As the accounts of the Commonwealth Shipping Board were not available when the auditor-general (Mr. J. W. Israel) presented his last report to the Federal ...
Article : 537 wordsTrial "runs" on the extension of the Hawthorn road tramway tracks from Glenhuntly road to North road, Brighton, having proved satisfactory, a regular service will ...
Article : 139 words"In proportion as the nations make progress in creating effective tribunals for the peaceful settlement of international differences they will find themselves able ...
Article : 135 wordsExtension of the strike of members of the Gas Employees' Union at the West Melbourne Works of the Metropolitan Gas Company was narrowly averted on two ...
Article : 395 wordsIn a memorandum submitted to the State Cabinet yesterday the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Goudie) said that it had been suggested in several quarters ...
Article : 207 wordsMAFFRA, Tuesday. — In the Heyfield Police Court to-day William Patrick Marshall, contractor, of Seaton, was charged before Mr. Bond. P.M., and a bench of ...
Article : 1,795 wordsThe advice of the doctors that the King should recuperate after his illness by enjoying a cruise in his yacht in the Mediterranean has not caused surprise in ...
Article : 274 wordsDelay again marked the departure of the Union line steamer Manuka for Wellington (N.Z.) yesterday. The steamer was to have left the wharf at ll. o'clock in ...
Article : 611 wordsOnly a tentative itinerary has been worked out by the Naval department for the Australian cruise of the United States battle-ships. It is expected to begin on ...
Article : 173 wordslt is understood that a new political party to be known as the "Mobile Transport Party" is being formed. The organisers intend to nominate candidates for ...
Article : 170 wordsIn a little over a week the idle Kintrak 'buses will probably again be running on the old No. 7 route, between Caulfield aud Melbourne. ...
Article : 81 wordsSpeaking at Highbury, Mr. Ammon, M.P., who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty in the Labour Government, said: "When I was a member of ...
Article : 102 wordsIn regard to the statement that a commission will be appointed to carry on affairs of State during the King's absence, it is officially announced that this should ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the Camberwell Council meeting the mayor (Councillor Hocking) reported that the deputation which had waited on the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Coudie) ...
Article : 152 wordsSpeaking at the Birmingham business club yesterday, the Australian High Commissioner (Sir Joseph Cook) said that the nations who were engaged in the Great ...
Article : 111 wordsA special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," after a visit to Jeddah (in the Hejaz, and the principal seaport of Mecca) says that an important mysterious ...
Article : 410 wordsHaving seen as much of Melbourne and its surroundings as was possible in the short space of about 24 hours, the party of American tourists who arrived here on ...
Article : 408 wordsHis Excellency the Governor (the Earl of Stradbroke) has received the following cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonics, in reply to his message ...
Article : 80 wordsYorkshire West Riding textile manufacturers are seriously perturbed at the further reduction in the length of women's skirts. ...
Article : 133 wordsAt a meeting of the Women's Citizens' Movement, held at the Independent Hall yesterday afternoon, Mrs. John Jones, the selected non-party candidate for the ...
Article : 166 wordsProceedings at the meeting of the gasworkers on strike, which was held at the Trades Hall yesterday afternoon, was of a stormy character, and at times the ...
Article : 433 wordsReplying to a question by Mr. Cecil Wilson in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon concerning the decision of the Government to proceed with the ...
Article : 156 wordsThat the Australian Commonwealth Line of steamers should be sold at the earliest opportunity, and that a sale was impossible under the condiitons stipulated by ...
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Article : 93 wordsThe financial results of the British Empire Exhibition are outlined in an official memorandum, which shows that at the close of the exhibition last year the ...
Article : 166 wordsAt the executive meeting of the Housewives' Association held yesterday afternoon the following motion was agreed to: "That we, the executive members of the ...
Article : 122 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.— The Commonwealth Government steamer Dilga is still without a crew. A call made to-day for men to complete the crew of the vessel was ...
Article : 33 wordsWELLINGTON. (N.Z.), Tuesday. — Owing to a shortage in the crew, the Union Steamship Company was unable to despatch the steamer Marama to-day. ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the course of a speech at the Business Men's Club at Birmingham yesterday, the Australian High Commissioner (Sir Joseph Cook) commented upon the new ...
Article : 112 wordsThe secretary to the High Commissioner in London (Mr. M. L. Shepherd), who acted as Australian representative at the Opium Convention, has returned from ...
Article : 109 wordsUnder instructions from the chief inspector of Fisheries and Game (Mr. Lewis), officers of the department are investigating reports about the destruction of black ...
Article : 115 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—Senior-constable Thompson has been sent to Leitehville to inquire into the fire which destroyed a block of buildings in the Leitchville ...
Article : 32 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — A circular was issued by the committee of management of the Waterside Workers Federation today calling a special meeting for Saturday ...
Article : 168 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade (Mr. A. M. Samuel) stated that he had been informed by the Empire ...
Article : 114 wordsA representative, gathering of racing, business', and public men attended the inneral of Mr. Frederick William Fairbairn yesterday. The body was taken from ...
Article : 394 wordsIn a speech at a luncheon arranged by the Birmingham Rotary Club, the High Commissioner for Australia (Sir Joseph Cook) commended the rotarian principles, ...
Article : 72 wordsAfter a retirement of two hours the jury awarded £500 damages to Mrs. Lubbock aged 33 years, the granddaughter of the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, in her ...
Article : 87 wordsWhen the order nisi to restrain the Federated Gas Employees' Industrial Union and its secretary (Mr. Charles Crofts) from doing anything in the nature of a ...
Article : 515 wordsAlthough February is usually regarded as one of the hottest months, the weather so far this month has been exceptionally mild. On Monday conditions were ...
Article : 130 wordsA message from Seward (Alaska) states that earthquake tremors caused chimneys to collapse and water pipes lo break Many residents ran into the streets for ...
Article : 457 wordsA large poster 40 feet long and 10 feet deep, is being erected to advertise the 1925 season of the Exhibition. Copies of the poster will be placed throughout the ...
Article : 39 wordsConsisting of councillors and citizens of Caulfield, a deputation waited upon the Minister for Lands (Mr.Downward) yesterday with a request that seven acres of ...
Article : 294 wordsThe Colonial Office states that 11,851 Jews immigrated to Palestine during 1924, while 2,037 emigrated from that country, the net increase being 9,814, compared with ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The first batch of replies from English school children under the juvenile correspondence service scheme, inaugurated last year by the Federal ...
Article : 196 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Ministry proposes to fill the vacancy in the Senate caused by the death of Senator Power before the State Parliament meets for the ...
Article : 54 wordsProduction of eggs is steadily declining and, in face of a firm demand for good quality lines, prices have been advanced by about 3d. a dozen. Wholesale ...
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Article : 228 wordsJames Christic Allan, of Kirkliston, Point Nepean road, North Brighton retired railway stationmaster, who died on January 12 left by will dated April 1, 1895, personal property of a gross value of ...
Article : 173 wordsPresiding at Edinburgh at a meeting of the holders of the inscribed deposit stock of the Australian Bank of Commerce, Sir Mark Sheldon strongly advised the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 25 Feb 1925, Page 19
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