Important action is being taken by Mr. Keast, M.L.A., with the object of improving the conditions of the potato industry. Uneasiness has been caused among growers ...
Article : 152 wordsBefore Judge Chomley, in the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Gustave Bartling, aged 48, a smalldogs man, was placed in the dock, ...
Article : 457 wordsA deputation from the Grocers' Association and the Grocers' Employees' Association waited on the Minister for Labour (Mr. Murray) yesterday, and asked that ...
Article : 470 wordsAt the request of Mr. Fairbairn, M.H.R., the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday a return showing particulars of land alienated ...
Article : 236 wordsAmongst the questions asked at the beginning of yesterday's sitting of the Senate was one by Senator Henderson (W.A.), regarding ex-senators who had failed to ...
Article : 1,003 wordsA deputation of wharf labourers was introduced to the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) yesterday evening by Mr. Mathews, Dr. Maloney, and Mr. Archibald, ...
Article : 321 wordsRepresentatives of the farmers of Bungaree, Wallace, Dunstown, Clarke's Hill, Millbrook, and Leigh Creek, accompanied by Messrs. Holden and Keast, M.L.A.'s, ...
Article : 269 wordsMr. Hughes congratulated Mr. Cook upon having survived the severe shock of the political contest, not only with a constitution unchanged, but with a vigour ...
Article : 726 wordsThe Closer Settlement Board yesterday laid before the Acting Minister for Lands (Mr. Watt) recommendations for the purchase by the State of two more private ...
Article : 231 wordsThe differences which exist between the central executive of the Political Labour Council and Mr. Hannah, M.L.A., a member of the State Parliamentary Labour ...
Article : 193 wordsA suggestion was made by a representative of the Butchers' Employees Union at a recent gathering of the Master Butchers' and Live Stock Buyers' Association, that if ...
Article : 371 wordsA deputation from Mornington, introduced by Mr. Adamson, M.L.C., and Mr. Downward, M.L.A., asked the Railway Commissioners yesterday to improve the ...
Article : 202 wordsMr. W. J. Johnson (N.S.W.) said that he hoped that better wages would be paid to postal and other Commonwealth employees in outlying districts. It had been said that ...
Article : 429 wordsThe hearing was concluded in the County Court yesterday before Judge Eagleson and a jury of six, of the action in which John Armstrong, miner, of Rutherglen, sought to ...
Article : 307 wordsMr. Ozanne had said "our party is not afraid of change." The change would come about in good time. The Ministry had already made considerably more than ...
Article : 586 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Portion of the Tuppal Estate, in Riverina, is to be purchased by Government for the purposes of closer settlement. Tuppal embraces an area ...
Article : 88 wordsPAKENHAM, Wednesday.—At the meeting of the Pakenham branch of the A.N.A. last night, the following resolution was carried:— ...
Article : 77 wordsECHUCA, Wednesday.—The Marathon Estate, with an area of 5,500 acres, owned by Mr. Thomas G. White, has been purchased by the Closer Settlement Board, through ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Stanley, M.L.A., introduced a deputation representing the Lorquon Vigilance Committee to the Minister for Railways (Mr. Billson) yesterday. They sought ...
Article : 154 wordsMessrs. Yeo, Crosthwaite, and Co. report the following sales:—Post-office place west, close to Elizabeth-street, land 31ft. frontage by depth 140ft. along right-of-way, with old buildings ...
Article : 353 wordsWAGGA, Wednesday.—Speaking at a meeting of the Wagga branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, Mr. J. G. Fletcher the selected Liberal candidate ...
Article : 208 wordsAttention was directed by the secretary of the Builders' Labourers' Society (Mr. H. Hannah), at the last meeting of members, to the alleged scarcity of workmen. He said ...
Article : 223 words"The position seems to me this, that any man—any sensible and educated man—who says that vaccination does not protect against small-pox is a fool, and an absolute ...
Article : 202 wordsMr. Kernot, chief engineer for railway construction, stated yesterday that work had commenced on the Bairnsdale-Orbost line, and in a week or so 100 men would be ...
