The wharf labourers meet this morning. They will decide whether to strike or not. Their decision will probably settle the question of whether Mr. Hughes and the Strike Congress or Mr. Bowling and the I.W.W. are to ...
Article : 229 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressing 8000 of his constituents at Carnarvon, denied that the Budget was socialistic. It was merely justice and ...
Article : 171 wordsCaptain R. F. Scott, who is organising an expedition to the Antarctic, has left his employment at the Admiralty as naval assistant to the Second Sea Lord, and is ...
Article : 353 wordsThe city is now anxiously waiting to know whether it is to expect that in a few days the supply of gas will come to an end, owing to the question that has now intruded itself into ...
Article : 752 wordsThe P. and O. steamer Palermo, having discharged most of the coal which she brought from Japan, was ready yesterday morning to receive a consignment of concentrates ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Budget Protest League has been dissolved, "having attained its object." It issued 20,000,000 leaflets and 300,000 posters, and arranged 3500 large meetings, and ...
Article : 114 wordsThe officials of the interstate steamship companies who have arrived in Sydney met yesterday. Their business was strictly private, and Captain Webb (Huddart, Parker, and ...
Article : 139 wordsThe elections to the provincial councils in India are proceeding actively and smoothly, but neither Hindus nor Mohammedans are altogether satisfied. ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. W. Thorne, M.P. (Labour), declares that the Labour party will do its utmost to ensure the return of the Government ...
Article : 27 wordsThere were persistent rumours in Sydney yesterday that the southern miners might return to work next week. It was quite impossible to discover any firm ground for this ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. Keir Hardie, M.P. (Socialist), in the course of a speech yesterday, said: "So much has been heard of the alliance between Liberal and Labour that it is ...
Article : 262 wordsThe Nobel prizes for the year have been awarded as follows:— Physics.—Guglielmo Marconi. Karl Braun (Strassburg). ...
Article : 149 wordsAt an early hour yesterday morning the P. and O. Co.'s steamer Marmora was removed from the wharf at Circular Quay to the company's buoy at Noutral Bay for the purpose ...
Article : 621 wordsSir Thomas Sutherland, the chairman of directors, speaking at the annual meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company, said that the prospects of the freight ...
Article : 92 wordsIt is generally believed in Sydney that the crisis of all the coal strike occurs to-day. In this strike a crisis occurs about every week end. But it does seem obvious that ...
Article : 745 wordsThe horses are now being shod and taken down the shaft at the local colliery. It was rumoured this afternoon that congress had decided to advise the mon to ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Public Prosecutor's appeal against the acquittal of officials and merchants charged with fraud in connection with transactions at the naval dockyard at Kiel ...
Article : 36 wordsBurglars removed a safe from Goswell-road post-office, containing £1500, to a house in Rosebery-avenue. The police watched eight men ...
Article : 53 wordsLord Robert Cecil, speaking at Blackburn, which constituency he proposes to contest in the Conservative interest, suggested the reform of the House of Lords by ...
Article : 92 wordsSince the Payne tariff came into operation in the United States, art objects of the value of 6,501,930 dollars (£1,300,386) have been imported, compared with 1,372,691 ...
Article : 146 wordsNothing further has been done in Newcastle in regard to the employment of free labour to work a colliery to provide coal for Government services, and it appears that the ...
Article : 85 wordsAn action was heard in the King's Bench Division against Mr. H. G[?] stone, Home Secretary, and the governor of Birmingham prison, brought by a ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Grand Council of the Gas Employees' Union yesterday sent a deputation to the Strike Congress to find out their position. The congress heard what they had to say, and, in ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P. (Liberal-Unionist), speaking at Greet, Salop, yesterday said that the article in the "Birmingham Post," outlining a tariff scheme ...
Article : 231 wordsMr. Beeby asked the Acting Premler in the Legislative Assembly yesterday if he had taken any steps to compol the mineowners to meet the miners in conference. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Berlin "Tageblatt" fixes the reported descent in remote North Canada of the balloon of Andree, the Swedish aeronant, who was not seen after starting for ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Newcastle Wharf-labourers so far have continued to wotk, and are having exceptionally busy times, as shippers are rushing cargoes away as fast as possible. The men here ...
Article : 72 wordsNo information whatever had been conveyed to Mr. Lukey, the secretary of the company, up to a late hour last night. When spoken to on the subject. Mr. Lukcy said it would be a ...
Article : 241 wordsCanada is satisfied with President Taff's reference to the maximum clause in the United States Tariff Act, and no tariff war is likely. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Braintree (Essex) silk and crape mills of Samuel Courtauld and Co., Ltd., No. 1 Church-street, Bocking, were destroyed by fire yesterday. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Lord Mayor yesterday supplied the following statement:— "I was sorry to read the Premier's heated remarks about my interview. My statement ...
Article : 732 wordsThe Council of the Mothers' Uuion, representing 300,000 members, support the action of the circulating libraries in their exclusion of what they deem to be ...
Article : 40 wordsTo-morrow the Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend mines will have been at work for a fortnight, and though the men employed there will not be paid until Friday next, their ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. A. Ure, Lord Advocate of Scotland, again declares that the man who votes for tariff reform votes for a discontinuation of old-age pensions, inasmuch as the ...
Article : 161 wordsAt the conclusion of the Federal Cabinet meeting to-day the Prime Minister was asked if anything was done in regard to the High Commissionership. ...
Article : 267 wordsMembers of the Government, when asked last night if any action would be taken against leaders in any subsequent strike, such as had been initiated against the miners' ...
Article : 332 wordsDespite the fact that several witnesses for the defence alleged an alibi, the magistrates committed Cornclius Howard for trial on a charge of murdering his cousin. ...
Article : 211 wordsMr. M'Gowen, leader of the Parliamentary Labour party, was seen last night in the presence of Mr. Holman and Mr. Dacey, and asked if he would define the attitude of his ...
Article : 385 wordsMr. John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary party, says that not for 150 years has such an opportunity occurred to Ireland. He emphasises the ...
Article : 53 wordsBusiness is acutely depressed in Nowcastle. The large Christmas stocks are conspicuous by their absence. The big retallers have taken in only limited supplles, and what ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Clifford has issued a manifesto appealing to passive resisters to support the abolition of the power of veto by the House of Lords. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Peter Bowling has been turned down emphatically. Mr. Hughes reigns once more alone. The strike congress has declared for his policy, and against that represented by ...
Article : 729 wordsSince the Eight Hours Act has been introduced in coal mines 500 instead of 800 trucks of coal have been sent on ty the Taff Vale railway daily. ...
Article : 100 wordsAs the Adelaide S.S. Company's passenger steamer Yongala was leaving Sydney last night for Melbourne in continuation of her voyage from Cairns, via ports, she met with ...
Article : 151 wordsLord Lytton, presiding at a meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union, strongly denounced the militant tactics of suffragists. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Wade stated yesterday that he was gradually on the improve. He hoped to be able to give close attention to official duties after this week. ...
Article : 105 wordsSome of the Peers are addressing election meetings. The Earl of Camperdown and Lord. Kesteven address meetings against the Government, and the Earl of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 11 Dec 1909, Page 13
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