The House of Commons' committee which is investigating the taxation of war wealth has resumed its sittings. Sir John Anderson, chairman of the Board of Inland ...
Article : 188 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. T. P. O'Connor (Nationalist member for the Scotland division of Liverpool) emphasised the gravity of the condition of the ...
Article : 310 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies to-day the Prime Minister (M. Millerand) made a statement with regard to the Franco-British situation. He cuoted Articles 42 and 44 ...
Article : 440 wordsHoelz, the fanatical Sparticist leader, suddenly reappeared in Planen. His incendiary detachments terrorised the manufacturers and business men, and Hoelz is ...
Article : 457 wordsThe hearing of the action for the recovery of £5,000 for alleged libel, brought by Alfred Thomas Ozanne, formerly member for Corio in the House of Representatives, ...
Article : 558 wordsThe Mutooroo development is considered to be one of the best on the Hampton Plains to date, and all the soundest mining men believe, that this line of gold ...
Article : 201 wordsA message received from Honolulu reports that the British light cruiser Birmingham (5,440 tons) and 20 destroyers have left to meet H.M.S. Renown and ...
Article : 51 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General has been advised by cable that Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, the late Governor of Queensland, died of pneumonia at Capetown on ...
Article : 38 wordsThe office of Mr. Mark Sheldon (Special Commissioner for Australia in the United States) has been flooded with inquiries from exporters and manufacturers concerning the ...
Article : 170 wordsSir George Arthur, in his "Official Life of Earl Kitchener," records that the Prince of Wales pleaded with Lord Kitchener to permit him to ...
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Family Notices : 99 wordsThere was a sharp rise to-day in White Hopes, otherwise there were no striking changes in the market for Hampton Plaines stocks. White Hope rose 5s. 6d. to 82s., ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. Mark Sheldon (the Special Commissioner for Australia in the United States) addressed some 400 business men here yesterday, and met with an enthusiastic ...
Article : 168 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons on the civil service estimates, Mr. J. W. Hopkins (Uionist, South-East St. Pancras) drew attention to the foreign exchange ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Acting Premier (Mr. J. L. Fihelly) issued a statement to-day making sympathetic reference to the death of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams. He pointed out that ...
Article : 250 wordsThe New Zealand arrangements in connection with the visit of the Prince of Wales are taking shape, [?]gh the lack of cohesion between the various centres ...
Article : 232 wordsMr. Robert Williamson, manager for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., arrived from the Eastern States yesterday morning, to make preliminary arrangements for the firm's ...
Article : 932 wordsThe trade unions in Belfast and the North of Ireland generally ignored the strike order. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe House of Commons agreed to the Government's resolution in favour of authorising Government credits not exceeding £26,000,000 to re-establish oversea trade. ...
Article : 202 wordsIn the Police Court to-day evidence was heard on the third charge of theft against ex-Police-constable Edwards. After evidence had been given the defendant said ...
Article : 71 wordsThe president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants says that a conference of representatives of the society with the Prime Minister was abortive so far ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day Herbert John Hart pleaded guilty to a charge of having uttered a valueless cheque, and was sentenced to three months' ...
Article : 156 wordsShortly before 8 o'clock to-night a large crowd of returned soldiers and others assembled outside of Parliament House to support a deputation which was appointed ...
Article : 159 wordsIn connection with the strike of jockeys at Auckland, the Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) stated to-day that the Jockeys' Association had made the required application ...
Article : 93 wordsArrangements have been made for a Button Day in the streets of Perth tomorrow, when a large band of willing workers will sell buttons in aid of the ...
Article : 555 wordsThe Australian squardon will probably accompany Captain Matthews on his departure from Kalidjati, which is still fixed for to-morrow morning. ...
Article : 156 wordsA superficial examination of the damaged steamer Aughinish by a diver revealed an extensive split on the starboard side of the hull close to the keel, and several ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Marshal Foch, and others attended the conference here at which decisions were taken to expedite the reduction of the German armaments ...
Article : 80 wordsA wireless message was received to-day from the steamer Westralia advising that she had been floated, and under her own steam was making for Melbourne, with the ...
Article : 117 wordsConsideration was given by the Federal Cabinet to-day to arbitration matters. The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said that the Cabinet had discussed the position that ...
Article : 209 wordsTwo debtons—James Augustine Breen and Thomas William Knowles—were publicly examined yesterday before the Acting Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. C.A. ...
Article : 815 wordsA meeting of the Perth branch of the R.S.L. was held at the Soldiers' Institute last night, Mr. W. Woodham occupying the chair. ...
Article : 748 wordsFine weather prevailed yesterday morning over all southern areas, but in the North-West and Kimberley conditions were cloudy and unsettled, with a shower or ...
Article : 232 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association interviewed a high official in the India Office with reference to General Birdwood's suggestion for ...
Article : 247 wordsThe attention of the Resident Magistrate (Mr. W. A. G. Walter) was occupied in the Fremantle Courthouse yesterday afternoon with the hearing of charges of having ...
Article : 720 wordsA message received from Port Elizabeth (Cape Colony) reports the destruction by fire yesterday of one of the largest grain elevators in the country. It belonged to ...
Article : 74 wordsA verdict for the plaintiff was returned to-day in the Banco Court in the action in which Abraham Wade claimed £7,000 from the Rosehill Racecourse Company for ...
Article : 109 wordsDirect negotiations between Italy and Jugo-Slavia continue favourably, and are expected to conclude before the San Remo conference which will merely ratify the ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. H.B.G. Larkin, general manager of the Commonwealth Steamship Line in London, in an interview with a "Daily Express" representative, said that it was ...
Article : 91 wordsThere was a fair attendance at the monthly meeting of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society yesterday afternoon, when the chair was occupied by the ...
Article : 490 wordsVarious Church organisations in America are conducting a strenuons campaign to "bring the country back to Christianity," (says the New York correspondent in the ...
Article : 276 wordsWhat was intended to be the greatest Australasian fruit exhibition yet held was opened to-day by the Minister of Agriculture in the City Hall, Hobart, but owing ...
Article : 191 wordsIn Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Burnside. Nisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 1 Court, before Mr. Justice Northmore:—(1) ...
Article : 223 wordsIt is announced that President Wilson has called a meeting of Cabinet for April 14, this being the first time since his illness. It is expected that the railroad ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Daily News" states that the committee under the chairmanship of Lord Salisbury, which is inquiring into rent restrictions, recommends an increase in rents ...
Article : 142 wordsA conference of newspaper proprietors was held in Wellington to consider what steps should be taken to meet the critical situation which has arisen from thet ...
Article : 129 wordsAt a meeting of the Building Trades Employees' Federation held to-night the secretary (Mr. Meagher), at its conclusion, said that the federation repudiated any ...
Article : 110 wordsIt has not been decided yet on what date the Navigation Act will come into force. As a result of the recent disturbed condition of shipping, and to meet the ...
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