A most important development to-day in the direction of intensifying the dock strike was the refusal by 10,000 London carmen to handle goods from the docks, wharves, ...
Article : 793 wordsThe entire Chinese press reports that Sun Yat-sen has decided to adopt a soviet form of government for the Kwangtung province, by which lands and industries ...
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Article : 571 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The match between Victoria and South Australia was resumed at noon to-day. The wicket was soft. After luncheon the wicket gradually ...
Article : 340 wordsAngus Murray, aged about 40 years, appeared before Mr. Justice Mann in the Criminal Court yesterday on a charge of having murdered Thomas Reginald Victor ...
Article : 2,295 wordsAlthough the large number of applicationa on the waiting list for telephones will be reduced greatly by the extension of tht existing exchanges and the ...
Article : 932 words4 Reuter message states that the French franc has fallen to 105 to the pound sterling, and the Belgian franc to 125 to the £1. ...
Article : 689 wordsIn moving in the House of Commons a series of financial resolutions extending the aggregate of loans guarantecable under the Trade Facilities Act from £50,000,000 to ...
Article : 612 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that, though most of the Separatists have left the Bavarian Palat[?]nate or departed to France to serve in the ...
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Article : 204 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that the continuance of sensational charges is destroying the reputations of public men who are ...
Article : 157 wordsBy the sale of their premises at 32-34 Flinders street to McMillan and Co. Ltd. for £17,000 and the purchase of Jolimont square, Wellington parade, for £25,OOO, the ...
Article : 498 wordsThomas Ball, a leading figure in English football, who played half-back for Aston Villa, on returning to his home in Birmingham after a match in November, met his ...
Article : 807 wordsMembers if the general purposes and legislative committee of the City Council attended a special meeting yesterday, when they discussed the gas position following ...
Article : 128 wordsConversations between Senator Wilson and the chairman of the Australian Tariff Board (Mr. Oakley), and the Canadian Ministers, Messrs. Robb and Low, have ...
Article : 158 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—From authoritative sourees it was learned to-day that Mr. Brandfield, in his report to the Minister for Works (Mr. Ball), favoured the ...
Article : 380 wordsA continuance of the dock strike is likely to interfere seriously with the migration arrangements of the Commonwealth. The authorities have notified 245 migrants due ...
Article : 471 wordsExplaining the position of the board regarding the Lonsdale street line and the traffic congestion in Swanston street, the chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr. A. ...
Article : 517 wordsBEISBANE, Wednesday.—Referring to the Ministry's purchase of 4,500 tons of British Coke. the Acting Minister for Mines (Mr. Stopford) to-day stated that Mount ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Marquis of Graham, who is a wellknown yachtsman, and Lieutenant Commander Newcombe, who lost a limb while serving with, the navy at Gallipoli, were ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Grimsby fish trade is "held up" owing to a strike of members of the National Union of Railway-men employed in checking consignments of fish. The result ...
Article : 140 wordsReferring yesterday to the war gratuity redemption loan, the Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Page) said that the recent increase in interest rates was in no way due ...
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Article : 121 wordsThe Bank of England invites applications for £1,800,000 of 5 per cent. debenture stock at 98½ in respect of which the British Government guarantees the principal and ...
Article : 75 wordsSYYDNEY, Wedesdy.—Additional particulars respecting the personal history of William David Wade. who was found dead with his wife in their flat at ...
Article : 168 wordsAn infantry man named Flour is the unhappy victim of a comedy, owing to the authorities insisting that he died in 1916 and was buried at Bar-le-due. The ...
Article : 186 wordsWith a request that the Ministry should rectify the anomaly that prevchts women being appointed justices of this peace, the National Council of women, ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Lord President of the Council (Lord Parmoor), in the House of Lords, said that the Cabinet was introducing a Criminal Justice Bill, under which the penalty ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Central Police Court to-day Thomas Bernard Hooper, aged 39 years, and Vera Crichton, aged 23 years, were charged on warrant ...
Article : 220 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The following scamen, of whom the first mentioned were fined the previous day for having been absent from the steamer Port Curtis ...
Article : 180 wordsThe joint committee of the Save the Children Fund and Armeuian Relief Fund has received the following cable message from Dr. Kennedy, chief administrator of ...
Article : 212 wordsIn reply to Mr. H. Becker (Independent Unionist), in the House of Commons, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Hartshorn) said that the Cabinet had not granted a ...
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Article : 152 wordsHaving won the day on the most controversial features of the Finance Bill, namely, the authorisation of the Ministry to reduce expenditure by decree and ...
Article : 171 wordsBy arrangement, Mr. E. Clanville Hicke (secretary of the Lord Mayor's Fuhd), visited South Kensington y'esterday and addressed the employees at the warehouse ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe railways standing committee will hear evidence as under regarding the question of railway connection with the Lower Tar[?]ln and Anderson's Inlet district:—Tuesday, February 26, at ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 21 Feb 1924, Page 9
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