The speech which Sir John T. Brunner, a leading member of the Liberal party, made at the great meeting of the party at the Reform Club last week, is causing a ...
Article : 271 wordsA bomb-throwing outrage has taken place at Muzaffarpur, in Bengal, and a discovery made in calcutta indicates that the Indian agitators are adopting the methods of the ...
Article : 297 wordsStates' Ministers may have been able as a result of reflection to have drawn some definite conclusions from Mr. Deakin's speech. But up to the time on Saturday ...
Article : 1,284 wordsWhen the bill granting to the Norddentscher Lloyd Company an additional subsidy of 500,000 marks (about £25,000) a year in consideration of a resumption of its service ...
Article : 267 wordsIt has been decided that the Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire shall meet at Sydney next year, either on September 14 or September 21. ...
Article : 290 wordsInteresting and important statements are made in the official reports of the drivers and firemen who were on the Bendigo train on the night of the railway collision. Since ...
Article : 655 wordsThe celebration of May Day in Melbourne yesterday drew a crowd of some thousands to the northern bank of the Yarra. The committee arranged that the meetings ...
Article : 904 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, attended by Captain Fife, A.D.C., leaves by train this morning for Port Albert, stopping en route at Foster, Toora, and Welshpool. At ...
Article : 553 wordsPERTH, Sunday. — A telegram from Broome states that since Friday the schooners Ena, Alto, and Bux, and a large number of luggers, have arrived at Broome. ...
Article : 375 wordsThe question of the development of the mining industry in German New Guinea is receiving some attention in Germany, and various suggestions have been made ...
Article : 138 wordsAction is being taken by the Postmaster-General (Mr. Mauger) to secure to the Commonwealth at least two lines of cables between Tasmania and the mainland. The ...
Article : 394 wordsThe London Bank of Australia Limited during the year ended December 31, 1907, made a net profit of £34,951, after paying £42,311 interest at the rate of 4½ per cent. ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Harold Cox, M.P. for Preston, a member of the Liberal party, makes a damaging criticism of the Government on the score of their extravagant expenditure. ...
Article : 58 wordsAlthough there were indications that the Mohmand tribesmen, who have been giving much trouble on the Indian frontier, had tired of their enterprise, it appears now ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. J. Keir Hardie, the Independent Labour leader in the House of Commons, has an article in the "Labour Leader" (London) this week on the Dundee ...
Article : 97 wordsLiverpool is about to make an extensive addition to the already large dock accommodation of the port. It is proposed to construct a new series ...
Article : 76 wordsA party of French troops has met with disaster in the Senegal country, on the south-western border of the Sahara country. ...
Article : 56 wordsOn several occasions the Premier (Mr. Bent) has taken exception to speeches made by officials in the state public service, and on Saturday his protest, "I should like to ...
Article : 203 wordsThe severe and unseasonable weather which prevailed over the United Kingdom last week has been succeeded by an extreme change of the exactly opposite ...
Article : 129 wordsThe latest accounts of the foundering of the Japanese cruiser Malsushima, in Formosa Channel, as the result of the explosion of the magazine, show that the loss of life ...
Article : 77 wordsHORSHAM, Saturday.—At the Police Court to-day Ronald Kiefel, a Natimuk resident, was charged, before Mr. E. Harrison, P.M., with having, on April 16, ...
Article : 228 wordsBar silver was quoted to-day at 24? per ounce standard, an advaance of l-16d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn "The Argus" on Saturday a suggestion was made by Mr. A. Harvey that the Minister for Customs (Mr. Austin Chapman) could easily secure ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsAnother death has occurred amongst the men injured by the explosion of the boiler tube on H.M.S. Britannia. This is the third man who has died out of the five ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY. Sunday.—Members of the Federal Cabinet—Senator Best, Senator Keating, and Mr. Mauger (Postmaster-General)—appointed a committee to inquire ...
Article : 106 wordsFurther tests of the Westinghouse brakes will be held during the week. A trial will also be made at night, in order to ascertain whether the application of the breke or ...
Article : 68 wordsThe forgery of coupons of the French rentes on an extensive scale has been discovered. The forgeries were distributed abroad, a well-organised scheme for this ...
Article : 101 wordsWhile the May Day meetings were in progress proceedings at the meeting addressed by J. W. Fleming near by were very stormy. He had with him a red ...
Article : 333 wordsAn interim dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. has been declared by Dalgety and Co. Limited. ...
