The secretary of the Chamber of Mines (Mr. T. Maughan) made the following official statement in replay to the remarks of Mr. J. E. Dodd, the secretary of the [?] ...
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Article : 87 wordsThe letter sent by the Premier to Mr. P. Bowling on Saturday, after his interview with the strike leaders, reads:—"In pursuance of the interview, when I was asked to ...
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Article : 144 wordsSir William van Horne, chairman of the Canadian-Pacific Railway Company, states that he is opposed to the formation of a Canadian navy. He favours the ...
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Article : 29 wordsOn Friday Mr. A. A. Wilson, the general secretary of the Collie Miners' Union, received the following telegram from Mr. Brennan, the secretary of the Miners' Union ...
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Article : 710 wordsIn consequence of the heavy increase of Collie to Perth and Collie to Bunbury freight traffic a congestion of loaded trucks occurred at Brunswick Junction, and on ...
Article : 226 wordsStartling developments have arisen from the police inquiries into the death of the man found in a waterhole near Maitland's Creek, Dungog, last Friday. It has ...
Article : 425 wordsMr. Justice Homburg delivered judgment at the Supreme Court to-day in a case in which Henry Nolan, a plastere's and bricklayer's labourer, sued for £500 ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association (coast district) and the New South Wales Colliery Engine-drivers' Association, of which the respective ...
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Article : 67 wordsA shooting occurrence, by which one girl loss her life and another, her sister, was wounded in the wrist, is reported from Midland Junction. ...
Article : 607 wordsMr. Rowe, the secretary of the Fremantle Lumpers' Union, stated yesterday that in consequence of his having just received a budget of "highly important" telegrams from ...
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Article : 129 wordsForty military officers at Vienna recently received postal packets of alleged samples of a nerve cure. A captain tasted some of the "cure" and died. All ...
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Article : 189 wordsThe Employers' Federation this morning declared its neutrality in regard to the strike. At a full meeting of the executive committee the question of what position ...
Article : 109 wordsAt the Divorce Court to-day William Robert Williams, aged 23, a civil servant, sought a dissolution of his marriage with Amy Margaret Williams, aged 24, on the ground of ...
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Article : 148 wordsMr. Bowling stated to-day at Newcastle that the preparations were well forward for working the Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend mines, but he did not think that work ...
Article : 110 wordsYesterday afternoon about 250 members of the Collie Miners' Union, representing all the lodges in the district, with a sprinkling at the most of 40 non-members, the ...
Article : 890 wordsThe Press Cables Select Committee met in Sydney to-day. Mr. Thomas Shakespeare, secretary of the Australian Provincial Press Association, ...
Article : 105 wordsAn elderly man, named Harry Gladman, was killed at Colac Yesterday by a limb blown from a tree during a storm. The Public Hall and Free Library at ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Commissioner of Police to-day received a telegram from Sub-inspector Clode, at Port Augusta, stating that the body of an Afghan, named Said Mahomed, had been ...
Article : 153 wordsThunderstorms are beginning to set in, and on Saturday 131 points fell at Warrawoona, 25 at Nullagine, and 48 at Marble Bar. The rain which fell at Warrawoona ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. H. A. Mitchell, the general secretary of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia (coastal district), called at the Trades Hall to-night and ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Wade) was reported to-night to have slightly improved in health, and it is thought that his progress towards complete restoration will be steady, if ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 23 Nov 1909, Page 5
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