Addressing a meeting of members of the Scottish Liberal Federation in Ayr to-day, Mr. H. H. Asquith (the ex-Prime Minister) declared that it was the meanest ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Federal Arbitration Court's award in regard to river steamers has created consternation here. Masters and engineers are at present under a State award and earn ...
Article : 210 wordsAn inquiry is being made into some sensational charges which involve a large number of prominent men, including some prohibition officers, in illicit liquor ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Miners' Conference has decided to allow the strike notices to expire on Saturday ...
Article : 210 wordsA Moscow wireless message says that the armistice terms agreed to by Soviet Russia and Poland provide for the renouncement of the interference of either ...
Article : 91 wordsInteresting resolutions were carried at the conference of the central council of the Employers' Federation of Australia, which concluded its sittings in Perth yesterday. ...
Article : 593 wordsIt will be within the recollection of those who follow Western Australian public affairs with any closeness or care that an attempt was made two years ago to suspend ...
Article : 1,238 wordsThe House of Representatives went into Committee to-day to continue the debate on the Budget. Mr. Rvan said he would support the ...
Article : 1,164 wordsThe Agricultural Commissioner for Georgia has announced that the Southern States are facing a loss of more than 500,000,000 dollars as a result of the ...
Article : 119 wordsRefugees from Vilna who have reached Riga deny that General Zeligowski's forces are Russian or Lithuanian Poles. They assert that these soldiers acted with the ...
Article : 37 wordsM. Leon Bourgeois (President of the French Senate, and French delegate to the Council of the League of Nations) has requested M. Paderewski to inform the ...
Article : 64 wordsWilliam B. Hipsley, president of the Iron Trades Federation, giving evidence before Judge Beeby to-day in the 44 hours week inquiry, said his company, carrying on ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. D. F. Houston) has rejected the farmers' demand for the revival of the War Finance Corporation for the purpose of financing ...
Article : 58 wordsIt has been announced officially that the [?] will cease work to-morrow. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn the course of a speech in the Constitutional Club, London, to-night, Sir Edward Carson said that there could be only two parties in future—those who desired ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Government says that it is prepared to express regret at General Zeligowski's action, but it insists on plebiscites being taken in Kovno and Vilna in order to ...
Article : 50 wordsReplying to the announcement of the [?]ners' leaders as to the conference's decision, the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) calls attention to the gravity of it ...
Article : 118 wordsThirty-one prominent Americans have issued statements explaining their position in the political campaign. All of them advocate some form of international ...
Article : 97 wordsIt has been reported that the leaders of the Social revolutionaries, Spiridovna and Tchernov, have formed an anti-Bolshevik Government in Nijni-Novgorod (Middle ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is now reported that nine persons were killed by the recent explosion as Newross (County Wexford). [A London message of October 13 said ...
Article : 95 wordsTwo Russians who were arrested at the Gare de Lyon, Paris, were carrying false-bottomed trunk with about 72,000,000 roubles in bank notes, the importation of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe newspapers are dismayed at the seriousness of the situation, although they admit that the Government has done everything to avert trouble. The only hope ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Anglo-French loan of 500,000,000 dollars will be matured to-day, and upwards of 200,000,000 dollars will be paid to bond holders by the financial firm of J. P. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Government will not recognise any treaty between Poland and Bolshevik Russia which undertakes to dispose of Russian territory without the consent of the ...
Article : 66 wordsAn armoured car stopped in Phibsborough-street Dublin, while an officer entered a bank. Three men attacked the crew of the car with revolvers, wounding ...
Article : 71 wordsThe shipowners issued an official statement to-night on the water front trouble. This states:—"On August 9, 1917, members of the Sydney branch of the Waterside ...
Article : 301 wordsThe International Postal Conference will probably last a further period of six weks. The agenda paper contains about two thousand propositions, but the principal ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Russio-Finnish Peace Treaty has been signed. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Sinn Fein leader assert that at the end of September the Sinn Fein loan reached the sum of £371,800. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Governor-General has been advised that the King has approved of the following appointments to the British Empire Order:— ...
Article : 748 wordsThe Public Service Commissioner (Mr. G. W. Simpson), in his annual report for the year ended June 30 last, makes some interesting comments on the results of the ...
Article : 966 wordsSicilian peasants continue to occupy great tracts of land, including vineyards and olive and orange groves, and landowners are imploring the Government to protect ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Board of Commerce has prohibited the importation of sugar into Canada, and fixed the maximum retail price of the granulated article at 21 cents a pound, ...
Article : 444 wordsMr. Raeburn, author of "The Mountaincering Art," and Mr. Crawford, members of the Alpine Club London, have just returned from Darjeeling (in the Bihar ...
Article : 266 wordsIt was announced by the manager of the State Shipping Service (Mr. S. S. Glyde) last evening that a compromise had been effected with the crew of the Bambra, who ...
Article : 74 wordsThe sensational fall of all quotations for oil shares in Vienna continues in consequence of the heavy decline of Roumanian oil values in the market, this having been ...
Article : 76 wordsThe acting secretary of the A.L.P. (Mr. H. Millington) said yesterday that he had received a reply from the Minister for Works (Mr. W. J. George) relative to the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe condition of King Alexander has improved, but it is still very serious. There are many rumours that King Alexander's illness is not due to a monkey's ...
Article : 69 wordsThere are possibilities of an extension of the strike of wool, skin, and hide store employees, it was learned yesterday. Members of the Butchers' Union. who are so ...
Article : 105 wordsFrom Monday next the c.i.f. selling price of Australian wheat will be 121s. per 480 1b., being an increase of 25s. The prices of other sorts will be raised on an ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Department of the Navy has issued the confidential correspondence regarding the killing of Haitian natives. The documents show that in 1919 Major-General ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. Justice Harvey, sitting in equity jurisdiction to-day, heard an application by the directors of the Federation and Mount Owen Gold Mines (no liability) against the ...
Article : 219 wordsIt is understood that the ring lost heavily by Bracket's victory in the Cesarwitch Stakes Several weathly men backed her, including Mr. James White, the Manchester ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day the hearing was continued of the claim of the A.W.U. (Mining Section) against various mining companies for increased pay and ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Council of the League of Nations will meet in Brussels on the 20th inst., when Signor Tommaso Tittoni (the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Italy) will submit ...
Article : 69 wordsConditions were again reported as fine throughout the State yesterday morning, but light rain, the result of thunder-showers, was recorded at Hall's Creek and ...
Article : 181 wordsA despatch which was issued to-night by the War Office with regard to the Mesopotamia trouble says: "A column from Masiriyeh is advancing to relieve Samawah, and ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Scottish Liberal Federation has passed a resolution in favour of a levy on wealth in order to reduce the burden of the nation's debt. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe count of the Roma group in the Marinoa electorate to-day gave 388 votes to the Country Party candidate and 237 to the Labour nominee, but the votes thus ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association of America reports that the Convention of Sunday Schools of the World passed yesterday a resolution ...
Article : 51 wordsThe master of the s.s. Wandilla, Captain Sim, reports having heard the wireless telephone demonstration which was given at Parliament House, Melbourne, on ...
Article : 73 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 148 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 16 Oct 1920, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: