Conversion of the railways gauges in Australia to a uniform basis, trade representation of Australia in other parts of the world, imperial preference for dried fruits, and the ...
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Article : 339 wordsAs was foreshadowed in the "Herald" yesterday, Mr. M'Girr met with a decisive defeat at the hands of caucus yesterday afternoon. After some three hours' discussion, during which it became clear that Mr. M'Girr had scarcely any support, he withdrew his motion to rescind the previous ...
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Article : 869 wordsThe German steamer Vesta caught fire off Lowestoft. A trawler took off ten of the crew, but ten others and the wife of the mate were lost. ...
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Article : 147 wordsThe City Council's proposed extension of that part of Martin-place which was no long known as Moore-street, and which includes the Commonwealth Bank and the New South ...
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Article : 76 wordsA Washington message states that the American Government is undergoing criticism for its administration of homes and hospitals for ex-servicemen. A committee from the ...
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Article : 398 wordsThe "Evening Standard" understands that Mr. Lloyd George has decided, after conversations with Mr. Austen Chamberlain [?]leader of the House of Commons), Lord ...
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Article : 270 wordsAt a meeting of the Health Board to-day the Health Commissioner drew attention to the heavy and increasing plague mortality in Java. ...
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Article : 73 wordsA message from Berlin states that needless fear of death killed a prisoner at the Berlin assizes, named Franz Hoppe, a business man, charged with murdering a woman. ...
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Article : 145 wordsThe first of the new large passenger ferries at present under construction for the Sydney Ferries, Ltd., is expected to be completed in March, and will be placed in commission ...
Article : 246 wordsSir Charles Bell, who conducted the Indo-Tibetan Mission, has returned to London. He scouts the story of Bolshevik penetration, and declares that Bolshevism is wholly ...
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Article : 110 wordsLord Ashbourne's brother, Victor Gibson, was found dead on Saturday, sitting in a chair at a hotel in Horsham, Mystery surrounded the identity of the body until to-day. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 18 Jan 1922, Page 13
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