn arrangement has been in force for a year or so which has the effect of assisting parents in the Mildura district to exploit child labor. ...
Article : 610 wordsA few minutes after midnight on Saturday an explosion took place at the ice works, an insulated cart being blown to pieces. The top of the municipal ...
Article : 66 wordsA glance over some bygone election results shows how persistently some of the patriots of the past knocked at the doors of Parliament before they were ...
Article : 467 wordsThe death of an old man named James Smith. 82 years, a railway pensioner, has been reported to the Coroner. On the 8th inst., the deceased, who lived ...
Article : 62 wordsThe picketing of Block 10 is not nearly so strict as in the Proprietary. The heat to-day was very severe, and the men on duty suffered greatly. ...
Article : 55 wordsAn extraordinary outrage was committed by a Chinaman on the Hand, goldfield yesterday. He ignited a quantity of gelatine at the Village Deep ...
Article : 69 wordsWhile fishing in the Saltwater River at Footscray last Monday, a little boy named Norman Anderson, 11 years, found the body of a young man which ...
Article : 124 wordsA second explosion occurred early this morning on Block 10, out the result was simply to add to the general apprehension. ...
Article : 25 wordsCablegrams have been received from England by some supporters of the Board of Control which, considerably strenthens the board's position in its ...
Article : 340 wordsGladys Hoyle, 18 years of age. was working at the Albion Mills on Saturday when, one of her hands became caught in the machinery. Some nasty lacerated ...
Article : 266 wordsMikkelsen. the kell-known Arctic explorer, is about to explore Dutch New Guinea. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Spectator' declares that "for brazen political impudence and unblushing sophistry." Mr. Winston Churchill's recent speech at Birmingham would be ...
Article : 36 wordsMiss Amy Castles. the well-known Victorian singer, has postponed her Australian tour, which was to have begun in March, till September next. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe latest volume of the British Historical Manuscripts Commission contains the journal of Cromwell's House of Lords, which is thus published for the ...
Article : 404 wordsClaude Stephens. 21 years of age, who lived at Fitzroy, was seized with an epileptic fit in Spring-street, Melbourne, yesterday. He was picked up and taken ...
Article : 44 wordsWhen the Treasurer was a private member, he was a strong advocate of an absentee tax, and in the position which he now occupies he will have a better ...
Article : 217 wordsDetective Sexton, who has had charge of the investigations into the Rushworth mine mystery, returned to Rushworth on Saturday afternoon. He took with ...
Article : 341 wordsAn elderly man named James Frazer 60 years of age, who lived at Millgrove near Warburton, was taken to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday suffering from ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Turkish Government purposes to employ the British French and Italian gendarmerie and officers stationed in Macedonia. in the work of reorganising ...
Article : 45 wordsThe attitude of the members of the Board of Control in regard to the trouble with leading players was on Saturday very confident. ...
Article : 57 wordsMary Holland, who committed suicide at Caulfield. left a pathetic note for her husband. It said:—"Dear Fred.—Forgive your poor Mary for this rash act. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe body of a little girl named Ellen M'Hugh, nine years of age, was yesterday found in the river Yarra at Heidelberg, near where the deceased lived with ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Jenkin Jones has been elected to fill the position or general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, rendered vacant by the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Auckland hotelkeepers have unanimously agreed to introduce a number of reforms in the conduct of their businesses. ...
Article : 148 wordsSpeaking at the National German festival yesterday. Dr. Inmer. Consui-General. said that the growth of Germany as a naval power was not a menace ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Mon 18 Jan 1909, Page 3
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