Article : 88 wordsWith regard to the charge of misappropiration of trust funds, one appropriation was a mere bookkeeping adjustment, and in the other case the money ...
Article : 439 wordsThere was tabled in the Senate yesterday a brief precis of the interviews in Queensland last month between the Postmaster-General (Mr. Thomas) and representatives ...
Article : 261 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.—Speaking on the land question, the Attorney-General (Dr. Findly) contended that the claim for freehold was merely a political cry, and that ...
Article : 106 wordsIn explanation of the Minister's statement on Tuesday that there was to be no general reduction of freights and fares until the railway reserve funds were in ...
Article : 66 wordsA little difficulty recently occurred between the firm of Messrs. Lewis and Whitty and the Candle, Starch, Soap, and Soda Employees' Union over the dismissal of ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Speaker (Mr. M'Donald) yesterday took the chair at half-past 2 o'clock, and read the prayer. Mr. Bruce Smith (N.S.W.) asked if the ...
Article : 446 wordsDalgety and Co. Ltd. (in conjunction with Mr. Ernest Raleigh, Sydney), will offer by auction, at Scott's Hotel, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the Bulgroo Station, consisting of 1,100 square miles ...
Article : 76 wordsThe annual meeting of the Hawthorn branch of the Australian Women's National League was held on Tuesday afternoon at Glenferrie house, Hawthorn. The president ...
Article : 249 wordsThe extraordinary case of the foreman punter in the employ of the Railway department, who was knocked off a ladder by a passing train while painting the South ...
Article : 69 wordsALBURY, Wednesday.—Dalgety and Co. Ltd. have effected the sale, at a highly satisfactory price, of Mr. Thomas Hogan's well-known "Hawkesview Estate," for delivery on August 1. The ...
Article : 147 wordsA deputation from the Dandenong Waterworks Trust waited on the Minister of Water Supply (Mr. Graham) yesterday, and asked for further control over lands ...
Article : 334 wordsMr. Cook.—But these men is were not as other men were. (Laughter.) They were the political Pharisees. They declared that a new page had been turned over, ...
Article : 814 wordsCHARLTON, Wednesday.—The engine of the up train was derailed at mid-day, when shunting at the trucking-yard, while the main part of the train was left on the main road. The wheels cut ...
Article : 122 wordsMessrs Morgan and Ridgley, president and secretary respectively of the Billposters' Union, accompanied of Messrs. G. Dupree (vice-president) and J. Munn ...
Article : 96 wordsW. P. Smith, Nicholson, and Co. Pty. Ltd., Bourke-street, report having sold, on behalf of Mr. W. V. Railey, of Clyde, 80 acres of his onion land at Dalmore, to Mr. Hartley, of Brunswick, for just ...
Article : 186 wordsIn the District Court yesterday, J. T. Tunnock, dentist, of Bourke-street, Melbourne, was sued by Nellie Campbell, of Rokeby-street, Collingwood, for the ...
Article : 269 wordsA large audience in the Athenaæum-hall list night shared with Mr. Pickwick and his friends the wonderful experiences which Dickens has so graphically related in ...
Article : 294 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Industrial trouble seems imminent on the Perth tramways. The manager of the tramways (Mr. Somerset), as the outcome of a conference ...
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Article : 262 wordsMr. Higgs (Q.) said that he was quite convinced that the caucus as they now had it was an improvement on the system of Government supported by the Opposition. He ...
Article : 900 wordsThe request of the Prime Minister to municipalities for the utilisation of town-halls for drilling purposes was discussed by the Hawthorn Council on Wednesday night, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply to the Governor-General's Speech was resumed. Mr. J. Cook (N.S.W.) congratulated the ...
Article : 678 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—The half-yearly report of the Ballarat branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association states that the new tribute agreement is now ...
Article : 150 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The Executive Council yesterday appointed the Minister of Agriculture as Minister for Industry, to control the new department for making ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 14 Jul 1910, Page 4
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