The opinions expressed by several experts in naval defence lately regarding the necessity for providing adequate defence for the water-borne commerce of the empire, have ...
Article : 86 wordsAnnouncements as to the policy of the new French Ministry show that important concessions are to be made to the Socialist element in the Chamber. ...
Article : 236 wordsInteresting particulars have been furnished of the flight by M. Louis Bleriot, the well-known acronaut, who succeeded in crossing the Channel from France to ...
Article : 491 wordsWhen Brother Eli Williams, as chairman of the annual meeting of the Brunswick tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites, welcomed the Premier (Mr. John ...
Article : 1,639 wordsThe fourth test match commenced at Manchester to-day. Of the previous three engagements Australia won two and England one. ...
Article : 1,236 wordsNo action will be taken by the House of Representatives this afternoon in the matter of electing a Speaker in the place of the late Sir Frederick Holder. As ...
Article : 514 wordsThe Governor-General (Lord Dudley) and the Governor of Victoria (Sir Thomas Gib-son-Carmichael) and a party of 17, passed through Charleville (Queensland) yesterday ...
Article : 1,201 wordsA great demonstration under the auspices of the pro-Budget League was held in Hydepark to-day. There was an immense attendance, the number being estimated at ...
Article : 109 wordsOn Saturday the great naval display which has taken place on the Thames during the past eight days was brought to a close. ...
Article : 51 wordsAn action has been concluded before a judge and jury at Liverpool, in which Mr. Davies, a well-known engineering expert, sued the "Sunday Chronicle," of ...
Article : 130 wordsConsiderable public interest has been created by the announcement of the resignation by His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught of the position of High ...
Article : 83 wordsA huge demonstration promoted by the National Labour party was held in Trafalgar-square yesterday to protest against the visit of the Czar to England. ...
Article : 138 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—At the annual meeting to-night of the New South Wales Cricket Association it was stated that the credit balance (including £500 given by the ...
Article : 72 wordsThen Majesties the King and Queen, gave a luncheon party to-day at Buckinghampalace to meet delegates from the oversea dominions, who are in London in ...
Article : 130 wordsReturns have been furnished regarding the results in various districts of the ballot conducted by the Miners' Federation, in Great Britain, to decide whether there ...
Article : 124 wordsA Bright correspondent surmises that Hobbs and Hayward are absent from the test match because Surrey are playing Somerset on the same dates, and points ...
Article : 177 wordsThe State Royal Commission, appointed to inquire into the purchases of the Maribyrnong, Mont-park, Pender's-grove, Thornbury, and Werribee-park estates during ...
Article : 818 wordsConsiderable discussion is taking place as to whether the sentence of death upon the Indian student, Dinghra, for the murder of Sir William Curzon Wyllie, should ...
Article : 107 wordsOn hearing of M. Bleriot's success, Baron de Forest, an enthusiast living in England, increased his offer of £2,000 for the first cross Channel flight by a British subject in ...
Article : 394 wordsThousands of pounds have been spent by the Customs department in the endeavour to stamp out the illicit traffic in opium, but Chinese ingenuity still succeeds in ...
Article : 232 wordsAn important announcement with regard to the cotton industry has been made by Mr. C. W. Macara, the president of the International Cotton Federation. He states ...
Article : 83 wordsSome big scores have been made in county matches just concluded. Batting for Lancashire against Essex R. H. Spooner made 113, and J. T. Tyldesley, in the same ...
Article : 73 wordsThe New York correspondent of "The Times" announces that, subject to confirmation by the Costa Rican Congress, an agreement has been signed, whereby the National ...
Article : 120 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. George S. Littlejohn(president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce), in his address at the annual meeting of that body to-day, touched ...
Article : 517 wordsIn the annual rifle matches just concluded at Bisley, there were 250 competitors from the various oversea dominions. The Canadians were very successful, ...
Article : 51 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The statement made by a prominent Chinese in Adelaide that as much opium was being smoked there since the passing of the restrictive laws as ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Spanish troops in Northern Morocco are meeting with a desperate resistance at the hands of the Arabs. Fierce hand-to-hand fighting occurred yesterday between the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe prospectus of the loan issue of £300,000 by the Commonwealth Oil Corporation has been issued. The directors of the Commonwealth Oil ...
Article : 136 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Charlie Lean Fore, a middle-aged Chinese, who for seven years, has been manager of the "Tung Wah Times," and was a prominent member of ...
Article : 110 wordsTwenty years ago Mr. A. J. Watts, a dentist in Perth, began to see visions and dream dreams of the conquest of the air. He spent his earnings in the purchase of ...
Article : 695 wordsAlexander Lundy, of Manningtree-road, Hawthorn, retined farmer, who died on July 1. left by a will dated February 21, 1909, personal property of the value of £2,675 to his children. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Kasbgtai tribesmen, on the Persiar Gulf, are threatening trouble. Owing to their attitude, the British authorities have landed a squad of 40 Sepoys and a Maxin[?] ...
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Article : 189 wordsFor some time a robber who cannot resist a nice rug has been entering houses in the various suburbs, and has stolen a number of rugs from different people. These thefts ...
Article : 389 wordsThe four powers in Crete (Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia) have carried out their undertaking to remove their troops from the island before the end of the ...
Article : 293 wordsCurious problems are sometimes set for the Customs authorities in the way of deciding under what class heading of the tariff list imported articles should be placed. ...
Article : 202 wordsThe answer to a question put by counsel in a contested will case in the First Civil Court yesterday, would seem to indicate that the problem of the "decreasing birth rate" ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Kew Ladies' Benevolent Society held their annual meeting in the town-hall, Kew, last night, the mayor (Councillor J. L. Cardegie) presiding. The 17th annual report stated that 34 families, ...
Article : 358 wordsLouise M. Crook, 29 years of age, married, and living at Ormond was taken to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday, and admitted by Dr. Lavarack, suffering from ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 27 Jul 1909, Page 5
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