Speaking at the Sydney Labor Council last night, Mr. Underwood, of the Boot Makers' Union, denied the statement that wages were higher here than in Melbourne. The ...
Article : 66 wordsThere was a crowded attendance in the City Police Court again to-day, when the hearing was continued of evidence in the charge preferred against the aged couple ...
Article : 1,704 wordsAmerican telegrams report that Mr. R. G. Gatting, the inventor of the famous gun which bears his name, has invented a "motor plough," which he claims will ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Factories Bill, which was read a third time in the House of Commons on Wednesday night, has been rapidly passed through all its stages in the House of Lords. The ...
Article : 80 wordsThe town clerk of Melbourne yesterday issued the report, signed by the Mayor, of the executive of the Melbourne committee of the Empire's Patriotic Fund. The first The committed recommends that claims for allowances to wives and families left behind be dealt with on their merits according to circumstances. In all allowances, it ...
Article : 953 wordsThe Prime Minister laid on the table of the House of Representatives a letter, dated 16th July, from Rear-Admiral Beaumont on the naval defence of Australia. The letter ...
Article : 1,002 wordsOn the second rending of the Appropriation Bill in the House of Commons last night, a very animated debate took place in reference to the policy of the Government in the ...
Article : 695 wordsThe Rev. John Clifford, D.D., minister of the Praed-street and Westbourne Park Church since 1858, who in 1898-99, was president of the National Council of Free ...
Article : 172 wordsThe following delegates were appointed last evening to represent the Trades Hall Council, at the conference of representatives of trade and labor councils from the several ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Imperial Parliament will be prorogued on Saturday, 17th inst., until the middle of January next. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe appeals of a company trading as Pearks, Gunston and Tee Limited, carrying on many large retail stores, who were heavily fined for tampering with Australian ...
Article : 808 wordsSir,--In listening to the Premier's statements yesterday in the House, anyone present who understood the details of factory legislation must have felt a keen desire to ...
Article : 322 wordsThe attention of the House of Commons was directed last evening to the publication of an article in the "Globe," a Conservative London evening paper, in which it was ...
Article : 171 wordsAn attempt has been made in certain quarters to discredit the figures given in our columns recently, showing the comparative earnings of operatives in the furniture trade ...
Article : 355 wordsThe Defence department has received official intimation from South Africa that Lieutenant Charles de Vertus Duff, of French's-Scouts and late of the Second New ...
Article : 42 wordsMajor J. F. Thomas, whose name has been brought into prominence in connection with the recruiting for another contingent for South Africa, writes to the press ...
Article : 585 wordsThe National Antarctic expedition's exploration ship Discovery, which sailed from Cowes on 6th inst., has arrived at Funchal, the capital of Madeira. Commander R. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the meeting of the Women's Hospital committee yesterday it was suggested that, in view of the large profit the Metropolitan Board of Works was reported to have made ...
Article : 154 wordsThe recent popular disturbances at Malta, caused by the action of the Executive Council in levying by its own order taxation to provide for public works of an urgently ...
Article : 91 wordsSir,--In your issue of 15th inst. Mr. Holdsworth writes:--"Mr. Fallshaw, said: 'We have no objection to the act; we want no fresh legislation.'" This is quite at ...
Article : 264 wordsShearing operations in the Narrandera district have assumed definite shape. All the big stations called the roll this week. Trouble has ensued at Tubbo Station, where only ...
Article : 276 wordsRecently the Sultan of Morocco protested to the powers against French aggression on the Algerian and Saharan frontiers of his dominions, the only effect being a French ...
Article : 105 wordsSir,--It is always an irksome thing for business men to enter into a newspaper controversy, and for this reason we have so far restrained ourselves from addressing the ...
Article : 699 wordsA number of the religious orders in France which are affected by the stringent provisions of the Religious Associations Act recently passed are desirous of migrating ...
Article : 89 wordsThe visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Pietermaritzburg, the capital of Natal, has been marked by an interesting display of ...
Article : 66 wordsMessrs. W. Weddel and Co., the well known London importers of Australasian produce, have issued their annual report on the butter trade, which takes a very hopeful ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Inspector-General of Police this afternoon received the following telegram from the local superintendent:--"Senior Constable Kibble, of Wanaaring, has been informed ...
Article : 62 wordsSir,--We have heard a great deal about the military commandants' conference that dealt with the military portion of the defence, and but little about the naval ...
Article : 436 wordsThe carrying into effect of the decision to reduce the British garrison at the treaty port of Shanghai, especially with regard to the withdrawal of cavalry, the result being ...
Article : 59 wordsThe recommendations as to the future of the fund are most indefinite. The committee says:--Until the conclusion of the war, it will be ...
Article : 350 wordsCablegrams from Durban state that the Duke and Duchess of York, having terminated their visit to Natal, have sailed in the Ophir for Simonstown, the head quarters of ...
Article : 64 wordsThe extraordinary circumstances which surrounded the death of Andrew P. Atkinson, who was drowned whilst making what has appeared to be, in the light ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 503 wordsWith reference to the official announcement that Lieutenant-General. Sir N. G. Lyttelton, commanding the fourth division in South Africa, will succeed Lord ...
Article : 130 wordsIn view of the rupture of diplomatic relations between the adjoining South American republics of Venezuela and Colombia, and the possibility of active trouble ...
Article : 117 wordsThe latest development in connection with the American Steel Trust strike is the initiation of a movement to oust Mr. T. J. Shaffer from his position as president of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 405 wordsAn important success has been gained by Colonel G. F. Gorringe, whose column, of Cape Mounted Rifles has for a considerable time been persistently pursuing ...
Article : 94 wordsMonsignor Kelly, the late rector of the Irish College at Rome, aud the newly-appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney, was yesterday consecrated at the Vatican. ...
Article : 178 wordsAn Imperial army order has been issued, and has been reprinted by the Victorian defence authorities, as follows:-- An officer, whether of the reserve or not, specialty ...
Article : 304 wordsA pro-Boer committee in Switzerland recently made arrangements for the despatch from England of a doctor and six nurses, in order to attend to invalided Boer women ...
Article : 163 wordsAnother case of plague was reported to-day. The patient is George Quinn, a seaman aboard the Innamineka, which arrived from Sydney yesterday. He was so ill on ...
Article : 168 wordsThe project to raise a Million Guineas Fund in order to commemorate the centenary of Wesleyan Methodism, as authorised by the Wesleyan conference in July, 1898, is ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 17 Aug 1901, Page 9
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