Late last night a fire broke out in Crewe House. Curzon-street, the residence of the Earl of Crewe (Secretary of State for India), and was discovered by a ...
Article : 206 wordsDuring a debate on the Canadian-American tariff reciprocity agreement in the Dominion House of Commons yesterday, Mr. W. S. Fielding (Minister for ...
Article : 225 wordsDuring the debate on the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons yesterday, the discussion on Mr. Austen Chamberlain's amendment censuring the ...
Article : 804 wordsThe Mails.—The weekly mail for the Eastern States is notified to close at the G.P.O. to-day at 9.15 a.m. (late fee 10 a.m.), also supplementary, via Albany, at ...
Article : 3,514 wordsThe trial of Dr. Pantchenko, O'Brien do Lassy, and Madame Mouravaieff on charges of having at about the end of May last murdered Captain Buturlin (de ...
Article : 86 wordsWith appealling suddenness the hungry sea has claimed another roll of victims. For several days past it has been known that tropical storms have been raging along our ...
Article : 2,168 wordsThe Mexican insurgents have retreated to the south of Juarez (near the Texan border) owing to General Blanco having refused to send reinforcements to General ...
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Article : 56 wordsReplying yesterday to a deputation, which urged the payment of higher wages at the Woolwich Arsenal, Mr. R. B. Haldane (Secretary of State for War) said ...
Article : 76 wordsThe inquest on the bodies of the three policemen and the Russian anarchist who lost their lives in the affray at Houndsditch was concluded to-day. The jury ...
Article : 123 wordsM. Noel and M. De la Torre lost their lives in an aeroplane disaster at Ardennes yesterday. They had been testing a new military machine, and as they were ...
Article : 88 wordsA Board of Trade report upon the traffic of London suggests the construction of 100 miles of new roads. The "Daily Mail" estimates that the cost of ...
Article : 43 wordsWhile proceeding from Warrnambool to Melbourne in ballast to go into dock for overhaul and repairs the steel barquentine Speculant 365 tons, was wrecked off Cape ...
Article : 269 wordsIt is officially stated that 216,091 cases of cholera occurred in Russia last year, and of these 101,002 proved fatal. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe liner Hero, from Dunkirk, arrived at Hull to-day with a fire burning in one of her holds. When the fire was extinguished the dead bodies of three foreign ...
Article : 55 wordsA telegram from Victor Harbour reports a most pitiable circumstance associated with the ship Finland now at Victor Harbour loading wheat. On the ship is a ...
Article : 378 wordsAt Sheboyan, in Wisconsin, yesterday a street car fell through a drawbridge into a river, with the result than three women, a child, and a man were drowned. ...
Article : 37 wordsA lady while looking into a shop window in the city to-day was assaulted and robbed of a pearl necklace worth £7,000. The robber escaped. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt Erie, in Pennsylvania, yesterday some persons looted a mausoleum belonging to the Scott and Strong families. The robbers removed the body of Mrs. ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the end of January last the strength of the Territorials was 1,514 officers and 44,106 men short of the establishment. ...
Article : 241 wordsAustralia has placed with Messrs. Vickers, Son and Maxim an order for the Construction of two submarines. ...
Article : 24 wordsOn the recommendation of the Admiralty Captain Bertram Mordaunt Chambers has been appointed Director of the Naval College at a salary of £1,000 per annum. He is ...
Article : 263 wordsThe business of the Political Labour Conference continues to drag, and many of the delegates are leaving for their homes. A motion from the Barrier organisation ...
Article : 212 wordsA meeting held at Church House yesterday welcomed the visiting New Zealand missionaries. One of the latter, in detailing the success of the missionary ...
Article : 104 wordsFloods have been experienced in different parts of Victoria. The Bendigo Creek overflowed its banks, and many houses in Short. Wattle, and Burn streets, Bendigo, were ...
Article : 240 wordsThe scores in the match of 8,000 up between G. Gray and E. Diggle are:—Gray, 4,760; Diggle, 4,331. The players have passed and repassed each other ...
Article : 37 wordsThe fourth test match had to be postponed to-day owing to unfavourable weather. Heavy rain fell all this afternoon and evening. The prospects of a start being made ...
Article : 65 wordsA severe gale with heavy showers commenced here at 11 o'clock on Monday morning and continued until midnight. The wind was from the S.E.E., veering round to ...
Article : 160 wordsPeter McGrath pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to shooting at Granville. Butler and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, Judge Docker said ...
Article : 96 wordsThe first case in this State under the Customs Act Amendment Act, substituting imprisonment for fines for opium smuggling, was dealt with at Thursday Island to-day. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe town of Ellensburg, in Washington State, has decided to impose a tax upon all unmarried citizens over 27 years of age. ...
Article : 33 wordsSir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, the new Governor of Victoria, will, states a cable message from London, leave England for Melbourne by the R.M.S. Orontes. He ...
Article : 113 wordsAndrew Johnson and John Anderson, gardeners employed at the Exhibition Gardens, were struck by lighting this afternoon. Johnson was killed instantly and ...
Article : 79 wordsThe State Treasurer is placing a loan of £500,000 upon the Melbourne market. The rate of interest is fixed at 3 per cent., the minimum price is to be £98 10s., and the ...
Article : 66 wordsAn explosion occurred in the Cokedale colliery, at Trinidad, in Colorado, yesterday, and as a result 14 men are entombed in the mine. ...
Article : 35 wordsC. C. Nardin, the well-known local metallurgist, accompained by Detective-sergeant Mann, made an investigation of the Chaffinch lease to-day. ...
Article : 42 wordsBetween 30 and 40 men employed in Simpson's and Metters' iron foundries went on strike to-day for a minimum of 8s. per day. The manager of Metters. Ltd., has ...
Article : 98 wordsOn Tuesday next the Challenger, manned almost exclusively by Australians, will leave on a cruise extending, it is understood, to the west coast of South America. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Hoskins, of the Lithgow Ironworks, has placed in the hands of the Under-Secretary for Justice the names of the men employer in mining iron ore at Carcoar, with ...
Article : 75 wordsIn connection with the stranding of the steamer Eastern on the Salamander Bank in Moreton Bay, the Marine Board found that Pilot Maxwell was to blame and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe State Treasurer (Mr. Watt) estimates that this year Victoria will receive [?] £750,000 less from the Commonwealth under the 25s. per head distribution than the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 11 Feb 1911, Page 11
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