The Mails.—A mail for the United Kingdom and foreign countries (superscribed correspondence only) is notified to close at the General Post Office this morning at 9.15 ...
Article : 2,475 wordsM. Daneff (Bulgaria) stated to an interviewer yesterday that Adrianople and the Aegean Islands must be surrendered, and that unless the Turks accepted the terms of ...
Article : 88 wordsThe discussion on the report stage of the Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons yesterday was lifeless. Six clauses were reviewed and seven Government amendments ...
Article : 39 wordsYesterday a depuation of orchardists from the Harvey district waited upon the Premier, seeking that by some means, notwithstanding the legislative deadlock, the ...
Article : 2,016 wordsThe Adelaide Tramway Trust paid its employees under a new scale of wages for the first time this morning. The rates were prepared by the management, and are ...
Article : 335 wordsAt the instance of the Clerks' Union a mass meeting was held at the Alexandra Cafe, Hay-street, last night, to give consideration to a published statement that, ...
Article : 2,449 wordsThe Committee stage of the Franchise Bill in the House of Commons will commence during the last week of the present month. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn informal conference took place yesterday between Mr. Bonar Law and the Lancashire Unionists. The latter emphatically opposed the inclusion of food taxes in the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe European Ambassadors yesterday recumed their conference concerning the Balkan situation. In consequence of the principle of Albanian autonomy having been ...
Article : 45 wordsThere have been many comments upon Mr. Asquith's hints at the possibility of an appeal to the country, and Mr. Bonar Law's acceptance of the challenge. ...
Article : 103 wordsThere is great military activity in Turkey. Over 6,000 fresh troops are camped in the vicinity of Constantinople. Large naval orders for ammunition have been placed in ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the Florina district of Epirus, the Servians recently occupied several villages evacuated by the Greeks. The Servians disarmed many Greeks, and ordered them ...
Article : 54 wordsThe following statement in reply to the remarks of the Premier (Mr. Scaddan) as published in the "West Australian" of December 23, has been supplied by the ...
Article : 772 wordsA summary of the report by Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for the Commonwealth) with regard to the trade in Australian butter in England has been cabled ...
Article : 149 wordsThe National Conference of Miners yesterday passed a resolution declaring that although it was unable to accept anything short of a complete reversal of the Osborne ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is reported that the war has cost Bulgaria £29,360,000, and that Bulgaria claims from Turkey the payment of this amount as an indemnity. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe recent award made by Mr. Justice Higgins in the Federal Arbitration Court was considered in its relation to the local Association by members of the Brisbane ...
Article : 254 wordsEleven thousand men are affected by the taxi-cab strike in London. The trouble has spread to Liverpool. ...
Article : 173 wordsIt is officially stated that the value of the spoils secured by the Italians in the Tripolitan war is estimated at £2,500,000, including £350,000 in cash. The spoils will be ...
Article : 61 wordsIn an address yesterday to the advisory committee appointed under the National Insurance Act Mr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) said that 10,000 doctors ...
Article : 139 wordsNear Huntington, in West Virginia, yesterday a freight train fell through a bridge into a river, with the result that eight men were killed and 15 others were injured. The ...
Article : 47 wordsReplying to Mr. J. P. Farrell (Nationalist), in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. J. M. Robertson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Board of Trade) said that the ...
Article : 96 wordsSitting in Chambers this afternoon the Chief Justice of Australia (Sir Samuel Griffith) heard on application made by Mr. Feez, K.C., on behalf of the Brisbane ...
Article : 131 wordsIn a railway train near Darlington yesterday a locomotive fireman, named Rowley, killed his wife with a razor and then committed suicide. The pair were returning ...
Article : 43 wordsThe protected cruiser Melbourne, 5,600 tons, the first of the larger vessels for the Royal Australian Navy, will leave London for Australia on January 27. She will ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Bedouin Arabs attacked some Italian positions on the northern coast yesterday, but they were repulsed, with heavy loss. Italian warships assisted in shelling the ...
Article : 36 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the contract arranged between the Imperial Government and the Marconi Company, Mr. Gandil, ...
Article : 138 wordsA contingent of 132 lads, chiefly from the goldfields and farming districts of Western Australia in charge of Mr. J. J. S[?] arrived in Melbourne to-day on a month's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 299 wordsYesterday Count Tisza and Count Karolyn fought a sabre duel, which lasted for an hour, and consisted of 32 bouts. The combatants both received slight wounds, and ...
Article : 363 wordsReplying to Mr. J. C. Wedgwood, in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Lewis Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies), said he was considering regulations to ...
Article : 79 wordsAdvices from Ching-tu, in the extreme south-west of China, state that a few days ago Chinese troops showed reluctance to follow their officers over a little-known and ...
Article : 81 wordsConsideration was given by the Federal Cabinet to-day to the formal appointment of Mr. Justice Hodges, of the Victorian Supreme Court, as a Royal Commission to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe by-election for the Blayney seat in the Legislative Assembly, rendered necessary by the resignation of Mr. Beeby as a member of the McGowen Ministry, and of ...
Article : 211 wordsPersons giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the Civil Service stated that the whole of the upper staff of the Education Department had been recruited by ...
Article : 73 wordsA few months ago so flourishing was the builkling trade that contractors had great difficulty in obtaining labour, but with the tightness of the money market building has ...
Article : 101 wordsFrederick Adams was arrested early this morning in connection with the shooting of Lilian Lambert, a young married woman, at Waverley, on Wednesday night. He ...
Article : 72 wordsThe majority of the newspapers of Paris regret the fact that the spectators mobbed the English referee at the Franco-Scottish Rugby football match yesterday, although ...
Article : 66 wordsMary Walker is recovering from the wound in her neck which was inflicted at Erskineville yesterday by Robert Knight, who directly afterwards killed himself. ...
Article : 77 wordsOver 100 cases of ptomainc poisoning have occurred in Wanganui during the past two days, the majority being traceable to icecream. Several of the cases are severe, but ...
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Advertising : 269 wordsIn the Central Police Court to-day, Vera Moore, 17 years of age, was charged with having shot at Annie Joyce with intent. Mrs. Annie Joyce said:—I was passing the ...
Article : 98 wordsA sensational fire occurred at Pomona, on the North Coast line, this evening. The Pomona Hotel, Potter's large store, Bull's butchering establishment, Cunningham and ...
Article : 71 wordsThe State Government has received an intimation from the Federal Government that on and after January 1, 1914, the Commonwealth staff will take over the management ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 4 Jan 1913, Page 11
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