On Saturday, the second day of the first test match, a nasty blustering wind from the west blew, and caused considerable inconvenience and discomfort to spectators ...
Article : 1,944 wordsFurther details have been made public concerning the thrilling experience of the Duke and Duchess of Fife, the Princesses Maud and Alexandra, and the party ...
Article : 186 wordsThe King-Emperor and the Queen Empress on Friday laid the foundation stones of the new capital of India in Delhi. A brilliant assemblage was present. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe first of a series of three billiard matches, cach of 18,000 up, between H. W. Stevenson, the English champion, and George Gray, the young Australian player, ...
Article : 207 wordsThe last mail from England which will be distributed over Victoria before Christmas day arrived in Melbourne yesterday. Another mail will arrive on Sunday next, ...
Article : 645 wordsAlthough the newspapers are disposed to let bygones be bygones, and discuss the improvement of foreign relations, many protest against the Government's concealment ...
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Article : 318 wordsAt the opening of the trial Mr. Stokes told an amazing story. He began his recital by saying that Miss Conrad one day telephoned to him asking him to call on ...
Article : 385 wordsI visited Warner at Miss M'Gahey's hospital before going to the ground. He eagerly awaited news announcing the progress of the game, and bulletins were ...
Article : 93 wordsReplying to the pacific address from the British Parliamentary Labor party to the Social Democrats of the Reichstag, Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, declared that ...
Article : 69 wordsThe ruling princes are treated as if military, They wear swords, and the custom is for the feudatory to present to the suzerain a "nueenr," or present, usually ...
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Article : 120 wordsA special general meeting of the Mount Lyell branch of the A.M.E.A. was held this afternoon to consider urgent telegrams received from delegates now in Melbourne ...
Article : 127 wordsGrievances voiced by Liberal members in the House of Commons last May concerning the appointment in certain localities of a preponderance of magistrates ...
Article : 144 wordsThe English cricketer C. B. Fry, in an interview with a "Sporting Life" representative, stated that Foster and Douglas were good county captains, but a captain ...
Article : 108 wordsThere is serious danger of an industrial panic throughout the United States. According to Mr. Galbraith, secretary of the American Mining Congress, it is likely that ...
Article : 64 wordsA message from Renter's correspondent at Delhi announces the death of the Maharajah of Nepal, Sir Chandra Rana, in his 48th year. ...
Article : 120 wordsThe mails and luggage have been landed from the Delhi. The salvage party hopes that it will be possible to save the ship. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Scottish Miners' Federation, representing 100,000 miners, has instructed its delegates to the Miners' Federation Congress to support the proposal for a ...
Article : 34 wordsA fearful revenge was taken yesterday by a French peasant named Courmier, who had just been released after serving 20 days in gaol for poaching. ...
Article : 133 wordsA remarkable charge of red-tapeism is made against the Gibraltar naval authorities by the "Shipping Gazette." That journal protests that the naval authorities ...
Article : 52 wordsThe team chosen to represent the New South Wales colts against England in the match on Thursday and Friday next is Diamond (captain), Massie, Arnott, Fisher, ...
Article : 49 wordsA sensational, but fortunately not a disastrous, railway collision occurred last night at East Perth. A very long goods train, coming from Midland Junction, had ...
Article : 155 wordsThe War Office is offering £6000 in prizes for an aeroplane competition open, to the world. In addition, £5000 will be distributed as prize money among British airmen. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe following team has been chosen to represent New South Wales against Victoria mid South Australia in matches to be played respectively at Melbourne and ...
Article : 55 wordsParliament was prorogued yesterday until 14th February. The King's Speech, which in the absence of his Majesty in India was read by commission, testified to ...
Article : 98 wordsThe State Insurance Bill was road a third time in the House of Lords yesterday, and received the Royal assent today. A great meeting was held in the city ...
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Article : 74 wordsThe team chosen to represent the New South Wales second eleven against the Victorian second eleven in the match at Sydney on Saturday next is:—Goddard ...
