Five consecutive days with the temperature over 100deg.—a record hot spell—is what the citizens of Melbourne have endured. The maximum reading on ...
Article : 561 wordsA large number of delegates have assembled at Hull for the purpose of attending the eighth annual conference of the Labour party, which opens on Monday next, ...
Article : 1,086 wordsDespatches received from Washington state that uneasiness has been caused there owing to sensational reports that have been published respecting the distribution of the ...
Article : 211 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday.—The scientific party which left Auckland for Flint Island on December 12 to observe the total eclipse of the sun on January 3, have returned to ...
Article : 1,037 wordsAt a meeting of the Irish Nationalist party, held in Dublin, Mr, Joseph Devlin, member for Belfast West, who recently visited Australia, brought before ...
Article : 86 wordsDuring the past week the follwing guests have stayed with His Excellency the Governor and Lady Talbot at Government collage, Macedon:—Mr. G. H. Reid, ...
Article : 634 wordsA number of woman suffragists brought themselves info prominence again to-day by a demonstration at the entrance to the official residence of the Prime Minister, Sir ...
Article : 197 wordsAnother sensational development has occurred in connection with the attempt made by Mr. George Hollamby Druce to support his claim to the estates of the Duke ...
Article : 330 wordsThere is every likelihood that the Irish Nationalist members of the House of Commons will shortly be reconciled. Mr. W. O'Brien and Mr. Healy have accepted the ...
Article : 277 wordsFive arrests were made in connection with the disturbance. The women were brought before a magistrate, who proposed to release them upon their entering into ...
Article : 58 wordsFor some time past there have been indications of trouble between China and Japan regarding the control of Manchuria. The main question at issue has been the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe test cricket matches have been followed with very great interest in England, but the "Tribune," in an article on the subject, expresses the view that the public is ...
Article : 168 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—Spenking at the half-yearly meeting of the Bendigo branch of the A.M.A. on Saturday night on the ventilation question, Mr. E. C. Attwater ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. Edmund Kimber, the solicitor who instructed the prosecution of Mr. Herbert Druce, has replied to the criticisms of Sir Harry Poland (late prosecutor for the ...
Article : 66 wordsDescribing the trial, the "Daily News" says:— "The scene shifted constantly in a most bewildering fashion. Mr. Caldwell, the ...
Article : 717 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—The campaign of the police in the suppression of the alleged illicit traffic in gold amongst the Chinese has been practically brought to a close for ...
Article : 979 words"I can hold out no hope of a change to morrow," said Mr. Hunt, the Common wealth meteorologist, last night. "Our records from all over Victoria show high ...
Article : 252 wordsAn announcement was made a few days ago that "The Times" was likely to pass into the hands of a company, and that the business management would be undertaken ...
Article : 88 words(The amounts given in estates are gross, and subject to any debts owing by the estates.) James [?]uestion, of North Mooroopna, farmer, who died on October 16 last, left estate valued at ...
Article : 67 wordsMadame Tetrazzini whose appearance in grand opera at the Covent Garden Theatre last season created a remarkable sensation has repeated her success in ...
Article : 443 words"What to do till the doctor comes" may be fairly general knowledge in many classes of accident but prevalence of sunstroke is so uncommon in Melbourne that probably ...
Article : 370 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The English cricket team arrived at Launceston from Melbourne on Saturday morning, and were met at the wharf by Mr. F. C. Hobkirk (chairman of ...
Article : 402 wordsBar silver is quoted at 25[?]d. per ounce standard, a fall of ½d. since yesterday. LONDON, Jan. 18. Bar silver is quoted it 25 11-16d. per ...
Article : 44 wordsThe experience of five successive days with the temperature over 100 degrees is unique in the heat records of Melbourne. A very trying spell was recorded in January, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 512 wordsAt the Melbourne Hospital a number of heat apoplexy patients have been admitted. John O'Sullivan, 65 years of age, labourer, living at 289 Victoria-street, Abbotsford, ...
Article : 571 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—When Joseph Voss, ex-sea captain, was found dead in his house, at North Sydney, on the morning of January 9, there was no necessity to ...
Article : 539 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — According to official figures the total attendance at the third test match was 35,923. The takings were £1,745/16/6. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe death is announecd of Sir John Lawson Walton, K.C., Attorney-General since 1905. [Sir John Walton, who was the son of a ...
Article : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday—With reference to the Eastern trade the Premier suggests to millers the advisableness of taking things quietly, inasmuch as the Government has in ...
Article : 199 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The settlement of the wheelers' dispute at the Pelaw Main Colliery has been followed by a strike of jiggers at Stanford Merthyr. They ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsThe appointment of Mr. H.T. Eve, Liberal member for the Ashburton division of Devon, to the position on the bench vacated by the death of Sir Arthur Kekewich, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — A change is likely to be brought about in the personnel of the Coal Mining Court. Recently, Mr. Charlton, M.L.A., was appointed to ...
Article : 195 wordsThe New Zealand team of professional Rugby footballers to-day played a team representing Lancashire. There was a small attendance. The home team crossed their ...
Article : 96 wordsYesterday afternoon Detectives Coonan, Ashton, and Sainsbury arrested Frederick Weeks, 46 years of age on bond an interstate steamer, and locked him up in the ...
Article : 145 wordsFrom some cause, which has not been definitely ascertained, the turbine steamer Loongana lost two blades off her centre propeller when she was coming up the bay ...
Article : 105 wordsThe tender of Messrs. John Vicars and Co., Marrickville, has been accepted for the supply of khaki waterproof cloth, at 6/1 per yard. For 5,800 blue-grey blankets ...
Article : 86 wordsNo fewer than ten deaths, due to sunstroke and heat apoplexy, have been reported to the colony during the last two days. In many cases the deaths have been ...
Article : 847 wordsThe following private advices has been received:— Younghusband, Row, and Co. Proprietary Ltd. report having received a cable message from their ...
Article : 157 wordsA special general meeting of the Tea Warehouse Employes' Union was held at the Trades-hall, Carlton, on the 17th inst., when there was a representative gathering of those engaged in the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 20 Jan 1908, Page 5
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