Numerous questions concerning the Singapore Base continue to be asked in the House of Commons. Replying to Mr. G. Lambert (Liberal), ...
Article : 145 wordsIn replying in the House of Commons to a question with regard to the strike of London tramwaymen, Mr. H. Gosling (Minister for Transport) announced that ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Mr. J. H. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Colonies), expressed the Government's deepest sympathy with the vic ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Washington Correspondent of the New York "Evening Post" says:—The Leader's of the House of Representatives are making frantic efforts to absolve ...
Article : 167 words"Don't say, "This is how we do it in England.' Nothing is more irritating to an Australian mistress." This advice was tendered by Miss Margaret ...
Article : 152 wordsWith the rapidity of a kaleidoscope, the political situation changed colour yesterday. On Monday night it seemed that the elections would result in 27 ...
Article : 419 wordsThe Reparations Commission has pub-lished a statement regarding the sums which Germany has paid through the commission up to December, 1923. The ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Ramsay Macdonald, accompanied by Messrs. H. Gosling and T. Shaw, met Lord Ashfield and Mr. E. Bevin in the House of Commons, after which he ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Commander Bellairs (Conservative) asked whether, in view of the gravity of the issue with regard to the time required to ...
Article : 122 wordsWith extraordinary promptitude the Court of Inquiry into the London tramwaymen's strike has issued an interim report, stating, inter alia, that nobody ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. J. H. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Colonies) said that the British migration delegation which visited ...
Article : 72 wordsThe House of Representatives, having concluded its major legislation succumbed to the prevailing inquisitorial mood and adopted unanimously motions ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the inquest in Queenstown on the British soldier who was killed in Friday's affray, a verdict was returned of wilful murder by a bullet would ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Earl of Harrowby, on Monday had an informal conference with the executive of the New settlers' League, during which immigration matters were ...
Article : 485 wordsThe Australian Exhibition Advisory Council has obtained an undertaking from Sir Alan Burgoyne, of the Australian Wine Importers, Ltd., from whom the ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the House of Chambers this evening, in reply to Viscount Curzon Conservative), Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said that the replies from the Governments of the ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons in reply to questions, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said that the Government did not intend to introduce a Miners' Minimum Wages Bill in ...
Article : 51 wordsNational troops and irregulars were engaged in the mountains at Rassan, sin County Leitrim. A National officer was shot dead.—Reuter. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Department of Agriculture says that the reports indicate that the planting of cotton this year will approximate to the planting in 1923, when 38,827,000 ...
Article : 103 wordsThe London "Daily Herald" (Socialist) says that the Labour Party has received the following messages from Dominions' Labourites:— ...
Article : 93 wordsIn a written Parliamentary reply in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. P. Snowden (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said that the estimated ...
Article : 53 wordsThe strike of dock workers here has been settled. [A Hamburg message of March 11 said:—The dock labourers struck this ...
Article : 43 wordsSpeaking at the annual dinner of the British and Overseas Banks' Association, Sir James Stevenson the chairman of the Exhibition Board) said that more ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe inaccessible nature of the Thames-side district where the steamer Matatua collided with the steamer American Merchant has delayed the recent of authentic ...
Article : 231 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, at the report stage of the Army Estimates, the opposition tried to obtain a definite statement of policy regarding Dominions ...
Article : 119 wordsThe House of Representatives adopted to-day a motion providing for the ap-propriating of 10,000,000 dollars for the purchase of food for destitute women ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Kings Speech an the opening of the Empire Exhibition will be broadcasted. This will be the first time that his Majesty's voice will be transmitted by ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Government of South Australia has underwritten a conversion loan for £1.650.300. The rate of interest is 5 percent, and the price of issue £98 per cent. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe mysterious disappearance of the sailors Anderson and Semmelheck from the schooner Anne in 1921 has been recalled by the trial of Alfred Jaekel on ...
Article : 89 wordsThere is much speculation in Paris and London regarding an interview which took place yesterday between Mr. Ramsay Macdonald and the Comte de St. ...
Article : 110 wordsIn consequence of the large number of conversion applications, some twelve hundred of which are still unopened the amount subscribed for the New South ...
