An important review of the financial position of the Commonwealth was given by the Acting Prime Minister, Dr. Earle Page, in his address at Lithgow to-night. The speech was a frank and candid statement of the presant position. "The Government," he said, "is anxious to take the public into its confidence and [?] ...
Article : 120 wordsAt a well-attended meeting of the council of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, held at Aaron's Exchange Hotel last night, at which Mr. P. B. Colquhoun presided, a ...
Article : 405 wordsAction is to be taken early in the year by the Federated Unions of Australia to have a revision made of the basic wage by the Arbitration Court. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe publication of "Lloyd's Register" shows that in 1923 shipping totalling 1,231,000 tons was constructed in Britain and Ireland, or was in course of construction on ...
Article : 146 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Morning Post" at Luxor states that Mr. Howard Carter is confined to his house through an illness which can be traced to the exceedingly ...
Article : 230 wordsA message from Tokio states: After suppressing for 24 hours the news of an unsuccessful attempt to bomb the Imperial Palace, the police to-day confirmed the report that ...
Article : 318 wordsIn July last, Mr. Edward Bok, a former editor and publisher, offered 100,000 dollars to the American devising the most practicable plan by which the United States could ...
Article : 1,014 wordsSome of the principal points made by Dr. Earle Page in his speech to-night were as follow:- The Customs revenue will be in exceas of ...
Article : 4,325 wordsA Reuter message from Sapporo (a town in Japan, 95 miles N.N.E. of Hakodate, and situated in Hokkaido, the administrative name of the island of Yezo) announces that more than ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Jones (Minister for Mines in Queensland), who is at present on a visit to Sydney, predicts a bright future for Queensland, so far as its metallferous and coal mining industries ...
Article : 270 wordsThe possibility that dark women may become fair at will, and that fair women may, on the other hand become dark, is foreshadowed by revelations of new gland experiments made by ...
Article : 153 wordsAltogether 64 passengers and members of the crews of vessels which recently arrived in Sydney in quarantine in consequence of outbreaks of contagious diseases were released ...
Article : 148 wordsAt a conference of the Scottish Independent Labour party, delegates displayed remarkable confidence, based on recent electoral success, and expectation that the party will shortly ...
Article : 153 wordsSerious injuries were sustained by Mrs. Theima Reece, of Cabarita-road, Cabarita, in attempting to save her infant son from being run over by a tram yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe United States Lawn Tennis Association has announced Its best ten tonnis players, ranking them as follows:—W. T. Tliden, William Johnston, R. N. Williams, Vincent ...
Article : 83 wordsBy the renewal of £10,500,000 of the £12,000,000 loan, which matures in Sydney in August next, on the terms of 5½ per cent. and an extension of 10 years, free from ...
Article : 319 wordsLosses amounting to £1,628,895 have been incuried by the War Service Homes Commission to June 30, 1923. The Commonwealth Auditor-General (Mr. J. W. Israel) in his ...
Article : 468 wordsAccording to a message from Rome, considerable agitation prevails among Italian sailors as a result of the break-up of the Seamen's Convention. ...
Article : 137 wordsFor the first time in the history of British broadcasting, a complete church service was wirelessed, when evensong at Saint Martin's in the Fields was transmitted by means of ...
Article : 60 wordsDisastrous losses, which were incurred in the working of the Commonwealth Line of Steamers during the financial year 1922-23, have a absorbed all the balance of ...
Article : 259 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent telegraphs that the Hood waters rose 24 feet at Pont d'Austerlitz last night. This was the highest rise registered. The River Seine is now stationary. ...
Article : 46 wordsPrior to the Barnardo children embarking on the Euripides, at Tilbury, for Australia, they were entertained at a farewell party. to which the Prince of Wales paid a surprise ...
Article : 59 wordsAccording to a Reuter message from Malta, the fire in the No. 3 hold of the steamer Leitrim has been extinguished, but the hold was not floodod. About 620 bales of ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the Hunter's Hill Court yesterday, the District Coronor (Mr. H. Richardson-Clarke) committed Richard Walsh, a labourer, 27 years of age, for trial on a charge of having ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the German Government has decided to make it much more difficult in future for Germans to travel ...
Article : 91 wordsRouter's correspondent at Nagpur (Central Provinces) announces that the Governor (Sir Frank G. Sly) has appointed Mr. S. M. Chitnavis and Mr. Hioazatall as Ministers. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Cambridge University is publishing a schools' Bible, from which irrelevant and unsuitable passages are omitted. The Rev. Alexander Nairne, Regius Professor of ...
Article : 63 wordsAdvice has been received that the Westport coal mining conference, held at Reefton on Saturday, reached an agreement, which is subject to ratification by the owners and the ...
Article : 121 wordsWhen Colin Ross, aged l8 years, a clerk, was charged to-day with fraudulently appropriating £2/10/ at Waverley (N.S.W.), the property of Hardie and German Proprietary, ...
Article : 158 wordsAn attendant on duty at the gates of Sydney Hospital noticed a man acting in a suspicious way shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday. The man ran on to the street and back to the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe death is announced of Kate Terry, actress. [Kate Terry, the eldest of the Terry family, was born on April 21, 1844. She married ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Fellowship of Freedom and Reform is making a strong protest against the closing of the Empire Exhibition on Sundays. RearAdmiral Sir Guy Gaunt (president) writes: ...
Article : 73 wordsAccording to a message from Reuter's correspondent in Paris, elections for one-third of the Senate are proceeding. The results up to now reveal little ohange. ...
Article : 91 wordsLieutenant Anderson shot himself aboard the warship Philomel, and died late in hospital. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was recorded. Deceased was recently reported to be ...
Article : 39 wordsA meeting of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Wharf Laboureis' Union was held on Sunday at the instigation of the Returned Soldiers' League, and the terms of ...
Article : 129 wordsSir,—Your able correspondent, Mr. Collinson Close (of Antarctic fame, I believe), endorses my contention as to Greece having been a remnant, or colony, of the great race ...
Article : 310 wordsAt a recent conference of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, the general secretary (Mr. Morton) reported on the combined conference held in Wollongong in connection ...
Article : 144 wordsSir,—In the "Herald" of 3rd instant you give publicity to the opinions of Sir Perey Scott and of Admiral Mark Kerr as to the necessity for battleships in the composition ...
Article : 304 wordsCrowds lined the streets of Paris for the impressive cermony of the naval funeral accorded the remains of Lieut. de Grenadan, commander of the ill-fated Dixmude. ...
Article : 58 wordsJohn Cain, aged 52 years, who had been employed by Mr. C. Jansen, timber merchant, of Nambucca Heads, for about l8 months, was found dead at midday on Sunday in a ...
Article : 120 wordsAmid enthusiastic scenes at Athens, M. Venizelos, who by almost universal request returned from Paris after the King's departure, was elected President of the National ...
Article : 99 wordsJack Pearce, aged five, died in the Murwillumbah District Hospital as the result of burns received at his mother's home at Tweed Heads. The boy's clothes caught alight while ...
Article : 74 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent telegraphs that in consequence of the rising price of wheat, following the adverse exchange, the Government has suspended the increase in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 Jan 1924, Page 9
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