The Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia yesterday received in this Afrikander centre a welcome as enthusiastic as any they have received elsewhere. ...
Article : 99 wordsA conference for the purpose of arranging conditions of work between the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation and the organisations represented in the ...
Article : 450 wordsA serious railway accident happened on Friday night at Ormskirk, Lancashire. The Scotch express, running through the station at a speed of 50 miles an hour, dashed ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Commonwealth land tax is discussed by the "Economist" in its current issue. It says:—"Investors in Australian land companies have had their faith a little shaken ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) on Saturday received a cable message from the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) reporting "All well." ...
Article : 1,045 wordsTwenty-four girls lost their lives in a factory fire in Newark, New York, yesterday. Some were burned to death, while others who leaped from the blazing building, were ...
Article : 249 wordsThe leaders of the Liberal and Unionist parties are conducting an active campaign during the few days at their disposal before the elections, which commence on ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Liberal Unionist Council of Glasgow, which met on Friday, adopted a resolution drafted by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, expressing satisfaction at the action of the ...
Article : 124 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—The representative of the Australian Federated Industrial Organisation of Tramway Workers arrived in Brisbane last week, with a view to ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Duke of Connaught and party arrived at Pretoria yesterday, and were given a splendid reception. The visitors spent a busy day, the principal ceremony being the ...
Article : 58 wordsDuring an interview which Sir George Reid had with the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, last month, on the subject of extending the Pacific cable by ...
Article : 346 wordsThe grand jury of Hudson County, New York, has returned a true bill in the indictment against J. J. Gallagher, who is charged with having shot, with intent to kill, Mr. ...
Article : 80 wordsAddressing a gathering of the Political Workers' Association yesterday, Mr. Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, disclaimed the role of a political missionary. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Duke of Marlborough said that when he interviewed Mr. Lloyd-George three years ago he did not suspect that he should become a target for his insolent ...
Article : 99 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—To mark the visit of the Commonwealth destroyers, Yarra and Parramatta, to Western Australia, a dinner was given by the Ministry at ...
Article : 606 wordsThe suffragettes who were arrested for breaking the windows of the Home Office on Thursday evening by way of protest against the conviction of their colleagues, ...
Article : 198 wordsThe floods in the Behring River, in Alaska, which were caused by the escape of water from a glacier, have subsided. Very few deaths have occurred, but search ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Fisher and Mr. George Fowlds will be entertained by the civic authorities at breakfast on their arrival this morning. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. A. Bonar Law, who is seeking to convert the electors of Lancashire to tariff reform, was asked an important question by a heckler on Friday night during a speech ...
Article : 111 wordsThe interesting discovery of a missing panel of tapestry belonging to the series in Hampton Court Palace, depicting the Seven Deadly Sins, was announced a few weeks ...
Article : 535 wordsThe Opposition party in the Dominion House of Commons, which is fighting the Government on its navy programme, has issued a challenge to Sir Wilfrid Laurier ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, in an election address, says that the House of Lords only obstruct the people's Parliament when in the ...
Article : 114 wordsMembers of engineering firms associated with the iron and steel trades' section of the Chamber of Manufactures were greatly surprised when they received a peremptory ...
Article : 659 wordsMr. A. Lyttelton, a Unionist leader, in a speech at Goole, denounced the Government for resorting to the stampede of an election in order to prevent the people from ...
Article : 65 wordsSir J. D. Rees, member for Montgomery Burghs, who lately seceded from the Liberal party, and is contesting the Flintshire seat as a Unionist, addressed ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. C. E. Hobhouse, Financial Secretary of the Treasury, has issued an election address. He says:—"Cowed by the Liberal triumph at the poll, the peers passed the ...
Article : 95 wordsFollowing upon a conference between the leaders of the South Wales strikers and Mr. G. R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade, a general conference is proposed to be held ...
Article : 116 wordsThe proposal made by Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, that a trial shipment of Australian meat should be sent to Austria-Hungary, where ...
Article : 111 wordsThe rebellion in Mexico is at an end, and transquility has been restored. All is quiet on the United States border. The insurgent leader, Madero, is missing. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Unionists are straining every nerve in the contest. The Anti-Socialist Union has despatched 150 speakers to deliver addresses throughout the country. ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Birrell, Secretary for Ireland, who was assaulted by suffragettes during the Downing-street scene of disorder, has been ordered by his medical attendants to take ...
Article : 101 wordsLord Rothschild, in a letter to the Jewish community of Manchester, urges them to vote for the Unionists. Personally, he states, he accepts Mr. Balfour's assurance ...
Article : 61 wordsA disquieting message regarding Russia's occupation of North-western Persia comes from Renter's agency at Teheran. It states that a body of 600 Russian troops is ...
Article : 75 wordsA serious riot took place yesterday between the garment-workers out on strike in this cily and the non-unionists who had filled their places. Three persons were shot ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Royal Mail Steam Packet Company of London is building six new steamers, to carry frozen meat between the Argentine and Liverpool. The vessels are to cost ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. George Lansbury, a Labour Socialist leader, who is contesting the Mile End seat, announces that the chief plank of his platform is "work or maintenance." ...
