In connection with the tramway strike in Dublin serious rioting took place yesterday. The rioters threw stones and bottles at the police, and the latter retaliated with ...
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Article : 379 wordsA house crowded from floor to ceiling greeted the third appearance of our artistic visitors, Madame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennerley Rumford, at His Majesty's Theatre ...
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Article : 66 wordsAll doubts as to the fate of the man Alfred Beatty, who had been missing for the past week, were dispelled yesterday by the finding of his body floating in the ...
Article : 189 wordsOn Saturday morning information reached the police authorities that one H. V. Sforceni, a letter-carrier, employed at the General Post Office, had on the previous ...
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Article : 134 wordsAt a big meeting of the South African Party at Fordsburg yesterday. Mr. Visser, chairman of Mr. Hertzog's committee. suggested that a Dutch-speaking branch and ...
Article : 196 wordsThe proceedings in the Arbitration Court at Kalgoorlie on Saturday took a rather unexpected turn. The Court, comprised of Mr. Justice Burnside (President), Mr. ...
Article : 367 wordsThrough the explosion of a tin of petrol a shop in the suburb of Strathfield was wrecked on Saturday afternoon, and the occupant, John Pateman, was blown into ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Bulgarian Government is negotiating with the Porte concerning the possession of Adrianople. This action is due to Bulgaria's inability to sustain another ...
Article : 171 wordsIn an article in the September number of the "XIX Century" magazine Bishop Frodsham, of North Queensland, replies to statements made by the Rev. Mr. Richards, of ...
Article : 179 wordsHawker. who put up a remarkable performance in his unsuccessful attempt to win the "Daily Mail" prize of £5,000 for a waterplane flight around Great Britain, reached ...
Article : 148 wordsA deputation representing the Wanneroo Roads Board waited on the Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr. Bath) on Friday on the subject of the various reserves ...
Article : 1,269 wordsThe English newspapers publish stirring details of the fire that occurred on board the mammoth German liner Imperator at New York last Thursday. ...
Article : 163 wordsThe second general meeting of the Fremantle and District Fruit-growers' Association was held on Friday evening at Watson's Tea Rooms, Fremantle. There was a ...
Article : 1,083 wordsIt transpires that the action of Yuan Shih Kai, the President of the Chinese Republic. in massing the Northern troops on the Yangtse-Kiang was due to Southern ...
Article : 134 wordsReferring to Senator De Largie's remarks in the Senate about the Chinn case, the Prime Minister (Mr. Cook) yesterday said:— Senator De Largie has made the following ...
Article : 106 wordsOn Saturday seven fresh cases of smallpox, all in the metropolitan area, were discovered, and to-day 10 new metropolitan cases and one from the country were ...
Article : 274 wordsThe promoters of the Imperial Exhibition to be held in London in 1915 emphasise the point that one of the main features will be the display of the natural products of ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Senate yesterday passed the first reading of the Tariff Bill. The measure includes a clause giving the President power to impose retaliatory duties upon certain ...
Article : 93 wordsViscount Haldane, the British Lord Chancellor, arrived here yesterday, and was met by a delegation of newspaper representatives. In the course of an interview he ...
Article : 148 wordsA veil of gloom was cast over the district of Pinjarra a few days ago when it became known that a schoolboy had been drowned while bathing. At the Fairbridge ...
Article : 990 wordsThe Czar yesterday telegraphed to Queen Wilhelmina expressing the hope that the Palace of Peace, which was opened on Thursday, would contribute to the cause he ...
Article : 102 wordsThe New York State authorities have petitioned the Canadian Government for the return of Harry Thaw on the ground that he is an escaped lunatic. ...
Article : 422 wordsIt is stated that secret instructions, received from the United States and spread throughout Mexico, indicate that America will intervene if further attacks be made ...
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Article : 129 wordsMr. H. D. McIntosh, of Sydney, in a letter to the London newspapers, guarantees to raise £5,000 in Australia to cover the cost of selecting and training locally likely ...
Article : 60 wordsForty thousand troops will take part in the British army manoeuvres next month. Mr. Hughes (Canadian Minister for Defence) and a large party of Canadian ...
Article : 52 wordsThe State revenue for August amounted to £647,778, an increase of £14,562 compared with the figures for the corresponding month of last year. The receipts for the ...
Article : 114 wordsIn a match against a Chicago eleven the Australians scored 313, whilst the local men totalled 103. For the visitors Cody scored 200. Allen secured six wickets for ...
Article : 147 wordsA remarkable escape from death was experienced by James O'Connell, a young man, last evening. After a disturbance in Leicester-street, he was fired at with a Mauser ...
Article : 142 wordsTwo men, Thos. George Bennett and Vivian Taylor, engaged in the river trade, had an altercation yesterday. Blows were struck and Taylor drew a knife and ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Melbourne correspondent of the "West Australian" telegraphed last night:—News has been received that Mr. F. White, the Melbourne agent for the P. and O. ...
Article : 71 wordsFull Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Acting Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Rooth: Dyson (appellant) and Burrows (respondent), reserved judgment. ...
Article : 90 wordsIn the semi-finals of the international lawn tennis championship singles, which are being played at Deauville, Wilding beat Rahe 7-5, 6-3, 6-1, and Decugis beat Doust ...
Article : 63 wordsHenry Thomas John Dowd was charged at the Ballarat Court yesterday with having stolen a motor car, the property of John Long, of North Melbourne. Dowd said that ...
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Advertising : 372 wordsAt the Royal Agricultural Societies' 1913 Wine Show this week there was a slight falling off in entries, but the judge of wines, Mr. W. W. Senior (Vic.), said there was no ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 1 Sep 1913, Page 7
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