SYDNEY, Feb. 22.—An interstate conference of the Australian Labour Party has been summoned to deal with the threatened split in the movement. It will ...
Article : 982 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—A call for confidence on the wool market was made by the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir T. M. Wilford) in a speech at a banquet of the ...
Article : 266 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—Mrs. Victor Bruce, the famous airwoman and racing motorist, concluded her world flight of 19,000 miles to-day, when the arrived at the Croydon ...
Article : 487 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—On Friday the Senate approved without debate a resolution suggesting that President Hoover should negotiate with other ...
Article : 245 wordsFREETOWN (Sierra Leone), Feb. 20.—A fanatic of the Mad Mullah type, named Haidara Kontofili, recently crossed the frontier from French Guinea into Sierra ...
Article : 142 wordsLIMA (Peru), Feb. 20.—An attempt to overthrow the Government of President Cerro early to-day failed. The conspirators fled from the capital to Callao, where ...
Article : 63 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 22.—While he was driving in a phaeton with his wife and two children at the corner of Canterbury and Rooks roads. Vermont, early this ...
Article : 676 wordsVIENNA, Feb. 20.—As king Zogu, ruler of Albania, accompanied by his suite, was leaving the Opera House after witnessing "I Pagliacci," three men opened fire on ...
Article : 99 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Feb. 20.—A correspondent of "La Nacion" at Posadas (Argentina) reported to-day that revolutionaries had captured the Paraguayan ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—The official announcement to-day that the Commonwealth is paying off £5,000,000 of short-term Treasury bills maturing on March 2 ...
Article : 172 wordsA motoring accident with fatal results occurred on the Kalamunda-road, about 1½ miles from the Guildford-road turn-off, on Saturday afternoon. The following ...
Article : 194 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 22.—After a meeting which lasted for more than three hours yesterday afternoon, the conference between the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 281 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 21.—"Owing to the uncertainty of overseas market conditions meat export operations for January were somewhat curtailed," declared the Minister ...
Article : 842 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—Mr. W. P. Devereux, the official representative in Britain of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council, reports that the firm and improving tone ...
Article : 201 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 21:—Continuing their recovery after slumping to the lowest price touched, in recent years, Australian Government loans were buoyant ...
Article : 69 wordsCharles McRitchie (40), married, a fuel hand employed at the East Perth power house, and residing at 373 Beanfort-street, Highgate Hill, was electrocuted about 10.30 ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—Mr. G. P. Fairbairn, the Cambridge undergraduate who made a secret departure from England on Friday morning, intending to fly to ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—Mrs. Bruce arrived at Croydon escorted by 'planes piloted by Miss Amy Johnson, Miss Winifred Spooner (who was placed fourth in the ...
Article : 268 wordsMEXICO CITY, Feb. 22.—A despatch from Mexicali in Lower California (near the United States border), stated that a mob of 3,000 hungry and jobless peasants ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—The city editor of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—"The result of the conference between Messrs. Scullin and Theodore and the representatives of ...
Article : 72 wordsRobert White (57), of 101 Hay-street, was struck by a motor car being driven along St. George's-terrace, near Mill-street, on Saturday night by John Selwyn Allen, of ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—Flight-Lieutenant T. Rose has abandoned his attempt to establish a new record for a solo flight from England to Cape Town. He is likely ...
Article : 106 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 22.—Members of the Waterside Workers' Federation, who expected to get employment on the waterfront after two years (since the ...
Article : 145 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 21.—Anxiety is expressed in northern China over the heavy concentration of Soviet troops on the Manchurian border. The intentions of the ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21:—The three Royal Air Force Vickers-Victoria troop carrier machines, which are on a flight from Cairo to Cape Town and return, left ...
Article : 48 wordsELKTON (South Dakota), Feb. 20.—Emergency calls were sent to physicians to rush from t neighbouring towns to the aid of over 250 persons who are seriously ...
