A bursting dam, which, however, has not resulted in such overwhelming destruction and loss of life as that which obliterated the towns of Austin and Costello, in ...
Article : 138 wordsQUEENSTOWN, Sunday.—Despite the fact that 400 people have left Mount Lyell during the past fortnight, in consequence of the idleness into which the district has ...
Article : 1,407 wordsIt is claimed by the Italians that they sparcd the inhabitants of Tripoli and their house during the bombardment, by firing only on the forts. ...
Article : 117 wordsA serious dispute in the North of England is threatened as the result of a conflict of employers and workers. Because two non-unionists refused to join ...
Article : 111 wordsHis Excellency the Gobvernor, attended by Captain Curwen, was present at the V.R.C. meeting at Flemington on Saturday afternoon. ...
Article : 1,388 wordsThe V.R.C. Steeplechase at Flemington on Saturday was a most remarkable event. There were 10 starters, and each fell, stopped, or ran off. At one period of the ...
Article : 630 wordsThe conflicting reports as to the monarchical rising in the north of Portugal make it difficul to gauge the strength of the movement against the Republic. During the ...
Article : 260 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—For some time Superintendent Beek, Sergeant M'Kenna, Detective Murfaley (of Melbourne), and Mr. L. Timanus (the special detective ...
Article : 489 wordsThe General Federation of Trade Unions has issued a circular dealing with various labour questions of the moment. As a preliminary, it is declared that the hostility ...
Article : 165 wordsHome Rule for Ircland is the live poitical subject of the bour. The intentions of the Government with respeet to the Home Rule Bill are not known exactly, but the ...
Article : 204 wordsThe official account of the occupation of Tripoli states that after the sailors from the bombarding fleet had been landed at the Sultanich fort a number of Arabs from the ...
Article : 222 wordsExtraordinary reports are in circulation conccrning the monarehieal movement in Portugal, A persistent rumour is that the royalists have secured the battle-ship ...
Article : 114 wordsThe congress of the Miners' Federation, now in session at Southport, which decided yesterday to support the demend of the Northumbrian miners for the minimum ...
Article : 101 wordsWith the military honours due to the Chief of the General Statf of Australia, and with the human regret due to the memory of a kindly personality and a good ...
Article : 840 wordsThe leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons (Mr. Arthur Balfour) was the principal speaker at a political meeting at Haddington, in Scotland, last ...
Article : 332 wordsThe 500 dockers at Deptford, who went out ten days ago, alleging that the masters were not carrying out the terms of Sir Albert Rollit' award, have resumed work, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Republican Government has made the official announcement that the new monarchist invasion has been nipped in the bud. The battle-ship Vasco de Gama has arrived ...
Article : 100 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The members of the new Labour Ministry were selected at a cancus meeting at Parliament-house on Saturday. 33 members being present, ...
Article : 686 wordsVice-Admiral Aubry, who was detached from the Tripoli squadron to watch for the Turks, in the Egean Sea, and subsequently to bombard Benghazi, and Derna, if their ...
Article : 97 wordsThe strike of timber workers in Dublin, which led to the railway strike, through the railway men refusing to handle non-union timber, has been settled. All the men who ...
Article : 53 wordsRioting continues in connection with the strike on the Harriman railway lilnes, At New Orleans eight "strike-breakers" who had filled the places of strikers were ...
Article : 85 wordsEx-King Manocl is still at Richmond, where he has been in residence since he left Portugal. He visited London for a few hours during the week, and this gaven rise ...
Article : 59 wordsThe offficial statement is made that the Turkish forts at San Giovanni di Medua, on the Albanian coast, opened fire treacherously on an Italian vessel. which was tlying ...
Article : 137 wordsChingia, the capital of the province of Szeehuan, in which the agitation of the natives against the Government's railway policy, as embodied in the "Four Nations" ...
Article : 184 wordsSir Charles Lawes Wittewronge, Bart., sculptor, died in England on Friday, aged 68 years. The deceased baronet won fame in ...
Article : 505 wordsAs a precaution against the Turkish troops in Yemen being conveyed across the Red Sea, in pursuance of a threat to atttack the Italian colony of Eritrea, Italian torpedo ...
