All the attention at the Disarmament Conference to-day is focussed upon the meeting of the full committee on naval matters. M. Debon will ...
Article : 378 wordsMr. O'Me[?]ly, the Minister of Education, speaking during to-day's session of the Dail Eireann, strongly opposed the ratification of the Treaty. He ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. F. H. Piesse, Warden of the Hobart Marine Board, who has been in indifferent health for some time, is at present a patient at Stowell ...
Article : 633 wordsWhile there is some disappointment at the result of the conversations in London the newspapers generally state that they believe that the differences ...
Article : 85 wordsThe movement for relief from the irksome provisions of the coastal clauses of the Navigation Act is not being allowed to rest, and a meeting of the ...
Article : 434 wordsThe directors of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company now officially advise that the works at Newcasle will be closed down over the holidays. Three large ...
Article : 1,061 wordsA general boycott was proclaimed here this morning when the Prince of Wales arrived from Nepal, but it was not wholly effective. Some hundreds ...
Article : 275 wordsStartling information has been received from Blackall. It has transpired that oil has actually been discovered in the vicinity of Blackall. The ...
Article : 190 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that M. Briand and Mr. Lloyd George have arrived at a satisfactory understanding upon all points. Complete accord has ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Australian cricketers arrived this afternoon. Owing to the late berthing of the steamer the luncheon by the Cricket Association and the ...
Article : 854 wordsThere were still 40 speakers on the list when Mr. Collins moved and the Countess Markievicz seconded a motion for adjournment. Mr. Collins based ...
Article : 238 wordsMr. Lloyd George will spend Christmas at Downing-street. He goes to Cannon on Monday and hopes to get a week's rest there. Before leaving ...
Article : 43 wordsA telegram from Port Pirie states that Broken Hill Associated Smelters convened a conference last night between the management and the union ...
Article : 651 wordsFurther despatches from Warsaw dealing with the arrest of Wolfe Lindenfeld, one of the moving spirits behind the Wall-street explosion on ...
Article : 341 wordsThe American Ambassador (Colonel Harvey) has been conferring with M. Briand, the French Prime Minister, who is at present in England ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo cases of plague were admitted to hospital last night, both females. At midnight there were five males and six females in the isolation hospital. ...
Article : 72 wordsA party of nine armed men acting individually entered the Hiberman Bank in Camden-street, Dublin, to-day and at a concerted signal held up ...
Article : 145 wordsThe whole of this morning's proceedings of the full committee of the conference were practically taken up by M. Debon re-arguing France's case. It ...
Article : 312 wordsSYDNEY, December 23. An examination of the premises in Day-street, from which captures of infected rats have been made during the ...
Article : 72 wordsSubstantial increases in several departments were sought in a claim which had been submitted to the Federal arbitrator to-day by the ...
Article : 276 wordsWork in connection with the erection of the cocoa and confectionery works at Claremont is proceeding steadily. Two of the five projected ...
Article : 398 wordsRevivalist forvour has reached unwonted dimensions at Fraserburgh (Aberdeenshire) and nearly all the fisherfolk are convinced that Judgment ...
Article : 83 wordsThe military have ordered Laghloul, the political extremist leader and agitator, and seven of his leading supporters, to remain in their country homes ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Finance Ministry proposes to introduce a bill compelling all residents under a penalty of ten years' imprisonment and a forfeit to furnish within ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is now known that efforts were made at this conference by the committee to revise all the rules of warfare as well as for control of the use ...
Article : 135 wordsJudge Beeby issued a warning in the Profiteering Court to-day that if the practices said to be adopted by certain firms with a view to ...
Article : 182 wordsJudgment was given to-day by the Public Service Arbitrator (Mr. Atle[?] Hunt) upon four claims by public service organisations for increased wages, ...
Article : 331 wordsThe sensational happening in Fremantle prison on Saturday, 17th, was reviewed in the local police court to-day when John West was charged with ...
Article : 206 wordsSomething approaching a gold rush has set in in Nigeria, where payable gold has been found in the Kano district, both alluvial and quartz. A ...
Article : 64 wordsFrom the Federal quarterly returns of the finances ended September 30, interesting details can be gleaned of [?] constant increases in departmental ...
Article : 278 wordsSenator France has introduced a resolution into the Senate to authorise President Harding to call an international economic conference to ...
Article : 43 wordsAn amended harvest estimate of the Government Statistician places the wheat yield at 14,439,389 bushels, and hay at 70,554 tons. The average ...
Article : 69 wordsNotwithstanding a Kemalist proclamation warning the Turkish population not to molest Christians 10,000 refugees are flocking to Mersina, a Turkish ...
Article : 53 wordsThe final stages have been reached in the negotiations for the purchase by the National Bank of Australasia, Ltd., of the assets and business of the ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Chamber, by a vote of 220 to 28, to-day defeated a motion in favour of establishing an agreement with Russia. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Launceston Business Manager (Mr. F. M. Nichol) has written to the Launceston Associated Bands drawing attention to the fact that the permits ...
Article : 160 wordsDr. Sun Yat Sen, the President of the Southern Chinese Republic, who is heading one of the armies of rebellion in the Kweiyang district, 190 miles ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Australian Rugby footballer[?] will play an extra match at Widnes on December 27. The team will comprise: Potter or Norman, Latta, ...
Article : 63 wordsA man named Thomas Ockerby was committed for trial to-day charged with possessing himself of £2,067, the property of Messrs. Ockerby Ltd. Ockerby ...
Article : 59 wordsThe New Zealander McConachy played finely in his match with the Scottish champion Aiken. He made a good break of 292 before the interval, and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 24 Dec 1921, Page 7
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