"There are parts of Sydney where, if a fire once got a hold, it would develop into a conflagration that would put into insignificance the most disastrous outbreaks that have ...
Article : 1,200 wordsHonours easy was about the position of the game at the close of to-day's play. The Australians are still 20 runs in arrears, but against this, and it is a big item, the ...
Article : 3,541 wordsThe Melbourne Clearing House return for the year 1907 totalled £236,593,780, or an increase of £16,550,724 on the total of £220,043,056 for 1906. Clearances to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Corrimal residents, owing to the dry weather, are compelled to cart water from Wollongong. ...
Article : 25 wordsVictoria, R.M.S., 6522 tons, Captain Haddock, R.N.R. from London, via ports. E. Trelawny, agent. Dorset, s, 6980 tons, Captain Prentice, from Liverpool, via ports. Birt and Co., Ltd., agents. ...
Article : 312 wordsThe total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week ended to-day amounted to 83,657 tons, compared with 66,359 tons during the preceding week. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsThe Rev. A. W. King and family left for Ballina to-day. Mrs. King was presented with a purse of sovereigns by the ladies of the Anglican church. The Rev. Faceby Cecil ...
Article : 389 wordsThe following vessels cleared at the Customs-house to-day:—Navua, s, for Suva, via Sydney, with 1000 tons bunkers; Comet, bq, for San Francisco, with 4854 tons coal; ...
Article : 78 wordsA most destructive bush fire started on Poligolet, near Lismore, on Thursday. Assisted by the shifting wind, it quickly spread over 7000 acres of grass. On Poligolet and Larra ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is understood that the details have been finally arranged of a new butter contract, of which the main features were settled a few weeks ago, between the butter freight ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the sulphide works, Cockle Creek 2341 tons of ore were treated during the week, yielding 2635oz of gold, 63,731oz silver, and 517 tons of lead. ...
Article : 28 wordsA meeting of the Tramways Association was held to-night to discuss the question whether it should be represented in its communications with the Tramways Trust by ...
Article : 158 wordsRecent developments tend somewhat to strengthen the police theory that the man John Tidswell was not the victim of an assault. On Thursday evening Tidswell made a ...
Article : 241 wordsSt. Louis, s, for Noumea. Time, s, for Newcastle. Kintuck, s, for Brisbane. ...
Article : 15 wordsMongolia, for London; Miltiades, for London, via Durban and ports; Lothringen, for Java ports; Star of Australia, for New Zealand ports; Hopewell, for Maryborough; Marama, for Wellington and ports; ...
Article : 71 wordsKintuck, s, 4616 tons, Captain Lewis, for Brisbane. Victoria, s, 2969 tons, Captain Waller, for Newcastle. Star of Australia, s, 6825 tons, Captain Kearney, for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 780 wordsVictoria, s, for Auckland, via Newcastle; Tasmanic, s, for Antwerp, via Port Pirie; Lotheringen, s, for Tjilitjap (Java); Victoria, R.M.S., for London, via ports; Plauen, s, for Brisbane; Star of Australia, s, ...
Article : 48 wordsWhile the steamer Sydney was coming up the river on Tuesday, the anchor windlass became defective, and caused the anchor, which was in readiness to let go, to slip out. ...
Article : 83 wordsVictoria, R.M.S., from London: 107 pkgs machinery, 62 pkgs cordage, 45 cs photo plates, 25 cs silver coin, 367 pkgs steel, 6120 pkgs iron, 10 cks whisky, 863 tubes, 40 pkgs axle arms, 500 cs prunes, 501 cs brandy, ...
Article : 661 wordsA sad occurrence took place at Tuncurry this morning. W. Alex. Taylor, an old and respected resident, was found dead with a pea-rifle beside his body. Deceased was 66 years of age, ...
Article : 60 wordsWrits for the election were issued to-day, together with a list of polling-places. The Government Printer has completed printing the electoral rolls. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Mount Keira mine yesterday afternoon, an accident happened to Mr. J. Craven. He was working at the face grade, which was very steep. A skip he had spragged broke ...
Article : 74 wordsTwo little boys named Lee, aged 7 and 9, were playing in one of the council's old gravel pits yesterday, when a fall of earth occurred, burying the youngest except his ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Premier this afternoon told a large deputation of the unemployed that for those willing to engage in ringbarking work would be found in the Tamin district almost at once, ...
Article : 103 wordsA young man named Albert Dawking, 17, formerly a telegraph messenger at Cooma Post-office, and lately telephone attendant, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Federal saw mill at Tinonee, owned by Captain Hector Gollan, built four years ago, was completely destroyed by fire on Thursday at midnight. The mill had not been ...
Article : 55 wordsThe coal exports from Westport last year totalled 645,149 tons. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe American four-masted barquentine Aurora, loaded with timber, arrived at Sydney yesterday evening, after a last run of 47 days from Eureka, and anchored in Watson's Bay at 10.30. Captain Samuelson considers ...
Article : 96 wordsRecently an application was made by the Marine Cooks, Bakers, and Butchers' Association of Australia, to be registered as an organisation under the Commonwealth ...
Article : 77 wordsYesterday a young girl, daughter of Mr. J. Williams, of Mount Kembla, got entangled in the windlass of a well while attempting to draw water, and had an arm badly broken. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Albert Bruntnell, general secretary of the New South Wales Alliance, has received a cable message from the United Kingdom Alliance, securing his services for its fight ...
Article : 226 wordsA body recovered from the waterhole at Fairfield to-day is thought to be that of James Gaulther, who strayed away from here on New Year's Eve. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe American ship W. H. Smith, from Puget Sound Oct. 27, with a timber cargo, arrived at Sydney yesterday. Favourable winds prevailed throughout the voyage. The ship anchored in Berry's Bay. ...
