The strike of coal-miners in New South Wales has entered its fourth week, yet the signs of its termination are but faint. From day to day hopes rise and fall as ...
Article : 1,329 wordsWith a view of avoiding a tariff war in Canada Mr. J. R. Mann (chairman of the Committee on Inter-State and Foreign Commerce in the United States ...
Article : 156 wordsSir John Bigham, speaking at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Shipbrokers' Benevolent Society on Saturday, said that when the warship tonnage now on ...
Article : 235 wordsThe prospects of settlement are now much brighter, and the first real move towards concilation has been taken. The Mayor of Newcastle, acting as ...
Article : 382 wordsYesterday 17,000 Spanish troops in the vicinity of Melilla, in the north of Morocco, occupied Mount Adlaten, which dominates the roadways and waterways ...
Article : 372 words"The "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal) states that in no circumstances will the Government accept the Lords' offer of co-operation with the object of removing ...
Article : 1,317 wordsThe Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union will co-operate with the Waterside Workers' Federation in any action the executive may take in regard to the strike at Newcastle. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has been informed by Burns, Philp, and Co., Ltd., that their steamer Malaita cannot sail for the New Hebrides owing to a shortage of ...
Article : 38 wordsMail for the Eastern States.—The next mail for the Eastern States is notified to close at the G.P.O. on Thursday at 11.30 a.m. (late fee 12.30 p.m.), for ...
Article : 3,198 wordsMoving room on Victoria Quay throughout yesterday was decidely at a premium, every set of rails being occupied fully in the removal of cargo from the busy ...
Article : 259 wordsSir Christopher Furness, M.P. (Liberal), head of Furness, Withy, and Co., shipowners, shipbuilders, and enginebuilders, addressing his constituents at ...
Article : 89 wordsThe "Times" special correspondent at Brussels quotes M. Cottier, M. Vandervelde, and other leaders in the long agitation against the old Congo system of ...
Article : 401 wordsThe Trans-Andine railway tunnel, which is 3,280 yards in length, has been completed, and the Chilian and Argentine sections of the line have been ...
Article : 183 wordsMr. McLachlan, the Federal Public Service Commissioner, was to-day examined by Mr. Webster at the Postal Commissioner. He said that the did not think that the time ...
Article : 654 wordsAt Paris yesterday an Algerian clerk named Endelsi shot and wounded General Veraud, whom he mistook for General Brun (Minister for War). On being ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Labour Party is to hold a caucus tomorrow, and see if it cannot take a hand and do something to bring the parties together, and have the trouble settled in a ...
Article : 85 wordsThe powder house at the Armston collieries, near Dalkeith (six miles from Edinburgh), exploded yesterday, wrecking a dozen colliers' houses in the ...
Article : 60 wordsIssued to noon yesterday, the Christmas Number of the "Western Mail" was exceedingly well received by the public. The large map of the metropolitan district. ...
Article : 555 wordsRenter's correspondent at Berlin states that Great Britain and Germany recently considered various questions concerning the frontiers between British Uganda ...
Article : 96 wordsThe New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures met to-day and determined to offer its help to bring about a meeting of the colliery proprietors and representatives of ...
Article : 281 wordsKing Manuel, of Portugal, who left London yesterday, was accorded an ovation on arriving in Paris, and was entertained at a banquet by President ...
Article : 47 wordsThe eruptions from the volcanoes on the island of Teneriffe, one of the Canary group, off the west coast of Africa, have subsided, and the lava has ceased ...
Article : 39 wordsThe funeral of the Emperor of China cost 457,740 taels (about £76,000), while that of the Dowager Empress cost 1,250,000 taels (about £208,000). ...
Article : 32 wordsLieut. Hofrichter, an Austrian officer, has been arrested at Vienna on suspicion of his having sent by post numerous packets of cyanide of potassium, the tasting ...
Article : 102 wordsEfforts are being made by the Commonwealth Government to bring about a conference between British and Australian representatives on the question of linking ...
Article : 314 wordsF. Wootton, the Australian jockey, concluded the flat racing season by heading the winning jockeys' list. He rode 165 firsts, 143 seconds, 90 thirds, and ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. L. C. Mackinson, the managing director of the "Argus" who is the manager of the Australian Press Association, gave further evidence to-day before the Press ...
Article : 421 wordsIt was started to-day that a departmental board was arranging, with the approval of the Chief Railway Commissioner, the terms of the general order in respect to the Coal ...
Article : 282 wordsMr. Archibald Gordon, third son of the Earl of Aberdeen, was somewhat severely injured by being thrown from a motorcar in a collision near Winchester ...
Article : 99 wordsSir John Forrest expects to arrive he Perth on Monday, December 20, and hopes to remain in the State for three or four months. Lady Forrest anticipates ...
Article : 284 wordsDuring the early hours of yesterday morning the Jandakot Hotel, situated some little distance from Bibra Lake, was completely destroyed by fire. ...
Article : 258 wordsAlthough no definite attempt has yet been made to salve the steamer Clan Ranald, which foundered near Troubridge Hall, Yorke's Peninsula, on the night of ...
Article : 133 wordsAt a meeting of the Adelaide City-Council to-day the interim report of the Municipal Tramways Trust for the six months ended July 11 was laid on the table. It showed ...
Article : 122 wordsA conference, which it is was understood was to be held to-day, between Mr. Bowling and the colliery proprietors, did not take place. ...
Article : 28 wordsWork was started at the Ebbw Main colliery to-day. Only one shift was worked, but three shifts will be put on in a few days. The miners are to be paid 10½d. per ...
Article : 57 wordsThe local superintendent of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company stated that notwithstanding the severity of the cyclone which occurred at the Cocos Island on ...
Article : 174 wordsTwo miners named Poole and S. Murphy were blasting underground in the Cobar gold mine this morning when a premature explosion took place. Poole was killed, and ...
Article : 48 wordsA terrible scalding accident occurred to Claff Jones and J. Smith, the driver and fireman respectively, of a train which left Murrurundin for Werris Creek on Saturday. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe number of men in Sydney whose services have been dispensed with on account of the coal strike is approximately 1,200. ...
Article : 28 wordsAlready the sum of £872 has been collected in the diocose of Adelaide in response to the appeal made at the recent Auguran Congress at Perth in aid of the New ...
Article : 66 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 1 Court, before the Acting Chief Justice and jury: (1) R. W. Pennefather and the "Sunday Times" Publishing Company, Limited; (2) ...
Article : 70 wordsDonations to the extent of £700 have been received for the strike fund. The question of strike pay has not yet been considered. ...
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Advertising : 121 wordsThe Colonial Sugar Refining Co.'s steamer Fiona, despatched from Newcastle for Fiji with 6,000 tons of coal, has returned [?] Sydney with her cargo, which will be use ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 30 Nov 1909, Page 5
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