Chelsea, a suburb of Boston, with a population of over 30,000, was devastated by fire yesterday. An area of over a square mile was swept ...
Article : 141 wordsThe changes in the Ministry consequent upon the resignation of the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, and the succession of Mr. Asquith to the ...
Article : 548 wordsA political assassination is reported from Lemberg, in Galicia, the Austrian division of Poland. A Ruthenian student of philosophy named Siezynski approached ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Prime Minister has changed his mind. He will not resign to-day, nor to-morrow for that matter. The Cabinet has decided to ask Parliament to postpone the ...
Article : 1,941 wordsGEELONG, Monday.—At a meeting of parishioners of Christ Church on Monday evening Mr. H. Dykes was selected in succession to Mr. G. S. Faulkner on the ...
Article : 92 words"Imperial Unity, and How to Attain It" was the subject of an address delivered by Sir John Quick at the Town-hall yesterday atternoon to a meeting of the Imperial ...
Article : 1,799 wordsThe State Governor (Sir Reginald Talbot) yesterday accompanied the director of Education (Mr. Tate) on a visit of inspection to the Tooronga-road State School, ...
Article : 800 wordsThe tone of the morning newspapers in their references to the changes is, on the whole, congratulatory. "The Times" (Conservative) says that ...
Article : 347 wordsSir,—In your report of Saturday's meeting of friends of the Rev. C. H. Nash is this paragraph:—"It was being said by authorities of the church that the ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Nationalist party in Egypt, which has lately become violently aggressive, has protested against Great Britain "illegally arrogating the right to interfere between ...
Article : 271 wordsA number, of the admirers in Germany of the late Professor Virchow, the famous pathologist, who attended the Kaiser's father, Frederick I., in his fatal illness, ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—The tone of almost savage exultation which rang through the utterances of the speakers at the Nash meeting on Saturday night is a peculiar commentary on the ...
Article : 536 wordsMr. Hughes, Governor of New York state, has received the vote of the Republican Convention of the state as the party's candidate for the Presidentship at the next election, ...
Article : 135 wordsA court-martial has been held to investigate the disastrous collision between H.M.S. Berwick and the torpedo-destroyer Tiger, which occurred off the Isle of Wight a few ...
Article : 191 wordsThe thorough manner in which Chinese merchants are carrying out the boycott of Japan over the Ta[?]su Maru incident is exemplified by the experience of the last ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. Frazer, M.H.R. for Kalgoorlie (W.A.), one of the Labour members who voted against the Government in the division on Friday evening, made the following ...
Article : 452 wordsThe elevation of Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Runciman to Cabinet rank involves a rearrangement of minor Ministerial offices. Major J. E. Secly, Liberal member ...
Article : 668 wordsSir,—While there can be no doubt of the good intentions of Canon Nash's friends, churchmen of every shade of opinion will deeply regret their unwise gloating at the ...
Article : 307 wordsProbate of the will of Michael Joseph Carmody, late of Glen Wills, hotelkeeper, deceased, who died on the 9th January last, is being applied for by the executors, Messrs. Thomas Francis Hogan ...
Article : 167 wordsA syndicate of German banks has issued an Imperial loan of £12,500,000 sterling, and a Prussian loan of £20,000,000, of nonconvertible 4 per cent. stock at 99½. The ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Trades Council of Derby has adopted a resolution, repudiating Mr. Richard Bell, who represents the constituency in the House of Commons, on account ...
Article : 148 wordsA new first-class cruiser has just been launched for the German navy. She is of 15,000 tons, being the largest in the fleet, and has been built at a cost of considerably ...
Article : 48 wordsARARAT, Monday.—The inquest in connection with the tragedy at Dobie was opened to-day, when Charles Henry Deutschmann was charged with having ...
Article : 662 wordsMisfortune has overtaken a Newfoundland sealing fleet. While the vessels were returning from an expedition, laden with skins, they were caught among ice-floes. ...
Article : 61 wordsM. Leon Delagrange, a well-known French experimenter in aeroplane navigation, has just achieved a signal success. He covered a distance of 6[?] miles in [?]min. 18scc., or at ...
Article : 59 wordsCecil Rayner, who murdered Mr. William Whiteley, the famous "universal provider" of London, whose son he claimed to be, has made another attempt in prison to ...
Article : 77 wordsHOBART, Monday.—At the Launceston Police Court, Mary Spencer pleaded guilty to cruelly ill-treating Edith M'Culloch, aged 15 years. It was explained that the girl ...
Article : 196 wordsSir,—Might I suggest that the original proposition be adhered to, viz., that the thanksgiving meeting be held in the Melbourne Town-hall? ...
Article : 98 wordsThe consultative committee of the National Society for the Promotion of Education in this Principles of the Established Church has held a meeting to review the ...
Article : 98 wordsReferring yesterday to comments on the political situation by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. G. H. Reid), as published in "The Argus," Mr. Deakin said:—"Mr. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe French War Office has struck the names of 30 firms off its list of contractors in consequence of their having supplied tainted sausages to the army. ...
Article : 37 wordsA special meeting of the Port Melbourne branch of the Political Labour Council was held at the rooms, Inglis-street, last night to discuss the business-paper for the annual ...
Article : 326 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Melbourne Steamship Company's s.s. Perth, on arrival this morning, brought news of the breakdown at sea of the Union s.s. Karori. Both ...
Article : 209 wordsA match for the amatcur championship in royal (or court) tennis has been played in New York between Jay Gould, the American player, and Eustace H. Miles, the ...
Article : 92 wordsAt a farewell gathering given by members of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures yesterday afternoon to Mr. W. M'Neilage, vice-president of the chamber, ...
Article : 397 wordsARARAT, Monday.—James Owen, a farmer, living at Jackson's Creek, whose house was burned down on Thursday during his absence in Ararat, has had ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 14 Apr 1908, Page 5
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