The newspapers are continuing to urge the necessity for rigorous retrenchment to save the country from disaster. It is believed that Mr. Lloyd George, in his speech ...
Article : 388 wordsThe Buda Pest correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune" states that in the course of an interview the Archduke Joseph denied that his assumption of the ...
Article : 307 wordsA private meeting of the State Commission on profiteering was held at the Treasury yesterday afternoon, and it was decided to commence the taking of ...
Article : 72 wordsHaving agreed to arrange an official welcome to Mr. Hughes on his arrival in Melbourne by members of the Returned Soldiers' League in mufti, the committee ...
Article : 113 wordsSYDNEY.--Mr. Justice Pring, who inquired into the Georgeson wheat contract, by which 72,000 tons of New South Wales inferior 1916-17 wheat was sold to Mr. ...
Article : 285 wordsAs a result of the withdrawal by the Coal Board of the permission given to several small firms to use electricity as motive power, the ranks of the ...
Article : 76 wordsTroops which disembarked from the transports Norman and Windhuk yesterday were satisfactorily dealt with by the military authorities at the Sturt-street ...
Article : 226 wordsInterest in connection with the maritime strike now centres in Sydney, where the seamen will hold a further important meeting to-day. Mr. Gerred, the delegate from ...
Article : 463 wordsThe steamer Wainui is to leave Melbourne to-morrow for Tasmania, while the Rotomahana will probably sail on Friday next. The Melbourne quarantine ...
Article : 81 wordsThe State Ministry has added to the already high cost of living by again increasing the price of brown coal. The Cabinet yesterday agreed to increase the price from ...
Article : 133 wordsA meeting of the Original Loyalists' Association was hold at the Treasury Gardens yesterday to consider the position in regard to the wharf laborers' trouble. Mr. ...
Article : 385 wordsBrown is a native born citizen of Melbourne. He is married and has a family of three. He is typical of the better paid class of artisan or the middle class in Australia. ...
Article : 1,149 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Helen Ferguson, attended by Captain B. Clifford, private secretary, and Captain C. R. Duncan, A.D.C., will return to Melbourne ...
Article : 1,113 wordsROSEDALE.--At a meeting of Rosedale shire council, sitting as a repatriation committee, on Monday, strong exception was taken to the purchase of Prospect Estate ...
Article : 134 wordsReference to the confusion which, as reported in "The Age" yesterday, occurred when the troops from the Karmala arrived at the Sturt-street depot on Sunday ...
Article : 377 wordsSYDNEY.--Speaking at the opening of the industrial exhibition on Monday Lady Davidson, wife of the State Governor, said she hoped none of the ladies of Sydney ...
Article : 67 wordsDespite the abnormal industrial conditions caused by the seamen's strike, the officer in charge of the employment section at Jolimont reports favorably on the work ...
Article : 130 wordsSpecial correspondents, describing the reception accorded the Prince of Wales at St. John (New Brunswick), comment in glowing terms on the Prince's democracy, ...
Article : 189 wordsOn the occasion of the last war loan areas which succeeded in securing their allotted quota were awarded an honor flag. When the question of a suitable award in ...
Article : 183 words"The revenue per car mile is very high, but there is a big loss every week," reported Cr. E. I. Thompson to Malvern council last evening in connection with the ...
Article : 216 wordsIn order to discuss vocational training procedure, a conference of federated industrial unionists and trades hall representatives concerned in the absorption into the ...
Article : 124 wordsTwo telegrams were yesterday despatched by Senator Millen to the Sydney branch of the Federated Seamen's Union. The first, sent in the morning to the ...
Article : 395 wordsA mysterious attack was made last night on part of the island of Queenstown (in Cork Harbor), on which a small force was guarding military stores. Men hiding ...
Article : 141 wordsSYDNEY.--The Governor-General received the following wireless message from Admiral Jellicoe yesterday:--"I received your Excellency's letter of ...
Article : 199 wordsPresident Carranza has ordered Mr. William Cummings, the British Charge d'Archives, to leave Mexico. This action followed upon a statement in the British ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is evident from the official explanation that a great deal of the confusion which arose on Sunday was attributable to the shortage of private motor cars which are ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. Mackinnon, M.L.A., Honorary Minister, who is associated with the Minister of Lands in the control of soldier settlement, returned to Melbourne on Friday ...
Article : 218 wordsSir,--The Women and Childrens' Wharf Laborers' Relief Committee earnestly believe that the industrial trouble on the water front is terminating, and we are ...
Article : 306 wordsIn an interview to-day, Senator Pearce, Minister of Defence, complained of the dwarfing of Australian events by the English press. He had noticed the omission of ...
Article : 91 wordsA White Paper shows that the Afghan trouble arose when India was partially denuded of troops, and rapid concentration was hampered by the defection of the ...
