Sir Harry Rawson to-day received a cablegram from the Imperial authorities to the effect that Mr. J. H. Carruthers has been created a Knight Commander of St. ...
Article : 96 wordsCossacks forming the Shah's Guard captured 25 Persian Nationalists. Two were hanged in the Royal camp and the Shah promised to spare the lives of the ...
Article : 112 wordsThere's an oldish way of doing sums By casting out the nines; While Cook worked the oracle by rhumbs, Chords, co-secants, and sines. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe entertainment in aid of the funds for the West Goulburn Japanese Village Fair passed off most successfully in the Mechanics' Mall on Thursday evening, when there was a very fair attendance ...
Article : 510 wordsIn the "Siftings" of this paper it was sifted out that the press in their honest endeavours to please the public were publishing some most impossible, outrageous ...
Article : 669 wordsMr. A. James, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following:— "Department of Agriculture, "Sydney, 24th June, 1908. ...
Article : 503 wordsThe Council met on Thursday evening. Present—the Mayor and Aldermen Ashley, Rogers, Williamson, Betts, L[?]is, Turner, O'Brien, Mc Laughlin, and Beegling. ...
Article : 1,065 wordsA fair amount of business was transacted during the week. One or two changes in the quotations are worth noting. Potatoes are some-what firmer, prime, tubers being worth from £3 ...
Article : 245 wordsTwomilesaminute, Geehowwefly! Swiftasameteor Streakingthesky. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe closing service in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday was stately and impressive though of studied simplicity. The Lord Mayor, Sir John Bell, the sheriffs, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 wordsThe friends of Constable Overton will be pleased to hear that he has so far recovered from the effects of his accidents to be able to resume his duties. ...
Article : 127 wordsRowland, of New Zealand, has won se[?]tral walking races. He covered two miles the Stadium in 14 minutes 14 seconds. Effects of an Explosion. ...
Article : 325 wordsThe House of Commons again considered in committee yesterday the Old Age Pensions Bill. Lord Robert Cecil (Conservative) moved an amendment raising the issue of a contributory ...
Article : 243 wordsFootball.—A match was played here on Wednesday between the Our Boys Club from Yass and a team representing the local boys. The visitors put up a good game, but the locals were ...
Article : 165 words" For some time past the vegetable garden of the Goulburn Hospital has been visited by a thief, who has succeeded in carrying off three or four of the best specimens of cabbages on several occasions. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe rainfall has not been sufficient in the immediate vicinity of Goulburn, but outside a radius of twelve or fourteen miles it was much better, and has put the ground in good order, for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 371 wordsA concert was given in the Bovs' School-room, Bourke-street, on Thursday evening in aid of the Bishop's Residence Fund. The attendance was very fair. The following programme was given, and was ...
Article : 213 wordsHobart, Thursday.—The Criminal Court was crowded this morning, when the little boy, Robert John Davis, was placed in the dock on a charge of murdering his ...
Article : 388 wordsA football match was played on Jerrara ground on Saturday last, which resulted in an easy win for the home team by 17 to three. Unfortunately, some of the beet players belonging ...
Article : 113 wordsTheo tug Belmore foundered after shipping a heavy sea, 20 miles from Ras Gharib, in the Gulf of Suez. The crew numbered 11, and of these only the four mentioned yesterday ...
Article : 55 wordsThe matinee performance given by Madame Melba at the Opera House was a brilliant society function. The King and Queen were present. So great was the demand for seats that 100 ...
Article : 80 wordsAn unusual visitor appeared on the Goulburn railway station on Tuesday in the person of Mr. R. Magee's (Mandelson's Hotel) runaway horse. It appears that Mr. ...
Article : 230 wordsMrs. Alice Coppick, a very old resident of Lake Bathurst, died at her home there on Thursday. Her age was registered as 104, but documents state she was born in 1819 or 1821. Deceased was boin ...
Article : 70 wordsThe soil is still in splendid order for cropping, and no time should be lost in getting seeds in. See that the land is well and deeply worked and properly manured. There must be ...
Article : 386 words"The report of the Sydney Town Clerk (Mr. Nesbitt) has been printed and circulated. At the inquiry 77 witnesses were examined, and some rather startling state ...
Article : 326 wordsPresident Roosevelt has written to Mr. Spreckles not to flinch, but to keep up, the fight against the grafters at San Francisco, no matter what the biggest business men, the mob, or the ...
Article : 58 wordsA cabdriver named Anthony Curtin, 50, recently residing at 18 Reddy-street, Paddington, was found lying under his [?] b apparently dead at 12.20 a m. on Thursday in Park-road, Sydney Ho was taken ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsThe political correspondent of the Times writes that it is rumoured in the lobby of the House of Commons that Lord Loreburn is about to resign the Lord Chancellorship, and that he ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 413 wordsThe American War Department proposes to amalgamate the Federal regular troops and the State troops, called the National Guard, into a standing army of 250,000 men. ...
Article : 79 wordsA very pretty wedding was celebrated at St. John's Church, Balmain. Sydney. by the Rev. W. J. Cakebread, the contracting parties being Mr. Arthur Charles Frost, ...
Article : 145 wordsMelbourne, Thursday.—The question of mixed marriages was the subject of some consideration at to-day's meeting of the Council of Churches, and the following ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. A. Lyttelton (Conservative) inquired in the House of Commons last night if his Majesty's Government proposed to take action owning to the percentage of deaths amongst Portuguese ...
Article : 102 wordsDespite the determined manner in which she education of the youth is pushed, despite the high intelligence, which it has been our joy to believe we possessed in ...
Article : 214 wordsPerth (W.A.) Thursday.—A new geld find is reported between Mcckatharra [?] Abbots, on the Murchison fields The discovery is regarded as the best surface st[?] ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Legislative Assembly of the Orange River Colony has adopted unanimously the resolutions min favour of the union of the South African Colonies. ...
Article : 316 wordsThe return visit to Goulburn of J. W. Beeman, of Gibb and Beeman, Ltd. Consulting Optician of [?] Hu[?]er-street, Sydney. late sight tests expert and manager for ...
Article : 111 wordsThe possibilities of evasion held within the precincts of the English language are well demonstrated in the report of an accident case printed in a Philadelphia paper. ...
Article : 241 wordsMelbourne Thursday.—The Government is contemplating criminal proceedings against those who have been guilty of adulterating chaff by the admixture of large ...
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Advertising : 1,649 wordsThursday.—With the arrival in Australia of batches of the new shortened magazine rifle has come the discovery by Victorian officers of a serious defect. In ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Sat 27 Jun 1908, Page 4
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