Mayor A. W. Musgrove, who was closely identified with the volunteer movement in the early days, died yesterday at the age of 85. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe members of the conference of State engineers who were asked to report upon the practicability of constructing a railway line from Port Augustra to Kalgoorlie ...
Article : 418 wordsMr. Whitaker Wright, against whom Mr. Justice Buckley has ordered criminal proceedings to be instituted in connection with the London and Globe ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, the Hoh. ivo Guest's amendment to the military vote proposing to reduce the stength of the Army by 27,000 men, was ...
Article : 165 wordsInspector White, of the Rabbit Department, returned to Perth during the week after a trip along the fence lone from Starvation Harbour to a point 150 miles north ...
Article : 1,693 wordsThe trial of Frederick Maillat, Leon Mousset, Benoit Volti, Raoul Lintauf, Eguene Lechois, Marie Fontan, Lucoenne Volti, and Marie Dean, on a charge ...
Article : 837 wordsThe Parliamentry by-election for Woolwich. rendered necessary by the recent resignation command of Lord Charles BeresFord to accept command of the Channel ...
Article : 204 wordsIf the States fall in with the suggestion of the Postmaster-General that they should pay his Department a commission of 6s. per £100 on all Savings Bank ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Minister for Works, Mr. C. H. Rason, was entertained at the Council Chambers to-day. There were present besides councillors business men and ...
Article : 518 wordsThe Royal Commission on Irish University Education recommends the creation of a Roman Catholic College in Dublin, with an ample endowment, and a ...
Article : 79 wordsEdwin Burdick, a wealthy manufacturer, of Buffalo, in the United States, lately sought to dicorce his wife, on the ground of her adultery with Arthur ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Feez, the leading councel for Robert Reid and Co., Limited, yesterday delivered his opening address for the defence in the case brought against the firm ...
Article : 302 wordsThe escort accompanying the British Commission which is establishing posts between Sokoto and Lake Chad fought and captured a stockade town one ...
Article : 78 wordsThe monks of Daniloff, in Russia, yesterday decoyed the daughter of an Englishman, named Whalley, the manager of a Moscow mill, and so shockingly ...
Article : 56 wordsHerr Nordenkoetter, a German quack doctor, has been arrested in London. He is stated to have perpetrated enormous frauds in Berlin, and for three ...
Article : 50 wordsWhile Mr. Justice Jeune was summing up in the case in which Mr. Christain Gordon applied for the custody of his child, Cecily, his divorced wife ...
Article : 110 wordsReuter's correspondent at Aden states that it is reported a battle has been fought between the Abyssinian troops and the Mullah's forces, in which ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Westminister Gazette" states that the threats of Mr. Seddon, the New Zealand Premier, against the London moneylenders are nonsensical, and ...
Article : 42 wordsAnother body, that of a woman, who has as yet not been identified, was discovered this afternoon. She had evidently been dead since Monday. The residences in ...
Article : 364 wordsA sensation was caused in the vicinity of Church Hill last night by a young man named Arthur Strachan attacking his sweetheart, Elsie Queenie Cooper, and ...
Article : 232 wordsThe incredible superstition of the natives in the Aden hinterland is stated to be a worse obstacle to a settlement of the boundary dispute than the ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. G. P. Doolette and Mr. C. A. Morning have formed a powerful syndicate, with a capital of £5,000, all of which has been subscribed to prospect ...
Article : 93 wordsA deputation, comprising 114 Unionist members of the House of Commons, waited on the Archbishops of Canterbury and York yesterday respecting the ...
Article : 162 words"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was played by Miss Maggie Moore and her company, at the Theatre Royal, Last night, the performance attracting a large and appreciative ...
Article : 657 wordsGeneral Yuan-Shi-Kai has dispersed the "Boxers." who were drilling in the eastern districts of the Chinese province of Chi-li ...
Article : 49 wordsThe steamer Idomeneus, 6,764 tons, bound from Melbourne to London, has arrived at Port Elizabeth, in Cape Colony rudderless. Her cargo will have ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Parliament of Newfoundland has agree to the renewal of the modus vivendi respecting the French shore question. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe action for breach of promise of marriage by Lilla Elizabeth, Bayne, spinster against Henry Ormonde Fitzagerald, was continued to-day. The plaintiff was ...
Article : 124 wordsAt to-day's colonial wool sales there was a spirited market. Prices showed a hardening tendency for the best wools. ...
Article : 139 wordsIt was stated a day or two ago that, owing to the expiration of the Bridgewater Trust, the Earl of Ellesmere had inherited the vast canal properties of his ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. J. J. Patterson, the Director of Agericulture, is still confined to his room with a severe cold. Yesterday he recovered sufficiently to be able to leave his bed, ...
Article : 261 wordsMr. Balfour has promised that a Royal Commission shall be appointed to inquire concerning the security of Britain's food supply in war time. ...
Article : 33 wordsA shooting accident, resulting in the death of Frank Kuhn, a well-known jockey, took at Kensington this evening Kuhn was practising this ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Legislative Assembly received to-day the Legislative Council's message on the Reform Bill, insisting on the latter's amendments, and calling attention to the ...
Article : 189 wordsHis Holiness the Pope yesterday received the Duke of Norfolk and a number of British pilgrims at the Vatican. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. George Wyndham, the Irish Secretary, states that the gale which recently visited Dublin wrought irreparable damage to Phoenix Park, where ...
Article : 38 wordsThe boilermakers of forty-three shipbuilding yards in New York and the vicinity have struck work out of sympathy with the local strikers. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe libel action, Arthur, Griffith, M.L.A. v. Johnston and others, was before the Full Court to-day. The Plaintiff appealed for a new trial, on the grounds ...
Article : 133 wordsThe third annual conference of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph officers opened at the Royal Exchange yesterday afternoon. The following delegates ...
Article : 126 wordsConsiderable inconvenience is arising in consequence of the delay in filling the vacancy on the Pacific Cable Board caused by the death of Sir Andrew ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 13 Mar 1903, Page 5
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