Interviewed regarding his proposed scientific expedition to the Antarctic, Dr. Mawson. who arrived at Adelaide on Saturday by the R.M.S. Morea, said:—"Knowing that steps were being ...
Article : 756 wordsMr. W. H. Judkins, the well-known Melbourne temperance lecture, who is suffering from cancer, was found last week to be in a serious condition. An examination by Drs. G. A. Symo ...
Article : 381 wordsA South Melbourne engineering company is building for the Mount Gunson Copper-mining Company, South Australia. the latest type of locomotive. It is a huge oil motor-engine of ...
Article : 277 wordsThe annual distribution of the awards of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia was made by his Excellency the Governor of Victoria (Sir John Fuller) in the Melbourne Town Hall last ...
Article : 287 wordsEvery effort made so far to bring about a settlement of the sugar workers' strike in Queensland has met with failure, and both sides are in despair of arriving at a modus vivendi. On ...
Article : 286 wordsThe men who are engaged by the Deportment of Public Instruction to carry the rudiments of education to the young people in the back country try of the States must of necessity be possessed ...
Article : 486 wordsRecently the number of cases of intoxication from drinking methylated spirits, and. In not a few Instances, of death even from this practise. has been remarkable in some of the States, ...
Article : 592 wordsAn aeroplane and motor sledge will be used to assist the Mawson expedition in the Antarctic. (See letterpress this page). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsH. Andrews (adult male). 19 Clifton-street, North Perth. West Australia. would like is correspond with a resident of Leeds, England. ...
Article : 24 wordsSevere frosts have been experienced in Canterbury. The temperature at Christchurch last week ranged from 8 to 14 points below freezing point. Skating is going on. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe strike on the Fort Lincoln to Darkes Peek (S.A.) railway has been settled in a way satisfactory to the union. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Melbourne motor boatman's license his been cancelled for stealing a lifebuoy off Prince's-Bridge. ...
Article : 9 wordsVital statistics show that the birth-rate for W.A. in 1910 was 26.85. deaths 9.71, marriages 7.46, infantile mortality 78.05 per thousand. ...
Article : 34 wordsA big blaze at a timber mill at Balmain, Sydney (N.S.W.). destroyed the Structure, accounting for £10,000 damage. ...
Article : 24 wordsPlant will shortly arrive in New South to start a factory at Lismore for the manufacture of casein from skim milk. ...
Article : 3 wordsThe King has approved of the Military College at Duntroon, being called the Military College of Australia. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Victoria Quartz gold-mine at Bendigo (Vic.), which was twice sold recently, is the deepest gold-mine in the world. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Commonwealth statistician estimates that the taxation per head in Australia and Tasmania amounts to £3/11/2. ...
Article : 29 wordsA splendid supply of fresh water has been struck by an artesian bore at Tintinara (S.A.) at a depth of 313ft. ...
Article : 26 wordsVictoria and New South Wales have signified their approval of an annual conference of all the State forestry experts. ...
Article : 22 wordsRichard Harris was run over by a timber truck at Finder Bay jetty (W.A.) last Wednesday while assisting to unload it. He died at midnight. ...
Article : 33 wordsWhich 8000 wethers were passing Ambathala Lake, in the Charleville district (Q.), 500 were poisoned through eating fuchsia bush. ...
Article : 15 wordsDuring last week the Melbourne Observatory recorded on the seismograph severe shocks of earthquake in some distant quarter of the globe. ...
Article : 24 wordsForty-one Javanese arrived at Sydney last week on their way to work in the nickel mines in New Caledonia. ...
Article : 4 wordsEdward Pemberton. 11 years of age, who resided with his parents at Carlton (Vic.), was taken to the Faraday-street State school on last, Wednesday morning. A few minutes after ...
Article : 71 wordsThe railway staff having been lost at Goulburn Junction. near Seymour (Vic.), men are travelling backwards and forwards on the engines as human substitutes for the missing ...
Article : 31 wordsFrank Murphy was seriously injured by a flying chip from a circular saw at Bungendore (N.S.W.) last week Thirteen splinters were extracted from under the temple bone. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Australian Church in Flinders-street. Melbourne, was put up for sale last week, but no bids were received. ...
Article : 27 wordsA youth aged 16 was arrested at Hawthorn (Vic.) last week, and confessed to being the culprit in two bag-snatching incidents a fort night ago. ...
