Mary Jones, aged 5 years, was watching some children swinging, when she suddenly rap across and was struck a terrific blow on the forehead by the seat of a swing. ...
Article : 320 wordsOwing to the reports of bad crops the price of wheat advanced on the American markets yesterday, July reaching 108? cents per bushel, and September 108¾ cents ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin) and Sir Win. Lyne are known to have formed some definite opinions concerning the office of the Commonwealth High Commissioner ...
Article : 314 wordsThe Adelaide Reef Mine, near Daylesford, was the scene of a tragedy early this morning. The victims were two miners, Henry Thompson and Robert Robinson. ...
Article : 194 wordsThe hearing of the new trial in the District Court in the case in which Mary Ann McKenzie, widow, of Balmain, cairns from Joseph Neil Grace, an importer, of ...
Article : 446 wordsThe railway earnings for the week ended May 18 amounted to £29,827, as against £21,714 for the same period last year, knowing a total increase from July 1 last ...
Article : 1,346 wordsNews reached Melbourne to-day that Lieutenant Medhurst, of the corps of Signallers, Hobart, had been received at the War Office, and that there was every ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Acting Premier received a telegram from the Premier (Mr. Moore) to-day stating he has established a Western Australian agency in Collins-street, Melbourne, ...
Article : 185 wordsIn connection with the enquiry now being conducted by the Acting Minister of Customs into the composition of all kinds of apparel, with a view to ascertaining the ...
Article : 924 wordsThe trouble that was experienced a year or two ago in connection with the dumping on Australian farmer's of Indian cornsacks of disgracefully inferior quality is now being ...
Article : 144 words[?]urday evening a number of Greek fishermen, who had become excited after a football match and had taken an extra cargo of liquor in anticipation of a wet night, [?] ...
Article : 744 wordsThe Smelters' Union delegates, accompanied by Mr. Sutherland, the representative of the Cobar strikers, met Mr. G. H. Blakemore, general manager of the Great ...
Article : 769 wordsIt came to the ears of Sergeant D. G. O'Donnell to-day that the state of quarantine imposed by a judicial order upon No. 124, Little Lonsdale-street, had been ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Adelaide branch of the Australian Agricultural, Implement and Machinery and Ironworkers' Association, and the branches at Gawler, Mannum, Ardrossan, ...
Article : 588 wordsThe committee of the Rabbit Destruction Fund state that they have been supplied with the full data of the experiments reported in Dr. Danysz's summary, given to ...
Article : 218 wordsThe days of the old Volunteer Fire Brigade, such as existed in Adelaide in the early eighties, are gone. In those days enthusiastic volunteers used to constitute ...
Article : 1,219 wordsAt a meeting of the Fremantle Trades Hall Association to-day Mr. J. Jeffrey moved—That this association, recognising the inefficiency of the Arbitration Act ...
Article : 207 wordsAt the Sincliff Asylum to-day, where three patients. Joseph Rhodda, Ah Kee, and Roberts, were working in a boiler house, Rhodda struck Ah Kee with a ...
Article : 73 wordsAn application for special leave to appeal to the High Court was made to-day on the part of John Andrew McGee, who had been convicted of attempting to steal gold in ...
Article : 253 wordsA choir festival in connection with the Holv Trinity Church was carried out successfully on Wednesday evening under the leadership of Mr. Frank Warhurst, the ...
Article : 456 wordsAt the Perth Court to-day Herbert Hall and Richard Donovan, two young clerks, who were trusted employes of Messrs. Goode, Durrant, & Co., pleaded guilty to ...
Article : 102 wordsThe annual meeting of the Hindmarsh Town Mission was held on Wednesday evening in the Hindmarsh Town Hall. Mr. C. H. Goode presided over a large gathering. ...
Article : 613 wordsThe gratifying news was received to-day that a general rainfall had visited all the drought-stricken districts, and that the conditions favored its continuance. The ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Acting Premier has been in communication with the Federal authorities regarding the Western Australian section of the Australians now on the way back from ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Fisher (deputy leader of the Federal Labor Party), alluding to-day to the explanation given of the recent remarks of the Prime Minister in London regarding the ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. Tills, the Opposition candidate for Cairns, is now leading Mr. Mann, the Ministerial candidate, by 23 votes. The state of the parties now is:—Opposition. ...
Article : 167 words"Not one house remains standing. Every cocoanut palm is stripped of its fruit and every tree of its leaves. From a distance the island looks like an old hairbrush ...
Article : 465 wordsThe External Affairs Department understands that the mission of the two Chaldean missionaries now on board the steamer Airlie, who are seeking admission ...
Article : 136 wordsMay 21.—Present—The mayor (Mr. W. H. Good-enough), Councillors Abbott, Branstrom, Brazel, Klauer, Riley, and Styles. Receipts, £212; expenditure; £208. Main road expenditure, £37; ...
Article : 283 wordsAt the Sydney wool sales to-day the market showed a distinctly firmer tendency for greasy wools, which was chiefly due to the better selections offered. Scoured ...
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Advertising : 104 wordsIn order to check the proposed formation of a professional Rugby team to visit England the New Zealand Rugby Union, before considering the players for inclusion ...
Article : 71 wordsEmpire Day was celebrated to-day, which was observed as a holiday. The pupils at the various public schools were entertained at a school concert, and were ...
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Advertising : 76 wordsA meeting of the Astronomical Society was held on May 21 at the University, in the Prince of Wales' Theatre. Professor Chapman presided, and there was a large attendance of members ...
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Advertising : 4 wordsMr. Lancelot Walker, M.L.C., died to-day. He was 78 years of age. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 23 May 1907, Page 6
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