When the Premiers' Conference resumed yesterday morning it was with the sanguine hope that the proceedings would terminate about the lunch hour. By that ...
Article : 282 wordsSYDNEY.—The New South Wales Government has in hand, for submission to a conference of Premiers, an important proposal, involving the abolition of the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe American State department has received Germany's peace Note. The department has transmitted the Note to the American ambassadors for presentation to ...
Article : 1,964 wordsLate last night the Prime Minister introduced in the House of Representatives a bill to deal with unlawful associations. It provides that the following shall be ...
Article : 240 wordsThe supplementary estimates submitted to the House of Commons yesterday provide for 1,000,000 additional troops to the end of next March, making the ...
Article : 156 wordsA Russian communique states:—"The enemy on 13th December continued his attacks in the direction of Buzen. Our cavalry and infantry came in contact with ...
Article : 151 wordsYesterday, during a sitting lasting some 31 hours, with a few brief periods of rest, the members of the Senate "made history" by following the unprecedented course of ...
Article : 2,223 wordsThe Daylight Saving Bill, which was introduced in the House of Representatives last night provides that from 2 o'clock in the morning of the day on which the ...
Article : 91 wordsSir,—Your powerful leader in Wednesday's issue suggests that if the voice of Australia is to bo heard in the coming discussion of Germany's offer, it ought to ...
Article : 948 wordsIn the House of Representatives yesterday Mr. Greene (N.S.W.) directed attention to a statement in a Sydney newspaper that a young man had stated on a public ...
Article : 208 wordsTelegraphing at midnight on Thursday General Sir Douglas Haig reported:—"We entered trenches in the neighborhood of Monchy-an-Bois, southward of Arras, and ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria bequeathed 69,000,000 kroner (£2,500,000) to invalided soldiers and the families of the slain, and 20,000,000 kroner (£830,000) to ...
Article : 762 wordsAppointments of officers of State have been made as under, following the forma-tion of Mr. Lloyd George's Cabinet:— Parliamentary Secretaries of Munitions. Mr. E. ...
Article : 195 wordsOn being approached by a representative of "The Age" last night, Mr. F. Wilson, Premier of Western Australia, said the conference had adjourned, not ...
Article : 697 wordsThe London "Gazette" announces that the Victoria Cross has been conferred on Lieutenant-Colonel B.C. Freyburg, of New Zealand, in recognition of his most ...
Article : 483 wordsPERTH.—On Friday Mr. Justice Burnside summed up in the conspiracy case against members of the I.W.W. in the Criminal Court. The jury found all guilty. ...
Article : 182 wordsThe German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Herr Zimmermann, stated in an interview in Berlin yesterday that Germany's promises to the United States regarding ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Palmer (V.) asked the Prime Minister whether he had taken cognisance of the Fact that certain branches of trades unions had carried resolutions in favor of the ...
Article : 94 wordsLord Robert Cecil, Minister in charge of Blockade, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the blockade of Greece did not imply war between her and the ...
Article : 126 wordsAt recent meetings of the Victorian branch of the Meat Trade Employes' Union sums amounting in all to £4 have been voted to the workers' defence ...
Article : 162 wordsAt a quarterly summoned meeting of the Melbourne branch of the Australian Society of Progressive Carpenters and Joiners on Thursday the following ...
Article : 53 wordsLord Inchcape, chairman of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Co., speaking at the annual meeting of shareholders to-day, announced that the steamer Poona, 7626 ...
Article : 216 wordsGermany's reply to the American protest against the deportation of Belgians asserts that the United States Government has been inaccurately informed regarding the ...
Article : 93 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that horse meat is being retailed in the German capital at 3/ per lb. ...
Article : 30 wordsAll the interest at railway men is centred on what will happen in the House of Assembly next week in regard to railway wages boards. The attitude of both sides ...
Article : 371 wordsSYDNEY.—The attitude of New South Wales in standing out of the agreement under which the Commonwealth borrows on behalf of the States is generally ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. John Hodge, Minister for Labor, announces that he is dealing drastically under the Munitions and Defence of the Realm Acts with the boiler makers' strike ...
Article : 80 wordsCarrying a letter of greeting from the mayor of Bendigo (Cr. W. Beebe) to the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Mr. Basil Watson, a young Australian aviator, flew from ...
Article : 280 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord Devonport said that his policy, as Food Controller, would be to adjust supplies coming in, so that everybody would have ...
Article : 65 wordsThe State War Council yesterday received a cheque for £5000 from the Education department's patriotic fund. This is the first instalment of a sum of £30,000 which that fund is voting to the council. The money ...
Article : 41 wordsThe appeal against the decision of the Appeal Court in the Slingsby case has been dismissed, with costs, by the House of Lords. ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Lloyd George suffered a slight relapse on Thursday. In the evening it was announced that his medical advisers had ordered him to go to bed, and have ...
Article : 47 wordsFurther reference to Germany's peace proposals was made in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Higgs (Q.) asked the Prime Minister whether he had ...
Article : 82 wordsAccording to the German newspapers the Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria has been appointed Regent of Poland. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. D.E. M'Bryde, M.L.C., has given the use of his grounds, "Kamesburgh," North-road, Brighton, for an American tea and garden fete, to be held to-day, to provide funds for the Brighton Red Cross ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Bonar Law said the Government was taking action in the case of Captain Blaikie, of the steamer Caledonia, who was ...
Article : 71 wordsFollowing upon the announcement made by the French Prime Minister, M. Briand, in the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, the Cabinet has introduced a measure ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 16 Dec 1916, Page 13
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