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Article : 450 wordsMr H. B. G. Larkin (manager of the Commonwealth Government line of steamers) informed the Australasian Merchants' Association that the Commonwealth Go ...
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Article : 721 wordsAt Greenbushes to-day interesting references were made by the Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) regarding the filling of the vacancy in the Cabinet ...
Article : 457 wordsWhen the House of Representatives must this morning Mr. Page (Q.) said he wished to ask a question. If the Government did not want to answer it they need not. Did ...
Article : 714 wordsA united Peace Thanksgiving Service will be held to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock, on the Perth Esplanade. The Peace Celebrations Committee ...
Article : 769 wordsMr. A. N. Stewart, Registrar of the Federal Arbitration Court, in making a statement to-day for publication, said that he visited Mr. Justice Higgins, at his ...
Article : 259 wordsThe House of Commons rejected the proposal to prevent enemy aliens from entering the United Kingdom for seven years. Several members protested against the ...
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Article : 167 wordsIn the House of Commons members passed the second reading of a Bill extending wireless installations to all passenger and cargo vessels of 1,600 tons and ...
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Article : 480 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association reported to-day:—"Owing to General Petlura having made a compact with the Bolsheviks against ...
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Article : 20 wordsThe Minister for Pensions (Sir L. Worthington-Evans announced in the House of Commons this evening that the Government had decided to raise to the rates ...
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Article : 108 wordsSeveral questions of considerable interest were dealt with by the Nationlist Commetion, which was concluded to-day. The president (Senator Plain) presided. ...
Article : 487 wordsCorporals McCraw and Costello, Australians, of the 30the Battalion of the A.I.F., jumped from a bridge at Plymouth and rescued a drowning girl. The two ...
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Article : 570 wordsIn the lobbies the opinion was expressed that the most striking portion of the Premier's speech was that dealing with the trial of the ex-Kaiser. The secret had been ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Ukrainian Hetman, General Gragorleff. reports that he has captured Odess (on the Black Sea), after a sangumary battle, and that the Bolsheviks fled in ...
Article : 34 wordsAt a meeting of the Industrial Council the following motion was unanimously carried:—"This council views with disgust and apprehension the dastardly outrage by the ...
Article : 373 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. H. Pike Pease (the Assistant Postmaster-General) announced that, compared with the early part of June, there ...
Article : 103 wordsNation-wide prohibition as a war measure went into effect on July 1. It is likely that light wines and non-intoxicating beers will be permitted to be sold. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that it has been announced officially that the blockade against Germany will be lifted when the ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night the Bill providing for proportional representation at local elections was read the second time ...
Article : 31 wordsA team of Scottish amateurs scored 166 runs in their first innings against the Australians, who replied with 360, of which Collins made 159. The home team scored ...
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Article : 491 wordsIn view of the labour unrest, trade unions are to be permitted in Japan under official supervision. Hitcherto these have been illegal. ...
Article : 29 wordsTwo women in the strangers' gallery of the House of Commons protested agaist the despatch of soldiers to Russia. An altercation and a fight between two men ...
Article : 54 wordsPrince Otto von Windischgraetz is pettioning for a divorce from the Archduchess Elizabeth a granddaughter of the late Emperor Francis Joseph. He alleges ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Henley regatta competitions were continued to-day. In the King's Cup (an eight-oared race) Cambridge beat New Zealand, America beat France, and the ...
Article : 60 wordsA number of French soldiers paraded the streets of Fiume, crying "Vive. Jugo-Slavia! Death to Italy!" Italian intervention prevented bloodshed. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn extrordinary statement as to a secret appeal being made throughout the Dimboola district of Victoria on behalf of German and Austrian prisoners, was made at ...
Article : 275 wordsThe treaty which has been concluded between America. France, and Britain to secure France against enemy aggression was presented in the House of Commons this ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day Mr. Justice Powers had the matter of the Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association v. the Public Service Commissioners ...
Article : 349 wordsTrouble has arisen at the Oakley Park colliery over the dismissal of two men, due to their refusel to fill skips when instructed to do so by the management. ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is estimated that the bets on the Willard-Demsey fight to be held to-morrow total two million dollars. Willard is favourite at 5 to 4 on. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Boston correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that E. De Valera was received enthusiastically by at least 40,000 people in Fenway Park. He road an ...
Article : 129 wordsIn the Kalgoorlie Police Court this afternoon, Thomas William Hansen was charged with having attempted to kill Thomas Reid in Kalgoorlie. The accused pleaded not ...
Article : 94 wordsAdmiral Lord Jellicce spent a busy time in Brishbane to-day, and wherever he went he received a most enthusiastic reception from the populace. In the morning Lord ...
Article : 86 wordsThe New Zealand Coal Mine Owners' Association has agreed to meet repersentatives of the Miners' Federation in order to consider the latter's new demands. ...
Article : 38 wordsAnother effort to have day-baking introduced in Victoria took the form of a deputation to the Premier (Mr. Lawson) to-day, from the Operative Bakers' Union. ...
Article : 176 wordsThe death of Frank S. Higham, a returned soldier, 45 years of age, in the Adelaide Hospital, on Wednesday last, was attented by pathetic circumstances. It was ...
Article : 126 wordsIn the course of a speech to-day Mr. Mallalien (the president of the conference of general trade unions in Scarborough) denounced "direct action" as ruiacus to ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the Darlinghurst Courthouse to-day, before Mr. Justice Pring, Clzde Cook, actor and dancer, claimed from J. C. Williamson, Ltd., £266 being salary due ...
Article : 92 wordsAccording to the Naura Convention which has been concluded Britain and Australila will recieve each 40 per cent. of the out put of phosphates and New Zealand 16 per ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Massey Greene,) has received word that the following articles are now included in the list of those which are prohibited from ...
Article : 80 wordsIn Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m. before the Chief Justice. Criminal Court.—At 10 a.m., in No. 2 Court before Mr. Justice Northmore. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 5 Jul 1919, Page 7
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