The Mails.—The next mail for the Eastern States, New Zealand, etc., is notified to close at the General Post Office to-morrow night at 8.15 o'clock (late fec 9 o'clock), to ...
Article : 3,248 wordsThe strike of sailors and firemen on the Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company's steamer Mooltan, in order to force the company to provide two efficient white seamen ...
Article : 300 wordsAt yesterday's sitting of the South Wales Minimum Wage Board a scene was created by the decision of the chairman (Viscount St. Aldwyn) in fixing the increase to be ...
Article : 150 wordsThe naval manoeuvres commenced in Weymouth Bay yesterday morning, 120 ships taking part. His Majesty the King commanded. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 338 wordsIn giving evidence to-day before the Federal Royal Commission on the sugar industry the Queensland State Treasurer (Mr. Barnes) said that if the sugar duty were ...
Article : 272 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the British Commission inquiring into the Titanic disaster counsel, applying to represent the steerage passengers, stated that two third-class ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. C. Sommers, the sitting member for the Metropolitan Province in the Legislative Council, addressed a meeting of electors in McLeod's Hall. Mount Lawlaye, last night. ...
Article : 5,360 wordsAn Adelaide telegram states that among the passengers who left the Outer Harbour for England by the R.M.S. Malwa yesterday were Mr. Donald Campbell, the ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Crawshay-Williams (Liberal) submitted a resolution asking for an investigation into the industrial unrest. ...
Article : 246 wordsTen persons, comprising the entire Filipovici family, commited suicide yesterday. Upon learning that the eldest son, who had supported them, had failed in business ...
Article : 95 wordsUpon the authority of the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) summonses have been issued against the general manager (Mr. E. W. Knox) and Mr. Kater, M.L.C., the ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the Browning centenary meeting at Westminster College Hall yesterday, Professor Laurie, of Melbourne, contributed an Australian appreciation of the poet. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Royal Commission (Dr. Ashburton Thompson) appointed by the different States to inquire into the fixing of a uniform standard of all foods and drugs, sat again ...
Article : 226 wordsWilliam Ward, who was arrested in Western Australia on a charge of having murdered Ernest N. Smith at Chiswick in October, 1908, was brought before the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 344 wordsAt the last meeting of the Federal Executive Council a number of officers of the Engineer and Railway Corps were appointed to the Railway Staff Corps. This corps has ...
Article : 135 wordsThe hearing of the claim of the Tramway Employees' Association was resumed in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day before the President (Mr. Justice Higgins). ...
Article : 338 wordsSix thousand tailors and tailoresses in the East End yesterday decided to come out on strike immediately. The Amalgamated Society of Tailors and ...
Article : 168 wordsThe new vaccine against typhoid consists of attenuated living typhoid baccilli. Dr. Broughton Alcock, who with Professor Metchikoff discovered the vaccine, is a ...
Article : 101 wordsIt was recently complained by the Commonwealth workmen at the Federal capital site that they were not receiving the wages as laid down by the Wages Boards award, ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is recognised by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) that the utility of the ocean forecasts issued by the Weather Bureau would be greater if wireless ...
Article : 120 wordsYesterday the Italian troops on Rhodes Island captured the Turkish Vali as he was attempting to escape to the mainland. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe action brought by Edwin Branscombe, Limited, against Frederich Bevan, teacher of singing at the Conservatorium of Music, for the recovery of £72 6s. 8d., moneys ...
Article : 88 wordsSome extraordinary evidence in connection with the Foundling Hospital in Berry-street, East Melbourne, was given at an inquest held by the Coroner to-day concerning ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), addressing the Bankers' Association yesterday, said he had been inspecting the fleet, and this suggested the thought that if the ...
Article : 183 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day Alfred Henry Reed, 42 years of age, labourer, petitioned for a divorce from Caroline Dorcas Reed, aged 27 years, on the ground of misconduct ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsThe present stock of wheat in France amounts of 40,000,000 kilogrammes, whereas in normal years the stock runs into several hundreds of millions of kilogrammes. The ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Federal Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the pearling industry took evidence here this morning. The witnesses were Messrs. Lee Bryce, ...
Article : 67 wordsIn connection with the general election, the returning-officer for Merthyr made a count of six absent votes this afternoon. Four of them were for Mr. T. Welsby ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Director of Agriculture has received particulars respecting the second shipment of frozen pork which was sent by the Department of Agriculture to London. The ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette," commenting upon the Australian census figures, asserts:—"The results are absolutedly tragic, as the 12 years of Federation have not produced any ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Australian aviator, W. E. Hart, was proceeded against in the Sydney District Court to-day by Hugh Byrne, of Waterloo, dairyman. The plainfiff claimed £20 ...
Article : 116 wordsThe shipments of fruit from Australia by the steamers Moldavia and Palermo were landed in generally good condition, although some of the pears in the Palermo's ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Federal Executive Council has passed a regulation fixing two terms for students at the Royal Military College, viz., an autumn term from March 15 to June 30, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. Johnson) and the Parliamentary party accompanying him arrived by the Government steamer Pensugin yesterday afternoon. A banquet was held ...
Article : 95 wordsThe steamer Australian, 191 tons register, owned by the West Coast Shipping Company, ran ashore on the reef at the south end of Wardang Island, near Port Victoria, ...
Article : 154 wordsThe ironmoulders employed at Messrs. Silverthrone and Adair's foundry were to have resumed work to-day, but it is understood that they refufsed to start until the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsTwo men employed at the Torban Tunnel Colliery at Lithgow were this morning struck by empty skips which shot to the tunnel opening by the breaking away of some ...
Article : 77 wordsThe circumstances which have arisen in connection with the ordering of the steamer Irishman into quarantine promise to be interesting, and it is probable that the aid of ...
Article : 243 wordsRegarding the question of soverign rights claimed by Federal Ministers over the site for the Naval College at Jervis Bay, Mr. Holman, the State Attorney-General, said ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. Griffith) announced to-day that Mr. Hay, the English expert brought out to attack the problem of Sydney's congested traffic, had drawn up a ...
Article : 73 wordsAt the Stratford gasworks yesterday, a terrific explosion wrecked the meter house and the adjacent buildings. Subsequently the body of a workman with the head blown ...
Article : 60 wordsChief among the illustrations in the current issued of the "Western Mail" are the photographs of the crews competing in the inter-Stated eight-oar race to-morrow, and ...
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Advertising : 345 wordsWilliam McCrohan, who was arrested on Monday on a charge of having stolen a motor-car, was committed for trial by a City Court Bench yesterday. Robert Lewis ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. Alan H. Burgoyne, M.P., a director of P. B. Burgoyne and Co. (Australian wine merchants), read a paper on colonial viticulture before the Society of Arts to-day. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Shop Assisants' and Warehousemen's Federation has decided to take steps to secure an improvement in working conditions by communicating with the Minister for ...
Article : 56 wordsWilliam, Taylor, a plumber, and F. B. Meyers, a photographer, were searching for the locality of an escape of gas at the latter's shop in Peel-street to-day. Taylor ...
Article : 107 words"Johnny" Concon, of New York, defeated Young Salzburg, of Brooklyn, in a 10 rounds bout for the bantam-weight championship. ...
Article : 28 wordsHenry Kove, aged about 43 years, single, was engaged at the Mount Elliott mine early yesterday morning, when a large stone fell upon him, inflicting terrible injuries to ...
Article : 56 wordsThe State expenditure for the March quarter was £1,045,224, which is £15,299 more than for the corresponding period of last year. The revenue amounted to £1,176,831. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 10 May 1912, Page 7
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