The strike at the Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, continues, and little effort is being made by either side in the way of settlement. Numbers of men are taking their ...
Article : 222 wordsMr. Makin (S.A.) informed the Prime Minister, in the House of Representatives to-day, that a very serious position had been brought about in the milling trade in South Australia, ...
Article : 1,006 wordsThe Treasurer, Sir Joseph Cook, stated in the House of Representatives to-day that the Government intended to keep the loan open until Monday next, and possibly longer, to ...
Article : 326 wordsStrong complaints have been made against the attitude of the authorities towards immigrants by the Rev. G. S. Richmond, of the employment bureau in Princes-street ...
Article : 455 wordsA compulsory conference between the iron trades employers and the representatives of the unions was held yesterday afternoon, but no settlement of the dispute was reached. ...
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Article : 89 wordsThe coal strike situation has assumed a brighter outlook as the result of a telegram from Sir Robert Horne (Minister for Labour) to Mr. Robert Smillie (president of the Miners' ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Universal Postal Unions' Congress, which will meet in Madrid in October, will discuss the question of increasing international postage rates, which several countries ...
Article : 61 wordsA Rome message reports that severe earthquake shocks were felt in,Genoa, Milan, Florence, and many other towns, especially in Tuscany. Many houses have been damaged. The ...
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Article : 157 wordsThe Governor yesterday afternoon, after the presentation of Imperial Service medals in the Government House grounds, congratulated Inspector-General Mitchell on the smart ...
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Article : 368 wordsThere was a remarkable shrinkage in the adverse balance of trade during July. Whereas the imports in July last year exceeded the exports by £76,000,000, the difference last July ...
Article : 193 wordsUnusual stipulations are made in the will of the late Mr. Frederic Rupert Pincott, of Geelong, partner in the firm of Harwood and Pincott, solicitors. Testator left by his will ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Lloyd George is back in London. The newspapers attribute his unexpected return to his anxiety regarding the coal situation, and the state of Ireland, owing to M'Sweeney's ...
Article : 188 wordsA motion submitted to the Anglican Synod of Adelaida last night urging members of all Churches to give all possible moral and material support to the prohibition movement, was ...
Article : 128 wordsThe League of Nations, which points out that the sum of £10,000,000, mentioned in a recent cable message as being required to combat typhus in Europe, should read ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the Senate to-day the Vice-President of the Executive Council, Senator Russell, gave notice of a bill to provide for representation of the Northern Territory in the ...
Article : 253 wordsFurlough House, Narrabeen, where the wives, children, and other dependents of returned soldiers may spend a holiday when in need of it, has, in the estimation of Mr. John ...
Article : 471 wordsReplying to numerous anxious inquiries in regard to the safety of the camp at Kirind, Mesopotamia, where British women and children are quartered, the War Office announces ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. W. Beavis, senior inspector of Public schools, is about to retire, after 50 years' service with the Education Department. Under the Council of Education Mr. Beavis ...
Article : 210 wordsAccording to figures obtained officially yesterday, a strongly affirmative vote has been registered by members of the Congregational Church in New South Wales on the question ...
Article : 421 wordsPete Herman has cancelled his match against Jimmy Wilde, and Mr. C. B. Cochran, the promoter of this and other big matches, has decided to relinquish the business, owing to ...
Article : 121 wordsThere is still a prospect of the tender of the State Shipbuilding Yards at Walsh Island for the construction of several 12,000-ton steamers for the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 92 wordsThe J. p. Morgan Company announce the flotation of a French loan of 100,000,000 dollars, at eight per cent., issued at par. The loan is repayable in 25 years, at 110. France ...
Article : 76 wordsA Rome message states that seven of D'Annunzio's Legionaries, hidden in the hold of the steamer Cogne, which was carrying a miscellaneous cargo to Buenos Ayres, valued ...
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Article : 43 wordsA Geneva message states that the exEmpress of Austria, who is living at Prangine, in Switzerland, declares that 80 members of the Hapsburg family, chiefly archdukes and ...
Article : 66 wordsAt Parliament House yesterday the Elections and Qualifications Committee considered the petition of six electors in the Balmain constituency against the return of the five ...
Article : 179 wordsAn explosion occurred last night on the steamer Canadian Importer, in Snails Bay, when Martin Tolnknanota, a Russian, aged 45, an A.B., and William Donne, 35, also an A.B., ...
Article : 67 wordsThe State Department has intimated to Mexico that it is impossible to recognise the new Government while a confiscatory policy to-wards American oil interests continues. ...
Article : 34 wordsA San Francisco message states that the Governor of American Samoa has been summoned home as a result or charges made by natives that he was the cause of serious ...
Article : 48 wordsA message from Paris says it is reported that the Government has notified Russia that unless rench citizens are repatriated by October 1 naval operations will be instituted ...
Article : 42 wordsIt was stated yesterday that, although the State Orchestra proposed to go on tour for 22 weeks, the Director of the Conservatorium, Mr. Verbrugghen, would only be absent from ...
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Article : 34 wordsDuke Kahanamoku swam 100 yards at Exeter in 55 2-5s, and Norman Ross covered 300 yards in 3m 24 4-5s, both times being world records. ...
Article : 31 wordsA Cracow newspaper states that Trotsky's son was killed in the recent fighting at Pul[?]k. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 9 Sep 1920, Page 7
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