The proposal for a new Atlantic cable from Scotland to Labrador, via Iceland and Greenland, which was lately put forward by Sir George Reid in a conversation ...
Article : 237 wordsApplication was yesterday made for the exhumation of the bodies of Annie and Alma Moodie, sisters of Olive Amelia Moodie, who is now in the Melbourne Gaol, ...
Article : 356 wordsCrowded as each day has been with important functions, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, who were accompanied by the Princess Patricia. fulfilled more ...
Article : 154 wordsThe steamer Mamari, of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion line, leaves for Australia on Thursday with a shipload of assisted immigrants. She has been chartered by the ...
Article : 51 wordsAll sorts of prophecies are being indulged in regarding the fate which will await the s.s. Papanui and her master should she put out to sca, despite the prohibition of the ...
Article : 517 wordsBefore dinner hour yesterday there were three divisions in the Legislative Assembly. In the first and third Ministerial members voted against the Labour party, in the ...
Article : 732 wordsThe announcement is cabled from London by our correspondent, of the marriage of Miss Fanny Dango, the comedienne, who is so well known in Australia through her ...
Article : 1,138 wordsPolling will toke place on Saturday next, the first dat of the elections, in 55 divisions, including Birmingham (seven divisions), Bristol (four divisions), Manchester (six ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who represents the Rossendale Division of North-East Laneashire, is indisposed, and is confined to his bed. His ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Lloyd-George addressed two meetings at Cardiff yesterday, each of which was attended by 5,000 persons. Several newspapers on the Continent have ...
Article : 146 wordsAs the result of a suggestion made by the New Zealand Government, the Children's Employment Committee of Liverpool his selected 25 youths for shipment to the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe steamer Geelong is expected to arrive in Melbourne this morning with 113 immigrants, who have booked through the office of the Agent-General in London. They ...
Article : 114 wordsAn important speech wns delivered by Mr. Balfour, leader of the Unionist party, at the Albert-hall last night, before a gathering of 11,000 people. Prior to the delivery ...
Article : 430 wordsThe natives of India, living in South Africa, have written to the Duke of Connaught, expressing regret that owing to the non-compliance of the Union with their ...
Article : 70 wordsSpeaking at Hull on Monday evening, Lord Curzon challengcd conipinson between his own and Mr. Lloyd-George's life work. He would sooner, he said, cut off his hand ...
Article : 45 wordsThe expedition for the discovery of the South Pole orgunised by Lieutenant Shirase, a retired naval officer, started yesterday on board the schooner Kainnam Maru, a ...
Article : 82 wordsThe establishment of a system of deferred messages, which was suggested by Mr. A. S. Baxendale, London manager of the Pacific Cable Board, is receiving a good ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. Fisher (Prime Minister of the Commonwealth) and Mr. Fowlds (New Zealand Minister for Education) were entertained at a civic luncheon shortly after their ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, was given a warm reception yesterday at Colchester, which turned Unionist at the last election. He was pelted with rotten ...
Article : 76 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The authorities of Cornwall have been endeavouring to discover the relatives of Mrs. Patrick O'Connor, who died recently at Illogan ...
Article : 578 wordsA great sensation has been created in Hungary by the exposures made in connection with a remarkable scries of blackmailing operations carried on by a ...
Article : 164 wordsCommander Peary was interviewed yesterday regarding the possibility of his taking any further part in polar research. He replied that his work in the Arctic was ...
Article : 204 wordsLord Burghclere, in a letter in the press, protests against the passing of a bill to enact the supremacy of one House by a bare majority, without appeal. ...
Article : 101 wordsAt their meeting yesterday the Harbour Trust commissioners discussed their position in regard, to the Papanui. Much amusement was caused by a remark ...
Article : 175 wordsA disorderly scene occurred yesterday in the Dominion House of Commons, where a keen debate on the Government's naval policy is in progress. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian," one of the leading provincial Liberal organs, contends that the adoption of the House of Lords reform resolutions would give the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe story of a terrible duel between husband and wife, in which the husband was killed, was revived yesterday, when the woman, Madame Marie Remonda, was ...
Article : 206 wordsAn invention which will greatly increase the efficiency of submarines has been devised by an officer of the Greek navy. It consists of a machine for renewing the air ...
