It is not the present intention of the Postmaster-General (Mr. Wise) to accede to requests made in his constituency that he should attend publicly convened ...
Article : 206 wordsM. Venezelos, Prime Minister of Greece, has arrived in Paris. It is understood that he is asking King Alexander's consent to the establishment of a republic. ...
Article : 433 wordsThe visit of the Prince of Wales to Victoria came to an end yesterday, when, in the early morning, H.M.S. Renown left Port Melbourne, bound for Jervis Bay and ...
Article : 2,247 wordsThe crisis in the industrial activities of the metropolis which has been threatened for the past few weeks culminated on Saturday night in a general strike of ...
Article : 328 wordsSYDNEY. -- An active canvass is being made among members of the Legislative Assembly in support of a proposal for a substantial increase in their salaries. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsElectric tram services in all parts of the metropolis, except on the North Melbourne-Essendon line, ceased operations at 11 p.m. on Saturday, and remained idle ...
Article : 433 wordsH.M.S. Renown, with the Prince of Wales aboard, experienced light fog and rain as she approached Port Phillip Heads this morning. The fog cleared, however, ...
Article : 119 wordsArrangements are being made by the Taxpayers' Association on behalf of the public bodies interested, for the public meeting of protest to be held in Melbourne ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the People's Federation of Returned Soldiers and Citizens on Friday to consider the salary grab in its relation to returned men it was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsJERVIS BAY. -- A varied programme has been arranged for the Prince of Wales, who will visit the Naval College to-day. The first event will he the entry into the bay ...
Article : 352 wordsMr. Herbert Samuel, who was a leading member of Mr. Asquith's Cabinet, has been made a Knight of the Grand Cross of the British Empire on his appointment ...
Article : 167 wordsBEAUFORT. -- Mr. W. G. Gibson. M. P. for Corangamile, has promised to allot portion of his extra salary to Ripon repatriation committee (Beaufort), for the use of incapacitated soldiers. ...
Article : 170 wordsWhen the employes at Melbourne Electric Supply Company's works at Richmond ceased work on Saturday night no fewer than 50,000 consumers were left ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,--If the letter of Mr. Arthur S. Rodgers, M.P., teaches anything it teaches the lesson to a trusting people that members of Parliament cannot be trusted, especially ...
Article : 234 wordsEven up to the last moment hopes were entertained that the strike of engine drivers and firemen would be averted. It was thought that the leaders would not ...
Article : 1,172 wordsIn view of the extreme urgency of the industrial position the Premier (Mr. Lawson) last night decided that he would call a special Cabinet meeting to- day. Mr. ...
Article : 65 wordsIn consequence of the widespread effects of the strike at Melbourne City Council's power station. Spencer-street, a special meeting of the electric supply committee ...
Article : 43 wordsA party of men shot Constable Carroll dead this afternoon outside the Railway Hotel at Limerick. Several people viewed the crime. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe engine drivers and engineroom staff at the Government Cool Stores, Victoria Dock, were withdrawn by the union shortly after 8 o'clock last night. As there are ...
Article : 111 wordsPutting into effect their decision to cease work at the end of the third shift on Saturday night, the engine drivers firemen employed at the Melbourne City Council's ...
Article : 248 wordsIn supplementing his appeal to citizens to volunteer for service in the gas works the Premier (Mr. Lawson) on Saturday said he did not desire to say one word ...
Article : 142 wordsAlthough a formal, official expression of the appreciation by the Prince of Wales of the labor of those who organised and carried out the arrangements for his ...
Article : 212 wordsBALLARAT. -- In view of the fact that he has to attend an urgent meeting of the Cabinet in Sydney on Tuesday, Senator Pearce will be unable to fulfil his promise ...
Article : 139 wordsSir, -- Mr. Maxwell, M.P., and one of Australia's leading barristers, who thoroughly understands constitutional law. said that in all of his experience in his ...
Article : 94 wordsA Warsaw communique states: -- "The Bolshevists have been repulsed and are now withdrawing on the whole front. Fighting is taking place in territory from which ...
Article : 78 wordsAs a direct result of the strike it has been resolved by the Tramway Board to discontinue the running of cable trams after 6 p.m. each day. In making this ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Minister of Public Works (Mr. Clarke) notified the director of the National Service Bureau on Saturday that he could be counted on as a volunteer for ...
Article : 62 wordsSir, -- The leading articles in last Saturday's issue are deserving of appreciation by all your readers. They are both admirable, but especially so the sub-leader, which ...
Article : 177 wordsSir, -- Seeing that the National Union has denounced the Federal Treasury raiders, it must, to be consistent, support the "anti-grab" candidate in the Ballarat election, ...
Article : 202 wordsA Moscow wireless message states that the trade union congress has decided to send a Bolshevist delegation to England to study the political situation. ...
Article : 29 wordsDuring the Prince's visit to Melbourne Senator Millen offered to Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey for use in the cinema theatre of H.M.S. Renown a 750-feet cinematograph ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Justice Higgins having adjourned the compulsory conference on the gas workers' demands, on Saturday morning, sine die, made the following statement in ...
Article : 793 wordsThe Rockefeller Foundation has given £1,205,000 to University College, London, to assist in medical research. The money will be devoted, among other purposes, to ...
Article : 312 wordsFollowing upon the cessation of work on the part of the men employed at Melbourne City Council's power station, Spencer-street, the Lord Mayor (Cr. Aikman, ...
Article : 179 wordsSir. -- With the objective of repealing the Increased Salaries Act, why cannot an Australian Anti-Grab League be founded at once and temporary office bearers elected ? ...
Article : 114 wordsIf the Prince of Wales could but disclose that which is in his mind he would probably say that the most enjoyable outing has had during his stay in Melbourne was ...
Article : 760 wordsA visit to the hospitals of Melbourne and suburbs last evening revealed the probability of the strike causing, if it is continued for only a few days, not merely ...
Article : 270 wordsSir, -- The electors of Ballarat are thoroughly competent and in every way qualified to elect their own representative without any assistance from advisers outside ...
Article : 291 wordsSir, -- During the progress of the Russian-Japanese war the members of the Japanese Parliament gave half of their salaries to assist to carry on the war. Have we had ...
Article : 143 wordsA conference between representatives of the Metropolitan Board of Works and the union officials controlling the strike took place at the Trades Hall yesterday ...
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Advertising : 139 wordsBALLARAT. -- As a woman was leaving the Savings Bank on Friday afternoon she dropped a roll of fifty £1 notes. The notes were scattered by the wind, and only ...
Article : 37 wordsChurch services in nearly all the suburbs were seriously affected, some more than others, through the failure of their supplies of gas and electricity. ...
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Advertising : 109 wordsECHUCA. -- The Moama police arrested a man named Robert Nelson, a half-cast aborigine, on Saturday on the charge of having caused the death of Ernest Morgan ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 14 Jun 1920, Page 5
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