BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) had, if possible, a busier day to-day than yesterday, but the demonstrations of welcome were quieter ...
Article : 1,174 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Further evidence was given to-day before the Royal commission concerning the administration and operations of the State wheat office ...
Article : 1,115 wordsThe Railways Loan Application Bill, which sanctions the application of £1,770,000 for railway works covering a period of 10 months, ending December 31, 1920, was ...
Article : 850 wordsAn explanation of the arrangements for voting by soldiers at the coming elections was given in the House of Representatives yesterday by the Minister for Home and ...
Article : 1,210 wordsA Bolshevik communique received in London on Tuesday stated:—"Our troops have captured Orel (222 miles S.S.W. of Moscow). Our cavalry in the direction of ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is understood in Washington that the United States will not take part in the work of the commissions provided for in the German Peace Treaty, pending the ratification ...
Article : 48 wordsCaptain G. C. Matthews, of Adelaide, and Sergeant T. D. Kay, of Ballarat, left Honnslow (near London) on the first stage of their flight to Australia on Wednesday, ...
Article : 355 wordsThe declaration made in Brisbane by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) that the Ministry proposed to pay a war gratuity on the basis of 1/6 a day was the topic most ...
Article : 699 wordsA spirited defence of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) against an attack by Mr. Brennan (Cau.) characterised a speech made by Lieut. Colonel Abhott (Nat., N.S.W.), in ...
Article : 1,018 wordsThe output of coal in the United Kingdom during the week of the railway strike was only 2,872,020 tons, compared with 4,481,434 tons for the previous week. ...
Article : 193 wordsIt is understood that the charges against the Rev. Father O'Donnell, army chaplain of the A.I.F., who was arrestcd in Dublin at the end of last week, allege that be ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Vienna correspondent, of the United Press Association states that the Stadtrath (City Council) has passed a resolution asking the United States Congress to come to ...
Article : 53 wordsRepresentatives of the British engineering and shipbuilding trade unions interviewed the Minister for Labour (Sir Robert Horne) on Monday to demand that the present ...
Article : 66 wordsSpeaking at the opening of the Unionist Congress at Blocmfontein on Tuesday, the leader of the Unionist party (Sir Thomas Smartt) said:—"The position of the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Emir Feieul, son of the King of the Hedjaz, in Astatle Turkey, who has been on a visit to London, has gone to Paris, at the invitation of the French Prime ...
Article : 157 wordsA body of 500 soldiers has arrived in New York to perform the work of unloading vessels tied up at the wharves through the strike of wharf labourers. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe brothers "Solly" and "Jack" Joel are the directors, of a private company which has been registered to carry on the diamond mining business of Barnato ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Conservative Ministry in the Canadian province of Ontario, led by Sir W. H. Hearst,has been overwhelmingly defeated at the general election. ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,—The appeal of "Widow and Mother of Three" in "The Argus" to-day is more than justified. The welfare of the soldiers has been studied, and properly received ...
Article : 99 wordsA message from Mexico City states that there is evidence of a German colonisation plan in Mexico. One enterprise is for the irrigation of 200,000 hectares of land in the ...
Article : 75 wordsHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales when on a visit to Ningarn Falls (Canadian shore) on Monday performed the ceremony of presenting medals to 30 local war ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Revision Court at Paris has refused the appeal of Lenoir, the French traitor who was sentenced to death for having communicated with the enemy during the war. ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. L. E. Demole, the Australian who is claiming before a Royal commission in London tha he submitted a model of a steering-chain rail tank to the War Office ...
Article : 199 wordsMr. Higgs (Can., Q.) asked in the House of Representatives yesterday what the Minister intended to do in regard to the Northern Territory, and whether it was ...
Article : 543 wordsThe American tank steamer George H. Jones and the British freight carrier Chicago City (2,324 tons, of Bristol), collided in New York Harbour on Tuesday. The ...