Article : 158 wordsMrs. Phyllis Seabrook, of South Como, was riding a motor cycle with Charles Scott, senior, of Leonora-street, South Como, as a pillion passenger, alone ...
Article : 100 wordsADELAIDE, Feb. 22.—The batting of the South Australian tail-enders, Grimmett, Carlton and Walker, was the one bright feature of the second day's play ...
Article : 622 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 21.—Mr. G. A. Gahan, Commonwealth Railways Commissioner, said to-day that the decision of the State and Commonwealth Railways ...
Article : 235 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 22.—Mis Phyllis Arnott has attained the distinction of being the first woman pilot in Australia to gain a "B" licence for commercial flying. She ...
Article : 52 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 22.—There was a further serious outbreak of violence in the Tharrawaddy district, Burma, yesterday, when hundreds of villagers attacked the ...
Article : 74 wordsWhile riding a push cycle towards Perth along Wanneroo-road on Saturday, Walter Watson Littler (26), of Wanneroo-road, Osborne Park, collided with one of two ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 22.—The three men who were stranded in a disabled launch in a heavy sea off Stanwell Park on Friday afternoon were rescued at 8 a.m. ...
Article : 189 words"Splendid work is being rendered by the Sea Scouts in life-saving work, first aid, and in assisting capsized craft in the Swan River," said Lieut.-General Sir Talbot ...
Article : 414 wordsAfter having been treated for concussion and fractured ribs, at the Perth Hospital, about 1 a.m. on Saturday, Charles Cave, of Palmerston-street, went home at ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 22.—The congress of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions in Sydney concluded abruptly to-day in the midst of a heated debate, in which ...
Article : 390 wordsA passenger on the Merredin-Perth train on Saturday morning was shot in the cheek with a pellet from a gun which, it is believed, was fired from a motor truck at a ...
Article : 180 wordsWhile witnessing the departure of some friends on the Karoola at Victoria Quay, about noon on Saturday, Mrs. Edith Castly, of Tower-street, Leederville, fell ...
Article : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 22.—An inquest was held at Geelong yesterday before the Coroner (Mr. D. W. O'Grady) into the deaths of Eric Ainsley Morris (31), and ...
Article : 136 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 22.—After falling between the running board of a moving railway carriage and the platform at the Albert Park station at 10.30 p.m. ...
Article : 64 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 22.—While arresting Joseph McFarlane (38), trapper, at his camp at Whitfield to-day, Constable Hutchinson was shot in the left thigh. ...
Article : 177 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 22.—An action which the Attorney-General (Mr. MacGroarty) was to have brought against the superintendent of the Queensland Prohibition ...
Article : 125 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 22.—Following the amalgamation a few weeks ago of Abermain Seaham Collieries, Ltd., and J. and A. Brown, steps have been taken to bring ...
Article : 120 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 22.—David Jones, one of the deputies who was seriously injured in an explosion in the State coal mine at Wonthaggi on Friday, died at the ...
Article : 178 wordsWILUNA, Feb. 21.—An inquest concerning the death of Cyril Francis, whose body was found in an open cut of the Wiluna mines leases on February 17, was ...
Article : 135 wordsVIENNA, Feb. 2O.—Sweeping down the valley of Villgraaten, in the eastern Tyrol, from a height of 7,000ft., an avalanche overwhelmed three mills and a house. A ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—While the Earl of Harewood (husband of Princess Mary) was hunting to-day with the Bramham Moor hounds, of which he is master, his horse ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 22.—A fight between rival "pushes," which seemed imminent in Ivy-street, Darlington, last night, was prevented only by determined action on ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—The "Observer" gives prominence to a cable message from its Sydney correspondent, and an article, totalling two columns, saving that Mr. ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—The New Zealand earthquake relief fund now amounts to £33,950. The following donations were received to-day:—Barclay's Bank, £525; ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 23 Feb 1931, Page 9
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