In accordance with the decision of the State Government to increase fares and freights by 18.per, cent., the necessary Order in Council was passed by the ...
Article : 544 wordsIf there is one time in the year when man feels that he would like an extra, hand or two, it is during the Christmas season. For it is ah exceptionally ...
Article : 960 wordsExisting conditions interfered rather sadly with, the Christmas marketing yesterday the weather, the strikes and the depression. The intense heat was perhapse ...
Article : 1,958 wordsIt is reported from Rome that d'Annunzio has declared Fiume to be in a State of war. A proclamation has been issued which forbids the population to leave the ...
Article : 84 wordsThere was no evidence in shipping circles in Melbourne yesterday of the optimism that is being displayed in certain quarters regarding the prospects of an early ...
Article : 447 wordsThe heat wave which swept over Victoria on Thursday continued throughout yesterday. Although the maximum temperatures in most cases were slightly ...
Article : 411 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the United Press Association reports that a disastrous earthquake has occurred in the Kansu province of China. The first shock ...
Article : 176 wordsIn South Melbourne court on Friday William Lewis Smyth sued J. Warmingham for £4 3, and Warmingham's wife for £10 10. Both amounts were described ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,988 wordsThe correspondent of the New York "Times" at Marion learns authoritatively that Senator Harding, after a conference with hie supporters, declared in favor of ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Moalte, Victorian secretary of the Stewards' Union, emphatically denied yesterday the accuracy of the statement made by the ship owners that they had received ...
Article : 371 wordsNotwithstanding that, yesterday was yesterday was the greatest shopping day of the year, many thousands of people loft the city and suburbs, and spent the day ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Hamburg-America shipping line proposes to increase its capital by 100,000,000 marks. This amount will be subscriped by other shipping companies, and will not be ...
Article : 85 wordsHAY.--The first severe hot spelt was experienced on Wednesday, the shade temperature being 103; and an Thursday. it was 106. There was a thunder storm on ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Bradford conference accepted the Australian wool realisation scheme on condition that English trade interests are safeguarded. ...
Article : 157 wordsFour patients--a boy and throe men-- were, admitted to Melbourne Hospital yesterday suffering from sunstroke. They were all very sick, and had high ...
Article : 42 wordsBALLARAT.--The heat in Ballarat on Friday was again intense, the thermometer registering 102.3 in the shade. Shopkeepers complained that the hot spell has ...
Article : 49 wordsThe House of Commons, at an all-night sitting, is still discussing the amendments made by the House of Lords in the Agriculture Bill. Those amendments cover ...
Article : 62 wordsAs the result of a conference between the employers and employes in the boot trade industry in Victoria it has been agreed that a 44-hour working week shall ...
Article : 128 wordsThe deputy chairman of the Ship Owners' Federation denied yesterday that the federation had received any official communication setting out the terms of the ...
Article : 162 wordsJohn Lyon, wool and skin buyer, Johnston-street, Abbotsford, was charged at Collingwood court yesterday with having assaulted Plainclothes Constable Hartley on ...
Article : 284 wordsIn common, with all the other railway charges, country fares have been increased by 18 per cent. The following represent the present fares with the 18 per cent ...
Article : 175 wordsIn a speech at Mogelieshurg to-day, General Smuts said there were signs all over the country that the Nationalists were becoming scared of the secession policy, and ...
Article : 93 wordsThe parties concerned in the opposed application to register under the Arbitration Act the Australian Railways Union again appeared before tho Registrar, Mr. ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,--Who is going to pay at Rippon Left 7½ second, 9½d first return to Melbourne, when for a few minutes' walk to tram, the fare is 3d. to the city ?--Yours. &c. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsSYDNEY.--The session died no gentle death in the Legislative Council, which met on Thursday night, evidently determined to deal heavily with the Stamp Duties Bill, ...
Article : 230 wordsThe strike of bank employes has been settled, both sides accepting General Smute's proposal to submit the dispute to arbitration, and to establish a conciliation ...
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY.--As the result of a nine-inch steel rolling mill at the Newcastle steel works breaking down, no fewer than 900 iron workers in Sydney have been thrown ...
Article : 34 wordsPERTH.--Bread carters have accepted the employers' offer of 5 a week increase from 1st December, and a reduction of hours from 54 to 48 from 1st January. ...
Article : 49 wordsAmong the arrivals in Melbourne by the R.M.S Morca are Mr. George James Coates and his wife, formerly Miss Dora. Meeson, both well-known ...
Article : 307 wordsDr. Cope, leader of the Antarctic expedition, has cabled that he expected to leave Port Stanley. (Falkland Islands) on 20th inst. with full equipment and dogs. He ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsPERTH.--The railway crisis stands adjourned to 31st December. The Trades Hall secretary states that the Premier and the Railways Commissioner remain ...
Article : 279 wordsSYDNEY.--A young woman was brutally murdered in a house at Worker-street, North Sydney, on Friday morning. She is believed to he a Miss G. Napier, ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Welsh tin plate industry is in a state of utter stagnation. Probably a majority of the works will close early in 1921, be cause of the luck of orders, duo mainly to ...
Article : 55 wordsWith the arrival of the collier Alabama, of J. Paterson. and Co., with 2700 tons of Newcastle coal, there remains only one more collier on the way to Victoria with ...
Article : 100 wordsIt was announced by the Prime Minister yesterday that, in response to an appeal from the Premier of Western Australia, the sloop Geranium had been despatched ...
Article : 161 wordsWith regard to the signing on of apprentices or ships' boys on Australian vessels, the Melbourne Shipping Master has issued the following notification with ...
Article : 114 wordsDuring the holidays, the Edina will make daily excursions to Portarlington and Geelong, leaving No. 1 Queen's Wharf, at 10 a.m. (Sundays, 11 a.m.). and returning to Melbourne about 8.30 p.m. ...
Article : 36 wordsSYDNEY.--There was no indication on Friday that a settlement of the stewards' strike was imminent, although there was stated to be dissension among the ...
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Advertising : 128 wordsHopes are entertained by the committee who are directing the Alfred Hospital extension appeal for £51,000, that a consider able addition to the fund will come from ...
Article : 60 wordsTowarde providing Christmas treats for inmates of public institutions, we have received the following donations:-- Childeren's Hospital.-- Auntie May, 5- ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 25 Dec 1920, Page 7
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