The annual speech day in connection with the Fremantle Government Boys' School took place yesterday, when medals and prizes were presented to the ...
Article : 1,180 wordsIn the Senate to-day Mr. Drake gave notice that he would to-morrow ask for permission to introduce a Bill to make provision for the punishment of offences ...
Article : 834 wordsSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the leader of the Liberal party, delivered a political address yesterday at Dunfermline. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Boulder Council has received seven tenders for the municipal tramway concession. Two were from England, and the remainder from Australian firms. ...
Article : 137 wordsYesterday matters in connection with the vexed tramway question at Fremantle were advanced an important stage, by the Municipal Council deciding ...
Article : 1,004 wordsThe Boer General De Wet, with a force from 1,400 to 2,000 strong, surrounded Colonel Wilson and a small British column, 20 miles from Heilbron. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 515 wordsJohn Medley, who was a passenger in one of the trains which was involved in the railway collision near Jolimont on September 13, died yesterday. Medley ...
Article : 100 wordsGeneral Creagh, commanding the British troops at Tien Tsin, has exonerated the German troops at that port from all blame in connection with the recent free ...
Article : 56 wordsIn consequence of the recent explosion at the Burwood colliery, the management have decided to introduce the safety-lamp system throughout the ...
Article : 30 wordsA sudden death occurred on Sunday, when Mrs. W. Hefferman died at Laverton after an illness of only a few hours. The deceased was formerly matron of the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Durundar Estate, in the Caboolture district, has been purchased by the Government at £1 2s. 6d. per acre, the area being 43,348 acres. Three estates ...
Article : 40 wordsThe date of the King's Coronation has been fixed for June 26 of next year. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn connection with the tragedy at Bendigo on Sunday night, a man named Stringer has made the statement that as he was going home over Quarry Hill, ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. E. Davies, ex-Mayor of Fremantle, after an extended holiday trip to the old country, returned to the State by the R.M.S. Oroya yesterday evening. ...
Article : 374 wordsReplying to an interpellation in the Prussian Reichstag yesterday, Count Von Bulow, the Chancellor of the Empire, declared that the Government were ...
Article : 47 wordsAt a pro-Boer meeting held in Chicago (U.S.A.), 5,000 dollars were subscribed for the relief of Boer women and children who are confined in the South African ...
Article : 77 wordsThe trouble in connection with the sealing of ships' stores by the Customs authorities has not been definitely settled by the receipt of a decision given in ...
Article : 224 wordsThe secretary of the Central Postal administration, Mr. R. T. Scott, to-day laid before the Ministry a report upon the Pacific and Cape cable schemes, in which ...
Article : 321 wordsThe proposal submitted to the United States Congress by Senator Hoar, for deporting the anarchists of all nations to an international island, where they might ...
Article : 54 wordsA perpetual lease has been signed by America and Nicaragua, securing to the former country the territory required in connection with the construction of the ...
Article : 46 wordsA sensational harbour incident, which will result in a private of the New South Wales Military Forces being tried by court-martial on a serious charge, ...
Article : 340 wordsThe House of Assembly sat till 3.14 this morning, completing the work on the Tramways Bill. The third reading was carried by 22 to 9. ...
Article : 209 wordsA Masonic function of an interesting and important character took place in Boulder City this afternoon, when the memorial stone of the new Masonic ...
Article : 205 wordsFollowing are the latest quotations for the undermentioned mining stocks:—Chillagoe (Q.), 2s. 6d.; Mount Lyells (T.), £3 15s.; North Mount Lyell (T.), ...
Article : 36 wordsQuotations (middle prices) compare with those of a fortnight ago as follows, the figures for the earlier period being given in parentheses:— ...
Article : 135 wordsA unique case was heard in the Jerilderie Police Court to-day, when the Municipal Council proceeded against C. J. Curtin for that he, being Mayor of ...
Article : 147 wordsAn accident occurred at the Menzies station yard this morning, resulting in the death of Mr. Shiels, assistant engineer of the Railway Construction ...
Article : 195 wordsIn the House of Representatives, Mr. McDonald (Q.) asked if it were the intention of the Government to send further contingents to South Africa, and if the ...
Article : 860 wordsErnest Dorrington, 36 years of age, died at Waverley, a suburb to the east of Sydney, this morning, of plague. He was employed in the northern part of the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Subiaco Municipal Council was held last night. There were present the Mayor (Mr. A. Bastow) and Crs. Brown, Kensitt, ...
Article : 234 wordsThe inquiry into the wreck of the barque Royal Tar, which struck on the Shearer Rocks, near Tiri Tiri, while on a voyage from Auckland to Napier, on the ...
Article : 93 wordsShares in the Amalgamated Copper Co. of New Jersey have lately fallen from 130 to 65 dollars, thereby depreciating Mr. Lawson's holdings by £2,000,000. ...
Article : 204 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day Mr. Justice a'Beckett commenced the hearing of an action by Henry Makin, letter sorter, against Wm. Thomas, John Dempster, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 12 Dec 1901, Page 5
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