Interviewed yesterday with regard to the Williams-Narrogin election, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Frank Wilson) said it had certainly been a matter of surprise ...
Article : 351 wordsMr. T. Mackenate Bell, who announced himself as the Liberal candidate for St. George's, Hanover Square, in opposition to Sir George Reid, has issued an address to ...
Article : 152 wordsAn event occurred yesterday which bids fall to involve a profound change in the social aspect of city life. It was the coming into force of the licensing law, ...
Article : 948 wordsThe "Times" correspondent with the Russian headquarters states:— "Twelve months ago the whole Russian army was reduced to one shot per gun ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Berlin authorities have suppressed Maximilian Harden's iconoclastic weekly paper, the "Zukunst." for the entire period of the duration of the war. ...
Article : 29 wordsDr. Jessie Scott, lately of Auckland (New Zealand), and now performing medical service in Serbia, wrote after her departure for that distressful country, resigning the ...
Article : 1,651 wordsThe Gulf of Bothnia, between Sweden and Finland, is now frozen. Several steamers are locked in the ice. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn order to protect holders of Treasury bonds from loss accruing upon a theft of the mislaying of bonds, the Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) has made arrangements whereby ...
Article : 52 wordsAnother strenious day was experienced by the recruiting officers at the Drill Hall, Francis-street, yesterday. One hundred and forty-two volunteers ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Public Service Commissioner (Mr. M. E. Jull), with the object of still further promoting enlistment from the ranks of the Civil Service, has addressed a circular ...
Article : 438 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" in a leading article says:—"Sir George Reid's return by a majority of a thousand is a certainty. The absence of an election would deprive the ...
Article : 168 wordsIt is understood that the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) is by no means decided about going on with Number 2 site for the arsenal which is to be built ...
Article : 120 wordsA telegram from Constantinople reports that as the result of a violent battle the British completely evacuated Seddul Bahr in the night, with great losses. The ...
Article : 41 wordsLord Sydenham, in a letter, disagrees with the view of the "Times" that General Sir Jan Hamilton at Suvla on August 8 meekly effaced himself at the most ...
Article : 199 wordsAt the Sydney recruiting depots to-day 306 men were accepted for the Expeditionary Forces. There were 808 enrolments at country recruiting depots last week. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe resignation of Sir Geo. Reid from the position of High Commissioner was accepted by the Commonwealth Executive Council to-day. ...
Article : 38 wordsDuring the last day or so nearly 1,000 bags of wheat have arrived to the care of Messrs. Louis Dreyfus and Co. (who have opened a branch agency here), forming the ...
Article : 531 wordsMany well-authenticated stories are published of women serving in the Russian army. The most extraordinary one is that of 12 Moscow school girls, who at the ...
Article : 175 wordsNathan Jacobs, clothing manufacturer, of George-street, appeared before Mr. Macfarlane, S. M., at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having ...
Article : 295 wordsA statement was telegraphed from Cobden to-day to the effect that it was impossible to obtain sufficient sugar to meet local requirements and that requests for ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the Admiralty's invitation a representative of the Australian Press Association has visited an important base whence a "mosquito" squadron is in readiness at ...
Article : 207 wordsReference was made at the State Cabinet meeting held to-day to the action of a number of clerks in enlisting in the Defence Forces merely for home service. The ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Defence Departmental has made an urgent appeal for field glasses for the use of the troops in the field. The appeal has been brought under the notice of ...
Article : 104 wordsDetails have now reached Imbros of the actual damage done by the British aeroplanes which a few days before Christmas bombed the Turko-German munition ...
Article : 59 wordsUnder the auspices of the Western Australian Spinning Association, opportunities for acquiring proficiency in the hand-spinning of raw wool are becoming more ...
Article : 247 wordsThe following communique was issued last night:— "Our torpedoers engaged the Turko-German battle cruiser Goeben in the Black ...
Article : 60 wordsAt a public meeting to-night it was decided that the first anniversary of the landing of the Australians at Gallipoli should be suitably celebrated in ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Admiralty announces the loss of the pre-Dreadnought battleship King Edward VII. She struck a mine and had to be abandoned owing to the heavy sea ...
Article : 163 wordsNext Friday's issue of the "Western Mail" will be a special Fremantle number, in which the whole of the illustrated section—enlarged to 12 pages—will be devoted to ...
Article : 434 wordsAs a reprisal for the arrest of German, Austrian, Bulgarian, and Turkish consuls at Salonika, Turkey has ordered the arrest of the British and French officials left ...
Article : 64 wordsThe 131st. list of casualities of Western Australian members of the Australian Expeditionary Forces has been made available, and is published below. Where not ...
Article : 656 wordsThe new premises of the Kalgoorlie branch of the Commonwealth Bank was opened to-day by the Mayor of Kalgoorlie (Mr. H. W. Davidson). The branch was ...
Article : 389 wordsGermany has requested the Greek Government to largely reduced its troops on the Serbo-Macedonian frontier, or to remove its troops to a distance. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe week-end meetings generally were bad for the anti-compulsionists. Audiences of working men severely heckled Mr. J. H. Thomas and other Labour ...
Article : 269 wordsA public meeting of munition workers and others interested will be held at the Temperance Hall, Museum-street, on Thursday next at 8 p.m., when the ...
Article : 154 wordsMany intending small subscribers to the Commonwealth War Loan will doubtless wish to know in what manner they can best safeguard the Treasury bonds which ...
Article : 204 wordsDetails of the raid made by German aeroplanists on the south-western part of Salonika and the Allies camps there show that two of the hostile aviators were ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following communique was issued yesterday evening:—"We blew up a German ammunition depot to La Fille Morte to-day, and forced the enemy to evacuate ...
Article : 86 wordsMrs. H. H. Holmes, of Osborne, has received a cable from her son Signaller H. H. Holmes stating that he had arrived safely in Egypt, and that he had met his ...
Article : 347 wordsAn inquiry was opened at Bourlder this afternoon, concerning a fire which destroyed four rooms and the bar of the Launceston Hotel on December 22. ...
Article : 278 wordsA German communique issued yesterday stated:—"We captured the last of the French trenches at Hartmanus-Weilberkopf, and made prisoners of 20 officers and 1,083 ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Berlin "Lokal Angelger," commenting on the voting in the House of Commons on the first reading of the Compulsory Service Bill, says:—"Mr. Asquith scored a ...
Article : 99 wordsThe War Office reports that the British, French, and colonial troops which remained in possession of the Cape Helles end of the Gallipoli Peninsula after the ...
Article : 111 wordsFollowing the Ministerial policy of exercising economy in public expenditure, Cabinet has decided to amalgamate the offices of the Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court ...
Article : 119 wordsThe principal bank at Zurich, on the German frontier of Switzerland, has refused to advance to its customers more than 10 per cent. of the face value of German ...
Article : 64 wordsThe death is reported of Dr. Sylvanus Stall (68), a leading minister of the Lutheran Church in the United States, and the author of several books on church ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 11 Jan 1916, Page 7
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