Events of the week-end rendered the outlook in the various waterfront troubles less hopeful than during the past week. The militancy of the Seamen's Union has increased, and additional, vessels have been held up, including the Commonwealth liner Largs ...
Article : 220 wordsA wireless message purporting to come from the captain of the steamer Maheno states that a passenger named Leslie fits the description of the mysterious "Mr. ...
Article : 292 wordsA sensational advance in sterling carried the £ to the highest level for ten years and within approximately seven cents of par. It rose 1 3-16 cents during ...
Article : 218 wordsMessrs. Vickery and Sons have agreed to give to the Crown for the purpose of public recreation an area on the summit of Mount Keira of ...
Article : 256 wordsThe six Powers represented at the conference of Finance Ministers in Paris have reached agreement in principle on all points at issue. ...
Article : 473 wordsChanges contemplated by the British Admiralty in the construction of battleships are said to be so revolutionary that the Dreadnought era will be brought to an end. In the United States provision has been made for the fuel required ...
Article : 962 wordsThe Riga correspondent of the "Daily Express" says:—The conflict between the extremists and the moderate followers of M. Trotsky is becoming more acute. Hundreds of ...
Article : 347 wordsThe aerial passenger service between Sydney and Adelaide, established in conjunction with the regular mail service, was inaugurated ...
Article : 198 wordsAccording to the statement made at Friday's conference of shipping interests and the waterside workers' organisations, the Returned Soldiers Preference Act of 1919 will be ...
Article : 463 wordsActing on behalf of the Bank of New South Wales, Messrs. Malleson, Stewart Stawell, and Nankivell, solicitors, of Queen-street, on Saturday issued a High Court writ against Mrs. ...
Article : 420 wordsFollowing the refusal of members of the Waterside Workers' Federation in Adelaide to work the steamer Clan Monroe in terms of the Melbourne agreement arrived at ...
Article : 170 wordsLast minute negotiations, as the result of the expiry to-day of Germany's obligations to give the Allies most favoured nation treatment in regard to the entry of goods, are still ...
Article : 163 wordsDr. J. J. C. Bradfield, Chief Engineer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the City Railway, accompanied by his secretary (Miss ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. C. E. Hughes) has resigned from office and will be succeeded by Mr. Frank Kellogg, at present United States Ambassador to Great Britain. ...
Article : 182 wordsThe International Institute of Agriculture at Rome has completed a harvest survey of the world. This states that the yield of wheat in 1924 equalled 89.1 per cent. of 1922, rye 80.6 per ...
Article : 149 wordsThe A.U.S.N. steamer Levuka was unable to sail on Saturday owing to crew shortage. The vessel, fully loaded with passengers, was about to leave the wharf shortly after noon ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. C. T. Cramp, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, has circularised all branches of the union in Britain in regard to an undertaking by the four great ...
Article : 302 wordsThe match, England v Ballarat, opened in fine weather yesterday. Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Hendren, Tate, and Strudwick were omitted from England's side. Gilligan won the ...
Article : 290 wordsAs a final test of the attitude of the Fremantle waterside workers towards the Baron Maclay, for the unloading of whose cargo they have refused to supply labour, the boat ...
Article : 88 wordsOn behalf of the oversea shipping companies, the following statement was made last night by Mr. N. C. Seale, secretary of the Oversea Shipping Representatives' Association ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Scottish Labour Conference at Glasgow has rejected by 127 votes to 86 a motion involving affiliation of the Communist party. The police are searching for Miss Elsie ...
Article : 763 wordsDr. Gifford Gordon, of Melbourne, speaking in Atlantic City, said that prohibition had made the United States happier and more prosperous, and had led to a decrease in crime. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe A.U.S.N, Company's steamer Tinana, which trades as a sugar freighter between Northern Queensland ports and Brisbane, is the latest addition to Brisbane's idle ships, ...
Article : 110 wordsAn alarming view of Irish finances was given by Mr. John Dillon, M.P., in a speech at Dublin. He said that he had been warning business men and bankers during the past two ...
Article : 193 wordsThe week-end has given anything but hopeful indications of the settlement of the shipping disputes during the present week. The judgment of Mr. Justice Powers in the ...
Article : 327 wordsThe announcement in the London Press that the New South Wales Treasurer (Sir Arthur Cocks) is coming to London to place a loan of £6,000,000, coupled with a previous ...
Article : 179 wordsA serious position may arise in the interstate trade unless the award of the Court to be given in Melbourne to-day effects a settlement. ...
Article : 427 wordsAt the Children's Court at Bunbury, Mr. M. J. Brookman, a well-known farmer, was charged with Ill-treating a boy, aged 15, taken on trial from the State orphanage. ...
Article : 145 wordsInterviewed by the representative of "Cape 'Argus," at Pretoria, the Prime Minister (General, Hertzog) outlined the Government's attitude regarding an ...
Article : 196 wordsA large number of people looked over the railing of the Suspension Bridge early on Saturday morning, and regarded as fortunate their escape, figurately, by a ...
Article : 340 wordsAt the inquest on the eight victims of the disaster to the aeroplane, which crashed when leaving Croydon aerodrome on December 24 for Paris, the Coroner stated that Captain ...
Article : 231 wordsThe 'Sunday Express' editorially says:— Tossing for first innings is defensible in a three days' cricket match, but indefensible in a series of tests, each of which are fought to a finish. ...
Article : 105 wordsA victim of chronic neurasthenia and loss of memory, Eric French, aged 26, an engineer, shot his wife, Alma French, aged 23 years, in the back of the head while she was sitting ...
Article : 265 wordsNews comes from Mexico City that it is feared the Mexican steamer Isidoro, with 37 passengers, including well-known Mexicans, has been lost in a furious gale. The vessel ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Commonwealth Government's R.M.S. Largs Bay was held up when about to leave for Hobart on Saturday morning. The hold-up throws a serious aspect on ...
Article : 436 wordsMr. J. L. Garvin, in a article in "The Observer," headed "Sport and the Empire," emphasises that both the Australian Eleven and the All Blacks and superior combination. He ...
Article : 148 wordsH.M.A.S. Adelaide has sailed from Portsmouth on her homeward voyage. At Malta she picks up the exchange cruiser Concord. The Mayor of Portsmouth (says Reuter) ...
Article : 64 wordsThe garage and motor workshops of the King's Cross Omnibus Co., Ltd., were greatly damaged by an outbreak of fire early yesterday morning. The fire appeared to have ...
Article : 72 wordsA new factor entered into the waterside war to-day in the form of a dispute concerning the rates to be paid to wharf labourers for handling the Benson's wheat. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 12 Jan 1925, Page 9
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