The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) has invited representatives of the coal mine owners and miners to meet him and some of his colleagues in the Foreign Office on Thursday, to ...
Article : 80 wordsEverything is quiet and orderly in the city. Yuan-Shih-Kai, the President, expresses himself as pleased at the improvement which ...
Article : 182 wordsThe debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address-in-Reply to the King's Speech, to which an official Opposition amendment, censuring the Government for ...
Article : 485 wordsWitnesses from the Adelaide and Melbourne tramway services testified, in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, that they had been assailed with abuse because they ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Trades Hall at Fremantle was the scene on Tuesday night of what was perhaps the most unique conference ever held at the Port, when representative local ministers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,795 wordsThe trouble in the aerated water trade appears to have now reached its most acute stage. During the five weeks that have elapsed since the inception of the ...
Article : 1,258 wordsAt the Trades Hall this morning Mr. Coyne was the only speaker. The usual assemblage of strikers took place, though the number present showed depletion. ...
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Article : 95 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the sentence of three and a half years' imprisonment in a fortress imposed by a German Court upon Mr. Bernard Stewart, an ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. McGowen, the Premier, to-day promised a number of cricket enthusiasts that if it was thought he could be of assistance he would be very pleased to mediate in the ...
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Article : 452 wordsAbout 100 large employers of labour have given provisional notice to their employees terminating their engagements in the event of a strike. The notices affect 15,000 glass ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Rev. R. J. Campbell, minister of the City Temple and the author of "The New Theology," is suffering from grave heart weakness, caused principally through the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe coal mine owners submitted to the Conciliation Board to-day the conditions upon which they were prepared to grant a minimum wage. These were rejected by the ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the House of Lords last night a Ministerial reply was made to the criticisms recently passed on the British army by Lord Roberts and others. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Government has resolved upon the issue of a loan of £12,000,000, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. It will be placed on the market at par ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Admiralty has ordered 10,000 tons of American steam coal for storage at Gibraltar. ...
Article : 23 wordsAtwood, an aviator, is preparing for a flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He will carry on his machine a quantity of gasolene sufficient to last for 900 miles, and then he ...
Article : 306 wordsThe efforts made by Sir George Askwith, Chief Industrial Commissioner to effect a settlement of the Glasgow dock strike have met with a gratifying measure of success. ...
Article : 61 wordsReplying to a questior in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. A. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, admitted the existence of the Nationalist Boy Scouts, the ...
Article : 86 wordsDuring the recent visit to London of a number of German meat salesmen Mr. C. F. G. McCann, the sub-manager of the South Australian Government Produce ...
Article : 157 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday a question was asked with the object of eliciting information on the cost of sending troops to Belfast on the occasion of Mr. ...
Article : 62 wordsHenry Bourne, a farmer at Rahmayuck, on the Avon River, was charged by a boar and was severely injured. He lay unconscious for about an hour. Bourne was in ...
Article : 313 wordsA meeting of churchmen was held in the Albert Hall last night to protest against the [?]establishment of the Church of England in Wales. ...
Article : 120 wordsA meeting was held yesterday of the Historical Memorials Committee. There were present—Mr. Fisher, Mr. O'Malley, Mr. McDonald, Mr. McGregor, and Mr. Deakin. ...
Article : 418 wordsThe chief inspector of the city cleansing department has replied vigorously to certain strictures that were recently passed on the state of the Sydney streets. He said that ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Radical newspapers saddle Herr von Bethmann Hollweg, the Chancellor, with the responsibility for the Kaiser's refusal to give an audience to the Presidential officers of ...
Article : 133 wordsTerrific snowstorms are raging throughout the State of Missouri, and frozen ice jambs in the rivers are causing considerable uncasiness lest the bridges should be swept away. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe debate in the House of Representatives on the Address-in-Reply last night was generally acknowledged to be the most notable since the Atkinson Government was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsMargaret Timms (20) while travelling in a train yesterday morning, discovered that she was being overcarried from Strathfield to Homebush. Though the train was ...
Article : 202 wordsWhile the New York-St. Louis express train was mounting a heavy gradient near Altamont yesterday, a masked man jumped on board and held up the passengers. After ...
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Advertising : 311 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon Mr. H. Levien gave notice of his intention to move to-morrow:—"That the Speaker, the Hon. Henry Willis, does not possess the ...
Article : 170 wordsThe trouble which existed during the past week in connection with the liquor trades was successfully settled to-night. During the day a conference was held between ...
Article : 179 wordsA tragic incident occurred at the Gaiety Athletic Club last night during the progress of a bout between two boxers named Cox and Wells. Cox, senr., who was sitting in ...
Article : 144 wordsA large number of men incarcerated in the gaol at Puebla, 68 miles south-east of Mexico City, yesterday made desperate attempts to escape. A fierce fight occurred ...
Article : 65 wordsThe ballot among the members of the A.M.A. on the question, "Are you in favour of withdrawing your affiliation with the Political Labour League of New South ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. James Faulkner, who for 22 years was engineer to the Perth Water Supply, has been notified that he has been elected a member of the Institute of Mechanical ...
Article : 80 wordsOn the night of January 17 last a burglar broke into a jeweller's shop in the city and plundered the premises after having murdered the owner, his wife, and his daughter ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 22 Feb 1912, Page 5
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