The Mails.—For the United Kingdom and foreign countries a mail will be forwarded by the R.M.S. Otranto, closing this morning at 11.30 o'clock (late correspondence, if ...
Article : 4,338 wordsMr. G. G. Greenwood (Liberal), M.P. for Peterborough, who was one of the British Parliamentary party which lately visited Canada and Australia, has been interviewed ...
Article : 208 wordsThe London newspapers, commenting on the note of compromise sounded by Mr. Churchill on the Home Rule question in his Alexandra Palace speech on Saturday night, ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Dublin strike promoter, Larkin, who was released from goal by the Chief Secretary for Ireland and immediately proceeded to England to preach a sympathetic strike ...
Article : 468 wordsThe Wellington water-front is resuming something of its old air of activity. Both ships and coasters are now going back into their trades. The membership of the new ...
Article : 525 wordsThe police at Weewa[?] received information on Sunday night that a woman named Mary Wallace had been murdered. They found the body of the woman lying in the ...
Article : 119 wordsA narrow escape from destruction by fire was experienced on Saturday night by the Austrian steamer Josef Agost Foherczeg as she was within measurable distance of ...
Article : 423 wordsSir Maurice Fitzmaurice, who has been commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to visit and report in detail upon the naval bases mentioned by Admiral Sir ...
Article : 794 words"All I have to say about the Geraldton election," remarked the Premier yesterday, "is that the Liberal representative will go out at the general elections and the seat ...
Article : 267 wordsMr. Fielding, ex-Minister of Canada, in a letter to the newspapers, declares the motherland is drifting into a very dangerous position. He urges the adoption of the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe R.M.S. China has picked up off the Lizard, a boat belonging to the tug Nana. The men, who were famishing and suffering from exposure to weather, stated that ...
Article : 98 wordsA sensation at 10 minutes past 12 this morning was occasioned by the clanging of the fire alarm instrument fixed at the entrance to the premises of Messrs. G. and ...
Article : 336 wordsThe first section of the eastern portion of the Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie railway, a distance of about 35 miles from Port Augusta to Euro Bluff, will be opened for ...
Article : 370 wordsThe silver wedding of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. for Birmingham, and formerly Secretary for the Colonies, was celebrated. yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain ...
Article : 165 wordsLieut.—General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts movement, has addressed to the Press a letter on the subject of the Australian military cadet system, ...
Article : 136 wordsThe prospectus has been issued of the Employers' Defence Union of the United Kingdom, with a capital of £50,000,000. Two leading manufacturers have guaranteed ...
Article : 86 wordsA letter appeared in Friday's "West Australian," signed by "Mining Engineer," criticising the Mines Regulation Bill and the Honorary Minister's speech on the ...
Article : 684 wordsA cablegram from Hamilton, the capital of the British Island colony of Bermuda, announces that the Spanish steamer Balmes, which caught fire on the voyage from Cuba ...
Article : 96 wordsTo-day a deputation, representing the Church of England, Presbyterian Church, and the Church of Christ waited upon the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn) ...
Article : 433 wordsGerman householders are protesting against the putting into operation at the New year of the new assurance law, because it will involve an expenditure of 30s. ...
Article : 64 wordsYet another fatality on the metropolitan railways—the fifth during the past few weeks—occurred last evening. Keaneth Anderson, the victim, a bright ...
Article : 328 wordsA Social-Democrat agitation is in progress for the purpose of persuading people to leave the Prussian State Church. Twelve Socialist meetings in support of the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to-day heard argument in the case of the Eastern Australian Steamship Co. versus Fowlers. Leave to appeal was ...
Article : 47 wordsShortly before midday to-day the caretaker of the Yarra Park Gardens was startled by the report of a revolver close to where he was working. A search in the direction ...
Article : 208 wordsA dramatic plea for an early release from what he described as a veritable Gethsemene was made by Arthur Gilbert Vial, who was charged in the City Court to-day ...
Article : 161 wordsYesterday Mr. Hucks, an English aviator, performed the remarkable feat of "looping the loop" four times in succession on a monoplane. Twice he was head downwards for ...
Article : 63 wordsA deputation of suffragettes on Saturday called at the Government offices in Downing-street and left there a petition demanding the release of all "militants" serving ...
Article : 112 wordsOwing to the recent Admiralty regulations which give a prospect of commissions to men who formerly could not rise above petty officer's rank, there is this year a ...
Article : 395 wordsPrior to his departure for Melbourne this afternoon the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn) was asked what developments had occurred with regard to the ...
Article : 132 wordsThe High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) was the guest of the Millions' Club at luncheon to-day. The toast of his health was proposed by the chariman (Mr. Arthur ...
Article : 142 wordsIn connection with the seizure in a room at Paddington early on Friday morning of about £1,000 worth of supposed stolen property, the detectives have made further ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is officially announced that the Administrative Advisory Conference of the Chinese Republic possesses not the singhtest legislative authority. ...
Article : 80 wordsConsiderable enthusiasm marked a ceremony which took place on board H.M.A.S. Melbourne to-day, when the Lord Mayor (Cr. Hennessy) presented to the cruiser, on ...
Article : 70 wordsThe steamer Mamari, which salied from London on Thursday for Wellington, has on board 507 immigrants for New Zealand. The Mamari has been specially ...
Article : 67 wordsA number of spurious sovereigns taken by a totalisator employee at the Ricoarton races are believed to be counterfeits from Australia. ...
Article : 27 wordsBaron Bonde, Speaker of the Lower House of the Swedish Legislature, died suddenly yesterday. The Baron had been for an afternoon walk with his wife, who after ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day Henry James Mortan, 39 years of age, a farmer of Trafalgar, petioned for a divorce of his marriage with Elizabeth Morton, 35 years of ...
Article : 131 wordsAlthough the summer weather has hardly set in yet, bushfires are becoming frequent. In the suburbs surrounding Sydney many dwellings were seriously endangered ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon Mr. Fihelly moved that the Speaker's ruling given on Friday on a question of privilege be dissented from. ...
Article : 141 wordsTo-day, in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Chubb and a jury of four, the action in which Denham Bros. and Son and D. F. Denham (the Premier of Queensland) sued ...
Article : 263 wordsJoseph Marinovich and Nicholas Batistisch were assisting to rig a drill on the Golden Horseshoe mine to-day, when the stage on which they were working collapsed, ...
Article : 75 wordsAustria and Italy have accepted the proposal that the task of delimiting the southern boundaries of the new autonomous State of Albania shall be entrusted to a British ...
Article : 35 wordsSunday School Teachers Versus Barmaids —In the olden days, when might was right, and he might keep who could, counsel for the defence placed more reliance upon a ...
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Advertising : 252 wordsAt a magisterial inquiry held to-day on the body of Grace Haylett the Coroner recorded a finding that death was due to poison self-administered, but there was nothing ...
Article : 141 wordsOn Sunday last Tommy Limpet, a youthful aboriginal, was arrested on a charge of having stolen a bicycle, and was placed in the Kalgoorlie lock-up. At 3 o'clock this ...
Article : 103 wordsFull Couht.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Acting Chief Justice and Mr Justice Rooth: (1) J. R. Martin and the Swan Acrated Water Company. Ltd.: (2) the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 18 Nov 1913, Page 7
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