The President of the British Board of Trade (Mr. W. Graham), addressing the Assembly of the League of Nations to-day, paid a tribute to the work of the ...
Article : 953 wordsSurprise is expressed by the Conservative press at the statement made at the meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva on Friday ...
Article : 220 wordsAt 8.45 o'clock to-night the Bruce-Page Ministry was defeated by 35 votes to 34 on an amendment, moved by Mr. Hughes, to the Maritime Industries (Abolition of Arbitration) Bill. The amendment was designed to delay the operation of the bill until the people had been consulted, either by means of a referendum on the provisions of the bill or by a general election. ...
Article : 345 wordsThe British oil tanker Vimeira took fire to-day in Rotterdam. Three of the crew jumped overboard, and were drowned, and 12 others are missing. It ...
Article : 126 wordsAt Caisnot to-day Squadron-Leader Orlebar made several runs over the speed course in one of the practice machines in preparation for his attempt ...
Article : 208 wordsPreserving admirable order and discipline all 60 passengers and 150 officers and crew were safely landed when the liner Highland Pride (7,469 tons, o[?] ...
Article : 193 wordsA frightful scene was witnessed to-day, when frenzied men with their clothes burning vainly sought to escape from the flames on the burning British ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Agents-General of the Australian States and representatives of the Marketing Board, with migration officials and members of the executive of the ...
Article : 69 wordsExpectations by officers of the Hydro-Electric Department that the fault in the power transmission line to the northern part of the State would be remedied by ...
Article : 594 wordsCompetition at the wool sales to-day was more spirited than at the opening of the series on Monday. Buyers for Bradford and Japan ...
Article : 664 wordsDeclaring that the marriage of persons afflicted with insanity constituted a danger to the future race, Dr. Bernard Hollander, addressing the International ...
Article : 195 wordsIndignation was expressed in the lobbies to-night by several Ministers at the action of the Speaker in refraining from registering his vote in the Chamber on the vital amendment moved by Mr. Hughes. Sir Littleton Groom's absence from the division lost the Government one vote, in addition to that already lost through Mr. Bayley being in the Chair during the committee stage. It was said by ...
Article : 211 wordsA shipment of Ayrshire cattle bought by the Prince of Wales for his Alberta ranch has been debarred from Canada under an order prohibiting the entry ...
Article : 79 wordsPRINCIPALS IN POLITICAL DRAMA As expected, when the House of Representatives met this afternoon the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) sought the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 606 wordsIt is understood that M. Litvinoff's recent statement in Moscow on the question of the resumption of Anglo-Russian relations is regarded in official ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Colonial Office states that reports received from Palestine this morning aro to the effect that the situation is quiet. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe President of the British Board of Trade (Mr. W. Graham) made a statement to journalists to-day to the effect that negotiations for the ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Hughes, in moving his amendment to clause 2—"That the bill should remain in abeyance"—said that the bill would effect a profound change in the ...
Article : 849 wordsA new co-operative Cabinet and the Premier (Mr. J. T. M. Anderson) were sworn in to-day. The former Ministry (Liberal) had held office for 24 years, ...
Article : 51 wordsOne of the results of the British mission to the Argentine has been the negotiation of a provisional agreement. Details of this provisional agreement are ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Storemen and Packers' Union of Australia, which concluded its tenth Federal Conference to-day, decided to request the Federal Ministry to ...
Article : 185 wordsMystery surrounds the death of Miss Norman Rhys McLeod, 29 years, of Manderville Crescent, Toorak, who was found by her ...
Article : 388 wordsMr. Bruce said that the amendment moved by Mr. Hughes was one that the Government could not possibly accept. It was absolutely untrue that those ...
Article : 904 wordsA man and his wife were attacked in their home at Collingwood this morning. Both were slashed on the head and neck. The victims are John Thomas Lovell, 60 ...
Article : 108 wordsThe probable effect of the proposed American tariff increases on Australian trade was discussed to-day by Mr. C. L. Westcott (Australian and New Zealand ...
Article : 257 wordsKarl Kurtz, otherwise von Elthelm, who shot Mr. Woolf Joel at Johannesburg in 1898, and was acquitted on the plea of self-defence, was to-day ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. H. C. Gibson, of Melbourne, trades union nominee in the Commonwealth delegation to the recent International Labour Conference at Geneva, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 11 Sep 1929, Page 7
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