Serious trouble has arisen between Italy and Turkey, and is now so acute that a naval demonstration by Italy is threatened, a squadron of war-ships having been got ...
Article : 419 wordsConsiderable interest has been excited in regard to the Irish vote in the North-West Manchester election, in which Mr. Winston Churchill, who has been raised to Cabinet ...
Article : 280 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen will leave to-day on a trip to the Continent, during which they will be the guests of Royal families to which they are related. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe most appalling railway accident that has happened in the history of Victoria occurred yesterday evening, when two trains —one from beyond Ballarat and the other ...
Article : 539 wordsSYNDNEY, Monday.—The Federal Trensurer (Sir William Lyne), who leaves for Melbourne to-morrow night, stated to-day that he was going to ask the House to ...
Article : 128 wordsIt was 25 minutes past 11 o'clock when the St. John Ambulance Association, whose premises are in Lang-lane, at the rear of the Grand Hotel, Spring street, ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. D. Court, of East Melbourne, said:— "I was on the Ballarat train when the collision occurred. I was thrown across the carriage, and scrambled out. The scene was ...
Article : 209 words[?] Excellency Sir Reginald Talbot leaves Melbourne to-morrow morning on a visit to B[?]ght and St. Bernard's Hospice, returning to Melbourne on Saturday afternoon. ...
Article : 408 wordsThe latest information concerning the state of health of the ex-Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermnn, is disquieting. Although successive bulletins issued by ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. E. A. Eddy, a resident of Footscray, and a passenger by the Ballarat train, who is a brother of Mr. Richard V. G. Eddy, tells a remarkable story. It chanced that ...
Article : 126 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A startling acccident occurred at a buckjumping exhibition in Prince Alfred Park to-night. The whole of the staging of the shilling seats collapsed ...
Article : 507 wordsA few weeks ago the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce sought diplomatic intervention in checking a proposal of the Japanese Cotton Spinners' Association to foster ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, in the course of an election address at Manchester, declared that the education problem must be settled either by a compromise between the ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Matthew Eddy, another passenger in the Ballarat train, said:— "When I crawled out of the carriage after being thrown down by the shock no one ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsMr. Runciman, who has to go before his constituents at Dewsbury for re-election in consequence of his elevation to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Education, is ...
Article : 80 words"It was a terrible smash. I dared not go past the place of the accident, because it was all so dreadful that it was not fit for women to see." ...
Article : 441 wordsTurkey is faced with trouble with France, as well as with Italy. The French dispute is in relation to some French-owned collieries at Heraklia, near Ada Bazar, in Asia ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 28 wordsNo steps have been taken by Venezuela to meet the desire of the United States that the dispute over the question of asphalt concessions should be referred to ...
Article : 327 wordsThe employees of the North-Eastern Railway Company recently demanded a programme including an eight hours day for all grades engaged in the movement of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 336 wordsPrince Bulow, the German Imperial Chancellor, has been in Rome for some days past on a mission to secure the support of the Vatican in his endeavour to break down the ...
Article : 119 wordsSir,—Referring to the paragraph in "The Argus" of last Saturday under "In the Papers," it probably needs but, an invitation to bring forth numerous equally ...
Article : 450 wordsMiss Williams, of Braybrook, who was terribly shaken by witnessing the accident, and was waiting on the platform to see Miss White off, said:—"Braybrook is a ...
Article : 222 wordsA relief fund is being organised to meet the needs of the wives and near relatives of the men drowned in the torpedo-boat destroyer Tiger through her, collision with ...
Article : 80 wordsTowards the end of last month great irrtation was caused in Russia through the refusal of Mr. F. D. Fisher, United States consul in Harbin, to ask Russia's ...
Article : 181 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Grievances are still the subject of complaint in the Sydney General Post-office, and the department is, in many instances, accused of infringing the ...
Article : 436 wordsPersistent rumours are afloat regarding pending changes in the state Ministry, and they gain colour by reason of the attitude of many Government supporters. Although ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Social Democratic Federation, which is holding its annual conference at Manchester, is strongly against coming into touch with the Labour party. ...
Article : 138 wordsIt was remarkable how soon the news of the disaster got round amongst the public, many of them, even at the late hour, besieging the harried stationmaster. with tears ...
Article : 103 wordsOne of the saddest stories told by passengers was of the death of a bride and injuries to her husband. Mr. D. Court, who related it, said:— ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Picler Blom, who is well-known at the Flemington stock markets, was a passenger on the Bendigo train. "I was in the smoking compartment of the, boudoir ...
Article : 264 wordsBENDIGO, Monday.—The annual carnival in aid of the Bendigo Hospital and Benevolent Asyalm was inaugurated to-day, the chief feature of interest, as in former ...
Article : 430 wordsA disastrous accident[?] has accompanied the work of construction on an addition to the Co-operative Stores in Milan, in Italy. A new wing was being added to the ...
Article : 65 wordsImmediately on receipt of news of the collision we despatched a special staff by fast motor cars to Braybrook, and they have supplied the ...
Article : 425 wordsThe fortunate discovery has been made by the St. Petersburg police of a plot against the lives of the highest personages in Russia. ...
Article : 87 wordsWholesale disaster overtook Mrs. Lily Huntingdon, of Footscray, who was accompanied by her two children. She was seriously injured herself, and when she ...
Article : 44 wordsThe International Chess Tournament, which has been proceeding in Vienna for the last month, was concluded yesterday. Three well-known players tied for first ...
Article : 96 wordsA medical man, who has dealt with fifteen of the injured, reports a horrible occurrence. While moving about be caught a man endeavouring, under cover of the confusion ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Eastern and Australian steamer Aldenham, on which a case of small-pox occurred before the vessel reached Port Darwin, was boarded by the ...
Article : 209 wordsSugar.—Mr. F. O. Licht, of Magdeburg, states in his monthly circular that the production of beet sugar in Europe for the first seven months of the 1907-8 campaign, ...
Article : 100 wordsWELLINGTON, Monday. — A tragic affair occurred in Dunedin harbour on Sunday night. A number of volunteers and others were proceeding to the Heads in a ...
Article : 78 wordsNo further light upon the mystery of Ju Min Lee's disappearance from the Swedish steamer Opland has been afforded by the police inquiries. When Inspector Gleeson, ...
Article : 136 wordsIn the third of the shattered carriages on the Ballarat train were nine people, four of whom were playing cards. Just as the train had drawn out of the station they had ...
Article : 378 wordsMr. J. H. Stoneley said:—"I left Bacchus Marsh in the train from Ballarat at about a quarter to 10, and we must have arrived at Sunshine at about 10.45. We ...
Article : 232 wordsAs soon as the news of the disaster reached the Melbourne Hospital Dr. M'Kelvie, medical superintendent, summoned all the assistance available, and ...
Article : 63 wordsOf "Wolfe's-Schnapps" consumed in Australasia has been attained by its excellency as a stimulant and a diuretic.—[Advt.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 21 Apr 1908, Page 5
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