Timber Industry and the Crops.—The Minister of Lands has received the following report from Mr. H. S. Brockman, Forest Ranger at Donnybrook :—"One ...
Article : 2,916 wordsAt the Wesleyan Conference yesterday, it was reported that £3,400 had been collected for the Century Fund of 20,000 guineas, while of individual ...
Article : 145 wordsIt is officially stated at Shanghai that Yu-hsien, ex-Governor of the province of Shansi, was beheaded, at Lan-chau-fu, on the 22nd of last month. ...
Article : 236 wordsCompetition for the Dowar trophy among members of t[?] Albany Bowling Club was won by J. Strother, A. Johnston being the runner-up. ...
Article : 324 wordsThe White Star liner Teutonic has had a remarkable experience at sea. When nearing Newfoundland, a mountainous wave, supposed to be due to some ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Army Estimates, which have been submitted to Parliament, provide for an expenditure of £87,915,000. and for the maintenance of a force of 450,000 men. ...
Article : 257 wordsMr. Kingston states that the Federal Ministers are unanimous respecting the time when the Federal tariff shall be submitted to Parliament. He had ...
Article : 265 wordsColonel Smith-Dorrien and Colonel Alderson, who have been operating in the Eastern Transvaal, report having captured large quantities of ...
Article : 729 wordsBayswater, the site chosen for the annual picnic of the Locomotive Workshops employees and friends, is one admirably suited for the purpose. There ...
Article : 1,129 wordsDoctor Simpson, Professor of Hygiene in King's College, London, and formerly medical officer at Calcutta, has told the Advisory Board of Health at Capetown ...
Article : 75 wordsEighteen nominations were received yesterday for the Senate as follows:—Messrs. Thynne, Ferguson, and Buzacott, members of the Council; ...
Article : 64 wordsA Parliamentary bye-election was held yesterday for Maidstone, the seat having been rendered vacant by the Liberal member, Mr. John Barker, having been ...
Article : 62 wordsMrs. E. W. Nicholls, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, left for Western Australia by the R.M.S. Arcadia on Thursday. ...
Article : 273 wordsA prisoner named Wark was to-day sentenced to four days on bread and water for assaulting a fellow-prisoner called Dawson. ...
Article : 381 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court yesterday, the trial of the man George H. Parker, who was charged with the wilful murder of William Pearson, by ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the undermentioned Australian mining shares:— Associated (W.A.), £2 11s. 3d.; ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Canadian House of Commons, by a majority of 125 to 19, has adopted an address to the King praying for the elimination from the coronation oath of all ...
Article : 46 wordsThe celebration committee is hard at work arranging the details of the general scheme for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York and ...
Article : 355 wordsA rival Steel Trust has been formed in the United States, with a capital of £10,000,000. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, who floated ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Marquis of Headfort was united in marriage yesterday with Miss Boote, a well-known variety actress of the Gaiety Theatre. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe coroner's inquiry touching the death of those persons who were drowned as the result of the foundering, recently, of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, ...
Article : 84 wordsIt was stated a day or two ago that Turkey was massing large bodies of troops on the Bulgarian frontier. An explanation of this action on the ...
Article : 64 wordsOn Saturday last a deputation from the Geraldton Wharf Labourers' Association waited upon Mr. R. D. Hutchison, member for Geraldton, and Mr. J. ...
Article : 306 wordsSo far 15 candidates have announced themselves for the six seats in the Federal Senate. Of these, seven are pronounced revenue tariff supporet, two ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the American millionaire, and member of the New York banking firm of J. P. Morgan and Co., has, in his capacity of sharebroker, ...
Article : 100 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s. 4 1-8d. per oz. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir Frederick Sargood, who is a candidate for the Senate, has expressed himself favourable to an arrangement such as that instituted in South Australia, to ...
Article : 555 wordsA deputation from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church waited on Mr. Seddon with reference to the situation in the New Hebrides. The ...
Article : 205 wordsTin statistics: The total stocks, including stocks in America and quantity afloat, amount to 16,065 tons. The quantity of Straits and Australian ofloat ...
Article : 159 wordsThe mines were closed down half a shift yesterday and the whole shift to-day in consequence of shortage of trucks. This afternoon there was not a single ...
Article : 36 wordsThe annual conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Churches of Victoria and Tasmania was continued yesterday. The following were selected by ballot as ...
Article : 213 wordsDuring the past few days Mrs. M. C. Davies has presented each child attending the schools at Karridale, Boranup and Hamelin with a beautifully-designed ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. Barton spent yesterday in a visit to the sugar plantations in the Bundaberg district, where the general consensus of opinion among the planters is that ...
Article : 78 wordsAn inquest on the body of Herbert J. Henry Darleney, who was killed in the Tempe railway disaster, was continued to-day. ...
Article : 230 wordsAnother matter having some bearing on the Coningham divorce case came before the Full Court to-day. A rule nisi was asked for, on behalf of Arthur ...
Article : 118 wordsWith reference to the cablegram stating that the Pacific Cable Board disapproves of the New South Wales agreement with the Eastern Extension ...
Article : 67 wordsA case of plague is stated to have been discovered at Pinkenba, at the mouth of the Brisbane River. ...
Article : 116 wordsAn engine-driver named Rolf Holdine was killed at Burbanks Birthday Gift this afternoon. He was caught in the belting and swung round. He fell into ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. George Pearce, a commercial traveller, was found in an insensible condition in King-street early yesterday morning. A constable took him to the ...
Article : 251 wordsOn the arrival of the Taluns[?]from New Zealand on the 20th of February, it was reported that a second-class passenger named Philip Conway was seized with a ...
Article : 139 wordsFreedman's re-adjustment sale was again largely patronised on Saturday. To-day and until further notice the sale will be continued. The firm draw ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the urgent request of his supporters in the district. Mr. Moran has definitely decided to contest East Coolgardie, and also to contest a local constituency, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 4 Mar 1901, Page 5
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