The peculiarly complex political situation is daily becoming more interesting. One of the various explosives which are gradually nearing the end of their fuses will go off at the ...
Article : 559 wordsThe constitution for the proposed Transport Workers' Federation, now the subject of a general referendum, will very probably be adopted. ...
Article : 454 wordsThe relation between the cost of living and increase in wages, was mentioned by Mr. Justice Heydon, in the Industrial Court yesterday. ...
Article : 321 wordsLord Islington, until lately Governor of New Zealand, and now proceeding to India as chairman of the Indian Public Service Commission, arrived in Sydney by the Maheno from ...
Article : 1,339 wordsThere was tremendous excitement in Parliament to-day when the Prime Minister, Mr. R. 1.. Borden, introduced a bill authorising the Government to provide for the construction of ...
Article : 615 wordsThe annual meeting of the Board of Control for international cricket was held today. Mr. W. P. M'Elhone presided. The annual report, which was adopted, ...
Article : 490 wordsThe proposal that the peace conference should be held in London appears to have emanated from the Porte, as it wished to enjoy the advantage of the advice of Sir ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. M'Kenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, said he was delighted with Mr. Borden's proposals. He felt strongly that the time had arrived ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, stated to-day, when his attention was directed to the Canadian message, that so far as it referred to the decision to establish a fleet of ...
Article : 299 wordsTwo Greek gunboats bombarded Valona, on the Adriatic, 58 miles south of Durazzo. Some of the shells fell near the Italian and Austro-Hungarian Consulates. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Turkish fleet is concentrating in the Dardanelles. The Government has ordered an attack on the Greek fleet in the [?] Sea. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe State Government has just experienced another rebuff as the hands of the Federal Government. A few weeks ago it was announced a discovery had been made at ...
Article : 275 wordsColonel J. E. B. Seely, Secretary of State for War, in addressing the London Scottish Regiment last night, defended the Territorials. He declared that the people had a ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Greeks are now bombarding the outer forts of Janina, in Epirus. The Greeks have defeated a band of marauders and the remnants of the Turkish army ...
Article : 59 wordsDr. Kaleb Jian, an Armenian, who has escaped from Adrianople, states that shells from the Bulgarian batteries started a fire during the night in some wooden Turkish ...
Article : 149 wordsCaptain Lawrence states that it will take about a fortnight to complete the chain of meetings necessary before the steamship owners can be notified of the new terms which ...
Article : 165 wordsThe items of expenditure during the Australian XI. tour were:- Travelling expenses: Steamers, £2122 5s 6d; trains, £524 12s 2d; total, £2646 7s 8d. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe bills passed in the House of Representatives aim at drastic alterations in the Constitution, and if they are agreed to at the referendum the Commonwealth Parliament ...
Article : 248 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Welsh Disestablishment Bill was considered in committee. There was a heated debate on the first ...
Article : 142 wordsDiscussing the situation which has arisen owing to the conflict between the Imperial Chancellor (Herr von Bethmann-Holwegg) and the Clerical party, the "Cologne ...
Article : 90 wordsElaborate preparations are being made by the residents of Newtown to celebrate fittingly the jubilee of the municipality. An enthusiastic citizens' committee, with 222 members, ...
Article : 390 words'Yes, it certainly does look like a breach of the arrangement arrived at as to the holding of a conference." In these words, Mr. F. Flowers, M.L.C., ...
Article : 407 wordsThe "Daily Mail" declares that Mr. G. S. Crouch's report on the conduct of the Australian cricket team has come its a veritable bombshell, and adds that no complaints were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 274 wordsSir Charles Tupper, Sir George Ross, and other leading statesmen enthusiastically favour the new naval policy. Sir Charles Tupper declares that he did ...
Article : 135 wordsThe House of Commons last night further considered the Trade Union Bill in committee. Viscount Wolmer (Unionist) moved an ...
Article : 65 wordsA conference was held yesterday of representatives of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress, the management committee of the General Federaion of Trade ...
Article : 104 wordsIt has como to the knowledge of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, that fully 95 per cent, of the master butchers are prepared to close their establishments at ...
Article : 167 wordsThe evening press throughout the Dominion welcomes the Government's policy. The Liberal journals are not criticising the measure, and it is not expected that any ...
Article : 43 wordsSome time ago the Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, entered into negotiations with the State authorities to see if it would be possible to arrive at an arrangement by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 wordsThe press generally applauds Mr. Borden's policy, although the "Daily News" asks whether there is such urgency as to require Canada to abandon her original idea of a ...
Article : 151 wordsAt the sitting on the Parliamentary Select Committee, which is inquiring into the contract with the Marconi Company for the erection of the Imperial chain of wireless ...
Article : 125 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Maitland District Friendly Societies' Association, held last night, one of the delegates reported that the British Medical Association, in ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Height of Buildings Bill, as amended and passed, provides that a building which is not exclusively used for purposes of public worship, or is not a chimney stack or sewer ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Minister for Mines in Parliament this evening moved the second reading of the Mines Regulation Bill. It is of a revolutionary character. ...
Article : 74 wordsHer Majesty's Theatre: "Floradora," 7.50. Theatre Royal: "Harbour Lights," 7.50. Criterion Theatre: "Mrs. M'Sweeney," 7.50. Adelphi Theatre: "His Real Wife," 7.50. ...
Article : 193 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, who was interviewed to-night, expressed the opinion that Mr. Borden's scheme was magnificent from every point of view, and ...
Article : 170 wordsThe sum of £4000 in gold disappeared while in transit from the Ministry of War to the Island of Rhodes. A Brindisi postal official has been arrested ...
Article : 44 wordsRichard Hayes, stationmaster at Croydon, was run over and killed by a train at Croydon station at about 8 o'clock last night. It seems that Mr. Hayes waa on No. 3 platform, ...
Article : 124 wordsA bridge 105ft long at Mokihanul, owned by the State coal mines, and controlled by the council, has been mysteriously blown up and completely destroyed. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe cases from which ten thousand sovereigns (part of a consignment from London to Alexandria) were recently stolen, were being sent to England for examination, when ...
Article : 59 wordsThe young man Percy Barton, who, with Bertha Lee, was injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a jinker at Albert Park last night, died early this morning. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 7 Dec 1912, Page 23
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