The commerce delegates were busy yesterday morning registering their addresses and obtaining information at the rooms of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. In the ...
Article : 2,733 wordsThe first of Germany's "super-Dreadnoughts"—vessels representing as great an advance upon the Dreadnought as the Dreadnought was upon her predecessors— ...
Article : 116 wordsNew York has entered upon an eight days' pageant, in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson, and ...
Article : 456 wordsThe Budget, and the possible consequences of its rejection by the House of Lords, continue to be the subject of keen discussion. ...
Article : 305 wordsHis Execellency the Governor (Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael), who opened the Southstreet competitions at Ballarat last night, will return to Melbourne this morning. ...
Article : 920 wordsThe difficulty which has arisen between the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Victorian Cricket Association, owing to the latter not being prepared to accept the offer ...
Article : 545 wordsA magnetic storm of unprecedented violence was experienced in the United States on Saturday. The disturbance, as recorded at the Cheltenham Observatory, Maryland, ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The American fourmasted schooner Alpena, which late last night was anchored in a dangerous position off Stockton beach (the line having parted ...
Article : 951 wordsPERTH, Monday.—Referring to the Aurora Australia visible in the southern sky on Saturday night, Mr. W. E. Cooke, the Government astronomer, explained the ...
Article : 309 wordsA contributed article on the German navy appears in the "North German Gazette." The writer says:—"Germany's watchword is, If we cannot have the most we must ...
Article : 251 wordsFurther reports were received last night from our correspondents, showing that the Auroral display of Saturday night had been seen all over Victoria. The ...
Article : 158 words"A magnetic storm," said Mr. Baracchi last night, "is usually accompanied by Auroral displays and frequently coincident with solar storms, sun-spots. It is a ...
Article : 544 wordsGreat activity is being displayed by the different political organisations. The Tariff Reform League is arranging for 1,200 meetings, and during the next three weeks will ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Brodeur, Canadian Minister of Marine, replying to a deputation at Quebec yesterday, said that the character of Canada's navy was still open to question, ...
Article : 58 wordsFurther particulars are given of the disaster to the French dirigible Republique, which took place near Moulins, and resulted in the death of two military officers and ...
Article : 227 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.—The arrivil of 300 excursionists from Melbourne by special train on Monday afternoon was the first external indication that the ...
Article : 1,159 wordsMr. Chamberlain, the veteran states man, who has been in ill-health for some time, has intimated that he will stand at the next election for his present ...
Article : 172 wordsOn Saturday the return match between the Heidelberg and Greensborough teams was played on the ground of the latter. Keen rivalry has always existed between the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Canadian officer who has been exchanged for Colonel Read, of Queensland, is Captain C. H. Hill, of the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry. Captain ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,—I extend the glad hand, full of cordiality, to grasp the hand that penned your leading article in this day's issue. I have watched, with gradually—but very ...
Article : 315 wordsThe annual 21 days afloat of the officers and men attached to the Victorian Commonwealth forces stationed at Williamstown begins on November 4. Prominent ...
Article : 106 wordsThe estate of the Marquis of Ripon, who died on July 9, has been valued for probate purposes at £125,574 By his will he left the sum of £10,000 to Mr. St. Quentin, who ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Defence (Mr. J. Cook) had something to say to-day on matters pertaining to his administration. He hoped that the Defence ...
Article : 258 wordsThe loss of the Republique has caused French aeronauts for the first time to recognise that there is some merit in Count Zeppelin's multiple gasbag system, his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThe annual meeting of the V.A.T.C. was [?] yesterday afternoon at Menzies' Hotel. The chairman of the committee (Mr. Gorge Woodforde) presided, and there ...
Article : 742 wordsA criminal prosccution has arisen out of the export to Germany of diamonds from the Damaraland fieds, in South-west Africa, where sensational finds were mane ...
Article : 112 wordsThe effect of the magnetic storms, which almost invariably accompany the phenomenon of an Aurora, upon electrical services has been observed for half a century. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe attitude of Commander Peary, the Arctic explorer, towards his rival, Dr. Frederick Cook, is adversely criticised by Mr. Henry Whitney, an American ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Alpena is having a full share of sensations. For about a month prior to her arrival in Melbourne, on August 24, from Tacoma she was continually beset by ...
Article : 413 wordsSir,—With a couple of my friends attended the football match between South Melbourne and Carlton on Saturday last. I came away far from edified by all I saw ...
Article : 280 wordsSUVA, Sept. 27.—The Makura arrived here to-day with Sir Joseph Ward, Lady Ward, Miss Ward, and Miss Seddon on board. The party leave for Auckland by ...
Article : 168 wordsPERTH, Monday.—The magnetic storm on Saturday night affected telegraphic communication to some extent. Cable messages are received in the form of a series of ...
Article : 59 wordsAccording to the St. Petersbury correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," an important offer to the Russian Government by a syndicate of British capitalist ...
Article : 97 wordsPERTH, Monday.—Since Saturday night much rain has fallen, and exceptionally heavy weather has prevailed on the coast and inland. As a result, there has been a ...
Article : 56 wordsSir,—The final match next Saturday will, I suppose, be umpired by Elder, who perhaps is the best man avilable in the league. How would it do to borrow Kendall—the ...
Article : 171 wordsLieutenant Shackleton was the guest of His Majesty the King at Balmoral yesterday. He lectured before members of the Royal family and a distinguished gathering, ...
Article : 44 wordsOn the arrival of the Adelaide Steamship Company's interstate passenger steamer Marloo late last night the captain and officers had a thrilling story to relate of the ...
Article : 241 wordsYARRAWONGA, Monday.—A boating fatality occurred at Bundalong on Saturday evening. Angus M'Coll, accompanied by his cousin, Alan James M'Coll, was ...
Article : 224 wordsPatrick Lennon, a Fenian leader, who was sentenced to death in 1867 for his share in a Fenian outrage, was released at Manchester yesterday. Mr. John Dillon, the ...
Article : 138 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—The steamer Yangtsze, from Glasgow, the Federal liner Norfolk, and the Swedish steamer Australic, from Gothenburg, which have arrived at ...
Article : 48 wordsDONALD, Monday.—Mr. J. P. Morgan, proprietor of the Donald "Times," accompanied by his wife and boy, aged 14 years, narrowly escaped drowing on ...
Article : 204 wordsAt Half past 10—Cock and another V.Smith and others (part heard); Bendigo and country District Trustees and Executors' Co. Ltd. V. Sandhurst and Northern Districts Trustees, Eecutors, and Agency ...
Article : 171 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The mail steamer Marama left for Vancouver to-day. When about a mile off North Head she was noticed to stop, and then to go round in a ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Mr Dugald Thomson will not be a candidate at the next Federal elections. Meetings of the constituents of North Sydney, which Mr. Thomson ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A southerly gale continued to blow all day along the New South Wales coast, and all small vessels engaged in the coastal traffic sought shelter. ...
Article : 108 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—Mr. Hugh Ward, the well-known comedian, warns members of his profession who may be tempted to accept engagements to go ...
Article : 89 wordsAn article in the "Scientific American" of June 5, 1909, gives the following interesting note on the spectroscopic examination of the Aurora:—"When the spectroscope is ...
Article : 313 wordsWilliam Burt, of Panton-street, Eagle-hawk, miner Causes of insolvency—Sickness of wife, want of employment, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £38/15/; ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 28 Sep 1909, Page 5
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