Daring, skilful, and dangerous footpads enjoy liberty in Adelaide at present. A robbery, accompanied by a brutal assault, was perpetrated on Wednesday in the city ...
Article : 595 wordsThe New South Wales coastal steamship companies have decided to increase the freights and fares in consequence of the demands made by the labour unions connected ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. Peter Whitington, the Commissioner of Audit, has been on leave of absence, the period of which will expire on January 31. He, however, has decided to retire from the ...
Article : 520 wordsAs a result of the political crisis the Bourse is weak. The office of Foreign Affairs, resigned by M. Deselves following a difference ...
Article : 190 wordsMr. C. Fenwick, P.C. (Liberal M.P. for the Wansbeck division of Northumberland), who was for many years a working [?] stated at a meeting of Northumberland ...
Article : 134 wordsTremendous gales are sweeping the eastern Canadian coastline. An express train in Newfoundland has been blown off the track. Snowbanks are being cleared from ...
Article : 126 wordsThe burning down of the Equitable Life Assurance building in Wall street cost six lives. Three employes were driven to the roof, and were cut off from rescue. ...
Article : 315 wordsDissolution, Tuesday, January 16. Issue of writ, Wednesday, January 17. Latest day of enrolment, January 17. ...
Article : 929 wordsAll ballots taken by the colliery workers' unions of England and Wales in connection with the questions at issue between the coalowners and the employes show ...
Article : 45 wordsTheir Majesties the King-Emperor and Queen-Empress took thier departure to-day on their return voyage to England. Vast throngs assembled and cheered the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Daily News, in commenting upon Lord Dudley's tribute to the purity of Australian's public service, observes:—"That is a great thing to say, and we believe it. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe President of the Scottish Miners' Federation (Mr. Smillie) addressing a mass meeting at Lancashire, stated that he had told the First Lord of the Admiralty ...
Article : 108 wordsThe semi-official announcement is made that their Majesties King George and Queen Marry will visit Paris in the spring, and afterwards proceed to BErlin on a visit to ...
Article : 42 wordsInability to secure a successor to M. Delcasse, who accepted the office of Foreign Minister on condition that a strong man was selected for the Ministry of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe lines of John McCarthy Blackham, the finest wicket keeper the world has known, and one of the most famous of the cricketers produced by Australia, have ...
Article : 850 wordsAfter the strain of a heavy year of politics the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) is holiday ending in the south of France. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Westminster Gazette states that when the trade union leader started the cotton strike in two sheds they did not expect that the employers would lockout ...
Article : 81 wordsFederal Minister, among others, read with interest the address entitled "Some impressions of Australia" delivered by Lord Dudley at the Royal Colonial Institute, ...
Article : 162 wordsLiberate, a leading journal asserts that M. Ceillaux, from July 16 to July 31, when the Morocco crisis was at its worst, daily exchanged views with a Councillor at the ...
Article : 97 wordsIn connection with the Royal Economic Society's Congress, now being held, a number of papers were read on the financial aspects of home rule. These generally ...
Article : 137 wordsLord Lamington, who takes a close interest in Persian matters, has started on his tour to the Shah's dominion. Owing to the disturbed condition of the country, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe difficulty in connection with the strike of woolcombers at Bradford has ended. The masters resolved to lockout the operatives unless the woolcombers ...
Article : 98 wordsAn instance of disorderly conduct on the part of a sufiragette was reported a few days before Christmas, when proceedings were instituted against Emily Davison, one ...
Article : 104 wordsDesiring to enforce the adage that death is the gate of life, Archdeacon Colley at St. Michael's, Stockton, Warwickshire, entered a glass-covered coffin in which he was ...
Article : 177 wordsReferring to-day tot he views expressed by Lord Dudley regarding promotion in the Australian Public Service, and the breadth of view that comes from culture, ...
Article : 444 wordsThe Northumberland colliery owners have issued a manifesto in which they announce that a fixed minimum wage, irrespective of the work performed, as ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Glenesk has been towed into Lough Foyle, Ireland, having been crippled in a gale. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the Times reports that the early abdication of the Chinese Emperor is certain, and that Prince Ching and other Princes are in favour of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Daily Chronicle states that the committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the question of the breaking up of large estates reports against tenant ...
Article : 76 wordsThe remainder of the passengers by the steamer Zealandic, who were quarantined at Torrens Island on account of the epidemic of measles and diphtheria, were released ...