Article : 29 wordsSerious losa of life and injury to passengers has occurred in a sensational electric tram accident at Bournemouth, the well-known watering-place, on the Hampshire coast. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 578 wordsThe Railway authorities are daily notified of additional passengers who were injured in the railway accident. Eleven additional names were received by the claims agent ...
Article : 125 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The vigorous suppression of Sunday trading has led, it has been at various times asserted, to a marked increase in the habit of methylated spirits ...
Article : 184 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—The Treasury returns issued yesterday for April show that the revenue was £476,908, a decrease of £3,377. The amount received from the ...
Article : 168 wordsAn arrest has been made in Germany which is believed to supply the key lo a whole series of murders. The supposed murderer is named Koch, a ...
Article : 97 wordsUp till the last moment it was hoped that the negotiations which were in progress for the settlement of the dispute in the shipbuilding trade in the north of ...
Article : 81 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The steamer Moonta, engaged in the north-west cattle trade, reached Fremantle late on Friday night. She had a particularly tempestuous passage. ...
Article : 113 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Three men, named Henry Chalker, Henry Morris, and James Harris, have been committed for trial on a charge of having conspired to defraud an ...
Article : 324 wordsThe coroner (Dr. Cole) will open the inquest at the Morgue this morning. Formal evidence will be taken in all cases but one, and then those cases will be adjourned ...
Article : 242 wordsSuggestions have been made that rabbits should be included in the navy's bill of fare, and accordingly the Admiralty is inquiring for samples of tinned rabbits, with ...
Article : 52 wordsThe bill introduced by Sir Charles Dilke in the House of Commons, to provide for the regulation of the hours of persons employed in shops, has been read the second ...
Article : 69 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—Under the auspices of the Bendigo Political Labour League, a May Day demonstration was held in the Upper Reserve this afternoon. There was ...
Article : 289 wordsA railway mishap occurred during the progress of shunting operations at Mornington Junction on Friday. The 8.10 a.m. train from Melbourne to Stony Point arrived at ...
Article : 411 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Saturday.—A remarkable accident befel Mr. Dibbin, an employee of Mr. G. Robertson, baker, on Thursday evening. He was riding a bicycle, and ...
Article : 203 wordsThe following memorandum was received last night from the telegraph manager (Mr. Blandford): — "Burnie (Tasmania) reports that the schooner Victoria, from ...
Article : 47 wordsThe steamer Orari, which left Wellington, New Zealand, for London, via South American ports, on April 2, was overdue at Rio de Janeiro. All fears as to the safety ...
Article : 54 wordsAn opportunity is to be given members of the state Parliament of hearing the details of the proposal made by Mr. Harper, M.H.R., for the transfer of state debts to ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—kindly grant me space to say that the south Albert Foo, who was yesterday arrested on charges of having passed valueless cheques, never was a pupil of Wesley ...
Article : 254 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—At the annual reunion of the Brisbane grocers on Saturday evening Mr. Bowman, leader of the Labour party, in responding to the toast of ...
Article : 197 wordsSir,—May I have the space to suggest that the Victorian Railway Commissioners and the public generally should recognise in some fitting way the heroic and ...
Article : 204 wordsThe state Premiers paid a visit to Gracedale-house for the week-end. Yesterday thet were driven over the Black's Spur in a special motor coach. Mr. Bent was not ...
Article : 62 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday. — Tom Burrows has succeded in establishing a new record for swinging clubs, having accomplished a continuous performance of 62 ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—Having witnessed a performance of "John Glayde's Honour," it occurred to me that Mr. Alfred Sutro in his final "curtain" has provided a psychological problem which ...
Article : 102 wordsResults from Ringworm—Child Suffered Three Years—Doctors' and Chemists' Prescriptions Fail —Head Now Clean and Free from Sores—In three Weeks Cuticura Effected a Marvellous Cure. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Wirth's Circus, at Prince Alfred Park, was crowded last night, when the giraffe secured in Germany by Mr. Phil Wirth, on his recent visit, was ...
Article : 63 wordsAre preferred by lovers of good things. Guaranteed hand-made.—[Advt.] The feeling of brightness, energy, vitality after taking Cockle's Antibilious Pills is only a little ...
Article : 34 wordsGeorge Alexander Wakenshaw, of Balmattum, labourer. Causes of insolvency— Inability to secure remmerative employment. Liabilities, £19/6/2; assets, nil, T. ...
Article : 26 wordsOf greater things than he generally performs, and by the use of "Wolfe's-Schnapps" his capabilities are stimulated and developed.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 25 wordsThe constant use of Pears' Soap.—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 4 May 1908, Page 5
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