Alderman Stephen, chairman of the Citizens' Reform aldermen of the City Council has for his party, asked for further reports, or an investigation, regarding the recent decisions ...
Article : 756 wordsNo new developments regarding the bridge tenders are expected until the Cabinet meeting next week. Of the Ministers who were in the city yesterday the majority, although ...
Article : 385 wordsStartling allegations regarding the ballot for the election of officials of the King branch of the A.L.P. were made last evening at a meeting of the A.L.P. executive, held ...
Article : 403 wordsReuter's correspondent at Paris reports that the "Intransigeant" published a statement to the effect that a member of the export committee on reparations, who preferred to ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Auditor-General (Mr. F. A. Coghlan) yesterday issued his report on the payment of £549,214 to the funds of the 1916.17 wheat pool. It will be ...
Article : 377 wordsA telegram received from Morristown (New Jersey) says:- The "Fundamentalist" controversy arising out of certain threatened inquiries by the ...
Article : 239 wordsLater developments show a more unfavourable outlook for the endorsement of the strike settlement in view of the fact that the dockers in Manchester, Salford, and ...
Article : 349 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon a volley of criticising questions followed an announcement by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. C. G. Ammon) that ...
Article : 690 wordsAngus Murray was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Mann in the Criminal Court this evening. Murray was charged with the murder, "in company with some man to the ...
Article : 269 wordsNews of a settlement of the British dockers' strike exercised a cheering effect upon cotton, checking the week's steady decline at the 30 cents level. March cotton is selling at 30 ...
Article : 116 wordsFurther action has been taken by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Chapman) in regard to the remission of duties on certain articles that may be used in the construction of the ...
Article : 162 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington says:—Liquor smuggling has increased greatly during recent months. The rum-running fleets operating on the American coast ...
Article : 174 wordsFurther developments occurred yesterday regarding the supposed murder of Mrs. Ma[?]d Downs at Scottsdale. Following the discovery the previous day of a body, which is ...
Article : 226 wordsAbout £800 has been subscribed to date in Australia towards the loan being raised for the assistance of workers in Soviet Russia by the Workers' International Russian Relief ...
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Article : 133 wordsMr. Chas. Hibble (chairman of the Coal Tribunal) to-day received a cable message from the Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Lyons) urgently requesting him to proceed ...
Article : 214 words"Weddel's Annual Review" of the frozen meat trade, says: "From an Empire viewpoint, it is disconcerting to find our supplies of meat from British dominions shrinking, ...
Article : 284 wordsFailing to induce the President immediately to remove Mr. H. M. Daugherty from the office of United States Attorney-General, Mr. Daugherty's critics to-day laid out a plan of ...
Article : 118 wordsThree robberies from churches in the city and suburbs have been reported to the police during the last few days. The police at Burwood are inquiring into ...
Article : 224 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent announces that the Senate, by 150 votes to 134, rejected the proposal to revert to the system of singlemember constituencies. ...
Article : 135 wordsCrowded with passengers, the ferry steamer Kuramia crashed bow first into the Milson's Point wharf at about 5.50 p.m. yesterday. The anchor box and part of the gunwale right at ...
Article : 391 wordsA prisoner, Benjamin Metcalf, alias C. Mitchell, aged 40, who is serving an indeterminate sentence as an habitual criminal, escaped from Boggo-road Gaol on Thursday, and up to ...
Article : 140 wordsMr. Mackay, general manager of the electricity supply department, followed upon the recent report of the independent investigation into the administration of his department, ...
Article : 300 wordsWhen interviewed by the Australian Press Association regarding the alleged instructions issued by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to the British fleet visiting the dominions, Mr. ...
Article : 262 wordsReuter's correspondent in Tokio says:— With the arrest and confession of Tannajiro Naruse, a farmer, residing in the neighbourhood of Nagoya, the mystery has been solved ...
Article : 124 wordsThe State Department at Washington has announced that the Newcastle (England) consulate dispute can be settled as soon as Britain withdraws the charges against Messrs. ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Local Government, said to-day that he did not believe in too much education. Speaking at the opening of additions to the ...
Article : 71 wordsLast week the departure of the small trading steamer Wookata from Port Adelaide for the West Coast and Spencer Gulf ports was marked by an unusual incident. On the ...
Article : 266 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" lobbyist says that Mr. Robert Donald's committee handed its report on Imperial wireless to Mr. Vernon Hartsho[?], on Friday. The Cabinet, ...
Article : 434 wordsThe Kuring-gai Shire Council, at its meeting on Thursday night, approved a report of Messrs. Smith and Johnston, accountants, Sydney, into the administration of the council. ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Institute of Mining and Metallurgy has awarded its highest honour, a gold medal, conjointly to two of its members—Mr. Hubert William Gepp and Mr. Gilbert Rigg, F.C.S., ...
Article : 187 wordsIt is now proposed that the Australia shall be sunk off Sydney Heads on or before April 15. Mr. Bowden, Minister for Defence, will consult the Admiral of the British Squadron at ...
Article : 49 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia has placed orders in England for copper wire amounting to £250,000 notwithstanding that such wire is obtainable on the Continent ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. M. M. Flannery, a member for Murrum bidgee, addressed a well-attended meeting here last night. He scathingly referred to the present Government's non-Australian policy, ...
Article : 141 wordsAny suggestion that Charles Hurford, fourth engineer of the carge steamer Time, committed suicide is scouted by his relatives. Mr. W. King, uncle, is so convinced that there ...
Article : 166 wordsCriticising the management of the Albury Coursing Club at a meeting last night. Father Porey said there was considerable laxity in some directions. Last year there was one man ...
Article : 196 wordsSir Joseph Cook has personally addressed 2179 local authorities throughout the country, particularising Australian settlement schemes with the special idea of bringing the projects ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Bruntnell, when opening additions to the local High School, referred to the increasing demand upon the education vot[?]. Expenditure during 1924 would exceed ...
Article : 60 wordsOn account of an exceptionally hard blow and heavy seas running at 1 p.m. to-day, it was decided by the officials controlling the race for the Forster Cup to postpone the first ...
Article : 155 wordsQueen Mary was present at the inaugural lecture of the lectureship on Scottish history at London University College, and was much interested in a suggestion by Dr. [?] W. ...
Article : 162 wordsRight beside a notice warning bathers not to divo at the spot, William Beddows, a sailor, dived into shallow water at the Domain baths last night. He evidently did not observe the ...
Article : 79 wordsA number of robberies that occurred some time ago in Sydney have baff[?]d the investigations of the police. They have come to the conclusion that the robberies were ...
Article : 86 wordsSubject to Mr. Bruce's confirmation of the date, the Federal Parliament will meet on March 26. There will be an adjournment for two or three weeks over Easter. ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Noel Buxton (Minister of Agriculture) stated in the House of Commons that, in view of the high cost of imported fine wool, the Ministry was making grants to promote a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 Feb 1924, Page 17
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