One of the latest additions to the Sydney. police force—Constable A. W. Clarke—who is attached to the Clarence-street Police Station, succeeded in effecting the arrest of an alleged ...
Article : 568 wordsLate one afternoon last week. while the wind, was blowing n gale. and the driving rain was obscuring the view of the skippers on the ferry steamers increasing their way across the ...
Article : 313 wordsDuring the course of an interview on the arrival of the Otranto at Fremantle (W.A.). Mr. Totton, a New Zealand merchant, who is returning after a six years sojourn in Japan, was ...
Article : 319 wordsAt the annual Presbyterian Assembly in Sydney last week, the Rev. R. J. H. McGowan read a report from the Rev. J. Gilian, of the New Hebrides, which was to the following effect:— ...
Article : 532 wordsThe first number of the "Adelle Blizzard," a monthly publication, had just been produced, according to a wireless message from Commonwealth Bay (Adelie Land), received in Sydney ...
Article : 328 wordsAdelaide has been startled by sensational burglaries during the last year, but none can compare in boldness or neatness with that which was committed at the residence of Mr. ...
Article : 390 wordsTHE ABOVE PICTURES CONVEY AN IDEA OF THE ENORMOUS DAMGAGE DONE BY THE RECENT FLOODS IN THE (1) ONE HOUSE BLOWN AGAINST ANOTHER. A CURIOUS RESULT OF THE TORMADO'S POWER. (2) A RESIDENT OF OMAHA COLLECTING HIS BELONGINGS AFTER THE TORNADO. (3) A COSTLY BRIDGE WRECKED BY A STEAESHIP AT CLEVELAND. (4) HORSES DROWNED AS THE FLOOD, LEFT IN DAY— TON STREETS. AFTER THE WATER RECORDED, QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH BECAME AS IMPORTANT AS THE RELIEF OF THE STARVING. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsTenders in connection with the Commonwealth transcontinental, railway have been accepted, totalling a prospective expenditure of £160,922. ...
Article : 9 wordsCommonwealth receipts from all sources for the nine financial months ending April 30 amounted to £15,348,509, as against £14,285,381 in 1912. ...
Article : 23 wordsThomas Wandless, of Balmain, Sydney (N.S.W.), a confectioner, who has taken up spoke charming as a hobby, was giving an exhibition of his powers recently when a big ...
Article : 29 wordsOwing to dry weather, followed by intense cold, a severe milk famine is being experienced in New Zealand, the worst in the history of the industry. Prices are being increased ...
Article : 38 wordsFive wair sites have been selected by Western Australia respecting the damming of the Avon River. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Bullfinch Proprietary (W.A.) is offering a £500 reward for the recovery of the 800oz, of gold stolen from the smelting works recently. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe estimated European population of New Zealand on March 31 was 1,061,748, an increase for the quarter of 9121. ...
Article : 16 wordsA Chinese is said to have evaded the poll tax at Brisbane by means of a "faked" certificate The External Affairs Department is hopeful of tracing him. ...
Article : 30 wordsA monster mushroom, measuring over two feet in circumference, and weighing about 1½lb, was exhibited in Liverpool (N.S.W.) last week. It was found on the property of Mr. ...
Article : 6 wordsDespite the heavy losses of sheep in New South Wales last year, it is estimated that the total production of wool this season will equal that of 1912. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe old Berrima (N.S.W.) goal has been converted into a factory for converting the rabbit post into a number of profitable commercial products. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Total Abstinence League of Victoria intends to make every effort to have the sale of intoxicating liquors at military camps prohibited, and to have the Federal Territory and ...
Article : 33 wordsAt an informal function on board the Niagara at Auckland (N.Z.), the Canadian Commissioner read a letter from the Canadian Premier congratulating New Zealand and Canada upon the ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. J. E. Carne, F.G.S., in an article published in the Commonwealth External Affairs Department's first bulletin on Papua, says the possibilities of a valuable national asset in oil are ...
