Major General Sir Harry Barron, the now Governor of Tasmania, arrived at Hobart yesterday. and was enthusiastically welcomed. The streets worn decorated with ...
Article : 1,340 wordsThe fourth annual report of the Water Commission was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday. It shows that the total revenue of the commission ...
Article : 1,581 wordsAlthough Commander Peary recently stated that he would not attempt to controvert Dr. Cook's claim to have reached the North Pole, but would await the ...
Article : 360 wordsAfter ruling out the recent gale, the schooner Alpena was rescued from her perilous position off Stockton beach this morning and towed into ...
Article : 617 wordsThe visiting delegates to the recent Chamber of Commerce Congress had their time fully occupied yesterday. They were present at a lecture by Mr. Hamilton ...
Article : 825 wordsMuch concern was aroused at Calcutta yesterday by- the receipt of advices from Rangoon stating that the Madras Steam Navigation Company's steamer Clan ...
Article : 92 wordsThe statement which has been made in the Liberal press that in the event of the House of Lords rejecting the Finance Bill a general election will be held in January ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsNominations of candidates for the Brighton electorate must be lodged with the returning officer at the, Brighton town hall by 6 p.m. to-day. Candidates ...
Article : 73 wordsExport evidence on the question of the use and distribution of the waters of the Murray River was yesterday submitted to the Murray Waters Commission by Mr. ...
Article : 1,153 wordsThe Marine Court at Capetown has concluded its inquiry into the wreck of the British steamer Umhlali, 3388 tons, owned by Messrs. Bollard, King and Co., which, ...
Article : 107 wordsDuring yesterday a requisition, signed by the proper number of ratepayers, was presented to tint mayor of Brighton, Cr. Edmanson, asking him to convene a public ...
Article : 539 wordsMr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War. has selected a site at Trevose Head, oil the northern coast of Cornwall, for experiments with the projected aerial fleet ...
Article : 44 wordsIn connection with the persistent efforts which are being made to discover a remedy for the terrible scourge known as sleeping sickness, which has caused the deaths of ...
Article : 171 wordsThe statements made by the Berlin correspondent of the "Standard" in regard, to German emigrants to Queensland have been corrected in several particulars by the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe festivities in connection with the Hudson-Fulton pageant, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson, and ...
Article : 158 wordsReplying to Senator Pulsford in the Senate Inst night, Senator Millen, on behalf of the Minister of Customs, furnished a return showing the quantities of goods ...
Article : 255 wordsA political crisis has occurred in Hungary, where the Cabinet of Dr. Wekerle has resigned owing to the objection of the Independent parties to the action' of ...
Article : 235 wordsThe first, case under the new Prevention' of Crime Act was adjudicated upon at Folkestone yesterday, when a man named Weston, who was found guilty of having ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the meeting of the council of the National Rifle Association to-night, some plain talking was indulged in by General Gordon regarding defence and the value of civilian ...
Article : 213 wordsVice-Admiral. Galster, one of the chief opponents in Germany of the "big ship" policy which is now being carried out, urges the construction of submarines ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is announced, in New York that Mr. Samuel M'Roberts, treasurer of Messrs. Armour and Co., the great Chicago meat packers, will shortly become rice-president ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is announced that his Royal Highness the Prince of. Wales will next month open the Admiralty Harbor at Dover, an undertaking which has cost the sum of £4,000,000. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Canadian-Australian mail steamer Marama arrived from Sydney this morning. Captain Morrisby reports that just after clearing Sydney Heads' on Monday ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Melbourne Cup, according to the bon mot of Mr. G. H. Reid, is Melbourne's "harbor." But if that is so, there remains ut least something to bo said for other ...
Article : 670 wordsMr. Acting Justice Backhouse to-day did not sentence Margaret Lundie (13), who had been found guilty of manslaughter, having shot 'her father at Mount Hope on ...
Article : 107 wordsSix hundred women in Cincinnati, Ohio, have forwarded a petition to President Taft asking him to recommend to Congress a law to punish wife deserters in a similar ...
Article : 72 wordsThe operations of the Spanish forces in Northern Morocco, under the' command of General Marino, continue to be attended with success; ...
Article : 75 wordsThe death is reported from Dublin of James Gan, a well-known Fenian, who had been swordbearer to the Dublin Corporation since his release after a long term of ...
Article : 42 wordsSir Oliver Lodge, the distinguished scientist, states that the cosmic electromagnetic disturbance which was experienced on Saturday last was duo to solar radio-aetivity. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Sydney swimmer S. Tartakover yesterday won the Southern Counties 100 Yards Swimming Championship in 62 4-5th sec., which is a record for this event. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. E. F. Baker, who arrived at Fromantle to-day per R.M.S. China, stated 'upon being interviewed that his visit to Eng[?]and and America, undertaken for ...
Article : 381 wordsA gruesome tragedy is reported in a telegram from Manila, which states that while the revenue cutter Sora was off the coast of Borneo it was captured by pirates, who ...
Article : 80 wordsThe secretary of the Nash defence committee at. Geelong has written to Archdeacon Hindley, asking for an explanation of certain matters in conneetion with the ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. Livingston (S.A.) asked tire Prime Minister yesterday if lie would take into consideration the advisableness of getting an expert from the United Kingdom to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Perth Chamber of Commerce last Bight discussed the delays to the English mail steamers at Fremantle owing to the federal quarantine. With respect to the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe balance sheet of the Bank of Australasia for the half year ended 12th April, 1909, shows that the deposits amounted to £10,179,907, the cash items arid ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the wool sales yesterday the market was brisk, and full lata rates were realised. Australasian brands brought the following prices:--Gear, 9½d.; Kekerang, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsMr. Perry, Minister of Agriculture, says Unit he has had inquiries made to see if there was any likelihood of seed potatoes having been sent from New South Wales ...
Article : 236 wordsThe P. and O. Company's steamer Palma, from Japan direct, arrived and berthed at berthed at parbury's Wharf, South Brisbane, today. On the run across a sharp lookout ...
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Advertising : 232 wordsAt the meeting of the shire council on Monday a letter was read from the Minister of Water Supply in reply to a communication claiming that the act of 1905 ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 30 Sep 1909, Page 7
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