The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), who was received with Ministerial cheers, moved in the House of Representatives to-day the second reading of the Ltvnd Tax ...
Article : 995 wordsDr. Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, gave evidence before the Postal Commission to-day. He said it was impossible to get any efficient metallic surface ...
Article : 939 wordsThe enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the railway disaster at Richmond on July 18 was continued to-day. Edward Charles Blazey (superintendent ...
Article : 905 wordsThe feeling of horror created by the report of the destardly outrage on a four-year-old child at Fitzroy on Saturday has been intensified by the report of another ...
Article : 282 wordsAfter a recess extending over a fortnight members of the Legislative Council reassembled on Tuesday. The Franchise and Places of Public Entertainment Bills were ...
Article : 343 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Commercial Causes Bill was read a first time. The measure provides that a list of commercial causes shall be kept by the ...
Article : 58 wordsA pony attached to a cart belonging to Mr. W. Mead, newsagent, Hyde Park, suddenly took fright and bolted at Unley Park on Monday afternoon. Before proceeding ...
Article : 90 wordsReplying to Mr. Keenan to-day, the Treasurer said £514,922 loan money stood to the credit of the State in London at the end of last month. The money was ...
Article : 69 wordsGilbert Trebilcock, son of Mr. A. Trebilcock, gardener, of Fifth Creek, met with a painful accident today. One of the bornes became ...
Article : 67 wordsEmile Jand[?]chewsky, 19 years of age, a member of a troupe of musical clowns, known as the Do-re-mi Troupe, appearing at the Gaiety Theatre, was this evening ...
Article : 229 wordsIn Messrs. Wiltshire & Co.'s implement factory on Thursday afternoon a pair of horses were being shod, and whilst E. Quinlan was working on one, J. Matthews ...
Article : 99 wordsA fire broke out in a restaurant in Federal Chambers, adjoining His Majesty's Theatre, to-day. The fire had a considerable hold before the arrival of the brigade, ...
Article : 175 wordsFrederick Tannebring, employed by Mr. J. Sutt, farmer, of Mallala, met with an accident yesterday. He harntrased a young horse to a spring-cart, with the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe House of Assembly spent only 10 minutes on questions on Tuesday, and then the debate on the second reading of the Advances to Workers Bill was resumed in ...
Article : 708 wordsA five-year-old child named Burridge died suddenly to-day, apparently as the result of some irritant poisoning. ...
Article : 23 wordsFigures have been published to show that over two million acres of land in the western district of Victoria ore held by 187 people. The Federal Attorney-General ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Nikko Maru arrived from Japan the afternoon, and resumed her voyage. The following are the passengers— For Brisbane—Mr. and Mrs. Otto Seroko, ...
Article : 66 wordsA shocking motor car fatality occurred at Toorak to-day, one man being killed outright. Henry Cummings, an employe at the Charles M. Read Stores, Prahran, was ...
Article : 150 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Melbourne Tramway Company to-day the chairman of directors, Mr. F. B. Clapp, said he had to say a few words regarding the disparaging ...
Article : 210 wordsCrop prospects were never more promising than at present. In the northern wheat areas the growth has been more rapid that usual at this period. There is an amount ...
Article : 137 wordsOn Saturday a child under three years of age, the daughter of a settler named Argent, at South Wandering, while playing with an clder brother, fell into a ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Minister of Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley), replying to-day to a criticism of the census questions, said it was true that the teetotal question was not asked ...
Article : 199 wordsMr. Walter Kirby, the Victorian vocalist, is travelling to the eastern States by the Mooltan after spending eightyears in London and on the Continent. When ...
Article : 179 wordsThe selection by the Cricket Association of Messrs. Bardsley, Hume, and E. F. Waddy as cricket selectors, to the exclusion of Messrs. F. Iredale and M. A. Noble, ...
Article : 429 wordsH. Rosengreen, a rendent of Chilt[?]rn, was catting wood for the Golden Bar mine, when his axe hit an overhanging branch and glancing off struck his foot, cutting off ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the case of George Mott, 75 years of age, a[?] ex-school teacher, whose remains were found on the railway line at North Fitzroy, no evidence was forthcoming at ...
Article : 56 wordsArthur Partell, 48, miner, residing at Golden Gully, was on his way home, when in the darkness he missed his way and fell into a hole. His right leg was broken, ...
Article : 57 wordsA deputation representing landowners and residents of the Tully River district waited on the Premier and Treasurer tonight, and asked for assistance in erecting ...
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Advertising : 638 wordsStatistics of the oversea trade of Victoria for July show that compared with the corresponding month in 1909 imports of merchandise increased by £403,260, whilst ...
Article : 170 wordsThe butter season, which started at the beginning of the month, is nearly six weeks ahead of last year in regard to the export of produce. A rapid increase in the weekly ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Cascade Brewery has declared a dividend of 6 per cent, for the half-year, the profit being £5,757. The first of the Tongkah new dredges ...
Article : 35 wordsNo fewer than eight petitions, four of them presented by Ministerial supporters, were submitted to the House of Representatives to-day against the alteration in the ...
Article : 69 wordsA woman named Woods was to-day committed for trial on a charge of performing an illegal operation. LAUNCESTON, August 16. ...
Article : 56 wordsAccording to a letter received from W. A. Sparrow & Co., of London, dated July 4, there are not sufficient steamers engaged in the Australian trade to carry the cargo ...
Article : 147 wordsUpon the report stage of the Estimates in the Legislative Assembly to-night the payment of £102, cost of the message issued by the Victorian Government to the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Railway Commissioners are extending the electric lock and block system of train signalling, which has been experimentally in operation for some time. As ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Murray) announced in the Legislative Assembly to-night that a site had been selected on the north side of the Alfred Graving Dock for ship ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the billiard match in which Roberts concedes Lindrum 500 in 3,000, the veteran played in fine form to-dáy. After a break of 107 in the afternoon, he rattled up 417 by ...
Article : 70 wordsMrs. Lily Lewis, housekeeper at Mr. McMahon's residence, was the victim of an outrage yesterday afternoon. She answered a knock at the door, and on opening it ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat until a late hour this morning. The Fisheries Amendment Bill was taken through its committee stage with amendments. The ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Wed 17 Aug 1910, Page 12
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