Torrential rains have fallen in the metropolitan area and throughout the southeastern counties of England. Extensive floods have occurred in the volley of the ...
Article : 168 wordsAdvices from Athens state that the death penalty for sedition is sot prescribed by the ordinary penal code in Greece. The trial at the ordinary assizes, of the naval ...
Article : 69 wordsThe armoured cruiser Indefatigable, which was started In February, 1908, was launched at Devonport on Thursday, The christening ceremony was performed with ...
Article : 92 wordsArrangements have been made by which at least £1,315.000 will be made available during the current year for railway development. A large portion of this money ...
Article : 36 wordsThe second-class protected cruiser Gloucester, 4,800 tons, 25 knots, was launched at Dalmuir on Thursday. She is said to have a heavy armoured deck, and ...
Article : 38 wordsThe want of trucks is causing serious trouble to the mines and ore shippers. There is quite 30,000 tons of mineral products on the mines blocked through the ...
Article : 49 wordsIn June, 1908, the painter Stemen and his mother-in-law, Mme. Japy, were strangled by a person who was supposed to be a burglar, in their villa in the ...
Article : 125 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. R. McKenna) assured Mr. A. H. Lee that the large armoured vessels offered by ...
Article : 63 wordsThe report stage of the Finance Bill which incorporates the provisions of the Budget has been concluded in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 185 wordsSo soon as the Chairman of the Water Supply Commission (Mr. Elwood Mead) returns from his visit to' Queensland the State Ministry will decide upon the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe War Office is arranging for the organization of a new factory at Aldershot for. the manufacture of engines for use in dirigible airships and aeroplanes. ...
Article : 30 wordsLord Robert Cecil, M.P., has informed the council of the East Marylebone Constitutional Union that he has accepted an invitation to stand for Blackburn as a ...
Article : 130 wordsTelegrams from Rome describe a terrible fatality which occurred during experiments with a military airship in that city on Monday. While the airship was in. the ...
Article : 85 wordsJapan is resuming negotiations with Russia regarding the Manchurian railway, which were interrupted by the murder of Prince Ito. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe officials of the Youug Australia League have completed arrangements for the dispatch of 140 schoolboys on an educational tour of the eastern States during ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Lloyd-George), in an article in The Nation, states that the voting at the five by-elections held since the introduction of the ...
Article : 175 wordsMr. Moore Brabazon has won The Daily Mail £1,000 prize for the first Englishman to fly a circular mile in a British-made machine. ...
Article : 54 wordsLord Gorell (formerly president of the Divorce Court) has been appointed Chairman of a Royal Commission on the Divorce Law and its administration, particularly in ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Loan Bill, for £1,000,000 has passed both branches of the Legislature. The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) denied that the Government wanted the money, ...
Article : 279 wordsExperiments have been conducted in France upon the disabled battleship Jena to test the efficacy of the armour of war vessels. The guns in every instance proved ...
Article : 119 wordsA French national subscription for the building of a new airship to replace La Republique. which was seriously damaged a few weeks ago, has been closed. The ...
Article : 35 wordsGreat interest was taken in the Bermondsey by-election, the result of which is generally regarded as affording an indication of the state of public feeling regarding the ...
Article : 286 wordsGerman military ba[?]loons are operating nightly in the Rhine Valley. Three of them recently successfully attacked the fortress at Ehrenbreitstein (rockstone of ...
Article : 46 wordsSeveral reports have been published stating that Kins Menelik of Abyssinia is dying. He was born in 1842, and succeeded to the throne in 1889. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Ballour has supplied a preface to a pamphlet entitled "The Land and the People," written by. Sir Gilbert Parker (Conservative M.P. for Gravesend). The ...
Article : 160 wordsThe visit from France of the Clement-Bayard dirigible balloon, which is to cross the English Channel, and be shown in Land[?], has been ...
Article : 55 wordsHerr Willisardt, cashier of the Frankfort branch of the Mittel-Deutsehe Credit Bank, has been arrested on the charge of having misappropriated the funds of that ...
Article : 47 wordsA syndicate of Continental bankers, Leaded by the Deutsche Bank, is taking up the second and third series of the Baghdad Railway loans. The borrowings ...
Article : 65 wordsA New York advice mentions that Mr, John D. Rockefeller has given £200,000 to ensure the thorough investigation by a ocmmission of doctors of the "hookworm ...
Article : 67 wordsA curious case arising out of marriage entanglements came before Mr. Barnett, S.M., at the Glebe Police Court to-day. Albert Osburg, hairdresser, was charged, ...
Article : 329 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday Hie President of Hie Local Government Hoard (Mr. John Burns) accepted the hulk of the House of Lords' amendments ...
Article : 117 wordsFrancesco Ferrer, the (Spanish revolutionist, who was recently condemned by courlmartial and executed, left his fortune to two well-known Anarchists, one ...
Article : 40 wordsAt a largely attended meeting in Montana, Central United States, two guides from Alaska dramatically confronted Dr. Cook and declared that the ...
Article : 68 wordsBerlin advices intimate that the trial has begun of four of the German Navy yard officials at. Kiel and five merchants of Kiel and Hamburg for wholesale thefts from the ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the House of Commons on Tuesday the principal order of the day was the third reading of the Finance Bill. Mr. J. Austen Chamberlain ...
Article : 642 wordsSerious offences were commuted by sutfragettes during the progress of the polling for a Parliamentary election at Bermondsey on Thursday. Airs. Chap and Miss ...
Article : 151 wordsThe American Pacific Squadron, which is on a half-world cruise, has arrived at Manila. The Admiral reports that on the trip he ascertained that the natives of one ...
Article : 65 wordsThe President of the Republic of Nicaragua (Gen. Jose Santos Zelaya) has reported that the insurgent forces have been crushingly defeated by the Government ...
Article : 33 wordsSeven deaths have been reported in university football in America during the past fortnight. The head of the Westpoint.Military Academy has prohibited the cadets ...
Article : 49 wordsReports have reached Teheran to the effect that a large force of tribesmen near the Caucasus, under Rakhim Pasha, have besieged and seized Ardebil. a town of ...
Article : 59 wordsGreat excitement prevailed in New York over the election of Mayor in succession to Mr. G. B. McClellan, whose term of office expired this year. ...
Article : 329 wordsForty-four out of 114 members of the Danish Folkething support the new Government led by Mr. Zahle. The members of. the. Cabinet belong to the Radical Party, ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Herbert Gladstone (Home Secretary) explained the circumstances under which the' visiting committee at the Stangeways ...
Article : 174 wordsA ruffianly attempt yeas made this morning to enter a house at South Hamilton, occupied by Mrs. Capel, aged about 60 years, and her two daughters, with whom a ...
Article : 140 wordsFor some time Sultan Mulai Hafid has been currying things with a high hand in Morocco. He is annoyed' at the action of the Powers in reference to his treatment of ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 6 Nov 1909, Page 36
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