The Federal law officers decided on Saturday not to enter a defence on the facts in the action by the letter-carrier Bond against the Commonwealth. The claim by the ...
Article : 91 wordsOn a visit I recently paid to Sydney was immensely struck with the vast facilities for rapid transit from place to place provided on both land ...
Article : 1,760 wordsDuring the last few days South Australia has witnessed more electrical disturbances in the atmosphere than for many months past. For several days the atmosphere in ...
Article : 1,276 wordsA labor daily paper, the People's Daily, made its first appearance on Saturday morning. The issue was got out by a band of journalists and printers working on ...
Article : 1,126 wordsThose who go down to the sea in ships and do business in the great waters meet with varied and thrilling experiences, but it falls to the lot of few to undergo such an ...
Article : 601 wordsAt the City Police Court on Saturday Edward Furze, a lad, in the employ of the Adelaide and Suburban Tramways, was charged with stealing 2d., the property of ...
Article : 163 wordsLast night a big flood came down the Yackamoorundie Creek, caused chiefly by the rain which fell in the higher districts, and the damage done to property, and ...
Article : 177 wordsRegulations have now been framed to provide for the issue of telephone coupons. Any subscriber who desires to permit the public to use his telephone may notify the ...
Article : 143 wordsOn Thursday night, as the result of the great storm, the Pekina Creek came down a banker, sweeping away the whole of Mr. J. Moody's garden, and a large portion of that ...
Article : 296 wordsShortly after 1 p.m. on Sunday a boy, Alexander McLeod, whilst fishing off the Ocean Steamers' wharf, near the Government Freezing Works, observed the body of ...
Article : 116 wordsThe rough weather is interfering with harvesting operations. On Wednesday night Price's fruit shop had a large pane of glass blown in, and books on the shelves ...
Article : 54 wordsYesterday the flood-waters from the Tarcowie Ranges came down in great volume and would have flooded the town but for the Laura drain, which was erected some ...
Article : 95 wordsA shooting tragedy occurred at Payneham between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Mr. M. Daly, a tram-driver, telephoned to the police on Sunday morning ...
Article : 91 wordsThe result of the military examination held at the conclusion of the recent instructional school for infantry officers shows that Captain W. Mailer (Victoria), ...
Article : 92 words"Jamestown," referring to the report of the Jamestown strawberry fete on November 25, states that for recitations for boys under 12 years of age, the first prize was ...
Article : 433 wordsEarly this morning the Yackamoorundie Creek was flooded to greater excess than it has been for a number of years. Several of the residents living close to the banks ...
Article : 172 wordsA mysterious shooting case is reported from Parkside. Mr. G. E. H. Wright, who owns a property extending from Young-street. Parkside, to ...
Article : 123 wordsThe health of the Prime Minister, whose Tasmanian tour was prevented last week by a sharp influenza attack, Avith pneumonia symptoms, continues to improve, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe storm last night did much damage here. Streams of water 20 ft. wide were running through the streets, and considerable injury was done to roads, watertables, ...
Article : 585 wordsDuring the thunderstorm on Thursday night a sudden gale sprang up, and hythe heavy rain which followed, much damage will be done to some of the farmers' ...
Article : 93 wordsIf the business of the High Court of Australia is at all proportionate to the number of members of the legal profession who desire to practise before it their ...
Article : 144 wordsSir Malcolm McEacharn, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, in opening a fair in connection with Collins-street Independent Church on Thursday, said many people objected to ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Federal Steam Navigation Company's steamer Somerset, outward bound from Port Adelaide for South Africa and home ports, with a heavy cargo of ...
Article : 301 wordsOwing to the frequency of thunderstorms harvesting operations are at a complete standstill, and likely to remain so for a week or more. A storm of unusual ...
Article : 115 wordsThe employes, to the number of 79, of Mr. Walter C. Torode, through the kindness of Mrs. Alfred Simms, had an enjoyable picni[?]n Saturday Four of Hill & Co.'s drags left St. Peter's ...
Article : 703 wordsIn his speech at the Perth Town Hall on Friday night Sir John Forrest said Mr. Deakin had told him that the railway from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie must be built ...
Article : 97 wordsThe annual lawn fete in connection with the Children's Hospital was held on the grounds of the institution on Saturday afternoon and evening. Notwithstanding the heavy rains of the ...
Article : 777 wordsOne of the greatest thunderstorms ever witnessed here occurred this morning. Rain came dqwn in torrents, and it is still raining at noon. It is feared that the cherry ...
Article : 126 wordsDr. Roth, the Northern Protector of Aborigines, expresses, surprise that the white Australia policy of the Commonwealth precludes the employment under the sugar ...
Article : 90 wordsA heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and a heavy full of rain, swept over here last night, and in some paddocks the wheat crops were badly beaten ...
Article : 175 wordsA youth, Henry Eales, aged 17, who had been imprisoned for a month in the Gunnedah Gaol for larceny, escaped last night. When the gaoler opened the cell door this ...
Article : 196 wordsThe remains of the late Dr. R. T. Wylde, who died at the Semaphore on Friday morning, were cremated at the West-terrace Crematorium on Saturday afternoon. The ...
Article : 423 wordsSince Wednesday evening last we have experienced a succession of thunderstorms, all of which have been of surprising severity. Yesterday afternoon a heavy storm ...
Article : 293 wordsOn Saturday morning rain set in again, and twelve and a half points were recorded locally, and ten points at Stephens Creek. On Saturday night a heavy thunderstorm ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Broken Hill Blanch of the A. M. A. has sent £100 to the coalminers on strike in Gippsland: in addition a fortnightly levy of one strilling per member will be made as ...
Article : 235 wordsOwing to the rain on Saturday the first day's bicycle racing of the Austral meeting had to be postponed. Next Saturday the second day's programme, including the ...
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Advertising : 28 wordsFurther heavy rains fell on Saturday and to-day on a large area of the State. Some parts of Gippsland received 3½ in. The rain extended northerly to near the New ...
Article : 98 wordsMiss George, Australasian organiser of the W. O. T. U., who is on tour through the States, addressed meetings in Ararat, Victoria, last week. On Tuesday afternoon she spoke to children, and ...
Article : 97 wordsOne of the grandest electric storms ever seen in Cockburn passed over on Saturday. The sky was one mass of flames in every direction. The thunder was incessant. The ...
Article : 106 wordsParkside A v. Glen Osmond A.—Hack and Roberts beat Mitton and O'Dea, 6—3, 6—2; Taylor and B. Noiteuius beat Newman and Murray, 6—2, 6—5, Hack beat Mitton. 6—4, 6—0; Taylor beat ...
Article : 226 wordsA sad boating fatality occurred at Tuggerah Lakes late last evening. A pleasure parly of six local men started out from Tuggerah jetty about half-past 5 in a small ...
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Advertising : 80 wordsThe annual championship match of smallbore clubs was shot on the Magill range on Saturday. The weather was not at all favorable for the 40 competitors, being somewhat windly with occasional ...
Article : 139 wordsHeavy rain has fallen almost continuously since last night. The news that there is still a possibiiity of the Brime Minister visiting Tasmania ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Hon. J. Lewis, who returned by this morning's express from Petersburg and Orroroo, reports that the Blackrock Plain is under water. He says he never witnessed ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 30 Nov 1903, Page 6
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