Article : 80 wordsAddressing a meeting at Edinburgh on Saturday, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, strongly opposed the House of Lords' proposal for the settlement of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe long hatpins worn by ladies at present are a menace in streets and crowded assemblies, and many cases of injury to people's faces and particularly to the eyes ...
Article : 74 wordsCommenting on the refusal of the billiard-table makers to whom young George Gray, the Australian billiard-player, is under contract in England to allow him to play ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) directed the attention of the Colonial Office recently to published statemetns to the effect that Auckland was to be chosen by ...
Article : 243 wordsSummary vengeance was inflicted upon a man named Richard To[?]el by the townspeople of Mayo, Florida. He was found in a woman's room, and was forthwith taken ...
Article : 41 wordsThe annual congress of the Committee of Union and Progress winch has been in session here recently, has issued colourless reports of its proceedings. It is believed that ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Unionist criticism of the Government on account of its numerous creations of peers has led to the Home Office issuing a return on the subject. From this it ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, leader of the Unionists in the House of Lords, spoke at Glasgow on Friday night. In the last four Liberal Administrations, ...
Article : 292 wordsJoseph Leek, late of Hyde-street, Yarraville, gentleman, who died on September l8 last, bequeathed by will dated August 17, 1908, estate valued at £2,377, consisting of £2,219 realty and £158 ...
Article : 154 words"Lloyd's Weekly News," which published a message to the public from the murderer Crippen shortly before his execution, prints this week facsimiles of Crippen's farewell ...
Article : 78 wordsA boxing match between Owen Moran, the British champion light-weight, and Battling Nelson, of Chicago, the former champion of the world, took place at San ...
Article : 77 wordsThe House of Commons sat for only two minutes on Friday. The brevity of the sittin upset the calculations of the peers, and when the clerk appeared in the Chamber ...
Article : 69 wordsPERTH, Sunday. — It was stated last night that the ironmoulders in the metropolitan area have given the necessary notice required by law that they have ceased ...
Article : 59 wordsThe match between Gray and Nelson, who is receiving 1,500 in a match of 4,500 was continued on Friday. The scores at the close of the day's play were— ...
Article : 82 wordsThe statute promulgated by the Oxford University Hebdomadal Council for the abolition of Greek as a compulsory subject in responsions has been considered by the ...
Article : 89 wordsOnly four members of the Scottish Agricultural Commission returned to Melbourne on Saturday, in accordance with arrangements, to resume their tour of this State ...
Article : 109 wordsStrong exception has been taken by Melbourne Tramway men to statements made by Mr. Catts, M.H.R., secretary of the Railway and Tramway Employees' ...
Article : 509 wordsSpeaking to Lord Lansdowne's reform resolutions in the House of Lords, Lord Courtney, a Liberal peer, declared that electoral reform of the House of Commons was ...
Article : 71 wordsSir George Reid, in an interview published by the "Standard," says he trusts that the Imperial Institute (which was founded by King Edward) will be made a ...
Article : 71 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—An unusually heavy thunderstorm passed over Pingelly and district at five minutes past 11 p.m. yesterday, wreeking a portion of the town. Rain fell ...
Article : 320 wordsSALE, Saturday.—His Excellency the State Governor (Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael) and party, accompanied by the mayor (Councillor Overend), Mr. Wise, ...
Article : 260 wordsThe nominations of the public service commissioner (Mr. M'Lachlan) for the positions of deputy commissioners under the Land Tax Assessment Act were received by the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe report and accounts of tho Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited for the year ended June 30 last show a profit of £119,386. A dividend of 5 per cent, is ...
Article : 71 wordsAn address was delivered last evening at the Malvern Presbyterian Church by Mr. William Barber, a member of the Scottish Agricultural Commission. The occasion was ...
Article : 171 wordsAttention was directed at the beginning of the month to the favourable treatment accorded by the Government to Irish hotelkeepers, who had been relieved of the duty ...
Article : 110 wordsThe White Cross League has addressed a letter to the editors of the London newspapers suggesting combined action, to minimise or suppress the details of divorce and ...
Article : 36 wordsInspector Christie recently obtained in formation which led him to keep a watch for consignments of merchandise from the East On November 17 he took charge ...
Article : 79 wordsA deputation of Dublin cardrivers has waited upon the Lord Lieutenant to protest against the introduction of taxi-cabs and motor omnibuses, as these would ruin the ...
Article : 53 wordsSpeaking at Liverpool on Friday night Sir E. H. Carson, Unionist member for Dublin University, said that the Government loathed to have their measures referred to ...
Article : 185 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—A telegram form Lagrange Bay states that 1,000 cattle and 50 horses were blown into the sea during the recent hurricane. All the windmills, houses, ...
Article : 95 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—The Scottish commissioners, in three parties made extensive tours yesterday in the southern districts. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Treasury is increasing the grant to universities and colleges, which now stands at £217,400, by £50,000. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe American Federation of Labour, which is holding its annual conference at St. Louis, yesterday agreed unanimously to endorse the principle of woman suffrage. ...
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Article : 53 wordsA raid was made last night on a New York club where gambling was being carried on. Seventy-nine persons were arrested. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 28 Nov 1910, Page 7
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