The Bill providing for the confirmation of the agreement between Britain, Australia, and New Zealand with regard to the island of Neuru (in the Pacific) was read the ...
Article : 1,382 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. Cecil B. Harmsworth (Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) replying to a question asked by Colonel John Gretton ...
Article : 818 wordsIn announcing the Cabinet's decission to grant the increases of the railwaymen's wages recommended by the National Wages Board. the Minister for Transport (Sir ...
Article : 217 wordsThe American Federation of Labour, at its convention here, has passed a resolution demanding Government ownership and democratic control of operations in ...
Article : 62 wordsIn consequence of the agreement reached with the City Council the Industrial Disputes Committee of the Trades Hall to-day removed the embargo which it had ...
Article : 143 wordsIt is announced that Mr. William A. Watt. the ex-Treasurer of the Commonwealth, will return to Australia as soon as shipping accommodation is obtainable. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe indecision with regard to the policy to be adopted for Mesopotamia is causing an acute situation to develop rapidly in the country. Several disturbances ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the House of Lords this evening Lord Charnwood (Godfrey R. Benson), a Liberal Peer called attention to the necessity for devising machinery to ensure ...
Article : 189 wordsIt is reported that the Belgian and Japanese Governments have decided to Join the British Government in conversations with M. Krasin (the Soviet trade delegate ...
Article : 123 wordsPublic indignation throughout the State in consequence of the Federal "graph" shows no abatement. and resolutions of protest are pouring in from all directions. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "World" interviewed President Wilson, who said:—"The gentlemen selected by the Republican Party for the ...
Article : 372 wordsAn English visitor. Mr. T. Sedgwick, who is interested in social work and immigration matters, called on the Acting Premier this morning and placed various phases of ...
Article : 229 wordsThe private employers are determined to continue the fight against the strikers to decide whether direct action" shall prevail or constitutional methods should be ...
Article : 111 wordsAt yesterday's conference with the Council of the League of Nations. Prince Firouz (the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs) explained to the Council the nature of the ...
Article : 151 wordsAt the meeting of the executive commitee of the Ugly Men's Association, held on Wednesday last, as which the president (Mr. A. Clydesdate) occupied the chair, a ...
Article : 693 wordsThe International Conference of Scamen, which is sitting here, discused the question of a working day of eight hours and approved generally of the proposal: but ...
Article : 82 wordsThe members of the Repertory Club and their friends who witnessed the dress rehearshal of "The Amazons" on Thursday night at His Majesty's Theatre were ...
Article : 1,050 wordsA private interview took place to-day between the Prime Minister and several members of the Federal Parliament on the question of having the Federal capital ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Prime Minister presied over a conference between the New South Wales section of the Colliery Proprietors and the Australian Coal and Shale Employees ...
Article : 95 wordsA deputation of members of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association waited on the Prime Minister to-day in support of the proposal for the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Italian have advanced from Valona, capturing some 600 insurgents. The altimatum threatening war unless the insurgents surrendered their prisoners and ...
Article : 116 wordsSir John Monash's report as arbitrator in the marine engineers' dispute was sent to the Prime Minster about a fortnight ago, with a sugestion that it should be made ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "World" who interviewed President Wilson yesterday, describes the President's condition as follows:—"Mr. Wilson's ...
Article : 140 wordsThe conference of chief engineers and chief mechanical engineers of the Common wealth and State railways upon the question of a uniform gauge for the whole of ...
Article : 115 wordsBands of happy, interested school children pouring out of Australia House every morning just before noon are witnesses to the success of a happy experiment in ...
Article : 223 wordsTo-morrow his Grace the Archbishop of Perth will confirm at Armadale in the morning. In the afternoon he will preasch at Kelmscott and in the evening at S. ...
Article : 970 wordsIn the House of Commons here last night Lieut.-General Sir Sam Hughes (formerly Minister for Defence and Militia) declared that a British General kicked General Sir ...
Article : 130 wordsOptions on a large number of Hamption Plains leases have been aoandoued during the past month and the list is being added to daily. North of the Celebration on ...
Article : 332 wordsMr. Justice Higgins. in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day. gave Judgment on claim 13 of 1919 by the Merchant Service Guild against the Commonwealth ...
Article : 273 wordsRain was again recorded yesterday morning over a large area of the State. including. the Ashburton, Gascoyne, and Northern Goldfields, as well as the agricultural ...
Article : 481 wordsAccording to the Berlin "Vossische Zeitung" (the journalistic organ of the German Foreign Office). Britain has agreed to deliver to Germany. for cash certain ...
Article : 110 wordsAbout 100 raiders made an attack on the Cookstown police barracks in the County of Tyronc. One constable was shot and is in a serious condition. Two others ...
Article : 187 wordsA case in the Port Adelaide Police Court to-day was the sequel to a sensational statement made to the Port Adelaide Council recently regarding children being injured ...
Article : 312 wordsReferring yesterday to the representations which are being made by the sheet metal workers for an increase in the present scale of wages. the secretary of the A.L.P. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Royal Ascot meeting was continued to-day. The Gold Cup, the principal race, caused a good deal of excitement. From the entrance to the straight Buchan (owned ...
Article : 292 wordsAs an addendum to a Judgement given to-day in the High Court jurisdiction. Mr. Justice Higgins drew the attention of the Federal Government and Parliament to ...
Article : 206 wordsMatters in connection with the insurance agents claim for higher remuneration are at present at a standstill pending the receipt by the local insurance company ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Lloyd George the Prime Minister has written to the heads of the Government departments enjoining the strictest economy in adminstration. He says that ...
Article : 205 wordsThe secretary of the A.W.U. Westralian Goldfields Mining Section (Mr. T. L. Bradley). notified the Clerk of the Arbitration Court (Mr. Frank Walsh) by wire yesterday ...
Article : 60 wordsA very discontented feeling is prevatent Amongst the coal minners. Orders for coa have fallen off considerably during the Past few weeks. and much unemployment is ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the absence of Mr. Fihelly. the State will be represented on the resumption of the Premiers' Conference by Mr. Coyne, who will leave for Melbourne on Tuesday. ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—With reference [?] with you yesterday. when I [?] the main principle upon which the bulk handing scheme is being floated. I emitted one ...
Article : 119 wordsDuring the Great War the 1st King Edward's Horse put out from its ranks no less than 550 young colonials to the commissioned ranks of the British armies in ...
Article : 189 wordsThe R.M.S. Tahiti (7,586 tons). from Vancouver. has put into Victoria (British Columbia) with a cracked tank. which got over-heated. She will proceed on her ...
Article : 41 wordsThe annual report of the Suez Canal Company shows that the number of passages through the canal in 1919 was 3,986, compared with 2,522 in 1918 and 5,085 in ...
Article : 39 wordsVice-Admiral Sir J. M. de Roebeck, the British High Commissioner in Constantinopic has gone to Ismid (Asia Minor), where two British war cruisers are ...
Article : 65 wordsTwo officers of the Western Australian Railway Department, Messrs. E. Light. Chief Engineer. and E. Evans, Chief Mechanical Engineer. are at present in ...
Article : 73 wordsTo further [?]ncou' age the cul[?]tion of certon [?] af[?] [?] knowledge of the market that [?] he expected [?] as to enable grower [?]gang" ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is reported from Singapore that Lieuts Parer and McIntosh arrived there at 3 p.m. to-day. They will leave for Java in a few days. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 19 Jun 1920, Page 7
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