The day broke chilly and cheerless, with skies of mottled lead. The weather was never bad, but always menacing throughout the day. The attendance was not as ...
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Article : 186 wordsThe Select Committee appointed by the Government to inquire into the contract between the Government and the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. ...
Article : 374 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, the war correspondent at the "Daily Chronicle," continues his account to-day of the battle of Lulela-Burgas. He says:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 566 wordsThe Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. Benson) will be unable to visit the Devonport show, which takes place this week. owing to departmental business ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is reported in Vienna that the Montenegrins were unable to hold the position occupied by them on Tarabosh, from which they have been dislodged, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Porte has notified the Otteman Ambassadors to the Great Powers that the position in the Balkans is net desperate, though it is [?]mbarrassing. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Bulgarians and Servians have united in the Vadar Valley, and both armies are marching on Salonika unopposed. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe "Reichpost" states that the activity of the Turkish garrison at Adrianople is diminishing, and the Bulgarians hope soon to transfer their heavy ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Goorge Lloyd, M. P., who has travelled widely in the Balkans and Turkey both as Special Commissioner of the Government and privately, wrete the ...
Article : 886 wordsA sad double tragedy was enacted at Annandale to-day, when Albort Victor O'Grady, aged 25, mechanical engineer, cut the throats of his wife, Mary ...
Article : 258 wordsIt is stated in Balkan official eireles in London that the allies will not tolerate foreign interference in the conditions of peace. ...
Article : 69 wordsAt a meeting of the Women's Social Political Unions yesterday, Mrs. Pankhurst declared that if a suffragist amendment waa not incorporated in ...
Article : 59 wordsOn Sunday 20 battalions of Turks, supported by artillery, made a sortie on both banks of the River Marit[?]s, west of Adrianople. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, announced that the protected cruiser Weymouth, 5,250 tons (eight 6-inch ...
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Article : 181 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Registration of Firms Act Amendment Bill, Local Authorities Act Amendment Bill, and Trades Coupon Bill were road ...
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Article : 103 wordsClerks on the Cenadian Pacific Railway have gone on strike for higher wages. About 1,000. chiefiy those employed on the stations of the prairie ...
Article : 46 wordsGreek gunboats participating in the attack on Nicropolis sank two Turkish gunboats. The Greek forces at the capture of ...
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Article : 33 wordsFive thousand carters in Liverpool have given notice that they will strike unless a demand for shorter hours and more pay is conceded. ...
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Article : 38 wordsThe Freneh Government, in reply to the Porte, says there is no prospect of the allies accepting the Turkish overtures, and that more definite proposals ...
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Article : 184 wordsAlarming reports have reached Mexico City of a recrudescence of the rebellion at Vera Cruz, the chief Mexican seaport, which was only suppressed a ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Greeks, before capturing Caterina, passed the Potsa defiles unmolested, but the Turks ambushed and attacked them near Baiskolokouri, and ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. F. D. Acland, the Under-Secretary of Stnte for Foreign Affairs, in a speech at Edmonton last night, said he wes hopeful that the outcome of the ...
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Article : 64 wordsIn giving his reserved judgment in the case where Mr. T. G. Bowles, M.P., brought an action concerning the Bank of England's deduction of income tax ...
Article : 98 wordsAccording to reliable accounts received in Constantinople, the Turkish right at the battle of Lulela-Burgas was meeting with much success, but the ...
Article : 84 wordsAnxiety is increasing in Constantinople, owing to the arrival of hosts of fugitives, who are in a state of the most pitiable destitution. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Transkie territory, in Cape Colony, is suffering from a severe drought. There has been no rain for twelve months, and fodder is at famine prices. ...
Article : 43 wordsNo official estimate of the attendance at Flemington could be given to-night; but the crowd can be estimated approximately by comparison with that of last ...
Article : 78 wordsThe hostility to Europeans is increasing in Constantinople, and particularly among the lower classes. Some of the workmen's guilds openly boast ...
Article : 89 wordsThe advance of the Greek army marching on Florina has been checked by a superior force of Turks boyond Banitza, and compelted to entrench ...
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Article : 146 wordsLieut.-General Sir Edward Hutton, formerly Commandant of the Commonwealth Forces, presided to-day at a meeting held for the purpose of ...
Article : 78 wordsM. Poineare, the Prime Minister of France, has suggested that, prior to the mediation of the Great Powers, each should give a pledge not to make ...
Article : 293 wordsThe third Servian Army is advancing westward towards Durazzo, on the Adriatic, and another division, under General Zireeviteh, from Novibazar, is ...
Article : 36 wordsPlastered with mud spots thrown into his face by flying hcofs, Albert Shanahan, the winning jockey, slipped off the scales, certified as to weight, the cheers of the ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that a secret elause in the Turko-Italian treaty of peaee stipulates that Italy shall held ...
Article : 57 wordsNewspapers in Vienna are discussing the Servian aspirations to secure a port in the Adriatic, and declare that Austria will not tolerate any shifting ...
Article : 109 wordsIn reference to the Chinese Government's intention to offer Messrs. Birch. Crisp, and Co. security for the loan of £10.000,000 from sources other than ...
Article : 96 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders in the Lyndhurst Copper Co. it was decided to adopt the reorganisation scheme. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe British steamers Austrian and Woolwich have been captured in the Pinæus, with contraband on board. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe directors of the New Zealand and Australian Land Co. have declared a dividend of 4 per cent., and a bonus of 6 per cent. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe weather, which has been wet sine Monday, has cleared, and there is every prospect of its being fine for the show. The machinery and other ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Turkish steamer Chimiees was wrecked to-day at Karpin Island, in the Black Sea. It is reported that the crew and 42 passengere were ...
Article : 41 words"He is an honest horce; he ran up to his track gallops," was the eulogy of Piastre, given by Richard O'Connor, the trainer of the winner, in response to the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Bulgarians, after [?]ce righting, have captured the Buk railway station, to the eastward of Bramnthus, thus severing the Turkish communications ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is estimated that the Servians have captured two-thirds of the Ottoman artillery. An examination proves that the Turks held an almost ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 6 Nov 1912, Page 5
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