On Saturday afternoon a drizzling shower fell from a sulky sky, but it proved to be the last effort of the depression, which was routed by the advance of ...
Article : 229 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Dudley gave a children's party on Christmas Eve at Government-house, during which the English ...
Article : 853 wordsThe hearing of the charges of seditious conspiracy against a large number of natives, which have been proceeding at Nasik for some time past, has now ...
Article : 243 wordsThe "Morning Post" to-day discloses what it believes to be the first move on the part of the Liberal Government to carry out its policy. The "Post" is ...
Article : 93 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—While they were bathing at Burleigh Heads this morning the tide carried Miss Ruby Orford, aged l8 years, a resident of Taringa, and a young ...
Article : 200 wordsIn March, 1909, a sensation was created in Austria by the publication of an article in the "Neue Freie Presse" by Dr. Friedjung, the well-known Austrian historian, in ...
Article : 174 wordsThe week his been marked by such a gruesome list of tragedies in England that it has been named "the Black Christmas of 1910." The most sensational have been ...
Article : 94 wordsMessages of condolence from the Governments of the Commonwealth of Australia and New South Wales have been published. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe relief fund already amounts to £17,000. His Majesty the King has given £500, Queen Mary £100, and Queen Alexandra £100. A subscription of £1,000 ...
Article : 108 wordsCommenting on the interview with Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, which was published in the Socialist newspaper "[?]Humanite," "The ...
Article : 87 wordsA dreadful railway collision occurred at Hawes Junction, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on Saturday night. A Midland Company's passenger express ...
Article : 430 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Three holidaymakers were drowned while bathing in the surf at Woonee, in Coff's Harbour district, this afternoon. Five of the bathers were ...
Article : 84 wordsSir,—The terrible explosion which occurred at the Hulton colliery, in Lancashire, where 350 men were entombed, apparently without hope of rescue, is one of ...
Article : 221 wordsReports of fighting continue to be received from Mexico. A body of insurgent scouts entered Chihuahua, and distributed circulars, announcing the intention of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe real holiday-making began yesterday. Boxing Day is the most Australian of all holidays. It shows the Australian picnicker in his most characteristic vein. It is the ...
Article : 408 wordsA correspondent of "Le Matin" has interviewed Mr. Lloyd-George, who is in the Riviera. In the course of the conversation, Mr. Lloyd-George repeated the statements ...
Article : 124 wordsGEELONG, Monday. — Last night William Kiddle, aged 27 years, single, residing with his father, a bootmaker, in Ryric-street, went with his father and brother ...
Article : 183 wordsThe men employed in the Powell-Duffryn mine, in the Aberdare Valley, who have been out on strike for several weeks, are now in a more conciliatory frame of mind. ...
Article : 58 wordsSeven hundred Mexicans have crossed the United States frontier into Texas, fleeing from the revolutionaries, who are committing serious excesses. Several more bridges ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Berlin newspapers adopt a moderate tone in their comments on the trial of Lieutenant Brandon and Captain Trench, who were sentenced to four years' imprisonment ...
Article : 104 wordsThe police authorities have taken measures to preserve for identification the body of Goldstein, the Russian who died from the wounds he received when the police ...
Article : 74 wordsFurther riots have occurred at Winnipeg, where the street car drivers and conductors are on strike. The strikers stoned the strike-breakers, and burned a street car. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Spectator," discussing the prospect of Home Rule in Ireland, urges Ulstermen, if the principle is adopted, to insist that north-east Ulster must remain ...
Article : 48 wordsThe dispute with engine-drivers on the Chicago and North-western Railroad lines has been settled in favour of the men. They obtain an all-round advance of wages. ...
Article : 32 wordsAnnie Bruce, aged 21 years, and Harry Harris, aged 19 years, residents of Stuartstreet, East Brunswick, were walking along the river bank at Eltham yesterday ...
Article : 134 wordsThe two Russians whom the police arrested in connection with the Houndsditch robbery and murders have been identified as having assisted Goldstein to reach his ...
Article : 63 wordsTwo petitions have been filed for the setting aside of elections. These are in the cases of North Louth, where Mr. Hazleton (Redmondite) beat Mr. T. M. ...
Article : 72 wordsA report on the recruiting of peasants for settlement in Victoria has been laid before the Council of Emigration, which has also heard details of the terms offered to ...
Article : 60 wordsThe senior officers of the United States Atlantic fleet, which is visiting England, were entertained last night at a banquet given by the Anglo-Saxon Club[?] Lord ...
Article : 116 wordsThe mystery surrounding the discovery of a woman's body in a basket was'soon cleared up by the police. A laundry basket left on a doorstep was found to ...
Article : 153 wordsErnest Bertram, a middle-aged man, was found dead on the White Horse road Mitcham, yesterday. His body was leaning over a bicycle, which was lying against ...
Article : 77 wordsThe mystery of the disappearance of Mr. Cecil Grace during his return flight from France has not been cleared up. Mr. Grace, who was competing for the prize of ...
Article : 141 wordsThere were as many while dresses along the beaches yesterday as there were vanishing white caps on the waves of the bay. In the afternoon the shouting of the ...
Article : 809 wordsA new departure in the direction of pure water supply has been undertaken at St. Petersburg. A factory is being established for supplying the city with water from the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe signalman in charge at Hawes, who has worked the points for 21 years, admits that he transferred the two engines from a branch line fo the main line in order to ...
Article : 117 wordsThe amalgamation of the Anglo-American and Western Union cable companies, which own nearly all the trans-Atlantic cables, is regarded by the "Morning Post" as an ...
