There was a large and distinguished gathering at a reception and welcome given at the Melbourne Town Hall last night by the Vice-Chancellor of the Melbourne ...
Article : 1,194 wordsThe session of the Federal Parliament, which has lasted since July, 1917, with short recesses, came to an end last night. and the Parliament will be dissolved by ...
Article : 667 wordsHelsingfors has received reports of skirmishing all day in the streets of Petrograd, where the Bolsheviks crushed an attempted rising. ...
Article : 692 wordsViscount French. Lord Licutenant of Ireland, in a speech on Wednesday dealt with the disturbed staee of Ireland. A self-constituted illegal Sinn Fein ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate has approved of five reservations to the ratification of the Peace Treaty and the Covenant of the League of ...
Article : 512 wordsDuring the debate on the Supply Bill in the Senate yesterday, Senator Gardiner (Can., N.S.W.) remarked that the promise of a payment of a war gratuity to the ...
Article : 340 wordsThe President of the Senate (Senutor Givens) yesterday directed the attention of senators to a question of Parliamentary privilege. The had noticed, he said, in ...
Article : 1,096 wordsA meeting of the legislative committee of the Melbourne Chamber of Commcrce, at which others interested were present. was held in the board room of the chamber ...
Article : 1,179 wordsSir,—Every right-thinking person is grateful to our soldiers for what they have done to save us and themselves from the Germans, and their future should be ...
Article : 144 wordsIn spite of the protests against the embargo on the importation of English confectionery, no indication of relief from this imposition has been given. Tile Minister ...
Article : 679 wordsThe French aviator, Etienne Poulet, who is engaged in the attempt to fly from Paris to Australia arrived at Valonn, on the Albanian shore of the Adriatic on ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Minister for the Navy. (Sir Joseph Cook) made the following statement in the House of Represenlatives yesterday, in. regard to the arrangements made to assist ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 415 wordsBefore the adjournment of the Senate last evening, the Minister in charge of the wheat pool, (Senator Russell) stated that he had hoped that a statement could have ...
Article : 437 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— Most of the seven hours spent by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) in Sydney to-day between his arrival from Brisbane and his departure for ...
Article : 956 wordsMr. BOnar Law stated in the House of Commons on Wednesday that the AHics were taking the necessary steps to bring, the ex-Kni-cr tij thill 'directly'lh. Peace ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. William White, whom President Wilson appointee, a member of the aban foned conference which was to have met the BolSheviks at Pinkipo several months ago, ...
Article : 183 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The inquiry by the Royal Commission into the operations and administration of the State wheat office was continued to-day. ...
Article : 427 wordsThe publication of Admiral Jellicoe's report lends interest to the appeal of the Victorian brunch of the Navy League for increased membership and support. The ...
Article : 271 wordsIn connection with the demand of the Peace Treaty that Germany shall hand over to the Allies 14,000 milch cows and 10,000 gouts, British women have presented to ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the industrial conference now sitting in Washington to deal, amongst other matters, with the strike in the steel trade, Mr. Samuel Compers, president of the Labour ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Government of India announces the despatch of a punitive expedition to Waziristan, on the north-western frontier. The Wazirs tribesmen Will be summoned ...
Article : 115 wordsThe State Liquor Control experiment, under which the Curlisle area in the north of England was taken over during war time, shows a net profit for the year, after ...
Article : 105 wordsThe retrospective provisions of the award recently made by Mr. Justice Higgins. under which waterside worker are to be paid 2/3 an hour, an inciense of 6d. an hour on the ...
Article : 416 wordsIn a reply to the criticims of his office which are contained in the report of the Economy Commission, the auditor-general (Mr. J. W. Israel) has presenred a state ...
Article : 211 wordsAt the International Trade Conference in session at Atlantic City (U.S.A.), the members of the Italian mission informed the ...
Article : 69 wordsIn a personal explanation in elfe House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Catts (Cau., N.S.W.) suggested that a reply by Mr. Watt to un intericction of his in the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe employers of the United Kingdom are making a satisfactory response to the appeal by His Majesty the King to absorb thousands of disabled soldiers. Five ...
Article : 77 wordsGermany is despatching delegates to the International Labour Conference which is to be held in Washington next month under the terms of the Peace Treaty. ...
Article : 28 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—At a meeting of the council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation to-dy the unionists' sehcme to attemnt to limit the ...
Article : 150 wordsActing on the advice of a committee of inquiry, the French War Ministry has decided to court-martiol General Fourtueir commandant at Mauseuge (13 miles south ...
Article : 53 wordsThe chairman of the Railways Commissioners (Mr. C. E. Norman) said yesterday that following the procedure customary, immediately ...
Article : 277 wordsThe British Parliament reassembled on Wednesday after the recess. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) and the Prime ...
Article : 92 wordsExperts appointed to examine the charred bones found in the villa at Cambais of Lanuru the Frentchmau who is supeeted of having murdered a number ...
Article : 52 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.— In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Home Secretary (Mr. Huxham) moved that the House, at its next sitting, consider the desirableness ...
Article : 112 wordsNineteen bodies hate been recovered from the Levant tin mine, near Penzance, in Cornwall. where the winding engine collapsed when the men were coming off shift. ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Holborn, Who was Roumanian commander-in-chief in Hungary. has committed suicide at Buchnrest owing to having been recalled lo render an account for. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Unionist Congress at Bloemfontein his unanimously agreed to a resolution accepting the principles laid down by the prime Minister regarding the British ...
Article : 66 wordsThere will be two disembarkations this morning. The troops returning on the s.s. Plassy will land at the new pier, Port Melbourne at 9 o'clock, and those on the ...
Article : 119 words"The "Daily Express". announces that Mr. Arthur Balfour is about to relinquish the office of Sceretary of Slate for Foreign Curzon, and will be succeeded by Earl ...
Article : 61 wordsExtra Sunday trins will be run to Mordialloc and Frankston. commencing to morrow, and continuing until farther notice. The first extra train will leave Flialers street at 10 a.m. for ...
Article : 98 wordsCadbury's Cocoa (absolutely pure), as well as Bouruville (deliciously llnvoured) Cocoa, is now on all grucers shelves.— [Advt.] ...
Article : 26 wordsThe steamer West Point has arrived at New York from Australia with a carg[?] of chronic-ore, said to be the first such shipment from the antipodes. The cargo of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 25 Oct 1919, Page 21
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