Fine weather marked the entire voyage of the Renown to Barbados, which was reached on the afternoon of the 25th. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe country on Friday found itself confronted with dramatic suddenness by the possibility of a national strike of miners and serious trouble on the ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Polish General Staff has announced a great victory ,in a counter-attack against the Bolshevikss in Volhynia. The enemy was thrown back ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), speaking at the National (Liberal Club, said he had no desire to misrepresent the Labour party, which ...
Article : 307 wordsThere has been another mysterious shooting case in the centre of Dublin. On Wednesday evening three men laid wait for an unknown man, aged [?] ...
Article : 153 wordsThe attractive comedy-drama. "Mother Machree," was on Saturday night presented by the Denis Kehoe company to a large and appreciative ...
Article : 410 wordsMembers of the Sydney branch of the Federated Seamen's Union threaten to again hold up the interstate traffic if the vessels are not structurally altered ...
Article : 387 wordsThe commission appointed by the Indian National Congress to enquire into the Punjab disorders last April has pusblished its report, thus anticipating ...
Article : 234 wordsHarrowing descriptions of the Jewish pogroms in South Russia last year have been received. The Kieff relief committee report that over 30,000 were ...
Article : 156 wordsA Distressing fatality occurred at 3 on the afternoon of the 24th. Gunner W. J. Lush (Royal Marine Artillery) was sitting on a wire guardrail on the ...
Article : 201 wordsA large party, as the result of a desperate attack, overwhelmed the police barracks at Gortatlea, country Kerry. Three of the police were seriously ...
Article : 73 wordsIn the House of Commons a few day, ago Mr. Clement Edwards (Coalition Labour member for East Ham) asked the Prime Minister whether he had ...
Article : 184 wordsIt subsequently transpired that Mr. Lloyd George did not refuse to meet the miners again. He said he was willing to keep the door of negotiations open, ...
Article : 50 wordsAustin McCann, aged 14, of Plenty was admitted to the New Norfolk Hospital on Friday night suffering from gan-shot wounds in the left arm. The lad ...
Article : 54 wordsA Bolshevik communique states that over 16,000 enemy soldiers were found frozen to death on the Steppes. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is reported at Helsingfors that the Bolsheviks are withdrawing on the Karelian front, indicating that their offensive against Finland has been ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Government offered the miners a 20 per cent, increase in lien of the men's demand for 3s extra per shift. The Miners' Federation rejected the offer, objecting to the percentage system as ...
Article : 67 wordsThe suggestion was made during the Parliamentary trip to Samoa that the Kaiser be interned there. It was made by Mr. H. J. Moore, an American citizen, ...
Article : 104 wordsNews has reached Washington of the re-opening of the Panama Canal. Thus the Renown will not be delayed there. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Asquith, in his recent address at the National Liberal Club, remarked:— Mr. Lloyd George's attempt to draw a line of demarcation upon purely class ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the House of Commons at question time Mr. J. P. Hope, Parliamentary secretary to the Munitions Department, said sales of surplus war property had ...
Article : 138 wordsCommenting on the inefliciency of Government officials in the discharging of now steamers, "Fair Play" gives details of 74 steamers with Government-owned ...
Article : 84 wordsA brief sitting to-morrow morning will conclude the proceedings of Mr. Justice Ewing's Royal Commission of enquiry into Northern Territory affairs. Dr. ...
Article : 314 wordsThe Coal Association issued a statement declaring that the Coal Controller had acted generously towards the miners in offering a twenty per cent. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman George Shields): is availing himself of the opportunity of practically appreciating the gratuitous services of the Launceston City Band ...
Article : 144 wordsA week ago the authorities rounded up prominent Sinn Feiner's at Derry, and sent them to the coast, where a destroyer was in waiting, and took them ...
Article : 57 wordsA London cable announces the sudden death from heart failure of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Mrs. Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta) Ward was born ...
Article : 555 wordsThe "Daily Herald" (London) asserted that it had learned on unimpeachable authority that the Government has completed its plans to blockade the ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the naval architects' dinner, Sir T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, in proposing the toast of the mercantile marine, described the Otaki's ...
Article : 118 wordsBuilding operations in the metropolitan area were practically at a stand-still on Saturday morning, in consequence of the stop work meetings ...
Article : 159 wordsCaptain Mathews and the two Italian aviators, Ferrari and Massiero, arrived at Rangoon on Thursday. Captain Matthews flew from Calcutta ...
Article : 73 wordsBrussels newspapers state that King George will shortly visit Belgium to confer the Military Cross on the town of Ypres. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe management of the New Princess Theatre announce a special programme, commencing to-night. The star picture, "The Victim," heads the bill. It is an ...
Article : 519 wordsAdvices received at Rome from Flame indicate that D'Annunzio is about to proclaim a Republic. Many famished children are removing to Italy. The ...
