The steamer Commonwealth, bound from Australian ports to London, on arriving at Durban yesterday reported that she had seen no trace of the missing liner Waratah ...
Article : 112 wordsThe international aviation meeting was continued at Rheims yesterday, when a new world's record of a notable character was established by M. Paulhan, the French ...
Article : 162 wordsThe light keeper at Cape Naturaliste reported at 11 a.m. that he had sighted a ship's boat crowded with men, which was flying the German flag. The boat seemed ...
Article : 851 wordsThere has been a recurrence of serious racial troubles at Monroe, in Louisiana, U.S.A. Two negroes, who had been guilty of a ...
Article : 125 wordsAt Brighton today the Australian cricketers commenced the 33rd match of their tour, against a team representing Sussex. ...
Article : 408 wordsThe first order of the day in the Legislative Assembly yesterday morning was the second reading of the private member's bill introduced by Messrs. Hannah and ...
Article : 1,158 wordsAn interesting speech on the outlook of constitutional reform in China has been made at Fukushima, in Japan by prince Ite, the Japanese Resident-General in ...
Article : 143 wordsWriting to a Ballarat newspaper, Mr. C. G. Richards, in referring to persons having relatives or friends on board the Waratah says:--"Will you permit me to impress ...
Article : 175 wordsThe strike of shale miners employed by the Commonwealth Oil Corporation at Newnes, which has been on since February last, has been settled. It has been arranged ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is announced that the new Dreadnought battleships which will be commenced at the Portsmouth naval yards fitter the Neptune is launched will exceed ...
Article : 130 wordsA trying experience during the gale's in the Southern Ocean is reported by Captain rotter, of the barque Meinwen, which arrived here to-day from Liverpool. The ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Rock Choppers' Union has advised men not to work at the Water and Sewerage Board's job at Willoughby unless the rate of 10 for six hours is paid. ...
Article : 43 wordsFurther particulars received regarding the collision between the Argentine steamer Colombia (875 tons) and the North German Lloyd steamer Schlesien (5536 tons) at the ...
Article : 116 wordsSung Lee, cabinet maker, of 275 Little Lonsdalestreet, was yesterday fined £5, with £1 11 costs at the District Court for permitting a person to work after hours on his premises on 29th July. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Prime Minister confirmed last evening the cable message which appeared in "The Age" yesterday stating that the Australian unit of the Imperial navy would ...
Article : 293 wordsHis Excellency the Governor gave a Parliamentary luncheon at State Government House yesterday, to which the following were invited:--Messrs. J. Drysdale Brown ...
Article : 764 wordsIn reply to a question asked in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Will Thorne, Labor member for the South division of West Ham, the Master of Elibank (Under ...
Article : 184 wordsThere can be no two opinions but that Miss Amy Castles's concerts have, as the saying goes, "caught on." Not only were the usual parts of the Town Hall last ...
Article : 1,095 wordsThe annual meeting of the British Association has been opened at Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba, under the presidency of Professor Sir Joseph J. Thomson, F.R.S. ...
Article : 169 wordsIt is expected that the Federal Government will be able to introduce its Electoral Reform Bill at the end of next week, or in the week following at latest. The measure ...
Article : 170 wordsA new, but not unexpected, development in the dispute between the employers and employes in the printing trade look place last evening, when a largely attended ...
Article : 204 wordsGeneral Marina, the commander of the Spanish troops in Northern Morocco,who has a force of 30,000 infantry and 1400 cavalry, has the length ...
Article : 87 wordsUnder the auspices of the Overseas league, General Sir General Higginson (retired), in the presence of a large gathering at Marlow-on-Thames, yesterday unfurled ...
Article : 61 wordsA further batch of clauses in the Irish Land Bill was carried in the House of Commons yesterday, in accordance with the application of the closure and the time ...
Article : 173 wordsThe commissioners appointed to inquire into the management, of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum submitted their report to the Governor today. They reported that ...
Article : 367 wordsA conference of delegates from carters unions of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia met yesterday for the purpose of adopting a draft ...
Article : 333 wordsFollowing upon the protest made by Mr. J. M. Macleod, the British consul at Fez, against the shocking acts of cruelty practised by the Sultan, Mulai Hafid, in ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Russian Government is again taking action dictated by hostility to Count Tolstoi, the famous novelist and social reformer. ...
Article : 61 wordsA discovery of great scientific interest has been made in the north-east of Arizona by Professor Edgar Hewett, a well-known American archaeologist, who was formerly ...
Article : 108 wordsThe steamer Waipara, 5505 tons, sailing under the flag of the federal-Houlder shire line which left Brisbane yesterday for Landon via South Africa,struck on Smith ...
Article : 671 wordsThe ''Times" states that it is understood that Lord Rosebery has consented to address a meeting at Glasgow which is being organised by the Budget Pretest League. ...
Article : 60 wordsA serious outbreak of Asiatic cholera has occurred at Rotterdam, the great port of Holland. Five deaths from the disease have been ...
Article : 48 wordsThe secretary of the Trades Hall Council (Mr. S. Barker) last night directed the attention of members of that body to a "letter or general order" issued by the ...
Article : 1,034 wordsThe South African Rugby Football Board has declined the invitations it received to send teams to tour New Zealand and New South Wales during the season of 1910. ...
Article : 66 wordsA sensation has been caused in society circled by the suicide of Lord Eliot, elder son and heir of the Earl of St. Germans, at his father's seat, "Port Eliot." near ...
Article : 55 wordsIn reply to a question by Mr. Solly, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, as to the prospect of employment for men on the Yarra-bank improvements, the Premier said ...
Article : 75 wordsAnother earthquake has been experienced in Italy, the district of Siena, in Tuscany, being chiefly affected. Several persons were killed, and manu others were injured ...
Article : 44 wordsThe peculiar movements of two men who were moving deftly among a knot of people in Collins-street yesterday afternoon attracted the notice of Plain Clothes ...
Article : 269 wordsHenry John Bunny of Prospect Hill-road, Camberwell, gentleman, who died on 25th July, left to his children real estate of the value of £1500 and personal estate of the value of ...
Article : 142 wordsAt the Marylebone police court today the case was concluded in which an American named George Thompson was charged with having stolen the sum of £100 from ...
Article : 57 wordsAs a further step towards the organising of those employed in wine and spirit establishments, a number of the employes at tended the meeting of the Liquor Trades ...
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Article : 56 wordsThe new union of lift employes was successfully, inaugurated on Wednesday evening, when Mr. S. Barker addressed the men on the benefits of organisation, and office ...
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Article : 15 wordsA deputation of secretaries or Sydney and Newcastle trades unions waited on the Premier to-day and and urged the necessity for the appointement of additional inspectors. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 27 Aug 1909, Page 5
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