Twenty-three thousand people witnessed yesterday's play in the first Test match, and when stumps were drawn Australia had lost eight wickets for 250 runs. Armstrong won the toss and took advantage of the perfect wicket. ...
Article : 113 wordsDuring the course of further protracted debate last night in the Legislative Council, sitting until midnight, the Profiteering Bill was still further amended. ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Government has ordered the so-called Soviet Ambassador, Martens, to be deported, on the ground that he is affiliated with an organisation which is seeking to overthrow the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe House, of Commons debated the amendments made by the House of Lords in the Home Rule Bill. The House of Commons accepted the establishment of senates and the ...
Article : 341 wordsThe five-masted American schooner Inca, which was picked up in distress on Wednesday morning by the Union Company's steamer Cosmos, arrived in tow off Sydney Heads ...
Article : 820 wordsGradually the whole of the interstate fleet is being rendered idle by the strike. The vessels laid up in Sydney include the Niagara (13,145 tons), Maheno (5323 tons), Zealandia (6660 tons), Ulimaroa (5777 tons), and Cooma (4000 tons), whilst the steamer Wyreema (6338 tons) is also idle owing to trouble with the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Foreign Office has announced that Chili will co-operate with Argentina for the purpose of bringing about the success of the proposals submitted by the Argentina delegation ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that owing to the scandals, revealed during the investigation into the New York building trades, and the general, ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Justice Pring yesterday returned his Royal Commission with regard to the allegations about the payment of £500 by Mr. Talbot to Mr. Johnston, M.L.A. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsA mass moeting of the strikers was held at the Trades Hall yesterday morning to reconsider the recent offer made on behalf of the interstate steamship owners. No motion ...
Article : 768 wordsThe correspondent of the Australian Press Association in Geneva reports: "Senator Millen has decided, having abstained from voting against the admission of Austria, to ...
Article : 518 wordsThe close of play yesterday brought Australia to a position in the Test match upon which she can scarcely be congratulated. After making a reasonably good beginning, ...
Article : 1,818 wordsThe belief, was expressed in shipping circles yesterday that the strike of the stewards was but a further move in the irritation tactics by which the revolutionary Labour leaders ...
Article : 476 wordsMr. Mutch, Minister of Education, in a speech yesterday at the Teachers' College, described the average school as an eyesore, and said he hoped that, if the State could do ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. Daniels (Secretary for the United States Navy), giving evidence before the Naval Affairs Committee, of the House of Representatives, said that if the new Administration ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Treasury has issued a White Paper, dealing with the accounts of Government departments and services for assisting the food supply and promoting the continuance of trade ...
Article : 168 wordsLife has not yet reached that happy state of perfection when no one need work. But is it working towards that socialistic ideal? Take a glance at that vast mass of people on ...
Article : 957 wordsThe City Council has not been living within its income during 1920, admitted Alderman W. J. Walker, vice-chairman of the City Council finance committtee, yesterday. ...
Article : 902 wordsContinuing his evidence before the Federal Royal Commission on Taxation yesterday, Edward J. Sievers, valuer-general of New South Wales, deprecated any attempt at ...
Article : 656 wordsThe strike of stewards on steamers has spread to Brisbane. The only vessel so far affected is the Arawatta, which had just arrived. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Empire Parliamentary Association, Lieut-Colonel Amery (Under-Secretary for the Colonies) referred to a suggestion that a conference ot delegates ...
Article : 120 wordsRepresentations were made yesterday to the Minister for the Navy, Mr. Laird Smith, by Senator Keating (Tas.), about the great inconvenience under which intending ...
Article : 74 wordsIn addressing the meeting of shareholders of Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, to-day, the chairman of directors (Mr. J. M. Niall) confined his remarks chiefly to the ...
Article : 323 wordsThe coke award of October 15, 1920, was set aside by the High Court yesterday, in its judgment in the King v Charles Hibble and others, ex parte the Broken Hill Proprietary ...
Article : 409 wordsThe tail end of the storm which washed New South Wales has been over Auckland, consequently there has been no practice for the past three days by the Davis Cup teams. Both ...
Article : 143 wordsSir Winiam Raynor, chairman of the Colonial Woolbuyers' Association, in the course of an interview, said the Australian wool scheme was clearly designed to maintain prices at a ...
Article : 107 wordsThe workers refuse to meet Mr. T. J. Macnamara (Minister for Labour) to discuss the Government's proposals to find employment for 50,000 ex-service men who are unemployed. ...
Article : 35 wordsMore than ordinary interest attaches to the New Zealand tennis championship tourney, opening in Auckland on January 1. Three members of the American Davis Cup team, ...
Article : 96 wordsLady Stanley gave a reception in honour of the Earl and Countess of Stradbroke. The guests were mostly Victorians, including Sir Peter M'Bride and Lady M'Bride, Colonel and ...
Article : 150 wordsWith the object of introducing a healthy competitive spirit and promoting, the efficiency of the Australian and New Zealand services, the New Zealand Government has been ...
Article : 190 wordsIt was persistently stated in the Town Hall yesterday that the A.L.P. had adopted disciplinary methods in regard to the six aldermen who opposed the selection of Alderman ...
Article : 121 wordsArchbishop Clune is returning to Australia by the steamer Ormonde. Sir Timothy Coghlan (Agent-General for New South Wales) states that the clay model ...
Article : 134 wordsIt was a beautiful day, with a modrate wind from the west and the playing field had never been seen to better advantage. There were loud cheers for the Englishmen as ...
Article : 1,525 wordsThe first vessel to leave Sydney for Germany since 1914 sailed last night—the Swedish owned Tisnaren, a motor ship of 5747 tons. The Tisnaren cleared for Port Said, Dunkirk, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe offices and stores at the corner of Young and Bridge streets, occupied by Winehcombe. Carson, Ltd., have been purchased by that firm for £26,000. The property is in a ...
Article : 90 wordsAccording to advices received yesterday by the Navigation Department, by urgent telegram from the lighthouse-keeper at Yamba, a terrific storm passed over Yamba on Thursday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 18 Dec 1920, Page 13
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