The feature of the proceedings in the Thaw murder trial in New York yesterday was the appearance of Mrs. Thaw to give evidence on her husband's behalf. ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. John D. Rockefeller, the great American capitalist, has made another munificent gift in the interests of education in the United States. ...
Article : 80 wordsAn interesting exposition of labour views was made last night by Mr. Keir Hardie, leader of the Independent Labour party in the House of Commons, and a pronounced ...
Article : 226 words"The Times" of this morning has an article on the approaching Imperial Conference, expressing the view that it will be a highly important gathering. ...
Article : 105 wordsStatements have recently been made respecting the management and inmates of the Abbotsford Convent. From certain cases into which an official inquiry has been ...
Article : 132 wordsThe leading article dealing with clairvoyancy published in "The Argus" some days ago has had the effect of stirring the police into activity concerning impostors of this ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsPeople not used to the usages of mining fields would find it difficult to understand how a multitude of dealers obtain a living by purchasing and selling metal having ...
Article : 940 wordsHer Excellency Lady Northcote presided over a meeting of the executive committee of the Australian Exhibition of Women's work, held at Government-house yesterday ...
Article : 1,232 wordsSerious trouble affecting three different republics in Central and South America is reported. In Central America a body of Honduras ...
Article : 187 wordsThere is much discontent among the letter-carriers of Melbourne concerning the hours which they are compelled to work. About 40 of the men are satisfied. These ...
Article : 1,016 wordsAn address by the Rev. Georgh Tregear was the chief item on the programme for a meeting of members of the Princes[?] Ida (female) Lodge of the Loyal Orange Order ...
Article : 1,117 wordsA project for the organisation of a regiment available for service throughout the empire is suggested for discussion by the Imperial Conference. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe movement started in the Commonwealth for the repatriation of Australians in South Africa who desire to return to their own country, but are unable to find ...
Article : 102 wordsHer Majesty Queen Alexandra has shown her interest in the encouragement of rifle-shooting practice amongst citizens and young men by a gift to the Society of ...
Article : 74 wordsIn connection with the extradition of a Russian named Tscherniak, who was arrested in Stockholm on suspicion, a difficulty was raised owing to the refusal of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsHis Majesty King Leopold of Belgium has met with a driving accident, in which he had a narrow escape of sustaining serious injury. ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo six-inch breechloading guns for the equipment of the forts at Fremantle were shipped by the steamer Glenlee, which has sailed for Australia. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe rioting at the copper-mining centre of Oshivo, in Japan, which was the outcome of grievances by the workers against the employers, has been marked by a ...
Article : 97 wordsVinegar-makers are complaining that the regulations under the Pure Foods Act dealing with the product will, if enforced, seriously interfere with the manufacture of ...
Article : 343 wordsThe directors of Druce Limited, the concern formed to exploit the claim by G. H. Druce, formerly of Melbourne, to the dukedom of Portland, have resolved to follow ...
Article : 71 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bank bills is 4 11-16 per cent., or 5-16 per cent, below the Bank rate of [?] per cent. ...
Article : 36 wordsPresident Roosevelt's crusade against the great trusts of the United States, whose rapacious methods have aroused bitter complaints from the community, has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 wordsA mutinous seaman on board the United States cruiser Tennessee shot two of the petty officers, the wound in one case proving fatal. ...
Article : 43 wordsUnder the Russo-Japanese treaty arranged on the conclusion of the war in 1905. Japan and Russia mutually agree to evacuate simultaneously Manchuria, except the ...
Article : 163 wordsA meeting of Scottish Radical members of the House of Commons has been held at Edinburgh, under the presidency of Mr. Duneah V. Piric, member for the North ...
Article : 86 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver is 31 1-16d. per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d. since [?]th inst. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsThe statement published yesterday regarding the difficulty experienced by jammakers in complying with the Pure Foods Act, and the complaint by a gentleman ...
Article : 200 wordsNext week 33,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Serviceton and Apsley, and forming part of what is known as the disputed territory on the South Australian border, ...
Article : 479 wordsPERTH, Friday.—A naval court-martial sat on board H.M.S. Powerful, at Albany, on Wednesday and until yesterday evening, dealing with charges of desertion and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 wordsM. Caillaux, the French Minister of Finance, has introduced a bill providing for a graduated income tax. The measure is designed to lighten the ...
Article : 58 wordsReferring to the departmental denial to the allegation that the letter-carriers in the Post-office are worked unduly long hours, Mr. Mahon, M.H.R., who was Postmaster. ...
Article : 271 wordsA discussion took place at the meeting of a suburban council on Wednesday night on a communication from the Board of Public Health regarding plague precautions and ...
Article : 98 wordsAn interesting discovery in Egypt by Mr. Davis, the explorer, is reported by "The Times." While exploring at Thebes Mr. Davis unearthed the tomb and ...
Article : 49 wordsIn commenting on the report of the English Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, and the measures adopted locally to secure pure meat and milk supplies, the chairman ...
Article : 474 wordsMr. Wilkins, M.L.A., yesterday received the following letter from the Rev. George Tregear:— "Councillor E. Wilkins, M.L.A. ...
Article : 370 wordsThe outbreak of cerebro-spinal meningitis, which recently reached alarming proportions in Belfast and Glasgow, is still extending. Cases have now been reported at ...
Article : 31 wordsReports have been received by this Board of Public Health from northern states regarding the precautionary measures that are being adopted to prevent the plague ...
Article : 110 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—The Annesley, a large iron barque, is having a somewhat exciting voyage. She put into Lyttelton to-day, being short of supplies. The Annesley ...
Article : 182 wordsMany public tributes have been paid to the memory of Viscount Goschen, whose sudden death from an affection of the hear[?] was announced yesterday. ...
Article : 34 wordsFour large sharks made their appearance in the water at St. Kilda yesterday morning, and, after playing about in water only a couple of feet deep for half-an-hour, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Great floods have occurred on the East Coast. They washed away the intake and pipes of the Mount Cameron water race. The embankments ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Geelong group of councils are cooperating with the Harbour Trust in the matter of rat destruction, and the Board of Public Health has been notified of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 290 wordsTo-day the p.s. Ozone leaves the Port Melbourne Railway Pier at 2 p.m. for Queenseliff, Sorrento, and Dromana; and to-morrow, at 3 p.m., for Mornington, calling at st. Kilda each way, if ...
Article : 173 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A telegram received in Sydney from Lord Howe Island stated that the total number of shipwrecked sailors now there is not 68 as previously stated, ...
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Article : 34 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Two plague rats were found to-day, one in a previou[?]ly infected area in Sussex-street, and the other in a new area of infection in George-street. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 Feb 1907, Page 19
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