The Lord Mayor of Sydney had the proposal to widen Oxford-street before him the whole of yesterday,, and finally, in a long speech, laid it before the general purposes committee ...
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Article : 168 wordsA Committee of Convocation of Canterbury, having now sat two years, makes the following recommendations for a revised lectionary. ...
Article : 470 wordsLater details regarding the explosion which occurred yesterday in the West Stanley Colliery, Durham, show that out of 147 miners entombed, 37 have been ...
Article : 96 wordsThe debate on the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne was continued in the House of Commons last night. Notices of 30 amendments were given. ...
Article : 411 wordsAt the Devizes Assizes Flora Fanny Haskell, 34. a widow, was charged with the murder of her son, Edwin Richard Haskell, aged 12 years, at Salisbury, on ...
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Article : 668 words"What others are able to do we are able to do," said the Mayor of Balmain (Mr. W. J. Laws) at a public meeting in the local Town Hall last night. ...
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Article : 211 wordsFurther details regarding the loss of life at the Flores Theatre, Acapulco, Mexico, destroyed by fire, show that all the exits were in the facade, and the outbreak ...
Article : 66 wordsThe death is announced of the Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle of the Czar, aged 61. Death was due to asthma. The Grand Duke Vladimir was oldest uncle ...
Article : 98 wordsYesterday, at about 7 p.m., three members of the Bellambi Surf Life-saving Club, named Joseph Hawken, Charles Hawken, and Watson, went bathing on Bellambi Beach. One of the ...
Article : 209 wordsTwo students have been sentenced to seven years' Imprisonment for conspiring to murder Colonel Ferris, Political Agent at Kolhapur. ...
Article : 36 words'An influential gathering of over 100 city merchants and bankers, the Agents-General for the States, the Lord Mayor (Sir George W. Truscott), and the Sheriffs, ...
Article : 76 wordsAt 4 o'clock this morning a man broke into one of the rooms of the Crown Hotel, where M[?]d Grey, one of the servants, was sleeping. She got two of his fingers in her ...
Article : 76 wordsThe National Tariff Convention, consisting of 3000 delegates, which met at Indianopolis, is appointing a permanent advisory commission to inform Congress on ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the District Court to-day an indent agent named Carl Tauber was charged with having made a false entry with intent to defraud the Customs. Tauber admitted the ...
Article : 186 wordsA man named W. Ashworth, employed at Mr. Sharp's, Green Hills, was struck by lightning to-night during a storm, and killed instantly. Two horses with him were also killed. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Naval Committee of the United States Senate has urged President Roosevelt in the exercise of his discretion to keep one-half of the navy in the Pacific. ...
Article : 62 wordsCambridge University has bestowed the degree ot Doctorship of Science on Dr. E. C. Stirling, Professor ot Physiology in the University of Adelaide. ...
Article : 31 wordsA man named William Brennan was procceded against at the police court yesterday on a charge of stealing, by means of a trick, a £1 note from F. A. Baxter. Baxter keeps a ...
Article : 204 wordsA motor-car accident happened outside the Maypole Hotel, at the intersection of Main and Risdon roads, Newtown, yesterday, Mr. Garnett Hope, the solo occupant ot the ...
Article : 113 wordsGeneral Nnzim Pasha, who was appointed Minister for War prior to the defeat ot the Kiamil Cabinet, refuses to return to his former post as Commandant of ...
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Article : 61 wordsNews has been received of a terrible accident at the Molloy mine. Brief particulars only are so far obtainable. It is stated that an engine-driver named Jas. ...
Article : 118 wordsEarly yesterday morning James Knox, aged 22, a carpenter, accidentally shot himself in the jaw in the Volunteer Hotel, George-street West, where he had been ...
Article : 92 wordsOn Tuesday last Messrs. C. J. and T. Ham (of Melbourne) sold the property in Collinsstreet known as the Mia Min Tearooms, comprising a two-story brick building, on land ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Thomas Walkom, probably the most successful farmer in the vicinity of Blayney, was found shot at his farm, Spring Lawn yesterday. Mr. Walkom went home ...
Article : 133 wordsThe German Emperor sent to Prince Radolin, German Ambassador at Paris, his warm thanks for concluding with France the treaty regarding Morocco. ...
Article : 49 wordsLawn tennis enthuslasts will this year have the pleasure of witnessing a team of English players in Australia, for yestorday Mr. T. H. Hicks, hon, secretary of the Lawn Tennis ...
Article : 179 wordsThe River Murray League has passed the following resolution:—"Feeling the urgent necessity for stringent measures being taken, this league strongly urges the Government to ...
Article : 140 wordsBelated reports of the earthquake which occurred in Luristan, on the north-west frontier of Persia, on the 23rd ult., state that 60 villages were destroyed, and 6000 ...
Article : 39 wordsSir,—In your issue of to-day you publish the Lord Mayor's minute on the above subject. In it he refers to obtaining an Act through Parliament to enable a betterment tax to be ...
Article : 476 wordsThe unauthorised expenditure of public moneys by the late Bent Ministry was the subject of a reference in the Legislative Assembly to-day, when the Treasurer (Mr. Watt) ...
Article : 111 wordsThe main tunnel mouth of the Mount Pleasant mine fell in yesterday. A great quantity of stone is at present blocking the main travelling way, and the mine was idle to-day. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Australian Agricultural Company, [?] its report, shows a credit to profit and oss account of £116,284. Of this sum [?]10,000 is placed with the reserve and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe destroyer Swift, during trials on the Clyde, attained a speed of 38 knots. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 19 Feb 1909, Page 7
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