Yesterday brought no change in regard to the tramway strike. Inquiries at the Trades Hall eliciated the response that there had been no developments during the ...
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Article : 76 wordsThe Nationalist (anti-Imperial) organ, "De Burger" (Capetown), claims that the King's reply to the Nationalist Party's address stamps the Republican movement as ...
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Article : 41 wordsUnder the title of "The Austrlaian Environment" the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry has just published a memoir by Dr. Griffith Taylor ...
Article : 824 wordsA Pretoria message says that it is believed that the Government will introduce a general Amnesty Bill in the coming Parliament, and that it will not operate ...
Article : 47 wordsThe London correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" wrote on October 15:— "Brutes they were when war began and brutes they remain." These notable words ...
Article : 1,913 wordsThe New York newspapers declare that one of the late Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's most important achievements was the reformation which he forced on big business ...
Article : 85 wordsThe many objections raised by the supporters of the Government and various organisations of soldiers against the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) going to ...
Article : 248 wordsPresident Wilson has returned to Paris. ...
Article : 15 wordsA strong opinion exists among the overseas representatives that one of the five British plenipotentiaries at the Peace Conference should be an overseas ...
Article : 36 wordsSome of the London newspapers say that Mr. Winston Churchill (who was the Minister for Munitions) has accepted the portfolio of Secretary of State for War, and that Mr. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Deputy Controller of Repatriation in Western Australia (Colonel Tilney) referred yesterday to a statement by a member of the executive of the Returned Soldiers' ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Parliamentary Labour Party has appointed Mr. William Adamson to be its chairman, and Mr. J. R. Clynes (the ex-Controller of Food) to be its vice-chairman. ...
Article : 326 wordsA deputation representing prospectors and mine owners of the Mt. Monger district was introduced by Mr. Thos. Walker, M.L.A., to the Minister for Mines (Mr. C. ...
Article : 430 wordsRecently the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation demanded from the proprietors an increase of 25 per cent. on all existing rates. Mr. McDonald, secretary ...
Article : 157 wordsA remarkable story of a child's fall from a mail train, without injury to itself, was reported to the Acting Commissioner of (Railways to-day. Mrs I. Watkins and her ...
Article : 164 wordsTemperature readings at the Perth Observatory yesterday were:—Maximum, 89 deg.; minimum, 70deg. Yesterday morning's weather reports ...
Article : 255 wordsSir,—One would have thought that the responsible heads of the Railway Department controlling the roadway on tram tracks throughout the city might have ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. W. C. Angwin, M.L.A., stated yesterday that he had had an interview with the Premier concerning the repeated adjournments of the charges of assault ...
Article : 220 wordsIt was hinted to-day by the Minister for Health (Mr. Bowser) that joint action by the States to reduce the alcoholic strength of liquor was probable in the near future. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" says that the industrial controversy is being reopened in an acute manner, and that on Tuesday the railwaymen will discuss the ...
Article : 183 wordsThe general secretary of the Australian Labour Federation (Mr. A. McCallum) stated yesterday that he had received a telegram from the Sydney Trades Hall to ...
Article : 109 wordsPrices Order No. 553, which will come into force to-morrow, will repeal the original schedule of Order 364, made on July 12, relating to imported salt. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 9 Jan 1919, Page 7
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