The Perth City Council's departmental estimates, which provided for an expenditure of £197,000 for the year ending on October 31 next, and involved an increase ...
Article : 1,300 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—In view of the general idea that the chief problem at the naval limitation conference in London in January will be to overcome the ...
Article : 499 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The United States Government, in a note to Canada has expressed its regrets for the incident in which an American coastguard boat ...
Article : 164 wordsAbout £9,000 damage was done by a fire which gutted a four-storey building occupied by the Aqua Proofing Co., rubber overcoat and oilskin manufacturers, off ...
Article : 604 wordsBUDAPEST, Dec. 14.—The trials of about 60 Hungarian peasant women who are charged with having poisoned their husbands or relatives in order to obtain ...
Article : 365 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—The president of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce has written to the Secretary for the Dominions (Lord Passfield) as ...
Article : 170 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 15.—Serious developments in the coal dispute are expected as the outcome of a massed demonstration of miners, to be held close to the Rothbury ...
Article : 1,340 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 15.—An audacious swindle was successfully carried out on Tuesday last, when £5,000 was paid by the Australian Bank of Commerce to a ...
Article : 302 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—The reduction of the British bank rate was welcome, although it has, so far, had little effect on Stock Exchange prices, except in ...
Article : 667 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 15.—In its annual report the Viticultural Society of Victoria states that the greatly increased duties levied upon imported spirits and the ...
Article : 175 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 15.—In an attempt to fly round Australia in six days, Mr. J Mollison, a former pilot of the Royal Air Force in India, will leave Adelaide ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15—Though the political situation contains the possibilities of dramatic developments, it is generally agreed in the Lobbies that neither the ...
Article : 247 wordsSir,—In "The West Australian" this morning, under the heading of "Tariff Increase", you publish the opinions of the principal of a large retail firm as to the ...
Article : 342 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Senator Borah, who has long been a champion of the codification of sea laws and the freedom of the seas, vigorously contended ...
Article : 336 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—Weather permitting, a big Fairey monoplane will leave Cranwell aerodrome in Lincolnshire to-morrow morning to attempt to fly 6,000 ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—The destroyer Tormentor, which was being towed by the tug Security from Sheerness to Troon to be demolished, broke away from the tug ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—Sympathy with the agitation for the preservation of Britain's rural beauty is reflected in a list of special instructions which the Minister of ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—The Leader of the Conservative Party (Mr. S. Baldwin), speaking at Edinburgh last night, prophesied a deficit in the Labour Budget of ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—It is believed that the floods in the Thames Valley have now reached their worst. No further heavy rain is expected in the immediate future and it ...
Article : 252 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—An extension of the export credits guarantee scheme for a period of five years—until September, 1934—is recommended by Sir Otto ...
Article : 263 wordsALBANY, Dec. 15.—"He goes to a strange land, but he will quickly be at home there," said the Rev. F. V. Stoor, preaching at the consecration of ...
Article : 432 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—The wireless operator of the steamer Baron Elcho, who recently sent out a dramatic S.O.S. stating that the vessel was engaged in cocaine ...
Article : 166 wordsKALGOORLIE, Dec. 15.—The Minister for Trade and [?] (Mr. J. E. Fenton) passed through Kalgoorlie to-day by the Great Western express on his way to ...
Article : 115 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 15.—Sensational disclosures are expected as the result of the reported disappearance of a well known Brisbane solicitor whom the police are ...
Article : 180 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—Sir Hubert Wilkins has sent the following wireless message from Melcior Harbour in the South Polar regions:—"We are here, after twelve hours' ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14—The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Lang), in a letter to Prebendary Gough, who is chairman of the committee organised for the purpose of ...
Article : 159 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 15.—Leaping from the top of the steep cliffs at The Gap, Watson's Bay, yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Elizabeth Harriet Andrews (67), a widow who ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—The superstitious attributed the ill-fortunes of the famous steamer Great Eastern to the discovery of a corpse walled up in her structure. "The ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—The "Daily Telegraph" understands that after the revelations of the Goddard case, the Home Office and Scotland Yard are taking drastic ...
Article : 77 wordsAustralian guests at the British' Army Council's luncheon at the Army and Navy Club in London on Saturday to Dominion officers in England were ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—It is reported that Mrs. Arkell Smith, who recently masqueraded as "Colonel Barker," was quietly released from prison to-day. ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—A statement prepared by the Official Receiver shows that the total liabilities of Corporation and Genera] Securities, Ltd. (one of the Hatry ...
Article : 72 wordsPlunging suddenly into deep water in the Swan River, 150 yards from the shore at the Dalkieth camping ground about 4 p.m yesterday. Harold Geat (about 22) ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—In giving his verdict yesterday in the claim of ex-Sergeant Goddand for the recovery of £12,500 from the Commissioner of Police (Lord Byng), ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—Lady Higham has obtained a divorce from her husband. Sir Charles Higham, the author aud publicist, on the ground of misconduct. They were ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—Following the death of Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P. Mr. D. G. Logan (Labour) was returned unopposed for the Scotland division of Liverpool ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—The Treasury announces the payment to the United States of £18,760,000, of which £5,400,000 represents the repayment of principal of the ...
Article : 66 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 13.—A proposal for the amalgamation of the two branches of the Watersides Workers' Federation in Melbourne—the Port Phillip Stevedores' ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Dec. 13.—To-day the British Rhine Army ended its career with the landing of the last detachment of 480 officers and men at Dover. ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Dec. 14.—The new whaling research, ship Discovery II. sailed from London to-day for the marine biological laboratory in the South Shetland Islands. ...
Article : 26 wordsPRAGUE, Dec. 14.—A chauffeur named Joseph Inayer has been arrested in connection with the Dusseldorf Murders because his handwriting resembles a letter ...
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