The Mails.—A mail for the United Kingdom will close at the G.P.O. this afternoon at 3 o'clock (late fee 4 p.m.) for transmission by the R.M.S. Oroya. ...
Article : 2,723 wordsThe Government steamer Penguin, with the Colonial Secretary, the Protector of Aborigines, and the Chief Harbourmaster on board, arrived here this evening ...
Article : 1,501 wordsPersisitent Radical activities are apparent throughout the country against the reported decision of the Government to build six battleships of the ...
Article : 98 wordsA protocol has been signed embodying the terms of the Austro-Turkish settlement. As a consequence of the settlement the Turkish boycott of Austrian ...
Article : 42 wordsOn the arrival of the s.s. Paroo from Singapore yesterday forenoon, she droped anchor in Gage Roads, and shortly afterwards the acting P.M.O. ...
Article : 484 wordsWriting to the "Times, in reply to a statement made by the Sydney correspondent of that journal, Mr. H. E. Brittain, secretary to the committee which ...
Article : 739 wordsSpeaking at the Peace Society's dinner held in New York last night, Mr. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, stated that the obstacle in the recent negotiations ...
Article : 130 wordsInspector-Detective Donohoe, of the Customs Department, who has had 20 years' experience in watching oversea vessels at Sydney, expressed the belief ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Committee of the Mount Leonora Hospital yesterday held an inquiry into the friction said to exist among the staff as the result of a complaint by the ...
Article : 168 wordsRussia has agreed to join with the other Powers in putting diplomatic pressure on Servia. This action shows that Servia cannot rely on support from ...
Article : 63 wordsSir E. Evans, when presiding over a meeting of the general committed of the National Liberal Federation, held at Leamington yesterday, stated that they ...
Article : 299 wordsYesterday Mr. Herbert Gladstone promised a deputation, consisting of proprietors and editors, that the Government would introduce legislation to deal ...
Article : 87 wordsReplying to a deputation from the Trades Union Congress, the Prime Minister (Mr. H. H. Asquith) stated that he favoured the payment of the expenses ...
Article : 158 wordsThe coastal trading steamer Flinders went aground in Cowell Channel on Friday, and is still there. A tug has been sent from Port Adelaide to the assistance ...
Article : 430 wordsRecently Mr. Pearson was dismissed from the position of superintendent of Christ Church Sunday School, Geelong, by the Rev. F. R. Newton, who succeeded ...
Article : 128 wordsThe majority of the members of the Duma are satisfied with the explanations given by the Premier (Mr. Stolypin) on Thursday last as to the policy of the ...
Article : 91 wordsAs preparations were being made for the departure from Hamburg of the Hamburg-American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, the gangway leading ...
Article : 70 wordsThomas Wheeler, who on Friday evening fired twice at Miss Venns, a barmaid at the Empire Hotel, and then put a bullet into his own brain, died in the ...
Article : 201 wordsThe steamer Redbridge arrived on Friday night from Calcutta and anchored at the quarantine ground, owing to an outbreak of small-pox on board. ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Joseph A. Pease, Parliamentary Secreatary to the Treasury, speaking at Birmingham, stated that Ministers were in perfect agreement in regard to the ...
Article : 104 wordsOwing to a threatened rupture of the Bloc the German Chancellor, Prince B. von Buelow, has, in order to save the Government from defeat, abandoned the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe body of the man who on Thursday last created a sensation in the National Gallery by shooting his female companion dead, and then committing ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. W. H. Taft, the President-elect of the United States, in the course of an interview yesterday, stated that he favoured the prompt revision of the United ...
Article : 63 wordsSpeaking at a dinner given by the Fishmongers' Company in London on January 28 last, the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Regd. McKenna, K.C.), said that the Prime Warden of the ...
Article : 651 wordsOn his returning from an inspection of the Pinnaroo country yesterday His Excellency the Governor-General was presented by the Murray Bridge District ...
Article : 144 wordsReplying to a question asked by Mr. W. Redmond in the House of Commons regarding the Government's military proposals to the colonies, Mr. R. B. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe revenue for the first eight months of the current financial year amounted to £5,358,875, as compared with £5,632,641 received for the corresponding ...
Article : 120 wordsAmong the details in the dispute proceeding between the French Government and the Parliamentary Committed in regard to the revised tariff is one ...
Article : 75 wordsOn Monday last the maximum temperature for Perth was 74, and we lived again after the heat of the previous week. On Tuesday the thermometer must needs go ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Earl of Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, states that the Government, recognising the critical condition of the hop-growing industry, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Cancer Research Department attached to the Middlesex Hospital reports that in 8,000 cases of cancer which have been investigated there was no evidence ...
Article : 43 wordsThe delegates attending the International Naval Conference now meeting in London have signed an important declaration containing 71 articles ...
Article : 36 wordsSpeaking here to-night, Mr. Deakin again laid stress on the point that there was no need to wait for a statement of Ministerial or other ...
Article : 391 wordsThis morning Mr. J. M. Semmens, of the Ports and Harbours Department, received the following message from the lighthouse-keeper at Wilson's ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Australian Amateur Rugby team (the "Wallabies") have sailed for Australia by the Moana. ...
Article : 141 wordsYesterday the Californian Senate by 28 votes to seven adopted a resolution recommending the exclusion of all Asiatics from the United States. ...
Article : 34 wordsA. A. Shrubb, the well-known English long-distance runner, defeated Dorando, the Italian pedestrian, in a 15-miles match at Buffalo. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Philip Coyle, who a few weeks ago met with a serious accident, is now convalescent. Mr. Coyle anticipates returning to business in the course of the ...
Article : 253 wordsInquiries have been made by the Premier into the case of the negro convict King, who was recently sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with periods of ...
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Family Notices : 35 wordsIt has been discovered that mistakes have been made in the official announcement concerning the provisions of the Saturday Half-holiday Act as they were ...
Article : 151 wordsAnother fatality, the third within as many months, throught the victim being swept into a drain, occurred at Leichhardt last night. Mrs. Sarah Ann Taylor, ...
Article : 120 wordsThe council of the New Zealand Underwriters' Association has been discussing the question of raising the fire insurance rates. It is understood that the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 1 Mar 1909, Page 5
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