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  2. BRITISH POLITICS.

    A meeting of the advanced Liberals, with Sir Charles Dilke in the chair, yesterday decided to forward to the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) a memorial ...

    Article : 162 words
  3. MOTHERLAND AND DOMINIONS.

    During a discussion upon the Colonial Office vote in the House of Commons yesterday, Colonel J. E. B. Seely (Parliamentary ...

    Article : 633 words
  4. THE WORLD'S BOXING CONTEST.

    Screened boxes are being erected at the Reno stadium to enable women to be present to witness the fight between Jeffries and Johnson for the championship ...

    Article : 546 words
  5. THE EMPIRE'S DEFENCES.

    A large meeting of the National Service League was held in the Queen's Hall yesterday. Lord Roberts, who presided, read a ...

    Article : 320 words
  6. EASTERN STATES' FINANCES.

    The approximate revenue returns for the financial year show that the receipts amounted to £3,986,637, which exceeds any previous record by £331,971. The railways earned ...

    Article : 312 words
  7. THE WEATHER.

    The extremely boisterous weather conditions that have been experienced at Fremantle and along the coast during the past week continued yesterday. During ...

    Article : 465 words
  8. TUESDAY'S MAILBOAT DELAYS.

    Yesterday comment continued to be made by residents of Fremantle regarding the mailboat delays on Tuesday last, and the general opinion was voiced by the ...

    Article : 1,717 words
  9. THE TRAMWAY AWARD.

    Commencing shortly after midnight on Thursday, a meeting of the Perth Electric Tramways Employees' Union of Workers was held in the Trades Hall, Perth, to ...

    Article : 1,158 words
  10. WEATHER IN THE COUNTRY.

    Ever since Saturday wintry conditions have prevailed in Northam, heavy showers of rain following each other in quick succession. For the 24 hours ended at 9 ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. THE TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    In reply to Mr. Frank Wilson, the Acting Premier of Western Australia, the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley) to-day offered a defence of his proposals for land ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. OCEAN MYSTERIES.

    The Pacific Steam Navigation Co.'s s.s. Quilpue (3,669 tons, built in 1907) is missing. It is believed that the vessel foundered during a gale off the ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES.

    There are thousands of applications for the positions of probationary non-commissioned officers of the military forces. Examinations are to be held on July 14, 15, ...

    Article : 229 words
  14. WATERSIDE CONDITIONS.

    Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the employers of maritime labour was held to discuss the amendments suggested by the members of the Fremantle Lumpers' Union in ...

    Article : 647 words
  15. BRITISH AMBASSADORS.

    The "Daily News" states that Sir Eldon Gorst (British Agent in Egypt), who is now in England on annual leave, is anxious to retire from his present ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. POLAR EXPEDITION SEQUEL.

    Reuter's correspondent at Berlin stated on the 9th inst. that Herr Franke was suing Rear-Admiral Peary for £1,000 as compensation for Dr. Cook's bearskins ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. WRECK OF ZEPPELIN VII.

    Further accounts of the disaster which befel Count Zeppelin's latest airship, Zeppelin VII., in Westphalia on Tuesday show that the wind suddenly carried the ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. A GAS EXPLOSION.

    Sharavogue Castle, the Earl of Huntingdon's seat at Birr, in King's County, Ireland, was partly wrecked by an explosion of acetylene gas yesterday. The ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. ESPIONAGE.

    A few days ago Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg stated that Baron Ungern-Sternburg, who is a Russian subject and correspondent for a semi-official ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. ROUGH WEATHER AT BUNBURY.

    Not for many years has such a furious storm raged in Bunbury and the surrounding districts as has been experienced for the past week. Shipping generally has severely ...

    Article : 395 words
  21. ACCESSION DECLARATION.

    Reuter's correspondent at Rome states that the Vatican is satisfied with the Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Mr. Asquith to amend the King's ...

    Article : 54 words
  22. RAND MINING CONDITIONS.

    The Johannesburg correspondent of the "Daily Maily" states that the Commission on Minning Regulations has drafted recommendations to the Government ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    The Federal Parliament will meet at half-past 10 o'clock to-morrow morning, when Mr. Justice Griffith and Mr. Justice Barton will be in attendance. After the commission ...

    Article : 91 words
  24. ARGENTINE BOMB OUTRAGE.

    A Russian anarchist named Radowisky has been sentenced to imprisonment for life at Buenos Ayres for having killed the Argentine Prefect of Police and the ...

    Article : 114 words
  25. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 611 words
  26. BARCELONA BOMB EXPLOSION.

    A bomb found in a doorway at Barcelona, a Spanish port, yesterday exploded while it was being removed in a bomb carriage. The explosion killed two ...

    Article : 41 words
  27. AMERICAN RAILWAYS.

    The Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington has decided that the freight rates on several important railways in the west of the United States ...

    Article : 53 words
  28. LAWN TENNIS.

