The Paris-Brest express collided with two trains at a crossing at Courville yesterday, with the result that ten persons were killed and many others were ...
Article : 60 wordsPlague is still raging in Manchuria. At Ywang-che-ngtse 2,500 persons have succumbed to the scourge. The bodies of 7,000 victims at Fuchiaten have been ...
Article : 65 wordsRegulations relating to the Military College were approved to-day by the Executive Council. The Minister for Defence (Mr. Pearce) stated subsequently that the only ...
Article : 313 wordsSeveral South African politicians favour the Union's contributing to the Imperial navy an amount equivalent to a certain percentage on the value of British goods ...
Article : 239 wordsMr. Bonwick, who with Messrs. Dyason and Greenway has been arrested on warrant charged with having conspired to depreciate the value of Chaffinch shares, has ...
Article : 1,206 wordsDuring a debate on the Naval Estimates in the Reichstag yesterday Herrvon Tirpitz (Secretary for the Admiralty) said that further improvements ...
Article : 246 wordsA large crowd assembled in the Lyric Theatre to-night, when a public conversazione was held to bid farewell to Sir Newton Moore prior to his departure for ...
Article : 2,797 wordsMr. Wade, the ex-Premier of New South Wales, opened his campaign against the referenda proposals of the Federal Government at Chatswood to-night. ...
Article : 709 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) stated, in reply to questions, that no useful purpose would be served by discussing in the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe "Times," in a special article on the revival of interest in the scheme for providing an "All-Red" steamship service to Australasia, via Canada, gives ...
Article : 166 wordsIn the Guildhall Police Court yesterday the eight Russians arrested on charges of having been concerned in the murder of three policemen at Houndsditch on the ...
Article : 164 wordsWilliam Eather, employed by the Leonora Municipal Council in connection with the electric tramway and lighting system, had a narrow escape from serious injury ...
Article : 195 wordsOn July 28 last the Court of Appeal, in deciding a Shoreditch assessment case, upheld the Divisional Court's declaration that an increase in the licence duty ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Manchester "Guardian" states:—"The Commonwealth Government is reconsidering its somewhat hasty decision not to send troops to London to take part ...
Article : 88 wordsSeveral months ago an Indian student, named V. D. Savarkar, was arrested in England and remanded to Bombay on a charge of having published seditious ...
Article : 162 wordsA man named David Clapham, arrested at Ida Bell, in Oklahoma, has been identified as one of the men alleged to have been concerned in the dynamite ...
Article : 52 wordsCertain marks found on the clothes of Stinnie Morrison, who is charged with having murdered Leon Beron, on Clapham Common, were submited to what is ...
Article : 95 wordsMessrs. Vickers, Son and Maxim have completed the Admiralty's dirigible. The latter, which is 514ft. long and 48ft. in diameter, will make her trial trip as ...
Article : 84 wordsThe concluding session of the Political Labour Conference was held to-night, and a vast amount of business still remaining to be disposed of was rushed through. ...
Article : 182 wordsDuring a severe storm at Hoquiam, near Seattle, to-day a sea-wall, an hotel, and a school were washed away. The children attending the school barely ...
Article : 39 wordsCaptain Faure has avenged the disaster which befell the French troops in the Soudan in November last. Captain Faure defeated Sultan Dubmurrab and killed 200 ...
Article : 382 wordsThe heavy rains that have ended the drought which affected the whole of the Republic have given a remarkable impetus to trade and to speculation in ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Kalgoorlie "Miner" is responsible for the statement that the constitutionality of the Redistribution of Seats Bill is about to be questioned. It says:—"The Bill has ...
Article : 766 wordsDuring a battle scene in the production of a Western play in a theatre here last night two actors were shot, but fortunately their injuries will not prove fatal. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe London Chamber of Commerce has written to Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) stating that it is more than ever convinced that the ...
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Family Notices : 224 wordsA fire broke out in the city last night and destroyed a number of warehouses and a Customs shed. The damage is estimated at £175,000. ...
Article : 40 wordsTwo women caused a commotion to-day by appearing on the Boulevards attired in a so-called harem skirt and Turkish trousers. A crowd gathered around the ...
Article : 52 wordsTwenty British steamers are ice-bound at Odessa. The ice extends for 100 miles out into the Black Sea. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe s.s. Aotea, which is stranded at Capetown, has been reinsured at 15 per cent. against total loss. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe strike of iron ore miners at Carcoar has extended to the Lithgow Ironworks. Forty labourers were engaged by Messrs. Hoskins to take the places of the men on ...
Article : 97 wordsThe revenue of the United Kingdom for the current financial year already exceeds Mr. Lloyd-George's estimate by £14,000,000. There are indications that the ...
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Family Notices : 27 wordsIt is the intention of a large number of beer drinkers at Yarrawonga to strike unless a reduction from 6d. to 3d. per glass is made. Those who feel keenly in the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Federal Land Tax Commissioner has been frequently asked if it were within his power to ask for returns of property between £3,000 and £5,000 unimproved value. ...
Article : 196 wordsIn the Court of Quarter Sessions, constituted by Mr. A. E. Burt, R.M., and Messrs. J Moir and C. S. J. Baesjou, and Dr. Ingoldby. J's.P., Leslie Millson, who gave his ...
Article : 216 wordsIt is understood that Queensland is negotiating for a loan of £500,000 from the Commonwealth. Including the Western Australian loan, this would make a total ...
Article : 220 wordsThe children's day in connection with Albany Week was carried through in glorious summer weather. Quite 600 youngsters assembled at the Town Hall. Marshalled ...
Article : 151 wordsA deputation of business people and residents of Bullfinch waited upon the secretary for Mines (Mr. King), in the absence of the Minister, yesterday to protest against the ...
Article : 210 wordsIn the Bendigo Supreme Court to-day Edwin Doady a middle-aged man was found guilty of two charges of offences against his daughters. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Government Statist reports that the number of marriages last year, 10,240, was the highest ever recorded, and was greater by 208 than that for 1909. The marriage ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Political Labour Conference to-night decided to limit the fighting platform of the State Labour Party to five planks, as follows:— ...
Article : 133 wordsHis Excellency the Governor Sir Gerald Strickland returns to-day to his summer residence at Rottnest. On Saturday His Excellency, accompanied by Lady Edeline ...
Article : 78 wordsA telegram received to-day by the New Zealand Insurance Co. from Captain Cuthbert, the surveyor of the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association, stated ...
Article : 111 wordsSince the Advances to Workers Act came into force £57,810 has been allotted to 183 applicants—an average of £316 each. It is reported that, the Premier has been ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Acting-Commissioner of Police yesterday received from Corporal Fry, of Roebourne, the following telegram relative to the wrecking of the Glenbank off Cossack:— ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 16 Feb 1911, Page 7
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