The Mails.—The weekly mail for the United Kingdom and foreign countries is notified to close at the General Post Office this afternoon at 1 o'clock (late letters bearing ...
Article : 2,195 wordsViolent scenes were witnessed in the House of Representatives here yesterday. The members ejected at the previous sitting forced their way into the Chamber, but the ...
Article : 284 wordsThe gunpowder explosion that caused considerable loss, of life in the vicinity of Vienna yesterday occurred in an ammunition factory. It demolished one building and ...
Article : 198 wordsThe declaration of a national strike of transport workers is being withheld until Tuesday. Yesterday 7,840 men were working on 93 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 498 wordsYesterday 14 battalions of Italian troops, with artillery and cavalry, quitted Tripoli City and seized the Zanzus oasis after bayoneting the Turks out of the hills to the ...
Article : 229 wordsThe fifth conference of the Westralian Goldfields Federated Miners' Association was resumed to-day, in the Workers' Hall. The general president (Mr. George McLeod) ...
Article : 2,367 wordsThrough the secretary of the Australian Labour Federation (Mr. A. McCallum), Mr. Chinn, engineer-in-charge of the construction of the Western Australian portion of ...
Article : 238 wordsAddressing a meeting at Cambridge yesterday, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Herbert Samuel) said, in referring to Home Rule, that the veto wrested from the House of ...
Article : 171 wordsSir William Lyne, who has for some time been an inmate of the Kirkton Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, to-night authorised his medical attendant, Dr. Nash, to announce ...
Article : 148 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the British commission appointed to inquire into the Titanic disaster Mr. Mauge, assistant chief steward, said that after the collision large numbers ...
Article : 159 wordsA cable message from Montreal states that the Duchess of Connaught is recovering from the attack of peritonitis from which she has been laid up for several days. ...
Article : 60 wordsA telegram received to-night states that many parts of the State have received, or are receiving, greatly needed rains. Falls have been heaviest on the coast, but have ...
Article : 152 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," commenting upon Sir Sidney Lee's memois of the late King Edward in the new volume of the National Dictionary of Biography, denounces what it ...
Article : 71 wordsThe next prize amateur photographic competition in connection with the "Western Mail" will be restricted to views relating to active life in the State. The pictures ...
Article : 149 wordsYesterday morning the Lithgow Small Arms Factory was officially opened by the Governor-General. This signalised the taking over of the plant by the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 300 wordsWhile the fleet was engaged in Practice at Cherbourg in fine weather yesterday the submarine Vendemaire made an attack upon the battleship St. Louis and rose under that ...
Article : 117 wordsYesterday afternoon, in the presence of the Queen, Princess Mary, Prince Arthur of Connaught, and thousands of spectators, the King reviewed 30,000 men of the ...
Article : 52 wordsFor ten or eleven years past Mr. E. G. Stenberg, F.L.S., has filled the office of honorary statistician to the position has rendered ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 881 wordsYesterday afternoon seven aviators took part in an aeroplane race for a trophy presented by the "Daily Mail," the course being a circular one from Hendon around London ...
Article : 96 wordsThe rain which commenced on Thursday has fallen fairly continuously ever since. Rain fell in the city throughout Sunday afternoon and night. Toowomba reports ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Senate has passed the Defence Bill. ...
Article : 354 wordsWhile M. Cuvay (Royal Commissioner for Crostia) and M. Hervoic (Chief of the Education Department) were motoring at Agram yesterday a Bosnian student, named Jukies, ...
Article : 67 wordsA fight has taken place for the possession of a radium claim near Monro Lake, on Nebrit Island. Several English capitalists secured the claim, and the Standard Oil ...
Article : 86 wordsThe drought has broken at last. Light rain began to fall on Saturday evening and during the night developed into a steady downpour, which has continued ever since. ...
Article : 67 wordsJ. Cook, known as the pious cheque passer, was charged at the Adelaide Police Court on Saturday morning with the frauds which he had perpetrated on the Adelaide ...
Article : 150 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier recently stated that the Liberals in the Canadian Parliament intended to revive the campaign in favour of tariff reciprocity with the United States, and ...
Article : 54 wordsPreparations are being made to despatch 5,000 American troops to Cuba, where an insurrection is in progress. The President of Cuba has issued a proclamation calling ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Ministries of the South Australian, the Western Australian, the Tasmanian, and the Queensland Governments have all forwarded official communications intimating ...
Article : 72 wordsYesterday two women bandits bound and gagged Mrs. Bernheimer, the wife of a wealthy New York merchant, and stole from her apartments £2,000 worth of jewels. ...
Article : 39 wordsThree volcanoes that had been slumbering in the Aleutian Ranges in Alaska, for a considerable time, became active a few days ago and the detonations from them were ...
Article : 55 wordsA digestor exploded with terrific report in the tallow house on the Australian Pure Food Company's premises at Waterloo on Saturday afternoon. The tallow house was ...
Article : 158 wordsA fight is raging before the Republican National Committee over 96 contested votes in connection with the convention to choose the Republican candidate for the ...
Article : 122 wordsWilliam Morris died in the Sydney Hospital to-night from fracture of the skull, sustained through being struck on the head with a baton by Police-constable Thompson. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Oaks States was run at the Epsom meeting yesterday and resulted as follows:—OAKS STAKES.—Of 5,000 sovs. One mile and a half. ...
Article : 87 wordsSir Joseph Ward has resigned his seat on the Imperial Trade Commission, and has decided to remain a member of the New Zealand Parliament. The chief reason for ...
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Advertising : 455 wordsBall defeated Abe Mitchell in the final of the amateur golf championship at the 38th hole. Two thousand persons witnessed the ...
Article : 115 wordsDoctor Walter Carter Watson was found dead in his surgery in Hunter-street, city, yesterday afternoon. He had been in bad health for the past 12 months, and suffered ...
Article : 64 wordsAt the continuation on Saturday of the Trades Union Congress the following motions were agreed to:— "That this congress is of opinion that ...
Article : 158 wordsSamuel Butcher, a labourer, aged 48 years, was set upon by larrikins in the city last evening and now lies in the Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition. Besides his ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Sir Robert Baden Powell, the hero of Mafeking and the founder of the Boy Scouts movement, was given a hearty reception on reaching Launceston on ...
Article : 117 wordsThe first round of the Davis Cup, which will be between Great Britain and France, begins on July 11. C. P. Dixon and H. Roper Barrett have been selected to ...
Article : 57 wordsSevere comment on the practice of mothers in permitting their infants to sleep in bed with them was made by the Coroner (Dr. Cole) at the inquiry held yesterday into the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Premier, the Minister of Finance, and Sir Joseph Ward decline to say anything concerning the London cable relative to New Zealand's £4,000,000 loan. ...
Article : 31 wordsOn entering his premises in George-street last night Joseph Health, a house furnisher, found a strange, man. He immediately closed with the intruder. In the severe ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 10 Jun 1912, Page 7
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