The newspapers are devoting much space to the test match prospects. It was at first believed that the wicket was unlikely to recover before Friday but later reports ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day the combined building trades unions applied for the consolidation of the existing awards throughout the State so as to have one ...
Article : 177 wordsThe award of the special board appointed to adjudicate upon the claims of the Perth Electric Tramway Employees' Union for increased pay and altered working conditions ...
Article : 1,048 wordsA Bill to authorise the construction of a railway from Piawaning northwards, a distance of about 24 miles, at a cost of approximately £140,000, was introduced ...
Article : 1,644 wordsThe Civil Service Appeal Board, Mr. Justice Northmore (chairman), and Messrs E. A. Mann and J. M. Drummond, continued its sittings in the Practice Court ...
Article : 306 wordsThe committee on the opium and white slave traffic has presented its report. The committee also inquired into India's claim as a great industrial country to be ...
Article : 643 wordsThe Full Court (Mr. Justice Burnside and Mr. Justice Northmore) delivered judgement yesterday in the case of John Stewart and Co., who appealed against a conviction and ...
Article : 477 wordsThe five-masted schooner Inca, bound from Eureka (Pacific coast) to Sydney with a cargo of timber, has been picked up almost derelict by the [?] ...
Article : 271 wordsDisgraceful scenes were witnessed in the Legislative Assembly early this morning while dealing with a Bill that provides for the breaking-up of estates by taking all ...
Article : 263 wordsThe indications point to fine cool weather for the beginning of the first test match to-morrow. The Australian team is known, but the English captain will not ...
Article : 1,859 wordsDuring the continued hearing of the plant of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers against the Adelaide Steamship Co., Ltd. and others, before Mr. Justice ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat until the early hours of Wednesday morning dealing with a number of small measures including a Bill Which is to reinstate Mr. R. D. ...
Article : 597 wordsOf the many Christmas functions which are being provided for the kiddles everywhere at this season, probably few will afford such real enjoyment, both to the ...
Article : 814 wordsThe problem of unemployment is becoming increasingly difficult. It is said that some 240,180 ex-service men are out of work, and that the total number of men. ...
Article : 236 wordsNo waterside work is being done by the lumpers at Mourilyan Harbour, which has been a "storm centre" for some time. The trouble has now spread to Innisfail, where ...
Article : 79 wordsThe announcement has been made of the terms of the appointment of the directors of the note issue department of the Commonwealth Bank. Mr. J. J. Garvan is ...
Article : 206 wordsFollowing upon the demands made by the coal miners and the marine stewards, the Waterside Workers' Federation o' Australia placed before the stevedoring ...
Article : 477 wordsThe record of the tour of the Prince of Wales in Australia, etc., will be published in January. The letterpress will be accompanied by many illustrations. Any profit ...
Article : 190 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the Anglican Synod a motion was adopted directing the attention of members of the Church to the "rumblings of an industrial trouble on a ...
Article : 402 wordsPresident Wilson has appointed Mr. Henry Morgenthau (formerly American Ambassador to Turkey) to be his personal representative to mediate with regarding to ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Percy Hunter, the Federal immigration officer in London, says that Senator E. D. Millen's remarkable fight in the Assembly of the League of Nations in the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Government came in for some lively criticism in the Legislative Assembly last night during the discussion on the Eastimates, when the Home Secretary asked for ...
Article : 535 wordsDuring a conflict at Dunmanway (Country Cork) two civilians were killed, also Canon magner, the parish priest. ...
Article : 216 wordsDispatches from Seoul, the capital of Korea, report the discovery of an extensive assassination conspiracy directed against the Japanese officials in Korea. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Metropolitan Brewery Employees' Union is facing the prospect of widespread unemployment among its members as a consequence of the dispute between the ...
Article : 335 wordsNegotiations are proceeding for a 20-round contest between Carpentier and Burns at Monte Carlo within six weeks. The Prince of Wales conversed with Carpentler for an ...
Article : 35 wordsSenator Millen has explained that be did not vote for the admission of Austria to the League, because he was unaware whether the Commonwealth. Government's ...
Article : 95 wordsFigures made available to-day by the Chief Commonwealth Electeral Officer (Mr. Oldham) indicate that the poll at the election for Kalgoorlie for the vacant seat ...
Article : 443 wordsAn important conference of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science will be held in Hobart from January 5 to 11. A series of papers ...
Article : 166 wordsIn the Anglican Synod to-day the Primate of Australia (Archbishop Wright) explained the declaration of the Lambeth Conference on the matter of Church ...
Article : 287 wordsA Bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives imposing a duty of 15 cents per bushel on wheat and 10 cents on corn. On sheep one year old the ...
Article : 193 wordsM. Georges Clemenceau, ex-Prime Minister of France, who is touring India, arrived at Allahabad to-day. He condented to receive a representative of the Australian ...
Article : 259 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. H. H. Asquith's motion for the reduction of the supplementary vote for the army was defeated by 186 votes to 82. The debate ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is the opinion of the Federal Director of Immigration (Mr. H. S. Gullett) that the machinery created in London and presided over by Mr. Percy Hunter will be in full ...
Article : 188 wordsIn Chambers.—At 10.30, before the Chief Justice: Grundmann v. Unmack and others; Mouritz v. Mouritz. At 12 noon, before Mr. Justice Rooth. ...
Article : 70 wordsIn March last the Roumanian Consolidated Oifields Company sued the British Government for more than £1,250,000 as compensation for the destruction of oil ...
Article : 123 wordsThe case of Robert Newman, who appealed against a decision of Mr. A. S. Canning, P.M., sitting as a Court of Review under the Land and Income Tax Act ...
Article : 163 wordsConstantine arrived here to-day and received a Royal salute of twenty-one guns. He embarked on the Greek warship Averoff for Athens. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the National Scottish Federation of Meat Traders, representing the whole of the retail butchers of Britain, have decided to agitate ...
Article : 76 wordsBy proclamation in the "Commonwealth Gazette" Monday, January 3, is to be observed as a public holiday in all the public offices of the Commonwealth. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 17 Dec 1920, Page 7
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