Aviation. England Purchases the Wright Aeroplane a War Office Invitation
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 7
LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Mr. Wilthur Wright has accepted the invitation of the War Office lo visit England. Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeronautics. War Office Move. Mr. Wilbur Wright's Visit. London, March 10
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 7
Mr. Wilbur Wright has accepted an invitation from the British War Office to Visit England, and Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, is purchasing an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fallen Soldiers Memorial. Perth, (W.a.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1909 · page 7
The condition of the Fallen Soldiers' Memorial in King's Park is such as to occasion considerable concern. The figures on the pedestal are rusting so rapidly that fears are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Football. Rugby Union. Welcome Home to Australian Team
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 16
The New South Wales Rugby Union has decided to extend a welcome home to the Australian team at the Hotel Australia on Monday, March 22 at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Succour of the Wounded in War. the Royal Army Medical Corps Volunteers and Major Richardson's Dogs Inspected in Hyde Park
The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 5
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Correspondents. Russell at St. Paul's
Evening News · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 3
The "animated" bust of the journalist who was styled the father of the modern war correspondent now adorns St. Paul's Cathedral. The veteran Sir Evelyn "Wood, we are told, took a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Boer War Lost Every Month." What Emigration Costs Britain
The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 15
"Free trade, free competition, has the effect not only of levelling down wages to the level of the lowest competing countries," says Mr. J. Kills Barker, writing in the "Nineteenth Century, but also of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Conquest of the Air Successful Aeroplane Trials. War Office Attention Invited
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 9
LONDON, Friday.--Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, who is president of the Aerial Experiment Association of Canada, is experimenting at Bras…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Soldier of Fortune. a Tale of the Crimea. Chapter LII—Continued
Nepean Times · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 8
"Prove it." said Baltar, "by accepting the husband whom your family have chosen for you. Too often has the wolf desolated the fold of Judah. I will, if…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Soldier and Sailor Emigrants. New British Scheme. London, March 12
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 13
Influenced by Australian and Canadian suggestions, Mr. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, has included in the army estimates £40,000 sterling to initiate a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Soldier's Wife. Suit for Separation. the Petition Dismissed
The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 15
Before Mr. Justice Bring in the Divorce Court today Anne Ruth Cronin, formerly Hatton, petitioned for a decree of judicial, separation from John Cronin on the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Terrors of Invasion. Famous Soldier on the New Patriotic Play. "The Descriptions (Of Invasion) Are As Rosewater to Fish Manure."
The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 31
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn. Wood, V.C., writes as follows in the London "Express": You ask me for my opinion on the play. "An Englishman's Home," or "Woe to the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Soldiers and Sailors Military and Naval Notes
The Star · Saturday 13 March 1909 · page 9
"A power whose morning drum beat, following the sun, circles the earth." --DANIEL WEBSTER. Captain A. J. Longmuir has been appointed officer…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Characters of War. Isandlwana
The Sunday Sun · Sunday 14 March 1909 · page 11
On January 22, 1879, there occurred the disaster to the 24th Regiment at Isandiwana. The British force consisted of six Companies of the 24th Regiment, some Natal…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Natives Well Armed. Possibilities of a Native War
Evening News · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 5
Captain Chas. Menmuir, master of the steamer Upolu, brought his vessel into Port Jackson on Sunday night, after the usual cruise among the islands of the Pacific, visiting the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Financial Tug-of-war. How to Avoid Extra Taxation
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 March 1909 · page 7
The publication on Saturday of the text in the "Herald" of the resolutions carried at the Premiers' Conference attracted the attention of several members of the Federal Parliament,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boer War Lost Every Month
The Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 4
A. G. Huie writes:-- Under the above title you quote the substance and conclusions of a writer in the "Nineteenth Century." Evidently he is one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded Man's Candor. Charge of Intent to Murder Dismissed
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 14
Edward Charles Carroll (23), talesman, was charged, at the Central Police Court yesterday, with maliciously shooting at one Thomas Brown, with intent to murder him, at Sydney, on March 5…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Russo-turkish Compromise. War Indemnity Payments Postponed
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--The financial arrangements between Russia and Turkey have been concluded. The compromise frees Turkey from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Notes of the Week. the War in the Air
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 8
Count Zeppelin's new airship has flown 120 miles in 2½ hours over Lake Constance. Aerostatists af the front of the great problem of the conquest of the air have in the…
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