At the request of the strike congress Messrs. Estell and Charlton, members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, will leave for Melbourne to-morrow to conduct a ...
Article : 111 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir Mail.—Mails which left Fremantle on October 27 by the R.M.S. Ophir arrived in London on Monday morning last. ...
Article : 4,225 wordsThe number of men rescued on Saturday from the St. Paul Company's mine at Spring Valley, Illionis was misreported, only 20 instead of 78 of the ...
Article : 185 wordsSoon after the House of Lords resumed business yesterday the Chamber was crowded in anticipation of the debate on the motion for the second reading of the ...
Article : 1,138 wordsThe "Standard" reports that the insurgents under Estrada are now in command of half of Nicaragua, including the Atlantic coastline of the country. ...
Article : 96 wordsIn the House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr. Fuller moved that the House should approve of the distribution of the State of Western Australia into electoral ...
Article : 2,453 wordsAn ex-president of the Newcastle Miners' Union, Mr. Estell, M.L.A., suggests that the time has arrived when the Premier should, in the interests of the general community, ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Conservation of the American Federation of Labour, sitting at Toronto, has decided to vote Mr. Gompers (its president), Mr. Mitchell (its vice-president), ...
Article : 154 wordsThe miners of the southern district are evidently becoming restless. A meeting of the Mt. Kembla lodge was held to-day, and a resolution was agreed to recommending ...
Article : 153 wordsThe German Naval Estimates include an increase of £500,000 owing to the larger size of the Dreadnoughts under construction. Provision is made for an ...
Article : 76 wordsThe officers of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association have addressed a letter to all the branches, in which reference is made to the refusal of ...
Article : 166 wordsBirt and Co., Ltd., have installed an apparatus for burning oil fuel at their cold stores, Darling Harbour, and the innovation has proved eminently successful. The ...
Article : 51 wordsThe explosions in the volcanoes on the island of Teneriffe, off the West Coast of Africa, are increasing in frequency, and the streams of lava are slowly creeping ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Thomas Lipton announces that be has issued a challenge to race for the America Cup (yachting) in 1911. He has decided to build two yachts, one of ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Lee, the Acting-Premier, received a letter to-day from Mr. Hughes on behalf of the strike congress as follows:—"Herewith I am forwarding a reply to the Premier's ...
Article : 479 wordsMr. Hughes does not think that there is any likelihood of Federal intervention. He gathered that although the Governor-General was willing to act as mediator he was ...
Article : 97 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, who celebrated the 68th anniversary of his birthday last Saturday, has received from His Majesty the King a ...
Article : 54 wordsA farmer and seven members of his family were murdered recently in Prussian Poland. The police employed bloodhounds to unearth the murderers and ...
Article : 57 wordsThere is a probabiliry that the Eastern, a passenger steamer belonging to Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., will be laid up. The White Star liner Runic was to have ...
Article : 96 wordsColonel J. J. Astor, a New York millionaire, who with his yacht Nourmabel has been missing from Jamaica since the recent hurricane swept over that island, ...
Article : 46 wordsTwenty-six men were killed and 209 were injured in college football matches in the United States during the past season. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Greenwich Observatory reports that Halley's Comet is 80 times brighter than it was in September. ...
Article : 156 wordsA starting statement was made in Newcastle of to-day in regard to the working of the Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association. Dissension has evidently been ...
Article : 180 wordsAt Schillersdorg, in Austria recently Baron Albert Rothschild received a number of blackmailing letters. Yesterday a stranger while in the vicinity of ...
Article : 62 wordsThe hearing of a suit for dissolution of marriage on the ground of desertion brought by Florence Evelyn Clancy, 24 years of age, against Bertram Clancy, was concluded ...
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Family Notices : 23 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Liddell (N.S.W.) asked Mr. Deakin whether, in view of the distress and suffering the dislocation of trade and the monetary ...
Article : 169 wordsGiving evidence to-day at the inquiry into the loss of the Duco, Mr. Bates, the Government Meteorologist, said that he informed Captain Abrahams of the prospects ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Hughes, referring to the statement by Mr. Wade that the position of the strikers was that they would not have arbitration, said to-night:—"The position of the men is ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Minister for Defence has received a report concerning the recent accident at the Karrakatta rifle range, whereby a cadet was killed. It is stated in the report that the ...
Article : 152 wordsA boating fatality occurred on the Yarra at Kew last night, the victim being Miss Violet Scott, aged 19 years. Accompanied by Leslie Phillips, 19 years of age, she ...
Article : 126 wordsReports received from the principal grain districts indicate that the harvest prospects are good. A better wheat yield than that of last year is anticipated in most districts, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Times" states that the companies in the Australian Shipping Conference have advanced the outward measurement freight rate for next Friday's mail steamer by 15s. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe strike Congress will deal on its merits with each separate parcel of coal as it arrives in Sydney, and it will be unloaded or not according to the decision then ...
Article : 143 wordsIn connection with the murder of Frank Coleman, whose body, enclosed in a bag, was found in a waterhole near Dungog, the Crown Law Department made an ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Minister for Defences (Mr. Joseph Cook) has decided that Lord Kitchener is to be met at Thursday Island by Major-General Hoad. It is probable that Mr. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe adjourned case in which Edward Fisher Gryst was charged with having about November 1 used an instrument on Mabel O'Dea was resumed at the Adelaide ...
Article : 91 wordsThe latest reports from Greymouth regarding the trouble in the State coal mine state that a mass meeting of miners was held yesterday to hear the report of the ...
Article : 118 wordsMatters are very quiet in the Maitland district. Numbers of the strikers have succeeded in obtaining work other than mining elsewhere, but this action on their part is ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Minister controlling the Northern Territory received a telegram from the Government Resident at Port Darwin to-day, stating that Mr. McPherson, a Trepang ...
Article : 70 wordsThe notorious negro convict William King who, on the 10th inst., attacked Warder A. Curtis at the Prentridge Gaol, is to be charged with attemepted murder. ...
Article : 71 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 230 wordsThe Coal Lumpers' Union held a meeting at Miller's Point this morning. About 900 members were present, the majority of whom, it was explained, were out of work ...
Article : 88 wordsWhen asked yesterday what the position of the Scottish Collieries Co., Ltd., was, as affected by the coal strike, Mr. Wall stated that the mines were daily increasing ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Public Service Commissioner, giving evidence to-day before the Postal Commission, and referring to the supposed grievances of telegraphists, said that their hours ...
Article : 93 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.50 a.m., before the Acting Chief Justice and a jury—[?]. Ma[?]n and the Geraldton Express Co., Ltd., Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...
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Family Notices : 68 wordsAt the Invincible mine at Cullen Bullen, in the western district, about 30 men are engaged in filling slack coal, and 30 trucks are being despatched daily. One of the men ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 24 Nov 1909, Page 7
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