The Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Irvine, accompanied by Miss Irvine and Miss Masson, were present in the Melba Hall last night at a performance of the Winter ...
Article : 521 wordsThis morning his Royal Highness bestowed the accolade on Sir Cecil Rodwell, Governor of Fiji. The matter was arranged as a surprise for Sir Cecil, who ...
Article : 294 wordsThe negotiations between the Bolshevist and Entente representatives at Copenhagen have practically failed, partly through want of confidence in M. Litvinoff, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 616 wordsThe Allies have handed a Note to Germany pointing out that the time has come for action. Since the Treaty was signed nothing, it is said, has been done to give ...
Article : 499 wordsSYDNEY.-- Under the Federal Income Tax Assessment Act, the Federal Government is enabled to deduct income tax from cash prizes in a lottery, calling upon the ...
Article : 252 wordsIn excusing itself for comparing the Australian prices for 1920 with those in the New Zealand price list issued prior to October, 1919 the free-trade organ naively ...
Article : 637 wordsThe finance committee of Coburg council on Wednesday night recommended that £50 be voted to the mayor for the purpose of the erection of a stand, with suitable ...
Article : 49 wordsBENDIGO.--At a recent meeting of citizens it was decided to write to the Government for a supply of medals to be distributed amongst children in commemoration ...
Article : 122 wordsThere are indications that the principal opposition to the budget will centre round the increase in the excess profits tax. Trading bodies have begun a formidable ...
Article : 420 wordsBRISBANE-- Officials of the Queensland Turf Club expressed surprise on Thursday at the proposed action of the Federal Government in burdening the totalisator with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 333 wordsAir Commodore Ma[?]tiand in a lecture before the Royal Society of Arts on the commercial future of air ships, said the chief advantages were safe and rapid ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day Lord Milner, Secretary of State for the Colonics, in moving the second reading of the Austrian and Bulgarian treaties, emphasised that the ...
Article : 193 wordsThomas Mariborough Goodliffe, late of Thompson-street, Abbotsford, furniture dealer, who died on 23rd February last, by his will of 13th February. 1920, left £3612 real estate and £3480 ...
Article : 156 wordsRash statements have recently been published with regard to the effect of the tariff on the price of Australian white lead. It is gratifying to notice that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsThough the control of prices of Australian apples remains in force the trade does not expect these prices will be reached throughout the season, especially ...
Article : 118 wordsThe national conference of labor women opened in London to-day. There were 400 delegates. Mrs. Mary Macarthur, who presided, ...
Article : 232 wordsThe committee recently formed for the purpose of arranging entertainment for the crews of the war ships which will visit Melbourne at the time of the Prince's ...
Article : 355 wordsThe voting on a motion submitted in the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr. Mackay (Q.) showed quite plainly that members of that Chamber are of one mind ...
Article : 624 wordsSeveral hundred people gathered in the Heidelberg Cemetery yesterday to pay their last tribute to Captain Howell, D. F. C., D. S. O., M. C., the gallant young Victorian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsMajor Wrench has presented Mr. Daniels, Secretary of the United States Navy, with a cheque for £6000 on behalf of the English speaking Union of England for a ...
Article : 72 wordsTwenty-six Sinn Feiners, including two members of the House of Commons, who were in Londonderry gaol, have been removed to Wormwood Scrubbs prison, ...
Article : 179 wordsSYDNEY.-- Judgment was delivered by the High Court bench on Thursday on the question of whether a State has the right to hold a poll for its own electoral or local ...
Article : 444 wordsThe climax of Herr Hoelz's three weeks of brigandage in Saxony was highly melodramatic. When he saw he must fly he kidnapped two men and told them they ...
Article : 165 wordsIt is reported from Tokio that the principal stock exchanges of Japan have closed. Stocks have collapsed; general unemployment exists. The effect was ...
Article : 68 wordsSpeaking at a banquet last night of the association of the British Chambers of Commerce, Lord Birkenhead, Lord High Chancellor, referring to the close union ...
Article : 219 wordsThe applications for the Victorian Railway Commissionership now exceed 100. Every railway system in the United Kingdom is represented. The bulk of the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe amendments to the Shops and Factories Act, governing the closing hours of shops, which were made last session, are to be brought into operation immediately. ...
Article : 374 wordsThe Prime Minister, in the House of Representatives yesterday, moved formally for leave to introduce a bill to ratify the agreement between the Government of ...
Article : 334 wordsThe gift destroyer flotilla, comprising H. M. A. ships Anzac, Swordsman, Stalwart, Success, Tattoo and Tasmania, under the command of Commander Salisbury H. ...
Article : 77 wordsMembers of the House of Representatives are anxious that the discussion on the tariff should be begun as early as possible. Mr. Higgs (Q.) yesterday asked the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Minister of Customs, replying to Mr. Marr (N. S. W.) in the House of Representatives yesterday, said there were four cotton hose manufacturers in the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Cr. Aikman, M. L. C) has received a number of applications from various organisations for particular sites along the route to be taken by the Prince ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsThe committee appointed to consider a system of Imperial preference to India reports that, in view of the demand for raw material, there was no danger of ...
Article : 58 wordsMeetings of both the Federal Ministerial and Labor parties were held yesterday. In each case only questions of minor importance were discussed. It was expected ...
Article : 171 wordsThe chairman of the central wool committee has received the following cable message, dated 21st April, 1920, front the Director-General of Raw Materials, ...
Article : 122 wordsPORTLAND.-- At Wednesday's meeting of the borough council the following resolution was agreed to:-- That Mr. Campbell, M. L. A., be written to, ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Chicago correspondent of the New York "Times" states that Dempsey, the world's boxing champion, signed to-day for his first fight since he defeated ...
Article : 55 wordsA thoughtful act of consideration towards blinded soldiers will be performed by Lady Helen Ferguson on the morning the Prince of Wales will land in Melbourne. At her ...
Article : 107 wordsROCHESTER.-- Mr. J. Allan, M. L. A., addressing a meeting of over 80 delegates to the Rodney State electoral council of the Victorian Farmers' Union on Thursday, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 23 Apr 1920, Page 9
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