Article : 101 wordsTroops from the Wiltshire, will disembark at the new pier, Port Melbourne, at 9 a.m. to-day. As 400 troops are landing, the secretary of the Royal Automobile Club ...
Article : 154 wordsVital statistics issued by the Government Statist show the large death rate consequent upon the presence of the influenza epidemic. The death rate for the ...
Article : 237 wordsSYDNEY.--The local secretary of the Seamen's Union (Mr. Raeburn) stated on Monday that he had received a reply from Senator Millen to the request by the ...
Article : 90 wordsSenator Millen stated on Saturday that he had noticed a statement attributed to Mr. G. R. Palmer, president of the new branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, ...
Article : 166 wordsThe first session of the present Parliament has lasted six months and a hall. A record has been achieved in the output of legislation. It is noteworthy the "closure" ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the Paris "Matin" states that the German Constitutional Commission has reported that no German ought to be surrendered to any ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Frankfurt and the Port Melbourne are expected to reach Melbourne on Wednesday. The exact time of disembarkation will be announced. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt Port Melbourne yesterday Margaret Irvingham was fined 20, in default a week's imprisonment, on a charge of having had in her possession coal which it was suspected had been ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY.--The Sydney seamen's executive on Monday took action to secure the co-operation of members of the National Firemen's and Sailor's Union of Great ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,974 wordsIt is said that the Japanese have invested more than £1,000,000 in the copper and iron mines of Chili. The Japanese also recently took an option over the coal ...
Article : 76 wordsIn view of the increasing demands of the workers, the Masters Federation at Barcelona has decided on a "lock-out," and is negotiating for an extension of the ...
Article : 73 wordsIn view of the success that has already attended the movement of the central executive of the Returned Soldiers' League in favor of the establishment of new ...
Article : 109 wordsWANGARATTA.--Up to date the district hospital committee has incurred an expenditure of £527 for the treatment of influenza patients in the isolation ward. ...
Article : 30 wordsPERTH.--The Western Australian Mining Association has appealed to the Premier to emancipate the State from the Federal Government's "unconstitutional ...
Article : 150 wordsHOBART.--Eight fresh cases of influenza have been admitted to the isolation hospital, and two deaths have occurred. The regulation as to the wearing of masks was ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Government is utilising 2000 military lorries as auxiliaries to relieve the traffic congestion. The whole kingdom has been divided into districts. The officials will ...
Article : 48 wordsThe advanced Socialists have decided to form a Communist party in America, abandoning connection with Socialism in order to seek a dictatorship of the ...
Article : 31 wordsCOLAC.--At the meeting of Colac shire council on Monday a letter was read from Sale borough council in regard to profiteering. Cr. Morrisy said the matter was very ...
Article : 102 wordsAt a recent meeting of the 10th Field Ambulance Association a constitution and set of rules were adopted. Mr. W. Slater, M.L.A., was elected president, Majors E. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe famous Parisian actress, Eve la Valhere, has entered a convent at Marseilles as a Carmelite nun. She has spent three year in religious work at Lourdes. ...
Article : 34 wordsOwing to a threatened strike, the corporative societies of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales have "looked out" 30,000 employes. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir,--'"Anti-Profiteer" writes on the subject of Paton's knitting wool as having been in 1914 4½d. per skeins, twelve skeins to the pound, and in July, 1919, 11d., and ...
Article : 241 wordsSYDNEY.--In the Marine Court on Friday Donald M'Nicoll, second engineer of the lost collier Myola, was called upon to show cause why his certificate should not ...
Article : 98 wordsBRISBANE.--At a meeting of Brisbane seamen the following motion was carried:--That this meeting adopt the resolution received from the federal council and accept as the basis ...
Article : 53 wordsThe steamer War Lark, laden with grain from Australia for Hall, stranded on Goodwin Sands. She was high and dry at low water. The vessel was towed off, and ...
Article : 45 wordsThe wile of Mr. Arthur Mayday, Labor member for West Nottingham, has given birth to her seventeenth child. Mr. Mayday, who in early life was a ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY.--The annual report of the Railway. Commissioners for the year ended in June last shows that on the railways there was a deficit of £211,817, and on the ...
Article : 177 wordsHenry Mitchell, late of Toongabbie, farmer, who died on 14th May last, by his will 18th May, 1990, left £3365 real estate and £2484 personalty to his widow and children. ...
Article : 113 wordsOwing to the double income tax, Robert Reid and Company are transferring their head office to Australia. It is reported that Mr. G. H. Roberts ...
Article : 84 wordsGirls from their teens onwards are very apt to become anemic and nervy. Those conditions, it not properly attended to, seriously affect then in after years. It is therefore essential that girls ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 19 Aug 1919, Page 5
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