A working agreement has practically been arrived at between the Australian Steamship-owners' Association and the Waterside Workers' Federation, covering a period ...
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Article : 1,671 wordsOver 150 bodies have been recovered at the Hulpon colliery at Bolton, in Lancashire, where the disastrous explosion took place. The only survivor was a boy, who[?] as ...
Article : 309 wordsAn audacious robbery was perpetrated in the Bank of New South Wales, Collinsstreet, during one of the busiest periods of yesterday, when Mrs. Elizabeth M. Clark, ...
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Article : 188 wordsThe public interest in the sad fate of the three policemen murdered by the Russian robbers in Houndsditch was exhibited today when the victims were given a public ...
Article : 241 wordsFears are entertained for the safety of Mr. Cecil Grace, a well-known English airman, who crossed the Channel yesterday in a competition for the prize offered by Baron ...
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Article : 313 wordsMr. S. F. Cody, of the British Army Aeronautical Corps, established a British record yesterday by flying 120 miles in 170 minutes. ...
Article : 26 wordsHubert Latham, the famous French aviator, delighted the people of Los Angeles yesterday. He made an aeroplane flight, and shot ducks while aloft. In the ...
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Article : 49 wordsNothing further is to be done either by the Australasian Steammship-owners' Association or the Federated Seamen's Union in connecting with the difficulty that has ...
Article : 244 wordsThe flotilla of the Brighton Yacht Club, moored near the Middle Brighton Pier, received a seven buffecting from the breakers during the week. The gale was at its ...
Article : 304 wordsThe intention which is attributed to Holland of transforming Flushing into a fortified position, commanding the entrance to the Scheldt, is regarded with anxiety by ...
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Article : 242 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. Winston Churchill) has taken steps to supply the police with revolvers of the most modern pattern. The weapons will be kept at ...
Article : 42 wordsThe decision of the Continental Seamen's Unions at their late conference, favouring an international strike in April or May of next year, was discussed yesterday at a ...
Article : 59 wordsPrior to the Bolton explosion, Professor Albin Belar, director of the Laibach Observatory, warned Continental miners of a seismic unrest, which threatened, to liberate ...
Article : 37 wordsThe English newspapers generally, in their comments on the ease, view the sentences with equanimity, and, acknowledge that espionage is common to all the powers. ...
Article : 33 wordsA reward of £500 is offered for information leading to the arrest of any of the gang which committed the crimes. ...
Article : 25 wordsA feature of the newly-clected House of Commons is the increase of members who belong to the Nonconformist of Free Church bodies. No fewer than 134 are members ...
Article : 41 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £22,670,000, against £25,539,000 for the previous weeks, the proportions of liabilities being 46.35 per cent., against 50 per cent, ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) has asked the Governor-General to convey, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the widows and families of the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe miners employed in the Powell-Duffryn mine have maintained an irreconcilable attitude since the beginning of the dispute in the South Willes coal industry, but, ...
Article : 53 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—The opposition manifested by certain members of the Trades and Labour Council towards the secretary, Mr. W. Hurdsfield, resulted in a ...
Article : 201 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has been attacked by a section of the Parisian press during the election campaign, is in Paris. ...
Article : 183 wordsExcavations at Pompeii, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., have led to the discovery of the petrified body of a woman who had been overwhelmed by ...
Article : 97 wordsChalles Anderson left Port Melbourne for Mordialloc in a small dinghy on Wednesyday. As he did not arrive at his destination fears were entertained for his safety. ...
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Article : 64 wordsThe Cunard liner Mauretania has broken all records in the return passage from Liverpool to New York. She has accomplished the trip from Liverpool to New York and ...
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Article : 443 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bank bills in London is 3 11-16 per cent., or thirteen-sixteenths per cent below the Bank rate of 4½ per cent. ...
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Article : 40 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has ratified the Franco-Japanese Convention for the mutual protection of trade marks in China. Approval has also been given of the convention ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—The magnanimous response to my appeal has exceeded the most sanguine expectations. Subscriptions have poured in from all sections of the community, and ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe Imperial Assembly has memorialised the Throne in favour of the severest punishment, short of death, being inflicted on opium smokers, and also of rewards being ...
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Article : 77 wordsThe gales have had a disastrous eff[?] upon some of the campers on the foreshore at Mordialloc and Aspendale. In many instances tents have been bloown away, and ...
Article : 70 wordsThe New South Wales Agency-General is shipping to the State Government by the steamer Pera 25 stud bulls and cows, mostly of milking strains. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following were the highest and lowest prices on the Stock Exchange to-day for the shares mentioned below:— Waihi, £5/10/— £5/12/6. ...
Article : 43 wordsA horrifying discovery was made here yesterday. A laundry-basket which had been left on a doorstep was opened, and was found to contain the remains of a woman, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 277 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Owing to the distress in portion of the Newcastle district, due to the closing down of the Killingworth Colliery, a deputation recently asked the ...
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Article : 99 wordsThe inquiry into the smuggling of opium and stowaways into Canada fiom Chinese ports, was continued yesterday. The evidence revealed the existence of a vast ...
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Article : 107 wordsThe Malta Legislature has adopted the metric system of weights and measures. Malta is the first of the British dependencies to do so. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 24 Dec 1910, Page 13
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