The urgent necessity of an early revision of the tariff on protectionist lines is admitted by practically all the candidates who have so far replied to the series of ...
Article : 814 wordsA meeting at Brussels of associations for promoting the work of the League of Nations, was attended by delegates from all nations, except America and the ...
Article : 468 wordsSpeaking ut the smoke concert of the Suburban Master Builders' Association of Melbourne, held in the Athenaum Hall last evening, Mr. T. Shillito, president of ...
Article : 663 wordsCaptain Ross Smith arrived yesterday afternoon at Singapore. He leaves on Saturday morning, Ilia intention being to land at Kahcljati, near Bandoeng (Java). ...
Article : 140 wordsA London cablegram states that Prince Albert, second son of the King, has been initiated into Freemasunry. Lady Helen Ferguson presided at a ...
Article : 852 wordsThough a strike of gas workers has been threatened for some time, it came dramatic suddenness at last. The decision of the members of the Victorian branch ...
Article : 564 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. J. Devlin (Nationalist) asked Mr. H. AV. Forster, Financial Secretary to the War Office, whether he would make a statement ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Blackburn Company is constructing a Blackburn single-engined biplane, entirely different from the Kangaroo type, to accompany Dr. Cope's expedition to ...
Article : 286 wordsIn the course of a statement last evening, Mr. C. Crofts, secretary of the Gas Workers' Union, said:--"The union issued a log in 1916, with wages claims based on ...
Article : 459 wordsM. Poulet, the French airman, is a veritable Tartarin of the air. He set out for Bangkok at 6.15 a.m. to-day from Rangoon, cheered by large crowds of spectators ...
Article : 142 wordsFrom Viadivostock is announced the Bolshevists captured 1000 officers, including 11 generals, and 39,000 men when Omsk fell. Enormous military stores ...
Article : 372 wordsCaptain Matthews, who was (relayed by had weather in Germany for se me weeks, has arrived in Vienna. The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 62 wordsCaptain C. Howell, another competitor in the light to Australia, left Hounslow in his Martinsyde machine at 9.34 a.m. to-day. He made an excellent start. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Prime Minister yesterday received a cablegram from Singapore, dated 4th December, stating that Captain Ross Smith had arrived there that day, and would ...
Article : 31 wordsYesterday morning Sir John Grice, chairman of directors of the Metropolitan Gas Co., and officials of the company, called on the Premier and discussed the strike ...
Article : 128 wordsA heavy downpour of rain marred the splendor of the reception accorded the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth aud London. Four hundred unemployed ...
Article : 118 wordsThe viceroy of Ireland has ottered a reward of £5000 for evidence leading to the conviction of persons guilty of any recent murders of policemen and detectives in ...
Article : 41 wordsThe [?] Parliament was opened on Monday. No serious disorder occurred. The King was loudly cheered when he entered the Chamber of Deputies. The ...
Article : 167 wordsOn behalf fof the metropolitan gas companies the following official statement was issued yesterday:-- In 1916 the union served a log on ...
Article : 938 wordsTwenty-nine conspirators have been arrested tor plotting to kill M. Venezelos, Prime Minister of Gre[?] the Ministries of War and Marine, terrorise Athens ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Warde directed the Premier's attention to the serious position that had arisen in connection with the gas supply. It was ...
Article : 141 wordsPORT FAIRY.--A meeting of potato growers and others interested in the marketing of potatoes was held on Wednesday night at Crossley, Or. Lane presiding. ...
Article : 142 wordsThe House of Commons to-day was crowded to welcome Lady Astor, M.P. There were many notabilities in the galleries. Lady Astor wore a simple black ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Government has decided to grant free passages to ex-service men from India or other extra European stations to the Dominions under the overseas settlement ...
Article : 82 wordsPekin advices state that Japanese marines landed at Foochow and paraded in the Japanese concession. They endeavored unsuccessfully to enter the Chinese city. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Spanish Cabinet has resigned, following upon a discussion of the military situation. ...
Article : 21 wordsA glaring instance of the incompetence with which the Railway department handles its goods traffic has been furnished by Messrs. Huston and Hornsby, who have ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Lord Mayor, Ca. J. G. Aikman, referring yesterday to the strike, said lie did not think it would last long, as he felt sure the company would make some ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy' Council dismissed with costs the appeal in the Queensland case of Addar Khan v. Mullins. ...
