ADELAIDE, Thursday.—There has been an exciting day in connection with the drivers' strike. The intimation that the conference last night had failed roused ...
Article : 1,029 wordsThe Union Government is about to introduce a bill to prohibit the granting of a mail contract to any shipping combination whose operations are detrimental to South ...
Article : 63 wordsA sentence of two years' hard labour was passed in the Criminal Court yesterday by Mr. Justice Hodges upon David Morgan Edwards, 21 years of age, who, at the ...
Article : 534 wordsThe idea of any limitation of armaments by Germany as the result of international agreement was deprecated by Furst Von Hatzfeldt, a deputy from Breslan, in the ...
Article : 93 wordsA glance at the post-card windown where nine cards out of ten bear the word "Christmas" is a sufficient reminder that December 25 is but a few days ahead. The samples ...
Article : 913 wordsPolling in connection with the general election is almost completed. With 583 seals filled, the Ministerial "bloc" has a majority of 79. It must, therefore, obtain ...
Article : 182 wordsOn the consideration in the Legislative Assembly last evening of the estimates of the department of the Treasurer, serious charges were made in connection with the ...
Article : 1,144 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General on Thursday afternoon, at Government-house, presented engraved purtraila of his late Majesty King Edward VII. to ...
Article : 651 wordsPeter Duckworth, a magistrate, and also a prominent trade union official in the Darwen Division of Lancashire, has been committed for trial on the charge of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following list indicates the seats won by the various parties, and specifies those divisions which changed at the election of January last, and have since reverted to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsSuccess is attending the efforts of the Government troops to clear the Mexican State of Guerrero of the organised resistance of revolutionists. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Miners' Conference at Cardiff has decided that the Aberdare strikers should resume work immediately, pending consideration of their grievances by the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsThe result of the ballot by the boilermakers upon the question of the acceptance of the agreement proposed by the conference of both sides at Edinburgh is:—For ...
Article : 60 wordsNews from Rio de Janeiro, the scene of two dangerous mutinies lately, has been rigidly censored. The Brazilian legation in London, however, is informed that the ...
Article : 67 wordsSir John Taverner (Agent-General for Victoria) paid a visit to the Ashford Cattle Show yesterday, and was a guest at the show dinner. ...
Article : 77 wordsAn analysis of the returns shows that the Unionists in Lancashire polled 47 per cent. of the votes polled compared with 43 per cent. in January. The Liberals polled ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsAn extraordinary series of accidents happened yesterday in Seattle Harbour during a fog. The steamer Kitsap collided with a launch and sank her, one man on board ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsThe deputy Government analyst (Mr. C. E. A. Price) has discoverd arsenic in the bodies of Annie and Alma Moodie, sisters of Olive Amelia Moodie, who is at present ...
Article : 298 wordsThe shipbuilding industry in Glasgow at present shows almost unprecedented briskness. The vessels on the stocks include 20 battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsThe Bedouin tribesmen, who last week captured the town of Kerak, near the Dead Sea, and massacred the garrison and 100 Christians, have been dislodged by Turkish ...
Article : 56 words"Tommy" Burns, formerly champion heavy-weight boxer of the world, has been severely injured in an interurbau tramway collision at Seattle. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsThe British Admiralty has let a contract for the construction of in improved Dreadnought, which is to be of 24,000 tons displacement. The vessel will cost £2,000,000. ...
Article : 103 wordsSir Edward Clarke, the well-known barrister, who formerly represented Plymouth in the Conservative interest, commented yesterday upon the even balance of parties ...
Article : 118 wordsWidespread horror has been expressed at the cruelties shown towards political prisoners at Zarantin, in Siberia, and Vologda, in North-eastern Russia. Several ...
Article : 104 wordsA lively disturbance was caused at the workhouse at Sutton, Surrey, yesterday, owing to the dissatisfaction of the inmates with the menu. Seventy of them refused ...
Article : 68 wordsBy his will, dated August 3, 1910,Joseph Crombie, of Waterhem, farmer, who died on October 13, 1910, left property valued at £1,384 realty and £902 personalty to his relatives. ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie, the well-known multi-millionaire ironfounder,has given 10,000,000dol. (about £2,000,000) to an institution founded at Washington for the ...
Article : 82 wordsArrangements are being made at the General Post-office to cope wtih heavy mail traffic at Christmas. The Deputy Postmaster-General (Mr. C. E. Bright) and the ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the Prahran Court yesterday, before Messrs. Chambers (chairman), Flintoft, Curwen-Walker, and Tyner, J.P.'s, S. Kersner, time-payment clothier, sued Olive ...
Article : 157 wordsThere are indications that a large section of the Unionists regret Mr. Balfour's promise that if the Unionists were placed in power thev would submit the question ...
Article : 199 wordsA severe earthquike shock was experienced at Glasgow yesterday. The tremors were so violent that buildings in the city were shaken, and bells were rung in the ...
Article : 37 wordsA broken rail on a bridge crossing a river near the town of Davie (Oklahoma) was the cause of a serious disaster yesterday. Not knowing of the danger ahead, the ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Legislative Assembly held another all-night sitting and passed the estimates of the Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice. The ...