Article : 20 wordsA new firebell was received at Wonlbaggl (Vic.) last week. The carter who took delivery of it at the railway station, to test its tone, tolled it three or four times. There was an ...
Article : 89 wordsJohn Collins (50), a Melbourne stationer was run down by a train at Preston (Vic.) and killed instantly his body being terribly mutilated. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe report of the West Australian Health Department shows that the cost of the alcoholic beverages consumed in 1910 was £8/15/6 per head—an increase of 13/4½ on the previous year. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe warden at Stanthorpe (Q.) has written to the Mines Department denying the statement that a specimen had been found in the district containing radium worth £400. ...
Article : 33 wordsJohn Wilson, 65, was knocked down and kicked by a horse on a farm at Kiama (N.S.W.). last week and subsequently died from his injuries. ...
Article : 30 wordsAs Instancing the prolific nature or Inverell soil, Mr. T. C. Mitchell, of Long Plain. N.S.W. obtained the magnificent yield of 990 bushels of maize from nine acres averaging 110 bushels to ...
Article : 37 wordsElsle Elderfield, at Laurlston (Vic.), put a piece of wood in the fire when a dynamite cap concealed in it exploded. causing severe injuries to her eyes and body. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsA new foot-warmer is being introduced into use on the Queensland railways, which will retrain its heat for some sixty hours if shaken at intervals. ...
Article : 18 wordsResident of Yorktown (S.A.) last Thursday night static they saw rockets sent up in the direction of Port Mooroowie. The Authorities are searching for any vessel in distress that ...
Article : 39 wordsThomas Edwards, who was run over by a train at Winchelsea station (Vic.) on July 14, had his right leg amputated below the knee. Gangrene set in. and It was found necessary to reamputate ...
Article : 42 wordsLeslie Smith was driving a cart in East Brisbane last week when his horse bolted. He leaped out to avoid an accident, and falling on the road fractured his leg. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Melbourne Metropolitan Gas Co during the six months ended June 30 made a net profit amounting to £97,255, which is£15,299 in excess of that for the corresponding term ...
Article : 38 wordsOwing to restriction of potato importations from the Eastern States, consequent on the blight, the selling price in Perth is 5/ per stone. ...
Article : 14 wordsLast year's timber imports to New South Wales of 50,000,000 feet were record: but this year will surpass even this. for 30,000,000 feet have been already received at Sydney. and It Is ...
Article : 56 wordsThree natives, forming part of a boat crew, landed on North Malekula Island of the New Hebrides group and were surprised and massacred by savages. H.M.S. Prometheus is in ...
Article : 42 wordsone hundred and twenty-seven donkeys were shipped from Farina (S.A.) last week for Perth (W.A.). ...
Article : 12 wordsMr. W. Lingard. at Mortville (Q) was tossed and gored by a fractious bull on his farm, being severely bruised, and having one rib broken. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe business transacted at the last monthly Land Court. at Gayndah (Q.) exceeded all previous records, no less than 12,000 acres of land being taken up. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Victorian State Government has decided upon the abolition of the practice of kissing the Bible in taking oaths. The Attorney-General is inclined to favor the introduction for general ...
Article : 39 wordsFour men were crossing the Upper Yarra at Fairfield (Vic.) last week in a flat-bottomed boat when it capsized. Owing to the flooded condition of the river great difficulty was found in ...
Article : 56 wordsThe codlin moth has made Its appearance on Kangaroo Island (S.A.), and is spreading. rapidly ...
Article : 18 wordsA big bush fire in the St. George district (Q.) recently burnt out half the run on Coomrith Station, causing a heavy loss of grass. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe R.M.S. Orsova arrived 19 hours late at Fremantle after having carried away in a gale the galley funnel, part of the captain's bridges the windlass cover the cook's galley hatches, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe 3O-ton schooner Alfred II. arrived at Sydney last week, after a Pacific voyage lasting four months. during which she covered 6000 miles. ...
Article : 23 wordsA relay race is being arranged for next Easter from Adelaide to Sydney, when a relay of cyclists will be pitted against a relay of motor cyclists. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn engineer named Grand was found dead in his Hut last week on the Condamine (Q). It Seems that he had been deed six days. ...
Article : 29 wordsA plague of mice which has been causing great trouble in the Green Plains district (S.A.). has begun to disappear owing to the wet weather and the extreme cold that has been recently ...
Article : 38 wordsOne of the Gordon pipers who played "Cock of the North" while the regiment stormed the heights of Dargai. in the Tirah campaign of 1897, arrived in Victoria last week to settle ...
