Fierce fighting has again taken place in Tripoli, and according to advices received in London this morning, a great slaughter of Turks and Arubs has occurred near ...
Article : 78 wordsThe naval estimates for 1912-13 were introduced in the House of Commons yesterday by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill). ...
Article : 677 wordsThe Budget Committee of the Storthing is considering a proposal that a professorial chair should be established for Captain Amundsen, the discoverer of the South ...
Article : 99 wordsThe colliery owners' and miners' executives met in conference yesterday to discuss the possible settlement of the strike. The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), the ...
Article : 310 wordsIn accordance with the resolution passed at the indignation meeting held at the Melbourne Athenæum on February 29, a telegram was sent to the Marylebone Cricket ...
Article : 172 wordsKILMORE, Wednesday.—The contending Light Horse forces are at peace once more, The men have drawn their pay, and everyone is anxiously looking forward to ...
Article : 1,332 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General, attended by Sir Walter Barttelot, returned to Melbourne from Kilmore Camp yesterday. Their Excellencies the Governor-General ...
Article : 1,099 wordsIn the Commonwealth Court of Concilation and Arbitration yesterday, before Mr. Justice Higgins, the hearing of the plaint of the Australian Tramway Employees' ...
Article : 2,087 wordsNews from Tripoli states that the Italians at Torbruk have repulsed a vigorous attack by Turks and Arabs. The enemy came from both sides, attempting a flanking ...
Article : 44 wordsHOBART, Wednesday,—Twenty-one dogs which Captain Amundsen is giving to the Mawson Expedition were safely landed at the quarantine station to-day. Eighteen ...
Article : 222 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—What was virtually a motion of want of confidence in the Board of Control was debated at great length at a meeting of the New South ...
Article : 107 wordsAn attempt by a large number of prisoners, confined in a gaol in the province of Minho, though carried out with great determination, ended in failure. ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday,—A large and enthusiastic crowd assembled on the Circular Quay Whart to-day to bid farewell to the Australian cricketers who left by the R.M.S. ...
Article : 128 wordsThe first Republican Premier has been chosen. The appointment goes to Tang Shao-yi, who represented the Imperial Government at the peace conference in ...
Article : 122 wordsPresident Taft is conferring with the Secretary for War (Mr. W. Stimson) regarding the Mexican situation, the possibility of trouble occurring on the border having ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Scottish mine owners have issued a manifesto in which they reiterate their opposition to the minimum wage. They point out that it would cause an increase in ...
Article : 197 wordsA well-attended meeting of the council of the People's Party was held in the rooms Equitable-building, yesterday. Delegates were present from all the rural Federal ...
Article : 151 wordsSir,—Mr. Guthrie asks the question, Are a certain section of the Board of Control followers doing their best in the interest of Australian cricket, or do they want cheap ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Royal Commission on Vivisection, which was appointed in 1906 to inquire into the practice of subjecting live animals to experiment, whether by vivsection or ...
Article : 93 wordsThough the Governments of Great Britain, France, and Russia a few weeks ago handed a note to the Cretan Executive Committee, declaring their firm ...
Article : 134 wordsSir Newton and Lady Moore welcomed the Australian cadets, who are principally from Western Australia, at the Tro[?] to-day. The Secretary for the Colonies ...
Article : 677 wordsAt a well-attended meeting held under the auspices of the Women's Liberal League in the Masonic-hall last night. Miss Farr, one of the organisers of the Liberal Union ...
Article : 976 wordsOut of 266,835 miners in the Rubr district of Prussia, where a general strike was decided upon on Monday, 110,107 descended the pits yesterday. ...
Article : 65 wordsBy the burning of a hotel in New Brunswick five commercial travellers have been overtaken by a tragic fate. It is impossible at the present time to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe miners who stopped work for 24 hours, as a protest against; the failure of Parliament to pass the Miners' Pensions Bill and a bill to establish the eight-hours ...
Article : 51 wordsThe excavations in Pompeii have brought to light an interesting seene in the business life of the ancient city. A vintner's shop was uncovered, and the ...
Article : 161 wordsCHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday.—Mr. [?] [?] closed his New Zealand tour tonight with "The Bells." There was tremendests enthusiasm, the audience rising in a ...
Article : 98 wordsThe result of the grand jury investigation concerning the connection of labour leaders with dynamite outrages, which has been proceeding here for some weeks, is that ...
Article : 82 words"The Times" says that it is understood that in the final settlement of the Navy Estimates for the Cabinet it was found impossible to make the reductions which ...
Article : 444 wordsDr. Pas, who was proprietor of the principal daily newspaper in Buenos Ayres, "La Prenza," has died at Monte Carlo. He has left £1,000,000. ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY. Wednesday.—The Sydney detectives have in their possession a strange letter, written apparently by the burglar who escaped after ...
Article : 333 wordsConsiderable discussion arose in Tuesday night at the Port Melbourne branch meeting of the Australian Natives' Association on account of the board of directors ...
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Article : 368 wordsThe feature to-day of the trial of the Seddons, husband and wife, at the Old Bailey, for the murder of Miss Barrow, was the cross-examination of Mrs. Seddon, ...
Article : 102 wordsConstable Rice, of South Richmond, attended the annual picnic of Messrs. Bryant and May, Bell and [?] employees at Mordialloc on Monday. White at the picnic ...
Article : 119 wordsSamuel Answer of Nowa Nowa, farmer. Causes of insolvency—Loss of bullocks, loss of time through wet weather, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £332/17/8; assets, ...
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Article : 77 wordsAt Half-past 10,—Motions-Pendlebury v. the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited (part heard), Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society Limited v. the National Mutual Life ...
Article : 317 wordsJohn Roberts, the ex-billiards champion, has challenged George Gray, the young Australian player, to a match with any ball and for any sum. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 14 Mar 1912, Page 7
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