Whilst the airships of Count Zeppclin and Mayor von Parseval, and the aeroplanes of the Wright brothers and Messrs. Farman and Delagrange have occupied the ...
Article : 662 wordsThe Indian Councils Bill, which was introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Morley, Secretary of State for India, and gives Mohammedans separate electoral ...
Article : 195 wordsGreat Britain's eighth Dreadnought, the Temeraire, of the Bellerophon type, which was completed last month, has returned from her speed trials. The battle-ship, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe ship Australian, which left Mazatlan on November 25 last for Sydney, to load for the United Kingdom and the Continent, and the barque Queen Margaret, which left ...
Article : 59 wordsNearly four and a half million bags of wheat have been carried to the seaboard this season by the railway department. The total quantity trucked since December 16 ...
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Article : 1,444 wordsDecision in favour of the men. Contract work to be act under conditions that in the best judgment of the company and contractors the latter shall carn 12/ ...
Article : 1,274 wordsThe action of the Servian Government in merely placing its case in the hands of the powers, instead of formally withdrawing all claims arising out of the Austrian ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Queen Margaret reached Sydney to-day, after a prolonged voyage from New York, with a shipment of oil. The length of the voyage was due to ...
Article : 46 wordsThe new 12in. Mark XL naval gun, which was lately declared to be the most effective weapon in existence, is alleged by the "Daily News" to contain serious flaws. It ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The steam collier Wallsend, which struck on the Bellambi reef last night, and afterwards floated off with the rising tide, drifted into Bellambi ...
Article : 71 wordsIn January last Mr. E. S. Scanncll, formerly an immigration agent for Western Australia[?] delivered a lecture before the United Service Institution on emigration ...
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Article : 109 wordsReference was made to the situation in India by the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Sydenham Clarke, who was entertained by the Lodge Imperial Brotherhood ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the High Court yesterday afternoon arguments were continued in the proceednigs in which the validity of the Australian Industries[?] Preservation Act 1906, known ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsThe measures which the International Opium Commission, sitting at Shang[?]ai, resolved to take to put an end to opium-smoking, will result in serious loss of revenue ...
Article : 93 wordsThere is a Herbert Spencer scholarship at Oxford University endowed by a wealthy Indian named Shyamaji Krishnavarma, who resides in Paris. Because of Krishnavarma's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsThe proceedings of the National Council of the Free Evangelical Churches last night were marked by a violent attack on Roman Catholics, made by the Rev. Joseph ...
Article : 162 wordsThe secretary for Mines (Mr. Dickson) announced yesterday that, after hearing the protests of residents of Myrtleford against the granting of further leases for dredging ...
Article : 140 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bank bills in London is 2? per cent., or ? per cent. below the Bank rate of 3 per cent. The market rate in ...
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Article : 225 wordsThree leaders of the United States Federation of Labour, Mr. Samuel Gompers (president), Mr. John Mitchell (vice-president), and Mr. Frank Morrison ...
Article : 198 wordsThough the Inebriates[?] Retreat at Lara has been in existence for about 18 months, it has never yet had its full complement of inmates. The place has accommodation ...
Article : 275 wordsMr. Herman Cohen, a well-known North of England money-lender, has been murdered in his office at Sunderland. The police have not yet been able to ...
Article : 44 wordsSince the beginning of last year a treaty between Great Britain and Siam has been in contemplation, the terms of which were to include the cession of the states of ...
Article : 121 wordsThe prices stated below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—The market is exceedingly firm. Tops are quoted at 25½d. for 64's, 24½d. for ...
Article : 369 wordsThe suggestion thrown out by Mr. K[?]ir Hardie, M.P., at the Portsmouth Labour Conference a few weeks ago, that an AllBritish Labour Socialist Conference should ...
Article : 139 wordsMYRTLEFORD, Friday. — Mr. Tewkesbury explained, during the visit of the Minister for Mines to-day, that he had no intention of applying for the lease of land ...
Article : 136 wordsSevere' shocks of earthquake have been felt over a wide area of Southern Europe. The town of Reggio di Calabria, in the Straits of Messina, the scene of the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe discovery of an attempt to influence a jury in a criminal trial at Sligo has been made during the progress of the trial. Seven prisoners were being charged with ...
Article : 98 wordsA fire-call was received last night at Eastern Hill, stating that a fire was "well alight" on the top floor of a building in Collins-street, near Swanston-street. The ...
Article : 150 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The following are the passengers by the R.M.S. Asturias, which called at Fremantie on route from London:— For Adolaide.—Messrs. Free[?] Forwood, J. ...
Article : 354 wordsThe action for libel brought in the Court of King's Bench Division by Mr. J. G. Jenkins, formerly Agent-General for South Australia, against the [?]Australasian World" was ...
Article : 152 wordsThe proposal of the Canadian Government to increase its militia establishment, while neglecting to make provision for naval defence, was criticised by Judge Barron at ...
Article : 98 wordsDuring the debate in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon the motion of Mr. J. Hodge, Labour member for the Gorton Division of Lancashire, for the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsIn view of the occurrence of bubonic plague in Sydney, inquiries were yesterday made as to what measures were being taken to prevent the introduction of the disease in ...
Article : 356 wordsWilliam Hankin, of Kara Kara, farmer, who died on December 23, left estate of the value of £3,815. It consists of £2,04[?] realty and £1,771 personalty, and by a will dated August 1, 1900, is left to his ...
Article : 255 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The commissioner of police this morning received a telegram from Clermont to the effect that the halfcaste Moffat, w ho abducted a girl, had been ...
Article : 63 wordsArrivals.—Katuna. s.s., from Melbourne, January 8; Knight of the Garter, s.s., from Melbourne, January 9; courtfield, s.s., from Sydney, January 9; Tain[?] s.s., from ...
Article : 64 wordsFor the erection of the new three-story brick building for the manufacture of wooden safety and wa[?] matches, at Churchstreet, Richmond, Messrs. R. Bell and Co. ...
Article : 127 wordsNear Balmoral, close to the Royal Palace, on a high peak of the Grampian Mountains (3876ft. above sealevel), there are several "spring wells," ...
Article : 97 wordsThe work of regrading the Gippsland line, between Toorak and Malvern stations, being now in full swing, a page is devoted to the proceedings in the town edition of ...
Article : 126 wordsThe second Melba concert will take place in the Town-hall this evening. Arrangements have now been made to give a third and final concert next Saturday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsPERTH, Friday.—On board [?] the R.M.S. Asturias there are 160 Germans, who intend to form a community in Queensland. There are 37 families, and over 80 children. ...
Article : 42 wordsOf to-day's efforts sustained on the morrow may with safety be rejoiced in when "Wolfe's-Schnapps" is taken at bedtime.— [Advt.] ...
Article : 42 wordsThe largest collection of beautiful Glass and China Ornaments, suitable for presents, is shown in the Collins-street room, 125ft. long, and the Bourke-street room, 150ft. long, Book Arcade. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 13 Mar 1909, Page 17
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