The International Miners’ Congress now sitting at Brussels unanimously carried a resolution demanding that a law be made fixing the minimum wage ...
Article : 89 wordsHr Robert Loraine, the well-known actor, who has achieved fame among British airmen, added to his laurels to-day. Starting from Blackpool, in ...
Article : 61 wordsThe centenary of the birth of Count Camillo Benso di Cavuor, the restorer of Italian nationality, is being celebrated to-day in many parts of Italy. ...
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Article : 49 wordsA disgraceful scene occurred in the Legislative Assembly this morning, ending in the removal of Mr Meehan, the Labour member for Darling. The ...
Article : 257 wordsThe death is reported of Mr George Smith Purton at the age of nearly 87 years. The deceased was born in St. John’s, New Brunswick, in 1823, and ...
Article : 111 wordsTwo remarkable train outrages are reported. Mr William Frost, a first class passenger in a train on the Metropolitan ...
Article : 129 wordsMr H. S. Warton, an esteemed resident, died on Thursday afternoon., at the advanced age of 74 years. The dsoeased gentleman, who followed the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe death is reported of a very old resident of Glenlogie, in the person of Mrs Cocking, wildow of the late Thos. Cocking. The deceased, whose husband ...
Article : 48 wordsOscar Heim was biplaning at Berlin yesterday, and when at a height of 250 feet the steering apparatus broke. The machine fell to the ground, ...
Article : 51 wordsMr Edward Pulsford, who was unseated at the last Seriate elections in New South Wales, is at present on a visit to Antwerp, where he is ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the usual fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council last night, a letter was read from Cr Hargreaves, resigning his seat at the council table. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe attack made at Potsdam upon a sentry guarding a powder magazine, who was fired at by three men whom he challenged, and was wounded in the ...
Article : 98 wordsCaptain Roald Amundsen, the distinguished Norwegian Polar explorer, has started from Christiansand. a seaport 157 miles south-west of ...
Article : 111 wordsAfter four lovely spring-like days, we have the delight of walking about the town without annexing land—in other words, “goloshes are off.” ...
Article : 61 wordsA lorry belonging to Tooths brewery, which was loaded with been and whisky intended, for shipment fell over the Pyrmont wharf into the harbor this ...
Article : 123 wordsThe following candidates hare been [?]ominated as councillors for the Shire of Ararat:—East riding, Cr J. Sutherland (unopposed); north riding. Cr ...
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Article : 98 wordsMr Edward Officer, of Kallara, New South Wales, has written to the newspapers, in reply to the recent disparagement of young Australians by Mr ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Court of Chancery at Liverpool yesterday granted an injunction prohibiting the Amalgamated Weavers’ Association from using its funds in ...
Article : 54 wordsThe retiring councillors (Mayor Kerr, Crs F. A. Anderson and Harrie Foster Sleenian), were the only ones [?]ominated, and were duly elected ...
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Article : 59 wordsOne of the largest houses of the season was registered at the Coliseum last right, when a further edition of West's Magnificent pictures was presented. The ...
Article : 73 wordsRecently eleven Bairnsdale anglers caught 249 bream in the Tambe river. The heaviest fish scaled 2½ 1bs and the total weight of the catch was 228½ ...
Article : 62 wordsAn interesting reference to the illfated “Jameson raid" on the Transvaal at the close of 1895 was made by Dr L. S. Jameson, now a candidate for ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Trades Union Congress to-day agreed to the following resolutions:- “That this conference recommends the abolition of pnvate labor agencies, ...
Article : 57 wordsA practical joke of a questionable character was perpetrated at the Trades Hall this morning. An advertisement appeared in the "Sydney Morning ...
Article : 241 wordsNortheriding—Cr Thos. Robertson and Or Wm. Howell, west ward, were, returned unopposed, and Mr A. N. Hannah, of Ercildoune, is opposing Cr R. ...
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Article : 103 wordsAn intensely amusing farce entitled “A Knight for a Day," was staged at Her Majesty's Theatre last evening by Mr J. C. Williamson’s Comic Opera. ...
Article : 146 wordsAt the monthly meeting of directors of the Camperdown Butter Factory Co. the manager and secretary reported that for July the quantity of milk re ...
Article : 132 wordsRouter’s correspondent at Calcutta states that some Indians in California having written to the r[?]elatives that they had found good land, five ...
Article : 108 wordsAn interesting fact has been disclosed in connection with the sensational raid made by armed police oh Sunday evening last on a gambling club on ...
Article : 109 wordsPathe’s Pictures have established a record, for Ballarat by remaining in the Alfred Hall for twelve months. They will start to-night on their fifty-third ...
Article : 229 wordsLieut.-General Lord" Dundonald, who for some years commanded the Canadian Militia, has in the course of a press interview, expressed a vigorous, ...
Article : 128 wordsA bad accident occurred at Kempton Park to-day. J. Plant, one of the leading English horsemen, was thrown while riding in the Greenwood ...
Article : 82 wordsThe secretary of the Geelong Racing Club (Mr A. J. Young) has forwarded to the Railway Commissioners a cheque for £1000, being the local ...
Article : 347 wordsMr Hugh M'Intosh, of Sydney, has arranged a series of contests to take place at London, beginning on September 15, to decide the heavyweight ...
Article : 65 wordsMr J. C. Smuts, Minister for the Interior. Mines, and Defence in the Union Cabinet, made an important speech at Pretoria last night ...
Article : 133 wordsThe annual report presented at a meeting of the New South Wales Auxiliary London Missionary Society, stated, that the past year was the best ...
Article : 68 wordsThe discovery has been made at Rome that throughout a long period the-Government has been defeated as the result of collusion between certain ...
Article : 146 wordsHer Majesty's theatre should be packed to-night, on account of the excellent programme which will be submitted by the City Entertainets. In their ehoice ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Right Hon Walter Long, M.P., who has been operated on for appendicitis, continues to make satisfactory progress towards recovery. ...
Article : 76 wordsSir John Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, explained in the "Westminster Gazette" the Victorian scheme of advances to farmers in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe tug boat Esther, while moored at Darling harbor, caught fire this morning through the over-heating, of the smoke-stack. The fire brigade ...
Article : 54 wordsRichard Arnst and Ernest Barry are now training hard for the sculling championship of the world, the match for which is fixed to take place on the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe well-known Australian drama, "The Squatter's Daughter," written by Messrs Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan, will be presented by bioscope at Her ...
Article : 188 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-night, the Saturday Half-Holiday Bill passed through the remaining stages, and was sent to the Assembly, with ...
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Article : 102 wordsA terrible accident, involving the loss of five lives, occurred at Cape May, New Jersey, yesterday. Frits Mergenthaler, son of a millionaire linotype ...
Article : 84 wordsTwenty-five Sussex street merchants, have signed a resolution which was passed last night to refuse to recognise the Victorian Government grade ...
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Advertising : 653 wordsThe slaughtermen and boners at the Sydney Meat Preserrving Company’s works ceased work at noon to-day. It is not known whether the men left ...
Article : 40 wordsA Reuter message states that the Turkish Government has arranged in Paris the preliminaries for a loan of six million Turkish pounds (£5,400,000). ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Fri 12 Aug 1910, Page 6
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