Article : 32 wordsInformation was received in Brisbane on Wednesday of a alight collision between the steamers Cornwall and Wodonga, at Bowen, the night previous Portion of the Wodonga's rail. Was ...
Article : 44 wordsA shocking accident occurred at Bamawm (Vic.) last week. A new settler named Browning was engaged in felling trees with a forest devil which was moored to another tree. This ...
Article : 76 wordsThe severest hallstorm experienced in Launceston for many years occurred last week. numbers of business and private premises being temporarily flooded. ...
Article : 24 wordsBy arrangement between the Commonwealth and the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. postal Parcels will now be exchanged between Australia and the Ocean, Gilbert, and ...
Article : 32 wordsMinor strike trouble are occurring practically in all the states. Over and above the sugar strike in Queensland there is one among the railway navvies at Wallal (Q.), in the liguor ...
Article : 30 wordsA Melbourne resident travelling to Fremantle on the steamer Morea, It is reported. took has 128 grains of veronal during the passage, and was unconscious for five days. ...
Article : 12 wordsAn old German, named M. Scholl. who died in Casino (N.S.W.) hospital, bequeathed about 30 across of farm land and other effects to the institution. When his liabilities are discharged ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Victorian Railway Accidents Fund will have to be specially replenished. owing to the severe drain on it by the Sunshine and Richmond disaster, which coat £252,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsOpie. of New Zealand was third in the final of the 150yds race at the English Press Sports last Saturday. Stewart. of Tasmania. won the 75yds event, and Hutcheson. of Queensland. was ...
Article : 39 wordsHandy men are invited to send in information of new ideas (accompanied by rough drawings which our artists can use as guides) suitable for publication ...
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Advertising : 68 wordsA cyclonic disturbance at Ballan (Vic.) last week uprooted trees, blew chimneys down and roofs off; cyclists were hurled from their machines. and pedestrians bruised against fences. ...
Article : 33 wordsThirteen horsemen and a pack of staghounds had an exciting hunt for dingoes at Woolyana (S.A.) last week eight dingoes in all being run down and killed. ...
Article : 16 wordsHerbert and Walter Crispe were shooting paddymelons at Jiggi (N.SW.). and became separated. waiter fired at something disturbing the bush. and was horrified to find his brother ...
Article : 38 wordsTwo men were rifling a store at Plympton. near Adelaide, early Friday morning when disturbed by the proprietor, who ineffectually seized one. Following them outside he was ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Queensland Premier has received a cable from his Agent-General in London notifying the departure from England of four steamers carrying 1360 Immigrants for Queensland. ...
Article : 29 wordsAccording to official figures. insanity seems to be increasing to a remarkable extent in Victoria Between 1905 and 1910 the total admissions to the State asylums rose from 780 per ...
Article : 36 wordsLast week a woman being conveyed to Gladesville Asylum evaded her guards, and locked herself in a compartment of the train at Goulburn (N.S.W.). She warded off assaults on the ...
Article : 52 wordsGeorge Hakin, who had been missing from his home at auburn (N.S.W.) for some time was found dead in the scrub with a bullet wound in his head. A finding of death from the ...
Article : 33 wordsFrederick Evans. a boy 10, was riding an old blind horse at a Brisbane suburb when it galloped into a fence, breaking it. and throwing the boy over his head. He subsequently died ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster-General has advised the public to be chary in using the letters "U.S.A." as an address. as confusion is likely to arise between the United States of America ...
Article : 38 wordsA determined suicide was reported to the Broken Hill (N.S.W.) police last week. A storekeeper saw a man carrying a swag go to the rear of a house. and there take a knife from ...
Article : 71 wordsAlbert Miles was driving team of horses at Gosford (N.S.W.) last week when the horses bolted. The waggon was upset and Miles, falling and getting his legs caught in the spokes ...
Article : 50 wordsCommander A. C. Dunn, retired from the Imperial Navy, has taken over H.M.A.S. Protector. and will call at the various Commonwealth ports. where parties of senior Cadets. about 60 ...
Article : 45 wordsPatrick Ryan discovered the body of Mrs. Ellen Hughes in well at Dundas (N.S. Wales). She had been suffering severely with influenza some years ago Ryan had discovered the body ...
Article : 42 wordsSpeaking in the Queensland Legislative Assembly Last week, the Premier, Mr. Denham, said: "I am always glad to note any influx of Germans to Queensland, as they have proved really good ...
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