Article : 44 wordsOne hundred and sixty-two delegates attended the Miners' Conference, which was private. Mr. Herbert Smith, who presided, complained of the tenor of Mr. ...
Article : 270 wordsM. Poulet is now in Batavia. He is determined to continue his Australian flight, and is studying for a fortnight. the Dutch-East Indian flying grounds. ...
Article : 80 wordsSixty-eight emigrants sailed by the Ormonde, and 207 by the Berrima, while 239 sail by the Euripides in April for New South Wales. The majority are ...
Article : 45 wordsAccording to news from Allahabad, fighting in Mesopotamia on the Upper Euphrates still continues. Desultory attacks have been made on our forces ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is reported from Rome that workmen enable to secure an increase in wages seized several factories at Naples, but surrendered after troops had poured ...
Article : 43 wordsMeeting this week on Tuesday afternoon, instead of as usual on Wednesday, the House of representatives will have a busy time until it adjourns on ...
Article : 81 wordsAdmiral Plunkett, in his evidence to the United States Senate committee which is investigating the American navy's conduct of the war, opined that ...
Article : 74 wordsFrench military and colonial officials watched the trials on the Seine of a new motor boat of the Glider type. She has an engine of 450 horse-power, with ...
Article : 56 wordsOver a course which is always popular With yachtsmen, the figure S course, a race was held on Saturday by the Tamar Yacht Club. It was interesting, in ...
Article : 475 wordsA meeting of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank has unanimously approved of a scheme for the increase of its capital to three millions by the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe British have arrested Said Pasha, the military Governor of Constantinople. ...
Article : 17 wordsA sensational motor car accident is reported from Katoomba. At midnight on Friday a party consisting of Bert Paul, C. Egan, C. J. Egan, Erie Bell, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies, mater a lengthy discussion, increased members' salary to a thousand francs a month, in order to meet the cost of ...
Article : 57 wordsRoy Johnson, 24 years of age, a single man employed at the Mount Lyell mine in No. 2 level, met with a fatal accident about. 11 o'clock last night. He ...
Article : 120 wordsIt seems that, contrary to expectations, the miners' delegate conference received an invitation to meet Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, and other ...
Article : 102 wordsA meeting held at Westminster innugrated a Roads of Remembrance Association for the purpose of tending trees to the memory of the fallen. The ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Stock Exchange is depressed, largely due to heavy selling from Paris owing to the lowness of exchange. Consols are quoted at £45 10s. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn improvement on the French exchange has caused a slightly better tone on the London Stock exchange, but colonial and other gilt edged stocks are ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Treasury has sanctioned the Food Ministry's continuance of the policy of purchasing all available butter. Negotiations are proceeding with ...
Article : 31 wordsThe present stretch of fine weather is enabling the gangs at the Littia Henty railway bridge to make excellent progress. The new structure is being ...
Article : 58 wordsThe situation between the Government and the Miners', Federation, according to later news, is that the latter has agreed to accept a percentage basis ...
Article : 170 wordsThe iron trades' workers, comprising about 1000 men, belonging to the Engineers, Boilermakers', and Moulders' Unions, struck work on Saturday, ...
Article : 81 wordsThe proposal to capitalise a million of the reserve of the Bank of Australasia by allotting shares among the proprietors, has been unanimously approved. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is reported from Milan that Signor Malatestas, in a revolutionary speech at Lucen, so excited his hearers that a riot occurred, and the rioters ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following are the foreign rates of exchange on London:—Paris, 54.68 franes; Stockholm, 18.25 kroner; Christiania, 28.6s kroner; Calcutta, 29d to ...
Article : 34 wordsThe general manager of the Perth tramways and electricity supply has reported to the Minister for Mines that the question of smelting Yampi Sound ...
Article : 44 words'A' harvest thanksgiving service was held in St. Michael's Church on Sunday afternoon, 21st, when the church was most tastefully decorated with grain, ...
Article : 106 wordsNow in their eighteen year [?]ter competitions commence next Monday, and promise to be as attractive as those of the past. An advance copy ...
Article : 212 wordsAmounts received to date by the hon. Treasurer (Mr. M. R. Rolph, the "Examiner" and "Courier" Offices, Launceston):— ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Felton bequest has purchased Romney's portrait, 'Bishop of Carlisle," for £900; two drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, and two by Alfred Stevens. ...
Article : 24 wordsFive persons were drowned in the Paparoa-Auckland district. There has been the severest thunderstorm for 50 years. The river flats are inundated, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe case against Cororal King, of the Australian military police, in connection with the shooting of a policeman at Pimlico, has been disposed of. At ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Lancashire secretaries of the National Union of Railwaymen anounced that they had received telegrams to hold themselves in reediness to ...
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