Considerable interest was aroused to-day when it became known that no Federal Ministers were present at the Coronation levee held at Government House by their Excellencies ...
Article : 285 wordsYesterday Mr. J. Catts, M.P., made some interesting remarks on compulsory preference to unionists, in reply to statements made on Tuesday by Mr. Beeby. ...
Article : 704 words"There is a complete absence of proper appliances, and very often the fire brigade exists only in name." said Captain Dakin, Secretary of the Fire Brigade Union, ...
Article : 498 wordsA special meeting of the Mothers' Union was held at the Masonic Hall this afternoon for the purpose of bidding farewell to Lady Dudley. About 600 ladies attended, and the ...
Article : 1,717 wordsThe sight-seers along the route of yesterdays procession began to congregate at midnight, and many were at dawn of day peacefully sleeping on the kerbstones. The ...
Article : 551 wordsIn the streets of London itself the number of casualties, among both the military and the general public, was the smallest on record. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Prime Minister's little son, Anthony Asquith, at 10 o'clock last night, telephoned to the Festival of Empire giving the word for the signal to be fired for the lighting of ...
Article : 196 wordsAs announced yesterday, the King's first public act after the Coronation was to press an electric button to lay the foundation-stone of the Fishermen's and Sailors' ...
Article : 114 wordsA contributor to "Le Temps" remarks that those remembering the Coronation of King Edward VII. were bound to observe that the main characteristic feature of ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Governor-General and the State Governor held a levee at the Federal Government House to-day. The function was attended by a large and distinguished ...
Article : 36 wordsOn Thursday his Excellency the GovernorGeneral despatched the following cable message to the Secretary of State for the Commonwealth:— ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales, Mr. J. S. T. M'Gowen, Sir N. Lewis, Premier o[?] Tasmania, and Lady Lewis, Mr. F. Wilson, Premier of Western Australia, and ...
Article : 93 wordsA slight shower fell at 8 o'clock last night, but, despite the threatening weather, unprecedentedly large, enthusiastic, and orderly throngs stretched through the city ...
Article : 164 wordsAmong the great dally newspapers of Australia, the "South Australian Register" has an honoured place. On June 18—Waterloo Day—it completed the seventy-fifth year of its ...
Article : 874 wordsThe Finance Committee of the Senate has refused to reconsider the Wool Tariff Revision Bill and the Farmers' Free List Bill, as ordered, and is returning them to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk specially invited Mr. Wieks, a nonagenarian, who had been a chorister at the funeral of King George IV., and who was also at the corountions of ...
Article : 41 wordsTo-day broke cloudy, but later there were occasional bursts of sunshine. There were enormous crowds in the streets to witness the Royal Progress of ...
Article : 175 wordsThe steamer Makambo, which arrived yesterday from the New Hebrides, brought news of the murder, on May 3, of a trader in Tububa, South Santo, named Alexander ...
Article : 119 wordsThe seamen on strike at Southampton have accepted the increase of 10s a month granted by the Royal Mail Steam Packet. Company and the Union Castle Company. ...
Article : 33 wordsEvery mark of enthusiasm and loyalty characterised the Coronation celebrations At Gibraltar, Larnaca (In Cyprus), Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong, Shanghai, Mauritius, ...
Article : 336 wordsIn connection with the Festival of Empire, the overseas athletes were banqueted at the Crystal Palace, Lord Desborough presiding. ...
Article : 62 wordsIn connection with the proposal to erect an equestrian statue to the late King Edward, several members of the Highland Society have agreed to contribute a sum amounting to ...
Article : 247 wordsWith regard to the forthcoming issue of the new stamps for the group. Monsieur Deschampa, the Condominium Postmaster and Treasurer, expects the new issue to be on sale ...
Article : 231 wordsIn the contest for the lawn tennis champlouship of London, A. F. Wilding beat M. J. G. Ritch:e, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. Wilding is avenging his defeat by Ritchie ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Prince of Wales, in his Garter robes, [?]ed yesterday's procession into the Abbey, which was headed by members of the British Royal Family. The Prince's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsThere were Coronation rejoicings in every town and village in Great Britain and Ireland. All were decorated with flags and bunting, and in most cases the ...
Article : 326 wordsA great proportion of the Federal Land Tax payable on Wednesday last has been received by the Federal Land Tax Commissioner. The assessment, it is estimated, will amount to ...
Article : 79 wordsWhen the Federal Government decided to introduce a universal stamp for the whole of the Commonwealth, to take the place of the various issues now being used by the different ...
Article : 217 wordsNegotiations have been opened up with the leading riders in the cycling circuit of the United States of America and the European riders by Mr. J. D. Williams for the six days ...
Article : 136 wordsThis afternoon the State memorial statue of the late Mr. C. Y. O'Connor, who designed Fremantle harbour and the goldfields water scheme, was unveiled by the Governor, Sir ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 wordsMr. Charles Radford, a prominent townsman at Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, was firing a salute in connection with the coronation celebrations when the cannon exploded, ...
Article : 37 wordsActing Judge Neighbour to-day decided that the verdict for, one farthing obtained last week by William Arnold Minster against the proprietors of the "Ballarat Star" for alleged, ...
Article : 40 wordsAn accident occurred at Rainbow on Wednesday, resulting in the death of an infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Liddle, of Taapeet. Mr. Liddle was driving in a gig ...
Article : 153 wordsInformation was posted on the shipping board at the Electric Telegraph Office, Brisbane, to-day, to the effect that the steamer Wollowra was aground on the bar of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 233 wordsWilliam Tregay, 80 years of age, an Imperial army pensioner, died suddenly in the bar of the Shortland Hotel this afternoon. Deceased was one of the small body of veterans ...
Article : 125 wordsThere was an exciting incident as the procession was leaving the palace. The horse ridden by Captain M'Cowan, in command of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, who ...
Article : 91 wordsH.M.S. Prometheus left Vila on the evening of the 5th instant for the island of Tanna, with H.B.M.'s Resident Commissioner on board, and returned on the 9th in time for ...
Article : 192 wordsThe returns for 1910 of the figures supplied under the Immigration Act to the Acting Minister for External Affairs show that during the year 1910 there were 94,543 immigrants ...
Article : 120 wordsDuring a procession in the main street at Barnstaple, in Devonshire, a triumphal arch [?] timber, wreathed with evergreens and flags, fell, killing a woman, while ...
Article : 86 wordsThe fleet of foreign warships at Spithead were aressed with flags, and the various warships and the garrison batteries tired Royal salutes at mid-day. ...
Article : 27 wordsAbout a year ago four adult male aboriginals were taken from Torrens Creek to the Barambah Misslou Station. Three of them absconded Having only a tomahawk to ...
Article : 72 wordsThe mangled remains of Matilda Ethel Hoffmann, aged 20 years, were found on a railway line near Nhill this morning. The head had been severed from the trunk. She had been ...
Article : 64 wordsA fo[?]year-old son of George Thomas, of Tullah, was playing with a box of matches on Thursd y, when his clothes caught fire, and were practlcally burnt off his body. The ...
Article : 47 wordsIn Scotland and Ireland the celebrations were less elaborate, as the people are awaiting their Majesties coming in July. Eowever, Highland sports were held in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 24 Jun 1911, Page 13
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