Shortly after the majority of the employees at Schweppes' big mineral-water factory in Fovenux-street had departed for home last evening, a fire broke out suddenly on the top ...
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Article : 423 wordsA match was played on Wednesday at Hampden Park between teams representing Messrs. Henry Berry and Co., merchants, of York-street, city, and Messrs. Ryalls, bakers and pastrycooks, of Waverley. The match ...
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Article : 125 wordsConsiderable interest was attached to the meeting yesterday on the Rose Bay croquet lawn of Mr. Keith Izard and Mr. L. Henderson. Mr. Izard is an English player of repute, whose handicap is 1½ behind scratch. ...
Article : 175 wordsThe B.H. North mine last week sent away 704 tons of concentrates. The 950ft. crosscut was extended 12ft to 82½ft. the 700ft crosscut connecting with ore pass from 600ft level was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 503 wordsBill Lang, the heavyweight champion of Australia, who is to meet "Bob" Fitzsimmons at the Stadium on Boxing Day, is due to arrive from Melbourne to-day. Immediately on his arrival in Sydney he will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 504 wordsThis afternoon Bob Fitzsimmons, the well-known American authority on physical culture, was to have delivered a lecture on that subject to 2000 cadets, drawn from the Sydney schools, who were to have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsThe Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Cullen, presided over a representative gathering of the legal profession at Sargent's Cafe last evening, when occasion was taken to bid farewell to ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Defence Bill was further considered in committee in the Senate. The "canteen clause" was amended, so as to allow canteens in barracks and militia camps. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsIncluded in the list of passengers due to arrive this morning in the Wimmera from Auckland are Mr. Hugh Ward, the well-known comedian, also Miss Grace Palotta, Miss Rose Musgrove, and Miss Celia Ghiloni. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe only development to-day in the trouble which has arisen through the refusal of the slaughtermen to kill sheep as well as lambs for export at 25s per hundred was the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 281 wordsMiss Lucille Benstead, vastly improving upon her tentative effort at the Y.M.C.A. Hall some weeks back, made a professional debut at the Town Hall last night, which should afford, what the other did not, definite ...
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Article : 105 wordsMr. D. J. Brownhill has been elected a member of the Sydney Stock Exchange. The directors of the North Broken Hill Company have declared a dividend of 1s per ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsA middle-aged man, Samuel Smith, was killed whilst coming to town with a load of wood. He fell off, and the vehicle passed over him. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsLast night E. M. Fisher, employed at the Lands Office, was riding a motor bicycle along Barney-street. He turned a corner and ran into a cab coming from the opposite direction. ...
Article : 100 wordsA cable message reached Sydney yesterday notifying that the German-Australian Steamship Company's vessel Apolda had arrived at Suez on Tuesday, and that Wilhelm Gerloch, ...
Article : 103 wordsA moonlight harbour excursion will be given by the above to-night. Bands will mass at the Custom-house and played combined, subsequently marching to Fort Macquarie, where patrons can embark for the Avenue, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsA man named James McEwen escaped from custody by jumping from the prison cart to-day. McEwen to-day completed a sentence of two years and five months' imprisonment at ...
Article : 121 wordsIn St. James's Hall last night a successful concert was held by St. Catherine's Clergy Daughters' School, Waverley. There was a good attendance, and a thoroughly enjoyable programme was given. Piano ...
Article : 98 wordsA meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia was held last night to confer with Professor Hunter, the delegate from New Zealand, on the situation caused by the withdrawal of New Zealand from ...
Article : 163 wordsOn Tuesday Herbert Campbell was endeavouring to disturb a rabbit out of a burrow with the butt-end of a gun when it exploded, inflicting a severe wound in the stomach. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 3 Dec 1909, Page 10
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