Article : 53 wordsAs two sisters, Jane and Isabella Stephenson, were returning from a dance at Stockton-on-Tees last night they were shot dead by a man named Jonas Marshall ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Russian Government has refused an application made by the British embassy to waive the law against the admission of Jesuits into Russia, in order to enable Rev. ...
Article : 173 wordsA shocking railway accident happened at a crossing near Teralba yesterday afternoon. A girl named Ada Augusta Duncan, ten years, was killed outright, and her ...
Article : 169 wordsThe totalisator as a means of providing funds for charitable purposes was strongly advocated at the opening of a new wing at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday after ...
Article : 290 wordsAddressing a meeting of the Women s Liberal Federation last night, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that as long as women were ...
Article : 78 wordsInfested of late by many of the worst characters in the city, the Flinders-street viaduct, opposite the Custom House, has become a troublesome spot to the ...
Article : 478 wordsAt the Bow-street police court, yesterday the hearing of the cases against Francis Henry Page, William Henry Glendenning and Frederick Marshall, an ex-solicitor, ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Russian Government has protested against, the abrogation of the 1832 treaty between the United States and Russia. The leaders of the Senate declare that a ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. F. Green, presiding at a meeting of shareholders of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, stated that the Commonwealth had no cause to reproach the ...
Article : 78 wordsSun Yat Sen; the Chinese reformer, who has been offered the Prime Ministership of China by the Revolutionary party, and who is now en route from London to China, ...
Article : 56 wordsOn Friday last Archbishop Carr forwarded a circular, of which the following is a copy, to the clergy and laity of the archdiocese:— ...
Article : 216 wordsA delegation of Hindus from British Columbia asked the Dominion authorities to remove the restrictions in regard to The bringing in of their families. The request ...
Article : 350 wordsExciting scenes have been witnessed in several theatres which Have shown moving pictures supposed to represent Italians committing atrocities in Tripoli. In one ...
Article : 58 wordsFurther references to the crisis in Persia were made in the House of Commons today by Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He said that the ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Glynn, M.P., questioned on Saturday regarding the position of the Murray waters agreement, said that, except on one point, the agreement was absolutely settled. ...
Article : 103 wordsMembers of the sugar convention now sitting at Brussels have agreed as a compromise to allow Russia to export more than 200,000 tons of beet sugar annually. ...
Article : 76 wordsTowards the fund in aid of the family of a recent immigrant, M. Chadwick, who was drowned in the Yarra at Warburton while bathing, we have received the following sums:—Oddman Out, 5. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Federal committee, which is investigating the origin of the dynamite outrages in America has ascertained that five explosions at Kansas City were directed against ...
Article : 83 wordsSome months ago Mr. Hugh Gunn, formerly Director of Education in the Orange River Colony, was appointed to organise the Western Australian University which ...
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Article : 39 wordsIn aid of the three orphan children whose helpless condition was recently brought under notice by Pastor Tudball, of the local Baptist church, we have received the following sums:—D.P.R., ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Nowra and Jervis Bay Shipping Company's steamer Brooklyn went ashore on the outer reef just inside the heads at Crookhaven at 10 p.m. on Friday. The ...
Article : 280 wordsThe Lady Mayoress (Mrs. T. J. Davey) acknowledges the following donations in response to her appeal made in "The Age" to raise funds to purchase the home for the blind at Brighton Beach: ...
Article : 107 wordsA sensational accident happened yesterday morning at Eildon-bridge, over the Goulburn River. The Rubicon Lumber Company is constructing a narrow gauge ...
Article : 189 wordsThe second test match between the Australasian Rugby football team and a representative English combination was played at Edinburgh today, and resulted ...
Article : 98 wordsAn old couple on their return journey last evening from Preston to Brighton had an unfortunate ending to their Sunday drive. As they passed along the ...
Article : 171 wordsIn an article published in the "Outlook," Mr. Roosevelt asks the Labor party to set its face like flint against lawlessness in its own ranks, he adds that the Labor ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 18 Dec 1911, Page 7
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