A meeting of the Cabinet was held yesterday and lasted for two and a half hours. Subsequently Lord Knollys (Private Secretary to the King) conferred ...
Article : 1,276 wordsThe strikers in the Rhondda Valley, in South Wales, yesterday persuaded the enginemen and stokers at the Britannic colliery to abandon their work. The ...
Article : 338 wordsRiots of a serious nature occurred yesterday at Ostuni, in the Apulia portion of Southern Italy, owing to the Mayor, acting upon hygienic grounds, in ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Senate met to-day. The Customs Act. The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) introduced a Bill to amend the Customs Act, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,483 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Scaddan, the Leader of the Opposition, moved— That the proposed Commission of Inquiry ...
Article : 10,377 wordsThe most destructive fire known in Adelaide for years occurred an an nearly hour this morning, when the block known as Gender's Building, on the corner of ...
Article : 470 wordsThe Teheran correspondent of the "Times" states that the whole of the newspapers of the Persian capital are advocating closer relations with Turkey ...
Article : 43 wordsG. Gray, who is conceding W. Cook 2,500 in 9,000, carried his unfinished break of 1,052 to 1,058, when he broke down, and subsequently made a break of ...
Article : 44 wordsCount Tolstoy, who is lying in the stationmaster's room at Astapovo, is suffering from bronchitis, and he sometimes becomes unconscious and delirious. His ...
Article : 75 wordsOwing to exceedingly good corn crops and heavy receipts of cattle and hogs at the big stockyards, the prices of foodstuffs have declined throughout the ...
Article : 51 wordsPresident Taft, who is on a visit to the Panama Canal, states that such rapid progress has been made with the works that the canal will probably be opened ...
Article : 42 wordsThe contributions to the Mansion House fund to provide a memorial to the late King in London include £5,000 from Sir Ernest Cassel, £1,000 from Lord ...
Article : 43 wordsThe threatened raid by armed Mexicans upon Rock Springs, in Texas, to avenge the lynching of a Mexican, did not take place yesterday. The cowboys ...
Article : 68 wordsA cartridge factory at Pao-ting-fu exploded to-day, with the result that 23 men were killed and 12 others were injured. ...
Article : 31 wordsAustralia's refusal to include Auckland as a port of call for the steamers in the Canadian-Australian mail service is regretted here, as Canada is anxious to ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Batchelor) moved the second reading of the Northern Territory Administration Bill. ...
Article : 280 wordsOne of nine balloons which left Essen yesterday is reported to be missing. It is feared that the missing balloon, which is manned by two military officers, has ...
Article : 40 wordsThe United States battleships Connecticul, Delaware, Michigan, and North Dakota, arrived at Torbay, in Devon, yesterday. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt Glogan, in Prussian Silesia, yesterday Sergeant Livitzki was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for having committed 202 acts of cruelty against young ...
Article : 35 wordsAn Imperial Education Conference will be held in London probably in April next. ...
Article : 168 wordsEighty-three of the passengers and crew of the Alaskan coastal steamer Portland, wrecked on Katalla Island a few days ago, are storm-bound on the island. ...
Article : 79 wordsDuring the past week there has been discontent among the labourers and some of the other men employed at the big railway goods sheds at Spencer-street, There ...
Article : 185 wordsStill another important Bill has been circulated, this being a measure to strengthen the Customs Act. Power is sought to prohibit by proclamation the ex ...
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Family Notices : 205 wordsJohn McCoy, aged 64 years, was kicked in the abdomen by a horse at Kojonup last Saturday. He for some time seemed little the worse, but as a precautionary measure ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Federal Cabinet yesterday considered the proposed renewal of the Canadian mail contract with different ports of call. It now transpires that the route favoured by ...
Article : 182 wordsA superstitious conviction took possession of the Chinese crew of the tramp steamer Strathleven as to the reason why that vessel encountered more than the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Minister for Public Works, in his annual statement, reports that the funds for public works purposes during the current year amount to £3,812,366, and the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe salaries received by members of the State Parliament were discussed at a social evening given by the citizens of Carlton to Mr. Solly, M.L.A. The ...
Article : 181 wordsThe High Court to-day refused an application for special leave to appeal from an order of the Supreme Court of Victoria confirming the conviction of William Dodd ...
Article : 123 wordsYesterday the general secretary of the A.N.A. sent the following wire of welcome to Captain Tickell, at Broome:—"Australian Natives' Association sends hearty greetings. ...
Article : 167 wordsAt a general meeting of the Broken Hill Amalgamated Miners' Association the following resolution was passed:—"That this meeting place on record its unspeakable ...
Article : 120 wordsIn his Budget speech the Treasurer (Mr. Fisher), when announcing that invalid pensions and pensions to women on attaining the age of 60 years (instead of 65 years ...
Article : 216 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, attended by Capt. Selby-Smyth, A.D.C., left for Bunbury last night to open the annual show of the Wellington Agricultural Society. He will ...
Article : 145 wordsSir,—May I ask a little space in your paper to protest against the class of liquor dispensed to patrons of the leger reserves on local racecources, particularly so on our ...
Article : 211 wordsFull Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice McMillan: 1. C. E. Sewell, the Sheriff of Western Australia, F. H. Dallison, and others, J. F. W. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 17 Nov 1910, Page 5
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