By special arrangement the Australian Press Association is receiving progress messages from the french aviator, Etienne Poulet, descriptive of his flight to Australia. ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Prime Minister (Mr.Hughes) faced a meeting of about 1,000 returned soldiers at the Protestant Hall this afternoon. He appealed to them ...
Article : 1,450 wordsA London report which has reached New York states that the greater part of General Yudenitch's force which failed in the endeavour to reach Petrograd and has since ...
Article : 128 wordsThe United States Senate, by 55 votes to 34, on Wednesday defeated the motion for the ratification of the Peace Treaty with the Republican reservations attached, ...
Article : 599 wordsAllegations regarding the difficulties experienced in obtaining bricks for building purposes were made in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by Mr. Snowball (Nar., ...
Article : 806 wordsA message to returned members of the A.I.F., prepared for the Repatriation department, has been issued by BrigadierGeneral H. E. Elliott. General Elliott ...
Article : 1,132 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.— In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr.Carmichael directed attention to the statement by the Premier of Western Australia, that his Government ...
Article : 265 wordsThe biggest highway robbery in recent years is reported from North-west Cork. Masked thieves wearing their clothes inside out, and with bags tied over their ...
Article : 83 wordsA verdict of accidental death was recorded at the inquest on the bodies of the Australian aviators Captain R. Douglas and Lieutenant J.G.L. Ross, who were killed ...
Article : 635 wordsThe Prince of Wales during his stay in New York has visited some of the most famous skyscraper buildings the Slock Exchange, and the horse show. He was also ...
Article : 308 wordsMr.A.K.Thompson, who is contesting the Maribyrnong seat as a member of the national Labour party, addressed a meeting at the Brougham street Methodist ...
Article : 516 wordsA new suggestion was made by Mr. Justice Higgins in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday as to working hours at Broken Hill during the hearing of the ...
Article : 687 wordsThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace reports that the direct cost of the war to all the nations was £37,200,000,000. and the indirect cost more ...
Article : 50 wordsBorings made in Derbyshire reveal vast new coalfields cast of the "Dukerics" area. The chairman of the Ebbw Vale Coal Company, in Wales, stated that some of ...
Article : 72 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for the Navy (Sir Joseph Cook), speaking at the Millions Club luncheon to-day, said:— "All must regret the decisions recently ...
Article : 233 wordsFigures supplied by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics show an estimated increase for October of 5.6 per cent. in the average prices of food and ...
Article : 491 wordsIt is estimated in New York that not moro than 50 per cent of the striking coalmines have returned to work. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr.Hughes) has sent the following letter to Mrs.W.Douglas, Flinders street, West Townsville, Queensland, expressing sympathy on behalf ...
Article : 361 wordsfuther evidence regarding the congestion of good traflic in Victoria and the reported shortage of trucks was heard by the Railways Standing Committee, which sat at ...
Article : 650 wordsAnnouncements regarding Meetings to he Held To-day will be found on Page 4. ...
Article : 15 wordsSir,— As there appears to be some misapprehension among the "diggers" concerning the working of the premium bond sheme, it may be of interst to your ...
Article : 319 wordsResults of the French elections, in which the Republicans, led by M. Clemenceau, triumphed over the Socialists, show that the following have been elected:—General ...
Article : 193 wordsBOWEN (Q.), Thursday.—A message from Proserpine states that at a meeting of the citizens' committee, held to-day, it was decided by 140 votes to 5 to adhere to the ...
Article : 52 wordsDuring the month of October the Repatriation department found positions throughout the Commonwealth for 6,006 returned men, as follow:—New South Wales, ...
Article : 419 wordsPrompt response by a detachment of the Footscray Fire Brigade to a call from Wm. Anglies and Co.'s Freezing Works, in Lynch street, Footscracy, last night, averted what might have ...
Article : 154 wordsThe International Labour Conference now sitting in Washington has agreed to the principle of the 48-hour week and the eight-hour day for all countries, with ...
Article : 40 wordsA robbery from the steamer Plassy which is berthed at the new pier. Port Melbourne was reported to the Detective Office yesterday. On Wednesday morning it was found that the door of one ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—In the Legislatie Assembly early on Thursday morning the Minister for Housing (Mr. Hall) introduced a bill to provide for the control of necessary ...
Article : 772 wordsSir,— On behalf of my association, I desire to direct attention to the electioneering speech ot Mr.W.C.Hill pesident of the Farmers' Union at Warracknabeal. Mr. ...
Article : 346 wordsAn American syndicate with a capital of £40,000,000 now in England has placed orders for £20,000,000 worth of British goods, but they say that everywhere they ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the House of Commons on Wednesday it was announced by the leader of the House (Mr. Bonar Law) that the Government had decided to stop the payment of ...
Article : 115 wordsLate last night, a fire, the origin of which is unknown, destroyed a wooden storeroom and damaged portion of the workshops connected with Fort Gellibrand, in Morris street, Williamstown. In ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Child Welfare Exhibition in the Town Hall has reached its fifth day, and public interest shows no sign of waning. This afternoon the Free Kindergarten Union will give a display, and a programme ...
Article : 52 wordsA denial to a report that tramway-men had threatened to strike against the display of certain Nationalist election posters being displayed in trams was given yesterday by ...
Article : 303 wordsA plot at Philadelphia to kill Federal officials by meaus of bombs in Christmas parcels is alleged to have been discovered to be due to the I.W.W. ...
Article : 33 wordsSir.—For some considerable time my daughter has had to pass through Queensberry street, at the corner of Lothian street, to go to her home in Williamstown after ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—Replying to a statement made by Mr. Theodore, Premier of Queensland, published in "The Argus" to-day, we would state that the duty on imported jam is ...
Article : 145 wordsSir,— A paragraph which appeared in "The Argus" to-day under the heading, "Citizen Soldiers Being Replaced," may lead the publie astray as to the service of ...
Article : 134 wordsAt 5 o'clock yesterday morning Conntable [?] by of Conterbuty, was informed that the body of a woman lay on the railway between the surrey Hills and canterbuty stations. The coustable found that ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 21 Nov 1919, Page 7
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