The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, yesterday made a vehement speech in defence of the National Insurance Act. Addressing 10,000 miners in ...
Article : 149 wordsA sensational accident, attended by fatal results, occurred on the steamer Eumeralla at Warrnambool yesterday. There was a heavy sea running, and when the vessel was ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Peace Conference is concluded, and the treaty settling the terms was signed at 9 o'clock this morning by the representatives of the Balkan States. ...
Article : 237 wordsYesterday three fresh cases of small-pox were discovered in the metropolitan area, and to-day three more were brought under the notice of the health authorities; also ...
Article : 152 wordsAdmiral Lord Charles Beresford has addressed to the leading London newspapers a letter in which he strongly criticises the Admiralty for not constructing six ...
Article : 105 wordsAs the result of a shooting tragedy which occurred at Surry Hills on Sunday morning, Isaac Goldstein is lying dead at the morgue and his son David is in the Sydney ...
Article : 384 wordsThe seating accommodation at His Majesty's Theatre was taxed to the full capacity on Saturday night, when the AscheBrayton Company concluded their season. ...
Article : 1,395 wordsIn a statement made last night to a Press representative, the secretary of the Australian Labour Federation (Mr. A. McCallum) stated that another 30 men at the Henderson ...
Article : 1,665 wordsAn inaugural dinner, which it is proposed shall become an annual fixture, arranged by members of the various institutes and associations of accountants represented in ...
Article : 2,260 wordsAfter a week of continuous carnival sports and entertainments the battle cruiser New Zealand has left en route for home. Two hundred thousand visitors boarded the ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. Elkington) stated this evening that there was another case of small-pox at Ipswich. The patient was a contact in a family, and ...
Article : 63 wordsArticles published in several leading papers indicate that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is likely to withdraw the Land Tax provisions of his Revenue Bill, owing to the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe immediate interest of residents in the metropolitan area in small-pox was revived on Saturday when it became known that a suspicious case had been discovered ...
Article : 1,053 wordsAt the International Medical Congress in the Albert Hall yesterday an American doctor drew special attention to pellagra, described as a new skin disease. He said ...
Article : 334 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, a resolution was carried approving of the acceptance of the much-discussed contract for the establishment of an "Imperial chain" of ...
Article : 170 wordsThe most striking comments of the Russian papers on the peace terms refer to the Kavala question. The "Novoe Vremya" declares that France is pursuing Chimeras ...
Article : 64 wordsThe inquest at Mathinna touching the death of William Mullins, who disappeared on June 20, was continued on Saturday. Percy Mullins, younger son of the ...
Article : 974 wordsThe French newspapers are not inclined to treat the Russian complaints about the Kavala question seriously. They consider the Russo-Australian agreement is more apparent ...
Article : 52 wordsSome uneasiness is felt, in view of the friction between the United States and Japan, with respect to the mission of General Diaz, of Mexico, who is sailing from here ...
Article : 324 wordsThe "Ziet" now estimates that the mobilisation of the Austro-Hungarian troops on account of the Balkan war cost £25,200,000 and that the naval expenditure will be ...
Article : 41 wordsThe National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies yesterday deputationed the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, and pointed out the great advance made in favourable opinion. ...
Article : 155 wordsCholera has broken out virulently in the Roumanian army. There have been already 800 cases, and 15 per cent, of the cases are of the malignant type, the patients dying ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Curnard liner Pannoma arrived yesterday with a large number of immigrants from Southern Europe, comprising Greeks, Serbs, Bulgars, and Turks. A sort of ...
Article : 90 wordsThough the Premier has publicly announced that no refugees from China, where North and South are engaged in conflict, would be allowed in Japan, Dr. Sun Yat ...
Article : 141 wordsThe chances of the Tariff Revision Bill passing into law at an early date are steadily diminishing. Every effort is being made by the Democrats to urge on ...
Article : 76 wordsM. Deperdussin, the well-known French aeroplane builder, arrested three days ago on a charge of obtaining by false pretences £1,250,000 from the Industrial and Colonial ...
Article : 176 wordsThe number of tenders received for the New South Wales 4 per cent loan of £1,000,000 offered at £97 10s. was 600. The total amount applied for was £453,000. and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe trial of Madame Alice Crespy, charged with poisoning Father Chassaing, a lover who had tired of her, was concluded yesterday. ...
Article : 100 wordsThough the British Government has declined to undertake official representation at the San Francisco Exhibition in celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe match between the Germanton Club and the Australians resulted in favour of the former. The total scores were—Germanton, 271 for seven wickets; Australians, ...
Article : 185 wordsAt Bow-street Police Court Yesterday, Heinrich Kremmerskothen, arrested recently on a charge of attempting to blackmail Lord Rothschild, was committed for trial. ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Legislature of the States of New York, in the course of an investigation into financial affairs by a special committee, has discovered that Mr. William Sulzer, ...
Article : 71 wordsA serious fire broke out at about 7 o'clock this morning in Wilmott-street, running between Pitt and George streets, in the city. a five-storey factory in Wilmott-street being ...
Article : 189 wordsAt Wilmersdorf, a suburban municipality three miles from Berlin, the Guild of Butchers has decided to deal in Australian mutton. It is understood this action is due ...
Article : 71 wordsAt Yeovil, in Somersetshire, a train from Swindon crashed into a London-Weymouth excursion train, standing in the station. The rear coaches of the excursion train were ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Emperor William yesterday gave an address to the cadets of the German naval school ship Hertha which is regarded as significant. His Majesty is reported to have ...
Article : 67 wordsThe inquest on Mr. S. F. Cody, the quasimilitary aeroplane expert (once known as Buffalo Bill), who, with his passenger, Mr. W. H. B. Evans, was killed by the fall of ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Zephyr, a barque which left Oakwood for Wallaroo on Friday morning with a cargo of timber, was wrecked on Saturday at 2 a.m. on Maria Island. The weather ...
Article : 205 words"Gunboat" Smith defeated "Jim" Flynn in the fifth round of a scheduled 10 rounds' contest. Smith knocked his opponent down four times in the fifth round, and the ...
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Family Notices : 146 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) was the principal speaker at the Commercial Travellers' Association smoke concert last night. He said Australia would never be a ...
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Advertising : 280 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Holman) had an interview on Saturday with the Chief Interstate Commissioner (Mr. Piddington) and the Minister for Customs (Mr. Groom) in regard ...
Article : 118 wordsIn connection with the robbery of jewellery valued at £250, which took place in Little Napier-street, Fitzroy, on Friday afternoon, detectives yesterday arrested ...
Article : 54 wordsA British team won the Russian lawn tennis tournament by 8 matches to 4. ...
Article : 21 wordsOur Kalgoorlie correspondent telegraphed last night:—Mr. Hobler, Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the Commonwealth Railways, arrived in Kalgoorlie to-day. Mr. H. Chinn, ...
Article : 52 wordsNisi Prius.—At 11 a.m., in No. 1 Court, before Mr. Justice McMillan and a jury: Dennehy v. Quinlan and others (part heard). Criminal Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 11 Aug 1913, Page 7
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