When the Cnmmonwealth decided to prohibit the importation of opium into Australia, it voluntarily surrendered an annual revenue to thi extent of £60,000. But it ...
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Article : 1,343 wordsIn the Reichstag on Friday the Socialists put forward an interpellation to the Government in regard to the speech delivered by the Emperor William nt Konigsberg in ...
Article : 274 wordsAn important feature of the coming elections is the increase in unopposed returns and the diminution of three-cornered contests. The Liberals have provided no ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. W. Douglas Lysnar, mayor of Gisborne (New Zealand), who is largely interested in the frozen meat trade of the Dominion, and who is returning from London ...
Article : 1,368 wordsIn spite of the presence of a military force, the strikers in South Wales persist in endeavouring to assert claims by violent methods. A number of carpenters, who ...
Article : 177 wordsThe supporters of woman suffrage were very much in evidence at Mr. Winston Churchill's Bradford meeting on Saturday night. On this occasion it was the male ...
Article : 171 wordsA new scheme for the institution of a memorial to the late King Edward has been initiated by Lord Tenterden. He proposes that the Crystal Palace ...
Article : 890 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is addressing a series of meetings in Scotland, which recall Gladstone's famous Midlothian campaign in 1879. It is a ...
Article : 132 wordsThe valuable Crown jewels, in the possession of Ulster King of Arms, were stolen from Dublin Castle in July, 1907. The jewels, which consisted of a diamond ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. Keir Hardie, M.P., boasted of the acts of the South Wales strikers in the course of a speech delivered at Huddersfield on Saturday night. He said that the ...
Article : 92 wordsIt has been decided by the military authorities to increase the peace footing of the German army, and a special appropriation from the finances has been sanctioned for ...
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Article : 164 wordsThe long-standing dispute between Peru and Ecuador, regarding their boundaries, is as far from settlement as ever. A few years ago the King of Spain waa asked to ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. Balfour, in an address to the electors of the City of London, says:—"The Unionists are pledged to tariff reform, national defence, a wider extension of freehold ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the meeting of the Women's Political Association last evening, two visiting ladies (Mrs. E. F. Allan and Miss Cuthbertson) took the leading parts in a debate on the ...
Article : 863 wordsMr. J. L. Garvin, editor of the "Observer," writing in that paper, expresses the view that if a referendum is necessary for Home Rule it must apply equally to ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. G. R. Askwith, head of the labour department of the Board of Trade, presided over a conference between the Board's officials and the boilermakers' ...
Article : 51 wordsThe last article written by Count Tolstoi, his work whilst he was in the monastery at Scharmardinsky, after his sudden flight from home, hns been published. ...
Article : 98 wordsA representative party of the heads of railway branches and other principal officers, headed by the commissioners (Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Norman), waited on Mr. ...
Article : 337 wordsLord Rosebery has consented to address a non-party meeting at Manchester on the political situation. A thousand Edinburgh citizens, of varying ...
Article : 45 wordsAn important criminal trial, which arose out of the strike of railway employees on the French railways, has been concluded at Rouen. The prisoners were four strikers, ...
Article : 130 wordsSpeaking at Wexford on Saturday night Mr. Redmond referred to the subject of Home Rule. He said that Mr. Asquith had most solemnly pledged himself, his Cabinet, ...
Article : 128 wordsThe two enormous brilliants which were cut from the Cullinan diamond, the largest diamond in the world, now adorn the Crown jewels. The larger diamond has been placed ...
Article : 66 wordsThirteen members of the Central Trades Unions Committee were arrested yesterday for attempting to organise a demonstration against capital punishment. A students' ...
Article : 55 wordsArrangements are in progress for a public welcome to the destroyers Yarra and Parramatta, which are due to arrive in Melbourne on Saturday, December 10. [?]e ...
Article : 191 wordsThe criticism of the "Economist" upon the Federal land tax, as repoeted by cable, was commented upon by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) yesterday. ...
Article : 238 wordsThe signalman at Ormskirk railway station, where the collision occurred on Friday night, admits that his forgetfulness was the cause of the disaster. The Scotch express, ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. T. P. O'Connor,, Nationalist member for the Scotland division of Liverpool, addressed a meeting at Peekham on Saturday night, when he replied to Hie criticisms by ...
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Article : 297 wordsThe Federal Government is making inquiries as to the advisableness of using internal combustion engines in the arid districts through which the West Australian ...
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Article : 70 wordsThe contest between Mr. O'Brien, leader of the Independent Nationalists, and Mr. William Redmond, who is opposing him in his own constituency of Cork City, has ...
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Article : 69 wordsThe Government promised recently to suspend the duty on maize foi a year to enable the grain to be used, in view of the failure of the potato crop, for feeding ...
Article : 81 wordsFor some time the English Board of Education has threatened to deprive the London County Council of its grants, unless the council promptly reduces all classes in school ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The proposals made by the Commonwealth to the States some time ago to institute a land-seekers' excursion to Australia from the Western States ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 29 Nov 1910, Page 7
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