Nothing has tended to retard the development of Riverina more than the antagonism between the states of Victoria and New South Wales, and the ...
Article : 2,381 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon. Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, announced that steps were being taken to constitute the strongest ...
Article : 51 wordsThe women had to be coaxed to enter the boats. ...
Article : 17 wordsIt is announced to-day that Herr Ladislas Lukacs, who was Minister of Finance in Count Hedervary's Cabinet, has succeeded in forming a Ministry. All the members ...
Article : 95 wordsThe revolt which occurred in Fez, Morocco, owing to measures adopted by the French authorities proving uncongenial to the native residents and troops, was of a ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. Peter Daly, a first-class saloon passenger, states the captain of the Titanic ran to the railing calling the men to bring the boats back, as they were only half ...
Article : 40 wordsA thrilling story of the disaster is told by an Irish girl, one of the steerage passengers. She says she saw four men from the steerage get into a lifeboat. An ...
Article : 104 wordsThere is a particular and dreadful significance in the loss of the Titanic. It illustrates in one awful picture (says the "Sydney Sun") the impotency of mankind ...
Article : 1,156 wordsThe loss of the Titanic is likely to have an important effect upon the construction of the new White Star liner, the Gigantic, now being built at Belfast. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe work of recovering £1,000,000 worth of bullion from the P. and O. steamer Oceana, which foundered off Beachy Head last month, is still in progress. ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. Meyers declares that the officers of the Titanic behaved remarkably well, and acted with wonderful presence of mind in a terrible situation. ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. J. B. Ismay, managing director of the White Star line, has taken advantage of a press interview to give an effective answer to some of his hasty critics. ...
Article : 288 wordsA collision at sea, which was, fortunately, not accompanied by loss of life, took place in the Gulf of Mexico to-day. The Mallory line steamer Denver crashed ...
Article : 75 wordsMrs. J. Brown, wife of a mineowner of Denver, is able to relate the wonderful experiences she passed through. "The whole thing was so formal," states ...
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Advertising : 98 wordsThe Turkish Government proposed reopening the narrow channel between the mines laid in the Dardanelles for the benefit of neutral shipping, but the commander ...
Article : 72 wordsMis[?] Slater says that none on board the ill-fated Titanic deserved more credit and praise than the ship's orchestra. "I was ordered back to bed," said Miss ...
Article : 92 wordsThe wool sales were continued to-day. Competition was keen, and the sale was a good one in all classes. Prices, however, at the close of the day remained ...
Article : 36 wordsA large area of Southern Georgia was swept by a tornado yesterday. It is reported that six persons were killed. Heavy damage was done to property. ...
Article : 37 wordsOne Londoner, who was a first-class passenger, said that one of the collapsible rafts, upon which were 39 men, slowly sank, till the occupants were standing up to their ...
Article : 52 wordsA huge railroad strike is threatened owing to the demand made by the locomotive men on 50 Eastern railroads for increased wages. ...
Article : 37 wordsA disastrous tornado is reported from Illinois and North-western Indiana. A village called Bush has been completely destroyed. ...
Article : 119 wordsAn idea of the damage to the Titanic as formed by one of her designers, Mr. Andrews, is related by a survivor, Mr. A. Dick. ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. William Carter, the passenger who accompanied Mr. Ismay on board the lifeboat, has been interviewed in Philadelphia. He emphasises the injustice that has been ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Isidore Straus, one of America's millionaires, and his aged helpmate stood arm in arm calmly awaiting death. Mrs. Straus inquired whether Mr. Straus ...
Article : 102 wordsThe British Army's dirigible Gamma, which has a capacity of 75,000ft., left Farnborough on a trial trip yesterday. She carried six passengers. After circling round ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsShipping circles at Liverpool are indig nant at the method employed by the American Senate committee, which is inquiring into the disaster, in its ...
Article : 97 wordsWhiteley, a first-class steward from the Titanic is in hospital suffering from frozen feet. He tells a thrilling story of the manner of his escape from death. ...
Article : 179 wordsOne version of the deaths of Coloner Astor and Mr. W. T. Stead is told by Mr. Philip Mock. He says that the two men clung to the raft till their feet were frozen. ...