    Mrs. Chambers won the Ladies' Tennis Championship at the Wimbledon tournament, defeating Miss Boothby. In the fourth round of the Doubles ...

    Article : 46 words
  29. A DISSOLUTE HUSBAND.

    In the Ballarat Divorce Court to-day Catherine-Jones petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with John Hope Jones. The parties, who were married in England in ...

    Article : 152 words
  30. TUBERCULOSIS.

    Several prize cows and bulls forwarded from Germany for exhibition at Buenos Ayres were not allowed to land in the Argentine Republic owing to an ...

    Article : 88 words
  31. EXPLOSION ON A LIGHTER.

    A tank of petrol exploded on board the lighter Frisia at Gravesend to-day, with the result that two men were killed and one man injured. ...

    Article : 23 words
  32. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Tibetans are resenting the Chinese sovereignty over them, and they are protesting against the deposition of the Dalai Lama, who is still at Darjeeling, ...

    Article : 121 words
  33. SQUALLY CONDITIONS IN PERTH.

    The climatic conditions in the city yesterday were such that an overcoat was an unqualified comfort, but an umbrella, owing to the high wind, something of a ...

    Article : 654 words
  34. CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-night, the Government obtained leave to introduce a Bill to facilitate, closer settlement. The main object of the measure is to enable ...

    Article : 64 words
  35. "WESTERN MAIL."

    Among the illustrations in the current issue of the "Western Mail" is a full-page portrait taken by Messrs. Greenham and Evans, of Sir Newton James Moore, K.C.M.G., ...

    Article : 165 words
  36. INSURANCE GAMBLING.

    In the House of Lords to-day Lord Ellenborough urged the Government to make over-insurance on ships illegal. Lord Brassey said that over-insurance ...

    Article : 65 words
  37. RAILWAY COLLISION.

    A collision occurred at the Mullews railway station on Tuesday morning. A stock train, when slowing up at the entrance to the station points, collided with an empty ...

    Article : 123 words
  38. THE GRANT FUND.

    The following subscription has been received towards the fund which, at the request of the Maycress of Perth (Mrs. Vincent), has been initiated in behalf of Mrs. ...

    Article : 65 words
  39. RONALD V. HARPER CASE.

    James A. Paton, Charles A. Paton, and Frederick Saxon Siddeley were, at the City Court to-day, committed for trial on a Charge of having committed perjury during ...

    Article : 49 words
  40. FEDERAL AFFAIRS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) stated to-day that provision would be made in the Estimates towards recouping the unions their law costs in the harvester cases, from ...

    Article : 201 words
  41. SAILING SHIP WRECKED.

    The Marine Underwriters' Association has received a cablegram stating that the, iron sailing ship Irmgard, 1,652 tons, which left Streaky, Bay, South Australia, on April 30 ...

    Article : 68 words
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    The Hebrews and Their Influence [?]n the World's Progress:—Last night at the Princes Hall, Brisbane-street, Mr. Harold Redcliffe delivered an exceedingly ...

    Article : 340 words
  43. ALLEGED PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT.

    A Chinese answering to the name of AhChin, who reached Melbourne by the steamer Empire with a number of other Chinese on Monday, arrived here by the steamer ...

    Article : 111 words
  44. ALLEGED DEFAMATION.

    A case was heard by Mr. W. A. G. Walter, R.M., in the Kalgoorlie Police Court yesterday, in which Alfred E. Johnson, a Boulder resident, was charged with having on June ...

    Article : 102 words
  45. PERSONAL.

    His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Lady Strickland, the Minister for Mines (Mr. Gregory), Mr. Hudson, Inspector of, Mines, and Mr. P. V. O'Brien, arrived by ...

    Article : 250 words
  46. Advertising

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    Advertising : 314 words
  47. A SOLDIER'S WILL.

    A question of the validity of a soldier's will was raised in the Probate Court to-day. The testator, J. A. M. W. Thompson, was only 18 or 19 years of age in 1901 when he ...

    Article : 103 words
  48. STATE POLITICS.

    Nominations were due yesterday of candidates for the Forrest seat in the Legislative Assembly, rendered vacant through the resignation of Mr. D. Jones. Two ...

    Article : 58 words
  49. VICTORIA.

    The Chinese Ah Gooey, who jumped, into a blanket from a burning building in Eagle-lane last night, died early this morning. In addition to fractures of the ...

    Article : 66 words
  50. THE FEDERAL DEFICIT.

    The Prime Minister and Treasurer (Mr. Fisher) to-day explained how he intended to make good the deficit for the year ending to-day. which will be about £450,000. He ...

    Article : 117 words
  51. THE ROW FUND.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 words
  52. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Conciliation Commissioner, who has been visiting the west coast of the South Island, states that there are signs of a great deal of trouble looming in the mining ...

    Article : 56 words
  53. THE LAW COURTS.

    In Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice. ...

    Article : 14 words
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