Shortly before midnight on Tuesday the 10.5 p.m. mail (No. 7) from Sydney was near Picton Lakes it ran into a heavy stock train. At the time of writing ...
Article : 546 wordsThe Turkish attack on Tripoli and the Arab uprising on the 23rd inst. were a complete surprise. The great drawback to the Italian operations ...
Article : 676 wordsPaderewski, it is said, can play over 500 compositions from memory. He needs to read a play or composition new to him only twice in order to memorise it. ...
Article : 1,163 wordsAn edict has been issued, in which the Throne "apologises for past neglects," grants a Constitution with a Cabinet from which the Manchu nobles are to be excluded, and pardons the rebels. ...
Article : 183 wordsA public meeting was held in the P., A., and I. Society's office on Saturday for the purpose of forming a branch of the N.S.W. Agricultural Bureau. The meeting was fairly well attended, ...
Article : 323 wordsDeath of Mr. R. A. Price.—Although it was known early in the week that Mr. R. A. Price, headmaster of the local public school, was very seriously ill, and very little hopes were ...
Article : 586 wordsThe estate of the late Mr. Frederick Lassetter has been valued for probate at £231,000. A STRANGE CASE. A woman who had been found in male attire ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury, in a sermon in St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, commended the efforts being made towards Christian unity. These efforts were struggling, spontaneously and ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. F. S. Cody, in a monoplane of his own invention, flew 255 miles at Aldershot for the Michelin Cup and £500, at an average height of 1200 feet, at the rate of 51 miles an hour. The ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Times' Tripoli correspondent, in describing the oasis slaughter, says that the Italians set themselves to cow the Arabs; but the men got beyond control, and the innocent ...
Article : 75 wordsThe spring festival in aid of All Saints' Church of England was successfully carried out on Saturday last, the proceeds amounting to £27. The Oddfellows' Hall, in which the festival was ...
Article : 430 wordsThe Debats, replying to the Cologne Gazette, states that the despatch of the German gunboat Panther to Agadir was an unfriendly demonstration at a moment when France was making ...
Article : 56 wordsThe King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family attended the ceremony in connection with the dedication of the King Edward memorial window, representing "The Lord ...
Article : 103 wordsOur Late Show.—Without any assistance whatever from the State cow, and a credit balance of something about £100 to the good, the members of the Gininderra Farmers' Union may well feel ...
Article : 770 wordsThe Imperialist advance at Hanyang has been checked, despite the fact that the rebels lost three field guns. It is estimated that a thousand rebels have ...
Article : 417 wordsReuter's correspondent at Rome says that the selection of Archbishop Bourne, of Westminster, the Archbishops of New York and Boston, and twelve other prelates as Cardinals will be ...
Article : 140 wordsThe manual labourer is more interested in the [?]tity of the law than any other class, for it is made for the protection of the weaker. Yet the wharf-labourers have had no hesitation in ...
Article : 831 wordsWhat's the good of building cathedrals and grand central halls of worship, if under their shadow people are growing up under conditions more intolerable than have ever been ...
Article : 36 wordsA passenger by the mail train informs us that the collision occurred about 12 o'clock. The stock train went into the loop line, but overran points and got on to the main line. The ...
Article : 641 wordsWhile it is a fine thing for a man to have a grip of his work, it is a finer thing for his work to have a grip of him.— ...
Article : 32 wordsTreat your wife kindly, be gentle to her, spend your evenings, with her, buy presents for her with your spare cash, take her out, and probably she will be a nice, loving wife to you.— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsThe vast mass of cultivated verse written to-day is studied only by critics and other poets anxious to find an obscurity deeper than their own.— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 459 wordsPeople who preach war in the newspapers and elsewhere ought to be compelled, when their desire is accomplished, to march in the van of the army.— ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is, in the modern world, impossible by successful war to derive any profit commensurate with the cost involved.— ...
Article : 26 wordsLithgow, Sunday.—At the last meeting of the Lithgow District Teachers' Association the following motion was carried:—"That this association regrets that teachers have had the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe churches must inculcate, into the minds of capitalists the duty of making some sacrifice for the general mass of the community.— ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is a more reliable test of the greatness of a nation and the wisdom of its Government that its people should be healthy, happy, contented, and free even than that its territories should be ...
Article : 47 wordsI think all universities of the future, or those that have recently been erected, point to the conclusion that they will be situated in great industrial communities where the want for ...
Article : 54 wordsOur district has had a very small share of the rainfall during October. To ensure good yields of early crops a good downpour is needed. During dry spells constant cultivation and stirring ...
Article : 336 wordsIt is said to be degradation to flog a boy. Well, I am truly thankful I was often degraded in my boyhood in that sense.— ...
Article : 30 wordsCaptain J. W, D. Thomson, who has been retired "for age" from the 2st Lancers, commenced his military career by serving in the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-5, as a trooper in ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Hon. Austin Chapman has been advised of thin conditions under which telephone communication could be provided between Sutton and Queanbeyan. The cost of the line is ...
Article : 277 wordsFor the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. on Wednesday Crookwell reported 73 points of rain. A strong candidate for the vacant portfolio in the State Ministry will doubtless Le Mr. Ca[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 words"Crow."—Idea good, but treatment too sketchy. Rain fell over Riverina on Tuesday, the effect being to make the prices of breadstuffs more or ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsBathurst, Monday.—The Administrator of Bathurst denies that he revoked the authority of the Rev. H. A. Murphy as locum tenens of St. Barnabas' Church, Bathurst South, because of ...
Article : 173 wordsAmidst the rotting timbers of the General Grant, a sailing ship of 1300 tons, wrecked on the desolate Auckland Islands, lie many boxes of bullion—just how many no one knows—and ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 2 Nov 1911, Page 4
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