Article : 37 wordsThe South Australian State revenue for the March Quarter amounted to £1,185,732, showing a net increase of £8900 compared with that for the corresponding quarter of last year. The ...
Article : 38 wordsReplying to-day to a deputation of nurses and others, which sought to have their hours reduced from 62 to 48 per week, the Acting Premier of Victoria (Mr. Murray) said he and never ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 313 wordsThe number of factories in New South Wales during 1912 was 5203, an increase of 234 on 1911 The number of hands employed was 92,582, an increase of 4232. of these 81,667 were employed ...
Article : 44 wordsThe record price for an Australian-bred ram was equalled last week, when Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., on behalf of the owners of Canonbar station (Vic.), purchased from F. S. ...
Article : 68 wordsOwing to the high prices ruling for the carcases of rabbits, all the available land in the district around Gininderra (N.S.W.) is being rushed by trappers, and it is said that those ...
Article : 69 wordsAs showing the effect of the recent cyclone in the Queensland banana industry, exports from Cairns for April were only 1508 bunches, a decrease of 13,292 bunches. compared with the ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the Queensland Presbyterian Assembly Mr. T. Price Jones, of Charters Towers, explained why his church was a defaulter in the matter of funds. He said that 1600 dwelling houses ...
Article : 64 wordsIn a interview which he had with the Acting-Premier (Mr. Murray), Prof. Orme Masson, of Melbourne University, asked that the Ministry should make arrangements for members of the ...
Article : 98 wordsAlex Shaw (77) died suddenly at Berrigan (N.S.W.). He was a sergeant in the N.S.W. Contingent to the Soudan, and gained the Queen's and Khedive's medals. He left the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe agreement between the Queensland Lands Department and Mr. Roberts an American chemist, for a large tract of prickly pear country, is almost complete. ...
Article : 20 wordsSome 650 tons of ore are being despatched weekly from the North Lyell (Tas.) mine to the reduction works. The breaking of ore is being started on permanent lines at the 1000ft level. ...
Article : 53 wordsA witness, giving evidence at the Empire Trade Commission in Tasmania, estimated that that State had coal resources amounting to 16,000,000 tons unworked. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe world secretary of the Salvation Army at Bathurst (N.S.W.), said it would be for Australia's good to adopt an immigration scheme prepared by the late General Booth. He ...
Article : 31 wordsThe South Australian Government Statist reports that the actual results of the wheat and hay harvest will exceed his official forecast The yield of barley and oats will exceed ...
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Advertising : 179 wordsThe general manager of the Pacific Cable Board (Sydney) looks upon wireless communication across the Atlantic as being in a rather. nebulous state. He foreshadowed that in the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe foundation-stones of the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney were laid by the Prime Minister Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Denison Miller, governor of the bank. Mr. Fisher emphasised that the ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the Ballarat (Vic.) General Sessions. J. C. Ward was fined £ 2 for non-attendance as a juror. Judge Box was subsequently informed that Ward bad died some months ago. ...
Article : 25 wordsAnother link in the wireless chain round the Australian coast was formed last week, when the office at Geraldton (Q.) was officially opened. The Acting Postmaster-General announced that ...
Article : 27 wordsA bottle has been found at Parenga (N.Z.), containing a message, apparently on a sheet of a German log book. The message is as follows. the blanks representing blurred writing: ...
Article : 46 wordsTasmanian timber merchants have, by resolution, expressed the opinion that no advantage would result from legislation, which would make Government inspection of all timber exported ...
Article : 35 wordsThe third of the lepers who escaped from the Lazaret at Peel Island two months ago in a boat, landing at Manly (Q.), surrendered to the police last week and returned to the Island. ...
Article : 96 wordsAlthough several months have elapsed since the Federal Government promised a contribution of £2500 to the Mount Lyell Relief Fund, the money has not yet been paid. This is due ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, will consult Captain Halsey, of the battleship New Zealand, concerning the Proposal that a branch of the Imperial Aerial League be ...
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Globe (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1914), Sat 24 May 1913, Page 3
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