While most people were out holiday making yesterday, including the hulk of the employes of W. Angliss and Co., at Footscray, the freezers at that firm's ...
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Article : 978 wordsAs the result of mediation by Sir G. R. Askwith. Controller-General of the Labor department of the Board of Trade, the strike of rafters and dockers at Dundee has ...
Article : 457 wordsA telegram from Alexandria states that the Italian cruiser Puglia, 2498 tons, seized the British steamer Menzaleh, 1711 tons, while she was in the Red Sea and ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Russian Minister in Persia, stales that the Persian Cabinet, has given, a general assurance that Persia will comply unconditionally with Russia's demands ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Ramsay M'Donald, M.P., leader of the British Labor party, speaking at Aberdeen, said that in 1912 the Labor party would use its utmost pressure to secure a ...
Article : 127 wordsChristmas from a meteorological viewpoint: cannot toe voted a success. The unexpected often happens in the domain meteorological speculation, and Mr. Hunt's ...
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Article : 199 wordsFull details have been received regarding the important engagement fought near Azizia. A force of 3500 Turks and Arabs attacked ...
Article : 138 wordsThe "Sunday Times," in criticising the Commonwealth Bank Bill, asserted that, it was causing the Australian banks to export gold as fast as possible. Mr. T. A. ...
Article : 90 wordsTerrific gales have been experienced in France. Telephonic communication with the capitals of foreign countries has been cut off. Several aeroplanes at Etampes ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 563 wordsFollowing upon the fighting that occurred at Tabriz, in the north-west of Persia, between Russian and Persian, troop?, the Russians have now occupied all the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe British steamer Chesapeake, 4521 ton, caught on fire at sea, and had to be abandoned. Two of the ship's boats, with fifteen members of the crew, have been ...
Article : 71 wordsA gale, which attained a velocity of 70 miles an hour, did immense damage in the forests of Neuchatel, uprooting no fewer than 18,000 trees. ...
Article : 30 wordsA scandalous instance of callousness on the part of the driver of a vehicle occurred yesterday morning on the Lower Esplanade. St. Kilda. A man, who was driving ...
Article : 174 wordsMessages from Persia state that during the fighting at Tabriz the Fidai tribesmen fired upon the Russians from the roofs of the buildings in the city. Subsequently it ...
Article : 55 wordsAdvices from Azizia state that in an engagement between the Italian and Turkish forces, the former were repulsed with a loss of 200 men. The Turks are stated to ...
Article : 83 wordsContracts for the construction of two battleships which will be more powerful than those of the King George V. type, have keen secured by Messrs. W. ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Salvation Army authorities claim that their "suicide bureau" has saved as many as 1064 would-be suicides during the past year. ...
Article : 27 wordsAfter a Ministerial consultation, the Viceroy of the Caucasus has been ordered to send the largest possible reinforcements to Tabriz. ...
Article : 110 wordsReinhardt's Miracle was produced yesterday at Olympia, which had been transformed into a Gothic cathedral for the occasion. The "passion play" presented a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Italian naval forces have captured the Turkish hospital ship Kaiserich. They allege that as no beds, surgical appliances or medical stores were on board the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe special dangers of the roadway in St. Kilda-street.. Brighton, near the Elwood-street intersection, where the thoroughfare is only fifteen feet, wide, between ...
Article : 274 wordsProfessor H. T. Barnes, of the M'Gill University, has invented instruments by which, he claims, the presence of icebergs, land, or vessels at sea may be recorded on ...
Article : 67 wordsAlthough the returns compiled for the Railway department arc not complete, they indicate already a considerable increase for this year's Christmas traffic and revenue ...
Article : 711 wordsMrs. Emmeline Pankhurst; the well known British suffragette leader, is meeting with mixed receptions during her tour of America. At Tacoma, Washington, the ...
Article : 130 wordsAn Italian couple has been arrested at Montreux, in Switzerland, on a charge of "having robbed an Italian princess oi £25,800. ...
Article : 31 words[By 22nd November the Persian crisis resulting from Russian demands, and of taking military action in the event of noncompliance on the part of Persia had, ...
Article : 186 wordsA British cement combine has been formed to work in agreement with the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. The combined capital will be ...
Article : 45 wordsDuring 1911 a total of 290 vessels, aggregating 1,054,019 tons, was launched on the north-east coast of England, constituting a record output. On the Clvde also a ...
