Gratification was expressed to-day in Federal circles with the announcement that the British House of Commons had agreed to preference proposals on ...
Article : 210 wordsA wireless message from Kiu-Kiang says that the British and Japanese consulates at Kiu-Kiang were partially looted on June 13. The Chinese and foreign ...
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Article : 1,800 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the London "Morning Post" says:—"The economic situation is most difficult. The mine owners have 11,000,000 tons of ...
Article : 166 wordsConvinced that unless a British migrant is given a thorough grounding in Australian conditions before he leaves England, he must run a grave risk of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 177 wordsAn impressive spectacle, revealing the native in all his primitive barbaric splendour, was provided in the welcome to the Prince of Wales arranged at Mbabane, ...
Article : 198 wordsSir George Fuller tendered the resignation of the Condition Ministry to the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair) this afternoon, and it was accepted. The ...
Article : 215 wordsIt is understood that the students have decided to postpone the one-day strike until June 25. According to Chinese un-official reports, the Catholic Church at ...
Article : 78 wordsOn his first visit to the seat of the Federal Government as Premier of Queensland. Mr. Gillies, whose primary object is to attend the sitting of the ...
Article : 208 wordsA message from Mexico City reports that a formal statement by the President (General P. E. Calles) was given to the Press by the Foreign Secretary (Senor ...
Article : 181 wordsRioting has again broken out. The coal miners, who are on strike, looted stores on Sunday night on both sides of Sydney harbour. About 1,000 men ...
Article : 58 wordsReferring to-day to the granting of Imperial preference by the House of Commons, the Chief Secretary (Mr. J. Je[?]ley) said that he had always been in ...
Article : 79 wordsDespatches from Karenko (Formosa) report that a series of earthquake shocks occurred on Sunday. Buildings were extensively damaged, but there ...
Article : 32 wordsAfter the orgies of Friday night and Saturday the city is quieter. Considerable damage, is evident along the Bund.—Reuter. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir John Quick, who to-day commenced the hearing of claims by the Australian Railways Union, has apparently entered upon one of the biggest arbitration claims ...
Article : 240 wordsOutlining his plans for his Antarctic exploration. Captain Wilkins said to-day that the aeroplanes or flying boats would be fitted with two engines and the ...
Article : 319 wordsThe Navy Department has announced that a destroyer flotilla has been ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the Yang-tse Kiang from Sasebo.—Reuter. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is believed that the yacht Endeavour has been wrecked on the Wide Bay bar with all hands. She was on a pleasure trip from Sydney to Mackay. The yacht, ...
Article : 263 wordsSeeking a reduction of the Excise duty on Australian-made whisky, which now stands at 26s. a gallon, distillers will give evidence before the Tariff Board at ...
Article : 82 wordsA rioter who was among the wounded in the anti-foreign demonstration on Thursday has succumbed, increasing the number of the dead to nine. The ...
Article : 133 wordsDr. Henry Russell Wakefield, Bishop of Birmingham, preaching in Westminster Abbey yesterday, delivered a remarkable sermon on Catholicism and Christianity, ...
Article : 227 wordsHundreds of people are scouring the [?]awarra Ranges searching for Mrs. Elizabeth Dwyer, the wife of a miner at Thirroul who disappeared from her home ...
Article : 172 wordsAfter a hearing which extended into the eleventh day, Mr. Justice Weigall, in the Third Civil Court to-day, reserved judgment on a claim for £10.000 damages ...
Article : 91 wordsTwenty-five thousand students yesterday held a demonstration and procession in the native city in sympathy with the Shanghai strikers. The city police, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Minister for Industry (Mr. L. L. Hill) to-day referred in outspoken terms to the vigorous propaganda of antagonism to the Labour Government which. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe weekly public meeting in connection with the beer strike at Collie took place in the main street last night. Messrs. T. M. Lowrey (chairman of the ...
Article : 218 wordsThere were three men on board the yacht. They were Mr. Robert F. Evans of Vaucluse; Mr. Sentimus Stephens of Snails Bay. Balmain; and Mr. Bedford, ...
Article : 114 wordsAt the conclusion of the inquest to-day into the death of Miss Dorothy Grace Kentish (secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association), in ...
