The two great battle-ships of 25,000 tons each which Congress decided in January last should be added to the United States navy are about to be laid down on the ...
Article : 109 wordsAs a result of his personal inspection and the information which he has received Mr. Catani, chief engineer of the Public Works department, says there is no doubt that the ...
Article : 8,801 wordsThe Australian Eleven commenced a match it Lord's to-day against a team representing Middlesex. The teams were:— MIDDLESEX. AUSTRALIA. ...
Article : 218 wordsThere has again been a drilling of the rates for the reinsurance of the missing steamer Waratah, the better feeling which prevailed towards the middle of last week ...
Article : 127 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—Lady Dudley was the principal speaker at the evening session on Saturday of the National Council of Women. ...
Article : 1,316 wordsIt will not be necessary, in connection with the industrial legislative proposals, the subject of an arrangement between the States and the Commonwealth, to submitany ...
Article : 341 wordsA sensational jewellery robbery occurred in the city on Sunday afternoon. It had been carefully planned, and was carried out with great daring, but the bravery of a ...
Article : 320 wordsArcbishop Clarke left Melbourne yesterday for Wangaratta, where he will lay the foundation-stone of the new Anglican cathedral. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 497 wordsPresident Taft has decided that as much as possible shall be saved in military expenditure for the ensuing year. In the interests of economy he has ...
Article : 65 wordsIn view of the disappearance of the Waratah and the other casualties on the African coast, the Government of Cape Colony has decided to adopt additional precautions to ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Coventry Ordnance Company has received orders from British and other Governments for £1,000,000 worth of guns and gun mountings. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe barque Guerthary (1,930 tons), which left Poro, New Caledonia, for Glasgow on March 27, and was long overdue, has arrived at the Clyde. ...
Article : 55 wordsA serious accident occurred to the British baltic-ship Hannibal (14,900 tons), while executing gun-laying tests near Babbicombe, on the Devonshire coast. She was going ...
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Article : 215 wordsAn important railway project designed to give greater facilities for transport across South America by means of the Amazon River has been launched in Peru. ...
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Article : 155 wordsVickers, Sons, and Maxim Ltd., the great British shipbuilder and engineers, have accepted a contract from the Government of Brazil to construct a floating dock for ...
Article : 79 wordsThe State Treasurer (Mr. Watt) said yesterday that he had noticed with surprise the statements of Mr. Irvine, M.H.R., on Saturday, at Dandenong, which suggested ...
Article : 886 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Captain Lymond, of the steamer Magdala, which arrived at Newcastle direct from Durban, having left that port the day after the Waratah sailed, ...
Article : 105 wordsMessrs. G. W. Young and Company, the New York financiers, have undertaken the operation of refunding the national debt of the republic of Guatemala, which amounts ...
Article : 69 wordsMore is to be heard of the incident which occured about a fortnight ago, on the borders of Silesia between Germany and Russia A balloon containing a party of ...
Article : 196 wordsViscount Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief of the forces in India was entertained at a farewell banquet at Simla, prior to relinquishing his command. ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the motor race meeting at Indianapolis on Friday Louis Strang, driving a Buick car, won the 100 miles race. Strang covered the distance in 1 hour 32 ...
Article : 50 wordsAlexander Read, of Lawaluk, Mount Mercer, grazier, who died on July 31, left estate of the value of £19,459. It consists of £15,648 realty and £3,811 personalty, and, by a will dated June ...
Article : 142 wordsA mischievous prank by some schoolboys at Offenbach on the Maine,in Germany, had a most tragic termination. The pupils at a girls'school had taken a ...
Article : 91 wordsA great meeting in connection with aviation is being held at Rhemis, in France. It will be open for a week had during that time many aeroplanes of different types ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is officially announced that the Porte has decided to recognise Prince Ferdinand as King of Bulgaria. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe mine of Mr. John Conway, whose death at Frankston was announced yesterday, is associated with much that is interesting in the early days of Australian cricket. It ...
Article : 828 wordsWild rioting has occurred at Pittsburg, in the United States, in connection with the strike of workmen in the steel car works there. ...
Article : 118 words"General" Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, who some time ago underwent an operation for cataract of the eye, and who recently had a recureence of the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Porte, acqui[?]scing in the views of the powers, has re[?]rained from direct communication with Greece regarding Crete, and has accepted the last Greek note as ...
Article : 69 wordsThe State Ministry has decided to allow Sir Thomas Bent £400 as the fee of Mr. W.H. Croker, who appeared as counsel for the ex-Premier before the Royal commission ...
Article : 169 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—A caucus meeting of the Government supporters was held this afternoon. Since Parliament opened some decisive action on the part of the ...
Article : 642 wordsA very large deficit for the year 1910 is anticipated by the Minister of Finance in France (M. Cochery). In his Budget statement M.Cochery ...
Article : 125 wordsA recent report that Canada had withdrawn from the proposed Imperial conference on the question of securing a cheaper cable service throughout the Empire lacked ...
Article : 115 wordsA Scottish memorial in regard to the suppression of the use of opium in China has been presented to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir. Edward Grey) by ...
Article : 111 wordsThe secretary of the Victorian Football League yesterday received a complaint from the boundary umpire (Roy), who officated in the match Essendon v. South Melbourne ...
Article : 65 wordsA meeting in connection with the Free Kindergarten Union was held yesterday afternoon in the hall of the Toorak Presbyterain Church. Lady Gibson-Carmicheal ...
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Article : 113 wordsA leading Genman newspaper is responsible for a remarkable statement regarding the extent of the industrial depression in Germany, which has been reflected in the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe members of the team to represent the British Isles against the United States in the preliminary lawn tennis matches for the Davis Cup have been selected. They ...
Article : 251 wordsIt is anticipated that the second reading of the Land Tax Bill will be moved in the Legislative Assembly next Tuesday evening by the Treasurer (Mr. Watt). A Cabinet ...
Article : 98 wordsDuring the present month 20 people have been killed while climbing the Alps. ...
Article : 18 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Mention was made some time ago of the increase of leprosy in the Cook Islands, and a report was subscquently received to the effect that that ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 24 Aug 1909, Page 5
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