Article : 53 wordsOwning to the terrible mutilation of their bodies, six out of the eight persons who were killed in the disaster which overtook the international express train ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsThe wife of a superior official in the law courts has been arrested on suspi-cion of having murdered two husbands, a mother-in-law, and a brother-in-law. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Financial Editor of the London "Daily Telegraph" says:— It is understood that the underwriters of the New South Wales loan have taken up about ...
Article : 46 wordsNone of the Metatua's dead has been recovered. They lie in their bunks under the water, where they were trapped. Their names are not known at present. ...
Article : 33 wordsWith a greater play to present last night, Mr. Alan Wilkie and his company rose to greater achievements. Whatever be the reason, The Merchant of Venice" ...
Article : 570 wordsMr. A. H. Ashbolt (Agent-General for Tasmania) in a paper which he read to-night on "Empire communication" before the Institution of Aeronautical ...
Article : 71 wordsA seaman of the Matatua (a New Zealander named Moore) said in the course of an interview:—"When the collision occurred twenty-two out of thirty-two ...
Article : 75 wordsAt a private Consistory to-day the Pope announced that Monsignors Patrick Joseph Hayes and George William Mundelein, Archbishops of New York and ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Officer in Charge of Immigration notifies that the following is a list of new settlers due to arrive at Albany by the s.s. Diogenes on or about April 5:— ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Ostend express train was traveling at a speed of about 70 miles an hour when it crashed into the goods train. Some gas reservoirs in a waggon ...
Article : 101 wordsMRS. EDITH CO WAN (West Perth). J. THOMSON (Claremont). J. T. DAVIES (Guildford). L. L. CARTER (Leederville). ...
Article : 38 wordsJ. B. SLEEMAN (Fremantle). T. A. L. DAVY (West Perth). W. D. JOHNSON (Guildford). H. MILLINGTON (Leederville). ...
Article : 47 wordsThe annual dinner of the British and Overseas Banks Association was attended by the High Commissioners for Australia. New Zealand, and India, and other ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following passage occurs in the Pope's allocution:-"We are thankful to those who, following the impulse of Divine grace and their own hearts, ...
Article : 59 wordsSquadron-Leader Maclaren, in the flying-boat Vulture, left Southampton to-day on his fight round the world— ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Legislative Council of Bengal continues to reject the Budget demands. The amount refused to-day totalled 1914 lakhs of rupees, including an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dismissed to-day the appeal in the case of Cooke versus the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 172 wordsA serious situation has arisen as a result of the National Assembly, after stormy scenes, rejecting the article in the new Constitution which empowers the ...
Article : 60 words"Amongst other things. I regret the defeat of Mr. H. K. Maley, who has been a loyal colleague, hard worker, and capable Minister," was the first sentence of ...
Article : 485 wordsSixty-eight members of the Croatian Peasants' Republican Party arrived in Belgrade, and took the oath of loyalty to King Alexander in the Skupstina ...
Article : 125 words"It is now quite clear." said the Leader of the Labour Party (Mr. P. Collier), "that Sir James Mitchell has absolutely failed to secure from the people the ...
Article : 330 wordsThe arguments to-day in the Russell Appeal case before the Appellate Tri-bunal of the House of Lords turned upon the position of the child. ...
Article : 393 wordsMr. Ramsay Macdonald announced in the House of Commons to-night the receipt of a communication from Lord Derby to the effect that he was not a ...
Article : 375 wordsIn delivering the judgement Lord Cave said that there was no contract between the Imperial Government and the owners of the skin wool; non was there, as ...
Article : 104 wordsActins under the auspices of the Anglican Church Immigration Committee, the ladies' welfare committee connected with St. Luke's Cottes[?], ...
Article : 77 wordsNegotiations with the Royalists having proved unfruitful the Government presented a motion in the National Assembly for proclaiming the abolition of the ...
Article : 103 wordsThat the arrangements for absorbing immigrants in rural employment have worked satisfactorily was disclosed at a meeting of the Perth Chamber of ...
Article : 293 wordsReferring to the judgment of the Privy Council in the skin wool case. Sir John Higgins, the chairman of the Commonwealth of Australia Central Wool ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) states that the year's financial operations ending on March 31. will show a surplus as large or better than last ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Assembly to-day carried a resolution in favour of the overthrow of the dynasty and the establishment of a republic.—Reuter. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe president of the P.P.A. (Mr. A. J. Monger) returned to Perth from York yesterday. When a West Australian" representative sought him at the Weld ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 26 Mar 1924, Page 9
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