A serious strike, accompanied by a good deal of disorder, which in the present disturbed state of India gave rise to alarm, has occurred in Bombay. ...
Article : 211 wordsThe town of Tokat, in Asia Minor, has been visited by a severe flood, which occurred so suddenly that the inhabitants were completely taken by surprise. ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Runciman, the President of the Board of Education, made an important announcement in regard to the Education Bill in a speech in his constituency of Dewsbury on ...
Article : 302 wordsA meeting of the clergy of the diocese, "to hear the evidence and to deliberate upon the present position of the Nash case," was held yesterday morning in the ...
Article : 649 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) is suffering from a slight cold, and was yesterday confined to his home. He was, however, able to transn[?] some departmental[?] ...
Article : 1,255 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Among the subjects discussed at to-day's meeting of the Premier of Victoria (Sir Thomas Bent) and the New South Wales Cabinet was that of the ...
Article : 560 wordsThe Postmaster-General's department has under consideration a highly important proposal affecting certain senior officers in the Melbourne General Post-office. The ...
Article : 764 wordsMr. S. A. Pethebridge, secretary to the Defence department, left yesterday on his way to Auckland, where he will meet the admiral of the American fleet, and put ...
Article : 704 wordsReturns of the mortality among the natives employed in one of the mines in Rhodesia show a shocking condition of affairs. From these figures it appears that ...
Article : 81 wordsDifferences between high naval officials are not confined to the British navy, as an incident reported by Reuter's correspondent at Paris shows. ...
Article : 128 wordsThe "Daily Express" has taken a plebiscite of its readers on the question of extending the franchise to women. Voters were asked to declare either for the full ...
Article : 128 wordsSpeaking at Wirral, in Cheshire, on Saturday night, Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, indicated that he had found nothing in the condition of Ireland at the ...
Article : 132 wordsOvertures have been made for an understanding between France and Germany in regard to Morocean affairs. M. Gervais, a member of the French ...
Article : 110 wordsA numerous deputation of clergy from the Anglican Church yesterday waited upon the Wesleyan Conference, now sitting at York, in order to express the sympathy ...
Article : 84 wordsWhen referring, in the course of a speech at Wirral, in Cheshire, on Saturday night, to the vast expenditure now incurred by the great nations on their naval and ...
Article : 121 wordsAt a meeting of the Dunolly Borough Council on Friday councillors charged the Government with having repudiated its promise to erect a 6-head Government battery ...
Article : 299 words"Our Empire in the Pacific" was the subject of an address by Dr. Carty Salmon, M.H.R., to members of the Imperial Federation League, in the Town-hall, yesterday. ...
Article : 751 wordsThe extent to which borrowing has been carried on by the local authorities in England and Wales is shown by a return which has been prepared by Mr. John Burns, ...
Article : 199 words'A' dispute has arisen between the Vulcan Engine Building Company of Stettin and its workmen. The company desired the men to work overtime to the extent of one ...
Article : 67 wordsCanadian manufacturers are showing opposition to the continuance of the system of preferential trade with Great Britain, on the ground that they cannot compete with ...
Article : 235 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Parliament will meet to-morrow. It is improbable that the Governor's Speech will contain any surprises. Among the measures ...
Article : 118 wordsThe water supply committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works yesterday dealt with tenders for the supply of four miles of pipes to convey water from the ...
Article : 199 wordsIn connection with the revolt of the Mace[?] donians against the Turks, and the disaffection of the troops in Monastir and elsewhere, another assassination of a Turkish ...
Article : 89 wordsMaurice Posner, Edward Posner, jewellers, 151 and 209 Bourke-street, and Henry Robinson, labourer, were charged yesterday at the City Court with having, on July 16, ...
Article : 466 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Railway Appeals Board gave its decision to-day respecting the appeal of Conductor Croucher, who was dismissed on a report of special ...
Article : 185 wordsWheat and Flour.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1,815,000 quarters, against 2,135,000 quarters a week ago and ...
Article : 194 wordsThe visit to the Czar of M. Fallieres, the French President, which was arranged some time ago, is now being undertaken, M. Fallieres, accompanied by M. Pichon, ...
Article : 72 wordsUnder the terms of the will of Mr. Alfred Beit, the South African millionaire, who died in 1906, £25,000 was left to the Institute of Medical Science of the London ...
Article : 68 wordsPORTLAND, Monday.—Charles Timothee, one of the men employed on the Government heath reclamation works, has mysteriously disappeared. All trace of him ...
Article : 183 wordsMr. Taft, adopting the attitude assumed by Mr. Roosevelt in regard to the corporations of the United States, has refused their assistance in the Presidential campaign[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsWith the games concluded yesterday for the county cricket championship, Yorkshire is in the lead, having scored 11 wins and drawn 7 games. Surrey, Kent, and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. M'Leod) yesterday stated that he was now engaged in drafting the bill to provide for the expenditure of the sum of £100,000, which ...
Article : 157 wordsThe following officers have passed practical examinations:- For confirmation of provisional appointments, second lieutenants:—E. S. Walker ...
Article : 158 wordsAt the meeting of the Fitzroy Council last evening a letter was received from the secretary of the George-street Baptist Church (Mr. E. H. Jenkins). The writer said ...
Article : 232 wordsA few days ago it was stated by the "Daily Express" that Great Britain intended to purchase three battle-ships of the Dreadnought type, now being built in ...
Article : 80 wordsThe results of the Olympic games decided during the past week show that the nationality list of wins runs as follows:— Great Britain, 30; America, 9; Sweden, 5; ...
Article : 69 wordsA posse of detectives and plain-clothes police raided a Chinese tenement at 22 Heffernan's-lane last night and arrested four Europeans and two Chinese. The place ...
Article : 188 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—Another important seizure of opium was made just after midday to-day upon the arrival of the steamship Bombala, from Sydney. As soon ...
Article : 76 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Chamber business. Criminal Court. (Before Mr. Justice Hood.) At 11 a.m.—Criminal Sittings.—Sentences. ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—An engine on the East Greta line, at Kurri Kurri, became unmanageable on Saturday night, and crashed into a coal stage. The dome and ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsAt 11 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in an eight-roomed three-storied dwelling-house in Curzon-street, North Melbourne, but the damage was confined to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 21 Jul 1908, Page 5
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