Acute distress prevails in the north-west and in the north-east of Cape Colony. Sugar is fetching one shilling a pound, ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Irish Landowners' Convention has rejected the proposal for a conference with the tenantry by 77 votes to 14. [Capt. Shaw Taylor, a Galway ...
Article : 118 wordsThe children attending the local public school gave a successful entertainment last Saturday night in the Jarrahdale Hall, in aid of the prize fund and ...
Article : 38 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Perth City Council the following report by the sub-committee appointed to consider the question of city lighting was adopted:— ...
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Article : 567 wordsAt a meeting of the City Council held last night, the following report by the special committee with reference to the Waterworks Board, was submitted:— ...
Article : 1,322 wordsSpeaking at Portland last Saturday night, Mr. G. H. Reid, Leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, said that the Federal tariff would have to be ...
Article : 664 wordsThe situation as regards the American coal strike has not improved. Mr. Meyers, President of the Western Federation of Miners, proposes to order ...
Article : 387 wordsA rather unusual event in the labour history of the city, since the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act came into operation, occurred yesterday ...
Article : 317 wordsOn the announcement of an application for a gold-dealer's licence in the Warden's Court this morning, the Warden stated that he would not grant any ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Northam annual show, which will be held to-morrow and on Wednesday, promises to be a great success. A large number of visitors arrived by the ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. A. Black, Radical M.P. for Banffishire, recently invited Lord Rosebery to give an assurance that his differencs with Sir Henry Campbell ...
Article : 140 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" remarks that the Boer generals, in a most unambiguous fashion, refused to ask Sir Frank Lascelles, the British Ambassador at ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Prime Minister (Sir Edmund Barton), in the course of an interview here to-day, said that it had been proposed that a branch of the Royal Naval ...
Article : 473 wordsSince the departure of the Russian generals from the Shipka Pass, the Bulgarian revolutionary bands in Macedonia have been acting with great ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that another ship of the same size as the first class cruiser Spartiate will proceed to the Australian naval station. The ...
Article : 109 wordsThe members of the Perth (No. 1) Field Battery of Artillery met at the Melbourne Hotel last night, for the purpose of welcoming back Major J. Talbot ...
Article : 791 wordsMr. F. W. Borden, the Canadian Minister for Defence, speaking at Boston yesterday, stated that a fast Atlantic steam service has been practically ...
Article : 113 wordsAt Glasgow yesterday Lord Rosebery unveiled Mr. Thornycroft's fine statue of Mr. Gladstone. In glowing terms Lord Rosebery ...
Article : 42 wordsA sensational occurrence is reported from Gibraltar. The Socialists of La Linea, a small Spanish town just outside Gibraltar, ...
Article : 80 wordsThe German Colonial Congress, which is sitting at Berlin, lays much stress on the necessity of diverting German emigrants to Southern Brazil, in order to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Rev. F. W. MacDonald, senior secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and the Rev. H. A. Raynes, the British and Foreign Bible Society's Home ...
Article : 46 wordsAn audience which filled the Bijou Theatre in all parts witnessed the second production of the Western Australian drama, "Moondyne, the Convict King." ...
Article : 591 wordsWheat.—The home wheat market is quiet. The Continental markets are dull, but heavy exports are maintaining prices in America. ...
Article : 138 wordsIt has been ascertained that Constable Johnston, who was shot yesterday at St. Kilda, had previously had occasion to warn the murderer (who has not yet ...
Article : 161 wordsCount Paul Esterhazy, who has abandoned the Roman Catholic priesthood and the Society of Jesus, claims the return of £33,000. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Rev. Joseph Armitage Robinson, D.D., Canon of Westminster, has been appointed to succeed Dean Bradley as Dean of Westminster. ...
Article : 100 wordsSeveral thousand anti-Semites, led by Dr. Karl Lueger, the notorious anti-Semite leader of Vienna, yesterday provoked a riot at Saint Polten, whose ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a State Cabinet meeting which was held this evening, the following suggestions were adopted in connection with the railway retrenchment scheme:—(1) ...
Article : 204 wordsIn the Karridale Hall last Saturday evening, Mr. M. C. Davies, at the request of Sir Arthur Lawley, presented John Delfs, L. C. Peterson, Carl ...
Article : 281 wordsIt is understood that Mr. Duncan Gillies will be the only member nominated for the Speakership to-morrow. After the election of a Speaker, the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe City Council of Westminster has accepted an offer made by Mr. H. Copeland to supply 9,000 New South Wales wood-paving blocks for the purpose of a ...
Article : 41 wordsThe result of the motion of censure in the New South Wales Parliament has been much discussed in the country centres, the view that has been taken ...
Article : 78 wordsThe census returns dealing with the [?]onjujal condition of the people of South Australia show that the female population during the ten years (1891-1901) was ...
Article : 239 wordsThe body of May Perriman, one of the victims of yesterday's boating fatality on the Upper Yarra, was recovered this morning. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe men who were arrested in connection with the robbery of £400 from the National Bank have been discharged, as the police could not find any evidence to ...
Article : 41 wordsA largely-attended meeting of the Carpenters, Joiners, and Cabinet-makers' Industrial Union of Workers was held last night at the Bohemia Hall. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 14 Oct 1902, Page 5
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