As was generally expected, the Government's Licensing Bill, which bad passed through the House of Commons after a long fight and much discussion in ...
Article : 267 wordsSir Hiram Stevens Maxim, the notable engineer of the firm of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, in an address before the Society of Arts on Wednesday, asserted that ...
Article : 78 wordsA foreign chauffeur named Dalloz has been convicted at Guildford of the manslaughter of a lad, who was killed by the motor car the man was driving. The ...
Article : 50 wordsIn consequence of the resignation of Mir. Sir F. C. Rasch, who has represented the Chelmsford Division of Essex, in the Conservative interest, since 1900, a ...
Article : 73 wordsOwing to the alleged defalcations of Charles Cheston, a London solicitor, Lord Amherst of Hackney (William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, first Baron) has lost ...
Article : 33 wordsIn an Interview with a representative of The Paris Matin the Hungarian Premier (Dr. Charles Wekerle) stated that Austria had been compelled to annex Bosnia and ...
Article : 75 wordsIt has been decided to construct on the Clyde a graving dock of sufficient dimensions to accommodate the largest battleships in the British Navy. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Horatio W. Bottomley, Liberal member for Hackney South and a wellknown financier, has answered a summons at the Guildhall Court charging him with ...
Article : 45 wordsThe House of Lords has passed the Children's Protection Bill, and introduced into it a clause from the dead Licensing Bill, prohibiting children from entering the bars ...
Article : 362 wordsOn Tuesday the Wallabies suffered their second defeat in England, being beaten by Midlands and East Midlands by 2 goals a penalty goal and 1 try to 1 goal. The ...
Article : 116 wordsThe first applications for old-age pensions in the United Kingdom have closed. A total of 367,197 were received in England, 193,138 in Ireland, 67,785 in Scotland, and ...
Article : 50 wordsTen thousand Russian ex-soldiers, including many officers, have voluntarily enlisted for service under the Servian Government, in the event of war taking place in the ...
Article : 119 wordsCable advices from Pretoria intimate that out of 10,000 British Indians in the (Transvaal only eight have complied with the new Asiatics Registration Act. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe rejection of the Licensing Bill by an overwhelming majority in the House of Lords was the principal topic of public discussion in England and Wales on Saturday. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe House of Commons on Thursday continued the debate on the motion for the second reading of Mr. Runciman's new Education Bill, which has been framed by ...
Article : 351 wordsBefore the Special Court at Grey town, which is hearing the case against Dinizulu, one of the prisoner's wives. Mahihi, deputed on Tuesday that just prior to the Zulu ...
Article : 171 wordsThe persistent Turkish boycott of AustroHungarian trade and shipping has aroused bitter resentment at Vienna and BudaPesth, and the public are keenly watching ...
Article : 189 wordsMischa Elman, the famous boy violinist, who is under engagement to Mr. Frank Musgrove to tour the Australian States next year, gave a great farewell concert ...
Article : 506 wordsNotwithstanding the solemn warning uttered by Lord Roberts a few days ago, and the evident desire on the part of many people to make better provision for ...
Article : 82 wordsThe New York correspondent of The Standard states that heavy influence is being brought to bear on the Ways and Means Committee of the Washington ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Montenegrin Government on Saturday banded a note to Baron Kuhn de Kuhnenfeld (the Austro-Hungarian representative at Cettinje), informing him that, ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. William Charles Steadman, M.P., Secretary of the Trade Unions Congress, has returned to London from a tour of inspection through the manufacturing ...
Article : 114 wordsThe campaign against the San Francisco municipal grafters is being characterized by many sensational incidents. The Daily News correspondent at San ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Bishops of Birmingham (Right Rev. Dr. Gore) and of Manchester (Right Rev. Dr. Knox), Lord Salisbury, Lord Newcastle, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Halifax, Lord ...
Article : 202 wordsA telegram from Belgrade asserts that Austria is making great preparations for hostilities, apparently with the view of overawing Servia and Montenegro. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe steamer Tongariro. 7,600 tons, belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, and the steamer Drumlanrig, 4.284 tons, owned by the Astral Shipping ...
Article : 98 wordsPresident Roosevelt has made 15,500 fourth-class sub-postmasters of the United States permanent officials. This action will remove them from political influence. ...
Article : 43 wordsA sensational story is reported from New York. At 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning four armed men and three women boarded a tramear in the heart of New York, and ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is reported at St. John's that the United States Government intends to take proceedings before the International Arbitration Court at the Hague to obtain large ...
Article : 78 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the terrific explosion which occurred at the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company's mine at Marianna. Two hundred and ...
Article : 78 wordsThe St. Petersburg Government last week forwarded a reply to Austria-Hungary regarding the latler's decision that in the discussions at the projected ...
Article : 129 wordsThe committee of the extreme Nonconformist members of the House of Commons is dissatisfied with the right of entry clause in the Education Bill, and is urging ...
Article : 93 wordsLord Saekville, who from 1853 to 1888 was connected with the diplomatic service of Great Britain, and was at one time secretary to the Legation in Madrid. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Marathon race at New York on Thursday between Pietro Dorando, the Italian long-distance runner, and J. J. Hayes, of America, was witnessed by ...
Article : 194 wordsIn the committee of the House of Commons on Wednesday the Education Bill was further considered, and clause 2, which provided for "right of entry" to schools ...
Article : 47 wordsThe late Mr. George Herring, who died suddenly about three years ago, be[?]ueathed nearly the whole of his estate for the benefit and purposes of the ...
Article : 51 wordsAt Dunkirk.—Europe, ship, from Port Pirie July 21. At London or in Channel.—Miltiades, steamer, from Brisbane October 2; ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies at Rome on Tuesday Signor Fusinato initiated an interesting debate by expressing approval of the Giolitti Government's foreign policy, ...
Article : 79 wordsOn Thursday a "live" bomb was thrown at a passenger train which was entering the station at Barrackpur, a town of 32,000 inhabitants, in Bengal. The train was ...
Article : 124 wordsThe National Convention to prepare a Constitution for the Federated South African States, after a brief session in Durban a few weeks ago, adjourned on account of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe customs official porters, and boatmen at Constantinople and Salonika, under pressure from the Turkish Government, are [?] handling Austrian goods, but the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe trial has been concluded of the farmhand Lamphere, who was accused of the murder of Mis. Belle Guinness and her three children at Laporte, Indians, whose ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 5 Dec 1908, Page 36
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