That the Ballarat City Fire Brigade is a fine and popular lot of men was doubtless a potent factor in helping to fill Her Majesty's Theatre last night, ...
Article : 503 wordsThe Licensing Bill introduesd into the Legislative Assembly yesterday by the Attorney-General is important as embodying a principle of local option, but ...
Article : 239 wordsPractically everything is now ready for the Union Castle liner Sabine to leave Capetown on her search for the missing Waratah on Thursday. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 410 wordsAdmiral Sir George Nares, who has expressed a good deal of scepticism regarding the claims of Dr Cook, suggests that in view of the c[?]incidence ...
Article : 77 wordsThe railway revenue returns for August show a decrease of £419 9s, as compared with the corresponding month last year. The passenger bookings amounted ...
Article : 115 wordsThe annual Geelong Spring Show was opened to-day at the grounds. East Geelong, in tine, but threatening, weather The society this year reverted to its old ...
Article : 432 wordsMr A Barlow. P.M , presided at the police court on Tuesday. A debt case having been settled out of court Was withdrawn, and in two truancy cases ...
Article : 150 wordsThe captain of Commander E. Peary’s Arctic ship Roosevelt has wired that Peary saw no trace whatever of Dr Cook, cither during his ...
Article : 144 wordsAlthough the Waratah ia now 40 days overdue, relatives and friends of the passengers have not lost faith in the opinion expressed that the ship is still afloat. No ...
Article : 48 wordsA fire occurred lust night which totally destroyed a disused flour null at Cooma. The mill was built a quarter of a century ago, and was owned by Mr E. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Allan liner Laurontian, 4522 tons, has gone ashore in Trepassy Day, on the south-eastern coast of Newfoundland. The passengers have all ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting of the, friends and porters of Cr Way was held at James hotel, Lal Lal. on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of arranging a social ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is expected that Commander Peary and Dr Cook will both reach Now York about September 20. The Royal Geographical Society has ...
Article : 89 wordsDr Jameson has returned, from Carlsbad in greatly improved health. Dr Jameson announces that he intends to seek election in the South African ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Rev. J. T. Little, Presbyterian minister, has been transferred to Kanwi. He was entertained at a social on Tuesday evening by the Minyip and Murtoa ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Royal Commission on Coal Mining Disputes is being dissolved, as application has been made by colliery owners or miners to have it renewed. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe death has occurred at Fitzroy of Mr Juices Orr. formerly a well-known business man of the town. The deceased came to Creswick about the year 1853, ...
Article : 163 wordsDr George Glenny, the well-known missionary, died suddenly aboard ship in the Red Sea. Dr Glenny was on the way to Australia. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the South street Coliseum to-morrow night a crowded audience is expected, as the programe to he submitted is exceptionally good, and patrons have the ...
Article : 91 wordsAir Asquith has again been seriously annoyed by the attention of “suffragettes,” who persist in urging their right to make personal representations ...
Article : 139 wordsVery much regret was expressed here and throughout the district, when it became known that Mr Thomas Kenndy, one of the best known farmers of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsA wood-chopping contest for the championship of the Commonwealth, and £100 aside took place to-day at Clontarf between the present holder, J. W. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Select Committee of the Assembly appointed, to enquire into the question of daylight saving held its first meeting to-day. Mr Outtrim was appointed ...
Article : 272 wordsMr G. D. Ratoliffa’s Cdison[?]an biograph tour of tile great sensation fight which took place last Boring Bar in Sydney will be presented at the South ...
Article : 85 wordsWilfred Rhodes, the famous Yorkshire cricketer, who was in great form with the bat this season, managed to score 2000 runs despite the frequency ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the statutory meeting of the Stawell Shire Council, held on Tuesday, Cr J. Dalziel was elected president for the ensuing year, wit h au allowance of £50. ...
Article : 260 wordsThe cruiser Prometheus has returned to Auckland from a visit to the Now Hebrides. Commander John C. T. Glossop, in an interview, states that ...
Article : 245 wordsA jewellery robbery of 1904 has had a remarkable sequel On November 23 of that year Thomas James Stockall, of Messrs Stockall and Sons, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe election held last mouth to fill the [?] in the centre riding, at which Mr W. B. Irvine was the successful candidate, will probably be declared void. ...
