It is reported that the King has established an Indian bodyguard, which is to share the duties of the Household Cavalry. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe new yacht which has just been built in the United States, to defend the much coveted America Cup, has been christened Constitution. ...
Article : 35 wordsTo-day's Issue.—To-day's issue consists of 12 pages. Harbour Works Picnic.—The annual picnic of the Fremantle Harbour Works ...
Article : 3,230 wordsGeneral French has captured two more Boer "pom-poms." ...
Article : 973 wordsA death under painful circumstances has been reported from Winchelsea, Mrs. Loughran, aged 82, and who, besides being very feeble, was deaf and dumb, ...
Article : 151 wordsIt is stated in connection with China's refusal to sign the Manchurian Convention that every Viceroy and every important Governor throughout the Empire ...
Article : 136 wordsLord Esher, hon. secretary of the committee entrusted with the movement for raising a national memorial to the late Queen, has written a letter to the Lord ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. H. E. Fry, the director of the Smelting Corporation, Limited, and Mr. R. H. Evan, a smelter employed by the Corporation, have been arrested in ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Easter holidays were commenced yesterday, when suitable services were held in most of the churches. The business places will be re-opened to-day, in ...
Article : 795 wordsMr. Richard J. H. Wills, one of the managing directors of Messrs. Geo. Wills and Co., died this evening from typhoid fever. The deceased gentleman was 39 ...
Article : 81 wordsFurther proof concerning the fate of the missing steamer Federal has been obtained by the discovery of five bodies on the beach between Cape Everard and ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee which was lately appointed to consider the question of the revision of the Civil List has brought up its report. ...
Article : 155 wordsAlfred Chawshaw Bailey and Henry De Stedingk have been committed for trial on a charge of fraud in connection with the West Australian Development ...
Article : 599 wordsMr. Barton stated to-day that the German warships Hause and Cormorant, and the Russian warship Groombye would be in Melbourne at the time of the opening ...
Article : 91 wordsThe gold yield for March was 66.928oz., as compared with 91,304oz. in March last year. The returns for the quarter were 175,875oz., being a decrease of 50,237oz. ...
Article : 40 wordsComplaints are being made in the newspapers of the action of the British Admiralty in confining its experiments with submarine boats to vessels of the Holland ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the formal opening of the new clubrooms of the West Australian Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association, which took place on Friday evening ...
Article : 892 wordsMr. Lehman has volunterily retired from the editorship of the London "Daily News," in favour of Mr. H. W. Massingham formerly editor of the London ...
Article : 118 wordsGreat energy is being displayed in pushing forward the preparations for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of York. The highest point in the Domain ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsThe White Star liner Celtic, 20,880 tons, the largest steamer ever placed upon the sea, was successfully launched at Belfast yesterday. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe seventh conference of the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australasia, which is being attended by delegates from all the States, was begun ...
Article : 237 wordsAn innkeeper of Barnsley, in Yorkshire, has been fined for selling arsenical beer. It was shown that the deleterious ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the undermentioned Australian mining stocks :—Mt. Lyells (Tas.), £4 5s.; North Mt. Lyells (Tas.), £2 12s. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe dockers' strike at Marseilles is virtually at an end. During the past few days there has been a general resumption of work. ...
Article : 33 wordsButter.—The market is quiet, and prices are unchanged. Wheat.—The wheat markets are a shade easier, with a holiday tone. ...
Article : 89 wordsM. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French Premier, has undergone an operation for a growth under the tongue. The operation was successful, and the ...
Article : 31 wordsKing Edward has thanked Mr. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, for the Maoris' "Tangi" or Lament, which was addressed to the Royal Family on ...
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Advertising : 499 wordsMr. B. H. Friend, third shorthand writer to the New South Wales "Hansard" staff has been appointed chief of the Commonwealth "Hansard" staff. This ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 6 Apr 1901, Page 5
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