Last session a resolution was passed through both Houses of the state Parliament which sanctioned the appointment of a glass workers' wages board. The Minister ...
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Article : 624 wordsReforms have been made in the London Stock Exchange, but not without cansing friction. One matter that has come up for review is that of brokers ...
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Article : 225 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday. — At the half-yearly meeting of the Industrial Union of Mine Workers (an organisation mainly of miners working on tribute), the secretary ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 592 wordsKALGOORLIE, Thursday.—What may turn out to be an important discovery at the BOULDER DEEP LEVELS was announced by the management of that property to-day. They report that at the 1,100ft. ...
Article : 120 wordsTea.—The market is more auimated, and sales include 300 chests of Ceylons up to 9d. and 100 chests of Indians at up to 8½d. Private cable advices from Colombo report ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 386 wordsPERTH, Thursday. — The Arbitration Court has fixed the minimum wage in the bookbinding trade at £3 per week, with increased rates for overtime. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsBy the new freight arrangements which came into operation on the railways on February 1 the rates for the carruage of cream for distances over 90 miles were ...
Article : 236 wordsMilitary orders contain the details of the formation of the Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve, which was approved "for the purpose of providing the medical and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 562 wordsA series of questions were put to the Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr. Crouch (V.) concerning the regulations in the Defence ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 609 wordsThe managers report:— Mr. Farrell, Tas., 21st.—N. drive to 99ft.; [?]ace quartz, little galena. Rise western lode connected with shaft from surface. S. Workings—No. 2 E. ...
Article : 218 wordsIn pursance of the decision to have separate officers in command of the defended forts in the Commonwealth, in place of officers commanding the garrison troops of a ...
Article : 81 wordsCampbell's Creek Dredging Co., Castlemaine, March 26, Half-yearly meeting, held at 31 Queenstreet. Mr. J. G. Aikman, M.L.C., presided. The chairman, in moving the adoption of the reports, ...
Article : 347 wordsQUEENSCLIFF, Thursday.—During the absence on leave of Captain J. Robertson, R.A.A., Lieutenant W. St. J. Macdonald is carrying out the duties of staff captain ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 273 wordsJohn A. Wilson[?] licensee of the Palace Hotel, Bourke-street, was yesterday charged at the District Court with having permitted drunken persons to be upon his licensed premises on the evening ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 465 wordsJoseph Coleman again appeared before the City Court yesterday on a charge of child desertion. The case had been adjourned twice to allow of the wife's depositions being sent from Brisbane. ...
Article : 353 wordsAt the South Melbourne Court yesterday, before Messrs. E. A. Wells and D. M'Arthur, J.P.'s, Abraham Trevascus was charged with having deserted his wife, Alice Trevasens. Mr. John Nolan ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsDetectives Mercer and Napthine are inquiring into the foolish practical jokes which have been played on Mrs. Pratt, of 281 Station-street. North Carlton. Some person, either with a distorted ...
Article : 230 wordsWheat.—The market yesterday was firm, and a moderate business was done at 4/4 delivered at mill and at 4/3½ ex store. A. small lot of prime Wimmera wheat realised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThe monthly meeting of the above association was held on Thursday evening. Mr. W. H. Thorp, A. I. A. V., chairman of the board, presided over a very large attendance. The reports were in ...
Article : 140 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Maize was in better supply, and quotations for prime dropped from 5/3 to 4/9. In sympathy with maize, oats were easier. Mill ...
Article : 296 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — Further inquiries tend to show that the rumours as to the heavy ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 27 Mar 1908, Page 8
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