The great aeronautic week at Rheims concluded yesterday, when the finals of the two great events, the Grand Prix de la Champagne and the Gordon Bennett Coupe ...
Article : 743 wordsWhen play was resumed yesterday in bright weather the wicket was faster, but still tricky. There were 3,000 spectators. Trumper added two to his overnight score ...
Article : 1,114 wordsThe list of shipping disasters during this month has been unusually heavy. The underwriters' losses for this month alone are estimated at £1,000,000. ...
Article : 38 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Dudley left Brisbane for the south on Saturday afternoon, by the R.M.S. Otway. A guard of honour was drawn up ...
Article : 911 wordsThe programme of Imperial naval and military defence evolved by the recent conference is greated with sneers by the German press. ...
Article : 172 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Cardinal Moran, in laying a memorial stone at a school at Concord to-day, said that a controversy had ranged round Dreadnoughts. In this the ...
Article : 348 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—At flood tide on Friday excellent salvage work was done on the Waipara, which had to be beached on Yellow Patch, after having struck a rock. ...
Article : 321 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Mr. A. S. Brown, chief officer of the steamer Madura, now at Bunbury, has an interesting theory regarding the whereabouts of the missing Waratah. ...
Article : 329 wordsIt is rumoured in Ottawa that the British Government contemplate offering the Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada the post of Governor-General of South ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 323 wordsBy Hamara, a pretender to the throne of Morocco, who achieved a temporary success against the forces of Mulai Hafid a few weeks ago, was captured recently in a ...
Article : 128 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette," commenting on the work of the Imperial Defence Conference, heartily congratulates the conference upon the splendid outcome of its ...
Article : 77 wordsMuch interest has been manifested as to the contents of the letter written by Mr. G. H. Reid to the recent Premiers' Conference, which was frequently mentioned in ...
Article : 441 wordsWith the advices, received by cable and published on Saturday morning, giving particulars of the class of vessels which it is proposed that Australia should build, an ...
Article : 1,027 wordsThe "Daily News" doubts the utility of seattered forces. It adds, "If the empire is in peril the struggle will be primarily for command of the North Sea, ...
Article : 75 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The Federal-House-Shire liner Ayrshire, which berthed at Port Adelaide this afternoon, was one of the large fleet of steamers ...
Article : 115 wordsA place of exilc for Lopukhin, ex-chief of the police in St. Petersburg, who was found guilty in May last of having belonged to a criminal association, has been decided ...
Article : 80 wordsColonel Toxton, representative of the Commonwealth at the conference, and Mrs. Foxton, will return to Australia by the R.M.S. Orontes, leaving on ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Minister of Defence (Mr. Joseph Cook), speaking yesterday regarding the results achieved by the Defence Conference in naval matters, said: ...
Article : 646 wordsMrs. Murray, who describes herself as a thought-reader, invited relatives of persons on board the Waratah to attend at the Temperance-hall last night. She had ...
Article : 283 wordsSeveral fresh cases of cholera have occurred at Rottetdam, where five cases were previously reported, and 28 people placed under observation. ...
Article : 57 wordsA one-innings victory was scored by Middlesex in a match against Gloucester. Middlesex made 145 in the first innings, and in their two innings Gloucester made 33 ...
Article : 91 wordsE. G. Hayes, playing for Surrey, has completed 2,000 runs. He is the first batsman this season to reach that total. ...
Article : 30 wordsIncluded amongst those who were besieged this week by a hand of 800 robbers at Kerman, in the south of Persia, were two Englishmen, Mr. Wright, of the Imperial ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Development Bill, which was introduced in the House of Commons on Friday by Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, provides £600,000 a year for the ...
Article : 167 wordsJames Alfred Vary, of Kent-street, Flemington, lancer, who died on August 1, left by a will dated July 23, 1897, personal property of the value of £5,650, to his widow. ...
Article : 37 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday—The election to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives for the district of Wakefield, caused by the death of Sir Frederick Holder, took ...
Article : 208 wordsHORSHAM, Saturday.—During the course of a lecture on "Education," at the Working Men's College, Mr. Josiah Thomas, M.H.R., made reference to the ...
Article : 566 wordsThe new Lebaudy dirigible balloon, Liberte, which has been built to the order of the French Government, made a successful voyage at Nantes yesterday, carrying ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. James Beer, master mariner, of Moreland-road, West Coburg, woke up shortly after midnight on Friday morning and found a masked burglar with a light in ...
Article : 159 wordsSir,—It is most important that immediate action be taken in continue the search for the Waratah, and the search should be conducted in an organised way under the ...
Article : 359 wordsA disastrous colliery accident took place at the naval colliery, Penygraig, in Wales. Thirty miners were descending by a cage, when the cable broke, and the cage fell to ...
Article : 57 wordsThe revised scheme of taxation, as far as it affects liquor licenses, has been announced. A considerable reduction has been made in the duties on hotels, ...
Article : 74 wordsSome difficulty is being experienced in connect on with the change suggested in the inscription to be placed on the new Australian sliver coinage. The original proposal ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Coburg police were informed on Friday that the house of Mr. Charles Appleford, next to that of Mr. Beers, had been robbed during the night. A £1 bank note and ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the Bow-street Police Court to-day Mrs. Despard, sister of General Sir John French; Mrs. F. J. Cobden Sanderson, and four other suffragettes ...
Article : 269 wordsAlfred Evans, employed by Mrs. M'Gregor, at "Maritimo," Grey-street, St. Kilda, was taken to the Alfred Hospital on Saturday by Constable Kevill, with his cheek ...
Article : 237 wordsFive branches of the Methodist Churches will be represented at a Methodist Assembly in London, which will meet in October. The Wesleyans will send 276 delegates, the ...
Article : 60 wordsReferring to the Imperial general staff, Mr. Cook said yesterday:—"There is now an Imperial army brain to think and plan for all the forces that owe allegiance to ...
Article : 202 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The story of the foundering of the French barque Gael, and of the subsequent experiences of the recovered boat, was interestingly told in a ...
Article : 403 wordsMr. James Cuming, who has already contributed handsomely to the Williamstown and Footscary District Hospital and other institutions, has presented the people of ...
Article : 164 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Mr. M. P. Durack, who was at Turkey Creek when the newa of William Laurie's success at Tanami was received there, said that his information left ...
Article : 261 wordsThe sprinklers in the warehouse of Messrs. Peterson and Co., 348 Flindersstreet, near Queen-street, more than justified then installation on Friday night or ...
Article : 271 wordsSir,—Command of the sea has been recently described by a naval writer as the "ordering of safe passage," and it is towards this goal that the recent conference in ...
Article : 366 wordsMr. George Reid said:—"The new feature in these seas of a magnificent cruiser of the Indomitable type is, I venture to think, the best of all. Torpedo destroyers and ...
Article : 94 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Chamber business. First Civil Court. (Before Mr. Justice Hodges.) At 10 O'Clock.—Re Mary Forbes, deceased. ...
Article : 74 wordsNORFOLK ISLAND, Sunday.—The first whale of the season was landed on Friday. ...
Article : 15 wordsJohn Groutch, farmer, Runnymede, near Elmore. Causes of insolvency—Pressure of creditors, sickness of child and self, and subsequent inability to follow occupation, ...
Article : 47 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Senator Millen said, in regard to the naval agreement:— "As to the details of the unit, I cannot think that there will be any controversy ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 30 Aug 1909, Page 7
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