The Governor-General and Lady Stonehaven gave a dinner party at Government House yesterday evening, to which the following were invited:--Mr. Justice ...
Article : 877 wordsThe very important question of how to arrest the drift in the finances of the Railway department was yesterday the subject of earnest discussion between the ...
Article : 435 wordsA strange story has been received from Brussels. The Crown Prince Leopold was working in his study, when an explosion occurred in the fireplace, and pieces of ...
Article : 184 wordsIn order to prevent disclosures prejudicial to the safety of Britain, the McCartney-Hansen espionage case was heard for two hours in camera to-day. ...
Article : 270 wordsThe British Government has decided on further plans for cruiser construction beyond those announced on 23rd November. Instead of laying down three 8000-ton ...
Article : 344 wordsThe decision of the Federal Cabinet to call a conference of the Governments of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria on the question of the ...
Article : 1,569 wordsTrotsky, who has been banished by his former Soviet comrades, has left Moscow for Virny, on tho Chinese-Turketsan frontier. ...
Article : 280 wordsThe Federal Government has decided that a subsidy not exceeding 16 per dozen 30-oz. tins shall be paid out of the Primary Production Trust Account on ...
Article : 506 wordsIn describing her experience in the motor car which dived into the Yarra River at the Short-road, Williamstown on Tuesday night, Miss Fisher, of ...
Article : 329 wordsLieutenant Kingsford Smith (Australia) and Lieutenant Pond, of the American Navy, left Wills Field at 8.11 a.m. today in the Spirit of California aeroplane, ...
Article : 427 wordsIt is probable the cable-wireless conference will not disclose its proceedings until something approximating definiteness is reached. It is authoritatively ...
Article : 223 wordsRespecting the Anglo-Egyptian conversations, the Egyptian press is full of conjecture. Interviews with Sarwat Pasha and others deny that outstanding questions ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Colonial Secretary announces that Johan Rasmussen and Company, of Sandefjord, Norway, are being granted an exclusive licence to occupy certain islands ...
Article : 121 wordsWhen asked prior to the conference if the Government's retrenchment proposals would be held in abeyance pending the inquiry by the royal commission, the ...
Article : 130 wordsAs the driver of a motor truck belonging to Melbourne Motor Body and Assembling Pty. Ltd., West Melbourne, was passing the Trades Hall in Victoria-street late ...
Article : 278 wordsThe utmost secrecy is being observed in official police circles concerning the in vestigation which is being conducted by Detective-Sergeant Mulfahey at Omeo ...
Article : 259 wordsSenator Wheeler, speaking at the Economic Club, New York, to-day, said:-- "To all intents and purposes, President Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg are waging an ...
Article : 164 wordsUnemployment in Britain continues to show violent fluctuations. The latest weekly returns show that the unemployed on 9th January totalled 1,232,100. This ...
Article : 81 wordsDiscussing the Government's decision to a Royal Commission to inquire into the finances of the Railway department, the chairman of the Railway ...
Article : 39 wordsThe first meeting of the important round-table conference of cotton manufacturers and employes ended in a startling manner. The employers had not made ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Victorian council of the Australian Railways Union gave further consideration last night to the protests voiced by Sunday's mass meeting of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe ''Evening Standard," referring to Mr. Arnold Bennett's criticism of the absence of Royalty from Hardy's funeral, says it understands the King and the ...
Article : 67 wordsAt South Melbourne court yesterday Herbert James Hannon, 36 years, manager, was charged with having, about 7th September, 1926, when he was a servant ...
Article : 171 wordsThe House of Representatives practically nullified the Senate's tariff policy when it side-tracked Senator Macmaster's resolution passed by the Senate urging ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Ernest Hailwood, who has already stood as an Independent Conservative at two by-elections, losing his deposit in each case, again nominated for Faversham. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe retirement of Herr Gessler, the War Minister, is said to be connected with the War Ministry's loss of £400,000 in the Phoebus Film Company, necessitating a ...
Article : 63 wordsHannah Elizabeth Mitchell, a nurse, of Burnley-street, Richmond, was grunted a further remand by Mr. A. A. Kelley, P.M., at the City Court yesterday in ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is understood the Cabinet's memorandum on security will be published today, though whether it will be in London or in Geneva is not known. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe discord in the Labor party reached a climax last night at a meeting at Johannesburg, which was called in support of Mr. Creswell, the party's leader, ...
Article : 102 wordsFrederick Newman Goldsmith, formerly of Castlemaine, but late of Bank-street, Northcote East, who died on 31st October, left by will dated 14th December, 1921, real estate valued at £36000 ...
Article : 185 words[?] reply to the complaint made by A. J. McPherson in "The Age" on 10th inst. that two married men were recently transferred to Melbourne from the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe notorious Circassian bandit, Ha[?] Samy, and his two confederates, who secretly landed at Smyrna with the avowed object of assassinating Mustapha ...
Article : 54 wordsConsiderable interest was shown in a maintenance claim in Brunswick court yesterday, when Arthur Joseph McKinley, a member of a millinery manufacturing ...
Article : 367 wordsThe new section of the contributory pensions scheme, whereby persons become eligible for the old-age pension of 10 a week at the age of 65, instead of 70, ...
Article : 114 wordsSEYMOUR, Wednesday.--The dragging of the Goulburn in the hope of throwing some light on the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Rosser, from Richmond. ...
Article : 67 wordsAnother serious piracy has occurred in Canton waters, despite the anti-piracy activities and regulations recently instituted in the West River. The steamer ...
Article : 64 wordsThe executive committee of the Commonwealth. Council of Rille Associations of Australian met in Melbourne yesterday. Colonel C. E. Merrett represented ...
Article : 206 wordsCommissioner Teller has presented to the United States Shipping Board a resolution to terminate the provisional contract under which Swayne and Hoyte ...
Article : 168 wordsProtest against dismissals in the postal service were made at a mass meeting of members of the Postal Employes' Union at the Trades Hall last night. It was ...
Article : 159 wordsThe South Australian Crown Solicitor, Mr. A. J. Hannan, arrived in London last month, and entered a defence in the case in which the firm of Armstrong, ...
Article : 139 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--At Parramatta to-day Edmund James Hallett, 31 years electrician was charged with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on his wife. ...
Article : 66 wordsA special message from London says the text of the report of the conversations some leaders of the Anglican Church had with Roman Catholic priests at Malines ...
Article : 110 wordsAdolph Hotelling, the murderer of the child Dorothy Schneider, had to be arraigned in a farm yard in the town of Flint (Michigan) to avoid the mob of ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday--Ah Quong, 62, the Chinese who fractured a thigh when he leaped from a window at Waterloo on Tuesday night during a raid on an ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 19 Jan 1928, Page 9
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