Article : 108 wordsA meeting of the Ballarat Football League was held at the Unicorn hotel last night, there being present—The president (Mr A. B. Berry), and Messrs W. ...
Article : 230 wordsFor to-morrow night's programme at the theatre the management of the City Entertainers has provided a most attractive list of performers. Amongst the ...
Article : 80 wordsHow real the danger from the air may be for Great Britain, has been vividly outlined by Herr Rudolf Martin, who was formerly the German ...
Article : 104 wordsThe concert to-night in Her Majesty"s Theatre promises to be one of the best yet given by the society. The choral work has been well selected and well ...
Article : 111 wordsPottle's Pictures were again shown before a large audience at the Alfred Hall last night. The present programme, including "The Banknote,” “Jim and ...
Article : 184 wordsMr Hanson presided at a meeting held on Tuesday evening. Mr D. C. M’Grath. M.L.A., asked for a copy of a letter alleged to hare been sent him ...
Article : 105 wordsSentence has been passed at Fez on Bu Hainara, the pretender to the Moorish throne, who had tho ill-fortune to fall into the hands of his rival’s ...
Article : 75 wordsAn application for a pension was made yesterday to Mr Martin, pensions officer at South Melbourne, by Mr James Joseph Rooney, 94 years of age, who states that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 473 wordsA great sensation has been caused in Europe by the marriage of Prince Hermann, the eldest son and heir of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe bloom of wattle blossom is not so rich this year as usual, on account probably of the heavy rains. In some paddocks wattles arc left quite bare by ...
Article : 83 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Baptist Young Men’s Club took place on Tuesday evening; the president, the Rev. H. E. Hughes, occupied the chair. After ...
Article : 287 wordsA very succcssful social in connection with the Mission Workers Band was held in the Presbyterian schoolroom on Tuesday evening. There was a fair ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Waubra Gun Club held a verysuccessful sparrow match at M. Hayes recreation ground on Saturday last, when a valuable trophy, presented by ...
Article : 108 wordsHis Majesty the King has sent a gracious (reply through the Earl of Dudley, Governor-General of. the Commonwealth, to the address of loyalty ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsA disaster occurred in the River Danube yesterday during the trial of anew type of floating mine. This mine had been invented by Lieutenant ...
Article : 105 wordsFat Cattal-There were 1550 yarded, comprising 620 from New South Wales, 500 from the North-eastern district. 200 from Gippsland, 70 from South ...
Article : 160 wordsRusty locks, weak doors, and thin chains. This was the state of the doors at Pentridge, as allied by Warder Albert Collie when giving ...
Article : 204 wordsFifty years ago last July was the jubilee of the first ploughing match in Colac. It was held in Mrs Bott’s paddock, close to the Irrewarra station. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey has returned to Constantinople after his tour of the vilayet of Brusa, in Asia Minor. His Majesty has greatly increased bis ...
Article : 38 wordsMurtoa and Warracknabeal teams met at Murtoa yesterday afternoon, when the local team proved victorious, scoring 4 goals 15 behinds to Warracknabeal’s [?] ...
Article : 49 wordsMr Richard Lawley, the only son of Sir Arthur Lawley, Governor of Madras (formerly Governor of Western Australia), has met with an untimely fate, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsA fatal accident befell M. Lefebre, the well-known aviator, at Juvisy, in France, yesterday. M. Lefebre had undertaken a trial flight on the new ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsHenry Arthur Jones’s most successful drama. “The Hypocrites,” and the late Wilson Barrett’s last-play, “Lucky [Durham,’’ will bo presented for the first ...
Article : 217 wordsTho steamer Burringham, built to the order of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, has been launched at Grangemouth. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe weir at the upper Stoney Creek reservoir was further raised last week, and the storage increased to 445,000,000 gallons, or 34.000,900 gallons short of its ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Trades Union Congress at 1ps wich condemned any compulsory enlistment of the working classes into the Territorial army. The Congress also ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Thu 9 Sep 1909, Page 6
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