The Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday afternoon delivered his Budget Speech in the House of Commons, which was crowded in every part. The speech was brief ...
Article : 380 wordsThe Montenegrin troops have, despite the orders of the Powers, resolutely-persevered in the attack on Skutari. After severe fighting last night, they captured two lines ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Premier of Victoria (Mr. Watt) and the Attorney-General of New South Wales (Mr. Holman) have ratified a tentative agreement for the amalgamation of the ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. Bryan, Secretary of State in President Wilson's Cabinet, has issued the outlines of a plan for negotiating treaties of peace between the United States and other ...
Article : 180 wordsThere was a sensational disturbance yesterday at the military camp at Orange, when a number of men, who resented their leave being stopped, openly mutinied. The ...
Article : 248 wordsIn the Adelaide Police Court to-day Arthur Lindley Henzell was charged with having failed to register his son, John Singleton Lloyd Garrison Luther William Henzell, ...
Article : 234 wordsWhen interviewed by a "West Australian" representative yesterday, the Attorney-General (Mr. Walker) made the following further reply to the statements made by ...
Article : 1,314 wordsDesirous of gaining some information as to the probable effect of the proposed Federal bankruptcy legislation on the existing State laws, and also of procuring Ministerial ...
Article : 1,554 wordsWhen just about to make a big haul of jewellery from one of the fireproof safes at Mr. Louis Seeligson's loan office in Murray-street last night, a burglar was surprised ...
Article : 965 wordsServia, which in obedience to the Powers partially withdrew her troops from Albania, now regrets that action. It is reported that as soon as the Servian ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" reports that Greece and Bulgaria are rapidly drifting into war with each other. The Bulgarians are concentrating at ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Attorney-General for New South Wales (Mr. Holman) was yesterday entertained at luncheon by the City Carlton Club. Mr. Washington Evans presided, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Californian State legislation, especially and solely banning Japanese from landownership, has caused a sensation here. President Wilson has telegraphed the ...
Article : 57 wordsBy a proclamation signed by the Governor-General and published in a special issue of the "Federal Gazette" the House of Representatives was to-day dissolved and the ...
Article : 225 wordsA coloured drama-picture, "The Weaker Vessel," is the star attraction in the new programme at Vic's. It possesses unusual merits from a scenic point of view alone, is ...
Article : 1,183 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies yesterday M. Vandervelle, leader of the Socialist Party, announced that he accepted the olive branch tendered by the Government, in holding out ...
Article : 70 wordsThe trouble between the South Goastminers and their employers has reached an acute stage, and there are grave fears that it will extend to the northern collieries and, ...
Article : 346 wordsYesterday's debate in the House of Lords on the territorial army problem has attracted much public interest. Especial attention has been paid to Lord Haldane's remark ...
Article : 262 wordsThe prospectus has been issued of a municipal loan for the city of Auckland. The amount is £150,000 at 4½ per cent and the debentures are repayable at par in 1934. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe debate on the Budget was opened by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the last Unionist Ministry. He viewed with anxiety the policy ...
Article : 152 wordsAt the inter-State Conference of Engineers-in-Chief of Railways, which was held recently, the adoption of a standard gauge of 4ft. 8½in. was recommended. The Victorian ...
Article : 146 wordsLady Barron—His Excellency the Governor not yet being sufficiently convalescent to be present—last night at Government House entertained at dinner a number of ...
Article : 924 wordsIn the lobbies of the House of Commons the Budget is generally viewed with favour because it contains no new contentious proposals. Unionists are inclined to think the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley), referring to the statement that lands adjoining the Kalgoorlie-Port Augusta railway had been taken up by Federal ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Budget Committee of the Reichstag has adopted the motion proposed by the Centre Party for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Dowager Duchess of Bedford, who recently returned from a visit to Lisbon, was much horrified with the treatment of the political prisoners there. ...
Article : 107 wordsA few days ago the Minister for Works (Mr. Johnson) had occasion to refer to the ravages of the teredo worm on the Fremantle wharves. This worm, he stated, ...
Article : 376 wordsAt a meeting of the State Cabinet to-day, a communication was read from the Commonwealth authorities asking that legislation should be introduced to vest the ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is reported that H.R.H. The Prince of Wales will take an extended tour through the Dominion of Canada early in 1914. ...
Article : 31 wordsTwo German officers while taking a flight on a bi-plane near the western frontier of Germany yesterday ran short of petrol for their motor, and came down at Arracourt, ...
Article : 106 wordsYesterday a by-election took place to fill the seat for Shrewsbury, lately held by Sir Clement Hill, K.C.B. (Unionist). The Unionist candidate, Mr. Lloyd, was returned. ...
Article : 66 wordsFrom what could be gathered yesterday, some of the unionists engaged on the underground telephone works do not appear to be working in absolute amity just now. ...
Article : 308 wordsRepresentatives of various religious bodies and friendly societes waited upon the Acting-Premier (Mr. Murray) to-day to urge an amendment in the law to check ...
Article : 168 wordsRecently a number of "Moonlighter" outrages have been committed in County Clare, Ireland. The Right Rev. Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe, has issued a strong ...
Article : 52 wordsThe April series of wool sales opened yesterday to a strong market, with brisk competition for all sorts of wools at late rates. The selling brokers were Buxton, Thomas. ...
Article : 92 wordsAt Handsworth, a Birmingham suburb, four pleasure boats were yesterday burned by suffragettes. Miss Annie Bell, a militant suffragette, ...
Article : 39 wordsInformation has been received that Messrs. Coward and Son, the proprietors of the "Standard of Empire," have presented the New Zealand Government with an aeroplane ...
Article : 47 wordsJohn Hamilton, an elderly man, gave evidence in the District Court to-day, before Judge Docker in a case in which his wife sued a Chinese named Sun Hop for £100 ...
Article : 116 wordsBrigadier-General Bridges, the Commandant of the Royal Military College, in his report on the third entrance examination for cadets, emphasises the fact that in some ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury and the Free Church National Council have decided to comply with the request lately cabled from Pekin, and offer prayers in the churches ...
Article : 47 wordsSpeaking on the land question to-day, Mr. Massey, the Prime Minister, said that the Government was against re-aggregations either of Crown, privately owned, or native ...
Article : 60 wordsA solution was forthcoming to-day of the mystery surrounding the human arm which was found in the harbour. It appears that the arm was an exhibit of a medical student ...
Article : 91 wordsA sequel to the recent shooting at Richmond, when Patrick Hayes, an elderly man, was shot in the leg, was provided in the Richmond Police Court to-day, when Mrs. ...
Article : 145 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 480 wordsMr. Justice A'Beckett to-day gave judgment in the case brought by John Roberts, the champion billiardist, against the young Australian player, Joseph George Gray, to ...
Article : 81 wordsThe External Affairs Department to-day received a report from the Federal Attorney-General's Department regarding the action of Judge Bevan in a case in the Northern ...
Article : 102 wordsThe new German warship Imperator, while proceeding down the Elbe River, at Hamburg, yesterday took the ground and stuck fast. She was, however, floated off ...
Article : 106 wordsThe plaint filed by the Australian Builders Labourers' Federation against the master builders in several States will come up for hearing before the President of the ...
Article : 69 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m. In No. 1 Court, before Mr. Justice McMillan, the Gold Ore Treatment Co. of W.A., Ltd., and others v. the Golden Horseshoe Estates Co., Ltd. ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Carlton Police Court to-day Benjamin E. Johnson, a baker, of Northcote was charged with having permitted a horse to be worked in circumstance ...
Article : 54 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 24 Apr 1913, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: