Commander Peary has accepted the invitation of the Royal Geographical Society to deliver a lecture before that body on his journey to the North Pole. ...
Article : 84 wordsAn important step has been taken by the Post-office authorities in the use of wireless telegraph. For some time past negotiations have ...
Article : 405 wordsThe Simla correspondent of "The Times" announces that mensures are practically completed for including the army in India within the scheme for an Imperial General ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Daily News," discussing the political situtation, declares "omens tell strongly in the direction of the Peers passing the Budget The influence of the Court on the ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Following upon a meeting of the woolgrowers this morning, a conference of growers, buyers, and selling brokers was held this afternoon. The whole ...
Article : 338 wordsThe commerce delegates who visited Ballarat yesterday will not soon forget their trip. They saw the garden streets, the mines, the lake, and the statuary. Could ...
Article : 773 wordsThe final football match for the premiership of Victoria will be played this afternoon on the Melbourne Cricket-ground, between Carlton and South Melbourne. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 139 wordsHis Excellency the Governor will be present to-day at the Flemington races, and will lunch with the conunittee and stewards of the V.R.C. ...
Article : 877 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—A number of the delegates attending the Congress of Chambers of Commerce, accompanied by their lady friends, visited Bendigo to-day, and ...
Article : 711 wordsThe annual convention of the Canadian Federation of Labour at Ottawa has adopted the report of the general executive in favour of voluntary military service ...
Article : 107 wordsThe new Lord Mayor of London (Sir John Knill) has called a meeting at the Mansionhouse, to initiate a fund to equip the Antarctic expedition which Captain Scott is ...
Article : 71 wordsA petition has been prepared for signature by bankers and merchants of the city urging the House of Lords to take such action is will give the people in ...
Article : 49 wordsAn interesting feature of the Budget debate in grand committee of the House of Commons yesterday was the support given by Mr. Balfour to the Government in ...
Article : 184 wordsPrior to abandoning Mount Gurugu, round which some severe lighting has taken place, the Morrs on Wednesday morning fired only three shots. The Spanish troops ...
Article : 88 wordsThe launching of the Neptune, the eighth battle-ship of the Dreadnought class, was successfully performed at Portsmouth today. ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The first movement from outside in connection with the deadlock in the wool trade was taken in the morning, when the growers of ...
Article : 586 wordsPrior to his return to Australia Colonel Foxton, who represented the Commonwealth at the recent Imperial Defence Conference, was entertained at luncheon in the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe wool sales were continued to-day. There was a miscellaneous collection, but sales were brisk, and prices well maintained. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Development Bill has passed the Standing Committee. The Solicitor-General (Sir Samuel Evans) agreed that it was advisable to fix a limit to the expenditure ...
Article : 43 wordsDetailed information has been furnished as to the receipts it the various test matches in which the Australians took part during the recent tour. ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Aerial League of the British Empire met yesterday for the purpose of electing officers. The Admiralty Board, the War Office, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Friday.—An interesting feature or this year's Dunlop Road Race from Warrnambool to Melbourne is that the big event will be cinematographed in its various stages. ...
Article : 933 wordsGermany's new naval harbour at Wilhelmshaven, which has been constructed at a cost of £3,500,000 has been inaugurated. It has six docks, three of which are deep ...
Article : 232 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The will of the late Mr. Samuel Hordern bears date June 16 of the present year, while a codicil altering to some extent the disposition in the ...
Article : 1,076 wordsDuring the week the celebrations have been continued at New York in connection with the three hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River by ...
Article : 96 wordsPresident Taft, who is touring the United States, is now at Seattle. He was interviewed by a deputation which urged the importance of increasing subsidies to ...
Article : 85 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bank bills in London is 2 3-16 per cent., or 5-16 per cent, below the Bank rate of 2½ per cent. The market ...
Article : 60 wordsSHEPPARTON, Friday.—To a section of the visiting delegates from the Chambers of Commerce of the empire to-day was one of the most interesting and instructive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 wordsThe revenue returns of the United Kingdom for the quarter ending September 30 show a total of £29,721,194. Of this amount £6,846,000 represents Customs ...
Article : 70 wordsThe use of the word "colonies" as applied to the British self-governing dominions overseas was the subject of a question in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe National Trustee Company is applying for administration of the estate of William Joseph Lyons, of Elsterwick, retired railway employee, who died on August 2, leaving estate valued, at ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Victorian Homing Association is taking a keen interest in the breeding of pigeons and their use in war time. The first toss for the Commonwealth military ...
Article : 400 wordsMadame Melba, having toured the eastern States, will give farewell concerts in the Exhibition-building on Saturday, October 16, and the following Saturday. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Melbourne wool sales were originally fixed for Monday next. In order to permit of more time for the inspection of the wool the sales have been postponed until ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-day's quotation for bar silver per ounce standard is 23¾d., being an advance of 1-16d, since Wednesday. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. William Davidson, inspector-general of Public Works in Victoria, who is on a visit to Great Britain to inquire into the question of improved docking facilities for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 wordsThe range of prices on the Stock Exchange yesterday for the stocks mentioned was as follows, and the middle prices may be computed from the quotations given:— ...
Article : 44 wordsReplying to remarks made in "The Argus" yesterday by Mr. Sweeney, regarding the shipment of bananas from Fiji by the Manapouri, Mr. Quing Foo, manager of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 300 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—When returning to the city this afternoon from the Roman Catholic Congress. Cardinal Moran's Motorcar came to a dead stop. All efforts to make ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrival.—Idomeneus, s.s., from Melbourne August 5. ...
Article : 42 wordsSo far the Public Works department have made no attempt to re-start the wire-weaving machinery at the Pentridge penal establishment, which was closed down when the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsA bill dealing with the transfer of the territory surrounding the Federal capital site will be introduced into the Senate next week by Senator Millen. ...
Article : 309 wordsYesterday afternoon the Premier (Mr. Murray) paid a visit to Port Melbourne to inspect the lagoon lands and the foreshore in response to a promise made to ...
Article : 148 wordsGEELONG, Friday.—Mr. H. C. Malcolm, manager of small holdings, and Mr. Malcolm Taylor, local lands officer, to-day sat as a special court, and heard applications for 10 ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Temporary Supply Bill was passed through all stages in the Legislative Council last night. Provision is now made for supplies until the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe commissioner of police (Mr. O'Callaghan) yesterday declined to make any statement in reply to the loading article in "The Argus" upon the deterioration of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsPERTH, Friday.—In the Legislative Assembly last night the Licensing Bill providing for local option passed its second reading. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsHORSHAM, Friday.—At a largely-at tended quarterly meeting of the Methodist Church, presided over by the Rev. T. Collins, a resolution was carried expressing the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 2 Oct 1909, Page 17
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