Thirty six cars started yesterday in a race for 25-horse-power 4in-cylinder motorcars, which was contested in the Isle of Man. The length of the course was 338. ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegic, the American millionaire, has added to the list of his benefactions by giving the sum of £250,000, producing an income of £12,500 a year, to be ...
Article : 256 wordsThe sensational disclosures published in the various newspapers in the United States of Mr. Hearst, the leader of the Independence Lenguo, have led to an undignified ...
Article : 347 wordsThe by-election for Newcastle-on-Tyne caused by the death of Mr. T. Cairns, Liberal member, who, with a Labour member, Mr. W. Hudson, represented the ...
Article : 310 wordsHis Excellencuy the Governor (Sir Thomas Gibson-Car[?]chacl) visited the Aquarium yesterday afternoon, and was received, on behalf of the trustees, by Mr. L.L. Smith ...
Article : 1,677 wordsA special meeting of the Federal Labour party was held on Thursday to consider the attitude which the party should adopt towards the amended Navigation Bill, ...
Article : 1,008 wordsUnder the Anti-trust Act, as amended last session, the comptroller-general of Customs is given power to question my persons whom he believes to be formed into an ...
Article : 2,784 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," in its comments on the scheme, says:—"The Admiralty very properly stipulates that in war-time its control of the Australian navy must be ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Bulgarian Government has made a slight placed upon its diplomatic agent, M. J. S. Gueshoff by the Porte a pretext for pressing a claim upon the Orient railway. ...
Article : 161 wordsApart from the details which have already been made public, the Premier (Sir Thomas Bent) is observing extreme reticence regarding the proposed new land tax. ...
Article : 233 wordsMr. "Solly" Joel, whose brother, Mr. J. B. Joel, is the informant on a charge of attempted blackmail now before the courts, and who was instrumental in bringing the ...
Article : 118 wordsArrangements are being made for bringing into operation the Old-age Pensions Act, which was passed last month Application forms were issued yesterday at all ...
Article : 223 wordsThe serious increase in the number of cases of cholera is being attributed, amongst other causes, to a strike of grave-diggers, and to the fact that friends of the victims ...
Article : 142 wordsPERTH, Friday.—Anxicty was caused in shipping circles at Fremantle yesterday afternoon owing to the [?]rratic and dangerous course steered by the steamer Ben ...
Article : 321 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—The Government steamer Hinemoa has arrived at the Bluff from the Snares. She reports seeing no trace of the missing barque Loch ...
Article : 343 wordsThe production of newspapers in the United States of America is seriously jcopardised by a strike of operatives in the paper-making industry. All the mills of the ...
Article : 213 wordsA shocking discovery was made at Aspendale early yesterday morning, when the mutilated body of a man was found lying on the railway line, close to the station. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe explosion on the armoured cruiser Latouche Treville at Toulon on Tuesday, in which thirteen men were killed and two injured, has directed attention to the ...
Article : 85 wordsA dreadful railway accident has occurred in Philadelphia during a fog. It appears that two electric trains, travelling at a time when a thick fog was lying over the ...
Article : 74 wordsFurther investigations, made by the police and the auditor-general's department, have revealed the fact that the frauds committed by the removal of the duly stamps ...
Article : 123 wordsSir Thomas Bent remarked yesterday that he had devoted considerable time of late to the preparation of the Budget statement and the revision of the estimates of ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Government statist, Mr. E.T. Drake, has issued the eighth part—Interchange—of the Victorian Year-book for 1907-8. The aggregate oversea and interstate trade of ...
Article : 270 wordsThe famous Swedish explorer Dr. Sven Hedin, who returned to India hist week from a long and adventurous tour of Northern Tibet, has given a private lecture ...
Article : 94 wordsNews has been received of a disastrous typhoon in the Philippine Islands. No details are yet to hand, beyond that there has been a great loss of life, and that the ...
Article : 103 wordsWithin the last few weeks there has been quite a rush of people to the Lands department who are anxious to obtain from the Government the right to utilise the grass ...
Article : 159 wordsBRISBANE Friday.—The Rev. H.F. Niemeyer, head of the German Apostolic Church in Queensland, is doing good service in connection with the intioduction of ...
Article : 115 wordsDuncan and Weller.—At Balwyn-road, Balwyn-— Villa property and land. Forbes and Son.—At River and Crown streets, Richmond—Cottage properties. ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. John Redmond, M.P., and Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., member of the Irish Nationalist party in the House of Commons, who are now visiting the United ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Water Supply department is pushing on with the important irrgation scheme which the Government intends to carry out in the Werribee district at an expenditure ...
Article : 229 wordsLINTON, Friday.—In revising their prize schedule for the autumn show, the committee of the Linton Horticultural Society put down a number ...
Article : 97 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—On Wednesday a well known business man in Bendigo cloped with his assistant, a single girl,19 year[?] [?]age. His wife has taken out ai ...
Article : 38 wordsGEELONG, Friday.—The nomination of the Rev. S.W.R. Newton to the vacant incumbency of Christ Church was discussed by the vestry at a general meeting this ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:- Arrivals.—Port Augusta, s.s., from Port Pirie August 1; Arawa, s.s., from ...
Article : 47 wordsIn response to the appeal of Councillor Rogers, mayer of Port Melbourne, on behalf of a widow and four young children left uuprovided for, we have received the following additional amount:- ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 26 Sep 1908, Page 19
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