SYDNEY, Friday.—The High Court this morning quashed the conviction of Dr. Peacock for the murder of the young woman, Mary Margaret Davies, in ...
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Article : 199 wordsDuring the second act of "Sansone c Delila," with the applause of the second last audience of the Melba opera season beating in upon the stage, Mr. George Tallis ...
Article : 893 wordsSpeaking last night at Bottle, in Lancashire, Mr. A. Bonar Law, leader of the Unionist party in the House of Commons, declared the intetnion of the party to ...
Article : 195 wordsAssurances that they are not in sympathy with any movement tending to bring about a conflict between Great Britain and Germany have again been given to the ...
Article : 122 wordsYesterday evening His Excellency the Governor-General, attended by Captain Nutting, was present at the performance of "Sansone [?] Delila" at Hec Majesty's ...
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Article : 80 wordsIt is stated here that the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austrian throne, who is locked upon as the leader of the war party in Austria, is ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. Claude Hay, who represented the Hoxton division of Shoreditch in the House of Commons prior to 1906 as a Unionist member, and was defeated in the elections ...
Article : 698 wordsA petition for the amemdment of the National Insurance Bill, which has been passed by the House of Commons, has been made to the House of Lords by the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe conference of representatives of the railway companies and of their employees, called by resolution of the House of Commons to discuss the report of the Railway ...
Article : 48 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—The Government's position has been seriously jeopardised as a result of the first ballot yesterday. So far the issue in 47 electorates has ...
Article : 819 wordsDelegates from the coal-owners of the United Kingdom will meet representatives of the miners' organisations on December 19 to consider the question of a minimum ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Coal Mines Bill, from which the House of Commons struck out a provision for compulsory baths at the pithead, Ins been passed a second time by the House of ...
Article : 40 wordsTo-day Senor Don Manuel Garcia Priet, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the French and British Ambassadors, attended the first meeting of a conference on ...
Article : 63 wordsThe docotors of Great Britain belonging to the British Medical Association have subsderibed £1.50,000 to compensate themselves and the association for any losses ...
Article : 55 wordsSome time ago Unioisl members of the House of Commons formed a Social Reform Committee to consider the question of the housing of the working classes. As the ...
Article : 144 wordsHaving obtained a remission of his sentence on account of his good conduct while in gaol, Edward Mylins, who on February I last was ordered to be imprisoned for 12 ...
Article : 319 wordsLord Morley Lord President of the Council, replying in the House of Commons last night to a question by Lord Curzon respecting the situation in Persia, said that ...
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Article : 187 wordsPersia has appealed to the United States against Russian aggression. In the appeal it is mentioned that Persia trusts that Americans' sentiments of honour and ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is believed that Madame Melba. in view of the great success of her opera venture. contemplates the organising of another company to visit. Australia two years hence. ...
Article : 91 wordsFurther measures of reform have been granted in China. An edict has been issued sanctioning the cutting off of queues, and ordering the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe last evening performance of the Melba Grand Opera Company's season closed last night with a demonstration never before excelled in a Melbourne ...
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Article : 571 wordsThe lighting of the Eritrean coast of the Red Sea, within the Italian sphere of influence, which has been discontinued since the outbreak of hostilities between Italy ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Canard liner Mauretania, 31,938 tons, which parted with her anchors during a hurricane on the Mersey on Wednesday, and, after drifting for a mile, grounded on ...
Article : 109 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of privileges of the Wesleyan Church, consideration was given to the Ne Temere decree, published by Pope Pius X., and it was decided ...
Article : 88 wordsWilliam Uarquhar, late of High-street read. Glen wa[?]erley, ore[?]dist. who dide of March 24 inst. be his will, dated May 10. [?] left realty valued a £3,309. and personalty valued at £100, to his ...
Article : 82 wordsCouncillor Dalton, a representative of the Irishtown Ward of Limerick, who, with two others, was sent to gaol for having removed a Union Jack from the house of a ...
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Article : 99 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—The Marine Board to-day conducted an inquiry into the disaster which occurred on board the steamer City of Lincoln, bound from Melbourne to ...
Article : 175 wordsV case of long imprisonment for the crime of another man has occurred. The victim, Morano Luisti, was charged in 1866 with the murder of a woman at ...
Article : 81 wordsA meeting of the London International Committee to deal with the question of vegetables fibre in wool supported the resolution passed at the conference of delegates ...
Article : 186 wordsAs an outcome of Mr. Tennyson Smith's mission in Melbourne a meeting of temperance wrokers was held on Thursday night, in the Y.M.C.A. rooms. Mr. C. H. ...
Article : 162 wordsPERTH, Friday.—In the Supreme Court in lay Mr. Justice M'Millan entered judgment in favour of the Customs department against Hannan's Brewery, Kalgoorlie, for ...
Article : 156 wordsIn the first of the matches between George Gray, of Australia, and H. W. Stevenson, the English champion, 18,000 up level for £300 a-side on the rubber, Gray ...
Article : 118 wordsThis afternoon, commeneing at half-past 1 o'clock sharp. the final periormance of the season will be given, the programme comprising an act from each of four operas. ...
Article : 224 wordsIn regard to the new trial in the case of Dr. Samuel Peacock, ordered by the High Court, the, Crown law authorities in Melbourne state that every endeavour will be ...
Article : 293 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—There is a breach between the Speaker (Mr. Willis) and the Ministry regarding his occupancy of the Speakership of the Legislative Assembly. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 Dec 1911, Page 23
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