A visist was paid to Ballarat on Monday by Mr. Hamilton Wickes, British trade commissioner, who spent the day inspecting the leading industrial establishments of the ...
Article : 416 wordsThe abrupt termination of the football match between Yarraville and Port Melbourne on Saturday, as described in "The Argus," was the subject of consideration at ...
Article : 1,089 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Liberals will face election day on Friday with a strong hope. Labour sympathisersay too that they are supremely confident, but it is a ...
Article : 957 wordsThe turn of the tide of immigration towards Australia is filling the steamers trading between Europe and the Commonwealth to overflowing[?] and complaints are ...
Article : 173 wordsThe conference of delegates of postal sorters' associations in the various States was concluded yesterday morning. Senntor Needham (W.A.) presided. A letter was ...
Article : 1,084 wordsThe Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners' annual report for the year ending September, 1910, has just been issued. The report is very comprehensive, and deals ...
Article : 545 wordsComprehended in the item "correspondence" before last evening's meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures were, as the president (Mr. T. Hogg) announced, six ...
Article : 661 wordsThe election to select representatives of the employers to sit on the printers' wages board will be held on October 28. Nominations close on October 20. Nomination ...
Article : 62 wordsPERTH, Monday.—Applications for farm labourers and domestic servants still greatly exceed the 'supply. ...
Article : 19 wordsPERTH Monday.—The tanners and curriers, wonse wages were recently fixed by the Arbitration Court at £2/12/6 a week, have resolved to give a week's notice and ...
Article : 72 wordsThe acting Minister for Lands (Mr. James Cameron) yesterday made the following statement:—"The Closer Settlement Board has set apart 119 irrigable allotments ...
Article : 225 wordsRUTHERGLEN, Friday.—At a conference of delegates of the Labour leagues in the electorate of Wangaratta, held at Wangaratta, it was decided to invite ...
Article : 52 wordsThe City Bench on Monday committed Thomas Truscott for trial, on a charge of perjury, in connection with a recent licensing case. ...
Article : 80 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—In connection with the strike of wire workers, the proprietor (Mr. C. Rutherford) is taking matters quietly. In addition to himself, four ...
Article : 68 wordsAlderman Philpott was, at the quarterly meeting of the Town Council on Monday, appointed mayor-elect of the town of Geelong, in succession to Alderman H. A. ...
Article : 286 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday.—The Westport and Granity coal miners, who are not registered under the Arbitration Act, have made an agreement with the owners ...
Article : 40 wordsYEA, Monday.—Advices have been received lo the effect that the Closer Settlement Bonrd regards the Killingworth Estate as unsuitable for its purposes, and has ...
Article : 34 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The revival in the building trade has disclosed a scarcity of competent workmen, and as much as £1 per day is being offered in country centres ...
Article : 40 wordsPERTTT, Monday.—The Upper Chapman railway, built in connection with the Government's policy of settling people on the land, was opened on Saturday by the ...
Article : 212 wordsGEELONG, Saturday.—At a meeting of the Geelong woollen mill operatives this evening it was reported that two female weavers were in the habit of working ...
Article : 74 wordsDuring the forthcoming harvest the Rural Workers' Union intend to carry on active organisation work, which will extend throughout Victoria, New South ...
Article : 197 wordsBROKEN HILL, Monday.—The Amalgamated Miners' Association met again yesterday in camera, and decided upon an amended wages agreement, to be placed ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. Robert Kellway, at present occupying the posilion of special officer, has been appointed supervisor of weighing in place of Mr. J. Conlan, who has been promoted ...
Article : 42 wordsThe All Nations' Fair, which was organised to liquidate the debt on the grand-stand at the recreation reserve and the fence around the Botanical-gardens, realised a net ...
Article : 126 wordsPERTH, Monday.—The German mail steamer Seydlitz, which arrived at Fremantle from Bremerhaven this morning, brought out a large contingent of immigrants ...
Article : 110 wordsA protest is to be made by the City Council to the Railways Commissioners against the curtailment of the means of travelling to and from Kensington and ...
Article : 108 wordsOfficers have been elected as follows to the Kerang branch of the Political Labour Council:—President, Mr. J. J. Kirby; vicepresidents, Messrs. F. Chenoweth and T. ...
Article : 52 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—A strike of shearers has occurred at Thylungra. The men are refusing to work until better machinery is installed. This is being done ...
Article : 30 wordsLASCELLfS, Monday.—New buildings are springing up in all directions, and the town will soon have water supply laid on, Mr. Laseclles having given £100 towards ...
Article : 124 wordsA report from Mr. R. Duncan, secretary of the Hairdressers' and Wigmakers' Employees, on a visit he made to Colac recently was given to the Trades-hall Council on ...
Article : 102 wordsWhile a number of workmen were working upon a scaffolding yesterday morning at the new premises of Messrs. Love and Lewis, Bridge-road, Richmond, one end of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Braybrook Shire Council recently asked the Railway department to provide a train between 12 and 1 o'clock. In reply to that communication the department yesterday wrote to the council, ...
