There had been for several weeks much gambling in railway stock upon the New York Stock Exchange owing to the circulation of rumours regarding the illness of ...
Article : 156 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Lady Bosanquet, the Misses Bosanquet, and Capts. Wright and Neame left Adelaide on Friday morning for Pinnaroo. The Chief ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe Union-Castle liner Sabine, which has been engaged for a three-months' quest for the Waratah, will carry a powerful searchlight for night work. An Admiralty ...
Article : 197 wordsIf I should call upon you later in life, the sense of patriotic responsibility and discipline acquired in boyhood will enable you to do your duty as men in the event of danger threatening ...
Article : 1,936 wordsCommander Robert E. Peary, in dealing with the claim of Dr. Cook to have discovered the north pole in April, 1908, said that Cook located himself at Etah ...
Article : 493 wordsThe Times reports that a deputation from the committee of the London Stock Exchange have conferred with Mr. Lloyd-George regarding the proposed alterations ...
Article : 82 wordsAmong the Government amendments to the Budget Bill is one which permits the State to accept real property, instead of cash in payment of estate duty. Members ...
Article : 75 wordsThe late Mr. Edward Henry Harriman, whose health recently caused him to journey to Vienna to consult a specialist, controlled 72,000 miles of transportation lines. ...
Article : 894 wordsAt Thursday's sitting of the Congress of Trades Unions at Ipswich, the Parliamentary committee's proposal that the State should make grants to trades unions for ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Hon. J. G. Jenkins, of South Australia, who with several others has returned from a visit to Papua, was most favourably impressed by the possession. He ...
Article : 354 wordsThe "advanced" policy of the Asquith Government has caused the Unionists to abandon the determination to make Tariff Reform the main plank of their platform ...
Article : 134 wordsA case of working the confidence trick upon an Australian visitor has been ventilated in the Law Courts, with the result that the accused, a jockey named Burns. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), in reply to a question by Mr. W. P. Byles (Liberal, Salford, North Division) in the House of Commons, reiterated his previous ...
Article : 97 wordsThe University of Copenhagen has conferred upon Dr. Cook its degree of doctor. The bestowal of the tribute was made the occasion of a brilliant and representative ...
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Article : 221 wordsThe English estate of the late Dr. Whisshaw, of Toowoomba, Queensland, has been sworn at £8,385.—Proposed Imperial Agricultural Union. ...
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Article : 88 wordsThe new Bible Christian Chapel at Undalya, near to Auburn, will be opened on Sunday, September 18. Plans and estimates are invited for a new Congregational ...
Article : 391 wordsCommander Peary, who is returning to New York via Labrador, telegraphed on Thursday to President Taft:—"I have the honour to place the ...
Article : 62 wordsProfessor Percival Lowell, the eminent astronomer, of Boston, reports having observed oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars. It is now assumed that life exists on the ...
Article : 74 wordsTwo days ago the Minister for Lands (Mr. Mitchell) was shown some oats which had been certified clean by the Victorian authorities. The sample contained seeds of ...
Article : 79 wordsSome of the Canadian newspapers are already claiming the north pole as the property of the Dominion, under the old boundary arrangements. ...
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Article : 54 wordsOwing to the exorbitant charges for water made by the Water Board, 150 artesian wells have been sunk recently in London, especially for business firms. ...
Article : 33 wordsA daring robbery, attended by murder has taken place at Miass, Orenburg, in Russia. A gang of masked men entered the post office, and, after killing the ...
Article : 55 wordsIn consequence of protests by the British and French Consuls, the Sultan of Morocco has ordered the Pretender (Bu Hamara) to be uncaged, and the population will not ...
Article : 43 wordsA strike of employes was threatened to-day at the North Shore Gas Company's works, and it was rumoured that in the event of its taking place the strikers ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Sat 11 Sep 1909, Page 13
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