Constable Frederick John M'Casker, one of the finest specimens of physical manhood in the Melbourne police force, was shot, at and seriously wounded by a burglar ...
Article : 714 wordsIn the House of Com[?]ons yesterday. Mr. Will Crooks (Labor) moved in the direction of securing a minimum wage of 30 a week to every adult worker in urban areas. ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Governor arrived by the evening train in the State car. His Excellency was accompanied by Mr. Wilberforce private secretary, Mr. W. H. Edgar, Minister of ...
Article : 351 wordsOur London correspondent cables that an operation on the Duchess of Counaught has been advised in order to prevent a recurrence of her recent illness. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 301 wordsThe Select committee which is inquiring into the rubber scandals took further evidence yesterday. The chairman commented on the ...
Article : 198 wordsIndustrial matters remain indefinite; Owing to the inability to secure supplies, and especially candles, timber, fuses, &c., the management of the British was forced to ...
Article : 602 wordsNegotiations are still in progress between the Powers and the Allies with a view of inducing the Allies to accept the basis laid down by the Powers for a settlement of ...
Article : 577 wordsWild scenes of disorder, marked yesterday's sitting of the House of Commons, which for weeks past has been debating the Canadian Navy Bill. ...
Article : 160 wordsNow that the date of the issue of the writs for the Federal elections has been definitely fixed, the chief electoral officer of the Commonwealth (Mr. R. C. Oldham) ...
Article : 155 wordsAfter many years of agritation for the development of its resources as a potential shipping and agricultural centre, Portland has at last received the recognition for ...
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Article : 151 wordsSome dissatisfaction was caused this morning among the casuals at Darling Harbor because they had not all been taken on. It was explained that owing to ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Women's Social and Political Union denies the responsibility for the plot to burn down the grand stands at Crystal Palace. ...
Article : 123 wordsUnder the auspices of the Hawthorn, and West Hawthorn branches of the Australian Women's National League, a public, meeting was held in the new hall of the ...
Article : 572 wordsAmidst scenes of disorder the Reichstag yesterday referred the German Army Bill to the budget committee. The Socialists loudly cheered General ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Chief Commissioner of New South Wales Railways was defendant in an action brought in the Industrial Magistrate's Court this morning. He was ...
Article : 159 wordsAt a meeting of their council of the Protestant Defence Association of Australia last night, held in the hall at the rear of the Baptist Church Collins- street, the ...
Article : 534 wordsMr. Watt to-day inspected Tilbury docks. He declares that considerable extension is necessary in order to accommodate the increasing size steamers Other docks ...
Article : 50 wordsAs the result of a remarkable piece of detective work it has been proved that a schoolboy named Tiemann, who, it was supposed, committed suicide in October ...
Article : 108 wordsThe balance of the shipment of pears by the steamer Somerset was sold yesterday at a decline of from about 1 to 2 on Monday's prices. The peaches proved to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Amalgamated Zinc (Do Bavay's) has closed down its last section of treatment works. The men from the mines out by Saturday night will number about 4300. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Grahame White, the aviator, has submitted to the Government an offer to raise £2,000,000 for the establishment of aerodromes, and the purchase of ...
Article : 119 wordsIn regard to the message received from Sydney yesterday stating that negotiations were in progress between the New South Wales Government and the Silverton ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the police, court this morning fore Mr. A. A. Kelley, P.M., and a bench of hon. justices, Harold G. Bayley was charged with numerous thefts from the ...
Article : 276 wordsApplication has been made by the Perpetual Trustees' Association for letters of administration in the estate of James M'Laughlin, late of Sunny Hills, near Casterton, farmer, who died ...
Article : 114 wordsAn extraordinary story of cannibalism is told by the "Matin" concerning the escape of four convicts in French Guiana, South America, The men were lost in a forest. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe strike of miners at Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, has ended. An effort was made by 16,000 unionists to force others, to join their ranks, and 3000 men declined ...
Article : 84 wordsOwing to absence of water reticulation a house at Cheltenham was burned to the ground yesterday afternoon. The victim was Mr. Aider, of Bernard-street. Sparks ...
Article : 122 wordsA meeting of the Parliamentary Labor party was held this morning at Parliament House, chiefly for the purpose of receiving from the Government a statement of its ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Japanese merdhants threaten to boycott the Panama Canal Exhibition at San Francisco unless Cahfornian anti-Japanese legislation is withdrawn. The Foreign ...
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Article : 152 wordsA strike of car men on the International Railway at Buffalo, led to serious rioting. The troops were called out, and charged the crowd with bayonets fixed. During ...
Article : 66 wordsWord was received at Flinders street last night that the 5.9 p.m. down Stony Point train had broken down between Somerville and Hastings, the engine having left the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe directors of the British Australasian Trust have declared a dividend of 5 percent and a bonus of 2 percent. The Maori troupe which became ...
Article : 95 wordsThe People's Liberal party has organised about 40 special Referendum meetings for the metropolis. Two of these, on 5th May and 28th May, will be held at Melbourne ...
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Advertising : 204 wordsAccording to "Lloyd's Register," for: the quarter ended 31st March there were 563 vessels in course of construction, the tonnage being 2,003,091. This constitutes a ...
Article : 37 wordsOn 2nd April, while the Aberdeen liner Marathon was between Capetown and Melbourne, a young Frenchman, W. Jacques, travelling in the steerage from ...
Article : 77 wordsRev. J. B. Sharp acknowledges the following additional subscriptions:--A.P.G., 5; Nellie Gunn, 16. ...
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Article : 419 wordsFor the fund which was established for the relief of the sufferers by the disastrous bush Bres at Mo[?]bulk, we have received from the Dand[?]ng Cricket Club, £5, being profit on benefit concert ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 11 Apr 1913, Page 7
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