A crowd of some 17,000 people attended the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday for sight of the first stages of the Test Match. It was a day which would be described in the ...
Article : 4,256 wordsThe Royal Commission of Labour, under Mr. A. B. Piddington, resumed its investigation yesterday into the conditions prevailing in the life of factory employees. ...
Article : 591 wordsIn the House of Representatives this morning the Prime Minister asked members to agree to the Commonwealth raising a loan of £2,460,476 to provide funds to enable the ...
Article : 1,577 wordsCaptain Hayward was in command of the P. and O. Company's steamer Delhi which went ashore on the coast of Morocco. The vessel is badly strained, and is ...
Article : 162 wordsAfter a sitting lasting nearly 40 hours the members of the House of Representatives seemed to be inclined to take things easy when the House assembled this morning. The ...
Article : 243 wordsThe "Brunswick Zeitung" declares that the recent bombardment of Preveza by the It[?]lian fleet brought Austria and Italy to the verge of war. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe review of 50,000 British and Indian troops yesterday proved a magnificent spectacle, lasting an hour and a half. Each Maharajah rode at the head of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Loan Bill provides that the amount to be raised is £2,460,476, and it has been indicated by Mr. Fisher that the money will beadvanced from the Australian Notes Trust ...
Article : 147 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies last night the Comte de Mun, by an interpellation, opened a debate on the relations between France and Germany in regard to the Moroccan question. ...
Article : 276 wordsDuring the afternoon a great audience assembled in the audience tent. An hour before the King's arrival the cry of "Fire" was raised, and a golden ...
Article : 128 wordsAfter the declaration of yesterday's polling, the crowd refused Sir Joseph Ward a hearing. Addressing a gathering of political ...
Article : 204 wordsMajor-General Kirkpatrick, Inspector-General of the Commonwealth military forces, and Lieut.-Col. Pattinson returned to Sydney from Brisbane yesterday. ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Government has congratulated the crew of the warship Friant on their gallant conduct during the work of rescuing the passengers from the Delhi. ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. [?]. S. Montagu, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India, stated that out of 220 political prisoners in India 183 were being ...
Article : 52 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, has telegraphed to the Duke and Duchess of Fife congratulating them on their rescue. ...
Article : 93 wordsTo-morrow the King and Queen will each lay a foundation-stone in connection with the new capital. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe second trial of Dr. Hyde, on a charge of having murdered his father-in-law, Colonel Thomas Swope, by poisoning him, has ended in a miss-trial. ...
Article : 260 wordsThere is much bitter criticism in Calcutta in regard to the removal of the capital. The shopkeepers are dismayed. It is suggested that the administration i0 the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe death of the Rev. David Bruce, D.D., of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, took place at Killara yesterday at the age of 87 years. Strangely enough, there appeared in ...
Article : 914 wordsThe Italians have occupied Tajura and the oasis unopposed. ...
Article : 15 wordsLord Lamington, on behalf of the Persian Committee of the House of Commons, has appealed to Great Britain to maintain the integrity and independence of Persia, and not ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Premier announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill will he reintroduced next year. Parliament will be ororogued on Saturday, ...
Article : 94 wordsHis Honor Mr. Justice Pr[?]g when delivering a speech at the Newington College speech day celebrations yesterday said:— "I was much amused this morning upon ...
Article : 393 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the debate on foreign affairs was concluded. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that he had informed ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Bradford Woolcombing Masters' Federation has decided to increase the wages of employees concurrently with the termination of the wages board agreement. ...
Article : 46 wordsA private cable message was received in Sydney yesterday announcing the death on Wednesday last, at Ashburn Place, London, of Mrs. C. J. Fairfax, the widow of Mr. Charles John ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Archduke, Henry Ferdinand, a brother of the ex-Crown Princess Louise of Saxony, has fallen in love with a bourgeois beauty, but the Emperor Francis Joseph has refused ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsA deputation from the National League, which is opposed to women's suffrage, waited on the Premier, Mr. Asquith, to-day, and asked that a referendum be taken before ...
Article : 161 wordsLord Rosebery has purchased the brood mare Signorinetta. It is believed that the price paid is about 10,000 guineas. Signorinetta was bred in 1905 by the ...
Article : 222 wordsThe amount collected under the Land and Income Tax Act during the year ended June 30 last was £178,884, against £172,314 in the preceding year. Dividend duty of a shilling ...
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Advertising : 181 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons to-day that there was little hope of a reduction in expenditure. The House of Commons, which ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Prime Minister, in the House of Representatives, said that the Government intended to introduce a bill this session to amend the Public Service Act in the ...
Article : 135 wordsThere is every likelihood that an English team will be seen in Australia in 1912. The Australasian Association has received a letter from Mr. A. Wallis Myers, stating that ...
Article : 178 wordsA horse, attached to a sulky, became unmanageable at Bridgetown on Wednesday. When the driver got out to see what was the matter, it bolted, and ran down three boys ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsLast night Mrs. Jenkins, of Tallangatta undressed a child in the kitchen at her home, telling her to run off to bed. The little one pleaded for a light, but the mother replied that ...
Article : 86 wordsA deputation of members of both Houses of Parliament waited on the Premier, and urged that surveys of the country between Fremantle and Kalgoorlie be made in order ...
Article : 92 wordsA referendum is being taken among 32,000 doctors on the question of the acceptance of the provisions of the National Insurance Bill. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Arbitration Court has increased the wages of timber yard employees a shilling per day all round, holding that the cost of living had gone up 8s 3d a week since the ...
Article : 46 wordsLady Denman, who attended the Church of England Girls' Grammar School prize-giving to-day, said that she never won a prize at school. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 16 Dec 1911, Page 21
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