A disastrous colliery explosion occurred yesterday at the West Stanley pit, Durham, entombing 140 men. A tongue of flame shot up the shaft, burning the timber, and ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Imperial Parliament was opened in state yesterday by His Majesty the King. The spectacle in the House of Lords was one of great magnificence. Her Majesty ...
Article : 625 wordsThe Board of Control for Australia for international cricket matches will meet to-day at the Port Phillip Club Hotel. The business is to receive the report of the ...
Article : 305 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday..—The Arbitration Court proceedings in connection with the dispute between the A.M.A. and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company were ...
Article : 1,079 wordsMr. Baillieu (Minister for Public Works) spent a busy time yesterday. He was called on to receive ten country deputations, who were shown into the ...
Article : 1,162 wordsA deputation of about thirty master builders, headed by the president of their association (Mr. F. G. Farr) waited yesterday upon the trustees of the Public Library ...
Article : 520 wordsOur Brisbane correspondent telegraphs that it is still persistently rumoured in that city that Lord Chelmsford will succeed Sir Harry Rawson as Governor of New South ...
Article : 831 words"The Times" this morning remarks that the presence of the King was the redeeming feature of the opening of the session, which was otherwise a tame affair. It was the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Federated Sawmill and Timber-yard Employees' Union has voted £25 to the Broken Hill strike fund, and has resolved to have collection lists posted up in the various ...
Article : 43 wordsMORWELL, Wednesday.—On Tuesday evening Mr. Wise, M.H.R., addressed a meeting of electors in the local Mechanics hall, the president of the shire (Councillor ...
Article : 231 wordsAn explanation with regard to the action of Kiamil Pasha, who was recently compelled to resign his position as Grand Vizier, has been circulated. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe suffragettes are extremely indignant because there is no reference in the Speech to the franchise for women. They have employed characteristic methods to ...
Article : 164 wordsHOBART, Wednesday. — The following resolution was passed by the Tasmanian Cricket Association at a meeting to-day:— "In view of his brilliant performances as a ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Calcutta authorities, who are impressed with the conviction that a vast anarchist organisation has lately sprung into existence in Bengal, ordered a raid ...
Article : 65 wordsSome interesting figures, showing the cost of deporting the kanakas from Queensland, have been prepared for the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Mahon). These show ...
Article : 196 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Batchelor) arrived by the mail train last night, accompanied by the departmental secretary (Mr. Atlee ...
Article : 656 wordsSerious statements affecting the administration of THE Old-age Pensions Act recently passed by the Imperial Parliament have been made by Mr. Timothy Davies, ...
Article : 73 wordsTwo murders by the Miranzai tribes have been committed on the north-west of India. In one case the victim was Lieutenant Macaulay, garrison engineer at Sarayoi. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe question of the proposed electrification of suburban railways has been revived by the receipt of a further report from Mr. Merz, the English electrical engineer ...
Article : 284 wordsThe strong public feeling in favour of increasing the military strength of Great Britain has been made manifest in the Territorial Army. In response to Lord ...
Article : 44 wordsIrishman running away with the Oakleigh Plate and the field in pursuit is the central picture in the Caulfield racing page of this week's "Australasian." Amongst ...
Article : 769 wordsAdditional particulars have been received of the disastrous fire which occurred at Acapulco, in Mexico. A gala performance in honour of the ...
Article : 93 wordsA national conference on tuberculosis was opened at Caxton-hall, Westminster, yesterday. The papers to be read deal largely with preventive measures. ...
Article : 32 wordsAn explanation has been given by Herr Beckert, chancellor of the German Legation at Santiago de Chili, of the death of the porter, whose body was found charred in ...
Article : 90 wordsThe denudation of the spruce forests of North America during the past few years has had a serious effect on the supply of pulp-wood for paper manufacture. Owing ...
Article : 206 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Liverpool moved, Lord Hemphill seconded, the motion for the Address in Reply. Lord Lansdowne, leader of the Opposition, ...
