The steamer Wilcannia, of Lund's Blue Anchor line, which left Melbourne on August 26 for London via South Africa, arrived at Durban yesterday. Captain ...
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Article : 48 wordsDr. Frederick Cook, whoso claim to have discovered the North Pole is the subject of fierce controversy, arrived at New York yesterday from Copenhagen. ...
Article : 153 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Dudley) has confirmed his promise to attend the band contents at Ballarat towards the end of October. There is a ...
Article : 913 wordsIt is becoming a practice with Labour members in the House of Representatives, when all other means of obstruction fail, to challenge the ruling of the Speaker on ...
Article : 1,055 wordsThe voting coupons for the football champion literally poured into "The Argus" office yesterday. For the first time Ricketts has taken the lead, and he is now 92 votes ...
Article : 294 wordsState revenue for 1908-9, £8,195,403. Excess over estimate, £79,153. Expenditure amounted to £8,048,643. Surplus for the year, £146,760. ...
Article : 462 wordsThe Commonwealth Defence Bill has aroused great interest in Great Britain, and all the newspapers "display" the details of the measure. ...
Article : 277 wordsFurther tests show that the destroyer Swift has maintained a speed considerably over 36 knots, stipulated when she was laid down. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe leader of the Opposition, Mr Balfour, speaks to-night at Bingley Hall, Birmingham in opposition to the Budget, when he will reply to Mr. Asquith's speech from ...
Article : 104 wordsGeneral Marina, commandiug the Spanish troops, in Morocco, has cleared the country north-west of Gurugu. The Riff tribesmen have been overcome, one thousand of them ...
Article : 79 wordsThe torpedo-boat destroyer Itchen went ashore yesterday near Kirkwall, in the north of Scotland. The vessel is badly damaged, and her guns are being removed. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Most Rev. Dr. Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, has published a statement through the Catholic Truth Society referring to the differences ...
Article : 169 wordsThe British sloop Clio, 1,070 tons, attached to the China Squadron, about which there was considerable anxiety owing to her being five days overdue, has been ...
Article : 46 wordsWhen invited to express an opinion on the new Commonwealth Defence Bill, the Premier (Mr. Murray) said yesterday that he was generally in favour of its main ...
Article : 155 wordsThe disposal of the fortune of the late Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, which is estimated at £5,000,000, has been the subject of inquiry since the new ...
Article : 81 wordsThe proceedings at the International Press Conference now sitting in London were opened to-day by the Postmaster-General, Mr. Sydney Buxton. He ...
Article : 56 wordsAn army order has been issued in substitution of the special army order of September 12, 1906, which constituted the general staff. ...
Article : 395 wordsThe September series of London wool sales, opened yesterday. Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Thomas and Cook, and Charles Balme and Co. ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. Walter Long M.P., who was a member of the Balfour Administration, and is a leading member of the Opposition at present, in the course of a speech at ...
Article : 127 wordsThe triennial conference of the International Geodetic Association was opened yesterday by Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, who welcomed the visiting geodesists ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,—The record of votes for football champion appearing each morning in your paper suggested to my mind a charity match, say on the Melbourne ground, ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Goldsborough, Mort, and Company Ltd., dated 21st inst.:—"Wool.—Sales opened this day, with ...
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Article : 614 wordsThe disablement of J. Mackenzie, the captain of the Brunswick football team, on Saturduy, in the match Essendon v. Brunswick, is not to be allowed to pass ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Watt) laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday the report of the departmental board appointed by the Railway Commissioners last ...
Article : 484 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, who is hunting in British East Africa, has used his influence with the United States Fisheries Bureau in getting Lake Naivasha, a ...
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Article : 192 wordsWilliam Turnourver Thomas, an organ-grinder, whose claim to the Poulett carldom attracted a great deal of attention a few years ago, died to-day. The deceased had ...
Article : 172 wordsSir,—Being an old footballer and a visitor from the country, I secured a front seat in the grand-stand of the M.C.C. to witness the semi-final match, South Melbourne v. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Joseph Cook) stated last evening that he had received no communication on the matter. The precise effect of the order was not quite ...
Article : 129 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A sensational incident occurred at a political meeting addressed by Mr. J. T. Collings, Labour candidate for Tooombul, at Manly to-night. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsSir,—If the new land tax is carried in its present form it will be a just retribution on owners of town property who favour a class land tax on country land, and will bring ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 23 Sep 1909, Page 7
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