Messrs. John Sanderson & Co. to-day received cable advice of the arrival at London of the P. & O. branch service liner Commonwealth on Thursday. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn extraordinary state of things prevails in the baking trade on the Barner. The efforts of the combined unions to fix the price of bread at a figure which will enable ...
Article : 399 wordsA sensational runaway occurred to-day on the Gellong and Ballarat railway line. A goods train had reached Elaine station, where shunting operations had to be carried ...
Article : 137 wordsThe secretary of the U.L.U. (Mr. J. Smith) has received a telegram from Redhill to the effect that there are 40 men on strike there and eight at work. The men ...
Article : 177 wordsThe City Coroner (Dr. Ramsay Smith) conducted an equiry at the Adelaide Police Court on Friday afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the death of Alfred ...
Article : 377 wordsThe secretary of the Agricultural Implement Machinery and Ironworkers' Assistants' Association (Mr. A. F. Block), who has been in Melbourne during the last ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. R. S. Walpole has suggested to the executive of the Employers' Federation that he shold be allowed to tender his resignation as secretary on the ground of ...
Article : 45 wordsAbout 1,200 men are now employed in railway construction in different parts of the State. ...
Article : 17 wordsWhen interviewed on Friday Mr. A. F. Block said in Melbourne he had held conferences with the Bedstead and Fender Employes' Union, the Tinsmiths' Society, the ...
Article : 377 wordsA balance-sheet issued by the Eight Hours Committee for 1909-10 shows that £1,831 is available for distribution amongst charities, or about £100 more than in the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe New South Wales Water and Sewerage Board resolved yesterday to comply with the application of the Canley Vale progress association that the contemplated ...
Article : 136 wordsThe seismograph at the Melbourne Observatory shows that a severe earthquake shock was recorded on August 21. There were preliminary tremors at 3 hr. 46 min. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Farm Workers' Union propose to move the Arbitration Court for an award on a schedule providing the following wages:—Ploughmen and drill-drivers, 9/ a ...
Article : 105 wordsWah Lee, a young Chinese cabinetmaker, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital, was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain. It is started that the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe work of revising the rules of football was resumed to-night at a special meeting of the Victorian Football League. Various proposals were put forward to ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. F. W. Lewis presided over a largelyattended meeting of the Blacksmiths' and Forgemen's Union at the Trades Hall on Friday night. Four new members were ...
Article : 53 wordsJohn Clarke, 39 years of age, driver of a milk cart, has died, in the hospital as the result of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident. He was sitting in a cart at ...
Article : 56 wordsThe annual meeting of the Pastoralist[?] Union of Southern Riverina was held today. The report stated that in view of the failure of the recent conference with ...
Article : 201 wordsK. Heath, five years of age, who resides at Beulahdelah with his parents, has been the victim of a serious accident. His brother was felling a tree, which pinned the ...
Article : 50 wordsA meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers was held at the Rechabite Hall on Friday night. There was a very large attendance. The new demand made ...
Article : 60 wordsA few days ago Mr. W. Farm [?] put his kneepcap out of place by slipping on the ground while yarding some horses. His wife drove him to Cumming to catch the ...
Article : 78 wordsE. Fackerell, who resides near Murwillumbah, was trimming a springboard with an adze, when he struck his foot, nearly severing it. The young man crawled two ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Woman Employes' Mutual Association, which was formed in 1906, has the matter of organising all women workers in hand, and is making rapid strides in ...
Article : 105 wordsThe military authorities announced today that before volunteers can be made militianmen they must pass the prescribed medical tests. It is therefore anticipated ...
Article : 325 wordsA very sad accident happened last week to Walter Ledgard, in the employ of Mr. Fred Seroops. He was leading two horses, one a young colt, with a very long rope, ...
Article : 93 wordsMrs. Caroline Barron was yesterday fined £25 and costs or three months in gaol on a charge of being the keeper of gaming premises in Surry Hills. Six persons ...
Article : 57 wordsThe ladies golf championship of New Zealand was won by Miss Collins, of Wellington, who beat Miss Wray, of Manawatu, in the final 6 up 4 to play. ...
Article : 78 wordsAn application was made to Mr. Clarke, S.M., in the Central Court to-day to review a decision with reference to the granting of bail to Ellonar Brown, at ...
Article : 88 wordsThere was a big meeting of the Letter[?] Printers, Machin[?]ts, and Stereotypers' Association at the Trades Hall on Friday night. The question of arranging ...
