Members of the House of Commons came flocking to London yesterday for the opening of parliament to-day. There was unusual anxiety among members ...
Article : 484 wordsPreaching a gospel of national efficiency it every place he visited the Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Earle Page), continued his tour of the western district to-day. His gospel ...
Article : 1,399 wordsMr. A. G. Gutteridge, director of sanitary engineering in the Commonwealth Department of Health, is at present in Sydney for the purpose of consulting with the State Department ...
Article : 806 wordsAt a meeting of the State Cabinet yesterday afternoon—the first held since Parliament went into recess—a number of important matters were dealt with finally. The Premier (Sir ...
Article : 498 wordsThree members of the Royal Air Force leave London a few weeks hence in an effort to fly round the world in 240 hours' flying time. ...
Article : 255 wordsThe State Cabinet, at its meeting yesterday, considered the question of the personnel of the proposed Royal Commission regarding the creation of new Slates. ...
Article : 376 wordsThe London dock fire was still burning this morning, but was well in hand. Ten fire engines and 100 firemen are still working. It is hoped to suppress it this afternoon. ...
Article : 59 words"The Continental countries seem to be enjoying a period of great prosperity. In France, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Belgium there appeared to be no ...
Article : 411 wordsRouter's Malta correspondent says: The Loitrim has so far discharged 5430 bales of wool from No. 3 hold, in which the fire occurred. Of these 3070 bales were all damaged ...
Article : 49 wordsThe French Government has issued a decree reducing the import duty on foreign cereals from 14 francs to 7 francs per quintal. Owing to the falling exchange, farmers had ...
Article : 153 wordsThe biggest London dock fire for half a century broke ont at Poplar this afternoon. A large warehouse stocked with rubber, tea, and other combustible ...
Article : 98 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states that the Minister of Finance is submitting to the Cabinet proposals to check speculation, which has been responsible for the fall of the franc. It ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Rev. William F. Robertson, M.A., who has been minister of the Hay Presbyterian Church for about 80 years, has been notified of his unanimous election to the office of ...
Article : 101 wordsThe motor-ship Laurabada, specially designed and constructed for the Papuan Administration Service by Messrs. Morrison and Sinclair, Ltd., was launched at the ...
Article : 340 wordsThe South Greta miners' lodge, at its last meeting, discussed the question of night baking, and decided to give pledged support to workers in the baking industry, and to ask ...
Article : 112 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Berlin indicates that a great crisis is expected in Russia. "A complete breach between antagonistic ...
Article : 134 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says: "When Mr. Theodore replies to the reminder that there is an easy way of ending friction between Queensland and the London money market ...
Article : 211 wordsMyriads of small files are in evidence throughout the district this year. The plague is worse than for many years. Many people have contracted a bad form of blight caused ...
Article : 67 wordsA coastguard cutter captured the British auxilliary schooner Muriel E. Winters, of 129 tons, five miles off Galveston Island (Texas), with a consignment of assorted liquors aboard. ...
Article : 100 wordsIt was [?]tended yesterday in certain quarters that, if the operative bakers in terms of the resolution passed on Sunday last declare a strike on next Sunday, the individual ...
Article : 197 wordsA well-known medical practitioner in Woollahra reports success in the treatment of diabetic patients with insulin. On being interviewed by a representative ...
Article : 251 wordsSir Arthur Cooks yesterday adversely commented upon the action of the Acting Prime Minister in discussing publicly questions that are to be submitted to the forthcoming ...
Article : 361 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Express" at Athens says: The peace of Greece depends on the fate of the exiled King. The Republican extremists would plunge Greece into a ...
Article : 164 wordsA case in which ten Belgians are claiming from the German Government compensation for ill-treatment suffered by them when being deported from Germany in war time, has ...
Article : 82 wordsThe French papers, commenting on the Senatorial elections, emphasise M. Poincare's personal triumph, and point out that the political complexion of the Senate has not ...
Article : 35 wordsReuter's correspondent in Paris says the Seine has begun to fall. A decrease of three inches was registered in Paris this morning and ten inches at ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the Northcote Court yesterday, William Robert Robinson, agent, aged 66 years, Edward Thomas Haire, aged 70 years, and Jabez Ernest Lees, estate agent, aged 53, were ...
Article : 378 wordsIn the annual report of the Commonwealth Auditor-General (Mr. J. W. Israel), an interesting story is related regarding the disappearance for some time of a schooner in the ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association learns that Japan's foreign policies will be unchanged under the Kiyoura Ministry. ...
Article : 222 wordsAs foreseen, the Edward Bok Peace Award prize-winning plan has reopened the old division between supporters and opponents of the League of Nations. It is clear from Press ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Western Electric Company has perfected a cable believed to be capable of carrying messages at great speed over almost unlimited distances, thus obviating the necessity for ...
Article : 62 wordsSensational developments are expected in connection with the impounding of the trotter Look-out at Dunedin. The horse won two races at Invercargill. It was examined ...
Article : 464 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that an assassin threw a bomb at Kemal Pasha in Smyrna, where he is recuperating with his wife. ...
Article : 47 wordsExtensive and excited dealing occurred on the Dublin Stock Exchange to-day, in the Free State loan. The market opened with a chorus of buyers. Quotations soon reached ...
Article : 347 wordsBathurst business houses have long felt that thoy have boon badly used by the postal authorities over closing of the eastern mails. Taking advantage of the presence of the ...
Article : 591 wordsDetectives are searching for a young man who was found in the premises of Love and Pollard Pty., Ltd., of Sydney-road, Brunswick, on Sunday morning, and who, in a sensational ...
Article : 277 wordsThe terms of settlement of the coal-mining dispute have been ratified by the two unions concerned. The strike had lasted since early in September last year. ...
Article : 37 wordsAustralia House announces the appointment [?] Mr. E. Ballard, of Bristol University, as [?]tton entomologist to the Commonwealth. [?]he appointment is for a period of four years. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe formation of a Saxon coalition Cabinet, including the Socialist Premier, Herr Heldt, is disapproved by the Saxon Socialist party, which passed a resolution by 77 votes ...
Article : 120 wordsThree cases of smallpox have been reported on a vessel which reached Thursday Island on Monday. During the past few weeks a total of seven cases of the disease has been notified ...
Article : 168 wordsMembers of the medical staff of the Melbourne Hospital are perturbed at the disappearance from one of the rooms in a special department of the institution of a tube of ...
Article : 115 wordsReuter's correspondent at Malta says that [?]miral Sir Percy Scott, who arrived on December [?] and was staying at the Hotel Va[?] has been taken to the naval hospital at ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. J. B. Merrett, representing the New Zealand Egg Producers' Federation, has been in[?] to attend the Poultry Conference at The [?] He leaves on Wednesday, and will ...
Article : 92 wordsA post-mortem examination of the remains of the commander of the Dixmude confirms the theory that the airship was struck by lightning, and rent into fragments by the explosion. The ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 9 Jan 1924, Page 13
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