Members of the Perth Chamber of Commerce gave considerable attention at their meeting last night to the administration of the Pure Foods and Drugs Act, particularly ...
Article : 2,365 wordsThe militant suffragette outrages last week, comprising bomb explosions, incendiarism, telegraph wire cutting, and window smashing—caused altogether direct ...
Article : 145 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" in an article on the European situation declares that if war were to break out between France and Germany, the international guarantee of ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Mails.—A mail for the United Kingdom and foreign countries is due to close to-day at 3.45 p.m. (late fee 4.30 p.m.), per F.M.S. Yarra (superscribed correspondence ...
Article : 3,024 wordsThe assassination of ex-President Madero and vice-President Suarez has had little general effect in the city, where the people generally are rejoicing over the cessation ...
Article : 155 wordsA serious tramway accident occurred near Yarra Junction this morning, as a result of which two men were killed and nine were injured: ...
Article : 446 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Denman) intimated this afternoon that he had received the following wireless message this morning from Dr. ...
Article : 338 wordsPresiding at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society yesterday, Lord Curzon delivered a eulogy on Capt. Scott, Dr. Wilson, Capt. Oates, and Lieut. Bower ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Prime Minister, presiding yesterday at a special meeting of the Imperial Defence Committee said that General Sir John French and Vice-Admiral Prince Louis ...
Article : 70 wordsThe United States Secretary for War has directed that 10,000 troops shall be assembled at Galveston, chief port of Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico, in readiness to ...
Article : 50 wordsOutrages, however, still continue. Yesterday the signal wires on the Great Western railway were cut at Newport. On Hampstead Heath the seats provided ...
Article : 53 wordsHis Majesty the King has granted to the widow of Capt. Scott the same rank of precedence as if her husband had been nominated Knight-Commander of the Bath ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Immigration Department of New South Wales is arranging to send out to that State small batches of the widows of artisans, with one child each. They will ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Secretary for Home Affairs has at last decided to take action against Mrs. Pankhurst in connection with the blowing up of Mr. Lloyd George's house at Walton ...
Article : 76 wordsThe French Government in view of Germany's airship fleet and increased military preparations, has ordered seven army airships each with a gas capacity of 20,000 cubic ...
Article : 72 wordsCaptain Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, who reached the South Pole a month before Captain Scott, still considers it impossible that Scott and his comrades ...
Article : 52 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that rich treasure trove has been unearthed at Haslemere, in Surrey. Six jars full of gold coins and two jars full of jewels have been found ...
Article : 67 wordsMiss Annie Kenney, speaking at Bow, where Sylvia Pankhurst last week earned two month's hard labour for window smashing, dared the authorities to allow women ...
Article : 96 wordsThe second attempt of a squadron of British military aeroplanes to fly from Aldershot barracks to Montrose, in Scotland, has not proved a success. Several of ...
Article : 117 wordsAfter to-day's meeting of the Federal Cabinet, the Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) referring to the Chinn case, said that the matter was closed. "I have looked," he ...
Article : 339 wordsThe judicial committee of the Privy Council has granted leave to appeal to Mr. Arnold, the Burmah journalist who was sentenced four months ago at Rangoon to ...
Article : 69 wordsThe suffragettes held a stormy meeting at the Pavilion yesterday. The proceedings were a mere series of fights with masculine interruptors, who successfully ...
Article : 163 wordsThe leading German newspapers deride the English reports of noctural visitations by German airships, and resent the suspicions entertained in England. It would be ...
Article : 47 wordsIn response to a suggestion by the associated Chambers of Commerce, the Perth Chamber recently decided to nominate its president (Mr. W. F. Lathlain) for a seat on ...
Article : 788 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General made the first public announcement of the message received from Dr. Mawson at the speech day of the Church of England ...
Article : 173 wordsThe management committee of the Football League have decided to warn players that they are determined to suppress betting. Northey Smith, a bookmaker, of ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is announced that the Bulgarian Government has refered to the arbitration of the six great powers Roumania's claim for territorial concessions from Bulgaria in ...
Article : 109 wordsYesterday's closing quotations on Change were:— Mines: Waihi, b 31s. 10d., s 33s. 1d. Junctions, b 21s., s 22s. Talisman, b ...
Article : 77 wordsThe dying words of the Dowager-Empress Yung Lu, mother of the boy Emperor Pu Yi, whose abdication was announced in February, 1912, have been made public. ...
Article : 105 wordsA wireless message was received in Sydney to-day by Professor David to the effect that Lieutenant Ninnis and Dr. Mertz. of Dr. Mawson's expedition, have perished. ...
Article : 122 wordsKing Christian X. of Denmark and Queen Alexandrina, who ascended the Danish throne May 14, 1912, on the death of Frederic XIII., are playing their first visit to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe necessity for strict accuracy on the part of merchants in the supply of trade returns to the State Statistician was emphasised at last night's meeting of the ...
Article : 319 wordsThe High Court to-day gave a decision respecting the disposition of property in the estate of the late Alexander Brunton, who, by a will dated 1840, left everything to his ...
Article : 504 wordsAt the National Sporting Club last night Matt. Wells, the ex-lightweight champion, and the Australian, Hughie Mehegan, met in a return match. Wells weighed 9st. ...
Article : 251 wordsGreat indignation has been excited among leading citizens by a speech recently made by General Sir Archibald Hunter, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar. Sir ...
Article : 104 wordsDr. Mertz was an experienced Swis ice man and was especially engaged by Dr. Mawson in London in the hope that. with his experience of snow and ice work, he ...
Article : 173 wordsAt the meeting last night of the Perth Chamber of Commerce, the secretary (Mr. J. F. Conigrave) stated that a letter had been received from the Attorney-General ...
Article : 399 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of the Supreme Court the Chief Justice of India dealt with an application by Mrs. Fulham to be allowed to turn King's evidence in the great ...
Article : 124 wordsOn December 2, 1911, the Australian Antarctic research expedition, under Dr. Douglas Mawson, sailed from Hobart in the barquentine Aurora, a vessel of 546 ...
Article : 559 wordsAn extra session of the United States Congress has been convened, to open on April 1, to deal specially with the tariff reform and Wool Bill questions. It is ...
Article : 192 wordsThe committee appointed by the goldfields' council of the Australian Labour Federation to investigate grave charges concerning the last selection ballot for the ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Australian Navigation Bill has been issued in a Colonial Office Blue Book, and has received considerable attention. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of ...
Article : 82 wordsA peculiar mishap occurred at the MileEnd railway yards to-day. While an engine was pushing nine heavy hopper trucks, loaded with coal, to one end of the coal ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 26 Feb 1913, Page 7
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