Article : 872 wordsThe Attorney-General (Hon. W.J.Denny) stated at the Labour demonstration in the Exhibition Building on Tuesday evening:—"In the recent Coal Vend ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Russian officials with the troops at Tabriz state that Sikat-ul-Islam, the ecclesiastic, and the clergy who were put to death, preached the extermination of the ...
Article : 65 wordsA strike of weavers occurred at Great Harwood, Lancashire, in consequence of the employment of a non-unionist. Miss Bury, the non-unionist concerned, has been ...
Article : 39 wordsThe death is announced, in his sixty-third years of Sir James P. Gibson, Bart. (Liberal member of the House of Commons for the East Division of Edinburgh). He was ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Government is making enquiries concerning the death of the Rajah of Maibar, who was shot in the street of his capital city during the Delhi Durbar. ...
Article : 68 wordsComplaints were made at a meeting of the Melbourne Harbour Trust concerning the part which repacking played in the congestion on the wharfs. The ...
Article : 124 wordsThe detectives here confidently expect to trace soon the whereabouts of Anderson, who is suspected of being implicated in a recent bank robbery. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a meeting of the State Council of the Protestant Defence Association of Australian to-night the Grand President (Rev. H. Gainford) stoutly opposed the proposal ...
Article : 212 wordsA witness who was examined at the trail of Conners, who is accused among others of dynamite conspiracy, stated that he had heard Conners say that he intended ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Cuthbertson, a recently appointed Victorian immigration agent, in an interview published in The Manchester Guardian explained Victoria's demand for labour and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe missing torpedo destroyer, thought to have been lost in recent gales off the Bermuda coast, is now reported safe, and is expected to arrive at Hamilton, ...
Article : 39 wordsSilver.—The price of standard silver today is 2/1 3-16d. per oz., a rise of 1-16d. Bradstuffs,—The estimated visible supply of American wheat is 118,094,000 ...
Article : 319 wordsWilliam Ward, otherwise George Smith, labourer, aged 39, appeared in the City Court to-day on a charge of being the murderer of Ernest Nixon Smith at Chiswick, ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Syndicalist Union declared a 24 hours' strike as a protest against the trial of three of its members on a charge of having incited soldiers to desert. The strike proved ...
Article : 72 wordsThe District Committee of the northern portion of Victoria and Albert will meet at Tailem Bend on Monday to select a candidate in place of Mr. J. McIntyre, who ...
Article : 484 wordsStevenson retains the lead in the second billiard test game against the Australian youth. Scores at the close of to-day's work at ...
Article : 91 wordsFor the fitting up of two additional wireless stations, the Commonwealth propose to require apparatus from the Rev. Father Shaw's station in Sydney. Mr. Balsillie, ...
Article : 160 wordsLient, Samson, of the British Military Aviation Corps, performed the feat of flying in a biplane from a battleship. From planks built out from the turrets ...
Article : 68 wordsIn giving a verdict of incendiarism regarding a fire at Murrumburrah, Mr. John Bourke, the local Coroner, said this was one of a series of acts of incendiarism which ...
Article : 123 wordsIn an almost inaccessible part of the Border Downs, a locality seldom visited, a swag was recently discovered neatly rolled up. No clue to the identity of the owner ...
Article : 72 wordsThe census gives the population of France at 39,500,000, or an increase of 349,000 during the last five years. There has been continual migration from the rural ...
Article : 55 wordsA line of cable to New, Zealand is already controlled by the Pacific Cable Board, but it is now proposed to establish more direct communication between ...
Article : 178 wordsA large deputation waited on the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) this morning to urge that the report of the royal commission recommending the payment of £900,000 to ...
Article : 169 wordsTowards the end of last year the State Ministry asked eminent counsel to advise whether the Harbour Trust could legally differentiate in its rates as between goods ...
Article : 170 wordsAltogether 27,000 medical practitioners in the United Kingdom are now pledged not to assist in the working of the National Insurance Act, unless on the basis ...
Article : 44 wordsFour States will be represented at the first congress of independent workers, which will be held in Melbourne on January 29 and the two following days. About ...
Article : 66 wordsThe volunteer force of South Australia is now for the first time dressed in uniform. The suit of modest grey will be the clothing of all our rifle companies. Let English ...
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Advertising : 635 wordsThe Colonial Secretary (Mr. Drew), in replaying to a deputation which asked for financial assistance for the Australian Fish Canning and Packing Company, to be ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 12 Jan 1912, Page 5
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