The apposition in some quarters is Australia to adopt towards foreign problems a spirit of "laissez" faire" in the belief that what occurs to other parts of ...
Article : 578 words"Qualified optimism" is the nearest description of the atmosphere at the opening of the thirty-ninth session of the Council of the League of Nations ...
Article : 116 wordsReferring to the migration agreement between the Commonwealth and Imperial Governments, when addressing a meeting in New South Wales last week the ...
Article : 305 wordsA recurrence of sultry conditions over, the State to-day, with a temperature of over 100 degrees in most places, together with a strong breeze, were ...
Article : 333 wordsThe Australian team left Melbourne on Monday, and will arrive here on Friday morning when it will commence a three days' match against the Western ...
Article : 599 wordsAlthough the strike continues of seamen and firemen engaged in the coastal shipping trade, the companies, aided by volunteers, are able to maintain the ...
Article : 125 words"What I did say was the Australians do play the game, and this was said by roe in the course of my remarks, and had no reference whatever to ...
Article : 206 wordsA disastrous fire, which gutted the timber mill Messrs. J. C. Port and Co., on the corner of Railway-parade and Tenth-avenue, Maylands, and threatened ...
Article : 613 wordsThe extraordinary situation into which the factional fight within the Seamen's Union has developed will be reviewed at a special meeting of the Sydney branch ...
Article : 214 wordsM. Dacosta (Portugal) was elected to-day President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. In his address to the Assembly after ...
Article : 102 wordsAt a mass meeting of the Waterside Workers' Federation to-day it was unanimously decided to reject the proposal of the shipping agents that the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Evening News" publishes Australian comment on Fender's remarks and regrets that a controversy has arisen on the eve of the team's departure. ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Federal officials of the Seamen's Union are disinclined to take seriously the action of the Sydney branch last night in deciding to suspend the general ...
Article : 257 wordsThe animation in the lobbies of the Secretariat of the League of Nations was of an unprecedented character when the Council Of the League was opened ...
Article : 341 wordsOne day last week about 14 timber workers employed as drivers and swampers, in the vicinity of Holyoake, ceased work because they considered that the ...
Article : 231 wordsInquests were held to-day at Yarra Junction and at Warburton upon the deaths of 22 of the victims of the recent disastrous bush fires which swept the ...
Article : 790 wordsThe Premier (Mr. McCormack) announced to-day that the Government had signed the Migration Agreement Mr. McCormack added that at a later ...
Article : 51 wordsFender, in a special article published in the London "Evening Standard," reiterates that it was not his intention to attack Australian Sportsmanship. He says:—"No ...
Article : 78 wordsHis Majesty the King has given £25 to the fund which is being raised for spiritual ministration to Western Australian group settlers. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. F. E. Lacey, secretary of the M.C.C. is voluntarily retiring at the end of the season in favour of a younger man. [Mr. Lacey, who formerly played for ...
Article : 45 wordsCarrying 1,057 passengers, the liner Ormonde arrived at Fremantle from England yesterday. Saloon passengers numbered 144. The superintendent of ...
Article : 162 wordsBefore the full Bench of the High Court of Australia to-day, the hearing was begun of three appeals from the decisions of magistrates given in New South ...
Article : 492 wordsA large body of natives marched ro the Parliament House to-day, to protest against the Government's policy of substituting white for black labour at the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Minister for the North-West ( Mr. J. M Drew) made available yesterday a further tetter received by Mr. A. O Neville, secretary for the North-West from ...
Article : 339 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. Percy Hurd (Conservative) asked what steps were being taken to restore harmony among the members of the ...
Article : 908 wordsThe Australian cricket eleven was tendered a reception by the South Australian Cricket Association this morning, when the best wishes were expressed for the ...
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Article : 259 wordsWith his majority jibbing at the last ditch—the payments tax—M. Briand's "cropper" is described in the London Sunday papers as a particularly ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. J. P. Elliott, the Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons for West Middlesex, has been appointed Minister for Labour in Mr. Mackenzine ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Kuorminchun (or Feng-Yu-Hsiang's) army counter-attacked at the weekend, and made considerable progress in territory south of Tientsin. Its ...
Article : 108 wordsSeventy-eight of a total list of passengers of 376, disembarked at Fremantle, yesterday from the French steamer Cephee, which arrived from Europe. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Parliamentary Correspondent of the London "Daily Chronic" says that disappointment has been expressed in the lobby of the House of Commons at ...
Article : 121 wordsThe good, ship League of Nations remains stranded until the return of the M Briand a successor to Geneva. Even then, it appears, it must navigate ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Secretary to the Federal Treasury (Mr. J. R. Collins) addressed the members of the Stock Exchange, Sydney, to-day, in the call room by invitation of ...
Article : 569 wordsTo-day the Swaraj Party, at the bidding of Motilal Nehru, left the Council Chamber, as a protest against the Government's system of administration. This ...
Article : 243 wordsAt the annual conference of the Victorian Farmers' Union, which commenced this morning at Ballarat, an attack was made on the central council, by ...
Article : 606 wordsWhile bringing up a family of four children and attending to her social duties as wife of a professor of the Melbourne University, Dr. Ethel ...
Article : 438 wordsA report from Bluefield, West Virginia, says that 68 miners have been entombed, as a result of an explosion in a coal mine in Raleigh Country. Rescuers ...
Article : 52 wordsThe franc remained steady to-day, and closed at l34.45 to the pound sterling ...
Article : 19 wordsA later message from Bluefield says that of the 68 miners who were entombed in mines No. 5 and No. 6, in Raleigh County, two were killed, 40 have been ...
Article : 61 wordsThe general impression is that M. Briand will form a Cabinet, retaining most of his former colleagues, with M. Carllaux or M. Peret as Minister for ...
Article : 37 wordsThe seventieth anniversary of the birthday of General Bramwell Booth was celebrated to-day, when there as an enthusiastic Salvation Army demonstration in ...
Article : 200 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Captain Garro-Jones (Liberal) asked whether the Dominions had been invited to express their views regarding the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe diseases caused by the dust that arises from wood when it is being worked has formed the subject of a special inquiry by Professor J. Cleland, of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" has published the first of a series of articles on the world's race for trade, Mr. G. Renwick (its Berlin correspondent), dealing ...
Article : 172 wordsTwo married women were seriously injured in an accident last night at Abbotsford, when they were struck by three youths riding bicycles. One of the women ...
Article : 116 wordsAfter six days of heavy fighting the Spanish forces have taken the position on Ainzitour, from which the Riffs shelled Tetuan, but they found that the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Music Publishers Association of London has decided to present to the British Broadcasting Company an ultimatum to the effect that unless the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe sentence of death passed upon Alfred John Dobson for the murder of his wife. Lillian Margaret Dobson, whom he killed by poisoning with arsenic has ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the brat annual meeting to-day of the Adelaide Hospital Auxiliary formed at the suggestion of Lady Moulden, a gratifying report of the progress was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe trials of Captain Amundsen's dirigible for his Polar expedition have been very satisfactory. A new feature is a tethering pole, which can be lowered ...
Article : 42 wordsEdward Kennedy, aged 28, of Powell-street, South Yarra, was fatally injured to-day when he fell soft, from a building in the course of reconstruction in ...
Article : 71 wordsGeneral Astray, the commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion, who was reported to have been killed while fighting near Tetuan, is improving in health. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 10 Mar 1926, Page 9
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