Yesterday 180,000 coal miners were at work and it is estimated that the majority of the others on strike will resume to-day, although there is much ill-feeling in the North of ...
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Article : 80 wordsThe Young Australian League boys, who are making a short stay in Dublin, visited the old Irish Houses of Parliament yesterday and had luncheon at Trinity College. ...
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Article : 68 wordsMr. H. C. Goff is organising a concert in aid of distressed relations of people who were on board the ill-fated Koombana. The concert is to be held on Sunday week in ...
Article : 103 wordsA fast Parseval airship, built for Japan, made a successful trial trip at Bitterfield yesterday. ...
Article : 57 wordsIn connection with the assassination of a chauffeur at Montgeton and two bank officials at Chantilly, a desperado, named Callemin, and nicknamed "La Science," was ...
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Article : 69 wordsBy the s.s. Gorgon, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday, the survivors from the wreck of the barque Crown of England at Balla Balla during the recent cyclone ...
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Family Notices : 70 wordsAt Ipswich yesterday a fire broke out in a bedding factory, and raged for 20 hours. It destroyed a hotel and a jewellery establishment, and caused damage to the extent ...
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Article : 504 wordsBavarian scholars under 17 years of ago are prohibited from playing football on the ground that being reckless they play too roughly, the result being a coarsening effect ...
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Advertising : 434 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Peake, has received the following letter from the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), dated April 1, in response to representations made on the subject of the ...
Article : 153 wordsA small safe 2ft. by 18in., in the bar of the Social Democratic Club was blown open early this morning and £41 in cash was taken. The door of the safe had been blown ...
Article : 140 wordsJunanovitch, formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs in Montenegro, who was in 1907 sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for treason, reached here yesterday after having escaped ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 10 Apr 1912, Page 7
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