Article : 65 wordsHORSHAM, Monday. — At the sports meeting at Green-park this morning a woodchopping contest excited keen interest. A competitor, named Carmichael, was just ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Assistant Postmaster-General of the United States (Mr. Grandfield) reports that there is need of an act of Congress subsidising contracts for ocean mail services to ...
Article : 43 wordsOne day this week was distinguished by a most remarkable outbreak of suicidal mania. No fewer than eight persons took their own lives. ...
Article : 116 wordsTwo railway collisions occurred yesterday in France, near Bordeaux, and the other at Montereau-Faut-Yonne. Altogether four passengers were killed and 00 injured. ...
Article : 31 wordsMrs. Paine, widow of an American copper "king," who alleges that she was defrauded of £40,000 which she entrusted to Mr. Daulby, alias Count D'Aulby Deglatini, ...
Article : 59 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The special train due to arrive at Zeehan on Christmas Eve met with an accident, and did not arrive until 7.20 next morning. It is believed ...
Article : 122 wordsA pilot who brought a vessel into port yesterday reports having passed a mass of spars and wires resembling an acroplane. It is feared that what he saw was the wresk ...
Article : 42 wordsFriedrich August Wenzlau, of Rosebery, retired farmer, died on October 26, leaving, by a will dated September 8, 1908, personalty of the value of £8,725, to his widow. ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Cincinnatti police have been investigating a remarkable jewellery robbery. It was reported that diamonds worth £2,000 had been taken from a jewellery ...
Article : 56 wordsA carriage containing nine people was being driven over a level crossing yesterday at Chateandun, near Chartres, when an express train dashed into it. Six of the ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Claude Grahame White, the leading British aviator, is organising a flying school. He is also preparing to construct larger and heavier aeroplanes, which will be capable ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsAn affecting disaster occurred on Christmas Eve at Bolsover, in Derbyshire. A party of children had spent the evening at a cinematograph exhibition. They were ...
Article : 119 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Saturday. — Owing to the exceptional traffic the evening trains from Castlemaine and Ballarat on Friday were over an hour late. A door of one of ...
Article : 79 wordsIn consequence of the number of petitions to the Throne received, recently, on Imperial edict has been issued sternly forbidding agitation in Parliamentary matters ...
Article : 85 wordsAnother serious accident arising from the inflammable nature of celluloid has occurred in Germany. An explosion took place in a factory where the manufacture of the ...
Article : 51 wordsJ. Radley, an English aviator, has won the quick-starting contest at the Los Angeles international aviation meeting. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe contest of 20 rounds which has been arranged between Bill Lang, of Australia, and Jack Burns, will take place at Olympia on Boxing Day. Lang is favourite in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Austro-Hungarian naval programme will be submitted to the Delegations on Wednesday. It comprises four Dreadnoughts, two of which will be completed in ...
Article : 61 wordsWELLINGTON, Monday.—The sculling championship of Australasia was rowed on the Wanganui River to-day. The contestants were Harry Pearce (12st. 8lb.), ...
Article : 362 wordsAn explosion of compressed hydrogen occurred yesterday at the Ijord Admiralty works. The building was wrecked, and three workmen were killed and 19, ...
Article : 36 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A shocking family tragedy occurred at Glebe early on Sunday morning. A quarrel between two brothers, Dennis James and William Arthur ...
Article : 340 wordsSo far 203 bodies have been recovered from the Hulpon colliery at Bolton, in Lancashire, in which 350 men were entombed by an explosion. Three-quarters of ...
Article : 265 wordsMonty Attell, who beat Billy Walsh, of Boston, in a match for the bantam-weight championship of the world last month, defeated Billy Wagoner yesterday at Suba, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French stemer Jeanne Consul was sunk yesterday in a collision with a Spanish steamer near Alican[?]. There were 27 persons on board the French steamer, but ...
Article : 41 wordsThe State Ministry has decided to appoint a representative in Great Britain to act as immigration and land settlement agent for Victoria. He will be attached to the ...
Article : 106 words"The Rock" has suffered severely as the result of the recent wet weather. The heavy rains have loosened about a thousand tons of the upper rock on the north ...
Article : 57 wordsIn response to the appeal made in "The Argus" by the Rev. Edmund F. Pelletier, of Maffra, we have received the following additional donations:— P., £1; "Solo," 12/6; M.N., 10/6; J. A. M'G., 5/; ...
Article : 45 wordsA disaster on board the steamer Ville Doran is reported. A powder chest exploded, killing 12 persons and injuring 15. ...
Article : 30 wordsFor the case of the young sailor apppealed for by the Rev. W. F. Haire, we have received 2/6 from C.F. ...
Article : 25 wordsROCHESTER, Monday.—Messrs. Carter and Connell, of Rochester, are engaged in the construction of a dozen houses for the Koyuga irrigation settlement, and expect to ...
Article : 69 wordsIn response to the appeal on behalf of the Alfred Hospital, we have received the following amounts:—A.A., 1/; C.M.S., 1/; Y.M., 1/; G.H., 1/; F.O., l/ M.S.S., 1/; M. Millar, 10/. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsTOORA, Saturday.— The gale which passed over central and southern Gippsland on Thursday last did a great deal of damage at Agnes River. Large trees were ...
Article : 94 wordsWe have received the following additional donations to Christmas charity:— From M.E.A., 10/ for the Orphan Asylum. From "Loch" 5/ for the Christmas cheer funds ...
Article : 111 wordsA rush from the city, such as has never before been seen by officers of the Railway department, was experienced on Saturday. From early morning till the last outgoing ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 27 Dec 1910, Page 7
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