With a considerable amount of business on the notice paper, both Houses of the State Parliament began early yesterday coming with the object of getting through ...
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Article : 445 wordsCriticism of an appointment made by the Commonwealth Government in the newly created Pacific Islands branch took place at the meeting last evening of the committee ...
Article : 308 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League held last evening, it was reported that soldiers' ...
Article : 194 wordsThe president of the 4th Infantry Brigade Association (Brigadier-General C. H. Brand) desires members to form a strong-post at the Melbourne Town Hall, ...
Article : 266 wordsIn response to a message of welcome the Naval Boa[?] has received the following telegram f[?] tom General Sir William Birdwood: ...
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Advertising : 51 wordsHis. Majesty the King has bestowed the following honours on the crew of the Vickers-Vimy aeroplane which won the Commonwealth prize of£10,000 for the first ...
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Article : 68 wordsEfforts are being made to introduce flaxgrowing and the linen industry in the south of Ireland. A big factory is being constructed in ...
Article : 54 wordsThere was lively competition at the opening of the Antwerp wool sales on December 20. Of the 9.600 bales offered practically all were sold at from 5 to 10 per cent, below ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Snowball (Nat., Brighton) asked whether the Ministry would take the necessary steps to ensure that all machinery, ...
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Advertising : 21 wordsFurther inquiries into the attempted assassination of Lord French, Viceroy of Ireland, show that the firing began 50 yards from. Ashtown station (three miles from ...
Article : 538 wordsAt Corrofin, county Clare, an attempt to derail a train was made, stones being placed on the track. The train struck them, and sustained some damage, but nobody was ...
Article : 165 wordsSpeaking at Liverpool on December 20, Mr. Bonar Law (leader of the Government in the House of Commons) said that the Irish problem was the most perilous any ...
Article : 151 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the Chamber of Mines in Johannesburg, Mr. Wallace, the president, declared that the premium on gold, which was now 28 per cent., had ...
Article : 122 wordsIt was reported in New York on Monday that a mutiny had occurred on board the United States steamer America, which was conveying the members of the American ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsALBURY (N.S.W.), Tuesday.—A recent conviction at Albury of Councillor J. H. Balfour, of Culcaira Shire Council, on an information charging him with having ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsAdvices reaching America from Paris on Sunday were that the Allies had definitely decided to sign the Peace Treaty before Christimas. ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the conclusion of the welcome at the Guildhall, London, on his return to London, the Prince of Wales drove to the Mansion House to luncheon with the Lord Mayor, ...
Article : 159 wordsThe British attacked the Mabsud tribesmen in the hills west of Zam on December 20. Only two battalions were employed, and, unexpected resistanee being met with, ...
Article : 139 wordsA wireless message from General Denckin (the anti-Bolshevik leader in Southern Russia) reports that the Bolsheviks, after occupying Voronesb. shot 5,000 men, who ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Bonar Law (leader of the Government in the House of Commons), in a speech at Liverpool, said that the talk about a general election in February, as suggested ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is reported from Washington that Mexicans at Mazatlan arrested a number of American sailors, and have refused to release them. The State department is ...
Article : 39 wordsIn regard to the dispute at the Simmer Deep mine, on the Rand, the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines has reverted to its original position, and a conference has been ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited shows a profit for the year of £254,576, out of which a dividend of 15 per cent." (tax free) is paid on deferred shares, ...
Article : 135 wordsBolshevik sympathisers, led by a woman, attempted to rescue undesirables who had been taken to Ellis Island, in New York Harbour, preparatory to being deported. ...
Article : 43 wordsAs he was on his way home early yesterday evening Mr. E. McCoimig, manager of the "Elsternwick Times," found a young man lying in a yard at the rear of premises ...
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Advertising : 118 wordsARARAT, Tuesday.—In the Police Court to-day, Mr. E. Harrison, P.M., continued the hearing of the case in which Harold Thompson Williams, aged 25 years, clerk, of ...
Article : 1,360 wordsFigures presented to the State "Parliament by the Closer Settlement Board show that up to the end of last financial year the area of land acquired for closer settlement ...
Article : 181 wordsLatest movements of inward bound transports are as follow:- Ormonde, due at Adelaide to-day, Melbourne Friday. Medic, due at Adelaide noon to-day. ...
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Advertising : 20 wordsFurther progress figures of the Federal elections were made available last night. No changes of importance were recorded in the case of the Senate, and the only ...
Article : 112 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—The final result of the election for the Bendigo feat in the House of Representatives was announced at 6 o'clock this evening by the returning ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 28 wordsHOBART. Tuesday.—The final stage of counting for the Federal elections was entered upon yesterday, but will not be completed until after the holidays. For the ...
Article : 159 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The first count in the Federal elections in this State to be declared final is that of South Sydney, where Mr. Riley (Labour) is elected with a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 462 wordsBENDIGO,Tuesday.—At a social reunion of the managerial staff of the Beadigo Amuigiimated [?] Company this evening the general manager (Mr. A. B.P. ...
Article : 228 wordsIn the pictorial section of "The Australasian,"published to-day, prominence is given to some interesting pictures of the means of transportation used in remote ...
Article : 560 wordsSir James Barrett, chairman of the committee of management of the recent appeal to provide further musical education for Miss Dorothy Murdoch, announces that the ...
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Advertising : 59 wordsSir John Monash is the A.I.F. personified. That is to say, he is a citizen turned into a "first-class fighting man" by force of circumstances and the accident of war, rather ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 24 Dec 1919, Page 7
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