The first session of the seventh Western Australian Parliament was hurriedly forced to a conclusion on Saturday, when, after a strenuous week's work, the ...
Article : 880 wordsThe conference of the Australian Workers' Union gave consideration to the immigration question yesterday, and passed the following resolutions:—"That ...
Article : 104 wordsThe ceremony of the laying of the foundation-stone of the Girls' Reformatory associated with the Home of the Good Shepherd, at Leederville, was ...
Article : 1,047 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Wade) speaking at Wollongong yesterday said that the present was a time of general prosperity, the only dark cloud being the industrial ...
Article : 280 wordsExtraordinary floods have occurred in Saxony, Thurinagia, Bavaria, and the Tyrol, owing to the sudden melting of the snows on the mountains. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has instructed Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, head of the new Dominions Department, to pay a ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Conservatives of Portsmouth have adopted Major-General Sir Edward Hutton, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Forces, as one of their ...
Article : 249 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Dudley) was entertained at luncheon by the Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron yesterday. He gave ...
Article : 1,087 wordsSo late was the hour when it became definitely known that the prorogation could take place on Saturday, that it was impossible to arrange for the usual ...
Article : 503 wordsThe members of the Postal Commission at Kalgoorlie are giving the matter of telephone communication with Perth earnest consideration. They closely ...
Article : 290 wordsThe "Revue," a Paris magazine, published an extraordinary story regarding the death of the Emperor of China. The Dowager Empress, states the ...
Article : 122 wordsA Conciliation Board recently failed to settle a dispute that arose between the North-Western Railway Company and 39,000 of its employees in various grades. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Californian Legislative Assembly yesterday rejected a Bill to prohibit aliens being members of corporations, and also a Bill providing for the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe official figures show that from 1878 to 1893 the amount advanced to mining companies under the old prospecting vote system was £223,228, and to mining ...
Article : 214 wordsMr. Herbert Gladstone, Secretary of State for the Home Office, speaking at Leeds yesterday, announced that the Government intended to compensate the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe people of Berlin are taking an absorbing interest in King Edward's forth-coming visit to the Kaiser, and the police are being overwhelmed with applications ...
Article : 51 wordsLord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, stated to an interviewer at Cape Town yesterday that he believed the South African arrangement whereby Cape Town ...
Article : 77 wordsMrs. G. A. Curthoys yesterday received the sad news of the sudden death at Geelong of her father, Mr. George Willetts, formerly a well-known citizen ...
Article : 388 wordsPresident Roosevelt has vetoed the American Census Bill. He insists upon competitive examinations for census clerks to the number of 50,000 in order ...
Article : 57 wordsHarry Hussey, a special inquiry officer of the railway service, was the victim of a brutal assault on Friday night. He was attacked by three men on the island ...
Article : 130 wordsIn conversation with a "West Australian" representative after the final proccedings on Saturday, the Premier, in referring to the work of the scssion, ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Rugby International Board have considered the question of payments to players raised by Scotland. They disagreed on Scotland's proposition, that a ...
Article : 180 wordsBallina, on the Richmond River, was the scene of a disastrous fire, which occurred in River-street, the business portion of the town, yesterday morning. The ...
Article : 148 wordsA man was rescued from the ruins of Messina yesterday after having been buried for 37 days in a ruined confectionery shop. He had lived on ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo men were arrested to-day whom the police suspect of being concerned in the murder of Constable Hyde in December. Several persons who saw them in ...
Article : 85 wordsLongboat, the Canadian-Indian, beat A. A. Shrubb over a Marathon distance at Mansion-square. Shrubb collapsed in the 25th mile. ...
Article : 72 wordsConsidering the comparatively short duration of the session the legislative programme submitted was abnormal. No less than 37 Bills found their way on to ...
Article : 304 wordsYesterday morning four European survivors from the clan Ranald were entertained at Port Adelaide by the Mayor (Mr. A. W. Brown), and each was ...
Article : 139 wordsMany men, recently unemployed but now engaged upon municiapl relief works at Bristol, asked permission to cease their labours early on Saturdays in order ...
Article : 54 wordsYesterday afternoon, 30,000 persons attended the A.N.A. Exhibition, the attraction being a balloon and parachute race. A start of a few seconds ...
Article : 75 wordsJames Lynas, who was seriously injured on January 14 by an explosion of sulphuric acid and nitre, which had been lying in a cask near his residence, and ...
Article : 85 wordsSome time ago Mr. M. H. Jacoby, M.L.A., and Mr. W. Reid, vice-president of the Fruit Growers' Association of Western Australia, interviewed the ...
Article : 333 wordsIt was not until a few minutes to 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon that the business in the Legislative Council was completed and everything was ready for ...
Article : 438 wordsIn response to an invitation by the local branch of the P.L.P. Messrs. Troy and O'Loghlen, M's.L.A., and Mr. Dc Largie, a Western Australian member of the Senate, ...
Article : 479 wordsApplications have been invited for the positions of Chief Commissioner of Old-Age Pensions and Deputy Commissioners for each State. The salary of the Chief ...
Article : 162 wordsAlbany "Week," which will be inaugurated to-morrow, may lack the presence of public men who usually participate in the proceedings, but otherwise ...
Article : 111 wordsSeveral thousand pounds' worth of damage was done by a fire in a ware-house in Flinders-lane early this morning. The building in which the fire ...
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Family Notices : 228 wordsThe Yanyearreddy mailman arrived last night, seven days late. He reports that for three days he was unable to move, and only travelled nine miles for the next ...
Article : 97 wordsArrangements have been completed by which Bryant and May, Ltd., and R. Bell and Co., Ltd., will operate jointly in the manufacture of wax vestas and ...
Article : 88 wordsThe second Australian Dental Congress will be held in Melbourne in October next, and representative of dental societies from all parts of the world will attend. The ...
Article : 52 wordsIn response to the appeal made in our columns by the Rev. R. J. Craggs, rector of Subiaco, for assistance for Mrs. Derby, a widow, who, through the recent death of ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 8 Feb 1909, Page 5
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