The South African Union Bill was before the House of Commons yesterday in the committe stage. Mr. Balfour 'supported the resistance ...
Article : 229 wordsThe effects of the great rainfall have been in many ways disastrous. It is nearly forty years since. Victoria, has suffered a like visitation. Most of the inland waterways ...
Article : 338 wordsThe last plenary meeting or the Imperial Defence Conference was held yesterday at the Foreign Office, when Mr. Asquith and the other Cabinet Ministers ...
Article : 99 wordsEarly in June last the principal underwriters who insure Australian produce requested Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, to make ...
Article : 184 wordsAlthough the missing Blue Anchor liner Waratah is twenty days overdue at Capetown, the reinsurance rate is now slightly ensier, and yesterday business was done at ...
Article : 189 wordsAfter the deluge of rain the Loddon River last night rose very rapidly, and within five hours had a long way passed all previous high water marks. It even ...
Article : 260 wordsThe biggest flood ever experienced at Newstead occurred yesterday. The Loddon River rose 2 feet in one hour at midday on Thursday, cutting off the west part ...
Article : 472 wordsThe United Slates Government is elated at the success achieved by Mr. H. P. Fletcher, the United States Charge d'Affaires at Pekin, in securing the participation of ...
Article : 136 wordsAn interesting judgment was given yesterday by a stipendiary magistrate at Kbondda, in South Wales, in a lest ease arising under the Coal Miners Fight Hours ...
Article : 167 wordsThis afternoon news reached here that the Lanecoorie Weir, about 16 miles up the river, had broken away. The flood water is several feet deep in all the hotels ...
Article : 284 wordsThe following steamers referred to in the foregoing cable message, are on their way to Australian' ports:-- Paparoa left the Cape on 2nd August for ...
Article : 106 wordsArchdeacon Wright of Manchester, the Archbishop-eleet of Sydney, will be consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday next by the Archbishop of Canterbury ...
Article : 63 wordsThe State Rivers and Water Supply Commission yesterday received the following telegram from the officer in charge of the Laanecoorie weir:-- ...
Article : 49 wordsAlthough the removal of the Greek flag from be fortress at Canea, the capital of Crete, by a force of marines and bluejackets from the British and foreign war ...
Article : 192 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle stales that a movement has been started to present a colossal organ to St. Peter's, Rome, on the occasion of the episcopal jubilee of the ...
Article : 46 wordsA terrific storm burst over the town last night. The channels overflowed, and all watercourses and creeks were quickly made rushing torrents. Extensive damage ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe total cost of the Laanecoorie Weir was £133,876, but of this amount the enormous proportion of £48,308 went in the purchase of land, leaving £85,568 as the cost. of the actual construction of the weir. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 367 wordsThe Government, of Cape Colony has appointed a commission, which includes Commander C. S. Wills (navigating); H.M.S. cruiser Hermes the flagship on the Cape ...
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Article : 56 wordsSir Matthew Nathan, the Governor of Natal, who has just been appointed Secretary' of the British Post Office, and Mr. F. R. Moor, the Natal Premier, are ...
Article : 61 wordsMuch concern for the safety of the residents along the Loddon weir was evinced in the city to-day on the receipt of news that the Laanecoorie Weir had burst. The ...
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Article : 376 wordsThe Simmons Reef Reservoir embankment burst his afternoon after a tremendous thunder storm and very heavy rain all the morning. The bywash could not take ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 507 wordsA boiler explosion occurred yesterday on board the British torpedo boat destroyer Otter, stationed at Wei-hai-wei, in China, and two men were killed, while two others ...
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Article : 70 wordsIn the course of an interview last evening the Premier of Tasmania, Sir Elliott Lewis, said:--The question of wages boards has not 'yet been finally settled. I ...
Article : 88 wordsA sensational railway accident, consequent on the storm, occurred last night on the Maryborough line, in the vicinity of M'Callum's crossing, a deep gorge about ...
Article : 508 wordsThe chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission yesterday received a telegram from Tandara on behalf of the residents, asking him to come ...
Article : 126 wordsThe match recently arranged between Jack Johnson, the holder of the world's heavy weight boxing championship, and Al. Kaufman, the American pugilist, which ...
Article : 55 wordsNegotiations are now concluded, subject to the approval of the Cabinet, between the acting Minister for Public Works and the Closer Settlement Board for the ...
Article : 122 wordsAt the Marylchone police Court to-day an American named George Thompson, was charged with having stolen the sum of' £100 from William Strong, an Australian ...
Article : 55 wordsThere was a heavy thunder storm herd last night. Flood waters are rising, and a large area is covered between Swan Hill and Lake Boga, the country being ...
Article : 88 wordsA serious marine disaster has occurred off the eastern coast of Nova Scotia. The American schooner Orinoco capsized during a sudden squall when 20 miles from ...
Article : 53 wordsAs was anticipated by the Victorian Minister of Agriculture, Western Australia has issued a prohibition 'order against Victorian potatoes. Yesterday Mr. Duffus ...
Article : 129 wordsA disastrous and ruinous flood, which surpassed the one of 1870, occurred in the Loddon to-day, the river having attained a height of 40 feet. The levees of the ...
Article : 392 wordsThe Spanish Government has placed an Older in France for a dirigible balloon, which is to be used in connection with the operations against the Riff tribesmen in ...
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Article : 70 wordsGreat anxiety prevails here in regard to the Hood waters from Lake Lonsdale, which are expected to reach Warraeknabcal about Sunday. The Yarriambiac Creek is ...
Article : 274 wordsThe official particulate furnished by the Railway department show that extensive damage has been caused on most of the lines in the Western, North-Western ...
Article : 766 wordsA number of seditious placards, which refer to the execution of the Indian student Dhingra for the murder of Sir William Wyllie at the Imperial Institute on ...
Article : 74 wordsA consignment of 6000 bags of potatoes arrived in Brisbane from the south this morning. The Department of Agriculture took steps to see that no diseased potatoes ...
Article : 35 wordsThe steamer Mataran, which has been build to the order of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., of Sydney, has been launched on the Clyde. ...
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Article : 27 wordsArrived:--Galchas, from Melbourne 23rd June; Rippingham Gradge, from Melbourne 24th May; Ottensen, from Sydney 22nd June; clan Grant, from Bluff 29th ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 21 Aug 1909, Page 11
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