Article : 79 wordsDiscussion took place at a meeting of the Fremantle Municipal Council last night concerning the necessity for the opening of an infectious ward at the ...
Article : 305 wordsThe situation in the settlement is easier, as a result of official discussions between the Chinese and foreign authorities. The tentative proposals which the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe French Premier (M. Painleve) has left for France aboard an aeroplane. Prior to his departure he issued a statement emphasising the soundness of ...
Article : 128 wordsThere has evidently been a change in the attitude of the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing respecting the proposal to acquire the whole of the ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. Stopford (Home Secretary) is at present engaged upon a project for the complete segregation of all aboriginals suffering from venereal disease and their ...
Article : 103 wordsThe employees of the railway locomotive shops at Islington held a mass meeting during the luncheon hour to-day in connection with the alleged injustice ...
Article : 183 wordsDetectives at Marseilles have discov-ered the body of Jacques Rumebe, a bank cashier, who disappeared last March. The body, was found in the consulting room of ...
Article : 188 wordsThe case in which William Padbury is appealing against the valuation by the municipal authorities of the block of land opposite the G.P.O., in ...
Article : 397 wordsThe public tribunal appointed to inquire into the Traveston railway disaster will commence its sittings to-morrow morning. It is probable that the Court ...
Article : 89 wordsValuable cinematograph machinery lenses and many rolls of admittance tickets were destroyed in a fire which broke out in a storeroom occupied by ...
Article : 171 wordsThe British Note replying to the Chinese Note regarding the Hankow riots points out the inaccuracies contained in the Chinese document, and states the ...
Article : 296 wordsContributions to the State War Memorial Fund may be sent to the "West Australian" office or to the treasurers of the fund. Messrs. Rankin, Morrison and ...
Article : 239 wordsYesterday afternoon Mr. Potts attended a meeting of the New Settlers' League, at which a large number of members ilstened attentively to his ...
Article : 594 wordsHenry Clark, who was injured in the Rockhampton mail train smash, died in the Gympie Hospital to-night. This makes ten deaths resulting from the disaster. ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. E. H. Barker (secretary of the State Disputes Committee) explained yesterday that the engine drivers who had ceased work at the Great Southern ...
Article : 102 wordsA message from the Fram at Spitzbergen reports that the rescue party arrived at Advent Bay on Saturday. The unloading of the aeroplanes was ...
Article : 63 wordsBefore Mr. A. B. Kidson, Acting P.M., and Mr. J. McKenna, J.P., the case was concluded in the City Court yesterday in which William Wallington Pope and ...
Article : 196 wordsThough the demand throughout the Commonwealth for telephone connections is being maintained at an average of 5,000 applications a month, the Postal ...
Article : 144 wordsIn addition to the death sentences passed on Lieut. Colonel Miltenoff and eight others, the court-martial has sentenced the conspirators Pen[?]cheff and ...
Article : 67 wordsGeneral Habibullah, the Persian delegate, withdrew from the Arms Conferference owing to the adoption of articles dealing with the supervision of the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe largest demonstration at Peking since the crisis took place this afternoon, when students, merchants, shopkeepers, and workman paraded and ...
Article : 94 wordsThe southerly gale increased in violence last night, and to-day has been stormy and bitterly cold. To-night however, the storm shows signs of abating. ...
Article : 127 wordsA message from Paris reports that an American woman who suffered from neurasthenia, last week ordered her own coffin. Last night after driving in a ...
Article : 98 wordsWilliam Henry Scott (25), accountant, was charged to-day with having, between June 30, 1922, and May 14, 1925, being the servant of Harrington's, Ltd., ...
Article : 84 wordsThe fears entertained last night for the safety of the Edina were allayed when the vessel put into Geelong at 2.55 a.m. being then 12 hour late. After ...
Article : 99 wordsAnnie Lawrence (6) was burnt to death at Coolah. New South Wales, yesterday. The child's mother, who was outside the house, heard the little girl ...
Article : 54 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 am., in No. 3 Court, before Mr. Justice Draper—In Divorce: Dissolution of Marriage— James Arthur Procter (petitioner), and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 16 Jun 1925, Page 7
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