The super-Dreadnought cruiser Princess Royal was launched at Barrow yesterday. The vessel, which cost £2,062,000, has a displacement of 26,360 tons, and engines ...
Article : 327 wordsA message from Fez under date of April 23 stated that there had been no further attacks upon the city and that the besiegers were quarrelling among ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Federal Treasurer to-day issued the following particulars showing last month's revenue collected by the Customs Department, compared with the corresponding ...
Article : 374 wordsSpeaking at Newcastle yesterday the Postmaster-General (Mr. Herbert Samuel) said the Government had resolved to pass the Veto Bill without alteration and to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,729 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the Perth City Council yesterday, consideration was given to the following recommendation of the health committee:—"That a further ...
Article : 2,184 wordsBaroness de Chastot was arrested in a jeweller's shop in Paris yesterday, and when she was searched she was found to have a stolen diamond ring adhering ...
Article : 139 wordsPrincess Shacuvoskoi died yesterday from starvation in a palace where she had been living in seclusion in two rooms. As the result of a love affair the princess ...
Article : 107 wordsEmigrants are leaving the Clyde at the rate of 3,500 a week, the destination of the majority being Canada. A special Australasian express steamer, with the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe London residence of the Earl of Crewe (Secretary of State for India) was damaged by fire last night. As this is the second fire that has taken place on ...
Article : 212 wordsFurther census returns show that the population of the towns in Scotland is practically the same as it was in 1901, while that of many of the country ...
Article : 42 wordsA British military expedition of two columns to Tong Hills, in the north, of the Gold Coast Colony, has just concluded a week's successful fighting in rocky ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Government has decided to prohibit labour demonstrations in the city to-morrow (May Day) on the ground that they interfere with the traffic. This ...
Article : 52 wordsAn important Court judgment in favour of the Wright Brothers against the principal French aeroplane builders, including Bleriot, Farman, and Clement, was ...
Article : 63 wordsDuring last year the British and Foreign Bible Society issued 7,000,000 Bibles, Testaments, gospels, and psalters, published in 432 languages, and also a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe police are still investigating the case in which Haimon (a Syrian), Louet (a clerk in the Foreign Office), and Pallier (Haimon's private secretary) are ...
Article : 110 wordsTransit passengers by the homeward-bound P. and O. liner Morea which called at Fremantle yesterday included Mr. Patrick Y. Alexander, a veteran in the English aero ...
Article : 1,262 wordsThe Roubaix Exhibition, which affords a comprehensive survey of the textile and kindred industries, was opened on Saturday. Captain Collins represented ...
Article : 48 wordsThe fourth inter-State conference of fire brigades was opened to-day. Councillor Frinsdorf, of the South Australian Fire Brigades Board, presided, and among the ...
Article : 450 wordsThe disturbances at Canton have developed into anti-Manchu riots. The Viceroy has been compelled to take refuge at the Admiralty offices. Twenty thousand ...
Article : 97 wordsLord Chelmsford, the Governor of New South Wales, passed through Fremantle on the P. and O. mail steamer Morea yesterday. His Excellency is enjoying six ...
Article : 853 wordsA seaman named Arundel, who was a member of the crew of the steamer Asia, recently wrecked off Shanghai, is missing, and it is supposed that he has been ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Japanese expedition which set out some months ago to establish a base between King Edward VII. Land and McMurdo Bay for a dash to the South Pole has ended in ...
Article : 154 wordsEighteen Camorrists, who had pillaged scores of villas during the past few months, were captured on Saturday in the neighbourhood of Mt. Vesuvius. One ...
Article : 55 wordsW. Albany and E. Barry are both thoroughly fit for their sculling race to-day. Great interest is being taken in the contest. ...
Article : 81 wordsIn consequence of an accident to the winding gear a cage filled with miners fell down a shaft in a colliery at Wasmes on Saturday. Four of the men in the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Walter, R.M., gave his reserved decision yesterday in the case in which the Kalgoorlie Gold Recovery Co. sued the Kalgoorlie Roads District Local Board of ...
Article : 791 wordsAs the men ceased work at James Alston's windmill factory, South Melbourne, this afternoon three of the employees were met in a hostile spirit by a crowd of about 50 ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Acting-Premier (Mr. H. Gregory), when questioned yesterday regarding the returns of revenue and expenditure for the month of April, took a cheerful view of the ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Government has accepted the tender of C. H. Walker and Co., a British firm, for the construction of a new harbour here. The contract price is ...
Article : 40 wordsAn aeroplane was seen to pass over Melbourne on Saturday. It was flying at a height of several hundred feet, and was travelling very fast. The first view was ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day received two cables from Mr. Baracchi, the Victorian Government Astronomer, one of the scientific party at Vavau, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Minister for Education says that picture shows have become a serious menace to the morals of children, and legislative action to control them is necessary. ...
Article : 112 wordsMay Day was celebrated in Sydney to-day. One of the motions carried at a meeting at the Protestant Hall to-night was:—"That this meeting repudiates the so-called ...
Article : 106 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Thomas Henry Gay, 45 years of age, was charged with having forged 17 five-pound notes on the Bank of Australasia and 20 five-pound notes ...
Article : 118 wordsAn explosion at the Bridge Hotel, Nowra, on Sunday resulted in the death of the licensee, David Boyd. He was engaged in the bar breaking down rum in a cask, when ...
Article : 127 wordsA fatal fire occurred at Crown-street, Richmond, late to-night. A house, occupied by Arthur Reed, a commercial traveller, and his wife, was destroyed. Mrs. Reed ...
Article : 48 wordsSir,—Will you once more allow me the use of your columns to say good-bye to my friends in Western Australia? I simply do not know how to thank those who since ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Shipping and Seaman Act, 1909, which was reserved for Royal Assent, came into force in New Zealand to-day. It makes an important alteration to the existing law. ...
Article : 122 wordsAll doubts as to the identity of the man who was found dead hanging in a room at Cohen's Hotel, Ballarat, on Friday, were set at rest to-day. The two witnesses who ...
Article : 82 wordsThe prosecution in the Coal Vend was resumed before Mr. Justice Isaacs in the High Court to-day, when John Wheeler, manager of the Newcastle Wallsend Colliery ...
Article : 141 wordsFull Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice McMillan and Mr. Justice Rooth: Fairclough and the Swan Brewery Company, Limited: Motion for leave to appeal to the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 2 May 1911, Page 5
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