Shortly after 12 o'clock to-day a man named Prior died in tragic circumstances at the Proprietary mine. Prior, who was a carpenter's laborer, had just ...
Article : 964 wordsThe Postal Commission to-day examined Mr. W. E. Finney, president of the Mails Branch Association. He said with the enormous increase of business the present ...
Article : 591 wordsFurther sensational evidence was given at the adjourned inquest on the three Morris children to-day. Florence Feakes, a married woman, said ...
Article : 473 wordsProfessor Darnley Naylor, speaking at the annual meeting of the South Australian Anti-Gambling League, held in the Exchange Cafe, Pirie-street, on Monday ...
Article : 1,463 wordsThe Premiers' Conference is in the throe[?] of the struggle for the control of the national purse. To-day a prolonged secret session was held, at which the Prime ...
Article : 1,347 wordsTo-night a fire destroyed the Strand Arcade, in Queen-street, the property of Mr. Arthur Myers. The flames swept the building, the immense conflagration ...
Article : 397 wordsThe hearing of the libel action by George Swinburne. M.L.A., ex-Minister of Water Supply, against the proprietors of "The Age" was begun to-day before Mr. Justice ...
Article : 623 words'A' match "between the Australian Eleven and Gloucestershire was begun to-day at Cheltenham. The following are the teams:— GLOUCESTER. AUSTRALIA. ...
Article : 455 wordsMessrs. Archibald Currie & Co. are in receipt of advice that the steamer Darius sailed from Colombo on August 13 for Australia. ...
Article : 28 wordsJ. Wilson, 26 years of age, a cook, employed on a steamer, collapsed while engaged in his duties, and falling backwards struck his head heavily. He was found ...
Article : 254 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day John Anderson was charged with having committed bigamy. He pleaded not guilty. Mary Anderson, boot machinist, residing ...
Article : 400 wordsA meeting of officers and members of friendly societies, convened by Mr. A. Leane, was held in the Exchange Room of the Adelaide Town Hall last night, to ...
Article : 539 wordsIn the High Court to-day Mr. Kelynack, instructed by Messrs. McLachlan and Murray, applied on behalf of Alexander John McLachlan defendant in the court ...
Article : 171 wordsThe police have submitted a report, alleging that the Salvation Army Mission Home and Home of Mercy refused to admit for treatment a woman who had given ...
Article : 136 wordsHenry Graham, 85, a resident of Ferryroad, Glehe, who followed the occupation of a musician, committed suicide this morning by placing a revolver in his mouth and ...
Article : 144 wordsT. Reid, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was to-day fined 20/ or 14 days' imprisonment for Sunday trading. Mr. W. D. Barnett, secretary of the ...
Article : 240 wordsAn action was begun in the Supreme Court to-day by John A. Unitt, engineer and mining tributar, residing at Brisbane against the Union Steamship Company of ...
Article : 137 wordsA remarkable case of fatalism has come under the notice of the hospital authorities at Warracknabeal. Some time ago a Hindoo was admitted from Hopetoun suffering ...
Article : 113 wordsArchbishop Delaney, in a lecture to-night, referred to German politics, and said the Centre, or Catholic Party, at present held the balance of power. While that ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Seydlitz arrived to-day, with the following passengers:— For Sydney—Messrs. Carl J. W. Oppermann, Paul Grossheim; Misses L. M. and ...
Article : 181 wordsThe floods on the Murray are still a source of considerable anxiety at Cobram, and residents in the low-lying areas are taking every precaution to safeguard their ...
Article : 106 wordsJoseph Lyons, who was convicted at Albury in connection with the Barrier industrial trouble and has since been released, returned to Broken Hill yesterday. He ...
Article : 67 wordsIt has been definitely ascertained that Irish blight exists in Victoria. The area affected is a small one, the disease being confined to Fish Creek, and steps may ...
Article : 546 wordsCaptain Lindstol, of the wrecked barque Orleans, inspected the wreckage brought to Hobart from the West Coast, and positively identified it as a portion of the missing ...
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Advertising : 391 wordsReferring to-day to the complaints of delay in inspecting mail vessels arriving at Fremantle from England and the Continent, the Minister of Customs (Sir Robert ...
Article : 91 wordsIn common with residents in other parts of Australia, the people of Bulli are not behind the times in seeing and marvelling at the mysterious lights which appear ...
Article : 283 wordsM. Bleriot, the French monoplanist, on July 12, won the Prix du Voyage of £560 for the first aeroplane voyage of 25 miles across country. He started at daybreak ...
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Advertising : 300 wordsWhile the Omrah was in port Mr. E. W. Naftzger, the Chapman-Alexander soloist, visited Perth, and sang a programme of mission songs before an immense audience ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Dennis, the Commissioner of Police, intends to resign at the conclusion of the present enquiry into the administration of the department. ...
Article : 119 wordsOn the recommendation of the executive committee the following dates for interState and trial matches were agreed to by the Cricket Association to-day:—Trial ...
Article : 122 wordsAugust 16.—Present—The Mayor (Mr. G. H. Prosser), Aldermen Phillips Estery, Holden and Mattingly Councilors Auld Woods Ford Lowen, Hansen Silver, Binks and Hales ...
Article : 272 wordsThe tender of the Ballarat Woollen and Worsted Company, of Ballarat, Victoria, at 5/9 per yard, has been accepted by the Commonwealth military authorities for the supply, from August 1, 1909. ...
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Advertising : 116 wordsPORT MacDONNELL, August 16.—A party of gentlemen, including Messrs. E. A. Gerloff and C. L. Spehr, arrived along this coast from Mount Gambier yesterday Mr. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Tue 17 Aug 1909, Page 8
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