Eighty years ago the Western Australian Company in London was making plans for colonising that portion of the State of which Bunbury and Busselton are now ...
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Article : 260 wordsKnighthoods of the British Empire (K.B.E.) have been conferred on Capt. Ross Smith and Lieut. Kenth Smith, and Bars to the Air Force Medal have been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 10 wordsThe position with regard to the Brisbane electorate was completely reversed yesterday, as the result of 1,000 additional absent votes being counted. At mid-day ...
Article : 100 wordsIn speaking to the minutes of the Municipal and Councils Employees' Union award in the Federal Arbitration Court yesterday Mr. Justice Powers said the award would ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 12 wordsThe final stage of counting for the Federal elections was entered upon yesterday, but will not be completed until after the holidays. For the Senate Blanchard, ...
Article : 215 wordsA message from Paris states that the Allies have definitely decided to sign the Peace Treaty before Christmas. The Paris correspondent of the ...
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Article : 180 wordsLord French drove through the streets in Dublin to-day in an open carriage, an escort accompanying him. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsA number of masked and armed men at daybreak waylaid a mail motor near West port and stole £50. They compelled the driver to leave the road and take a ...
Article : 132 wordsAfter the Prince of Wales had been entertained at the Guildhall on Thursday he proceeded to the Mansion House to luncheon with the Lord Mayor. His Royal ...
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Article : 194 wordsYesterday further megotiations took place between the Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) and the Civil Service emergency committee, but resulted in the former ...
Article : 528 wordsMr. Bonar Law, speaking at Liverpool, said that the Irish problem was the most perilous that any statesman ever attempted to solve. The position was terrible, but ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 wordsMr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy Seal, speaking at Liverpool, said that the talk about a general election in February was all nonsense. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., announces that the profit for the year was £254,574. A deferred dividend of 15 per cent., free from taxation, has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsA mutiny occurred aboard the United State steamer America, which was conveying the American peace delegation home from Paris, and imperilled the voyage. Some ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsEfforts are being made to introduce flaxgrowing for the linen industry in the south of Ireland, and a factory is being constructed in Cork. Contracts have been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe Mexicans at Mazatlan have arrested some American sailors, and refuse to release them. The State Department is making overtures to secure their release. ...
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Article : 187 wordsThunderstorms were again reported yesterday morning from a number of tropical and goldfields stations, and light showers, also fell on the coast between the Leeuwin ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsA boating fatality occurred at Redcliffe to-day. Shortly after 11 a.m., near the Redcliffe jellty, three young men, named Evans, Morrorwood, and Gough, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe final result of the Bendigo election was announced by the Returning Officer at 6 o'clock this evening, and was as follows:— Hughes .. .. 14,291 ...
Article : 229 wordsTwo prospecting parties comprising returned soldiers complained at a meeting of the Roturned Soldiers League at Kalgoorlie last night of their treatment by the ...
Article : 102 wordsOn the election day hotelkeepers here were prohibited from selling liquor. Some of them however, ignored the proclamation and to-day four offenders were prosecuted ...
Article : 66 wordsA wireless report from General Denikine states that the Bolsheviks after occupying Voronezh, in the south of Russia, shot 5,000 men whom they suspected of ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 24 Dec 1919, Page 7
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