The British Naval Attache in Rome telegraphed to the Admiralty confirming the report of the loss of the Martinsyde [?]irmen (Capt. C. E. Howell and Mechanic H. ...
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Article : 143 wordsThe House of Lords, with the assent of Lord Birkenhead (the Lord Chancellor), has deleted the compulsory acquisition powers from the Government's Electricity ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe Bolsheviks, in a wireless official message, claim to have captured Kieff and Kupiansk (about 60 miles from Kharkoff). ...
Article : 137 wordsThe brewery strike position is unchanged. The secretary of the Trades Hall Council (Mr. Garden) stated to-day that as the industry was counted amongst the luxury ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. G. H. Roberts (the Controller of Food) said that some form of supervision of the food supplies must be exercised for at least three ...
Article : 53 wordsCaptain Ross Smith arrived safely at Avon Downs, 50 miles from here, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and is leaving for Cloncurry at daylight to-morrow. The ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is now announced that the Queensland loan for £2,000,000 is repayable in 1930-40. The newspapers here give prominence to a statement in the loan ...
Article : 65 wordsThe transport Ruahine bound from England to New Zealand with troops, arrived at Hobart at 4.15 on Thursday afternoon to load 600 tons of coal. The lumpers ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. J. F. Guthrie, chairman of directors of the Avon Downs Pastoral Co., Proprietary, has received from the station manager at Avon Downs, Northern Territory, ...
Article : 49 wordsBy 128 votes to 66 the House of Commons has rejected the amendment of the House of Lords to the Aliens Bill providing for the abolition of the automatic ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" reports that the situation in Austria is so desperate that the provinces of Vorarlberg, Salzburg, and ...
Article : 475 wordsThe trustees of the Felton Bequest (Melbourne) have purchased for the Melbourne National Gallery Parmegiano's painting, entitled "The Baptism of Christ." ...
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Article : 282 wordsA special meeting of members of the Clothing Trades Union will be held at the Bohsmia Hall to-night, when the employers' offer, [?]s announced yesterday, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe original edition of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" and "Passionate Pilgrim" have been sold by auction in Sotherbey's (London) for £15,100. The ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Comimssioner of Railways (Colonel Pope) stated yesterday that arrangements had been made for the resumption of traffic on the Great Western railway. Trains ...
Article : 152 wordsIn the House of Commons, previously to Mr. T. P. O'Connor (Irish Nationalist) moving the adjournment of the House to call attention to the suppression of the ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Vacuum Oil Company made a further application for an increase in the selling price of kerosene to the Necessary Commodities Commission to-day. ...
Article : 173 wordsCaptain Ross Smith telegraphed to-night to his mother, Mrs. Andrew Smith of Gilberton, as follows:—"Landed safely at Avon Downs. All well. Mended propeller ...
Article : 52 wordsThough yesterday's functions were arranged primarily to welcome Generals Birdwood and Monash, there was present another figure, which from a popular point ...
Article : 1,126 wordsChina has demanded that Japan shall apologise for the Foochow riots and the despatch of Japanese warships to Foochow. Her demands include the recall of the ...
Article : 143 wordsAn Ottawa message reports that it is believed that Lord Jellicoe will submit to the Government of Canada shortly after the New Year his report on Canadian naval ...
Article : 288 wordsIn regard to applications by public servants of different organisations Mr. Justice Powers in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day made his final variations. ...
Article : 196 wordsFelton, instead of waiting till February, will sail by the Konigin Luise on Thursday, owing to the death of his mother. Barry states that, win or lose, he will row ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. Easterby, general superintendent of the sugar experimental stations, who has just paid a visit to the Bundaberg and Childers sugar areas, stated to-day that ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 20 Dec 1919, Page 9
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