For some weeks the Western Australian Government have been preparing for new works to supply the Federal Government with 1,500,000 powellised wooden sleepers ...
Article : 220 wordsBrigadier-General Gordon Chief of the Australian section of the Imperial General Staff, who arrived from Melbourne on Tuesday, is visiting the different States ...
Article : 770 wordsWhen the question of day-work in the bakery trade was under consideration by the Operative Bakers' Society a month ago, a motion was proposed to the effect ...
Article : 183 wordsDr. Deek, a well-known missionary, arrived to-day from the Solomon Islands by the Mindini. His trip on the present occasion is in connection with the ...
Article : 138 wordsA well-attended meeting was held in the Gawler Institute to-night to consider the matter of locomotive construction. The mayor (Mr. C. G. Rebbeck) reviewed the ...
Article : 203 wordsThe fourth test match was begun at Leak to-day between England and South Africa. The weather was dull and the wicket soft. Earlier in the morning a sharp ...
Article : 2,443 wordsOn Monday evening a horse was cut to pieces by the Glenelg train. The animal was being driven with several others belonging to Mr. Kither to his stable, when ...
Article : 466 wordsThe last block of land in Flinders-street between Elizabeth and Queen streets available for building purposes was told to-day. The block has a frontage to Flinders-street ...
Article : 102 wordsThe committee of engineers has recommended that a Scherer lift bridge be placed across the Yarra between Spencer-street, city, and Clarendon-street. South ...
Article : 91 wordsWhile the 7.55 a.m. train from Parramatta to Sydney was running through the Flemington station this morning the steam valve of the engine suddenly blew out. ...
Article : 125 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Mount Gambier Caledonian Society to deal with correspondence from kindred societies with respect to taking united ...
Article : 182 wordsA serious shooting affair took place about four miles from Dunedoo this morning. William Ernest Smith, 29 years of age, a horse driver, employed on the construction ...
Article : 162 wordsA fatal accident occurred on the Tewantin-Cooroy road to-day. Tate's coach was about six miles from Cooroy, when the pole broke, and the vehicle ...
Article : 61 wordsA training college for teachers is to be established, with the object of drafting into the service of the Education Department sufficient teachers to meet the requirements ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Dental Congress was continued this mornings when some time was spent in clinics, conducted by members of the congress. These were attended ...
Article : 142 wordsTwo trains collided on the Milson's Point to Hornsby line, between Roseville and Lindfield, this afternoon. The scene of the accident was on top of an embankment ...
Article : 124 wordsThere were no further developments of interest to-day in regard to the threatened strike of the companionship of the "West Australian" office, which is a sequel to ...
Article : 204 wordsWheat.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom this week is estimated at 3,315,000 quarters (3,285,000 quarters a week ago), and for the ...
Article : 292 wordsSeveral wardens of the Hobart Marine Board, who have acted as agents for insurance companies and errected contracts for insurance boards, offices, and officers, ...
Article : 53 wordsClarence Weber and the lusty New Zealand wrestler, [?]. Lenanze, will wrestle for the championship of Australia and £100 a side on Melbourne Cup morning. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Eastern trader the Van Waerwyck lying at the Australian wharf, was the scene of a fatal quarrel this morning between two members of the crew. ...
Article : 183 wordsThe following are the passengers by the R.M.S. Otranto which arrived from London to-day:— For Adelaide—Messrs. Holman, Giles, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe steamer Empire, from Japan and Hongkong, arrived this morning, and later resumed her voyage south. The passengers were as follow:— ...
Article : 155 wordsConstable Bertrand, a new addition to the Victorian Police Force, was on duty in Chapel-street this morning, when he saw a man walking away from a dancing ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Marmora, which left Fremantle to-day, shipped the following specie:—Two boxes of bar gold, valued £10,039, for Calcutta, 30 boxes containing 150,000 ...
Article : 44 wordsA movement is on foct to erect a journalists' memorial to Mr. W. T. Stead, who was drowned in the wreck of the White Star liner Titanic. ...
Article : 183 wordsNo Australian firm has more rapidly or deservedly come to the front than that of Ward Bros. & A.N.A. Co., now the Australian Sewing Machines Company, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsA bright and busy emporium has just been established by Mr. Louis Steinwehr at 35. King William-street, two doors north of Hindley-street. The shop has a ...
Article : 341 wordsMrs. Elizabeth Moore, the old woman who was attacked by her son with an axe yesterday, is still in the Melbourne Hospital in a precarious condition. ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsIn the Reece-Lindrum billiard match to-day some lively billiards were seen, and if either keep up the same form for the whole journey of 10,000 points both men will have ...
Article : 102 wordsA meeting of the Southern Tasmanian Football League was held to-night, at which the case of Maguire, of the Melbourne Club, who was reported as having ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsThe finding of the Court of Enquiry with regard to the loss of the dredge Manchester states that the vessel was fully manned, found, and equipped, and nothing seemed ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsBurglars entered the Imperial Hotel last night, and tampered with the safe. They were, however, disturbed by the licensee (Mr. M[?]guire) before anything had been ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following are the latest quotations on the London' Stock Exchange. Broken Hill Proprietary, buyers 57/, sellers 58/. ...
Article : 68 wordsSir—I read with much surprise the account of the meeting held at Morgan on June 24 for the purpose of protestinggg against the ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Wed 10 Jul 1912, Page 10
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