At the meeting of the Belmont Improvement Association on Wednesday evening the urgent need of improvement to the side walks provided for ...
Article : 283 wordsLondon, November 20th.—Sir Francis Younghusband, the well-known traveller, who has held important official positions in India and elsewhere in ...
Article : 278 wordsLondon, November 19th.—Mr. Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster-General, to-day received a deputation of postal employes, who are not satisfied with the ...
Article : 832 wordsNew York, November 19th.—The Cunard liner Pannonia, which went to the assistance of the Spanish steamer Balmes when that vessel caught fire on ...
Article : 513 wordsThe federal Government is not likely to cancel Sydney quarantine proclamation for some days. Copies of the report of the official conference, ...
Article : 403 wordsWhen the Senate adjourned again yesterday without doing any business, the Senators gave the impression that they would not meet, again for business until the ...
Article : 569 wordsLondon, November 19th.—Dalgety and Company Ltd. are making big preparations to ship Australasian wool to America consequent upon the alteration ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. A. H. Dentry's case for reversion to the manual telephone system was not taken seriously by the electricians yesterday. One of them, asked to reply ...
Article : 82 wordsWellington, Thursday.—There is no important change to report in the strike situation. Both sides are still determined. Work at the wharves is ...
Article : 544 wordsOF the disappointed ticket holders at Wednesday night's concert for the Protestant Orphanage, only two complained at the secretary's office yesterday. The ...
Article : 66 wordsYesterday the State Tender Board let to Tingate Bros., of Geelong West, a contract at £255 for remodelingthe schoolroom at the Geelong Protestant ...
Article : 142 wordsParis, November 19th.—In August last Pierre Loui, the eminent Franch novelist, sent a long telegram to the "Daily Telegraph" confirming a message ...
Article : 277 wordsRecently the Queenscliff Fire Brigade visited Geolong, and engaged in friendly rivalry with their confreres in the Geelong brigades. On Wednesday night that visit ...
Article : 335 wordsAt the Children' Welfare Exhibition, in the Masonic Hall, Melbourne, fine display is made by St. Augustine's Orpphanage, Geolong, illustrating ...
Article : 139 wordsDissatisfied with the circumstances under which his transfer to Russell-street had been ordered. Constable A. H. Parmenter tendered his resignation ...
Article : 68 wordsTwo steamers, the Rissa (1612 tons), and Porthcawl collided in the Mersey early this morning. The Rissa was so severely damaged that she sank in ...
Article : 44 wordsMikawa, the Japanese firemen, burned by an oil lamp on Tuesday, is making good progress at the hospital, where he held a levee of his district ...
Article : 66 wordsLondon, November 20th.—The Hamburg-Amerika Company, the owners of the liner Acilia (5693 tons), which is overdue at Monte Video, has requested ...
Article : 89 wordsTo-morrow night the Geelong Operative Bakers' Union will take a ballot on the proposal for day baking. There is some uncertainty whether the change ...
Article : 78 wordsLondon, November 20th.—Mr. J. E. Redmond, leader of the Nationalists, speaking at a crowded meeting at Birmingham, said that there would not be ...
Article : 64 wordsMessrs. Jas. Bell and W. B. Wilton attended at the Police Court-yesterday, land entered judgment in four undefended debt coses. An unusual case will ...
Article : 384 wordsNew York, November 19th.—Sixteen bodies hare been recovered from the No. 2 mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company at Acton, in Alabama. ...
Article : 56 wordsIt was stated yesterday by Mr. Jobbins that it is hoped to have the South Geelong trams running by the end of this month. The line as far as ...
Article : 75 wordsLondon, November 20th.—Captain James White, son of the late Field-Marshal Sir George White, hero of Ladysmith, is forming a force of Irish ...
Article : 71 wordsThe following telegram from New Zealand was read at the Melbourne Trades Hall Council last evening: "Maoriland workers engaged in mighty ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Melbourne Steamship Co., Ltd., has contracted with Swan, Hunter and Wighain Richardson, Ltd., of Newcastle-on-Tyne (the builders of the s.s. ...
Article : 133 wordsNew York, November 19th.—News is to hand from Bridgetown, in Barbadoes, that the British cruiser squadron has been ordered to proceed ...
Article : 42 wordsThat the Geelong descriptive booklet ready for distribution by the Geelong Progress Association might be complete from the point of view of the inland ...
Article : 110 wordsLondon, November 19th.—The libel action brought by Richard Wootton, the Anglo-Australian trainer, against Robert S. Sievier, was again mentioned ...
Article : 250 wordsLondon, November 19th.—Harry Hawker, the Australian airman, who made such a splendid attempt to win the "Daily Mail" £5000 prize for a ...
Article : 109 wordsSydney, Thursday.—Judge Edmunds to-day imposed a fins of £3/3/-, with £1 1/- costs, upon 35 workmen, who were proceeded against on a charge of ...
Article : 58 wordsMexico City, November 20th.—President Huerta is preparing a message to Congress. He quotes Napoleon's justification for a dissolution of the old ...
Article : 72 wordsMayor Gurr stated yesterday that all the American boys to visit Geelong next week have been billeted: in fact, there were not enough lads to occupy the ...
Article : 298 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council, the secretary read a communication from Mr. G. Elmslie, leader of the State Labor ...
Article : 254 wordsRev. P. J. Phelan, son of Mr. Pierce Phelan, of Geelong, who is to be ordained to the priesthood at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Melbourne, on Sunday, the ...
Article : 82 wordsAt an inquest at Gateshead upon the body of a newly-born male child, which was found in a back lane wrapped in sacking a doctor gave evidence that ...
Article : 114 wordsParis, November 20th.—The Senate has passed a Bill limiting the number of public houses in France. During the debate it was shown that since 1850 the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe half-yearly dividend from the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., is now payable to Geelong share-holders at the office of the chief agent ...
Article : 235 wordsJust before the theatres closed in Melbourne last night, a fire broke out in the ceiling of the Melbourne Coffee Palace, a six-storey building ...
Article : 128 wordsLondon, November 20th.—A steamer which left for Nome, Alaska, with provisions in July, has not been able to reach her destination, and will probably ...
Article : 72 wordsLondon, November 20th.—Colonel Gaudet, head of the Quebec Arsenal, has retired owing to a scandal regarding ammunition defects. In addition ...
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Advertising : 79 wordsA sitting of the Geelong County Court and Sessions is to be held on Monday, the 1st proximo. Keith Mackay Edmunds is seeking to recover ...
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