Article : 139 wordsWith the approach of polling day electors are again reminded that postal voting will be in force during the present elections. Those who may avail themselves of ...
Article : 211 wordsThe unexpected happened in the contest between the English champion, Joe Beckett, and the French champion, Georges Carpenter, the lastnamed knocking his ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Trade Union Congress will meet on Wednesday to consider the creation of an effective trade union centre to deal with industrial questions. The scheme ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the United States Senate to-day Senator Hitchcock introduced a resolution authorising a breach of diplomatic relations with Mexico, thus enabling the ...
Article : 178 wordsInquiries from wholesale and retail sources show that the stocks of kerosene are sufficient to meet the unusual demands which the strike may cause for some time ...
Article : 174 wordsThe conference over the double income tax has concluded. The findings will be submitted to the royal commission on income tax. It is expected the decision will ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the appeal of Mick Simmons Ltd. v. Rofe, the judicial committee of the Privy Council dismissed the appeal, with costs. [In this case, which was specially stated ...
Article : 347 wordsJohn Forbes, late of Macedon-street, Sunbury, produce merchant, who died on 28th June. by his will of 21st June, 1919, left £993 [?] estate and £1971 personality to his widow and children. ...
Article : 105 wordsBRISBANE,--A shortage of sugar prevails in Brisbane. The secretary of Brisbane Grocers' Association states that the whole trade is three weeks behind in its ...
Article : 46 wordsThe final figures of the Welsh miners' ballot show 73,307 in favor of a strike to enforce the £250 income tax exemption limit, and 72,837 against. ...
Article : 69 wordsProvision is made in the Commonwealth Electoral Act for the rectification of mistake made in certified lists of voters at it polling place. If an elector, who is ...
Article : 367 wordsThe British soldiers are wildly indignant regarding the frequency of shooting occurrences after dark. Thirteen such incidents have occurred in the past few days. ...
Article : 94 wordsFollowing quickly on the Richmond drowning cases, there was another fatality at Collingwood yesterday, when a schoolboy named Joseph Conville, 12 years, was ...
Article : 138 wordsThe amended determination of the shirt wages board, which comes into operation on 1st. January, is expected to bring about an increase in the price of shirts. ...
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY,--Raymond Bede Flenady, 30, charged with the murder of his children, Letitia Flenady, 3 years, and Marguerite Flenady, 18 months, was found guilty on ...
Article : 54 wordsBALLARAT.--Mr. Bowman, engineer at Ballarat Gas Works, stated on Friday that the trouble had not yet affected Ballarat. If the local employes wont out the ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,--In connection with the supposed shortage of white sugar, the reason way distributers will supply only equal quantities of white and brown sugar may be that ...
Article : 75 wordsThe German Dye Trust, consisting of the seven principal dye-making firms, has decided to double its capital, which is now 1,002,000,000 marks (nominally ...
Article : 53 wordsA cablegram received by Sir John. Higgins, chairman of the Central Wool Committee, from the British Director of Raw Materials, states that the eighth series of ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY.--A gathering of Sydney women oil Friday decided, after discussing the problem of domestic help, to form an association with the object of raising the ...
Article : 174 wordsThe broad result of the Liquor Control Board's experiment in purchasing and transforming the hotels at Carlisle, the county town of Cumberland, into ...
Article : 88 wordsA meeting of the Trades Hall Disputes Committee was held last night, at which the following resolutions were carried:-- That this conference consisting of representatives ...
Article : 166 wordsAfter consideration of the circumstances in which the steamer Eumeralla, 916 tons, became stranded for some hours on 15th ult. while coming up the west channel with ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Duke of Portland is shipping to Victoria by the steamer Palma this week, the skeleton of Carbine, the greatest of all Australian racehorses. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe United States has exported more than 283,000,000 dol. worth of food to Belgium since the armistice was signed. ...
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Advertising : 134 wordsBENDIGO.--Mr. Hughes continued his tour through his electorate on Friday, and in each town at which he called he met with most enthusiastic reception. ...
Article : 156 wordsWELLINGTON.--"Tommy" Uren (Australia) met "Jack" Heeney (New Zealand) at Wellington on Thursday night. A clean fight ended with Heeney's towel thrown ...
Article : 49 words[?] who were taken to Dover under arrest explained that they were proceeding on the tugs to South America to tow interned steamships ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 6 Dec 1919, Page 15
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