The latest news from San Francisco conveys the welcome intelligence that at last the devastating fires which followed on the earthquake have been extinguished,and only ...
Article : 1,160 wordsSir Reginald Talbot, the State Governor, is to visit Beechworth on Thursday and Friday, 3rd and 4th May. No. 4 squadron of the 8th regiment, A.L.H., and the cadets ...
Article : 744 wordsFifty years ago a small band of workers secured for themselves and succeeding generations an acknowledgment from their employers that eight hours was long ...
Article : 1,729 wordsThe 1400 followers of the deposed Kaffir chief Bambaata, who is being pursued by the Natal field force in the Nkandhla forest, are chiefly young malcontents ...
Article : 503 wordsThere was an immense attendance at the Exhibition Building and oval. In the afternoon the estimate was officially given as 20,000 people, and there was a still larger ...
Article : 80 wordsThe cycling events afforded some most exciting finishes. The chief event was the Dight Hours Jubilee Wheel Race, which, owing to the fine pacing of the back ...
Article : 1,469 wordsThe International Postal Convention continues to sit at Rome. Mr. Austin Chapman, Postmaster-General of Australia, is strongly advocating that the next congress ...
Article : 157 wordsA cablegram has been received by Mr. Laurence Reid, stating that his wife and daughter, who have been on a visit to San Francisco, have escaped unhurt. Mr. H. C. ...
Article : 132 wordsAt a meeting of the city council to-day a motion was unanimously carried that the mayor telegraph sympathy to the mayor of San Francisco. ...
Article : 65 wordsAn Abyssinian outlaw named Mariam, at the head of an armed band, has raided several Soudanese villages, and has killed as many as 100 villagers. The raiding outlaw ...
Article : 65 wordsA reply has been received by the Lord Mayor to a cable message despatched by him on Thursday night. It is signed by A. Bethane, acting mayor of San Francisco, ...
Article : 99 wordsIn conformity with the instructions given by Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, a strict investigation has been made into the circumstances of the case of ...
Article : 235 wordsThe situation in the Lens district of the French department of Pas-de-Calais, where the coal miners on strike have come into sharp conflict with the troops sent to ...
Article : 185 wordsThe following cable message was received by the Premier (Mr. Carruthers) to-day, in reply to one sent by him and the Premier of Victoria (Mr. Bent) last week to ...
Article : 70 wordsThe R.M.S. Victoria, which left Largs Bay on Thursday, and should therefore have arrived at Fremantle this morning, has been delayed. She was signalled at ...
Article : 76 wordsThe New Zealand Insurance Company has been advised that its building in San Francisco has been destroyed by fire. The officers were unable to get to the strongroom, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe following message has been received by the manager of the Melbourne Telegraph Office:--"Bamfield, British Columbia, advises that cables and other business for ...
Article : 39 wordsThe two Malays who were recently towed to Thursday Island in a disabled ketch have arrived at Port Darwin by the steamer Tsina[?]. They will be placed on ...
Article : 110 wordsThe oldest building in San Francisco, and, considered historically, the one most notable, is the Mission Church at Sixteenth and Dolores streets. It was founded on ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. Clement Wragge, the well-known meteorologist, who is lecturing in Western Australia, has telegraphed from Malcolm that if the cause of the earthquake at San ...
Article : 60 wordsThe disturbed condition of the earth's interior, was made evident in America two months at least before the earthquake shocks destroyed San Francisco. On 12th ...
Article : 168 wordsThe great Olympic games at Athens, at which competitors from all parts of the world are assembled, were opened yesterday in the presence of a concourse of 50,000 ...
Article : 98 wordsThe report of the British Broken Hill Proprietary Company for the half year ending 31st December, 19[?]5, shows a profit of £48,060, out of which the directors declare ...
Article : 49 wordsThe lugger Turquoise returned last night with the police party, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Toole, and several natives, who left Port Darwin three weeks ago for the purpose of securing ...
Article : 265 words"If a treacherous earthquake should visit New York," said a prominent engineer to a reporter of the San Francisco "Chronicle" in December last, "it would ...
Article : 108 wordsThe final match in the competition for the Association Cup was played yesterday between tennis representing Everton and Newcastle United, the former winning by ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Supreme Court Wallace Nelson, ex-Labor member for Hannan's, is suing for £500 damages from the "Sunday Times" for libel. ...
Article : 405 wordsThe offices of tho American consul, Mr. J. P. Bray, were open all day yesterday, when additional names of persons residing in San Francisco were handed in by ...
Article : 712 wordsThe steamer Moresby was nearly three days ashore on a rock in the Solomon Group on her recent island cruise, and it is feared that she has sustained considerable ...
Article : 205 wordsThe most recent earthquake prior to that at San Francisco also affected towns on the American coastline. In our cable messages of 5th February the incident was briefly ...
Article : 482 wordsMonday was observed as a general holiday in the city and suburbs in honor of Eight Hours day. The celebration locally passed off successfully. The procession. ...
Article : 693 wordsSenator Playford, the Minister of Defence, informed a deputation at Thursday island that there was very little possibility of the forts being removed to Goode ...
Article : 80 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 55 wordsBar silver is to-day quoted at 26[?] per oz. standard--a rise of 0 5-16d. since Saturday. ...
Article : 28 wordsBremen arrived Colombo from Australia 21st. ...
Article : 9 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 101 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 85 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 30 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 24 Apr 1906, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: