The Senate Committee's inquiry into the Titanic disaster was continued at Washington yesterday. Owing to frequent interruptions of the proceedings the public had ...
Article : 752 wordsDuring the recent mu[?]ny in the city four wireless operators barricaded themselves in an upper room of their office, and although they had but one revolver between them ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Nationalist Convention to consider the Home Rule Bill met at Dublin to-day and was attended by 3,000 delegates. including the ...
Article : 304 wordsLeaving Menzies at an early hour this morning the Minister for Mines and Railways (Mr. Collier) motored to Woolgar with the intention of having a look round the ...
Article : 568 wordsOn Monday evening, the Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr. Bath) proceeded by the Albany express to Tambellup, accompanied by Messrs. Hugh Oldham, engineer ...
Article : 3,076 wordsBy an Act of the South Australian Parliament the Federal Government was granted land in connection with the Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta railway not exceeding ...
Article : 448 wordsAn interview, which the Premier (Mr. Murray) described as an exceedingly painful one and quite useless, took place to-day between him and representatives of the ...
Article : 353 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Reginald McKenna (Secretary of State for the Home Office) introduced the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. ...
Article : 270 wordsIn the tornado that swept through Indiana and Illinois yesterday 80 persons are known to have been killed by collapsing houses and falling trees. In one district ...
Article : 41 wordsAt Boulder this morning the inquest concerning the cause of death of Guiseppe B[?]hi, who was killed on April 2 in the Golden Horseshoe mine, was concluded. ...
Article : 254 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Inn Malcolm (Unionist) called attention to the report of a speech delivered recently by Mr. J. Pointer (Labour) before the ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. Frank Wilson, who is at present visiting the Eastern States, will return by the R.M.S. Orama, which is due at Fremantle on May 7. ...
Article : 215 wordsIn the Federal Arburation Court to-day an application was made on behalf of the Federated Seamen's Union and the Commonwealth Steamship Owners Association and ...
Article : 214 wordsThere was a distinguished gathering of foreign and colonial representatives at the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford yesterday. The Commonwealth was represented by ...
Article : 91 wordsAt Peterborough to-day John Edward Tinkler was sentenced to three years penal servitude for having stolen a number of books belonging to the Peterborough ...
Article : 384 wordsIn the King's Bench Division yesterday the Lord Chief Justice gave judgment for the plaintiff on all points in the case brought by John Roberts against George Gray for ...
Article : 143 wordsWhen the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) was in Sydney last month, he said that "reasonable proposals" had been made to the States in regard to the Commonwealth Bank ...
Article : 152 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of Amelia Goldsmith aged 93 years. at Leichhardt was concluded to-day. John James Garnell, omnibus proprietor. ...
Article : 145 wordsBills have been introduced in Congress to authorise the presentation of gold medals to the captain and crew of the Carpathia and 10,000 dollars apiece to the windows of ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Circuit Court at Armidale to-day Herbert J. E. Skinner, aged 19 years. was charged with the murder of Samuel Watson at Hillgrove on the night of January ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Titanic carried 710 third-class passengers (including 277 women), and of these 178 (including 106 women) were saved. Twenty stewardesses were also saved. Thirty-two ...
Article : 61 wordsA quaint request was received at the meeting of the Richmond City Council last night. It was signed by a resident, who gave his age as 92 years, and 18 others, ...
Article : 216 wordsThe captain of the cargo steamer Lena, now at Portland, Maine, declares that if his vessel had been fitted with wireless telegraphic apparatus she could have reached ...
Article : 57 wordsFurther evidence was heard to-day by the Totalisator Commission. Mr. Adrian Knox the chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, said that the ...
Article : 211 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Royal Commission on food supplies. Mr. T. A. W. Field, carease butcher, said that there was no place in the world where meat was so ...
Article : 118 wordsMrs. Thayer, one of the rescued passengers, indiguautly denies a newspaper statement that she said "It would be a thousand times better to be dead than to be Mr. Ismay." ...
Article : 58 wordsMinisters have forwarded, through His Excellency the Governor, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies a memorandum explaining their views of the appeal to the ...
Article : 181 wordsTurkey has accepted mediation by the Powers conditional upon the unconditional maintenance of Turkey's sovereign rights in Tripoli and Cvrenaica and Italy's evacuation ...
Article : 124 wordsThe opinion of Lloyd's officials is that it is possible the officers of the Titanic mistook the reflection of their own lights from a distant iceberg for those of a neighbouring ...
Article : 39 wordsThe case of that much-advertised Chinese. Lee Ah Keeng. cropped up very unexpectedly yesterday morning at the Fremantle Police Court. when Mr. F. R. Thomas, on ...
Article : 260 wordsIn the Central Criminal Court to-day the hearing was continued of the case in which Frank Denison Brown and John Macpherson, late general manager and cashier ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Lord Mayor's Fund in aid of the sufferers by the Titanic disaster now amounts to £105,000, including 100 guineas from the Queen of Norway. Other relief funds [?] ...
Article : 39 wordsThe dispute between the master butchers and the slaughtermen was settled this afternoon for the time being. The men will go back to work on Monday at the same rates ...
Article : 164 wordsLord Mersey (the newly-appointed Wreck Commissioner) and the Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee will meet and discuss matters affecting the safety of vessels at sea, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe hearing of the case, brought in the original jurisdiction of the Court primarily before Mr. Justice Barton and referred by his Honour to the Full Court. in which ...
Article : 207 wordsIn the Brentwood Police Court to-day E. T. Reed, a caricaturist, was fined £10 for having shown certain pictures of little girls on Ealing Common. He gave notice of ...
Article : 137 wordsA shooting accident, resulting in the death of Frederick Davis, a lad 16 years of age, who resided with his parents at South Fremantle, occurred near Armadale on ...
Article : 315 wordsThe city by-law, penalising wearers of hat-pins which protrude, has been put into force. Four women were proceeded against in the Central Police Court today for a ...
Article : 101 wordsA Court of Marine Inquiry into the loss of the Koombana will open at the Fremantle Court House at 10 o'clock this morning. Mr. E. P. Dowley, R.M.. will preside, and will ...
Article : 237 wordsFor some time past there has been in Brisbane Captain Anning. who at one time was the commander of the White Star liner Persic. He said in reply to a question ...
Article : 169 wordsBefore Mr. F. J. McLaren. J.P.. Acting-Coroner. and a jury of three. an inquiry was opened at Fremantle yesterday morning into the circumstances ...
Article : 239 wordsA deputation representing the clerical and general division of the goldfields branch of the Post and Telegraph Association waited upon Senator Needham this afternoon to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 25 Apr 1912, Page 7
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