The Collector of Customs has received [?] communication from Customs Officer Huxley, stationed at King Island, which states: ...
Article : 126 wordsIn obedience to instructions, the House Committee presented to the Legislative Council on Wednesday their report on the proposal to instal billiard tables in the ...
Article : 514 wordsIn view of the fact that the question of franchise reform is engaging the attention of Parliament, the figures given below, compiled by Mr. Josiah Boothby, C.M.G. ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Mr. Fisher) delivered his Budget speech in the House of Representatives this afternoon. He said the financial year which closed on June ...
Article : 1,999 wordsIt is intended to adopt the service rifle which has been most recently accepted by the Imperial Government, as the standard weapon to be manufactured at the small ...
Article : 78 wordsWhen asked a question in regard to the negotiations proceeding between the private employers in the engineering trade and the Government on the one hand, ...
Article : 812 wordsErnest Vantell, aged 80, who resides at 45, Hanson-street, had a narrow escape from death on Wednesday morning. He was pedalling a tricycle in King William-street, ...
Article : 133 wordsIn the Assembly last night the Agricultural Amendment Bill was considered in committee, and an amendment by Mr. Price to strike out the clause limiting ...
Article : 114 wordsInstructions have been issued by the Chief of the General Staff to the State Commandants to invite applications for the positions of temporary area officers ...
Article : 581 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Government women workers was held last evening at the Trades Hall, the president, Mrs. E. A. Roberts, in the chair. There ...
Article : 224 wordsThe finding of the wreckage from the Princesse Marie a Danish barque, affords a clue to the fate of the vessel, which mysteriously disappeared off the Australian ...
Article : 292 wordsMiss Ethel Mason has been found drowned. She had been suffering from insomnia and nervous breakdown. An inquest has been deemed unnecessary. Great ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the Senate to-day Senator McGregor moved the second reading of the Northern Territory Acceptance Bill. He said he hoped members who had spoken before the ...
Article : 155 wordsA buggy containing Michael Toohey, his wife, and 11-year-old daughter, collided with a tramcar in Blende-street yesterday afternoon. The horse shied and backed ...
Article : 58 wordsCharles Duffy fell down a winze at the Junction North to-day a distance of 60 ft. He escaped with slight bruises. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn old man, Charles Jones, was found dead in his hut in a gully near Jamieson to-day. Constables discovered planted in the ground £40 worth of gold and £16 in ...
Article : 37 wordsThe annual meeting of the Adelaide doctorate committee of the U.L.P. was held at the Trades Hall on Wednesday night. Mr. A. E. Donnelly presided over a good ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Perth tram strike is how entering on its seventh week, and none of the strikers have availed themselves of the company's final offer, which closes this evening, to ...
Article : 375 wordsJust after leaving the Hornsby station yesterday afternoon a train bound for Sydney ran down a school girl, Bertha Whatman, 8 years of age, who was crossing the ...
Article : 134 wordsMessrs. Dalgety & Co. are advised by cable that the White Star line steamer Persic arrived at Cape Town from Australia last Monday. ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the animal session to-day of the Australian Protestant Defence Association it was resolved that the association be called the Federal Council of the Australian ...
Article : 440 wordsThe building trades' picnic committee met at the Trades Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. W. W. Beavis presiding over a large attendance. It was decided to hold the ...
Article : 50 wordsReplying to a request by the Trades Hall Council that the Melbourne Tramway Company should be compelled to adopt sectional fares, the Premier said the time ...
Article : 61 wordsA telegram was received by the Commissioner of Police to-day stating that Mr. Balkenburg, secretary of the Leonora Hospital Board, committed suicide yesterday ...
Article : 39 wordsThe West Adelaide local committee of the U.L.P. held their annual meeting on Monday night, the president (Mr. Andrews) in the chair. Officers ...
Article : 102 wordsWhen the Port Fairy train was on its journey from Geelong this evening a child tell out of one of the cars near the junction of the Colac and Queenscliff lines. ...
Article : 176 wordsAn inquest has been held concerning the death of Alexander Gibson Manners, whose decapitated body was found on the railway line at Clifton Hill, on July 31. No ...
Article : 82 wordsThe House of Assembly got through its preliminary work rapidly on Wednesday, and within a quarter of an hour the business of the day was reached. During the ...
Article : 665 wordsThe evidence taken by the Coroner at the inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Ellen Stewart, aged 35, who was killed on the railway line at Lillydale, on July 31, ...
Article : 106 wordsA crowded meeting of the Tramway Employes' Union was presided over at the Trades Hall by the president (Mr. T. H. Smeaton, M.P.) on Wednesday night. ...
Article : 103 wordsAt about 12.30 a.m., Mr. Barber was speaking on the Premier's motion to annex Thursday afternoons for Government business, when Mr. Mulcahy (Gympie) drew ...
Article : 285 wordsA little boy, George Alloway, who resided with his parents at Penrose-street, Moonee Ponds, died in the Children's Hospital to-day from tetanus following on an ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Minister of Education made a statement in Parliament with reference to the charges of immorality preferred against teachers in the Education Department by a ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the Brunswick Court to-day Edith McMahon was charged with having attempted to commit suicide at the Salvation Army Retreat, West Brunswick, yesterday ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Pastrycooks' and Confectioners' Union of Workers have lodged a citation against the employers. They ask for a week of 48 hours at a wage of £3 10/ for ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Federated Tanners and Leather Dressers' Union of Australia (South Australian branch) will hold a meeting to-morrow to consider the present situation in the ...