Article : 37 wordsFrequent mention has been made in various quarters of the designing and building of larger vessels than the Mauretania and Lusitania (says a London correspondent). There is no mechanical difficulty in ...
Article : 196 wordsLate last night, J. Hartley, a workman, was knocked down by a motor car belonging to Mr. F. C. Harney, on the Causeway Bridge, at Perth, and killed. The motor car was ...
Article : 110 wordsThe P. and O. liner Victoria, from London Nov. 22, arrived yesterday with a large number of passengers. She passed through the Canal on Dec. 4, with 5148 bags of mails and 1576 packages of parcel post, the ...
Article : 171 wordsSerious trouble has occurred at the Great Cobar copper mine, resulting in a strike affecting about 60 men. It appears that three men lost a shift on New Year's Day, and as ...
Article : 143 wordsNAPIER,—Dep: Hippolas, bq, for Sydney. WELLINGTON.—Dep: Ionic, for London; Maheno, for Sydney. ...
Article : 14 wordsSomerset and Tropic (Jan. 1), at London; Era, at Dunkirk, Dec. 27; Katuna, at Dunkirk, Dec. 31; all from Australia. Departures: ...
Article : 73 wordsThe P. and O. Company's Mongolia will leave Sydney at noon to-day, bound to London. Passengers—Mrs. R. A. Hopkins, Dr. Carnac Wilkinson, Miss S. Wilkinson, Lieut. H. Jefferson, R.N., Mrs. and Master ...
Article : 348 wordsJ. Kent, who had his skull fractured by a fall from Gerardy in the Club Hurdles at the W.A.T.C. meeting on New Year's Day, died this evening. ...
Article : 34 wordsFriday, 8 p.m.: Tweed Heads, strong ESE winds, sea moderating; Clarence Heads, light, SE; Nambucca, mod., E; Port Macquarie, Newcastle, Sydney Heads, Eden, light, NE; Gabo Island, mod., N. Bars; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsMr. John Collyer, sen., of Munro, who had for some time past been a great sufferer from rheumatism, was missed from home. On a search being made for him to-day the body ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Wallace v Wallace divorce case was again before the Chief Justice to-day, upon an application to the Court for an order directing the petitioner to pay the costs of ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Quito, which left San Francisco on November 27, and Auckland on December 28, arrived at Sydney yesterday. Her mails were transhipped at Auckland, and delivered here on Tuesday. The cargo for New ...
Article : 72 wordsA quantity of music, vaudeville pieces, shop-songs, vaises, and the like, has been forwarded for review. Messrs Warren and Phillips, of ...
Article : 514 wordsThe Oruba will leave Brisbane to-day, and may be expected at Sydney to-morrow evening. She will sail for London on Jan. 1. The Ormuz is due at Adelaide Jan. 6, Melbourne 8th, ...
Article : 131 wordsA dramatic scene took place at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Alexandra Reefs Consolidated Gold-Mining Company to-day. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Ormuz, from London, which arrived at Fremantle at 8.40 a.m. on Thursday, and left at 3.30 p.m., was delayed at Naples for eight hours, awaiting the arrival of the overland mails. The Ormuz ...
Article : 46 wordsIn connection with the five-weekly steamship service from Melbourne to the ports of Sourabaya, Samarang, Batavia, and Singapore, for which the Government is paying a subsidy of £2000 per annum to Messrs. A. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsThe following passengers have booked by the Aberdeen liner Miltiades, which will leave Dalgety's wharf, Miller's Point, for South Africa and London at noon to-day:—For Durban: Messrs. W. Bradford, H. E. ...
Article : 199 wordsWhen the report of the special committee appointed by the Federal Treasurer to inquire into the question of securing a uniform Commonwealth postage stamp was received, the ...
Article : 157 wordsCOOKTOWN.—Arr: Wodonga, from Melbourne. TOWNSVILLE.—Arr: Yongala, Cooma, and Maranoa, from Brisbane; Marloo, from Cairns. ROCKHAMPTON.—Arr: Jan. 2, Mareeba, from ...
Article : 419 wordsCaptain Joseph Bradshaw, of Melbourne, received news by telegram to-day that a party of black stockmen had just arrived at Brock's Creek, in the Northern Territory, with news ...
Article : 150 wordsSurely there is no more curious tradition attached to churchyard trees than that belonging to a couple of clipped yews at Bedfort Church, in Middlesex. They are cut in the ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Pera, one of the P. and O. Company's cargo boats, which left Adelaide on Nov. 19, arrived at Dunkirk at 6 a.m. on Dec. 27, having accomplished the journey in the quick time of 38 days. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Moresby, from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, arrived at Brisbane yesterday, and left again for Sydney. ...
Article : 22 wordsA tragedy, which resulted in the death of a man named John M'Anally, occurred at Wellington this afternoon. M'Anally was in the company of another ...
Article : 98 wordsThe London Missionary Society's steamer John Williams, which has been on a visit to mission stations in the South Sea Islands, will arrive at Sydney to-morrow. ...
Article : 31 wordsWhen you have any suspicion that your kidneys are getting bad, take "FISHER'S" PHOSPHERINE to cleanse and strengthen them. It is invaluable as an agent to ward off ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Victoria, of the Huddart, Parker line, left Auckland at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, and arrived at Sydney at 11.45 a.m. yesterday. Passengers:—Mesdames Pittar, Scarll, Walpole, Baillie, Ward, Ashton, Gunn, Lawson, ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Nimrod, bound for the Antarctic, took 1500 letters addressed to the post office, to be opened by Lieutenant Shackleton on King Edward VII. Land. Those are mostly ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 4 Jan 1908, Page 14
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