Article : 192 wordsNAGAMBIE, Wednesday. — Mr. D. M'Gillicuddy, stationmaster, met with a serious accident this morning whilst on duty. A goods train from Seymour ...
Article : 172 wordsWilliam Kaulks, of Cropwell, near Deniliquin, grazier, who died on September 26, left by a will dated August 22, 1899, personal estate in Victoria of the value of £2,671 to his children. The value ...
Article : 46 wordsFurther attacks have been made upon women by an assailant whose identity the police have found it impossible to trace, and whose methods resemble those of ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Mrs. George Harris and her brother-in-law, William Harris, were drowned at Cobar last evening while bathingin the Government stock ...
Article : 80 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Speaking at the opening of a food factory in the city to-day, Mr. Hughes said the Labour Ministry since taking office had tried to do what they were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Wednesday. — At the sitting of the Rechabite conference this morning reference was made to the fact that the Metropolitan Licensing Bench, by ...
Article : 117 wordsA Russian anarchist named Seiliger, whom the police at Ghent attempted to arrest in his lodgings, turned at bay and exhibited the desperation which ...
Article : 66 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In an equity suit to-day concerning the will of Sir Peter Nicol Russell, formerly of Sydney, who made large bequests to the Sydney University, an ...
Article : 151 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—Another explosion occurred last night, when a rather futile attempt was made to damage the residence of Mr. Archibald Lewis, accountant ...
Article : 184 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. F. N. Rogers, Liberal member for Devizes moved, and Mr. W. W. Benn, Liberal member for Tower Hamlets, seconded, the motion for ...
Article : 437 wordsThe Antwerp state school, which was recently closed by order of Dr. Ingham, the local health officer, on the ground that the building was overcrowded by scholars, is to ...
Article : 139 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver is 235/8d., being a fall of 1/8d. since Monday. ...
Article : 18 wordsDuncan M'Intyre Johnson, formerly in the employ of Younghusband, Row, and Co., of Melbourne, who was arrested on a charge of forgery of a telegram on the ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the conference meeting of the East Suburban Churches of Christ, held in Balmain-street, Richmond, after an address by Mr. Ludbrook, the following resolution ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.—The nautical inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Penguin was opened to-day. The Marine department submitted questions asking ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Imperial Bank of Germany has reduced the official discount rate from 4 per cent., at which point it had stood since June 18 last, to 3½ per cent. ...
Article : 38 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—The split in labour circles is widening every day. Mr. H. Holland, the socialist leader addressed in open-air meeting in Sulphide-street at ...
Article : 287 wordsA bill to further amend the Weights and Measures Act 1890 was issued by the Government printer yesterday for circulation among members of the state Parliament. ...
Article : 147 wordsAmong the state bills circulated yesterday evening was a measure empowering the Minhamite Shire Council to make a special improvement charge if required in the ...
Article : 283 wordsIn response to the appeal by the mayor of Port Melbourne (Councillor Rogers) on behalf of James Elder, who has saved several lives, and who recently broke his collar-bone whilst saving a ...
Article : 80 wordsAt a meeting of the Fairfield Progress Society serious allegations were made as to the overcrowded state of the Fairfield state school. The building was erected to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsCopies of the state bill to amend the Prahran tnd Malvern Tramways Trust Act 1907 were issued from the Government Printing-office yesterday. The measure, ...
Article : 165 wordsIn response to the appeal of the Rev. A. O. Hardie, of Boort, on behalf of a lad of 18. named Lionel Virtue, who has had one leg amputated, as the result of an accident with a thrashing-machine, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsSeemed Imminent—Dreadful Humour on Face and Sealp—Under Medical Care for Months—Suffered for Three Years and Despaired of Cure—Now Well Through Cuticura. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsOf to-day's efforts sustained on the morrow may with safety be rejoiced in when ""Wolf'-Schnapps"> is taken tl bedtim.—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 18 Feb 1909, Page 5
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