After being entertained it dinner by the Imperial Industries Club, the High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Joseph Cook) delivered a long address on the progress of ...
Article : 487 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The allotting of the preference votes in several of the electorates was completed to-day. In Western Suburbs Messrs. McTiernan, Lazzarini ...
Article : 391 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—For three days Mr. T. C. Brennan, counsel for Colin Campbell Rose, has been engaged before the High Court (the Chief Justice, Sir Adrian ...
Article : 1,525 wordsContributions to the fund for the relief of distresed unemployed soldiers are becoming numerous, and several cheques for £100 were received yesterday by the ...
Article : 395 wordsMAFFRA, Friday.—Interesting speeches on the necessity for a pure milk supply were made by the Premier (Mr. Lawson) and others at the opening of a branch ...
Article : 778 wordsStatements on the decision of the Federal Ministry to place the Commonwealth radio services in the hands of Amalgamated Wireless (Australia) Limited have ...
Article : 1,025 wordsThe Cabinet has agreed that the French policy for the Genoa Conference shall be one of the widest collaboration for the purpose of solving problems of European ...
Article : 67 wordsLeaders of the Northern, or UlsterGovern ment and the Government of the Irish Free State have reached on agreement to co-operate for the restoration of peace in ...
Article : 639 words"Wild men from Borneo" gave a distinctive note of welcome to the Prince of Wales when he braved the blistering heat of Singapore this morning. The Prince ...
Article : 592 wordsMr. Asquith (Ind. Lib.) gave notice of an amendment to the effect that the House, while regretting the limitation of the subjects for discussion at the Genoa ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Mr Chamberlain), replying to questions in the House of Commons yesterday, why it was necessary to take a larger staff to Genoa than to ...
Article : 84 wordsThe United States Senate has ratified the general Chinese Treaty by 65 votes to nil, and the Chinese Customs Treaty by 58 votes to 1. ...
Article : 89 wordsOwing to the absence of the Premier (Mr. Lawson) in Gippsland, the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Clarke) said yesterday that he could not announce details ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—There is a good deal of speculation in political circles regarding the probable composition of the Coalition Cabinet. Inquiries among Parliamentarians ...
Article : 110 wordsTsurum Hamaguchi, a retired lieutenant in the Japanese Navy, has been sentenced to two years' penal servitude, having been convicted of having attempted to sell ...
Article : 48 wordsRegret was expressed yesterday by the secretary for Defense (Mr. T. Trumble) that further dismissals of returned soldiers from the temporary staff at Victoria ...
Article : 125 wordsA by-election for East Leicester, rendered necessary by the appointment of the Attorney-General (Sir Gordon Hewart) as Lord Chief Justice of England, resulted in ...
Article : 104 wordsIn the Senate yesterday, the Minister for Justice (Mr. N. J. de Wet, K.C.) was asked whether the Ministry had received representations from various women's ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" says that it is rumoured in political circles that the Viceroy of India (the Earl of Reading) has resigned. ...
Article : 190 wordsArrangements have been made by the City Council, through Mr. A. M. David, State secretary of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League, to employ 20 returned ...
Article : 287 words"I can only say that it is an indication of a belated, though very gratifying, return to sanity," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) yesterday in referring to the result ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Earl of Donoughmore, chairman of committees of the House of Lords, moved that the Chamber agree to the report of the Committee on Privileges, which ...
Article : 124 wordsTwo hundred rebels in motor-cars carried out the raid on the offices of the "Freeman's Journal" on Wednesday night. The paper issued a small sheet yesterday, ...
Article : 159 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Australian Labour party decided at a meeting to-night to expel from the Labour movement Alderman W. J. Ratcliffe, one of the successful ...
Article : 68 wordsMajor Ormsby-Gore (Coalition Unionist), in a question in the House of Commons to-day, suggested that the Government should consider the desirability of providing that ...
Article : 90 wordsEfforts to amalgamate the various bodies protecting the interests of milk producers supplying the Melbourne market were advanced another stage at a meeting of ...
Article : 658 wordsFifty-two Japanese, including two members of the Diet, six municipal officers, and two directors of the, Tokio Gas Company, have been sentenced to varying terms of ...
Article : 64 wordsInterviewed by the Australian Press Association, Mr. Jowett; M.H.R., who is at present in England, expressed surprise that Imperial Government contracts for the ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Commonwealth loan of £5,000,000 offered at £96 per cent. is redeemable in 1935-45. The final instalment of 50 per cent. is payable on June 16, and six months ...
Article : 404 wordsA report from Moscow asserts that the resignation of the Bolshevik Prime Minister of Russia (M. Lenin) is expected hourly. He has been unable to sign decrees since ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Siamese twin sisters, Rose and Josefa Blazek, died yesterday, a period of only 15 minutes elapsing between their deaths. Josefa was dying of jaundice, and an ...
Article : 46 wordsAn appeal to the public for funds for the Foundling Hospital and Infants' Home, Berry street, East Melbourne, was made yesterday. Buttons were sold in the streets ...
Article : 491 wordsRebel incendiaries caused enormous damage at Belfast, destroying large premises in Great George street and North street. ...
Article : 25 wordsAlbert Lloyd, the Australian heavyweight, won on a foul in the tenth round of his fight with Horace Jones, of Canada, last night. ...
Article : 335 wordsThe condition of the ex-Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary, who is suffering from double pneumonia, is very grave. The last sacrament has been administered. ...
Article : 56 words"I have no doubt in my mind, and I am sure that none of the other members on the committee have any, that Mr. Brennan approved of the greement as our report ...
Article : 469 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons, the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Chamberlain) said that the consideration of the amendments made by the House of Lords to the Irish ...
Article : 80 wordsPromoters of an airship scheme, including the Vickers Company and the Shell Oil group, ask for an annual subsidy of £91,000 from the British Government, and ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr. Harrington Lees) has prepared the following prayer for Ireland, and desires its use by the clergy until further ...
Article : 95 wordsThe finance committee of the Senate has decided that the permanent tariff on wheat shall be 30 cents a bushel, which is a compromise between the Payne-Aldrich tariff ...
Article : 74 wordsArrangements are being made by the Federal Government for extradition of Eric Harold McBride and his wife, Daisie, who have been arrested by the State police at ...
Article : 187 wordsAs a measure of economy His Majesty the King has consented to the Royal yacht Alexandra being laid up and the crew paid off. ...
Article : 91 wordsAlthough the critical position which has arisen in the beef industry was the main subject considered by the Federal Cabinet at its meeting yesterday, the Prime ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Empire Parliamentary Association entertained Sir James Mitchell, the Premier of Western Australia, and Mr. Barwell, the Premier of South Australia, at ...
Article : 170 wordsBarter, No. 4 in the Oxford crew, strained the muscles of his back during practice, and will be unable to row in the University boat race on Saturday. Pedder, the ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—After seeing the filthy state of the Flinders street ends of William and King streets, also the west end of Flinders street, to-day, is there any wonder why ...
Article : 172 wordsAt 6.20 p.m. on Thursday the locomotive of the 5.54 p.m. down passenger train left the trucks at Ettham at the points while crossing the 6.0 p.m. up train. The ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Ministry has introduced a bill transferring all railways and harbours in the mandated South-West Territory to the Union Government. The effect of the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 1 Apr 1922, Page 21
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