To-day the city of Sydney, which, like most of the great British cities, now has its own special namesake amongst the ships of the fleet, will make the presentation of a bell to ...
Article : 2,277 wordsEight thousand boys and girls will take part in the demonstration at the Sydney Cricket Ground this afternoon. The Admiral, Sir George Patey, has accepted an invitation to ...
Article : 384 wordsA number of questions directed to the Minister for Works in the Assembly yesterday afternoon on the subject of bricks ended in a stand-up fight between Mr. Moxham and ...
Article : 366 wordsThe House of Assembly sat until 10 o'clock this morning, considering the Constitution Bill, and it would not have adjourned even then had not the sad news been ...
Article : 244 wordsQuestioned yesterday as to whether he really meant seriously to undertake the reorganisation of the City Council departments, in some of which there is, he has declared, a ...
Article : 564 wordsThe Navy Estimates propose an extraordinary vote of £6,000,000 for two super-Dreadnoughts, to be laid down at the beginning of 1914, and two others in 1915. ...
Article : 73 wordsReuter's Agency states: "The Dominions have made no proposal in regard to the summoning of a conference on Imperial defence, therefore there is no reason for surprise or ...
Article : 77 wordsTerrible pictures have been drawn of the misery in Dublin, occasioned by the strike of transport workers and the lockout. It is estimated that 100,000 people are ...
Article : 196 wordsThe "Argus" states that if it is not worth while to hold a naval conference some will presume that the naval situation is not as disquieting as suggested in Mr. Churchill's ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. H. G. Hawker, the well-known Australian airman, met with a serious accident while flying at Brooklands this morning. He was at an altitude of 100 feet, when ...
Article : 75 wordsThe interest in the series of first grade baseball games now in progress is so keen that the Democrats flippantly questioned the Chairman of the House of Representatives ...
Article : 117 wordsThe trial is to commence at Kieff to-day in connection with the murder of the boy Andrew Yuschinsky, who is alleged to have been murdered by a Jew nnmed Mendel Beiliss ...
Article : 146 wordsThe annual report of the Administrator of the Northern Territory (Dr. Gilruth) was made available to-day. During the year he had travelled nearly 2000 miles by motor car ...
Article : 361 wordsWhen the superintendent of a local mine where a strike is in progress left the property yesterday the strikers directed a fusilade of revolver shots at his automobile. The ...
Article : 87 wordsThe following further reference was made yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Senator E. D. Millen) with regard to the reported abandonment of the proposed Imperial ...
Article : 315 wordsThe rich gold dredging area around Nome, the shore of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, has been overwhelmed by tidal waves, and the whole water front of the town is in ruins. The ...
Article : 116 words"What happened was this," explained Mr. Moxham, subsequently, "Mr. Wade asked a question concerning the price of bricks at which the Minister for Works had stated he ...
Article : 278 wordsMuch anti-Home Rule feeling has been stirred up throughout Canada by a rumour that the Government intends to proceed against those aiding the Ulster campaign with ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. William Cook has been carrying out some interesting experiments with 6000 hens at Orpington, Kent. He lit up the hen-houses with electric light ...
Article : 84 wordsLast night when he was asked what the Government business for to-day was going to be the Prime Minister said that the Treasurer would introduce the Tasmania Grant ...
Article : 360 wordsSix thousand Albanians racrossed the Servian frontier, and stormed Diakova, but the Servians used their machine guns with deadly effect, over 3000 of the attackers being killed ...
Article : 38 wordsAlbert Davis, a prisoner who was sentenced for theft at Bedford, adopted a hunger strike and died. The goaler at the inquest stated that it was ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the conference of the Miners' Federation, at which 600,000 men were represented, a resolution was agreed to asking for an amendment of the Minimum Wage Act to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe farm boy, Marcel Redereau, 13 years of age, who is under arrest on a charge of murdering his employer, named Mablt, the latter's wife, and three children, Mabit's mother and ...
Article : 78 wordsGreat interest is centred in the ballot for the executive officers of the Southern Miners' Union, which is now being counted. This evening figures were not available, but ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. M'Girr told his version with a smile, though he showed a couple of slight bruises above and below the left oye. "When I was invited to come outside," he ...
