The conference of vice-chairmen of the various committees of the City Council, convened for the purpose of inquiring into the allegation that £11,000 had been spent on extras in ...
Article : 1,457 wordsDuring an informal discussion in the City Council on Tuesday evening, some reference was made to what one of the aldermen described as the "cussedness" of Australians in doing what was obviously the wrong thing during the summer months. To begin with one of the civic fathers complained that Australians has not yet begun to learn how to dress. In climates much cooler than Sydney the first breath of hot weather saw the streets filled by an array of lightly-clad personages of both sexes. The men in their flannels and ducks and the member of the gentler sex in muslins and like material [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 273 wordsSir,--In your sub-leader of today (February 26) dealing with my report to the Government on the San Francisco ferries, you, unwittingly I am sure, do me an injury. ...
Article : 1,230 wordsNEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The Delegate Board of the Colliery Employees' Federation met today to consider the proposals made by the proprietors at Tuesday's conference. The ...
Article : 315 wordsThe interest that foreign mission work has for Methodists was in evidence at the Lyceum-hall, Pitt-street, last night, when the annual meeting of the Methodist Foreign Missionary ...
Article : 741 wordsThe conference resumed its business yesterday morning, Rev. J. E. Carruthers (president) in the chair. ALTERATION OF CIRCUIT. ...
Article : 738 wordsThe Government has received a report from Mr. Niel Nielsen in regard to the coal trade of the United States. Mr. Nielsen points out that although this was not one of the matters ...
Article : 753 wordsThere was a large and representative gathering at the Queen Victoria Club yesterday afternoon, when a reception was held to welcome the leader of the Federal Liberal Party and Mrs. ...
Article : 626 wordsThe members of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club and their friends last night tendered a smoke concert to Messrs. Albert and Sayer and the crew of the Rawhiti H., which ...
Article : 334 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--Sir Frank Madden, Speaker of the State House, today issued writs for the by-elections for Allendale and Kara Kara. Nominations for both seats are to be ...
Article : 171 wordsAlthough born in the Polar regions, the dog, the subject of this illustration, and now h[?]oused at the Zoo, is comparatively little inconvenienced by the Australian summer. The animal was presented to Mr. C. C. Eitel by Captain Amundsen, the discoverer of the South Pole. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsARMIDALE, Thursday--One of the most serious fires Armidale has witnessed for many years occurred in the early hours this morning, resulting in the boot and shoe factory, ...
Article : 172 wordsORANGE, Thursday.--The Orange land office was broken into by burglars last night, but no money was secured, and so far no papers are missing. Several cupboards and drawers were ...
Article : 82 wordsWAGGA, Thursday.--At the Wagga Police Court today Jobs. Asbury was fined £3 and 21s costs for having assaulted Frederick Hiram Brentnall. Asbury and Richard Harper and ...
Article : 151 wordsCLIFTON, Thursday.--The employees at Coal Cliff colliery were knocked off for over an hour and a half yesterday waiting for trucks, and were compelled to cease work between 11 and ...
Article : 254 wordsHOBART, Thursday.--The Governor has received the following communication from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:--"With reference to your cablegram of ...
Article : 127 wordsMessrs. Lawrence and Chalmer, of Sydney, have received the contract, at £6 a mile, for the survey of the south to north transcontinental railway, between Northwood and ...
Article : 110 wordsThe suggestion of an old-time tragedy was unearthed at La Perouse yesterday afternoon. It was reported to the police by a man who was walking about in the bush that the skull ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 28 Feb 1913, Page 9
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