The Anglo Japanese treaty generally reduces the duties of the statutory tariff by one-third in important classes. The charges on textiles, iron and steel goods. ...
Article : 174 wordsDuring the course of his speech in the House of Lords Viscount Curzon said he believed that compulsory training was unavoidable, Lord Haldane had spoken ...
Article : 89 wordsSlow progress with the Parliament Bill is being made in the House of Commons. Mr. Hillier's amendment that the Lords should have power to move amendments ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. Archibald Colquhoun, author of "Germany and the Sea Power," read an interesting paper before the United Service Institution on the sea power of the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe fateful referenda take place upon the 26th of the present month. The elector will be presented with two Pal ballot-papers. To vote "No" all he has ...
Article : 1,159 wordsThe voter will be handed two ballot papers, with a question on each of them. Place a cross in the square opposite the word NO on each paper, thus:— ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "Neueste Nachrichten" declares that the completion of tie Panama Canal and the transference of the chief naval power of the United States to the Pacific, ...
Article : 89 wordsOn the colonial estimates in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Augagneur, a former Governor-General of Madagascar, complained that the Presbyterian ...
Article : 73 wordsEvery railroad company in the States has been asked to locate a railway car, which is believed to contain a 12-year-old boy, the son of Assistant District ...
Article : 71 wordsCount Komura spoke at a banquet celebrating the alliance, which, he said, had well fulfilled its purpose, and was capable of yet greater good in its own sphere. ...
Article : 62 wordsMiss Lalla Miranda, the Victorian b prima donna, has been engaged for Quinlan's opera tour, opening in Melbourne in during May, 1912. ...
Article : 1,014 wordsDr. M'Call (Agent-General for Tasmania) has asked the Royal Colonial Institute to establish an Australian section, to meet monthly, with a view to ...
Article : 62 wordsThe police raided the residence of Mohan Roy, a wealthy landowner, and seized a quantity of picric acid and dynamite, with a complete bank-note plant. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn a message to Congress, President Taft urges a ratification of the reciprocity agreement. April 6. ...
Article : 62 wordsHon. W. S. Fielding stated in the Dominion House of Commons that the Government was considering whether to accept the new Anglo-Japanese ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Selangor Rubber Company pays a dividend of 375 per cent. for the year. [last Week it was stated that the Pataling Rubber Estates Syndicate. ...
Article : 46 wordsA train was maliciously wrecked at Dinapur. An Indian was killed and three Europeans seriously injured. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe centenary of the death of Robert Raikes, the founder of Sunday schools, has been celebrated in London and Gloucester. ...
Article : 81 wordsJohn A. Bowron and Sidney Bowron have been admitted to bail and remanded. [A few days ago the Official Receiver ...
Article : 79 wordsThe authorities are on the alert to intercept Chinese on their way to Mexico. It is believed that a big smuggling scheme is being carried out. ...
Article : 36 wordsAn Australian society is organising in London for social purposes. It is under the patronage of Sir George Reid, the Agents-General, and other influential ...
Article : 33 wordsH.M.S. Egeria is to be bought from the Imperial authorities by the Canadian Government. The vessel is to be used as a training ship on the Pacific Coast. ...
Article : 37 wordsAn armed man held up a West-bound train near Muncio, Indiana, and having robbed the passengers, escaped amid a fusillade. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the House of Lords, the Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies (Lord Lucas), replying to the Earl of Selborne, said that Mr. Asquith would preside at ...
Article : 60 wordsPovage, an ex-sailor, has been sentenced to 12 years penal servitude for treason in supplying to the British naval attache on two occasions copies of secret ...
Article : 60 wordsThe refusal of the Provisional President to consider any peace terms results in President Diaz starting a war of extermination. ...
Article : 32 wordsFive trainloads of moneyed settlers arrived from the United States yesterday. ...
Article : 18 wordsRight Hon. L. V. Harcourt, M.P. (Secretary of State for the Colonies), will preside at the dinner to be given to Sir John Fuller in the House of ...
Article : 58 wordsAt Westbury Municipal Council meeting Dr. Purdy, the Chief Health Officer, was introduced by the Warden. In his remarks Mr. Burke said the object of ...
Article : 350 wordsThe St. Lawrence Bridge Company has secured the contract for re-building the Quebec Bridge. ...
Article : 20 wordsTwo hundred Albanians were killed at Tushi, and many others surrendered. The Porte has circularised the Powers, insisting on Montenegro closing her ...
Article : 34 wordsScores of prospectors are staking claims on the Olivine Mountains, which were recently discovered to be diamondiferous. ...
Article : 26 words[?] great fire has swept a large part of the Kadikeni suburb, 100 houses in all being destroyed. The damage is estimated at £80,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsHon. W. L. Baillieu, M.L.C. (Minister for Education of Victoria), in a two-column interview with the "Financial News" on the progress of his state, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe cruisers Kent and Challenger have arrived. ...
Article : 10 wordsThe deputation appointed, at a recent meeting held at Mr. Richardson's residence to wait upon the rector (Rev. W. B. Docker), and the wardens in reference ...
Article : 222 wordsHeavy snowstorms have swept over England and Scotland. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. W. W. Astor has purchased the "Observer," the Unionist paper. Mr. J. L. Garvin continues in the editorship. ...
Article : 29 wordsOur North-Western representative at a late hour last night wired from Burnie as follows:—A few days ago the quiet little town of Penguin was thrown into a state ...
Article : 225 wordsEdgar Rowlings, holding a master mariner's certificate, was on trial at the Quarter Sessions Court to-day, charged with the larceny of the property of Peter ...
Article : 224 wordsAt the Hay Circuit Court to-day, in the case of William Francis Millar and Reginald Clare, charged with having at Billenbah murdered Sarah Warby, the ...
Article : 61 wordsCyclonic weather, with torrential rain, has been experienced at Mossman, Northern Queensland, since Thursday last. causing the largest floods ever seen in the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Acting Premier (Mr. Hean) has received a cable from the Agent-General to the effect that it was not possible to acquire a suitable site for the proposed ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Crown Prosecutor asked the jury to take the view that Millar fired the shots, but that Clare was also guilty of murder, as he did nothing to protect the ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Fri 7 Apr 1911, Page 5
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