The Navigation Conference resumed its work yesterday. It was resolved that no ship shall trade on the Australian coast without a ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the Colonial Institute last night Dr. Hackett read a paper on "Some Federal Tendencies." Australian federation, he said, had not ...
Article : 571 wordsA sensational feature in the debate on Mr. Haldane's army scheme was Sir Charles Dilke's declaration that the proposed striking force of 167,000 was far ...
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Article : 25 wordsThe Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr. A. Deakin), in an interview with 30 reporters of the London newspapers, said that the reeognised the generosity ...
Article : 225 wordsThe permanent staff of the Postal Department is to be increased to a strength sufficient to enable ordinary work to be coped with. Mr. Chapman made this ...
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Advertising : 788 wordsA party of signallers left Qucenseliff to-day to carry out experiments in heliograph signalling on the eastern coast between Wilson's Promontory and Gabo ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Postmaster-General had a further interview with Mr. Dannevig, fisheries expert, to-day with reference to the vessel which the Federal Government ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Justice Cussen to-day granted an application for an order nisi to review a decision of the District Court in imposing a fine of £10 on the printer and ...
Article : 56 wordsDiscussion was reopened on Sir Joseph Ward's motion respecting the right of the Australasian Governments to fix the wages ...
Article : 185 wordsKing Edward gave a banquet to King Alfonso and party on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. ...
Article : 23 wordsA Licensing Reduction Board is to be appointed for three years. The Government is to have discretion then to say whether the first members will be ...
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Article : 100 wordsThe English Bowling Association has declined to arrange for a test match with the New Zealand team on the ground that the latter are hardly a ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Deakin, speaking to an interviewer, said he hoped the conference would tend to the creation of a true Imperial citizenship. The time was riper ...
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Article : 103 wordsThe Prime Minister of the Commonwealth (Mr. Deakin) will not accompany other Premiers to Edinburgh, since he has not accepted the honorary University ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. H. J. Payne, M.H.A., interviewed the Minister of Lands to-day with reference to M'Grail's contract at Oonah, the completion of which it was proposed to ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. Hughes moved—"That the conference approves of the principle of a manning scale, applicable to all vessels registered in the United Kingdom, Australia, and ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Turkish transport Assyr, from Hodeida, has arrived at Suez, laden with troops. The latter are in a state of mutiny. They refused to land at Akabah, ...
Article : 43 wordsNo further particulars were received to-day concerning the steamer Easby. The Glauens, which was intercepted and ordered to proceed to the assistance of the ...
Article : 129 wordsM. Kokovtsoff, Russian Minister of Finance, supported the motion of the Constitutional Democratic and Moderate parties to refer the Budget to a special ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of a cablegram from Sir John Forrest accepting Captain Evans's invitation to visit Hobart. He states he is much obliged for ...
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Article : 484 wordsIt was announced yesterday that the War Office was about to discharge 1000 hands from the Royal laboratory at Woolwich, 800 from the gun factory, and ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Bcerbohm Tree's Shakespearean company has gone to Berlin, at the special invitation of the Kaiser, where they will stage "Antony and Cleopatra" and ...
Article : 45 wordsSome weeks ago Patrick Mason and a companion named Hannah were wounded by revolver shots at Darling Harbour. Both men were the worse for drink, and ...
Article : 105 wordsSir Joseph Ward moved the recommendation of the Board of Trade that in amending the Shipping Act masters, mates, and engineers be given the ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is reported that D. Saunders's premises in Brisbane-street were entered on the 5th inst., and at quantity of jewellery stolen. On the 8th the residence of Mr. ...
Article : 42 wordsThere is a popular agitation at Capetown in favour of an export tax on uncut diamonds, in order to transfer the diamond-cutting industry to that colony. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir W. Lyne moved—"That every possible encouragement be given by legislation and otherwise to the employment of British seamen in British ships in ...
Article : 144 wordsIt was at first supposed that the stranding of H.M.S. Trafalgar at the entrance to Devonport harbour was due to a defect in her steering gear. It ...
Article : 49 wordsWilliam Rodwell (47), a resident of Bridgewater, was engaged with a traction engine at Macquarie Plains, and got one of his hands nearly severed by the ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the Small Debts Court to-day the Commissioner for Income Tax proceeded against several federal officers for non-payment of the tax. The Police ...
Article : 58 wordsIn every church in Spain there will for three days be special masses said for her Majesty Queen Ena of Spain, in view of her approaching accouchement. ...
Article : 33 wordsGounsel for Harry Thaw, Mr. Delmas, resumed his address to-day, and made what was almost a direct appeal to the "unwritten law." He urged the jury ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Royal Commission on wages is sitting, and will be so engaged for a fortnight preparing the report to be presented to the Governor. ...
Article : 34 wordsThree extensive fires have occurred within a week in the Chinese district in Harbin. The whole of the business quarter has been destroyed, and thousands are ...
Article : 38 wordsThe schooner Harriet Constance, 100 tons, which sailed from Fortescue for Cossack on March 8, has not since been heard of. Grave fears are entertained ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, has appointed, an advisory committee concerning the rules, regulations, and scales under the ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. J. J. Long interviewed the Engineer-in-Chief to-day relative to certain repairs to the bridge over the King River on the overland track from ...
Article : 56 wordsThe worst blizzard experienced for the last 40 years is now raging in Newfoundland. The railways and roads are blocked with snowdrifts, and the ...
Article : 37 wordsSir Joseph Ward's motion asking the Board of Trade to publish a form of bill of lading safeguarding the rights of shipper, shipowner, and consignee was ...
Article : 32 wordsAn enquiry was held at the Custom House to-day, when the state collector presided. Mr. W. R. Lisbey, chief examining officer, presented the follow ...
Article : 157 wordsThe ringleader in M. Charbonnier's murder has been arrested at Tangier. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. Hill's amendment that legislation for the restriction of liberty of contract, on bills of lading, and in other directions was unnecessary and undesirable was ...
Article : 105 wordsThe train from Guildford Junction ran into a bullock last night, derailing the engine. The train was delayed two hours and a half in consequence. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe creditors of Mr. Joseph Havelock Wilson, general secretary of the National Seamen's Union, and M. P. for Middlesbrough, have accepted a composition of ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Lasker has won the fifteenth and last game in the chess tournament. The use of pills is so often followed by constipation that many sufferers from ...
Article : 72 wordsWhilst a young man named Thomas Bartley was on the Branxholm back road this morning felling a tree the staging carried away. Bartley fell, sustaining ...
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