Article : 407 wordsTwelve months ago a decree nisi was granted at the conclusion of the hearing of the evidence in a divorce case, in which the parties were Mr. and Mrs. Pretty. It ...
Article : 173 wordsAn earthquake shock which has been experienced on the Island of Zanzibar has had the effect of breaking four of the submarine cables to Durban. ...
Article : 35 wordsMembers of the Melbourne Cricket Club will regret to learn that Major B. J. Wardill has tendered his resignation as secretary. Major Wardill has been secretary of ...
Article : 218 wordsCAIRNS, Thursday.—The s.s. Perthshire arrived to-day with a large number of immigrants. An interesting wedding took place on board. The immigration agent had ...
Article : 134 wordsThe inquiry by the Board of Trade into the circumstances surrounding the loss of the Lund liner Waratah was opened to-day. ...
Article : 94 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—A long meeting of employers was held this afternoon to consider the situation. As a preliminary resolution it was decided that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 12 wordsThe lowest and highest prices on the Stock Exchange yesterday for the stocks mentioned were as follows, and the middle prices may be computed from the quotations ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Prime Minister, in a speech at Glossop, Derbyshire, yesterday, replied to the charge made by the Unionists, that Ministers had waited until a late stage of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe deparmental inquiry into the cause of the Richmond railway disaster, which occurred on July 18, will be opened at the Railway-offices, Spencer-street, on Tuesday. ...
Article : 177 wordsWe have received a Christmas charity donation of £5 from H.M.S., who desires the amount distributed as follows:—Homes for Aged and Infirm, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, ...
Article : 74 wordsThe price of Consols has improved to 79?, as compared with Thursday's quotation of 79. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Northern Rugby Union offers the Australian Rugby League, if it will send a team to England for next season, 70 per cent. of the gross gates for club matches ...
Article : 59 wordsThe police have arrested two men at Lambeth on suspicion of being connected with the robbery at St. George's Catholic Cathedral in Southwark. The men had in their ...
Article : 51 wordsThe South Australian Company has declared a dividend of 30/ per share. ...
Article : 23 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—The manager of a large mine at Eaglehawk paid an unexpected visit to one of the engine-houses on Wednesday night. He found that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsTallow.—At to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 361 casks were offered, and 275 casks were sold. Prices were as follow:—Fine mutton, 39/ per cwt.; medium ...
Article : 171 wordsA sad fate has overtaken Mr. Neil Keith, a leading Canadian contractor. He has been frozen to death at Moosejaw, in the Assiniboia district, over 300 miles west of ...
Article : 38 wordsThe letter written by the Earl of Aberdeen (Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland), in which be declared that there was no need to regard the prospect of Home Rule with alarm, ...
Article : 107 wordsHoward Smith Company Limited notify that the s.s. Wollowra will not receive any cargo for Adelaide, owing to the strike of carters, and the consequent block of ...
Article : 39 wordsBENDIGO, Thursday.—An important transaction has been made in connection with the mining interests in the estate of the late Mr. George Lansell. ...
Article : 153 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday.—The engine and portion of the train of trucks that runs every Thursday to Tarrawingee from Broken Hill ran off the line near ...
Article : 105 wordsA terrific explosion has occurred in the Green coal mine at Tacoma, in Virginia. Twenty-two miners were killed outright, and 20 remain still entombed. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is intended by the City Council to have considerable alterations made to the interior of the Town-hall buildings. Plans have been prepared for the work, which is ...
Article : 41 wordsReferring yesterday to the proceedings which the Commonwealth has instituted against the coal vend, the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said that the ...
Article : 125 wordsA match will be commenced on the Melbourne Cricket-ground at noon to-day between teams representing Victoria and Queensland. The Victorian team will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsThe committee of the King Edward Hospital Fund are making arrangements for the distribution of the sum of £155,000, which has been contributed during the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsThe re-election of Dr. Chapple for Stirlingshire, and of Mr. Eugene Wason, and his brother, Mr. J. C. Wason, for Clarkmann and Kinross, and for Orkney and ...
Article : 96 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Chamber business. BANCO COURT. (Before Mr. Justice A'Beckett.) At Half-past 10.—Howard Smith v. Tait. ...
Article : 109 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—A bill enabling the Mt. Balfour Copper Company to build a railway from Stanley to Mt. Balfour was passed to-night. The line will be of ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-day's auction sales:—Beauchamp Brothers, at their rooms, Collins-street, household furniture; Campbell and Sons, at Kirk's Bazaar, horses; Tuckett and Styles, at their art gallery, ...
Article : 118 wordsSTAWELL, Thursday.—A human skeleton in a fair state of preservation has been unearthed on the sandhills at Warra Warra, near the Wimmera River. The remains are ...
Article : 35 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company Limited.— "Tallow.—Prices are unaltered since our last ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. W. C. Miller (ex-president of the Melbourne Typographical Society) has been selected by the branches of the Political Labour Council in the Jika electorate to ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Lord Mayor of Sydney states that the estimated cash surplus for the year after the discharge of all liabilities, will be £20,000. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 16 Dec 1910, Page 7
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