Article : 129 wordsBRIGHT, Monday.—After daily searches for the last 10 days a party of Boy Scouts and civilians, under the direction of Seniorconstable Priest, yesterday discovered the ...
Article : 166 wordsINGLEWOOD, Monday.—While working in some old ground at Kingower on Saturday a miner named Wilson unearthed a nugget weighing 11oz. The piece had been missed ...
Article : 1,757 wordsA claim has been made by the Plasterers' Union for an advance in wages. They now receive 1/4 an hour for 48 hours' work, or £3/4/ a week. This rate was fixed by Mr. ...
Article : 89 wordsAt its meeting on Monday the Prahran Council received a circular communication from the Collingwood Council asking for the appointment of two delegates to attend a ...
Article : 282 wordsAt the Prahran Court on Monday, before Mr. Phipps (chairman), Major Clipperton, and Mr. Curwen-Walker, J.P.'s, John Hazel, of 24 Clarastreet, South Yarra, was charged, on the ...
Article : 88 wordsMrs. Bruce was admitted to the Williamstown Hospital by Dr. Fetherstonhaugh on Sunday night, suffering from shock, as the result of a fall from a train. When the 10 ...
Article : 124 wordsThe rates collected in the town of Brighton for the year ended September 30 represented 99.5 per cent. of the total amount due. The year 1910-1911 begins with a total amount outstanding of £144 ...
Article : 667 wordsThe Government statist (Mr. A. M. Laughton) has prepared a return of live stock, classified according to sizes of holdings of privately-owned land and Crown ...
Article : 280 wordsJames Steele, of 187 Williams-road, Hawksburn, was, at the Prahran Court, on Monday, fined 10/, with 5/ costs, for hating travelled between Melbourne and Hawksburn without a ticket on August ...
Article : 37 wordsAt a general meeting of members of the above association, held on the 9th inst., a resolution as follows was adopted:—"That this association strongly approves of the ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the Prahran Council meeting last evening Councillor embling, chairman of the finance committee, moved— "That the necessary steps be taken, under ...
Article : 184 wordsThe disorderly scenes that occurred during the progress of the football match between the Port Melbourne and Yarraville Juniors at the Richmond City-reserve on ...
Article : 327 wordsMINYIP, Monday.—At a meeting of the Progress Committee Dr. Spring called attention to the undermanning of the Minvip railway station. He said that the stationmaster and a porter had to ...
Article : 62 wordsQUEENSTOWN, Monday.—Percy Dent, aged 30 years, an employed at the Lyell mine, was killed this afternoon. He and his mate were working on the No. 3 bench, ...
Article : 71 wordsPOWLETT, Monday.—Mr. J. M'Nab, president of the Daly's mine branch of the Victorian Coal-miners' Association, was entertained by a number of the employees ...
Article : 214 wordsThe forms of indenture drawn up by the Painters' Wages Board and the Carriage Board have been approved of by the Minister for Labour (Mr. Murray). They must, ...
Article : 44 wordsPOWLETT, Monday.—A young man named Frederick Christic, who was employed at the No. 3 brace at the State coal mine, at Powlett, met with a serious ...
Article : 70 words'At the fortnightly meeting of the North Carlton branch of the Political Labour Council, the following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing half-year:—President, Mr. ...
Article : 77 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—A seaman named Frank Clark met with a fatal accident on the stennior Anglo-Bolivian to-day, when climbing from the hold to the deck. He ...
Article : 54 wordsA communication from the Collingwood Council was read at the meeting of the Melbourne City Council yesterday, in regard to municipal amalgamation. It was stated that ...
Article : 119 wordsAt the Richmond Court on Monday, Richard D. Johnston, a partner in the Cremorne Nursery Company, was charged with having failed to furnish a return of his ...
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Advertising : 232 wordsBROKEN HILL, Monday.—An inquest was held to-day upon the body of Thomas Fitzpatrick, 21 years of age, who died from injuries received in a tram accident on ...
Article : 64 wordsA satisfactory financial statement was presented at the quarterly meeting of the Stage Employees' Union, held on Sunday. The receipts were stated to have been £147/7/9. ...
Article : 156 wordsSHEPPARTON, Monday.—Preaching in St. Augustine's Church of England, Shepparton, on Sunday, the rector, the Rev. N. D. Herring, asked, "Did you ever realise that ...
Article : 157 wordsFRANKSTON, Monday.—A man, named James Walsh, was found on the back Dand[?]nong-road on Sunday afternoon, having evidently been thrown out of a cart. He was ...
Article : 48 wordsKOBART, Monday.—It is reported that a company has been floated in Melbourne for the purpose of establishing a fish manure works near Hobart. North-west ...
Article : 79 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—News has been received that a lenglhsman named John Enright was cut to pieces by being run over by a train between Corinda and Oxley this ...
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Advertising : 44 wordsA communication was received at the meeting of the Pastrycooks' and Biscuitmakers' Union on Saturday night from Ballarat, in which it was intimated that a move ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 11 Oct 1910, Page 5
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