Article : 52 wordsNo further news of Mr. Allen, the aviator who was attempting to fly from Chester to Dublin, has been received. He has not been seen since he left Holyhead last ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is stated that Captain Smith, when he was washed off the bridge, swam to the rescue of a drowning baby. He then made for a lifeboat, where he surrendered the ...
Article : 43 wordsIn introducing the Naval Bill in the German Reichstag yesterday, Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, said he was convinced that none of the ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. M'Culloch, president of the Coal Miners' Association at Wouthaggi, and Mr. Murphy had a private conference with Mr. Murray, the Premier, to-day ...
Article : 80 wordsAdmiral Lord Charles Beresford, G.C.B., M P. for Portsmouth, has written a letter to "The Times," pointing out that the fact that the lights were burning until a few ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. Wil[?] Crooks, Labor member for Woolwich, moved the adjournment for the purpose of call[?] the attention of the Board of Trade to the ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsThe first meeting of the South Wales Miners' Wages Board, appointed under the recently-passed Coal Mines Act, was held yesterday. ...
Article : 44 wordsSurvi[?]ors state that five postal clerks continued carrying sacks of registered mail matter to the upper deck from the time the steamer struck until she foundered, by ...
Article : 49 wordsHerr Delbrneck, the German Minister for the Interior, announced in the Reichstag last night that the Government had the precautions for the safety of sea ...
Article : 41 words[?] of this week's series of [?] at the Royal Princess's [?] was attended by a large [?] manifested its appreciation ...
Article : 95 wordsThe friends of Mr. William Francis Siler, of Simpson's-road, Eaglehawk, will regret to learn of his death, which took place at his residence yesterday morning. The ...
Article : 279 wordsThree pearl necklaces, the property of one of the surviving passengers from the Titanic, were insured at Lloyd's for £140,000. It is believed that the valuable ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Austrian Government is equipping all ocean liners with wireless telegraphy. ...
Article : 19 wordsA large and enthusiastic demonstration of Munster opponents to Home Rule was held at Cork to-day. The principal speakers were the Duke ...
Article : 53 wordsMany of the passengers were seized with uncontrollable terror. When it was realised that there were not enough lifeboats on the ship some of the ...
Article : 77 wordsThere is a general demand throughout America that every liner should have an adequate supply of lifeboats, that wireless apparatus should be standardised, and that ...
Article : 62 wordsThe inquiry by the committee of the United States Senate into the loss of the Titanio was resumed yesterday. ...
Article : 36 words[?] held an inquiry at the [?] the circumstances sur[?] in the Melbourne Hos[?] of 8th April of William ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. W. G. C. Gladstone, Liberal member of Parliament for Kilmarnock, and grandson of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone, has been invited by the Nationalists to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe confusion, which gave rise to the earlier stores respecting the safety of all passengers, arose from the picking up of fragments of wireless messages. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Henry Harris, a theatrical manager, related how, with his wife, he tried to reach a boat that was being launched, when one of the officers called out to him to ...
Article : 134 wordsEvidence was given by the fourth officer of the ill-fated vessel. He said that the iceberg which the Titanic struck was of a dark grey color, and was 30ft. high. After ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Lyric Theatre was crowded last night, when, in addition to a number of photo, plays, the Gascoignes opened their season of five nights. Mr. Gascoigne has been described as ...
Article : 224 wordsThe New York newspapers contain an unpleasant story of the wreck, for which they claim the authority of Whiteley, a first-class steward, who is in hospital ...
Article : 99 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Daily News" states that the American Senate intends, among other things, to inquire whether the Titanic's officers ...
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Advertising : 40 wordsTo-day the Director of Education (Mr. Frank Tate) stated that the department had received a letter from the Ballarat school teacher who was alleged to have ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. James Keir Hardie, M P., for Merthyr-Tydvil, made some characteristic remarks at a meeting held at Luton, in Bedfordshire, last night. ...
Article : 89 wordsTwo French children, who give their names as Lolo and Louis Hoffmann, are among the rescued passengers from the Titanic. Their parents must have perished, ...
Article : 48 wordsSteward Nichols, of the Titanic, states that half the men went back to bed after the collision Three-quarters of an hour after the collision he saw a passenger ...
Article : 51 wordsAn uncommon tribute has been arranged in honor of the late Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk railway system of the United States and Canada, who ...
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