The conference called by the Prime Minister to deal with the industrial outlook was opened yesterday and adjourned until this afternoon. A friendly note characterised this momentous assemblage of nearly 40 delegates, representative of capital and labour practically throughout Australia. ...
Article : 140 wordsBritish firms doing business in Australia are strongly opposed to the abolition of the Department of Oversea Trade, as is recommended by the Geddes' Commission. The ...
Article : 195 wordsA Johannesburg message states that the commande system among the strikers is resolving itself into terrorism. Several alleged "scabs" have been kidnapped ...
Article : 105 wordsThe proposed "regulation strike" in the railway service decided on by the annual conference of the Australian Railway Union has been declared "off." ...
Article : 393 wordsAbout 3000 delegates attended the Sinn Foin Congress known as the Ardiheis. Mr. do Valera, who presided, invited the meeting to decide whether the vote on the Treaty should ...
Article : 786 wordsBefore the war the Sulphide Corporation, Ltd., raised and treated in normal years about 200,000 tons per annum. In the financial year 1916, when, owing to a miners' strike, ...
Article : 621 wordsMr. De Valera, at the Sinn Fein Congress, known as the Ardfheis, announces that a split has been averted. The meeting adjourned for two months. The ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Prince of Wales arrived here this morning for a three days' visit, which is in the nature of a rest after his heavy week in Delhi. The usual ceremonial visits were ...
Article : 94 wordsIn rejecting Mr. Hertzog's motion to appoint a permanent body to decide industrial disputes, the Premier, General Smuts, in the House of Assembly, this afternoon, said the ...
Article : 221 wordsAn attempt to prove an alibi, chiefly by showing that the accused man was at home at the times when he is alleged to have been near the locality, was made to-day by the defence ...
Article : 685 wordsThe tea sales to-day totalled 1,250,000lb. There was a fair selection, and the quality, with few exceptions, showed signs of falling off. There was not the same activity and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe conference was opened in one of the rooms in the Commonwealth Bank buildings frequently occupied by Parliamentary select committees and commissions. Into it poured ...
Article : 500 wordsA message from Paris states that the Government has requested Italy to postpone the Genoa Conference for three weeks. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt Pawtucket (Rhode Island) the police fired on a crowd of textile strikers before the Jonckes Spinning Company's mills, following their refusal to disperse. ...
Article : 55 wordsA Paris message says: M. Bouillon, who concluded the Angora agreement, writing to the "Matin" regarding the conditions of a just peace in the Orient, says that Smyrna ...
Article : 129 wordsThe deputy leador of the Opposition (Mr. Oakes) referred yesterday to the railway and tramway strike of 1917, and to Mr. Justice Edmunds's report. Mr. Oakes said: "Just ...
Article : 567 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent in Berlin states that social conditions are so changed that a serious marriage orisis has arisen. The better class professional and ...
Article : 199 wordsIt is proposed to have an expedition, composed of ten or twelve members of the New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association, to observe the total celipse of ...
Article : 189 wordsA message from Norfolk (Virginal) states that the United States army's Italian-built airship Roma was destroyed to-day, when she crashed down and exploded over the Norfolk ...
Article : 345 wordsA Paris message states that the sixth anniversary of the Battle of Verdun was the occasion of a touching ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides. General Petain remitted the ...
Article : 88 wordsTwo more rats and a mouse suffering from the plague were found yesterday. One rat was discovered in the Liverpool-street area, and the other, together with, the mouse, was ...
Article : 372 wordsMr. Hughes, at the outset, thanked the gathering for the response which had been made to the invitation. Here the Prime Minister was interrupted by ...
Article : 4,653 wordsDr. Jensen, Government Geologist, in a report on the oil prospects of the Tambo[?] district, expresses the view that so [?] as available evidence goes the geological ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, addressing a meeting of the central council of the National Unionist Council, which was called to discuss the Conservative party's future policy, ...
Article : 431 wordsThere was a debate in the House of Commons on a supplementary estimate of £601,200 to cover the estimated loss on concentrates and spelter purchased in Australia. The ...
Article : 200 wordsIn a review of the work of the N.S.W. manning committee appointed under section 424 of the Commonwealth Navigation Act. issued yesterday by the Deputy Director of ...
Article : 186 wordsThe City Coroner (Mr. Jamieson) held an inquest yesterday regarding the finding of humun remains, supposed to be those of Norman Whitley, 22, a surveyor, who dinappeared ...
Article : 288 wordsPrincess Mary's bridal gown consists of an underdress of woven silver cloth, with a marquisette overdress of tullo, embroldered with pearls and silver thread, the latter being a ...
Article : 277 wordsSir Beujamin Robertson, the Indian famine expert, who went to Russia on behalf of the Red Cross Society, has returned. He confirms Sir Philip Gibbs's harrowing stories, ...
Article : 133 wordsPassongers on the tram, while passing Lyne Park yesterday morning, were horrified to ace a man standing in the water at Rode Bay, cutting at his throat with a penknife. ...
Article : 76 wordsRogulations have been issued by the Federal Executive Council, under the Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act, 1919-1920, by virtue of which the properties taken over from their late ...
Article : 226 wordsIn attempting to rejoin a train at Zillmere this morning, Alfred Piles, 45, married, of Sandgate, slipped and fell under the guard's van. His left leg was almost severed between ...
Article : 46 wordsA Durban message reports that a remarkable tow was accomplished by the Swedish steamer Unden, bound for Australia, which towed the sailer Garthforce, also bound for ...
Article : 70 wordsThe meeting of the Inter-Allied Committee to draft a scheme for the economic reconstruction of Europe prior to the Genon Conference was opened in London yesterday. British, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Sheffield Chamber of Commerce gave a luncheon to Sir Joseph Cook (High Commissioner for Australia), who advised those British manufacturers troubled by the ...
Article : 60 wordsGerald De La Riviere, who absconded from his ball in London in December, when charged with obtaining £1000 by a confidence trick from an engineer namod Watkins, has been ...
Article : 70 wordsA collision between a motor lorry and a motor car in Boomerang-street yesterday morning resulted in Captain Charles Green sustaining a fracture of the left leg and ...
Article : 80 wordsThe imperial War Graves Commission to-day aacepted the Commonwealth's offer to undertake the constraction and maintenance of war cemeteries and the care of war graves in ...
Article : 68 wordsA message from San Francisco states that Admiral Kato, addressing the Japanese Society in America, said he believed the moral and educational value attached to the ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the council meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society to-day, the president, Mr. J. Wallace Sandford, reported that the council had given consideration to a communication ...
Article : 126 wordsSenator Brandegee offered the Foreign Relations Committee on the Pacific Treaty his reservations, stipulating—firstly, that the United States is not under an obligation ...
Article : 111 wordsField-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson (Unionist) has been returned unopposed for North Down. Scores in the Inman and M'Connchy billiard match are:—M'Conachy (receives 2000) ...
Article : 88 wordsA Storm of unprecedented fury broke over the west coast at midday yesterday, 80 points of rain falling. The gale ripped verandahs off the houses. A five-ton cattle waggon was ...
Article : 70 wordsThe United States Lawn Tennis Association has received requests from France and Czecho-Slavakia to include them in the draw for challengers for the Davis Cup, which will be made ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 23 Feb 1922, Page 9
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