Article : 57 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The s.s. Taiyuan was to have left for Melbourne to-day, but it was found necessary to put the steamer into dock for "sighting" purposes. She is ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The hearing of the action in which Captain John Strahan claims £5,000 for alleged slander from Dr. George Irmer, German Consul at Sydney, ...
Article : 563 wordsThe Unionist newspapers are delighted with Mr. Balfour's utterances. "The Times" remarks:—"His opponents thought that Mr. Balfour lacked courage te submit ...
Article : 190 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the course of a speech in Committee of Supply of the Legislative Assembly, Colonel Onslow (Opposition) read a copy of a letter which he said ...
Article : 772 wordsParticulars of the legislation for the prevention of strikes which the French Government intends to introduce as the outcome of the recent railway strike have been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsMr. R. O. Blackwood's letter in "The Argus" of Tuesday with reference to the special grant made in the Federal Parliament last week to Messrs. Chanter and ...
Article : 417 wordsFor the year ending October 31 the number of Alpine climbers in Switzerland who lost their lives by falls and other mishaps was 90, whilst 80 were severely injured. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe difficulty foreseen by the "Morning Post" is raised by the "Daily Chronicle." It says:—"If a referendum does not involve a change of Government, then good-bye to ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is probable that the deputy land tax commissioners (one for each State) will be appointed at a meeting of the Federal Cabinet, to be held to-morrow. The chief ...
Article : 249 wordsAfter trial by court-martial, a soldier who had been caught interfering with n telegraph line during the French railway strike was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsMr. Lloyd-George's statement that a referendum would cost £2,000,000 is much traversed. One estimate is that, reckoned on the proportion of the cost in ...
Article : 74 wordsThe statement that Tolstoi had renounced the rights of publication of his works is not borne out by his will. In this document, which is dated July 5, he leaves all the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe proceedings against M. Duez, a wellknown Paris business man, who was arrested in March last on a charge of misappropriating funds belonging to French ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsMichael O'Connor, of Pistoria, farmer, who died on August 26, left by a will dated January 14, 1909, realty valued at £3,702 and personalty £854, to his widow and children. ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Asquith issued in address to the electors yesterday. He says, "The appeal to the country is narrowed down to the single issue—'Are the people, through ...
Article : 192 wordsA serious famine has occurred in the northern Anhwei province. Three million people are affected. The famine extends over a wider area than that of 1907, but its effects ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsThe official reports from Mexico that the revolution was at an end are denied by the followers of Madero, the leader of the insurgents. They assert that hundreds of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Telegrams from Broome state that the repairing of the damage caused by the recent cyclone is proceeding rapidly since the Federal ...
Article : 152 wordsGeorge Gray, the young Australian billiard champion, has made another sensational performance. Playing against Nelson at Newcastle, he made a break of 950, ...
Article : 42 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.—As the outcome of a public meeting held to consider the establishment of new industries in the city of Bendigo, a boot and shoe factory, ...
Article : 163 wordsArrangements are proceeding for a match between William Albany and Ernest Barry for the English sculling championship. The contest will probably take place in May ...
Article : 34 wordsThe pensions commissioner (Mr. Allen) has circulated throughout the Commonwealth about 90,000 application forms for claimants of old-age and invalid pensions. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe proceeds of the juvenile fancy ball organised by the mayoress of Prahran (Mrs. Rupert Nicolson) and a large committee in aid of the Children's Hospital ...
Article : 61 wordsTen vessels have foundered as the result of a severe storm at Astrakhan, near the mouth of the Volga. Their crews all went down with them. The gale also destroyed ...
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Advertising : 180 wordsAn election address has been issued by Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He says that the House of Lords as at present constituted is not ...
Article : 123 wordsTwo ladies, Miss Georgina Jones and Miss Josephine Black, who reside at 99 Mathoura-road, Toorak, were victimised by thieves on Monday afternoon. During the ...
Article : 90 wordsAn exhibition and sale of dolls will be opened in the Malvtrn Town-hall to-morrow. Many beautifully-dressed dolls, representative of all kinds of characters, ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Wade (leader of the Opposition) gave notice of his intention to move:— ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 1 Dec 1910, Page 7
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