The Acting Attorney-General, Mr. Groom, stated yesterday that he was not yet in a position to say when the application of the Commonwealth Government for ...
Article : 79 wordsThe death of Sir Charles Wyndham, the noted actor-manager, in his 82nd year, is announced in a cable message from London. On the London stage he ...
Article : 700 wordsSYDNEY.—The court of inquiry which is investigating complaints by soldiers concerning their treatment on board the transport Sardinia on the homeward trip ...
Article : 719 wordsLieutenant-General Smuts has issued an important pamphlet dealing with the position and constitution of a League of Nations. He says:— ...
Article : 978 wordsOn Friday morning fighting was stili fiercely going on in the central avenues of Berlin and around the offices of the Socialist newspaper "Vorwaerts," which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 wordsThe 21 cases of distress among returned soldiers and their families which were submitted to the State Treasurer by the Soldiers' National party were discussed ...
Article : 358 wordsSYDNEY.—Mr. Willis, secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employed' Federation, has replied to a letter sent by Mr. M'Donald, secretary of the Northern ...
Article : 522 wordsTelegrams from Vienna report the existence of a Bolshevist plot in Poland to murder M. Paderewski. A person entered Paderewski's room at his hotel and fired at ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY.—No developments occurred on Monday in the shipping trouble caused by the refusal of sailors and firemen to to man certain vessels trading to ports ...
Article : 231 wordsThe demobilisation of German war ships at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven is practically complete, but it was accomplished only after severe pressure had been put ...
Article : 122 wordsNEWCASTLE.—The crew of the steamer Joan Craig, which has loaded a cargo of coal for Brisbane, left the vessel on Monday afternoon and proceeded to ...
Article : 92 wordsOwing to the acute shortage of wire netting, and the consequent ravages of the rabbit plague, fanners throughout the State are worse off by many thousands of ...
Article : 453 wordsMachinery to the value of £10,000 is being purchased by the business board of the Defence department, which is assisting the Repatriation department in ...
Article : 76 wordsThe inter-State conference convened for the purpose of preparing a scheme for one big union, to be submitted to unionists throughout Australia, resumed its sittings ...
Article : 904 wordsThe Paris "Matin" publishes an interview given by the late Count Hertling, formerly German Imperial Chancellor, just before he died. Count Hertling said:— ...
Article : 141 wordsThe vocational training section of the Repatriation department now has 1115 returned disabled soldiers in training for various trades, and 670 men have completed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe council of the Victorian Railways Union has devilled to Decode to the request of the Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, that one of the two ...
Article : 200 wordsThe "Bayonet." the official organ of the Victorian branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has made its appearance. The object of the new journal is to conserve the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Brussels correspondent of the "Daily Express" states:—"The Belgian Government's Reconstruction Bill, under which it is proposed to preserve Ypres, ...
Article : 115 wordsSir,—When will this people of Australia wake up to the fact that there are plenty of highly paid Australian officials in London who have proved themselves capable ...
Article : 160 wordsTALLANGATTA.—A large bush fire at Shelley on Sunday threatened the railway station buildings; and a large number of men, including laborers on construction ...
Article : 265 wordsthe Minister of Labor has received the following nominations to the Wholesale Grocers' Board:—Messrs. J. J. Fogarty, W. Hobbs, and U. P. Mitchell, representing ...
Article : 51 wordsMary Macgugan, spinster, late of Branxholine, who died on 16th December last, by a will dated 8th April. 1918, left real estate £1949 and personalty value £449, to her sister. ...
Article : 69 wordsFollowing upon the report that a few days ago six Australian destroyers were buffeted by a storm in the Mediterranean, the Admiralty formally announces that ...
Article : 91 wordsOn 25th January the amended determination of the Fuel and Fodder Board will come into operation. Rates have been increased all round by from 2/6 to 5/ a week, ...
Article : 67 wordsSir,—Every right-thinking citizen who fully believes in "true economy" and honest government will naturally protest against and recent the wasteful ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Minister of Defence stated yesterday that he had called for a report in connection with the allegations made in "The Age" yesterday regarding the recent ...
Article : 360 wordsBALLARAT.—The financial affairs of Messrs. Brokenshire and Coltman, auctioneers and commission agents, of Lydiard-street, to which reference was made in ...
Article : 418 wordsBROKEN HILL.—Speaking at the A.M.A. propaganda meeting on Sunday night, according to the, A.M.A. official newspaper, Mr. G. Kerr, president of the ...
Article : 195 wordsIt is expected that Government control of shipping will shortly be considerably relaxed, thus releasing much tonnage for ordinary trade. An early and large ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—I would suggest, that a public meeting be called in the Melbourne Town Hall to protest against this useless expenditure of public money upon Ministerial jaunts ...
Article : 66 wordsSir,—Will you give us the opportunity of replying to the false statements made in some of your contemporaries about the ward attendants of the A.G. Hospital ...
Article : 269 wordsThe continued rise in the River Seine is occasioning grave anxiety in Paris. An interruption of the food supplies is feared. The Thames is rising dangerously in ...
Article : 53 wordsPERTH.—The only further development in the tramway strike is that the Opposition leader, Mr. Collier, and Mr. Hudson, Minister of Railways, on Monday conferred ...
Article : 89 wordsSir,—As a discharged returned soldier beg to state my claim to you, asking for a fair deal from the Defence department, which apparently, privately, I cannot ...
Article : 350 wordsSinn Feiners in Mountjoy prison, Dublin, are demanding to be treated as political prisoners. They have revolted, and are smashing windows and damaging cells. ...
Article : 49 wordsZEEHAN.—Dissatisfaction was expressed by the men who are working in the Mount Lyell company's mines regarding the slow progress made with the claims for higher ...
Article : 95 wordsOwing to the withdrawal of Mr. J. R. Clynes, vice-chairman of the Labor party, Mr. Will Thorne, M.P.; Mr. Bowerman, M.P., and Mr. Onions, the British trade ...
Article : 154 wordsWELLINGTON.—Some of the Australians stranded here as the result of the shipping hold-up are becoming seriously distressed financially. Some days ago the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe British committee which is reviewing breaches of the laws of war by the enemy has investigated 100,000 cases of ill treatment of prisoners. The committee ...
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Advertising : 287 wordsA record batch of Australian war brides sailed from Liverpool on the Orient liner Osterley yesterday. Extra matrons and nurses were placed aboard to see to the ...
Article : 62 wordsBRISBANE.—The Acting Premier, Mr. Theodore, speaking on Monday in regard to the unemployed demonstrations at Townsville and Bundaberg, said the ...
Article : 146 wordsSYDNEY.—Following a discussion by the State Cabinet on Monday respecting the question of preference on the wharfs as between returned soldiers and the loyalists ...
Article : 175 wordsThe steamer Northumbria, 4215 tons, struck a mine and sank off the east coast of England. Eight bodies have been washed ashore. Four boats are missing. ...
Article : 32 wordsWELLINGTON.—A general Labor conference, convened by the Federation of Labor, meets at the end of January to discuss a proposal to federate all existing ...
Article : 130 wordsThe United Press Association correspondent at Buenos Ayres reports that the general strike has been settled. The employers have granted higher wages and ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY.—Private cable advices received on Friday announce that there has been a reduction in freight rates from New York to Australian ports. The freight ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 14 Jan 1919, Page 5
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