Further inquiries among the interstate shipping companies in regard to the proposed increase in coastal fares elicit that between Melbourne and Queensland ports ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Her Excellency Lady Dudley opened at the Town-hall to-day an exhibition of women's work in connection with the Girls' Realm Guild. The ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Imperial Education Conference opened it sitting at the Education Office yesterday. The only Australian States directly represented are New South Wales ...
Article : 412 wordsThe compromise on the education question has been adopted in the Union Parliament, and the strain caused by general Hertzog;s opposition, which it was feared. ...
Article : 309 wordsDr. Fridtjoy Nansen, the distinguished Arctic explorer, who was associated with Captain Amundsen in oceanographical work in the North Atlantic last year, writes to ...
Article : 291 wordsLetters received here from Fez give details of the shockingly brutal treatment practised by the Sultan Mulai Hafid on wounded prisoners captured from the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed to consider the problems of city and suburban rail traffic sat again yesterday at the State Parliament-house. Mr. Mackey, M.L.A., was ...
Article : 690 wordsEarly in January "The Times" announced that the new P. and O steamer Medina, which was shortly to be launched, might be used to convey King George and Queen ...
Article : 1,452 wordsThe latest news with regard to the progress of the siege of Fez is that the city has received a supply of food. A force of 800 auxiliaries of the Hayaina tribe, ...
Article : 107 wordsThe divisional totals which each census enumerator forwards to the Commonwealth statistician (Mr. Knibbs) as soon as he receives the cards from the collector and ...
Article : 351 wordsA recors school attendance has been attained by Grace Northausen, a pupil of the Rushworth State School. She has attended every school day from the day she ...
Article : 57 wordsGeneral Smuts's temporary bill to provide compensation for miners suffering from phthisis on a contributory basis has been read a third time in the Assemblky. ...
Article : 30 wordsHEATHCOTE, Wednesday.—Miss Frances Shale, daughter of Mr. W. Shale. of Heathcote, who left school recently, made a record attendance at the Heathcote State ...
Article : 66 wordsIt has transpired that failure by the Sultan to realise the seriousness of the situation led to a possibility of relieving Fez last week being lost. ...
Article : 217 wordsThe debate in committee of the House of Commons is proceeding upon clause 2 of the Parliament Bill. The application of the "Kangaroo" closure, which enables the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister for the Interior, General Smuts, yesterday withdrew the Immigrants' Restriction Bill. He expressed the hope that it would be possible to end passive ...
Article : 62 wordsWAGGA, Wednesday.—A young man named George Eisenhaner, a resident of Matong, was the victim of a shocking accident in distressing circumstances on ...
Article : 152 wordsRear-Admiral Kingsmill, whose services have been lent to the Canadian Government by the Admiralty in connection with the formation of a fleet, spoke at a banquet last ...
Article : 90 wordsDetective Burns who is responsible for the arrest of M'Namara, the union secretary, for alleged participation in the Los Angeles dynamite outrage has been ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Committee of Privileges has investigated a complaint against the Earl of Aberdeen (Viceroy of Ireland) of breach of the sessional order regirding elections by ...
Article : 81 wordsBALLARAT. Wednesdy.—Mr. S. J. Goldsmith. P.M., continued the inquiry to-day into the death of Harry Judd, whose body was found in the Gong Gong on Easter ...
Article : 187 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.—The census returns show that the population of Wellington and suburbs is 90,819. compared with 82,122 five years ago. ...
Article : 28 wordsTwenty second-class passengers by the R.M.S. Mooltan were released on surveillance from the Quarantine station yesterday. After a further study of the report ...
Article : 203 wordsAn investigation of the affairs of the Charing Cross Bank, which closed its doors in October last, has led to the prosecution of Alfred William Carpenter, its ...
Article : 155 wordsThe "Morning Post" declares that President Taft's arbitration proposals are a blind, put forward to divert attention in England from his true objective, which is ...
