The Prime Minister laid before the House of Representatives this afternoon a copy of the Land Tax Bill after it had been read a first time. A memorandum ...
Article : 437 wordsA fortnight ago the South Wales coalmasters proposed a reduction of 7½ per cent., but the men declined to accept it, and referred the question to Lord St. ...
Article : 183 wordsThomas Davies, a railway fettler, while riding a tricycle on the railway between Tamworth and Moonbi, was run down by an engine on Saturday night and killied. ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Municipal Corporation of Paris is considering a vast scheme for the improvement of the city. The project, which will involve the expenditure of £32,0003000, ...
Article : 63 wordsLord Northcote (ex-Governor-General of the Commonwealth) presided at the Australasian banquet at the Trocadero Restaurant on Friday evening. The company ...
Article : 405 wordsThe Government of Russia has lent Persia £100,000 which will be used to pay off the superfluous troops at Teheran and Tabriz, who were placed under arms in ...
Article : 113 wordsCablegrams received by the Premier from the Agent-General state that the Victorian 3½ per cent. loan of £1,500,000 was over subscribed to the extent of a million, ...
Article : 45 wordsReplying to a deputation which asked the Government to make up the £700 required for the fallen soldiers' memorial, the Premier (Mr. Kidston) said he could ...
Article : 50 wordsThe estate of the late Mr. Frederick Gorringe, who was chief proprietor of Frederick Gorringe. Limited, silk mercers, of Buckingham Palace road, London, S.W., ...
Article : 60 wordsThe British residents in Hongkong have collected £40,000, and the Chinese residents £14,000, to establish a university at Hongkong. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Hague International Tribunal, after an exhaustive enquiry, has upheld the main points in the French position in reference to the alleged facilitation of the escape of ...
Article : 214 wordsA case of importance to companies trading in Western Australia has been before the Full Court, Under the Dividend Duties Act companies trading in Western ...
Article : 247 wordsAt London or in Channel.—Sator, barque, from Port Adelaide Jannary 14; Bougainville, barque, Wallaroo January 11; Primus, barque, Port Broughton, January 9; ...
Article : 210 wordsDr. Macnamara (Secretary to the Admiralty), in an address at Lowestoft on Sa-. turday, said:—"By Easter of 1912 the British Fleet will have been so strengthened ...
Article : 65 wordsA lively meeting was held outside the Trades Hall last night, when Mr. P. Bowling delivered his farewell address. The speakers included Messrs. T. Bowling. T. ...
Article : 128 wordsFrederick Charles Intrez, miner, aged 45 years, has been committed for trial on a charge of having assaulted Bertha Intrez. his ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey, in a speech from the throne on Thursday, renewed his pledge to uphold the Constitution, and he appealed to all Ottomans to co-operate in ...
Article : 74 wordsA parliamentary committee of the French Senate has presented a proposal tor the establishment of old-age pensions. It is based on the wage-earners contributing at ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce in Pieterrnuritzburg, the seat of Government in Natal, by 19 votes to 12 defeated a resolution in favour of union with the other ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Constantinople correspondent of The London Daily Telegraph states that the reorganization of the Government services in Turkey involves the dismissal of no ...
Article : 57 wordsAdvices received by the New Hebrides mail to-day contained details of a disastrous earthquake at Tongoa. The Rev. Oscar Michelson, a missionary stationed at ...
Article : 428 wordsMiss Ottawav, who was married to Amy Bock, while the latter was masquerading as Percy Redwood, has filed a petition for the annulment of the marriage. ...
Article : 98 wordsOne of the six new battleships of the French programme of 1906 — the Danton—which was built at Brest, was ready to be launched on ...
Article : 103 wordsMrs. Doughty Wylie, the wife of the British Vice-Consul at Adana, who was a heroine during the recent massacres by the. Turks in Adana, in Asia Minor, has ...
Article : 194 wordsA railway collision was narrowly averted on Saturday night shortly after 6 o'clock. When a train, heavily laden with passengers, was standing between Windsor and ...
Article : 171 wordsThe seamen of Marseilles have struck work. They demand a weekly day of rest and the exclusion of coloured men from all the Messageries Maritime boats. In ...
Article : 61 wordsMuch excitement and indignation have been caused by the dismissal from the Blotmfontein education staff of Inspectors Mcintosh, Fraser. aud Brady, and a crowded ...
Article : 88 wordsThe finance committee of' the Reichstag, has further considered Prince Bulow's taxation proposals, and has rejected the Succession Duties Bill, including the States ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Turkish authorities are still pursu-. ing their investigations into the awful massacres which took place at Adana, in the south-east of Asia Minor, and 133 Moslems ...
Article : 74 wordsNo fewer than 192 Baptists, who have been holding meetings at Odessa, Southern Russia, have been sent to gaol for periods varying from two months down to one ...
Article : 43 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling, Mr. C. R. Murphy (President) said last season shearing was for the second time ...
Article : 187 words'A sharp advance has taken place in the price of wheat in the Chicago market. May deliveries are now quoted at 134. LONDON, May 27. ...
Article : 74 wordsEnglish capitalists have negotiated a loan of £3,500,000 for Russian railway purposes. One of the conditions is that a portion of the money shall be spent in ...
Article : 40 wordsMahmoud Shefket Pasha, the Commander-in-Chief of the victorious Salonikan Army, who is the power in Turkish affairs to-day, proposes to transfer the deposed ...
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Article : 60 wordsThree burglars nave been caught in the Vatican Gardens at Rome, and by the orders of Pope Pius X. they were handed over to the Italian police. The significance ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. C. Edward, lisenece of an hotel at Corrimal, in the Woollongong district, was dining with Dr. Kain at the hotel, and instructed a girl to bring a bottle of ginger ...
Article : 96 wordsA daring train robbery is reported from the United States. Four masked bandits stopped the Union Pacific express at Omaba, in Nebraska, on the right bank ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. T. G. Molloy, the Mayor of Perth, was to-day fined 20/ and costs, for having disobeyed an order of the Court to put a building at Leederville in a proper state ...
Article : 98 wordsAdvices from Lisbon state that during a thunderstorm on Sunday morning at Avila. a walled town in the north-west of Spain, the lightning struck the cathedral while ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 29 May 1909, Page 34
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