The Postmaster-General has issued a notice warning members of the Postal Employees' Union which recently resolved to organise a strike for large increases in pay, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, in replying to a Woman's Suffrage deputation yesterday, said his views on the subject were unchanged ...
Article : 169 wordsSenator Robert La Follette (Republican). speaking at Atlanta in Virginia yesterday on the recent presidential election, expressed the opinion that Mr. Roosevelt's ...
Article : 72 wordsA meeting of the business men of Belfast which decided upon certain courses of action in the event of the Government rushing the Home Rule Bill through is reported to ...
Article : 119 wordsThe secretary of the Federation of Labour (Mr. Hickey) announced to-night that all the unions in Wellington Christchurch, and Dunedin will be called out to-morrow, to ...
Article : 634 wordsThe festival of youth at the Show Grounds, Claremont, on Saturday afternoon afforded infinite delight to a multitude of metropolitan folk. When the droning ...
Article : 2,241 wordsThe late British Ambassador to the United States, Right Hon. James Bryce, was yesterday entertained at a banquet, in the Savoy Hotel by the American "Pilgrims' ...
Article : 115 wordsStrike rioting was continued in Dublin yesterday. Strikers attacked cargoes of grain which were being conveyed through the streets to meet the stress caused by ...
Article : 70 wordsA vigorous campaign is being conducted by the Liberals in connection with the election for the Geraldton seat in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Sam Elliott, the ...
Article : 1,345 wordsColonel T. Hickman, C.B. (Unionist), M.P. for Wolverhampton South in an address to his constituents at Lower Gornal, yesterday, stated that he had been mainly ...
Article : 135 wordsSpeaking at Middesboro' in Yorkshire. yesterday, in pursuance of his social reform campaign, Mr. Lloyd-George dealt with the urban districts question and dwelt on the ...
Article : 110 wordsIn four London musical halls last night the orchestras struck without warning for increased pay. The players simply downed instruments and stopped the performances ...
Article : 86 wordsMuch perturbation is expressed in Democratic circles over the discovery that the new Tariff law is likely to repeal the Canadian Reciprocity measure which was passed by ...
Article : 132 wordsThe underwriters of a Western Australian loan of £1,000,000 at 4 per cent., to be issued at £97, is in progress. Subscribers must pay in their final ...
Article : 413 wordsSir Arthur Lawley, formerly Governor of Western Australia, and recently Governor of Madras, speaking yesterday at Hull in support of Lord Roberts' universal ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Morning Post," in an article on the £3 poll-tax imposed upon Indians in Natal to escape which they are crossing into the Transvaal, declares that the treatment of ...
Article : 201 wordsThe naval defence question is again agitating the Dominion. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Opposition leader, who is conducting a provincial political campain, declares that the ...
Article : 318 wordsMuch comment has been caused by the fact that no Admiralty report of the late Naval manuoeuvres has been issued. It is alleged that the report is withheld ...
Article : 115 wordsA conference on the present dual control of the New Hebrides will take place in six months' time between the British and the French Governments, and the decision ...
Article : 252 wordsThe election for the representation of Linlithgow in the House of Commons, rendered necessary by the elevation of the Right Hon. Alexander Ure to the peerage ...
Article : 79 wordsThe strike war in the mining districts of Colorado, where the miners, armed with a machine gun, have levied actual war on the Sheriff's forces, has again broken out. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe various relief funds opened for the sufferers by the great Welsh colliery fire at Senghenydd now amount to £85,000. Over £3,000 was received in donations to the ...
Article : 554 wordsMuch war fever has developed here since the American battleship Rhode Island anchored inside the harbour commanding the fortress of San Juan Dulloa. The ...
Article : 376 wordsThe waterside workers' strike has now extended to the carpenters, bricklayers, painters, carters, engine-driver, harbour board employees, coal miners, general labourers, ...
Article : 661 wordsA frightful poisoning tragedy was perpetrated an a wedding breakfast at Cholet, in the department of Maine et Loire. Two couples had been married and 50 guests ...
Article : 108 wordsAt Westminster Police Court yesterday the trial was resumed of Carl Hentschell on charge of having obtained British naval and military secrets through a petty officer ...
Article : 175 wordsThe case in which Lieut. Shingsby formerly of the British Navy, and his wife, are charged with palming off as their own offspring, an adopted child three years of ...
Article : 126 wordsThe British Board of Trade returns for October show that the value of goods imported into the United Kingdom during the months was £710,382 more than in October, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Mayor of Albany (Mr. Robinson) and a party of about sixteen residents of that port arrived here yesterday afternoon, and were met by Mr. C. A. Piesse, M.L.C., Mr. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe long drawn-out trial at Kieff in which the Jew Beilis is charged with having murdered a youth named Yushinsky for "ritual" purposes, is drawing to a close ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Governor of the State of New Hampshire into which Harry Thaw was deported from Canada, has ordered his extradition to New York, to answer a charge of ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Council of the National Rifle Association has finally decided that a team to represent England shall sail in August to compete in the Australian annual rifle ...
Article : 57 wordsThe scores in the Gray-Reece match are—Reece, 8,522; Gray 6,271 Gray made brillants hazard breaks of 314, 166, and 104, of which 99 points were off the red. Gray ...
Article : 90 wordsThe trial was yesterday concluded of Brandt and Eccius, directors of the great Krupp armament works, on a charge of having obtained from army officers military ...
Article : 82 wordsCompensation Court.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 3 Court, before Mr. Justice Rooth (president) and assessors: Saunders and Stuart (claimant) and the Minister for Works ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Liverpool Autumn Cup one mile and three fulongs, was run yesterday and resulted as follows:—China Cock—Mr. P. Wilke's ch h, by ...
Article : 49 wordsThe election at Reading in consequence of its representative in the Commons, Sir Rufus Isaacs, Attorney-General, being created Lord Chief Justice of England, took place ...
Article : 146 wordsHehir (Australia) retired from the six days' bicycle race. Grenda (Australia) was forced to reteam, thus losing a lap. Grenda, with Carman spurted and recovered the ...
Article : 100 wordsThe wharf labourers in Sydney maintain their embargo on all New Zealand cargo. The steamer Warrimoo of the Union Company's line left Sydney on Saturday ...
Article : 233 wordsAt the Bromley colliery in Somersetshire yesterday, a three-decker cage was plunged under the water which filled the bottom of the main shaft, through an accident to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 10 Nov 1913, Page 7
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