The Lieutenant-Governor, attended by Captain E. Wanliss, A.D.C., was present at the operatic performance held in the Melba Hall yesterday evening for the ...
Article : 479 wordsThe insufferable steamy weather which for days has gradually increased the discomfort of the community, last evening was dissipated by a heavy thunder storm which ...
Article : 687 wordsPresident Wilson's message to the newly elected Congress, which was read when the Houses assembled yesterday, does not contain any reference to the Peace Treaty, ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Governor-General of Java, Count Limburg Stirum, who is an intimate friend of Captain Ross Smith, the Australian aviator, intends to fly with the latter, ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY. -- The city coroner's court was crowded on Wednesday, when the hearing of the inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Marporie Meagher, 23, at Coogee, on 20th ...
Article : 1,038 wordsThe American Peace delegation had received instructions to return home from Paris, but owing to the German delay in signing the Peace protocol the members ...
Article : 43 wordsBENDIGO. -- "I think I can fairly claim," said the Prime Miniser, speaking at White Hills on Wednesday, "that no man excepting the soldiers who have fought for ...
Article : 962 wordsThe old council chamber in the Melbourne Town Hall was not large enough last night to comfortably accommodate the audience of Victorian nurses and ...
Article : 871 wordsImportant legislation, which brings appreciably nearer the realisation of the ideal of the nationalisation of medicine, and may serve to remove some of the difficulties ...
Article : 1,336 wordsThe Allies' Supreme Council has decided that Fiume shall be excluded from the Hungarian Peace Treaty, thus enabling Italy to sign it. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe naval authorities intimated yesterday that directly the aviators who are now flying to Australia arrive in the Dutch East Indies H.M.A.S. Sydney will patrol on a ...
Article : 74 wordsThe "Times" publishes remarkable extracts from German official documents as the result of investigations by Herr Kautsky, a Socialist member of the National ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states:-- "There is a general opinion that the Mexican situation is still capable of peaceful adjustment. Mr. ...
Article : 204 wordsThe annual report of the Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. states that it has contracted with Harland, Wolff Ltd., of Belfast, for the construction of five ...
Article : 155 wordsIt is expected that an armistice between Esthonia and Russia will be signed shortly: Russia insists on her right to use the port of Reval. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe International Labor Conference chose M. Albert Thomas, the French Labor leader, as director-general of the International Labor Office under the League of ...
Article : 105 wordsThe death has occurred, from ptomaine poisoning, of Mr. Henry Clay Frick, the "Steel King," who was for many years an associate of the late Andrew Carnegie. ...
Article : 190 wordsAn English syndicate has offered the sum of £10,000,000 for the Austrian ex-Emperor's tapestries, gold and silver ware, and art treasures, if the Allies will ...
Article : 70 wordsApproximately there are 100 miles of cable and electric tramways in the metropolitan area, and since the appointment of the Tramways Board applications have ...
Article : 237 wordsAt Kitchencer, Ontario, a number of councillors who were attempting to restore the name of "Berlin" to the town were ducked in a horse pond by returned soldiers. Some ...
Article : 77 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of 81, of Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, G.C.B., V.C. ...
Article : 28 wordsSYDNEY. -- In committee in the Legislative Assembly on the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Voting Bill, to enable them to vote at any election or poll of electors in ...
Article : 311 wordsSixteen hundred German naval prisoners from Scarpa Flow refused to work in the Oswestry camp. The authorities withheld rations from the men for three days, and ...
Article : 38 wordsField-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood entered the army on 7th September, 1855, as a Cornet in the 13th Light Dragoons. When he joined his regiment he had already three ...
Article : 308 wordsWhile the storm was at its height at 7.45 p.m. and the rain was driving through the streets with groat violenc[?], a woman crossing Lygon-street at the Trades Hall ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Dublin correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that the extreme Sinn Feiners are determined to retaliate against the wholesale proclamation of Sinn Fein ...
Article : 145 wordsAn unpleasant experience befell six policemen between midnight and 1 a.m. yesterday. In response to a telephone message intimating that a robbery had ...
Article : 260 wordsHOBART. -- In the House of Assembly on Wednesday the Minister of Works moved a motion in connection with the development of power on the West Coast. ...
Article : 564 wordsDANDENONG. -- A violent storm occurred on Wednesday afternoon, followed by a tropical downpour. At 6 p.m. 64 points had been registered here. This rain ...
Article : 265 wordsThe German official comment on the delay in signing the protocol to the Peace Treaty is strongly worded. It declares the Entente has no power to retain war ...
Article : 103 wordsLady Astor, who has been elected to succeed her husband as member for the Sutton division of Plymouth, will be introduced in the House of Commons on ...
Article : 170 wordsBENDIGO. -- Mr. Frank Anstey made a vigorous and amusing speech in the Bendigo town hall on Wednesday night in support of the candidature of Mr. A. J. ...
Article : 908 wordsSYDNEY. -- In the Legislative Council on Tuesday the Attorney-General, replying to Mr. Waddell, said Sir Robert Anderson had been appointed to investigate the affairs of ...
Article : 107 wordsBENDIGO, -- The "Diggers'" Red Cross Cenvalescent Home at Bishopcourt, White Hills, which has been leased by Bendigo Red Cross Society for three ...
Article : 152 wordsThe fire which broke out aboard the Australian steamer Swakopmund in Victoria Dock has been extinguished. Apparently the fire was due to spontaneous ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY. -- A railway accident resulting in damage to rolling stock to the extent of about £500 occurred at Woodstock on Wednesday. A train of 40 trucks loaded with ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY. -- A fire, involving the destruction of two big city warehouses and damage to three others, broke out early on Wednesday morning. The premises of ...
Article : 208 wordsIn order to deal with the housing famine Mr. Lloyd George is calling a conference of trade unions in order to appeal for a relaxation of all restrictions connected with ...
Article : 75 wordsAn exhibition of paintings by Mr W. B. M'Innes and Mr. Penleigh Boyd, will be opened at 3 p.m. to-day, at the Fine Art Society's galleries, Alfred-place. Mr ...
Article : 232 wordsMajor Christopher Lowther, son of Mr. speaker Lowther, has resigned his seat as a Coalition Unionist member of the House of Commons for North Cumberland, as ...
Article : 49 wordsNEWCASTLE. -- The Commonwealth Government steamer Dromana. whoch left here on 16th September, returned on Wednesday, having completed her maiden ...
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Advertising : 227 wordsThe Colonial Office [?]nvited Mr. Fisher to appoint a representative on the committee investigating the question of workmen's compensation. Mr. Fisher was unable to ...
Article : 42 wordsA majority of the South Wales miners against a strike on account of the lowered incidence of the income tax is practically assured. Thus far 60,474 have voted ...
Article : 47 wordsBRISBANE. -- The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from Sub-Inspector Harlan, of Charleville, giving details of the disturbances there. He ...
Article : 98 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the assistants' branch of the teachers' union, held last evening, general dissatisfaction was expressed at the treatment teachers are ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Allied Supreme Council requires Roumania to reply by 2nd December to the Allied note of October last. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. G. H. Knibbs, the Commonwealth Statistician, is conferring with the Imperial authorities with a view to arriving at an equitable allocation of the war-time ...
Article : 35 wordsThere were large audiences at Her Majesty's yesterday at both the matinee and evening performances of the J. C. Williamson Grand Opera Company. At the ...
Article : 86 wordsMelbourne district Nursing Society. -- The committee again appeals for gifts of money or kind for Christmas cheer to be distributed amongst our patients. Any gifts sent to tho home, 39 ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 4 Dec 1919, Page 7
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