The Mails.—Mails are notified to close at the G.P.O. to-day as under:—For the United Kingdom and foreign countries, by the R.M.S. Omrah, at 11.30 a.m. (late fee 12.30 ...
Article : 3,502 wordsThe offer made by Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty—that England shall refrain from building the four Dreadnoughts ordered for 1914, if Germany will ...
Article : 270 wordsExploring parties in the Senghenydd colliery made good progress, and blocked up one side of the fire, and are hopeful of being soon able to block up the other. It ...
Article : 165 wordsThe High Court, consisting of Mr. Justice Barton (Acting Chief Justice), Mr. Justice Isaacs Mr. Justice Higgins, Mr. Justice Powers, and Mr. Justice Rich, ...
Article : 513 wordsYesterday at Norwich and Birmingham Cathedrals, bands of suffragettes, imitating the example recently set at Westminster Abbey, interrupted the services by ...
Article : 327 wordsAt the instigation of the members of the general committee of the Fremantle Chambers of Commerce a special meeting of the members of the Chamber was held last ...
Article : 3,827 wordsThe report of the Royal Commission on Mines is about to be issued. Sir A. Markham (Liberal), M.P., one of the members of the Commission, in a speech at Kirkby, ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" telegraphs that in the best informed German naval circles Mr. Churchill's proposal is held not debateable, and even ...
Article : 164 wordsThe German Government has backed up Austria's action by making emphatic representations to Servia that she must immediately withdraw her troops from ...
Article : 85 wordsArrangements are being made for an international naval display in Hampden Roads, 1915, for the opening of the Panama Canal. By the request of the United States ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the matter of the urgently needed extension of Fremantle harbour an alternative proposal, in the event of the defeat of the motion moved in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 825 wordsIt is rumoured at Newcastle-on-Tyne, that the new Brazilian battleship Rio de Janeiro, nearing completion in the Elswick yards, may be purchased by the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn) is determined to push on with the North-South railway. He was asked to-day what progress had been made with the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe celebrations in memory of the great battle of Leipsic—fought 16, 18 October, between Napoleon Bonaparte's army and the combined forces of Austria, Russia and ...
Article : 96 wordsAt the ritual murder trial of Beiliss, at Kiev, further evidence was given in respect to the fate of the lad Yushinsky. Vischmersky, an old man, testified that a ...
Article : 163 wordsThe question of withholding the sovereignty of the Dukedom of Brunswick from Prince Ernest, the Kaiser's son-in-law, until he and his father, H.R.H. the Duke of ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Melbourne correspondent of the "West Australian" telegraphed last night:—The High Commissioners (Sir George Reid), accompanied by Lady Reid, arrived by the ...
Article : 919 wordsHerr Altman, manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Agency in Vienna, who was arrested recently on a charge of conspiracy to enable Austrian ...
Article : 122 wordsA great sensation was caused in Lepsic to-day by the escape into the streets of eight lions, through the collision of a tramcar with the wild beast cages of a travelling ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Groom) has sanctioned a compreshensive scheme for extending quarantine precautions at Australian ports. In the course of a statement ...
Article : 192 wordsYesterday General Botha, Premier of South Africa, gave an address at Utrecht, in Natal, on Imperial and labour questions. He reitereated his declaration that the ...
Article : 213 wordsA terrible disaster occurred yesterday to a troop train on the Mobile-Ohio railway near Mendan in the State of Mississippi. It is believed that the engine tender ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is officially announced that Lord Alverstone who has resigned the office of Lord Chief Justice of England, which he has held since 1900, is created Viscount. ...
Article : 98 wordsHenry Pepper, a young man, was placed on trial at the Ballarat Circuit Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Ethel Sloane a single woman who at the time of ...
Article : 134 wordsImmediately on the return from Sydney of Mr. Justice Higgins this morning the employers in the frozen meat export industry waited on the Registrar of the Federal ...
Article : 196 wordsThe council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which will hold its next conference in Australia. has confirmed the nomination of section ...
Article : 187 wordsAn extraordinary murderous outrage has occurred at Portencross, in Ireland. A farmer named Alexander Maclaren reported to the police that six shots had been ...
Article : 98 wordsTo-day the hearing was begun in the Practice Court, before Judge Murray and a jury of a breach of promise case, in which the plaintiff claims £400 damages. ...
Article : 230 wordsThe National Council for the Promotion of Morals has appointed a commission of biologists, doctors, socilogists, clegymen, and social workers, to inquire into the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe North Coast Steamship Co.'s paddle steamer Euroka, 250 tons, while on her way from Lake Macquarie to Sydney with a cargo of coal, sprung a leak, and the water rushed ...
Article : 150 wordsMembers of the Shipwrights Branch of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union have gone on strike to enforce their demands for an increase in pay from 1s. 6d. to 1s. ...
Article : 113 wordsAlfred Biddle, who had been arrested on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Lilley the wife of a farmer in the Mayfield district of South Catnerbury, was formaly brought ...
Article : 96 wordsEleven fresh cases of small-pox were reported to the Board of Health to-day. The were in the southern suburbs and one on the North Shore. All the cases are mild in ...
Article : 38 wordsNisi Prius.—At 11 a.m., in No. 1 Court, before the Acting Chief Justice : Gordon v. Gordon (part heard). In Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 21 Oct 1913, Page 7
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