Article : 72 wordsPirates have looted the wreck of the steamer Asia, 4,680 tons (formerly the Doric), which lies southward of shanghai. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Albanian insurgents cast of Tuzi succeeded in leading several Turkish detachments into an ambush. The Turks lost 12 killed, and had many wounded. ...
Article : 33 wordsEight Hours Day in Melbourne has a full page of incidents devoted to it in this week's issue of "The Australasian". The procession passing Federal Parliament ...
Article : 727 words"Somewhere west of Sanset" is the playful description by the direction of Agriculture of the situation of a recent discovery of artesian water in the north-west mallee ...
Article : 350 wordsThe latest addition to the German navy is a class of submarine fitted with quickfiring guns, which will fire 19th, shells. They will thus be enabled to engage torpedo boat ...
Article : 62 wordsAn interesting report, dealing with the sensations of aviators at high altitudes, has been issued by the Academy of Sciences. The conclusions are based on investigations ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Democrats yesterday introduced in the House of Representatives the Farmers Free List Bill. Republican critics of the measure declared that it was so lossely ...
Article : 61 wordsThe eclipse of the son will take place on Saturday morning, not on Friday, as announced in "The Argus" yesterday. The confusion occurred owing to the fact that ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. John Murray, the well-known publisher, referring to the Canadian Copyright Bill, which requires printing within the Dominion, points out that the ...
Article : 170 wordsThe steamer Empire, of the Eastern and Australian line, which struck on a sandbank at Moji, after leaving Kobe on her voyage to Australia, has been floated off without ...
Article : 44 wordsHarold Hardwick, the New South Wales champion swimmer, who is one of the representatives selected by the Amateur Swimming Union of Australia to compete in the ...
Article : 175 wordsColonel Seely (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies), accompanied Mr. Grahame White, the famous aviator, in a flight at the Hendon avisition-grounds yesterday. ...
Article : 59 wordsMEREDITH, Wednesday.—Frederick Eberhert, of Morrisons, heard moans at 3 o'clock this morning, and, on looking out of his bedroom window, discovered his ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Lawn Tennis Association has invited America and South Africa to contest their preliminary round for the Davis Cup in England in Coronation week—the winners ...
Article : 44 wordsA sensation has been caused in German art circles by the announcement that a Bond-street firm has purchased from the widow of Franz von Leubach, of Munich, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsThe Australasian delegates to the Baptist Union were received with an ovation at the opening of the spring assembly of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland. ...
Article : 191 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The rope, nail, and barb-wire worker's strike was marked this week by an incident which has proved unpalatable to the agitators. Mr. J. ...
Article : 147 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Harcourt, Secreatary for the Colonics, stated that he was not aware of any improper recruiting of women ...
Article : 221 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Executive gave consideration to-day to the case of a man named Riddell, against whom the death sentence was recorded for wounding his wife ...
Article : 93 wordsThe shipment of Australian apples by the R.M.S. India was sold at auction yesterday. The fruit was rather wasty, and many cases were over-ripe. There was a ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the Footscray city Council meeting on Wednesday evening a letter was read from Mr. Mathews, M.H.R., in reply to the council's request that he should interest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Boris Senkovitch, the young Russian who was recently sentenced to death on being convicted at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsA cable message from King George, congratulating the President and people of the United States upon the celebration of the tercentenary of the Bible, was read ...
Article : 67 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Connolly) has deputed the under-secretary (Mr. T. D. North) to investigate a series of charges made against ...
Article : 92 wordsThe arrangements made to hold an "at home" on board the new Abordeen liner Themistocles at Port Melbourne this evening have unfortunately had to be cancelled ...
Article : 163 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Another long and dreary day was spent in the High Court today putting in documentary evidence in connection with the coal vend prosecution. ...
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Article : 176 wordsAn interesting entertainment will be given to-morrow night in the Masonic-hall in aid of the new surgical ward of the Children's Hospital by Miss Mand ...
Article : 91 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Ward v. Ward Bros (part heard). Practice Court. (Before Mr. Justice A'Beckett.) ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 27 Apr 1911, Page 8
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