Article : 106 wordsH. Intermann, licensee of the Exchange Hotel. Pall Mall, Bendigo, met with a serious accident to-night. He was walking downstairs, when he turned suddenly to ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Government's Land Act Amendment Bill, introduced to-day, gives a lease in perpetuity to tenants of the Crown with the right of conversion to freehold, and ...
Article : 249 wordsTwo women were yesterday afternoon passing along a path which leads from the Cremorne wharf up the steep side of a hill past the reserve, when they suddenly heard ...
Article : 94 wordsA boarding-house, comprising 32 rooms, with four adjoining residences, at Devonport, Auckland, was destroyed by fire today. ...
Article : 41 wordsStanley Dowling, five years of age, was lost in the scrub near Dimboola yesterday afternoon. Search parties were out all night and this morning, but the little boy ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Rev. George Hart, Anglican minister, and his wife left Gin Gin on Tuesday afternoon in a sulky to tour the Toweran district, and when 18 miles out the horse ...
Article : 95 wordsThere was a good attendance at the meeting of the newly-formed Rope, Twine, Nail, and Barbed Wire Employes' Union on Monday evening at the Temperance Hall, ...
Article : 121 wordsAt last night's council meeting the chief sanitary inspector reported that since August 20 37 cases of diphtheria had been reported, 13 of which had occurred since ...
Article : 73 wordsFrancis George Lewis, a slaughterman, cut his throat with a butcher's knife while engaged at a bench yesterday. On the way to the hospital he said, "This is all done ...
Article : 95 wordsThe open golf championship of New Zealand to-day was won by Arthur Duncan with a score of 295, Clements was second with 306, and Bidwell third with 308. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Beetroot Sugar Bill, introduced in the House of Representatives by the Government to-day, gives the Crown authority to enter into arrangements with ...
Article : 87 wordsJ. Goldberg, a little boy, residing with his parents at Wyndham, while playing with a brace and bit, pierced the ball of his eye. He was removed to Sydney, and ...
Article : 47 wordsLast night John McGuire, a teamster, of Dorrigo, died from injuries received through the waggon which he was driving passing over his hips. There were about ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Victorian training ship, John Murray, was christened at Williamstown today by Lady Carmichael. The John Murray is not to take convicted boys, but boys ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. S. J. Elston, organising delegate for Australasia of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, is in Adelaide. He was born in London 56 years ago, and is a blacksmith ...
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Advertising : 180 wordsThe inquest ino the circumstances of the death of Henry Ralph Stockdale has been concluded at Gilgandra. The body of the deceased was found on Berida station. The ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the weekly meeting of the Federal Opposition to-night consideration was given to the question of organising for the next elections. It was generally agreed that ...
Article : 66 wordsPatrick Sheridan, or Fisher, and Thomas Hangan, were each fined £2, or 14 days in gaol, at the Police Court yesterday for having assaulted Constable Doolan. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Factories Act Amendment B[?]ll introduced by the Minister of Labor in the House of Representatives proposes that after January it shall be unlawful for any ...
Article : 55 wordsFrom invitations which have been issued in Melbourne to friends of Dr. Chapman, the evangelist, who made such a successful tour of Australia about a year ago. it ...
Article : 131 wordsAnother scandal in connection with lunacy administration was ventilated in the Legislative Assembly this evening. Mr. Beazley asked the Premier whether he was ...
Article : 231 wordsCatherine Burke (59), Irving at Picton Arms Hotel, whilst attempting to evade a buggy in George-street, was knocked down by a tram going towards the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe proposal to grant a loan of £1,000 to the Combined Unions' co-operative ventures was considered at a meeting of the A.M.A. lost night. It was decided that ...
Article : 63 wordsThe campaign started by the Mayoress of Wellington for a fund to build a Children's Hospital has closed. The mayoress started out a month ago to raise £3,500. At a ...
Article : 65 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Shop Assistants' and Warehouse Employes' Union was held at the Trades Hall on Wednesday night. The president (Mr. H. Gilmore) ...
Article : 265 wordsIn view of the large number of surveys that have to be made of lands for Federal purposes, and the increase in the survey work that will follow upon the acquisition ...
Article : 65 wordsJames Ellis, or James Heaney (42), a laborer, was found dead in a cell at Darlinghurst Gaol. He was undergoing a term of three months' imprisonment. When ...
Article : 55 wordsA bicycle road race for amateurs took place to-day, under the auspices of the South Broken Hill Amateur Cycling Club. The distance was 14 miles, and ten riders ...
Article : 101 wordsRecord-breaking piano playing endurance is becoming common in New Zealand. The latest victims to this craze are Godfrey Copley, whose committee at Wanganui stopped ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Fremantle Municipal Council has served the Fremantle Gas Company with notice of its intention to purchase the company's plant in accordance with the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe gold yield for August was 25,420 oz. crude, equal to 22,199 oz. fine, valued at £94,294, as compared with 17,106 oz. crude, equal to 14,983 oz. fine, valued at £63,646, ...
Article : 96 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day Thomas Garbutt was convicted of breaking and entering the Perth Technical School. Mr. Justice Rooth, in sentencing Garbutt to ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture having received a communication from Mr. Perrv the New South Wales Minister, stating that he cannot see his way dear to reduce the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe inter-State baseball carnival was continued to-day, when the second game of the rubber between Victoria and New South Wales resulted in the defeat of the ...
Article : 72 wordsAn aborigine, Tommy Morden, was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with rape at Williams. According to the case for the prosecution the accused had ridden ...
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