Article : 44 wordsA request was made to the Premier (Mr. Lawson) yesterday by a deputation representing the Australian Workers' Union, that members of the organisation employed ...
Article : 561 wordsButter exhibits from New South Wales won all six prizes in the colonial classes at the Islington Dairy Show. Binnaburra was first at the salted class, and Dorrigo first in ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is announced that Canada is issuing a 300,000,000 dollar (£60,000,000) Victory Loan. Interest is at 5½ per cent., and the loan, which will open on October 27, ...
Article : 36 wordsThirteen soldiers have taken up the easterly portion of Ned's Corner in the Mullee, comprising 194,000 acres of Crown lands, and having invested £12,000 in the ...
Article : 519 wordsPresident Tregoyen, of the Argentine Republic, has summoned a special session of the Argentine Congress, to consider the granting of a loan to the Allies for the ...
Article : 36 wordsMACKAY (Q.), Monday.—At the Circuit Court to-day Jack Fenech, a Maltese, was charged with having wilfully murdered Mick Bugeija, a Maltese, at Rosehill Farm, near ...
Article : 53 wordsTo describe a gill as "stage struck" is a commonplace but a new meaning was lent to the term by the ladies of the chorus in New York theatres, who recently struck ...
Article : 352 wordsSpeaking at the opening of the international Trade Conference, which is meeting at Atlantic City (U.S.A.) to discuss the reestablishment of normal trade relations ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The large number of divorce cases, listed in Sydney latterly led to-day to Mr. Bagnall asking in the Legislative Assembly whether the Premier ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Catts (Can., N.S.W.) asked in the House of Representatives yesterday whether any commission had been paid on the sale of 3,000,000 bushels of wheat in ...
Article : 808 wordsThere was all attendance over 100 members at the first meeting of the newly formed Victorian Tramways Officers'Association, which was held in the Flinders Cafe, Flinders street, last night, ...
Article : 204 wordsAt a special meeting of the Federal Viticultural Council of Australia held in Melbourne the following motions were unanimously agreed to ...
Article : 139 wordsAdvice has been received to the effect that Mr. J. Milward, manager for the Pacific Cable Board in the Pacific, who is at present in Canada, has ...
Article : 87 wordsTO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS. Sir,—Is it not time the Protestant Federation got a "hustle," on, and used their influence in the coming election? I have been ...
Article : 100 wordsAt the close of the recent conference called hy the Melbourne Y.M.C.A., a continuation committee leas appointed to deal with phases of the problem of boy welfare. This committee, which ...
Article : 224 wordsAt the annual conference of the Victorian Railways' Association, which has just concluded, it was desided to remove the headquarters from Ballarat to Melbourne, owing to the increase in ...
Article : 189 wordsAn interestisng judgment was given yesterday by Mr. Justice Hood in the Practice Court on an order to review a decision of the Williamstown Coart respiring Oliver Chanter, as owner of ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Clarke) on Tuesday receival a deputation from the Co-operative Phosphate Company of Australia, which asked for a Government grant of [?] at Spotswood, for ...
Article : 209 wordsUnder a bill introduced by the State Treasurer (Mr. McPherson) in the Legislative Assembly yesterday provision is made for the expenditure of £500,000 on public ...
Article : 106 wordsTO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS. Sir,—The writer, who returned by the transport Euripides yesterday, attended the splendid and patriotic lecture on ...
Article : 133 wordsA telegram was received at the detective office last night from the Adelaide police, stating that the body of a young woman had been found floating, in Torrens Lake. She was wearing a blue enamcilled ...
Article : 155 wordsTonight, at the Assembly Hall, Collins street (upstairs), an address will be given by Lient. Commander Latham, under the auspices of the University Graduates' Association, on "The ...
Article : 45 wordsHaving fallen from a lorry that he was driving in Mordtailoc. John Foster. 65 years of age residing in Fitzroy street, Footcray, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Tuesday night suffering from a ...
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