A brilliant flash of lightning during a fierce storm of blinded the engine driver that he did not see a slow-down signal with the result that the Havre-Paris ...
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Article : 788 wordsThe report of the official committee of experts appointed to formulate a financial programme recommends Parliament to temporarily certain prerogatives ...
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Article : 2,480 wordsEnthusiasm regarding the progress already made by Mr. Alan Cobham in his flight to Australia was expressed yesterday by the Controller for Civil Avia ...
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Article : 25 words"I am not ashamed that I grovelled for peace," said Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., general secretary of the national Union of Railwaymen, in his first speech since the ...
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Article : 62 wordsIn the High Court of Australia to-day Mr. Justice Rich allowed with costs the appeal of Edmund Jowett against assessments for land tax in respect of three ...
Article : 1,297 wordsThe engine driver, Sondach of the Havre-Paris express, was killed but M. Leroux, director of the State railways, recaped. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. A. J. Cook, secretory of the Miners' Federation, speaking at Widnes, said the strike would be won or lost in the next fortnight. They would have to stop the ...
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Article : 382 wordsThe Government to-day placed a wreath upon the statue of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, on the occasion of the centenary of his death.— ...
Article : 519 wordsThe Government, in presenting to the House of Commons the Supplementary Estimates covering the purchases of coal on the Continent in order to ...
Article : 55 wordsBy the Great Western express Senattor Lynch, arrived in Perth yesterday. He left later in the day for his farm at Three Soringa which he will forsake ...
Article : 668 wordsThe Prince of Wales attended to-day the dedication of a bronze buffalo at Gillwell, Essex, inscribed to the "unknown scout, whose faithfulness and the ...
Article : 91 wordsA dreadful suicide is reported from the mining town of Susa. A mine foreman named Gagnon walked into the messroom with a stick of dynamite in his ...
Article : 79 wordsThe concluding concert of Madame Toti dal Monte's short season in Perth was attended last night by an audience that nearly, filled all ports of His ...
Article : 342 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent states that the Prime Minister (Mr. S. Baldwin) is expected to announce in the House of Commons this ...
Article : 65 wordsInteresting evidence regarding a watch set upon the movements of certain police officers by bookmakers and their assistants was tendered to-day at the ...
Article : 470 wordsLord Inchcape, acting on behalf of Australian interstate lines, has bought the steamers Emita, Erriba, Dicoga, Delungra, and Dromana from the ...
Article : 44 wordsWorcestershire, which county the Australians meet on Wednesday, has fallen from its high estate of the days when its ranks included the Poster brothers, ...
Article : 305 wordsRemarkable cloud bursts have followed a fortnight's unseasonable rains. Unprecedented floods around Hirschberg carried away house and concrete ...
Article : 98 wordsChristina Cordell, after spending the week-end with relations left on a bicycle for her home. Later her body was discovered in a ditch at Waltham Abbey ...
Article : 40 wordsOn his way to England, after two and a half years spent in Australia as first member of the Commonwealth Nava Board. Rear-Admiral Hall Thompson ...
Article : 360 wordsDiscussing in an informal manner with persons who gathered at the Fitzroy Crossing Hotel last night, the question of the Federal offer to take over that ...
Article : 191 wordsThirteen persons were killed and 50 injured through the collapse of a roof is the village of Woltersdorf, near Berlin. ...
Article : 60 words"It would seem that the Treasury accounts for the full financial year ended June 30 disclosed a deficit of £1,274,000," said the Leader of the State ...
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Article : 155 wordsThe Worcestershire team on Wednesday will be chosen from M. F. S. Jewell, M. K. Foster, G. Ashton, H. O. Hopkins, F. Root, F. Pearson, C. V. Tarbox, C. J. ...
Article : 45 wordsBefore Mr. Acting-Justice Richards at the Adelaide Criminal Sessions to-day, Alfred Neil (24), Michael Charles Dickens (23), and Arthur Henry Williams ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Australians have now finished 19 matches out of the 42 fixtures of the tour, and the results to date have been:- Won (5)—Hampshire, Oxford ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Stone-haven reached Brisbane by the Sydney mail train to-night. Members of the 49th Battallion formed a guard of honour at ...
Article : 104 wordsDreadful injuries were suffered by Lind-say Charles Kent (37), a wharf labourer of High-street, Miller's Point to-day, when be was crushed between the back of a ...
Article : 100 wordsA huge maze occurred ta the Dijon goods station. A score'of waggons were destroyed, and the damage is estimated at 4,000,000 francs. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe escaped aboriginal prisoner captured by Constable Cameron will not be brought before the Court, being already under life sentence for a murder ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 6 Jul 1926, Page 7
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