A great sensation has been created in New York by the attempted assassination of the mayor, Mr. J. W. Gaynor. Mr. Gaynor had taken his passage for ...
Article : 841 wordsTwo murderous assaults on passengers were committed in railway trains yesterday in different parts of England. Mr. William Frost was travelling in a ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the "Daily Mail" confirms the news that was received in London yesterday stating that owing to the discovery of letters written ...
Article : 132 wordsROCKHAMPTON (Q.), Wednesday.— An attempt was made on Monday night to float the E. and A. Company's steamer Eastern, which went aground in the middle ...
Article : 201 wordsThird-reading debates are comparatively rare in the House of Representatives. It is only when a measure is of very great importance that the third reading is more ...
Article : 1,036 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A ghostly tragedy was enacted at a quarter past 11 o'clock this morning, in Hindley-street, Adelaide, when Arthur Hines, about 40 ...
Article : 564 wordsThe policy of the Harbour Trust in regard to wharfage construction and the question of port improvement generally was discussed at some length by the commissioners at ...
Article : 815 wordsBrowsing lazily amongst departmental estimates members of the Legislative Assembly spent a quiet hour after the opening yesterday. Several questions of more or ...
Article : 1,367 wordsQueen Alexandra (our London correspondent cables), who has been on a visit to the Continent has returned to England, and in staying at Sandringham. Her Majesty ...
Article : 751 wordsThe Marylebone Cricket Club announces that an All Indian Eleven will tour England in 1911. ...
Article : 19 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The damage to the French mail steamer Salazie, which became disabled near Jervis Bay when bound for Sydney, is of a nature which will take ...
Article : 338 wordsPitiable distress is witnessed in the mining districts of Southern Russia, where the ravages of cholera are most severely felt. Professor Rain, who has been sent to ...
Article : 100 wordsSurrey has given Northamptonshire a decisive boating in the county contest, by an innings and 90 runs. The Surrey bowler W. C. Smith had an average of 11 wickets ...
Article : 53 wordsThe atitude of Natal in declining to join the Unionist party in the South African campaign was dealt with by Dr. L. S. Jameson, the Unionist leader, in a speech at ...
Article : 340 wordsThe epidemic in Russia is especially severe amongst the working and rural classes. Owing to the prevalence of the disease men cannot be obtained to reap the ...
Article : 77 wordsA case of cholera has occurred at Ymuiden, a port of Holland. The victim has been shipped to St. Petersburg. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe V.A.T.C. Australian Hurdle Race day at Caulfield last Saturday is graphically dealt with in the pictorial pages of "The Australasian" of this week. A fine ...
Article : 849 wordsThe village of Bashgheniuk, in the Caucasus, was overwhelmed by a flood at midnight on Monday. Five hundred houses were inundated, and all their inmates were ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Government has received a communication from the United States Government, that it had been decided to present awards to ...
Article : 81 wordsSevere and disastrous floods have occurred in Japan at Shidzuoka, south of Tokio. The rivers rose to such heights that ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is 30 years since Dr. Graham Bell severed his active connection with the American telephone company known by his name. Since then he has watched the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsThough the Spanish Ambassador to the Vatican has been withdrawn, a charge d'affaires has been maintained. The presence of this functionary at the anniversary ...
Article : 63 wordsA scheme for the improvement of the oversea shipping facilities of the port was laid before the Minister of Public Works (Mr. Baillieu) yesterday, by Mr. A. G. ...
Article : 301 wordsThe mysterious occurrence at Potsdam, where three men approached the sentry on duty at the powder magazine, and on being challenged one shot him in the arm, has not ...
Article : 79 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr. Denny) to-day received the following telegram from the Government Resident at Port ...
Article : 59 wordsAccording to the Calcutta "Englishman," a group of native bankers at Bombay and Calcutta are attempting to establish a corner in silver. An unconfirmed report states ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Italian Ministry of Public Works has discovered evidence of systematic leakage of information which has probably cost the Government several millions of lire. ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In reference to the report from Port Darwin, Mr. Plate, the manager of the German line here, says that he has heard nothing of the matter, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe estate left by Mr. George Clunies-Ross, who was the complete ruler of the Cocos Islands, succeeding his father and grandfather in the ownership of the main ...
Article : 55 wordsBROKEN HILL, Wednesday.—The city council last night, after considerable discussion, decided to immediately discontinue the People's Pictures at the town-hall. The ...
Article : 46 wordsThe International Miners' Congress, which is sitting at Brussels resolved yesterday that inspectors of mines should be elected by the workmen, and paid by the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe zeal exhibited by Constable Cross, a recruit in the police force at Narragansett, Rhode Island in raiding a fashionable gambling club, has been explained. Cross ...
Article : 51 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The record for large families is claimed for Black Springs, a farming centre in Oberon, west of the Blue Mountains. Within a radius of five ...
Article : 80 wordsFrank Beaurepaire, the Victorian swimmer, lowered two records yesterday at Exeter. In a continuons swim he covered 200 metres in 2min. 30sec., 300 yards in 3min. ...
Article : 168 wordsThe memorandum issued by the War Office on the subject of the training of cadets is criticised by Lord Dundonald, one of the representative peers for ...
Article : 163 wordsThe list of questions to be asked in the census papers in April next has been practically settled by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley), and will be ...
Article : 196 wordsThe condition of the United States wheat crop is reported by the Washington correspondent of "The Times." He says that the Government reports show that fair ...
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Article : 130 wordsAt to-day's auction sales of Australasian tallow 2,280 casks were offered and 998 casks were sold. Prices were as follows:— Fine mutton, 37/9; medium mutton, 35/; ...
Article : 42 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Geelong Harbour Trust Commissioners v. Maritime Insurance Company (part heard). Practice Court. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 11 Aug 1910, Page 7
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