The warm-hearted sympathy of Queen Alexandra for the suffering and distressed has been exhibited in a touching manner during the Christmas season. ...
Article : 181 wordsA special number of the "Commonwealth Gazette" was issued on Tuesday. It contained the following notification:—"Under the authority contained in the dormant ...
Article : 628 wordsIt is officially announced that the writs for the elections will be issued on January 10. The results of unopposed elections will be declared on the 14th, the first borough ...
Article : 449 wordsIt is many years now since sportsmen and ornithologists first sought to add to the Statute-book laws for the protection of our native game birds and other fauna. Wile ...
Article : 1,734 words"Until Monday noon fine weather is expected. Winds at first southerly, but gradually veering east and north, with ...
Article : 533 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—All doubt as to whether the Strike Congress would again risk a meeting was set at rest to-day. Yesterday afternoon the delegates began to put ...
Article : 203 wordsSir,—I must heartily endorse every word written by "C.W." in "The Argus" to-day on the "Quail Season." I am honorary inspector for this district, and my many ...
Article : 96 wordsKing Albert I., who has succeeded to the throne of Belgium, made his state entry into Brussels yesterday. His Majesty was accorded a great reception as he passed ...
Article : 135 wordsIn the absence of the Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) a deputation seeking Commonwealth aid in connection with the proposed second search for the Waratah was received ...
Article : 796 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The wharf labourers at the North German Lloyd's wharf have paid no attention to the instruction of their union to return to work on the company's ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—It became known in Newcastle to-day that the Burwood mine is being prepared for work, and that an attempt will be made to open ...
Article : 235 wordsThe disorder in Greece, which has existed for some weeks past, arising out of the dissatisfaction amongst the junior officers of the service, who complained of bars to ...
Article : 112 wordsPostal and money-order business will be entirely suspended to-day. No mails will be made up, neither will, letters nor other postal matter be delivered. In telegraph ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company, of No. 412 Collins-street, is applying for letters of administration with the will annexed of the estate of the late Mrs. Delia Ann Dudley, of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe strike of women blouse-makers for higher pay and shorter hours continues in New York, where ladies in society have espoused their cause, in some cases, like that ...
Article : 132 wordsThough shortly after his return from the North Pole Commander Peary declared that he had no intention of leading an expedition to the South Polar regions, he ...
Article : 156 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—The mining year for 1909 closed this evening, and the figures as given below show a better result than last year. For the first time since 1906 ...
Article : 495 wordsA sum of £53/12/6 has been collected from among the Newport Workships' employees in aid of the strike fund. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The miners at Kurri Kurri have received their first strike pay. It was only 10/ per man, and 5/ for youths. The distress is becoming acute, the only ...
Article : 67 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Each member of the Northern Miners' Federation received 10/ to-day, which would mean about £4,000. Christmas relief was also provided by ...
Article : 35 wordsCASTERTON, Friday.—About a fortnight ago a little girl named Bessie Rowley showed conspicuous bravery in protecting her baby piece from the attacks of a ...
Article : 101 wordsChristmas at the General Post-office is a time whin every employee is fully extended, and a numerous force of casuals have to be called in. This year the rush has been ...
Article : 160 wordsThe native who killed Mr. Jackson, collector at Nasik, Bombay, by shooting him, is a Brahmin named Kanare. He came from Aurnngabad with the full intention of ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—It is reported from Kurri Kurri that the police stopped the distribution of the money sent to the Abermain Miners' Lodge for relief purposes. The ...
Article : 40 wordsThe question of whether Canada should establish a fleet of her own, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier proposes, or content herself with strengthening the Imperial navy, is being ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The dislocation of the tram and train service in consequence of the coal strike has found favour with the Evangelical Council, and to-day a ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. M'Kenzie) has given directions for about £300 to be spent in assisting settlers who suffered severely from the floods of last winter, and ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Young Men's Christian Association has completed special arrangements for the Christmas and New Year holidays in the direction of providing outdoor attractions ...
Article : 125 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," which published the messages from Calcutta, giving the news that several of the staff of the Viceroy of India and a number of servants ...
Article : 55 wordsReturns from Prince's-bridge station show that the holiday traffic through that station yesterday was slightly less than last year. The figures supplied by the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Melbourne Telegraph Office was advised from Sydney yesterday evening that the serious interruption of the telegraph service between the two cities which has ...
Article : 99 wordsEven though fancy prices have been offered for coal in Melbourne the importers have none for sale. Orders could have been placed at £4 per ton, but they have had to ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Steel Corporation of the United States is distributing a bonus for the year amongst its employees, amounting to 2,000,000 dollars (about £400,000) in all. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Canadian Government has purchased from the Admiralty the cruiser Rainbow, 3,600 tons, which is on the subsidiary list. The vessel will be used as a training ship ...
Article : 72 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. Moore) cabled to the Agent-General in Lonon to ascertain whether the steamers shortly due at the Cape could be got to ...
Article : 60 wordsHoward Smith Company Limited announce that the s.s. Edina will leave Queen's Wharf to-day, at 10 a.m., for Portarlington and Geelong; on Sunday, at 2:30 p.m., for Portarlington only; on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsFour labourers working in a cellar at Wigan, in Lancashire, broached a cask of brandy stored in the cellar, and drank so large a quantity that they all died. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe fears which were entertained for the safety of the London and North-Western Railway Company's steamer Rosstrevor, which was overdue in her passage across the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Premier's secretary (Mr. Short) yesterday received replies from South Australia and Tasmania to the suggestion that they should co-operate with Victoria in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Australind, s.s, from Melbourne Oct. 25; Indralema, s.s., from Melbourne ...
Article : 33 wordsSir,—We should not forget that every shilling helps to make up the total sum required for the search for the s.s. Waratah, and no time is to be lost in supplying the ...
Article : 212 wordsWith very few exceptions, work will be resumed at the manufactories of the metropolis after the New Year holidays In many cases the stoppage of operations will ...
Article : 844 wordsThe trustees of the Felton bequest have purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria Richard Wilson's painting, "Lake Nemi." ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 25 Dec 1909, Page 13
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