A gale has damaged the Farman biplane on which Mr. White was endeavouring to accomplish a flight between London and Manchester within a specified ...
Article : 609 wordsThe British Consul has returned from Chang-sha, in the Chinese province of Hu-nan. He declares that organised lawless bands are terrorising the ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury, in the course of a letter in this morning's "Times," states:— "The attempt by the Conservatives to ...
Article : 227 wordsEarly last evening during discharging operations near the forehatch of the German mail steamer Scharnhorst, at Victoria Quay, an elderly man named Harry Brown, ...
Article : 333 wordsA heavy storm was experienced in the city and suburbs to-night, and many small buildings were badly damaged. The Crystal Palace Skating Rink at Richmond was ...
Article : 198 wordsFor weeks past several of the leading English newspapers have been commenting in grave language on the unrest in Egypt. ...
Article : 193 wordsSome cotton has unexpectedly turned up in the United States, representing portion of the shortage for Europe. This discovery has tended to relieve the anxiety ...
Article : 188 wordsMr. Fisher, who arrived from Sydney to-day, was received at the railway station by an enthusiastic crowd, which must have numbered fully 2,000. The arrangements ...
Article : 1,239 wordsFurther evidence was given to-day on behalf of the defendant in the action in which Thomas Petch, hotelkeeper, of the Little Bendigo, claims £1,336 from Nathan Bear, ...
Article : 1,239 wordsLate on Saturday night a serious disturbance took place in the Royal Hotel at Rydal. A gang of plate-layers were drinking, and one refused to pay for the drinks ...
Article : 174 wordsThe French general elections are passing off quietly. Party representation has so far been little modified. The Prime Minister, M. Briand, has been returned ...
Article : 65 wordsA disastrous fire swept over the town of Lake Charles, in the State of Louisiana yesterday. Property to the value of 2,000,000 dollars (about £400,000) has ...
Article : 47 wordsYesterday witnessed another advance in connection with the Salvation Army rescue work in this State. The ministrations of Western Australian Salvationists in the ...
Article : 1,142 wordsVinijaka D. Savarkar, the Indian student who is at present in custody in London, was brought before the magistrate on Saturday morning and again ...
Article : 467 wordsOf the £10,000 which is being raised by the National Geographical Society for the purposes of Antarctic exploration, £5,000 has already been collected. ...
Article : 58 wordsA draper's assistant named Dower, 25 years of age, has been awarded £100 damages in a breach of promise action which he brought against Mrs. Jesusa ...
Article : 45 wordsThrough a misunderstanding the castle at Capetown returned to a salute of 21 guns fired by the Japanese cruiser Ikhoma a salute of only twelve guns. The ...
Article : 70 wordsThis afternoon an accident happened at the Great Boulder mine. Two men named Peter Graham and Henry Kilrain were working at the 1,300ft. level when a fall of earth ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the instance of Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., a recital will be given early in June of representative specimens of the vigorous poetry and songs of the ...
Article : 44 wordsEx-President Roosevelt, who is at present in Paris, visited the Serbonne yesterday, and was awarded a great reception. In the course of an address on "The ...
Article : 59 wordsThe United Malaysian Rubber Co., Ltd., was registered in London on Saturday. The capital of the Company consists of £2,000,000 in £1 shares, and ...
Article : 63 wordsA motoring party had a sensational experience in Manawatu Gorge to-day. When turning a dangerous corner the car went over the edge and raced down the steep ...
Article : 109 wordsIn the course of the elections at Cognac, in France, yesterday, the Mayor and a number of voters came to loggerheads, and the Mayor, who was presiding officer ...
Article : 357 wordsThere has been a recrudescence of tribal hostility in the Ferisovitch district of Albania. The telegraph wires have been cut by the tribes, who preserve a ...
Article : 40 wordsThe second presentation of the sensational melodrama, "Married to the Wrong Man," was given by the George Marlow Dramatic Company before a large audience in His ...
Article : 677 wordsA Russo-Japanese society has been formed at Harbin, in Manchuria, to promote a rapprochement between the two countries, and the study of each other's ...
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Family Notices : 183 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Standard" foreshadows the introduction of legislation in 1911 fixing the life of battleships at fifteen years and providing ...
Article : 38 wordsThe realised deficit of Germany is £8,000,000, instead of the £12,000,000 at which it was previously estimated. ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Methuen, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief in South Africa, addressed a meeting at Johannesburg on Saturday night. Referring to the example ...
Article : 83 words"Jim" Kendrick, the English bantam-weight champion boxer, met "Patsy" Brannigan, of Pittsburg, in a ten rounds contest at New Orleans on Saturday. The ...
Article : 37 wordsHalley's comet was clearly visible to the naked eye at Malta yesterday. The tail of the comet was observed to be sloping upwards at an angle of forty degrees. ...
Article : 49 wordsTwo distinct earth tremors were felt at Yerranderie yesterday. No damage was done, but some alarm was caused to residents by the way in which buildings rattled. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Wakefield reached Kerguelen's Land on the 7th inst., and fruitlessly searched the Crozet, Marian, Prince Edward, Apostles, and other islands for ...
Article : 35 wordsThe magistrate at Christchurch to-day gave judgment in the case in which Bowron Bros., of Christchurch, were charged with having made a false return under the ...
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Family Notices : 457 wordsTwo shops and a dwelling in the main street of Coff's Harbour were burned down on Thursday, and other places were damaged. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe British New Guinea Development Co. has purchased the steamer Bentinck, which will trade between New Guinea and Sydney and Brisbane. The vessel ...
Article : 53 wordsAn inquest was opened to-day on the body of Hans Neilsen, a seaman of the collier Currajong, who was drowned on the occasion of the collision of that vessel with the ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Minister for Mines and Railways (Mr. H. Gregory) underwent a slight operation on Sunday, and is now a patient at Miss Moore's private hospital. He will probably ...
Article : 306 wordsEight Hours Day was celebrated to-day in hot and dusty weather. In the procession through the city and at the Exhibition Buildings, where as sports programme was ...
Article : 44 wordsThe State Cabinet have adopted an elaborate scheme for the extension of the work of the Labour Bureau. About 60 of the principal police stations in country centres ...
Article : 121 wordsA severe southerly gale is being experienced in several parts of the Dominion. At Ashburton and Canterbury 15 degress of frost have been registered and 13 degree at ...
Article : 100 wordsIn Bankruptcy.—At 11 a.m., No. 3 Court, before Mr. Justice McMillan: In the matter of the Bankruptcy Act 1898, and in the matter of James Gullan, Empire Bakery, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe six-year-old son of Mr. W. Brown, engineer, of Mildura, was the victim of a shocking accident on Friday. The boy was on a small steam fishing boat with his ...
Article : 99 wordsNgarahoe is again active, and to-day was emitting great clouds of dark smoke. ...
Article : 19 wordsJames Warland, a farmer who arrived in Adelaide from Pinnaroo on April 18, fell from the upper storey of a hotel in Rundle-street the next morning. He succumbed ...
Article : 38 wordswas made by the Railway Department on Saturday, and proved in every way successful. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 26 Apr 1910, Page 5
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