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  2. GREAT FIRE AT BOSTON.

    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 words
  3. BRITISH MINISTRY. REARRANGEMENT OF PORTFOLIOS

    The 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 words
  4. POLISH ASSASSINATION.

    A political assassination is reported from Lemberg, in Galicia, the Austrian division of Poland. A Ruthenian student of philosophy named Siezynski approached ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. RESIGNATION AVERTED. MINISTERS' NEW PLAN.

    The 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 words
  6. THE REV. C. H. NASH. GEELONG SYMPATHISERS.

    GEELONG, 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
  7. IMPERIAL UNITY.

    "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 words
  8. PERSONAL.

    The 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 words
  9. NEWSPAPER OPINIONS.

    The tone of the morning newspapers in their references to the changes is, on the whole, congratulatory. "The Times" (Conservative) says that ...

    Article : 347 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—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 words
  11. BRITAIN IN EGYPT.

    The Nationalist party in Egypt, which has lately become violently aggressive, has protested against Great Britain "illegally arrogating the right to interfere between ...

    Article : 271 words
  12. THE KAISER'S VETO.

    A 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 words
  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—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 words
  14. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

    Mr. 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 words
  15. THECHANNEL COLLISION.

    A 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 words
  16. WEAPON OF COMMERCE.

    The 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 words
  17. MR. FRAZER AND THE PRIME MINISTER.

    Mr. 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 words
  18. MINOR MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

    The 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 words
  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—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 words
  20. WILLS AND ESTATES.

    Probate 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 words
  21. GERMAN LOANS.

    A 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 words
  22. MR. R. BELL, M.P.

    The 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 words
  23. GERMAN NAVY.

    A 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 words
  24. THE ARARAT TRAGEDY.

    ARARAT, Monday.—The inquest in connection with the tragedy at Dobie was opened to-day, when Charles Henry Deutschmann was charged with having ...

    Article : 662 words
  25. COSTLY SEALSKINS.

    Misfortune 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 words
  26. NAVIGATING THE AIR.

    M. 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 words
  27. WHITELEY'S MURDERER.

    Cecil 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 words
  28. ILL-TREATING A GIRL.

    HOBART, 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 words
  29. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Might I suggest that the original proposition be adhered to, viz., that the thanksgiving meeting be held in the Melbourne Town-hall? ...

    Article : 98 words
  30. RELIGIOUS TEACHING.

    The 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 words
  31. MR. REID'S CRITICISM.

    Referring 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 words
  32. TAINTED SAUSAGE.

    The 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 words
  33. POLITICAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    A 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 words
  34. BROKEN TAIL-SHAFT.

    SYDNEY, 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 words
  35. ROYAL TENNIS.

    A 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 words
  36. MANUFACTURERS' VIEWS.

    At 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 words
  37. BRIDEGROOM'S HOUSE BURNT

    ARARAT, Monday.—James Owen, a farmer, living at Jackson's Creek, whose house was burned down on Thursday during his absence in Ararat, has had ...

    Article : 198 words
  38. WOMEN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 words
  39. RACE SUICIDE.

    BROKEN HILL, Monday.—The Rev. C. E. Schafer, in the course of an address yesterday, said that there were some women who were fonder of a game of bridge than ...

    Article : 129 words
  40. MAN AND MAID.

    BENALLA, Monday.—This afternoon Plain-clothes Constable Sullivan and Constable Lewis arrested R.H. Lindsay, a well-known resident of North Winton, on a ...

    Article : 157 words
  41. SIZE OF CORNSACKS.

    ADELAIDE, Monday.—In his evidence before the Wheat Commission to-day Mr. J. Darling read the following extract from a letter he had received from Messrs. ...

    Article : 124 words
  42. HIS ECZEMA CURED.

    Disease Had Lasted Over Two Years—Several Remedies and Medical Advice Proved to No Advantage—Feared He would Lose Position—Immediately Relieved, and Permanently Cured by Use ...

    Article : 196 words
  43. MILO CIGARETTES

    Are preferred by lovers of good things. Guaranteed hand-made.—[Advt.] When you have a bad taste in the mouth in the morning it is proof that your stomach is not in ...

    Article : 69 words
  44. "WOLFE'S-SCHNAPPS,"

    Pure in quality and devoid of injurious ingredients, has achieved its great reputation in diseases where stimulation is necessary.— [Advt.] ...

    Article : 25 words
  45. WHAT ONE OUGHT TO-KNOW.

    Pears' Soap is fragrant, refreshing, and soothing.—[Advt.] ...

    Article : 15 words
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