Article : 77 wordsThe election of a representive in the House of Commons for North Tyrone, necessitated by the appointement of the previous member, Mr. Redmond Barry, to the ...
Article : 98 wordsAccording to the Sicily correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," Britain was not the only power informed of the intention of Italy to seize Tripoll, as was stated by the ...
Article : 105 words"Beaumont" (Lieutenant Conncau), not content with his recent succssses when be won the "Daily Mail" Circuit of Britain avition race, worth £10,000 and the ...
Article : 118 wordsThere has been an extraordinary epidemic of triple tragedies in England during the past few days. On Tuesday the bodies of Mr. Weir, the widow of a collicry manager, ...
Article : 208 wordsThe modern tendency, especially in Low and Broad Church cireles, to drop the doctine of the Resurrection of Christ from religious teaching except at Eastertide, ...
Article : 152 wordsThe long-distance international halloon race, which began on Thursday, has been somewhat of a failure. No fewer than seven of the starters, who represented the ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearee) made the following reference on Saturday to the death of Sir John hoad:— ...
Article : 159 wordsThe late Minister for Works (Mr. Daglish), who was defeated at the recent elections, has nominated for the vacancy in the Merropolitan-Suburball province of the ...
Article : 36 wordsA meeting of the friends and supporters of Mr. Swinburne, M.L.A., will be held at Glenferrie-house this evening at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 32 wordsJohn Finlaysoh, of Alexandra-parade, Abbofsford, gentleman, who died on Aughtst 16, left by will dated December 16. 19[?] al estate valued at £3,500 and penonal propely vatued at £1,331 ...
Article : 397 wordsZEEHAN, Sunday.—The Federated Enginedrivers' and Firemen's Associations's combined branches held a meeting to-night at Queenstown, at the colse of which Mr. ...
Article : 88 wordsSir, Kindly allow me to invite public attention to the terrible distress which has overtaken the family of one of our railway employees. John Thomas Lowe, He was ...
Article : 407 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—Councillor G. W. Knight has been selected as the Liberal eandidate for Bendigo East. His name will be forwarded to the central exceutive for ...
Article : 36 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday.—A tragedy has occurred at the Mental Asylum, at Porirua, but details have not been received. All that is known is that one patient killed ...
Article : 45 wordsThe chairman of the finance committee (Lord Barnard) advocatted the introduction in England of a scheme of church support that had proved popular in Canada ...
Article : 77 wordsThe candidature of Mr. S. Reyynolds, of Warburon, for the Walhalla seat was endorsed at the meeting of the eentral exeeutive of the political Labour Council on ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received cable messages of regret at the death of Sir John Hoad and of a sympathy with Lady Hoad from the ...
Article : 109 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier and his Ministers, who were defeated at the general elections, have resigned. The Governor-General (Earl Grey) has sent for the leader of the ...
Article : 61 wordsAt Half-past 10. Steggants v. J[?]ke. COMMONWEALTH ARBITRATION COURT. Second Civil Court. (Before the President, Mr. Justice Higgins.) ...
Article : 228 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—The recmnmendation of the exceutive council of the Minier's Association to strike a levy of 5/ a member came up for the consideration of the ...
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Article : 78 wordsALBURY, Sundya.—The news on MajorGeneral Hoad's death occasioned profound legret in Albury, where he spent his childhood and uarly manbood. During a band ...
Article : 182 wordsHir Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, unele of King George, left London on Friday to assume the dutice of his new post of Governor-General of Canada. There ...
Article : 67 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The Agricultural Railway Board recommends the constuction of 40 miles of railway in the Hotham and Brookton districts, as part of a ...
Article : 128 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Dr. Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australian Antarctic expedition, returned from Brisbane on Saturday. He stated that arrangements had ...
Article : 83 wordsBUNYIP, Sunday.—Mr. James Wilson, of Lyndlurst, has been asked by a number of supporters to contest the Dandenong and Berwick seat. Mr. Wilson was a ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 9 Oct 1911, Page 13
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