The Mails:—A notification from the General Post Office states that the ordinary mail for the Eastern States, New Zealand, etc., will close to-day at 9.15 a.m. for ...
Article : 3,617 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, the Leader of the Labour Party, moved an amendment to the Address-in-Reply to the King's Speech ...
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Article : 192 wordsIn the House of Assembly yesterday the debate was resumed on the motion condemning the Government for its reorganisation of the civil service. ...
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Article : 252 wordsMr. Griffith, Minister for Works, to-day replied to the published statement attributed to Mr. Wade, that he (Mr. Griffith) had been obtaining an exorbitant rental for ...
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Article : 531 wordsA cable message received from London states that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will enter Magdalen College, Oxford, after Michaelmas. ...
Article : 209 wordsThe official inquiry concerning the wreck of the P. and O. steamer Delhi (8,090 tons) near Cape Spartel, on the African coast, close to the Atlantic entrance to the Strait ...
Article : 120 wordsA fearful tragedy is reported as having occurred in the province of Teramo. Biagio Chiavaropi, who was the steward of an estate, was dismissed from his position, and ...
Article : 131 wordsNine more of the members of the Camera, who have been on trial at Viterbo on a charge of having murdered Cuocolo and his wife at Naples, have been released. ...
Article : 66 wordsOwing to the heavy gales which have prevailed incessantly for the past 30 days along the coast of Spain it has been found impossible to convey supplies to a lighthouse on ...
Article : 71 wordsNilakauta and eight other natives have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment, varying from one to seven years, for their connection with the conspiracy to murder ...
Article : 79 wordsYesterday saw the final stage of the dispute which for the past six weeks has existed between the Commissioner for Railways and the workshops' and running sheds' ...
Article : 254 wordsIt is officially announced that Sir Francis May, who has been Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific since 1910, has been appointed Governor and ...
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Article : 224 wordsDuring the past seven years no fewer than 215 books, one of them being valued at £800, have been stolen from the library of the Anglican Cathedral at Peterborough. A ...
Article : 300 wordsMany of the coal miners in the northern districts of Nottinghamshire have refused to give notice to their employers terminating their contracts, as ordered by the ...
Article : 206 wordsYesterday afternoon three highwaymen, armed with revolvers, sprang into a taxicab, in which were messengers from the East River National Bank, charged with the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Rev. E. T. Whittington, Anglican Archdeacon of Hobart, has made public certain correspondence between him and representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in ...
Article : 364 wordsThe programme set forth in the Governor's speech to-day comprised local government reform, the election of portion of the Legislative Council, and the acquirement by the ...
Article : 266 wordsIn view of Opposition opinions, it is considered likely that the Speaker (Mr. Willis), resting content with Judge Backhouse's finding in his favour, will terminate all political ...
Article : 303 wordsA sequel to a number of outbreaks of fire in the Invermay district during the hot spell last month, was that at the Ballarat Court, on Friday, W. H. Bibby, a ...
Article : 124 wordsConsiderable attention is being paid by the Government to the question of the development of the North-West, and the Estimates for the current financial year provide for the ...
Article : 248 wordsThe newspapers state that General Carlo Caneva, who is in command of the Italian forces operating in Tripoli, has informed the Government that he is unable to achieve ...
Article : 116 wordsSarah Brown, a middle-aged woman, was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with having, at Prahran, on December 22 last, attempted to murder her son Ralph. The ...
Article : 150 wordsJohn Roberts, the ex-billiard champion of the world, is proceeding against G. Gray; the young Australian player, for alleged breach of contract which relates to a ...
Article : 347 wordsA strike commenced to-day in connection with the liquor trade in Adelaide. Early in the year the barmen and cellarmen submitted a log to the licensed victuallers, ...
Article : 240 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day Ida Frances McMahon (29 years of age), a domestic help, residing at Williamstown, prayed for the dissolution of her marriage with Patrick ...
Article : 199 wordsSeven of the officials and agents of Labour unions throughout the United States indicted by the grand jury for criminal responsibility for the dynamite outrages in which ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. W. D. Johnson), in the course of an interview with a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, referred to the powellising process for ...
Article : 166 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Metropolitan District Council of the Australian Labour Federation was held at the Trades Hall last night. The president (Mr. B. J. Stubbs) ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Royal Commission which is inquiring into the shortage of labour in South Australia resumed its sittings to-day, when the Inspector of Factories (Mr. John Bannigan) ...
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Advertising : 173 wordsThe committee of the Royal Humane Society of New South Wales yesterday decided to award gold medals to William McKay and Alfred Barlow for their bravery ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. A. Howie, who was recently appointed director of State public, works at a salary of £1,000 a year, and was to have taken up duty on March 1, has resigned ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Dacey, the State Treasurer, has announced that when the cottages at the projected model settlement at Kensington are built, they may be leased to tenants for ...
Article : 51 wordsA commencement will be made in a few days with the erection of huts for the men to be employed on a prison camp near Tunkirry. When they are completed the first step will ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 17 Feb 1912, Page 11
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