The Council of Fourteen on which the German delegates sit spent a very quiet day, but political observers agree that the proceedings may enter a difficult ...
Article : 185 wordsIn a statement which he has issued Sir James Craig (the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) reiterates his offer to meet. President Cosgrave (of the Irish ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), the Minister for Home and Territories (Senator Pearce), Senator Wilson (Honorary Minister), and the Premier ...
Article : 768 wordsMr. W. G. Gibson (the Postmaster-General of Australia) was interviewed to-day on his return from Scotland. He expressed his great regret that Mr. P. ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. Donald Mackinnon (the Australian Commissioner to the United States) returned to-day from the Southern cotton States where he investigated the ...
Article : 92 wordsWork was resumed by the Newcastle coal trimmers at 9 o'clock this morning. Shipping in the port is very congested, and many interstate and overseas ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Davis Cup tie between Mexico and Australia was concluded to-day on the courts of the Baltimore County Club. In the doubles O'Hara Wood and ...
Article : 675 wordsAt the Oval to-day the weather was fine, and the wicket good. There was an attendance of 2,000. The South Africans finished their innings for 418. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Anglo-Russian Treaty was signed this evening—by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald (Prime Minister) and Mr. A. W. Ponson[?] (Under Secretary of State for ...
Article : 69 wordsAt a compulsory conference held on Saturday respecting the Wongawilli coal strike, a proposal was made by the Special Commissioner for Conciliation (Mr. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe King's signature is not among those which are appended to the Treaty. This is the first time in the British history that such an omission has ...
Article : 127 wordsA message from Wollongong states that the timber workers at the Metal Manufactures Company's works at Port Kembla ceased work because their ...
Article : 81 wordsThe police authorities here arrested to—day more than two hundred Chinese on charges of having gambled and conducted lotteries in Chinatown. The Chinese ...
Article : 53 wordsThere were 3,000 people present at Portsmouth to-day, and there was a splendid wicket for the match between South Africa and the United Services. ...
Article : 592 wordsCaptain Festu, of the Australian Commonwealth liner Coo-ee, bound from Great Britain to Australia, tells an interesting story of a wireless appeal for ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page) chose the occasion of the Farmers and Graziers' Co-Operative Co.'s annual luncheon to representatives of the ...
Article : 859 wordsMr. William calder (chairman of the Country Roads Board of victoria) has returned to New York after an inspection of the State roads along the Atlantic ...
Article : 153 words"You have two alternatives. You can either take direct action or come to the Court. If you adopt the former course, however, you get no assistance from the ...
Article : 165 wordsThat hitches have arisen at the London Conference in connection with the question of the date of the evacuation of the Ruhr territory has been asserted by ...
Article : 139 wordsThe London "Daily Herald" (Labour) says:—"The unique preamble to the Anglo-Russian Treaty was chosen not only for the reasons quoted by the London ...
Article : 189 words"To Canada belongs the credit of being the country where the foundations were laid of discoveries which are now revolutionising the theories of chemistry and ...
Article : 140 wordsAfter a meeting of the Cabinet, which lasted for three and a half hours, it was announced this morning that M. Herriot (the Prime Minister). M. Clementel (the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Borda has landed at Greenwich the trimmer Findlay, belonging to the Coo-ee, who was operated on for acute appendicitis by Dr. Ivan Corbett, and is ...
Article : 34 wordsThe minutes of an award for engineers and carpenters engaged in the mining industry in the Eastern Goldfields were issued by the Arbitration ...
Article : 832 wordsThe Italian aviator. Deputy Locatelli, who is attempting to fly round the world, landed to-day at Kirkwall (Orkney Islands).—Reuter. ...
Article : 30 wordsCity circles are amazed at the terms of the agreement. There is influential opinion to the effect that the Stock Exchange should veto dealings in ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following semi-official statement was issued at the conclusion of the Cabinet meeting:—"The French Government, in agreement with other Allied Powers in ...
Article : 256 wordsIt was announced to-day that the Air Council had decided to encourage the formation of aeroplane clubs throughout the country by assisting financially for ...
Article : 62 wordsTo combat smugglers from the United States the number of Customs inspectors will be increased by Canada. At points where the highways cross the ...
Article : 92 wordsIn addressing the anthropological section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Thomas Wingate Todd, the well-known ...
Article : 197 wordsWith reference to the report received from Iceland that Rear-Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, of the American Hagship Richmond, has summoned a conference ...
Article : 169 wordsPatterson informed the Australian Press Association that his present plans provide that Brookes and Schlesinger should participate at Newport in the ...
Article : 152 wordsFrom Edmonton (Alberta) it has been reported that exaggerated stories of the conditions in Canada were taken to Great Britain by some disgruntled harvest ...
Article : 151 wordsA conference of delegates from various soldier settlements throughout Queensland was commenced yesterday at the Returned Soldiers' League offices ...