Article : 104 wordsWhen enquiry was made at the Hospital on Friday it was ascertained that B[?]yan Devitt, aged 10, who was knocked down by a tram on the Norwood Parade on ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Silverton Tramway Company to-day Mr. D. McBride (chairman) said the total tonnage carried during the six months ...
Article : 219 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Minister of Justice said his proposal for employing prison labor in preparing land now worthless for occupation by dairy ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Police Court a woman was fined £10 and costs for adopting a child for reward, she not being registered for the purpose. ...
Article : 207 wordsA burning fatality occurred at Bolivia. The four-year-old daughter of James Dwyer, jun., was playing near a fire in a paddock, when her clothes caught alight. ...
Article : 47 wordsA strong deputation, representing the New Zealand Federation of Labor, waited on the Prime Minister to-day and pointed out the hardships caused in ...
Article : 207 wordsOn Friday night, at Bricknell's Cafe, a conference was held between the representatives of the employers and employes in the [?] industry[?] Messrs. J. M. R[?] ...
Article : 120 wordsMrs. James Bugg died this morning at Bolivia from burns occasioned while burning a heap of rubbish in a paddock with the object of dispatching a snake which ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. A. A. Pearce held an inquest to-day on the body of one of the lascar fireman aboard the steamer Clan Buchanan. His name was A[?]tholl[?], and he was a native ...
Article : 228 wordsIn connection with the Sydney slaughterm[?] strike, the secretary of the Federated Butchers' Union (Hon. A. W. Styles, [?]. L. C.) has received the following letter ...
Article : 130 wordsIt has always been urged that transcontinental railways are needed for defence purposes. Having in view that fact the Minister of Home Affairs recognises the ...
Article : 153 wordsAt the Criminal Sittings to-day the Chief Justice presiding. Charles Judah, for unlawfully wounding a woman, was sentenced to ten years' hard labor. James Wedge ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Minister of External Affairs has received a communication from the Queensland Government with reference to a question addressed to the several States as ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Miners' Federation has decided to invite Mr. Peter Bowling to visit New Zealand as soon as he is liberated from prison, and also to bring Mrs. Bowling as ...
Article : 37 wordsThe ceremony of opening a sub-artesian bore was performed by the Minister of Works this afternoon on the premises of Messrs. Sharpe Bros., cordial ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the divorce case, Little versus Little, heard at Palmerston North Mr. Lethbridge, formerly a well-known member of the House of Representatives, was joined ...
Article : 35 wordsThere was a good attendance on Friday evening at the meeting of the brickyard [?], held in the Temperance Hall, B[?]. The president (Mr. A. J. ...
Article : 345 wordsWhen the Assembly met to-day reference was made to the statement that had been published about sweating in Hobart, by Dr. Mercer, Bishop of Tasmania, and a ...
Article : 230 wordsMalt King has never been regarded as a stayer. A mile was thought to be his best distance, but this year he has been entered for the Melbourne Cup and Metropolitan, ...
Article : 408 wordsThe Executive has approved of the repurchase by the Government of the [?]nkerman and Woodstock estate, on the Burdekin River, the vendors being the North ...
Article : 132 wordsA railway fireman named Matthews underwent a sensational experience on Thursday evening, when he fell from the cao[?] of the engine whilst travelling full speed, ...
Article : 188 wordsA new development occurred at the Darlinghurst Sessions this morning in connection with the Woolwich sensation, when John Heath was charged with having on ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Minister of Education has agreed at the instance of the Australian Natives' Association to arrange for the Commonwealth flag to be flown at the State ...
Article : 86 wordsEleven farms in Victoria are affected with Irish blight. In order to give some friendly assistance to growers whose farms have been in quarantine, the Minister of ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Government Bill for the constitution and corporation of a college of divinity, under the name of the Melbourne College of Divinity, was circulated to-night. It ...
Article : 114 words"Les J[?]lloux[?]" (The Jealous Ones), an oil painting, by Watteau, the famous French artist, has been purchased for the National Gallery under the conditions of ...
Article : 119 wordsArrangements are being made for witnesses to appear before the Federal Select Committee in support of the recognition of Tasmania's claim for financial ...
Article : 30 wordsOn August 24 the secretar of the United Laborers' Union (Mr. J. Smith) forwarded the following letter to the Railways Commissioner:—"I am instructed by the ...
Article : 111 wordsA collision occurred in Darling Harbor to-day between the steamers Ulimaroa and Canonbar, but only slight damage was done. The vessels were both manœuvring ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. McMullen, the inventor of an improved aeroplane, is a competitor for the Commonwealth prize. He says he will have to get an engine from France, but ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 27 Aug 1910, Page 15
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