The Mails.—The weekly mail for the United Kingdom and the Continent will close to-day at 5 p.m. (ate fee 6 p.m.) for conveyance by R.M.S. Oroya. The ...
Article : 1,647 wordsGeneral Blume has presented a remarkable report to the German General Staff. In this he states that Germany can ...
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Article : 174 wordsThe "Observer" states that the County Cricket committee did not sufficiently digest the triangular proposal before sending representatives to ...
Article : 117 wordsThe proposal to send a contingent of metropolitan and country schoolboys to Albany during the visit of the United States fleet is occasioning considerable ...
Article : 321 wordsMr. Templeton gave further evidence yesterday before the Postal Commission. The witness said, in reply to Mr. Salmon, that he entered the ...
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Article : 393 wordsA Supreme Court action commenced by Mrs. Margaret Sarah Muirhead, of Mt. Lofty, South Australia, daughter of the late John Robb, railway ...
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Article : 124 wordsIn the 400 metres (437.2 yards) swimming race at the Olympic games F. Beaurepaire, of Melbourne, won his heat, T. Tartakover, of Sydney, being ...
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Article : 106 wordsThe Minister for Mines and Railways (Mr. H. Gregory, M.L.A.) returned to the city on Saturday from his tour of the Murchison district. ...
Article : 264 wordsIn the Maryborough Court of Insolvency George Stephenson, one of a party of three who were lucky in striking rich gold at the famous Poseidon ...
Article : 262 wordsIn inaugurating the Wesleyan Conference at York yesterday, the president (Rev. John Scott Lidgett) urged the Church to realise the spiritual ...
Article : 70 wordsThree seamen belonging to the R.M.S. Moldavia were before the Water Police Court yesterday on a charge of having embezzled goods ...
Article : 141 wordsThe new State Land Valuation Bill has been circulated. The measure provides for making a valuation of all land in the State upon its improved ...
Article : 304 wordsThree arrests, regarded by the police as important, were made yesterday by the detectives, who locked up Maurice Posner and Edward Posner, jewellers. ...
Article : 400 wordsCommander Peary, the well-known Arctic explorer, left Sydney on Cape Breton, a Canadian island, yesterday in the ship Roosevelt for the Arctic ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Eclipse Stakes, run at the Sandown Park meeting yesterday, resulted as follows:— The Twenty-first Renewal of the Eclipse ...
Article : 331 wordsWool.—At the colonial wool sales on Friday competition was keen at full late rates. Leading brands sold as follow:—Momba, 75/8d.; Kerarbury, ...
Article : 366 wordsThe following military notifications appear in the last issue of the Commonwealth Government "Gazette":— Appointment.—11th Australian ...
Article : 87 wordsThe scheme for baking bread in the day time laid before the Minister for Labour by the Operative Bakers' Society does not commend itself to the ...
Article : 455 wordsShortly before dusk last evening the steamer Beira, bound from Bunbury to Monte Video with a shipment of jarrah, put into Fremantle for coal ...
Article : 214 wordsThirteen out of fourteen persons on a farm at St. Christopher, in France, were killed by lightning yesterday. ...
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Article : 112 wordsSir,—With reference to the Colonial Secretary's reply to the Trades and Labour Council in regard to tuberculous cows, I might say it is contrary to ...
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Article : 329 wordsIn the St. Kilda Police Court yesterday a young woman named Ada Elizabeth Davis charged John George Robson, of Foster with having left her ...
Article : 105 wordsThe graziers in the Stratford district are asking for a permit for one month for the purpose of destroying kangaroos. At present their ...
Article : 94 wordsConsiderable uneasiness is felt by the residents in the southern portion of the town, owing to what is considered to be the unsafe condition of the ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. William Kidston, the Premier of Queensland, will return to Australia by the R.M.S. Oroya. He is negotiating with regard to a steamer ...
Article : 81 wordsBar silver was quoted at 2s. 0 9-16d. per oz. yesterday, against 2s. 0 7-16d. per oz. on Friday. ...
Article : 55 wordsDelegates of the Northern, Western, and Southern Coal Miners' Associations of New South Wales and of the Victorian Coal Miners' ...
Article : 97 wordsA sensational raid was made by the police this afternoon on the largest two-up school in Melbourne. The meeting-ground of the school was a ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture is waiting for a report from the detectives who are carrying out inquiries in connection with the adulteration of chaff. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for Australian mining stocks:— Associated (W.A.), 21s. 3d. b, 23s. 9d. s; Broken Hill Proprietary, 38s. 1d. ...
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Article : 48 wordsThe charges of manslaughter in connection with the Sunshine railway disaster were mentioned in the Criminal Court yesterday. ...
Article : 62 wordsMessrs. Nicholls, Cross, and Nicholls have discovered a quartz reef on Crown lands at View Hill Homebush, near Avoca. They picked out £70 worth of ...
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Article : 65 wordsA farmer named Mason, residing 14 miles from Teawamutu, shot his infant daughter and then committed suicide. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 20 Jul 1908, Page 5
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