At New Westminster on Thursday night, three armed robbers stole £30,000 from a bank close to a police station. They dug through a wall of the premises and blew up ...
Article : 91 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the grievances of the railway men, Sir Charles Owen, general manager of the London and ...
Article : 282 wordsFurther particulars of the murderous attack made by Bogroff upon the Premier (M. Stolypin) at Kieff yesterday during a gala performance connected with the visit of the ...
Article : 501 wordsFurther evidence was taken in the City Court yesterday in the case in which Dr. Samuel Peacock is charged with the wilful murder of Mary Margaret Davies, a young ...
Article : 598 wordsThe voyage of the British barque Killoran, which arrived from London at the latter end of last week, was memorable on account of the terrific weather she encountered in ...
Article : 337 wordsThe Royal Commission on Miners' Phthisis devoted the whole of Friday's sitting to the taking of medical evidence. Dr. J. G. Macmillan said that he had been ...
Article : 2,200 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Frank Wilson) to-day paid his first visit to Geraldton since becoming the head of the Government. He was met by the member for the district (Mr. ...
Article : 516 wordsThe Governor of St. Helena has informed the Colonial Office that he has a sufficiency of provisions to meet the requirements of the emigrants from the burning steamer ...
Article : 199 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Edeline Strickland entertained at dinner at Government House on Saturday night the Rev. Dr. Youngman, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. ...
Article : 489 wordsA serious fire occurred early yesterday morning in a warehouse in Kent-street belonging to Messrs. John McNeill and Co. The task before the 50 firemen who turned ...
Article : 189 wordsAn interesting newspaper controversy is taking place between Sir William Ramsay (President of the British Association) and Dr. Wilson (President of the Association of ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is stated in official circles here that the French reply to Germany's proposals concerning Morocco is thoroughly satisfactory, and that an agreement upon the ...
Article : 303 wordsMr. Clinton, third officer of the steamer Fifeshire, recently wrecked on the Somaliland coast of Africa, stated to an interviewer at Plymouth yesterday that the last he saw of ...
Article : 68 wordsA fire broke out in a colliery at Chester-le-Street, in Durham, yesterday and for a considerable time anxiety for the fate of 81 men working below prevailed. The men were ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Town Hall to-night the Premier addressed a public meeting in support of Mr. Carson's candidature for the Geraldton seat. The Mayor (Mr. John Urch) presided ...
Article : 12,705 wordsThe ringleaders of the riots at Ching-tu, the capital of Sze-chwan, have been arrested. They include the President and Vice-President of the Sze-chwan Provincial Assembly. ...
Article : 35 wordsYesterday Mr. H. Carson, M.L.A., introduced a deputation from the Geraldton Chamber of Commerce to the Premier (Mr. Frank Wilson). ...
Article : 694 wordsMr. Stewart, who has been arrested in Germany on a charge of espionage, states in a letter to a friend that he does not belong to the British Secret Service and that he ...
Article : 109 wordsA newspaper seller 68 years of age named Henry Pazey created a sensation at Cottesloe on Saturday night by firing a revolver at Nicholas Clarke, at whose house he has ...
Article : 430 wordsThe book containing the memoirs of Princess Luise (the divorced wife of the King of Saxony) has been published in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Dutch, ...
Article : 56 wordsOwing to the Republicans dispensing with the services of priests except for funerals, 30 priests in the Braga district struck yesterday, and refused to hold services for the ...
Article : 45 wordsOn Friday schoolboy strikes took place at many centres, including Aberdeen, Dublin, and Bristol. The chief demand was for the abolition of caning. At Gateshead, however, ...
Article : 91 wordsMrs. E. Campbell, who was recently arrested on a charge of having obtained a sum of money by false pretences from Mrs. E. Foote, with whom she travelled from ...
Article : 50 wordsFifty members of the Eighty Club (London), who are touring Ireland in connection with the Liberal Home Rule scheme, were accorded a reception here yesterday. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) expects the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Governor-General's Speech in the House of Representatives to terminate on Tuesday. The ...
Article : 247 wordsThe nominations for the Dominion House of Commons closed yesterday. Sir Wilfrid Laurier (the Prime Minister) was nominated for two constituencies, but in one (Soulanges) ...
Article : 114 wordsSir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of the Bombay Presidency, yesterday issued an announcement reducing the number of race meetings in Western India, banishing the ...
Article : 72 wordsSpeaking to an interviewer yesterday Lord Dudley, ex-Governor-General of the Commonwealth, said that few here realised what an extraordinarly prosperous country ...
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Family Notices : 26 wordsOn Saturday the Fremantle police received a telegram from Mandurab stating that Mr. H. Halliday, a boat-owner and a well-known identity of that town, who for many years ...
Article : 238 wordsFireman Jim Flynn, of New York, fought a terrific 10 rounds' match with Carl Morris, the Oklahama heavyweight, yesterday. Flynn won on the popular decision, as the ...
Article : 89 wordsAt the town of Hannah, in North Dakota, yesterday Edmund Davis was arrested on a charge of having brually ill-treated Miss Brice a school teacher in a country district ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Australasian team of Rugby footballers arrived at Plymouth by the R.M.S. Orvieto yesterday. During the voyage from Sydney the men engaged in boxing, ...
Article : 261 wordsAbout two months ago a new Local Board of Health was elected, and the names of the members were forwarded to the Central Board of Health for registration. So far ...
Article : 157 wordsSpeaking at Erie in Pennsylvania yesterday. President Taft outlined his plan for overcoming the Senate's opposition to the British-American Arbitration Treaty. He ...
Article : 70 wordsP. F. Warner, captain of the Marylebone cricket team which will tour Australia, has announced that J. W. Hearne, of Middlesex, will accompany the team. ...
Article : 33 wordsTwo victims were claimed by the surf at Thirroul this morning. William Nicol, a married man, 40 years of age, residing at McMahon's Point, Eyre, and his brother, ...
Article : 118 wordsWhile gathering wildflowers with his son in the bush near Herdsman's Lake yesterday morning Mr. William Burrows came across the decomposed body of a man lying ...
Article : 208 wordsAt Witchita, in Kansas, yesterday dense clouds of green insects settled down upon the town, completely stopping all traffic, and covering the pavements to a depth of an ...
Article : 56 wordsSpecial conditions have been proclaimed regarding the importation of potatoes into Western Australia, which is to be prohibited unless the tubers are accompanied by a ...
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Advertising : 418 wordsAbout 80 men engaged by the Railway Department in Cairns Range have ceased work. It appears that it had been agreed that those working in precarious positions should ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 18 Sep 1911, Page 7
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