Article : 48 wordsA remarkable colliery disaster has furred at Wigan, in Lancashire. Owing to a water burst in the pit shaft 87 miners were cut off from the exit. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Midland Railway Co. of Western Australia Ltd. for the year ended 30th June shows a balance of £40,954 at credit of profit and loss. To renewal and contingency ...
Article : 173 wordsThe election for the Govan division of Lanarkshire, rendered vacant by the appointment of Mr. W. Hunter as senator of the College of Justice in Scotland has ...
Article : 80 wordsA remarkable motor car accident happened on Toorak-road, South Yarra, on Saturday evening. About 7.30 a taxi-cab driven by Michael Quinu ran down ...
Article : 200 wordsConsiderable comment has been aroused by an order which has been issued toy the Kaiser, forbidding officers to visit England without first obtaining permission from the ...
Article : 37 wordsST. PETERSBURG, 23rd December. The Octobrist party in the Duma has introduced a bill providing for the doubling of tariff duties on American goods; the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe trouble between the Fremantle wharf laborers and the steamship owners still continues, and from present indications there appears to be no prospect of ...
Article : 150 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday the Government brought forward a proposal for the payment of a subsidy of £20,000,000, to be spread over 25 years, to the mail and ...
Article : 92 wordsA sacrilegious outrage has been committed at the Pere-la-Chaise Cemetery, in which the body of the famous French actress, Mdlle. Lantclme, who was drowned ...
Article : 153 wordsMr. T. Gibson Bowles, for many years a prominent member of the Liberal party in the House of Commons, has written a letter, in which he announces his intention of ...
Article : 58 wordsThe funeral of Rev. Canon Tucker, which took place on Saturday afternoon, at St. Kilda cemetery Was very largely attended. A number of clergymen who had been ...
Article : 620 wordsA double drowning fatality occurred at Caloundra this morning. The victims were Francis Pickering Hebbel, 38, head teacher at the Lagoon Pocket, school, near Gympie, ...
Article : 166 wordsFurther details have been received in regard to the mutinous outbreak which occurred among a section of the troops at Braga, who resented the exactions of ...
Article : 138 wordsA large meeting of the Mount Lyell branch of the miners' association was held in Queenstown on Sunday. About 460 members attended. Delegates from the ...
Article : 343 wordsMr. Donald Mann, head of the Canadian Northern Railway Company announces that the company is contemplating the establishment of steamship services to ...
Article : 55 wordsThere was a serious breakdown in the shipping notifications from Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane yesterday. At the public boards in Melbourne only ...
Article : 157 wordsGeorge Jenkins stood at the corner of Little Bourke and Elizabeth streets at 7.30 p.m. On Saturday. He was in happy Christmas mood. Thus it was that ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Sum stolen by the four armed robbers who broke into a bank at Montmartre, near Paris, and after shooting the bank's messenger escaped in a motor car, ...
Article : 91 wordsOn Sunday morning, Mr. Arnold Newey, hon. sec. of the Victorian head centre of the above, instructed a class on the seashore near the old Elwood rifle ...
Article : 327 wordsThis afternoon Richard Newman, aged 55, living at Redfern, while attempting to cross the line it the Sydenham railway station was knocked down by an engine and ...
Article : 40 words"Le Temps"declares that Spain's counter proposal regarding the share of Morocco to he apportioned to Spain, is impracticable, as France will not accent the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe irremovable priests of, the archdiocese and members of the Roman Catholic diocesan council will meet on Thursday morning next for the purpose of ...
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Advertising : 333 wordsA collision occurred in Circular Quay this evening between the Sydney Ferry Company's steamers Kirribilli and Koree. The latter steamer's steering gear carried ...
Article : 92 wordsThe exodus from town to the various settlements at the eastern side of the Bay on Saturday and yesterday was very large unusually so on Saturday. Five crowded ...
Article : 392 wordsArrived.--At ban Francisco: Strathgarry, from Newcastle 15th November. Sailed.--For Sydney: Friedrick der Grosse, Miltiades, Banffshire. For ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Australian boys who are visiting America under the auspices of the Young Australia League of Western Australia were entertained at a banquet yesterday, ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Julius Grant, hon. secretary A. L. Gordon memorial fund, acknowledges receipt of £1 1 from Miss E. L. Brooks, and 5 from Miss Hilda Fraser. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 26 Dec 1911, Page 5
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