Article : 422 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (Secretary of State for Home Affairs) announced this evening that, having considered carefully the petitions on behalf of Vaquier ...
Article : 176 wordsThe London "Daily Express" (Labour) understands that a conference on the question of the inter-Allied debts will be held (probably in London), soon after the ...
Article : 43 wordsProfessor Bott, of the University of Toronto, described to-day to members of the British Association his invention for the exhibition of motion pictures in ...
Article : 102 wordsA peculiar double tragedy occurred yesterday in a block of fashionable flats in Jermyn-street, London. Mrs. Geddes rushed downstairs shrieking that her ...
Article : 244 wordsPlaying under ideal weather conditions the Canadians showed brilliant court generalship, outwitting their opponents. The final decision will be reached in the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Reparations Commission signed to-day an agreement with the German Government relative to those parts of the Dawes scheme which are within the ...
Article : 58 wordsPresident Obregon told some pressmen to-day that it was very fortunate that the assassination of Mrs. Rosalie Evans had been shown conclusively to have been ...
Article : 175 wordsDr. F. G. Donnan, C.B.E., F.R.S. (Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry in University College, London), declared in an address to-day that ...
Article : 306 wordsThe United States (says a message from the White House) will be represented officially at any meeting which the Allied Ministers for Finance may ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Trades Union Congress whose previous efforts to have the selection ballot system in the A.L.P. abolished were thwarted by both the State and Federal ...
Article : 229 wordsIn the Southampton tournament Harvey Snodgrass (California) reached the semi-finals of the singles by defeating Norman Brookes, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. It was ...
Article : 81 wordsIn an interview on Saturday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), referring to the appointment of Mr. W. C. Hill as successor to Mr. P. G. Stewart, as Minister ...
Article : 84 wordsIt has been ascertained on good authority that all of the political prisoners who were in the hands of the French and Belgian authorities in the occupied ...
Article : 44 wordsOn the eve of his departure for South Africa, Mr. J. H. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Colonies) in formed a representative of the Australian Press ...
Article : 329 wordsFifty miners were entrapped in the Iriyama coal mine (in the Province of Fukushima) last night, when an explosion of was occurred. It is feared that all ...
Article : 95 wordsHeavy buyings of sterling, based apparently on the announcement that the Allies and the Germans had reached a complete agreement regarding defaults ...
Article : 53 wordsLord Jellicoe, in response to a special invitation from the London "Evening Standard," says:—"The Germans' retreating movements were invisible from ...
Article : 148 wordsAt Bournemouth, in the Hampshire championships. Fisher beat Tuckey, 6-1, 8-6: Bayley beat Mack, 8-6, 6-3. London, Aug. 10. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe rates of pay of members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers have been increased by 1s. a week from August 1. The secretary of the society ...
Article : 78 wordsThe value of the pound sterling reached to-day 4.51 7-8 dollars—a new high record for the year, 1924, representing a gain in excess of ten cents within a ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Brisbane Police Court to-day George Brett (40) and Norman O'Brien (32), on remand, appeared charged with murdering Ernest Hargreaves, who was ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) stated on Saturday that a reply had been received from the South Australian Government rejecting the offer of a bounty ...
Article : 146 wordsProfessor Watson and Mr. Allen (Director of Agriculture) returned from Daly River to-day. The professor spent most of his time dissecting crocodiles, ...
Article : 64 wordsJapanese holiday-makers in the lowns of Hojo and Tateyama (Honshiu) were alarmed last night by a somewhat severe earthanake, which, however, did no ...
Article : 40 wordsDelegates at the conferences of the New South Wales Farmers' and Settlers' Association to-day expressed the opinion [?] the soldier settlement scheme in ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. E. W. Walsh stated on Saturday that he had effected the registration of a union for workers in the sheet plaster and cement goods industry. Previously ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Chinese Foreign Office says that the conference between representatives of China and Russia will probably begin on August 15. The Soviet Government ...
Article : 118 wordsMartin L. Jackson, aged 60 years, a schoolteacher, who was visiting Northam to recuperate from a nervous breakdown, disappeared from his residence in ...
Article : 83 wordsThe London "Evening Standard" publishes a cable message from Lord Jellicoe repudiating emphatically the recent contention of Admiral Scheer to the ...
Article : 75 wordsA fight occurred among the natives for the possession of a lubra, and a spectacular duel between two men resulted in one being knocked out with a club. The ...
Article : 66 wordsWhile installing a gas meter in a butcher's premises at Balmain on Saturday William Edward Kidley, aged 64, of Leichhardt, a master plumber, was ...
Article : 57 wordsNominations for the Buranda by-election necessitated by the resignation of Mr. Huxham, closed on Saturday. Two candidates will go to the poll on ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 11 Aug 1924, Page 7
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