The Australians will open their tour on April 28 with a match at Maidenhead against the Minor Counties, whose team will be as follows:— ...
Article : 70 wordsThe coal conference has broken down. ...
Article : 8 wordsDisputes regarding procedure marked the opening of the Senate inquiry to-day, the "drys" contending that a "wet"—Senator Reed—had taken up three ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Superintendent of Police visited the Senior Minster and gave him, an assurance that although Tuan-Chi-Jui's Government might be suddenly dissolved ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day. Mr. A. C. N. Dixey (Conservative) sought leave to introduce a Bill legalising betting and registering all bookmakers in the ...
Article : 405 wordsThe Italian Embassy has issued a statement dealing with the reports circulated in London and Constantinople to the effect that Italy and Greece have ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the House of Lords, questioned to-day as to whether the Government was pledged to support the claim of any new country except Germany, to a ...
Article : 156 wordsThe fact that the Home Secretary (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks) was summoned to Bruton-street when the Duchess of York's baby was expected illustrates the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe coal situation is described as "very delicate." A laconic official statement, issued at the conclusion of a 90 minutes' conference between the ...
Article : 178 wordsFollowing a report that Professor J. M. Thompson, of the Liverpool University, had discovered a new method for the storage and transportation of fruit, ...
Article : 519 wordsAccording to present arrangements Tsao-Kun, who was President immediately prior to Tuan-Chi-Jui, and who was forced to resign by "force [?] ...
Article : 89 wordsIt has been authoritatively learned that the progress of the Duchess of York and her daughter is as satisfactory as could be wished. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe selection includes six University blues, of whom Falcon was the hero of a sensational bowling feat resulting in A C. Maclaren's eleven defeating ...
Article : 277 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that notwithstanding Russia's declining "in terms which were not very courteous towards ...
Article : 117 wordsCorrespondence which has been published confirms the report that Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin has requested the Soviet Consul-General here to warn the Moscow ...
Article : 128 wordsThree lives were lost, many persons were injured, and heavy damage was caused to property by forest fires raging over considerable sections of the States ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Spanish airmen arrived here yesterday from Calcutta. To-day they left for Bangkok, the capital of Siam.—Reuter. ...
Article : 39 wordsSalutes of 41 guns were fired from Hyde Park and the Tower of London. Great limousines are arriving and departing all dry long. The longest stay ...
Article : 50 wordsThe International Labour Office of the League of Nations has issued a report regarding the replies received from Governments in regard to an international ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. Falk, the representative of the Junker Aeroplane Company, has returned from Europe. He states that his company has drawn up alternative proposals ...
Article : 40 wordsThe arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York's baby has roused interest throughout the nation, partly owing to the Duchess's unspoilt personality and partly ...
Article : 372 wordsIn response to an invitation expressed in a resolution carried at a recent meeting of Local bodies and mining representatives at Kalgoorlie, the Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 379 wordsIn London to-day the weather was cold and dull after more rain. The ground is saturated, and there is no prospect os practice taking place to-day.—Reuter. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir Keith Smith, commenting on the proposed flight of Mr. Alan J. Cobham, from London to Melbourne, said to-day that until there was more definite ...
Article : 365 wordsIn the course of the discussion on the death penalty, Colonel C. Headlam (Conservative) declared that no one doubted the courage and fighting qualities of the ...
Article : 108 wordsCaptain Robert Pamphlet, master of the Canadian schooner Pescawha, which was seized off the Washington coast in February, 1924, as a rum-runner, was ...
Article : 121 wordsAn important conference between the Swarajists (who withdrew from the Legislatures on the ground of the unsatisfactory nature of the Government's ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Premier (Mr. P. Collier), after his return from Geraldton and the Midland areas, refuted the reported statements of Mr. W. J. Mann when ...
Article : 402 wordsThe House rejected by 283 votes to 103 a Labour clause prohibiting the use of the military in connection with trade disputes, except when a proclamation ...
Article : 83 wordsThe effectiveness of the treaties with Great Britain and other countries, permitting the United States to seize rum-runners at any point within an hour's ...
