The Premier, in his speeches to-day, as at Inverell and Glen Inues yesterday, urged that there should be the heartiest cooperation between the Nationalists and the ...
Article : 684 wordsA special meeting of the Trades Union Congress assembled this morning to consider action to compel the adoption of the nationalisation of the mines. Mr. J. H. Thomas, ...
Article : 162 wordsA comprehensive outline of the education proposals of the Government was given yesterday by the Minister for Education (Mr. A. James) at the laying of the foundation ...
Article : 724 wordsIn the House of Commons, Lieut.-Colonel Amery (Under Secretary for the Colonies), speaking on the Colonial Office vote, describod the work of the Oversea Settlement Office. ...
Article : 596 wordsIn the House of Representatives the Minister for the Navy, on behalf of the Treasurer, replying to a suggestion by Mr. Jowett (Vic.) that the personnel of the Royal Commission ...
Article : 840 wordsIt is semi-officially reported that the political situation in Damascus is serious. The Emir, Feisul has summoned a Syrian Congress, which intends to declare the complete ...
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Article : 8 wordsYesterday's meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council is generally regarded as the most momentous ever held. The speeches were marked by intense seriousness and ...
Article : 697 wordsAlderman Sir Richard Richards, Lord Mayor of Sydney, died yesterday morning at 5.30 o'clock at St. Kilda Hospital, Elizabeth Bay, after a long illness. ...
Article : 744 wordsThe Premier forwarded the following telegram to Lady Richards:—"On behalf of myself and my colleagues I beg to extend to you our profound sympathy in the great loss which ...
Article : 371 wordsAdmiral Sims, giving evidence before the Senate Naval Investigation Committee, said the failure of the Navy Department to act quickly upon his recommendations, and to ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Chief Secretary, Sir George Fuller, speaking at Albury last night, dealt at length with Mr. Beeby and his statements in regard to the silo contract, among other ...
Article : 438 wordsThis evening the position of parties as a result of the general elections was Unionist party 19, Labour party 21, South African party l8. Nationalist party 20. The Nationalists ...
Article : 298 wordsSpeaking in the House of Representatives on the Supply Bill to-day, Mr. Page (Q.) asked the Prime Minister that Queensland mines be allowed to expert silver, lead, and ...
Article : 122 wordsIn the Senate, Senator Maughan (Q.) was informed by Senator Russell that no portion of the Navigation Act was yet actually in operation. ...
Article : 286 words"I regret very much to hear of the death of the Lord Mayor," said Alderman W. H. Lambert, president of the Australian Labour party, yesterday. "Sir Richard Richards was ...
Article : 70 wordsThere are frequent demonstrations of hostility towards Allied officers throughout Germany. A British colonel and French and Belgian ...
Article : 183 wordsAt noon on Tuesday next the city aldermen will meet at the Town Hall to consider the situation created by the death of Sir Richard Richards. ...
Article : 211 wordsThe troopship Friedrichsrub, the voyage of which was reported to have been marked by a number of unpleasant incidents, arrived in Sydney Harbour yesterday. She brought 330 ...
Article : 235 wordsA message received in Copenhagen from Helsingfors reports that General Skobeltsin, commanding the White Russian troops in Murmansk is approaching the Finnish frontier with ...
Article : 97 wordsThe leader of the Labour party (Mr. John Storey), speaking at Kiama of the establishment by the Labour Government of State metal quarries for the purpose of supplying ...
Article : 391 wordsSenator Lodge, during a debate in the Senate, referred to President Wilson's letter to Senator Hitchcock. It was unfortunate, he said, that President Wilson declared the ...
Article : 318 wordsMessrs. J. and J. Fenwick's tug Heroine arrived in port early yesterday morning after an absence of three years, during which she was engaged in salvage and rescue work under ...
Article : 185 wordsThe management of the Cockatoo Island Dockyards state that the unions have no cause to be alarmed regarding the dismissal of alien workmen. ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is understood that the Federal Ministry is reviewing the position with regard to trade with Germany in the light of recent events, and that some modification of the present ...
Article : 54 wordsWhen the Nauru agreement was completed in Paris in June, 1919, it was estimated that it would cost £3,000,000 to buy out the Pacific Phosphate Company's interests. Negotiations ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is reported from Berlin that there is a widespread movement in favour of the nomination of Hindenburg as President of Germany. He is willing to accept nomination. ...
Article : 95 wordsA conference of delegates of the Agricultural societies of the northern districts was held last night, when representatives of Newcastle Maitland, Singleton, and Gloucester ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Justice Ewing yesterday continued his inquiry into the administration of Northern Territory. Mr. Mervin J. Holmes, medical practitionor ...
Article : 227 wordsSir,—In your issue of the 9th, under the heading of "Mr. Minahan Threatened Expulsion," I have read with some amusement that he (Mr. Minahan) states; "The trial to which ...
Article : 302 wordsThe "Daily Express" says the report of the Income Tax Act Commission favours the abolition of the double income tax and suggests one tax, namely, the highest, where the profits ...
Article : 41 wordsThere was a sharp recovery in sterling today. The rate is now quoted at 3.82½ dollars to £1. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the police court to-day William, Wood, tobacconist, for keeping a common betting house, was fined £150, in default six months' imprisonment. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Shipping Board has announced that the profits from Government operations covering shipping business up to June 20, 1919, totalled over 166,000,000 dollars. ...
Article : 28 wordsMajor George Tryon (Under-Secretary for Air), in introducing the air estimates into the House of Commons, stated that the personnel of the air force had been reduced from 164,000 ...
Article : 63 wordsAnother late entry for this year's competition for the Davis Cup has reached Sydney. Yesterday Mr. T. H. Hicks, hon. secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Legislative Assembly met unofficially and adopted a resolution declaring the Protectorate illegal, also that Egypt and the Sudan were inseparable and independent. ...
Article : 30 wordsUnion secretaries and organisors have now decided to demand from their respective organisations a 44-hour week of five days. This announcement was made at the Sydney Trades ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the course of an address at Enmore last night, Mr. E. A. M'T[?]ernan, one of the Labour candidates for the Western Suburbs electorate, said that one of the most ...
Article : 165 wordsA report from Vienna states that a party of Hungarian officers drove up to Stockerau Hospital and vainly attempted to kidnap Bela Kun. ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the House of Commons at question time Mr. Lloyd George stated that in order to relieve the anxiety of the British farmer the price of the 1920 wheat crop would be ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Agricultural Wages Board is increasing the minimum wage to 42/ weekly for farm[?] in England and Wales. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 13 Mar 1920, Page 13
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