There was a large attendance of members of the general committee of the Perth Carnival Fortnight at the Town Hall buildings yesterday afternoon: Mr. R. Harrison ...
Article : 433 wordsThe speeches delivered recently by Earl Grey (Governor-General of Canada) and Viscount Milner in the North-west of Canada have aroused the Military ...
Article : 106 wordsCount Bernstorff. German Ambassador at Washington, speaking at Philadelphia on Saturday, said that Germany's policy was purely commercial. Germany had ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Mails.—A mail for the United Kingdom will close at the G.P.O. to-day at 9.15 a.m. (late fee 10 a.m.) for transmission by the G.M.S. Scharnhorst ...
Article : 2,756 wordsAdmiral Lord Charles Beresford, in accepting the Marylebone Constitutional Union's invitation to contest the East Marylebone seat at the next general ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Strike at Newcastle commenced in carnest to-day. Ordinarily the mines would have started work after the weekend spell this morning, but when the ...
Article : 3,696 wordsThe report upon the scheme for the development of Mesopotamia as submitted to the Turkish Government by Sir William Willcocks, the eminent ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. Gips, New York agent for the Holland-America shipping line, has been arrested on an indictment charging him with having violated the Inter-State ...
Article : 290 wordsThe recent Parliamentary elections in Saxony resulted in 25 Socialists being sent into the Diet of 82 members, among whom there was no Socialist formerly. ...
Article : 53 wordsM. Giers, the Russian Vice-Consul at Ardebil, which was recently pillaged by the followers of Rakhim Khan, acting on behalf of the deposed Shah of Persia, ...
Article : 88 wordsReuter's correspondent at Paris states that 11,000 convicted criminals were enrolled in French regiments under the conscription law during October, and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe police at Allahabad, capital of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, yesterday raided the offices of the "Swarajya," a native newspaper, and ...
Article : 69 wordsWhile the new American battleship North Dakota was undergoing an endurance test yesterday a boiler tube burst, with the result that four firemen were ...
Article : 38 wordsTwo Spanish columns and a battery on Saturday occupied an important position on Mount Gurugu, in the north of Morocco, overlooking the adjoining ...
Article : 64 wordsA successful meeting in the interest of Mr. R. P. Vincent's candidature for the Perth Mayoralty was held last evening in St. Alban's Hall, Highgate Hill, when a ...
Article : 596 wordsCaptain Engelhardt, a German pupil of the Wright Bros, yesterday flew an aeroplane 80 miles in 123 minutes. ...
Article : 86 wordsSir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has informed the National Peace Council that the Anglo-German arbitration agreement was ...
Article : 75 wordsA fire broke out in Sir Edward Holden's leather works at Walsall (eight miles from Birmingham) yesterday and caused damage estimated at £100,000. A ...
Article : 44 wordsAn explosion which occurred in Paris yesterday let to the discovery of a Russian Terrorist propaganda centre and bomb factory in that city. ...
Article : 35 wordsDr. Wilkinson, who attended the recent Dental Conference in Melbourne, returned yesterday from the Eastern States by the R.M.S. Ormuz, and has resumed practice in ...
Article : 217 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Postal Commission, Mr. G. A. Mackay, the Public Service Inspector of New South Wales, said that he thought that £1,200 a year was too ...
Article : 173 wordsIn the King's Bench Division on Saturday judgment, with cost, was given for the defendant in a case in which the Otago (N.Z.) Farmer's Co-operative ...
Article : 182 wordsAlthough it is probably correct to say remarks the "Daily Telegraph," that the visits of the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Co. to Auckland ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Earl of Selborne, High Commissioner of South Africa, speaking at a banquet on Saturday at Bulawayo, the chief commercial town in Southern ...
Article : 103 wordsH.M. cruiser Fox, of the East Indies Squadron recently captured in the Persian Gulf 12,000 rifles and 120,000 cartridges intended for the north-west of ...
Article : 37 wordsThis week's "Western Mail" will constitute a special Royal Agricultural Show number. The issue will consist of sixteen pages of illustrations, or eight more than the usual ...
Article : 204 wordsSarah Ann Turner, aged 47, a well-known clairvoyant, was the petitioner in a suit for divorce disposed of before Mr. Justice Hodges to-day. ...
Article : 132 wordsA sensational collision was narrowly averted during the voyage of the steamer Star of Scotland, which arrived to-day from London. While she was travelling across the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe South Australian Portland Cement Company's works, situated at Brighton, about 10 miles from Adelaide, were razed to the ground by fire at about 10 o'clock last ...
Article : 211 wordsThe hearing of the libel action in which the Mutual Life and Citizens' Assurance Co. is seeking to recover £20,000 as damages from the National Mutual Life Association ...
Article : 191 wordsCabinet to-day decided in favour of establishing a solar observatory somewhere in the interior of the Continent, but for the prime cost, which is estimated at £50,000, it ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 438 wordsAt the City Court to-day May Silver, who was arrested on Saturday when attempting to smuggle ashore from the steamer Eastern 54 tins of opium, concealed in a specially ...
Article : 122 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Acting Chief Justice.—Application as to cases in November Civil list.—In Divorce: (1.) David Thomas, petitioner: Mabel Thomas, ...
Article : 136 wordsThere was a good attendance at the Theatre Royal last night to witness the final performance of "The Hypocrites." To-night Messrs. Meynel and Gunn's company will ...
Article : 322 wordsThomas Cheeseman, aged 10, and W. M. Sutie, aged 8, were drowned in a dam at Smoke Valley yesterday. The lads went from their homes in the afternoon, taking a ...
Article : 112 wordsThe R.M.S. Macedonia, which will leave to-morrow for London, will take away a record shipment of butter from Victoria. The consignment consists of between 27,000 ...
Article : 62 wordsSir,—The Chief Librarian, in his report, states that the number of visitors for the year was 178,623, and refers to "the mutilation of valuable books." Of this number ...
Article : 253 wordsCommercial Examinations.—Last night the fifth annual commercial examinations under the auspices of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce were commenced, ...
Article : 209 wordsWhile driving to take part in a Methodist anniversary near Baddaginnie yesterday afternoon the Revs. Oldmeadow, Jackson, and Delterick were thrown out of a ...
Article : 93 wordsDr. E. E. C. Coombe, of Hindmarsh, was arrested to-day on a charge of having used an instrument on a young woman in December last. The accused was released on ...
Article : 66 wordsThe net profits of the New Zealand State Coal Department for the year were £14,282. A young man named Hardy Willoughby, the husband of an aged Maori who was ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 9 Nov 1909, Page 5
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