Article : 256 wordsDelegates from all Protestant missionary societies tendered congratulations at a gathering in the Central Hall, Westminster, on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Cook) when asked to express his opinion in regard to the statements that the Imperial Government had decided not to convene a defence conference, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Russian barque Imperator Alexander H. with a cargo of timber, valued at £10,000, from Ornakoldsvik, Sweden, for Sydney, has been towed into Copenhagen, damaged above ...
Article : 47 wordsUnconfirmed reports have been received that an attempt was made to assassinate King Frederic of Saxony while his Majesty was hunting at Hervenkretschen. ...
Article : 47 wordsQuestions as to how far the obligations of the Water Board go in regard to the provision of supplies for fire brigade purposes, and whether an embargo should be put upon ...
Article : 359 wordsA record colonial entry has been received by the Royal Dairy Show. The entries include 24 colonial in the cheese competition, all being Australian and New ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Shop Assistants' Union last night carried the following resolution:— "That, in view of the fact that the recent strike of the shop workers was ...
Article : 171 wordsDouglas McDonald, a clerk, has boen arrested on a charge of perpetrating frauds on intending emigrants. It is alleged that accused advertised in ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Dooley, the member for Hartley, was one of the first on the scene after the bout. Mr. Dooley held what he termed "a post-mortem" on the combatants. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly early this morning the debate on the third reading of the City Railway Bill was continued. Mr. Cann said, in reply to Mr. Henley, that ...
Article : 97 wordsWilliam Macdonald, a young socialist, of Overton, visited the respective homes of Paul Gaze and Miss Mary Compton, in Liverpool, and shot them both dead. He then went to ...
Article : 65 wordsReturns giving the quantity of coal exported to places beyond the State during the nine months ended September 30 last, and a comparison with the exports for the ...
Article : 118 wordsDuring a racial riot in the village of Romeo, the negroes wrecked the gaol in order to release one of their number. The deputies engaged them in a pitched ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the professional golfers' £400 tournament, which is being played on Walton Heath, the following qualified to-day for the third round:—R. Loach, W. Wilson, G. Duncan, E. ...
Article : 61 wordsLast year there passed through the totalisator in New Zealand £103,600,465, an increase of £1,766,000 in the quinquennium. [In New Zealand, where the totalisator is ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Watt) expressed surprise that the Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) should introduce a bill to provide for the transfer of the State debts to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsAt the police court to-day 11 persons were fined sums varying from 20s to 60s for rioting at the Pavilion on Monday, on the occasion of the re-arrest of Annie Kenney. ...
Article : 57 wordsJapan and Russia have recognised the Republic. General Li Yuan Heng has been elected Vice-President. ...
Article : 21 wordsA shocking raliway fatality occurred about a mile from Wangaratta, on the Albury side, on Tuesday night, when the first division of the express ran into a railway tricycle, and ...
Article : 186 wordsUnderwriting is proceeding in connection with the floating of a loan of £3,500,000 by the New Zealand Government, bearing interest at 4 per cent. The loan is being issued ...
Article : 39 wordsThere is much discussion in progress as to the relations between Austria and Germany. The latter is dissatisfied with Austria's changeable Balkan policy, particularly in ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. A. L. Thorold's "Life of Henri Labouchere," which has just been published, contains some piquant correspondence which took place at the end of 1885 and during the ...
Article : 104 wordsThere were three cases of smallpox yesterday, all of a very mild type—two men and a girl of 7. The patients lived at Leichhardt, St. Peters, and Auburn. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe trial was continued in the Criminal Court to-day of John Spargo, Henry Edward Hoyling (formerly Chinese interpreter at the Customs Department), Hoy Poo, and Hoy Jun ...
Article : 89 wordsThe returns of the Board of Trade for September show that the value of imports increased by £4,180,475, but the exports decreased by £779,605, and re-exports decreased ...
Article : 47 wordsAt to-day's tallow sales 1801 casks were offered, and 815 sold. Prices:—Mutton, fine 37/9, medium 34/6; beef, fine 36/3, medium 34/. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 9 Oct 1913, Page 9
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