In the House of Lords yesterday an animated debate took place on a motion by the Duke of Bedford in favor of an inquiry into the special army reserve, which he ...
Article : 238 wordsMr. Newton Wanliss, solicitor, of Ballarat, who is at present on a visit to Europe. has had an interview with Dr. Adolph Deucher, President of the Swiss ...
Article : 910 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the resolution embodying the stamp duties proposed in the budget was adopted. The increased stamp duties on share transactions ...
Article : 159 wordsThe hearing of the action brought by the Rev. J. B. Ronald to recover £3000 from Robert Harper, M.P., as damages for alleged slander, was resumed yesterday at ...
Article : 3,133 wordsThe second of the public house services being conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Asher in connection with the American evangelists took place in Mr. ...
Article : 935 wordsIn connection with the conference of chambers of commerce to be held at Sydney in September next, which will be attended by representatives from chambers ...
Article : 248 wordsWhen play in the match between the Australian Eleven and Surrey was resumed after the luncheon adjournment to-day, Hayward and Hobbs opened Surrey's ...
Article : 1,585 wordsThe South African Union Convention, which has been holding its second sitting since early in the present month at Bloemfontein, has concluded the discussion of the ...
Article : 249 wordsAlthough the strike of French postal employes proved a complete fiasco, the revolutionary section of trade unionists is endeavoring to foment further trouble. ...
Article : 161 wordsReuter's Agency states that it is [?]stood that no definite agenda for the Imperial conference on the subject of the military and naval defence of the Empire. ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. J. Keir Hardie. Labor member for Merthyr Tydvil, in the House of Commons yesterday, sought to obtain leave to move the adjournment of the House in order to ...
Article : 280 wordsLord Brassey, formerly Governor of victoria, presided at a meeting yesterday in aid of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd. ...
Article : 129 wordsOn the information cabled I think it may quite fairly be assumed that on the whole the luck of the weather was against the Australians. That it was so, at any rate, in ...
Article : 689 wordsGeneral Stoessel, Who commanded the garrison of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war, and Admiral Nicbogatoff, who was second in command at the battle ...
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Article : 123 wordsThe Western Australian Government is issuing a 3½ per cent loan of £1,445,000, at a minimum of £06 10. The loan has been underwritten on the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe discovery of an attempt to sell defence secrets of a most important character has caused a great sensation in the Netherlands. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe State Government, as announced yesterday, has revived the idea of constructing light railways to open up country districts. Victoria has already had an ...
Article : 281 wordsIn a letter published in the "Times" to-day Lord Ampthill, formerly Governor of Madras, who in 1901 was Viceroy of India pro tem., pleads for a special and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Australasian delegates to the Imperial Press Conference in London were last evening entertained at a banquet in Toronto by the Government of Ontario. ...
Article : 194 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening Captain James Craig, Unionist member for the East division of Down, sought leave to introduce a bill providing for the adequate ...
Article : 87 wordsThe deposed Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, is kept closely guarded in the villa in which he is quartered at Salonika and nobody is allowed to approach within 50 ...
Article : 151 wordsThe death of George Meredith, the eminent novelist and poet, which was announced yesterday, occurred at his residence, Flint Cottage, Boxhill, Surrey. The ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the annual convention of the New South Wales Alliance, which opened today, Mr. Bruntnell, general secretary, Staled that in his opinion the Alliance ...
Article : 168 wordsMemories of a tragic occurrence in the Melbourne Eastern Market about ten years ago were revived to-day by the discharge from Bendigo Gaol of an elderly man known ...
Article : 282 wordsThe King's Bench division of the High Court of Justice to-day gave judgment in respect of the appeal by the Rev. Henry Thompson against the decision of the Court ...
Article : 172 wordsWilliaro Richard Frost, late of Como-street, Alphington, retired civil servant, who died on 30th March last, left by will dated 20th July, 1908, estate of the value of £1464 realty and ...
Article : 229 wordsThe annual report of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. shows a profit of £31,927, out of which a dividend of 5 per cent on the deferred stock is declared. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Rev. Archibald Henderson, D.D., senior minister of the South United Free Church at Crieff, has been elected moderator of the United Free Church of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe estimate of the population of New South Wales for the March quarter has been received from the Government Statistician, Mr. J. B. Trivett. It shows that on ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the wool sales yesterday there was a large offering, most of the lots being from New Zealand. Previous prices for the best qualities were well maintained, American ...
Article : 370 wordsAt the meeting of the Infectious Diseases Hospital for Children held in the Town Hall yesterday reference was made to the complaint of a Collingwood councillor at ...
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Article : 154 wordsAt the Central Court to-day a young man named Henry Minahan was fined £100, or nine months' imprisonment, for selling liquor without a licence. Defendant ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Somali Mollah, who has been the cause of considerable trouble for some time past, has sustained a serious reverse, having been defeated by a native British force. ...
Article : 54 wordsSydney J. Simmonds, who was charged with throwing nitric acid over his wife, a hill maid, was committed tor trial yesterday. Accused, who had made allegations of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Liberal and Reform Party's conference to-day discussed a motion providing for a reduction of members of the State Parliament to 60. Delegates, however, ...
Article : 147 wordsIn the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Louis Brodeur, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, announced that the work of deepening the St. Lawrence ...
Article : 53 wordsIn response to the appeal male by Mr. Maloney. M.P., on behalf of the widows of Messrs. Dunn and Gregory, two of the victims of the disaster to the motor yacht Lilian, we have received £11 ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 20 May 1909, Page 5
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