Increases in the wholesale prices of jam and condensed milk have been sanctioned by the Fair Prices Commission, which consists of Sir James McCay (chairman), Mr. ...
Article : 630 wordsMore than 200 delegates from all parts of the State attended the Victorian State Labour Conference, which opened at the Trades Hall yesterday, and which, as usual, ...
Article : 1,127 wordsThe A[?]lian Press Association learns that the recent condemnation of large quantities of Australia jam, canned fruits, and fruit pulp in London and the ...
Article : 222 wordsThe latest messages from Copenhagen state that a general strike has been declared as a protest against the King's action in dismissing the Cabinet. Danish trade ...
Article : 150 wordsBetween 50 and 100 armed men attacked the police barracks at Durrus (in County Cork) at midnight on Wednesday. They dropped petrol and explosives down the ...
Article : 1,466 wordsAmongst those on whom the Order of the British Empire has been bestowed for war services are the following:— KNIGHT COMMANDERS. (K.B.E.) ...
Article : 365 wordsH.M.S. Renown has passed safely through the Panama Canal. A huge rock was discovered at the bottom of the channel in the Culebra Cut just before H.M.S. Renown ...
Article : 1,136 wordsThe French Government, acting independently, has refused to permit German Government troops to occupy the Ruhr basin unless urgent necessity arises. It holds ...
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Article : 340 wordsMr. John Hodge, M.P. (Labour) advises the miners to accept the Government's offer. The general feeling is that there is little likelihood of the Miners' Federation giving ...
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Article : 106 wordsGeneral Sir William Birdwood addressed a meeting organised by the Friendly Union of Soldiers' Wives and Mothers at the Masonic Hall on Thursday. He was ...
Article : 335 wordsThe formal opening of the electric tramway service running from North Fitzroy via St. George's road, North[?], to Preston, took place on Thursduy in the presence of ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" saya that 100,000 refugees in the Crimea represent all the gentle-born Russians who have escaped their would-be ...
Article : 68 wordsA sensational incident occurred yesterday afternoon on board the [?] Yeifaku Mayu, a Japanese vessel lying at the Wil[?] pier loading wheat, Shiyabei ...
Article : 247 wordsThe question of whether a big "slump" in shipping freights is imminent [?]s being canvassed in Great Britain. Sir William H. Raeburn, the Coalition Unionist member ...
Article : 406 wordsThe "New York Times" in a leading article commente on Mr. H. Y. Braddon's statement at the recent Chamber of Commerce meeting in Sydney that compulsory ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Herbert Clark Hoover, who was United States Food Administrator during part of the war, and later acted as adviser to the Allies in regard to food supplies and ...
Article : 220 wordsOwing to the fact that there will be no Eight Hours celebrations in Geelong this year, special trains are being chartered to bring the Geelong unionists to Melbourne ...
Article : 167 wordsA Pretoria message reports that grave anxiety has been caused by the increasing prevalence of a severe form of malaria among the farming population of the ...
Article : 49 wordsWith a statement that he had been at[?] and stabbed in City road, South [?]ne, a young man, named C. Oxley, [?] 126 Cobden street, South Melbourne, ...
Article : 86 wordsAfter an all night sitting the House of Representatives agreed to the War Gratuities Bill, and at a quarter-past 6 o'clock on Thursday morning adjourned until April ...
Article : 323 wordsFive Socialist members of the New York State House of Assembly were recently suspended from affiliation with the party, and have since been expelled on charges ...
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Article : 168 wordsAccording to a report received at San Antonio, Texas, Senor Bonillas, the Mexican ambassador to the United States, and a candidate for the Mexican Presidency, ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The attendance at the Royal Show to-day constituted a record, although Good Friday is recognised as the day which attracts the largest crowd. The ...
Article : 221 wordsAt the City Court on Thursday Alice [?]dford, a young woman, was committed [?] the custody of Constable H. Strangway, [?] remanded to appear at Adelaide on a ...
Article : 177 wordsThe revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was £64,1,333,000, an increase of £263,500,000 as compared with the corresponding quarter ot 1919. The revenue for ...
Article : 126 wordsThough the Select Committee of the House of Commons has decided that the taxation of "war wealth" is impracticable, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsThe Railways Reclassification Board on Thursday heard further evidence relating to the application of wages board rates to certain grades of artisans in the railway ...
Article : 154 wordsJohn Finlayson, 38 years of ago, living at Wellington street, Clifton Hill, who was admitted to the Melborne Hospital yesterday morning, told a story of a brutal ...
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Article : 45 wordsCommandant Lasies, who has returned to Paris from a mission to Omsk, in Siberia, undertaken on behalf of the French Government, states that he visited the house ...
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Article : 114 wordsIn addition to the strong central body in Melbourne, branches of the Taxpayers'. Association have now been established in all the provincial cities and most of the ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,—I am a passenger every morning by the 8.40 train from Essendon. The schedule time for the journey from Essendon to Flinders street is 17 minutes. For ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsDuring discussion on the embargo on the export of gold in the Legislative Assembly the Minister for Railways said that the premium on gold had resulted in an ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 3 Apr 1920, Page 11
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