The Mayoress of Subiaco (Mrs. Chesters) will be at home on her usual day, Tuesday next. She is desirous of forming a ladies' committee to help the Subiaco Library ...
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Article : 710 wordsSome days ago in an issue of the "Government Gazette" the authorities announced a determination to proceed with the laying on the southern side of the river of a ...
Article : 2,190 wordsThe delay in taking over the Bridgetown-Manjinup railway by the Railway Department has been causing much dissatisfaction. Last week Mr. Layman, M.L.A., failing to ...
Article : 334 wordsMr. Sidney J. Hosken, a farmer of Northampton, has defintely announced himself as a candidate for the Greenough seat in opposition to the Attorney-General (Mr. ...
Article : 851 wordsThe Woods-Williamson Company opened to a good audience on Saturday night with "A Woman's Sin," a dramatisation by Miss Maud Williamson of Hall Caine's ...
Article : 3,056 wordsThe Geraldton Quarter Sessions were concluded late yesterday afternoon. Michael McKean an ex-railway porter, who on Thursday was acquitted on a charge of ...
Article : 171 wordsA continuance of strong south-west winds and heavy seas were reported along the coast yesterday, but while the conditions were not so severe as previously they were ...
Article : 205 wordsOn Saturday evening the Perth police received a wire from Mr. Lannigan, J.P., of New Norcia, to the effect that a youth had reported to him that he had accidentally ...
Article : 354 wordsThe determination of the Coal Mining Industry Board for the State, exclusive of the south-eastern division, has been approved. It is provided that before there shall be any ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 613 wordsThe election for Wilmot to fill the vacancy in the House of Assembly, caused by the retirement of Mr. Hope, M.H.A., was held last week. The three candidates were all ...
Article : 88 wordsWilliam Rowe, aged 58 years, while driving from his home to Wal Wal station yesterday morning, was forced to take shelter under a tree during a violent storm. The ...
Article : 129 wordsThe State Meteorologist, questioned to-night regarding the unusually severe storm which passed over Melbourne early this morning, said the average speed of the wind ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsAn excellent beginning has been made with the movement initiated during the agricultural implement trade strike to establish a free workers' union. It was proposed at ...
Article : 99 wordsThe strike of Graves and Co.'s drivers, which occurred on Tuesday because of the arrest of one of their number for the non-payment of a Police Court fine, was settled ...
Article : 97 wordsProperty is still being lost by the police force. Constable Dooley, of the Little Bourke-street station, is lamenting the disappearance of a dark tweed overcoat with ...
Article : 95 wordsBurglars broke into the Coolac railway station last night. They blasted open the safe, but got only £3 18s. They also broke into a general store, but decamped when the ...
Article : 59 wordsOne of the greatest sufferers by the recent storm was the steamer Leura, which arrived to-day from Newcastle. When the Leura passed Wilson's Promontory she ran into a ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the Moora Licensing Court on Friday, before Messrs. Dowley, R.M., and Clinch, J.P., Mrs. Terry, of Three Springs, the holder of a wine and beer licence, applied ...
Article : 271 wordsJockey Henry Butters, who was quarantined from the Mooltan, was released on Saturday. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe first inter-State conference of the gas employees of Australia is being held in Melbourne. A new constitution has been drafted to suit the requirements of the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Government has decided to let the law take its course in the case of the Maori youth Tahi Kaka, who was sentenced to death at Auckland for the murder of a gum ...
Article : 44 wordsTwo young men named David James Davies and Mortimer Hare, who were arrested in the train at Geraldton and charged with the larceny of two towels valued at 1s. ...
Article : 73 wordsSteady rain set in last night. Up to the present 83 points have been registered. ...
Article : 28 wordsA fire broke out in Mr. W. Brooks's joinery works at the Malvern railway station yesterday afternoon, and resulted in the destruction of about £2,000 worth of property. ...
Article : 110 wordsSir,—I was summoned by the Goldfields Water Supply for £2 10s. for water rates, being the owner of a block of land at West Guildford, where neither pipes nor water ...
Article : 70 wordsThe weather was exceptionally wintry to-day. Snow has fallen on the highlands, and it is snowing fairly generally along the tablelands. ...
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Advertising : 439 wordsSir,—Residents and especially sleepers out in the west end of Perth are very much annoyed at the unnecessary amount of noise and blowing off of steam made by engines ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 12 Jun 1911, Page 8
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