Mr. Fisher has been presented with the freedom of kilmarnock. A Turin cablegram reports that Queen Maria Pia of Portugal is dead. ...
Article : 470 wordsIn the House of Lords the debate was resumed on the amendment moved by the Marquis of Lansdowne, leader of the Unionist party, to clause 2, exempting ...
Article : 384 wordsTen started in the return flight of the "Standard's" race, and all descended safely at Dover. Vedrines won £200 for the fastest fight from Hendon to Shoreham. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Freedom of the Leather-Sellers' Guild was conferred on Sir Joseph Ward, in recognition of his services to the Empire, and also in commemoration of the ...
Article : 260 wordsIn January a unique suggestion for honouring the coronation of King George V. and promoting the entente between Great Britain and Germany was made by, ...
Article : 131 wordsSome newspapers hint that the Anglo. German relations are improved. It is stated that the German Government understands that Great Britain will not send a ...
Article : 235 wordsIt was M. Vedrines, the cleverest cross. country airman in France, who on May 26 won the £40,000 prize offered by the "Petit Parisien" for the quickest flight ...
Article : 492 wordsChief Justice Moss unveiled a memorial on Queenston heights to the Canadian heroine Laura Secord, who in the war of 1812 gave the British commander the ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the Senate Mr. Cummins criticised, Mr. Taft's pro-reciprocity campaign, declaring that the President left himself open to attack because of his ...
Article : 71 wordsRight Hon, A Fisher, replying to Provost Smith, who presented the Freedom of Kilmarnock to the Prime Minister of Australia, dwelt; upon the value of the ...
Article : 96 wordsAt a luncheon in the United Club Sir J. G. Findlay, Sir C. Morris, and other oversea visitors were present. Right Hon. Walter Long, M.P., in ...
Article : 133 wordsA meeting of representatives of the chambers of commerce of the Empire has unanimously decided to form a British Imperial Council of Commerce, on the lines ...
Article : 53 wordsFurther evidence was taken at Federal Parliament House to-day by the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the Tasmanian Customs leakage. Mr. J. ...
Article : 118 wordsPope Pius in an autograph letter to the Apostolic delegate praises the peace movement in the United States. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe House of Commons has entered on the committee stage of the Insurance Bill. There are an enormous number of amendments. ...
Article : 42 wordsPremier M'Gowen, Mr. T. A. Coghlan, and other Australians inspected the s. Rangitira, carrying 800 immigrants to New South Wales, many being the wives and ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral Bixby, chief of the United States Engineers' Corps, who personally inspected the batteship Maine, announces that the vessel's loss was due to an ...
Article : 53 wordsAn election to fill the seat in the House of Commons for Hull took place to-day, and resulted as follows:- Sykes (U.) 3823 ...
Article : 61 wordsA secret conference, representing many manufacturers of Europe and America, has initiated an organisation called the International Steel Institute, and ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Horticultural Society entertained Sir Josiah Symon, Sir T. B. Robinson, Hon. A. A. Fitzpatrick, Sir Charles Lucas, Sir Newton Moore, Sir E. H. Wittenoom, and ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Government has appointed a commission to enquire into the state and future development of the fruit industry. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. J. R. Newman, proprietor of the Horsham Motor Works, had a sensational experience this afternoon. He took a large F.I.A.T. car,. which had undergone ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" has high authority for stating that the Director of Naval Construction contemplates the abandonment of the Dreadnought type, and the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe stock markets are extremely depressed. British 2½ per cent. Consols are quoted at £78 12s 6d, the fall being due to sales, largely on Continental ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the Empire Competitions in boxing H. Hardwick (N.S.W.) beat Hazell in a round, Thompson a bye, and Hardwick beat Thompson in less than a round. In ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Canadian-Pacific control of the Eric railroad is denied, and a sharp fall in both stocks took place on Wall-street. ...
Article : 30 wordsCambridge's second innings against Oxford produced 240, of which Collins made 50. The Victorian Rhodes scholar Le ...
Article : 37 wordsSad stories of the trials undergone by settlers and their stock on the submerged Kooweerup Swamp were related to Mr. Edgar, Acting Minister of ...
Article : 237 wordsA majority of the members of the Corporation at an informal meeting repudiated the Lord Mayor's claim to represent the city in receiving the King, and ...
Article : 71 wordsA programme which embraces such distinctly superior pictures as "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," "The Deluge," :and "Lady Jane Grey" can surely be ...
Article : 195 wordsIn the All-England Plate at Wimbledon A. W. Dunlop defeated S. N. Doust, 6—4, 1—6, 6—3. In the third round of the Mixed Doubles ...
Article : 44 wordsA scorching heat prevails in the eastern states, resulting in many prostration. The fear that the corn crops in Kansas are ruined has caused an advance in ...
Article : 73 wordsSeven destroyers of the Acorn class arrived at Portland leaking badly as the results of steam trials. They attained a speed of 28 knots, but strained rivets ...
Article : 70 wordsA Steamer collided with a sailing boat at Bournemouth. Four occupants of the latter, including a lady and two children, were drowned. ...
Article : 30 wordsFrederick Maclure, an army tutor at Eastbourne, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the manslaughter of Squire, another army tutor. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe hearing of the case in which T. L. Knight, wharf foreman, in the employ of John Allan Bowron, the Bermondsey leather manufacturer, who pleaded guilty to ...
Article : 66 wordsA lady lawyer applied to the Supreme Court of British Columbia for permission to practise. The court, however, refused the ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. R. C. Forster has given a further donation of £30,000 for the University College's (London) chemical laboratories. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe country house of Count Ludwig, an oil millionaire, was burnt, and a boy and girl killed. The governess in trying to rescue the children went raving mad. The ...
Article : 45 wordsElsewhere in this issue the management of Todd's Pictures have set out in interesting form particulars of certain features on their current programme. ...
Article : 206 wordsMother o' Pearl Shells.—The 1300 cases which were offered all sold. Queensland advanced 30s, and Aroe and West Australian 10s. The prices are the highest ...
Article : 34 wordsA patrolman was shot dead in the streets, and the murderer escaped. ...
Article : 22 wordsRichard Scott, a stonebreaker, employed at Rutherglen, risked his life to-day to save a child. While engaged at his work Scott heard several women screaming. ...
Article : 189 wordsStatistics relating to the Fourth of July celebrations show the smallest casualties yet. There were 24 deaths, and 881 persons were injured, while the fire losses ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Shipping Federation's scale of indemnity for shipowners who are compelled to idle their vessels varies from twopence to three-farthings per ton per day, ...
Article : 38 wordsThe trial of David Horatio Smithson, aged 26 years, for the wilful murder of the young woman Frances Compton, who was outraged and strangled in the ...
Article : 116 wordsA man accosted Constable Gill at Kilmore yesterday and asked to be taken to the police station, as he had a quarrel with his mate and shot him. When ...
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