Two new Japanese destroyers, the Ariake and Fubuki, both of which were construted in Japanese shipyards, have been placed in commission. ...
Article : 43 wordsA stormy meeting of the Zemstvo (Provinicial Council) of Voronech, in Russia, was held yesterday. The members freely indulged in ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is tolerably certain that one more has been added to the long list of shipping disasters that have occurred on the Australian coast. At about midday ...
Article : 672 wordsAlthough the s.s. Ormus left Largs Bay at an unsually early hour this morning, the Australian mails for England were placed on board. They will be ...
Article : 142 wordsThe thirteen Labour members of the House of Commons are now organised as a distinct party, with Mr. John Burns, the member for Battersea, as Chairman. ...
Article : 68 wordsAn extraordinary document was produced in an alleged assault case in the Paddington Police Court to-day. Henry Thos, Henderson, a laundry proprietor, ...
Article : 309 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. H. H. Asquith moved the following amendment to the Address-in-Reply:— "That the various aspects of the ...
Article : 453 wordsAs soon as the news was received, the Colonial Secretary instructed the Chief Harbour Master (Captain C. J. Irvine) to render all the assistance in his power. ...
Article : 504 wordsThe Japanese have captured the British steamers Appollo and Scotsman, off the Hokkaido coast. Both vessels were carrying coal and ...
Article : 35 wordsForth-six men have been hanged at the Cital, in Warsaw, for participalting in street disturbances. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe weather yesterday was sultry, and the town was enveloped in thick smoke in consequence of bush fires in the surrounding country. ...
Article : 274 wordsThe St. Peterburg correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that sixteen school boys were shot dead during the recent disturbances at Saratoff. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Stoessel, the late commander of the Russian garrison at Port Aruthur, who is on his way to Europe on parole, arrived yesterday at Port Said. ...
Article : 104 wordsThree thousand strikers at Pernau, a Russian seaport on the Baktic, yesterday met 300 infantry who were guarding the bridge. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe steamer Pilbarra, which arrived from Fiji to-day, brought news of a horrible murder by Indians at Labassa, the victim being Alex. Coutts, an ...
Article : 84 wordsNine thousand Russian cavarly, with artillery, are trying to cross the Hun-Ho, at Tacha. Their object is to outflank the Marquis Oyama's extreme left. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Beyers, a formet Boer General in the course of a speech at Pietersburg in the Transvaal, said that unless Responsible Government were grated, ...
Article : 137 wordsThe news of the disaster spread quickly. The meagre information which filtered through from Rockingham was soon on everybody's lips and anxious ...
Article : 409 wordsThere was another crowded attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening, when Little Tich gave two new "turns" of a highly diverting character. Apparently ...
Article : 465 wordsJ. Mathews, a second-class passenger from Fremantle to Melbourne on the s.s. Grantala, died on board the vessel about three hours before the steamer reached ...
Article : 95 wordsThe French correspondents, interviewing between Aden and Suez Russian officers from Port Aruthur, have been amazed at the bitter recriminations between ...
Article : 77 wordsAlthough the locality of the Orizaba is a very dangerous one, the coast line thereabouts being studded with reefs and shoals, there is, it would appear ...
Article : 199 wordsForty amendments have been tabled to the Address-in-reply. It is expected that the debate will end about the 28th. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Bankruptcy Court to-day Mr. Justice Walker sentenced Jas, McLean, of Forbes, to one year's imprisonment. Some time since McLean was examined. ...
Article : 180 wordsNegotiations between the United States and Venzuela respecting the American Government's demands for the fulfilment of Venezuela's obligations ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Australian Merchants' Association, in London, has sent a cable messate to Mr. Reid, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, emphasising the great ...
Article : 58 wordsTwo London shareholders of the Smelting and Refining Company of Australia recently instituted an action against Mr. F. W. Sailbury Jones and ...
Article : 69 wordsChina, it is announced, intends to establish a kind of Parliament, consisting of the chief metropolitan officials, the members of the Han-lin Collage, the ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. T. Day, the manager in Western Australia for the Orient Steam Navingation Company, informed a representative of the "West Australian" last evening ...
Article : 291 wordsThe French crusier Sully, which recently went aground on a reef in Allong Bay, off the coast of Tonquin, is now reported to have slipped off the reef and ...
Article : 46 wordsAn explosion occurred yesterday, at Queenstown, on submarine A5. Six men were killed. ...
Article : 26 wordsOn the 14th inst. Walter Benton sold his farm at Crow's Nest, in the Toowoomba district, and received £125 for it. Nothing has been seen of him since. ...
Article : 136 wordsWhen the news of the mishap to the orizaba reached Fremantle Capatain Dent. of H.M.S. Katoomba, which is at present in port immediately offered the ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Employers' Federation at Liverpool is importing hands from other ports, owing to a partial strike of dockers against the employment of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe German Association of Commercers, at a meeting held yesterday in Berlin, expressed lively dissatisfaction with the new commercial treaties. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Sultan of Morocco received the French Mission, at Fez, with great cermony. ...
Article : 21 wordsOut of a quarter of a million strikers at Ruhr, in Germany, four-fifths have resumed work. ...
Article : 29 wordsReports from the pastroal districts show that last week's rains extended over a wide area of country. The Greenough River is running to some distance ...
Article : 81 wordsAdmiral Tirpitz, the German Minister for Marine, announced yesterday in the Reichstag that the new navy programme, to be submitted in the autumn, ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day James McPhee, postmaster at Tranfalgar, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen £66, the property of the ...
Article : 42 wordsT. M. Slattery, M.L.C., was again before the Water Police Court to-day. On the application of Mr. J. H. Want (for the accused), who said that he would ...
Article : 78 wordsTallow.—At to-day's tallow sales 636 casks were offered and 420 casks were sold. Prices were unchanged. London, February 16. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Ministrial crists in Hungary still continues. Owing to Count Andrasy's failure to form a Ministry, Mr. Werkerle has been ...
Article : 29 wordsOn the arrival of the ship River Fallock, from Philadelphia, to-day, it was reported that seven days after leaving port a seaman, named J. McCarthy, ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Northam Police Court this morning a German, named Ernest Bolka, was charged with having carried firearms without lawful occasion, to the ...
Article : 92 wordsCaptain Arundel, surveyor to the Marine Underwriters' Association of W.A., was one of the first to visit the scene of the mishap. In the course of an ...
Article : 280 wordsHaving regard to the pains and penalties attending the landing of coloured aliens, and in view of the trouble which arose in Melbourne over the ...
Article : 258 wordsThe news of the disaster was first received by the Harbour-master at Fremantle in the form of a telegram from Rockingham, the small port which lies ...
Article : 188 wordsGeneral Von Trotha, commanding the German troops in German South-West Africa, surprised and killed 62 Hereros at Dabis. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 17 Feb 1905, Page 7
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