Article : 84 wordsA serious position has arisen for fruitgrowers. The Government's guarantee which was to extend to 650,000 cases of apples, has been exhausted, as ...
Article : 62 wordsDr. D. J. Mahoney, the Government Geologist of Victoria, is sceptical of the claims made by Professor Collie Mackenzie in respect to the skull, which was ...
Article : 342 wordsThe House of Lords read the first time a Bill which was introduced by Viscount Gage on behalf of the Earl of Birkenhead (Secretary of State for ...
Article : 81 wordsReferring yesterday to the statement made in Perth on Wednesday by Captain F. Marriott, M.L.A., of Tasmania, regarding the posting of Australian ...
Article : 474 wordsThe war debt settlement with Italy was approved on Wednesday by the Senate by 54 votes to 34.—Reuter. ...
Article : 17 wordsReports from Ujda (Morocco) state that the Peace Conference broke up last evening without any decision having been reached in regard to preliminaries for ...
Article : 59 wordsA betting tax was introduced by the Minister for Finance (Mr. E. Blyth), in presenting the Budget to the Dail Eireann in Duttin to-day. The sum of £10 ...
Article : 140 wordsThe executive council of the Chamber of Mines, at its last meeting discussed the Government's offer to provide capital for the installation of new electrical plant in ...
Article : 92 wordsTo cope with the expected demand for building leases, the Federal Capital Commission is making available for private enterprise, 80 residential and 18 ...
Article : 92 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of stated that hitherto it had been treated Commons regarding the patent rights relating to the Brennan heliocopter it was ...
Article : 90 words"News from Morocco gives little hope of a successful outcome of the peace efforts," pessimistically started General Prime de Rivera, the President of the ...
Article : 45 wordsSir. J. G. Muir, Superintendent for Telephones for Western Australia, has received from Melbourne notification of his transfer to Brisbane, where he will ...
Article : 526 wordsBefore Mr. Justice Rich, in Chambers, to-day, when the case of McDonald v. Ley was called, Mr. Hunt, who appeared for Mr. McDonald, stated that Mr. McDonald ...
Article : 347 wordsThe Kalang, the biggest ferry steamer ever constructed for the Sydney ferry service, left Liverpool for Sydney, under its own steam. It tonnage is 530, ...
Article : 542 wordsA commercial overseas wireless system was inaugurated on Wednesday, by a high-power station which is equipped to communicate with London. Paris, ...
Article : 58 wordsLast night's hurricane did considerable minor damage at Tokio and Yokohama, but no casualties are reported. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the House of Assembly the Minister for Finance (Mr. N. C. Havenga) replied to General Smuts, declaring that the increases of expenditure in the ...
Article : 113 wordsA witness before the Federal Committee on Electoral Reforms yesterday alleged that there were 5,000 dummy names on the East Sydney roll at the last ...
Article : 462 wordsConcluding his controversy with the Minister for Mines (Mr. M. F. Troy) regarding the adequacy of the Federal prospecting grant and the conditions laid ...
Article : 485 wordsThe publication of Professor Colin Mackenzie's claim with regard to the Murray River skull has aroused interest amongst scientists, though they are not ...
Article : 183 words"Modern Transport" announces that the administration of the South African railways has ordered 20 heavy locomotives from Germany, fearing that the ...
Article : 70 wordsOn Friday afternoon last while Stanley Johnson, a clerk in the employ of Offner, Hardley, and Co., accountants, was taking £101 pay out to the Wovenwood ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Berlin Press states that Russo-German trade is expected to receive a considerable impetus as a result of the German Government guaranteeing that ...
Article : 102 wordsA settlement was reached to-day in the strike of 500 men employed at the Electricity Commission's Crown coal mile, at Yallourn, which for some days ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) said this evening that at the request of the Ministry the High commissioner for Australia in London had [?] cabled a report ...
Article : 167 wordsMartha Alice Barnes was granted a decree for the nullity of her marriage with Arthur Brydges Todd, ex Surgeon-Major, who married Agnes Brydges ...
Article : 77 wordsThe agitation by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce for the abolition of the use of the form "Australasia" is being continued. The Prime Minister has ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 23 Apr 1926, Page 11
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