A brief examination of the formula for ascertaining the rate of land tax contained the land tax schedule shows that it is not, as Mr. Fisher claims, mathematically ...
Article : 592 wordsThe State Ministry held its usual weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday afternoon and evening. The Premier (Mr. Murray) presided at the opening of the meeting. He ...
Article : 232 wordsThe United States Government, has received news that a rebellion against American rule has broken out in the Neuva Visaya, headed by Senor Mandac, who was ...
Article : 136 wordsThe American cotton crop is estimated by the New York Cotton Exchange at 10,250,000 bales. If this estimate is correct the world will be faced with a cotton famine in the ...
Article : 357 wordsThe fellmongery establishment of D. and W. Gibb Bros., on the banks of the Saltwater River, Footscray, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The works, ...
Article : 648 wordsA great German musical festival is being held at San Francisco. The most important feature is a competition for a gold cup, worth 10,000 dollars, which is given by the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe strike among the iron-miners of Bilbao, in the north of Spain, has been accompanied by such seenes of disorder that the authorities have proclaimed martial ...
Article : 97 wordsThe secretary of the Kerang Agricultural Society (Mr. J. Coleman) has received a notification that His Excellency the Governor (Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael) has ...
Article : 1,011 wordsThe enormous deposits of coal and minerals m Alaska have frequently been referred to lately. Mr. G. W. Wickersham, the United States Attorney-General, who is ...
Article : 64 wordsThe men employed in several of the Welsh collieries have ceased work in order to compel non-unionists to join the Miners' Federation. Notices to the same effect are ...
Article : 44 wordsThe centenary celebrations of the wresting of the freedom of Mexico from Spanish rule, which had its origin in the insurrection begun in 1810 by a country priest ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Genenl Confederation of Labour has placarded the streets of Paris, and of several towns in the French provinces, inviting the workers to boycott sugar, wine, and ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Attorney-General said yesterday that under the bill mutual life insurance companies were exempt, as each policy-holder was reckoned an owner in severalty. Those ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Government is pursuing an active closer settlement policy in the Western States. In November next 1,700,000 acres will be thrown open for settlement in ...
Article : 35 wordsIt was decided that the sentence of death recorded in the case of Bertie Prentice, who was convicted of an offence against a girl at South Melbourne earlier in the year, ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Roosevelt's tour of the United States on behalf of the Republican "insurgents" is having its effect in New York. After his speech at Harper's Ferry, in which he ...
Article : 58 wordsThe International Socialist Conference at Copenhagen yesterday agreed to a resolution declaring that unemployment would only disappear when capitalism disappeared. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe recent suggestion that a referendum should be held to decide whether the Geelong municipalities should come under the provisions of the Local Government Act ...
Article : 93 wordsThe New York market for August cotton closed quiet yesterday at 18.80 cents, or 1.20 cent, below the highest point touched last Monday. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Glenn Curtiss, the American avitor, made a wonderful flight over Lake Erie yesterday on his biplane, travelling 64 miles in 1 hour 42 minutes. The flight ...
Article : 41 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, who was at Alberta yesterday, received a deputation representing the coal and agricultural interests, asking for a removal of ...
Article : 85 wordsThe land tax proposals of the Fisher Government are mentioned incidentally in an article on colonial wool appearing in the "Munchester Guardian" this morning. ...
Article : 130 wordsAmong other subjects dealt with was the question of the payments made for work performed by State officers on behalf of the Commonwealth. The Cabinet, determined ...
Article : 462 wordsThe United States Government has decided that the eight hours law does not apply to workmen engaged in the construction of submarines and torpedo-boats ...
Article : 41 wordsGeneral Botha, the South African Prime Minister, in the course of an election address at Pretoria, referred to the recent references by Dr. Jameson, leader of the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe education authorities of Chicago have decided that Japanese and Chinese children are eligible to attend the ordinary schools in which while children are ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting of international importance took place at Salzburg yesterday between Count Achrenthal, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Italian Foreign ...
Article : 116 wordsThe annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was continued at Sheffield yesterday. Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith permanent ...
Article : 211 wordsIn a speech at Alberta Sir Wilfrid Laurier said he had always been ready to negotiate a treaty with the United States, but the United States must now take the ...
Article : 103 wordsHOBART, Friday.—A large deputation representing employers waited upon the Premier (Sir Elliott Lewis) to-day to urge that he combine with the other State ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that some influential American organisers are attempting to raise £50,000 in a fortnight, on behalf of ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Canadian Customs returns for the first five months of 1910 show an increase of £1,000,000, compared with the same period of 1909. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Pope his taken measures to express his displeasure at the loyalty to the throne displayed by the students attending the famous seminary of Perugia, in Umbria, On ...
Article : 109 wordsDistinguished visitors are arriving at Montreal to take part in the Eucharistic Congress, which opens on September 11. Cardinal Vannutclli, the Papal legate, ...
Article : 48 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—An electric tram collided with a storekeeper's van late tonight. The driver of the van was killed, and the motorman of the car sustained a ...
Article : 53 wordsA study of clauses 35 and 39 of the Land Tax Assessment Bill, as expounded by the Attorney General (Mr. Hughes), shows astounding results in the case of a small ...
Article : 392 wordsDr. W. S. Bruce, of the Scottish Oceanographical Society, read a paper in the Geographical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Sheffield ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. A. A. Billson) staled yesterday that the question of constructing cross-country lines between the railways radiating from Melbourne ...
Article : 96 wordsFurther evidence of sedition in India has been discovered at Pandharpur, in the province of Bombay, where several bombs have been found. Three men have been arrested. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Carlist party in Spain has shown revived activity of late, having taken advantage of the difterences between the Government and the Vatican to appeal to Roman ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The council of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce has forwarded to the Prime Minister the following resolution:— ...
Article : 106 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The case of Adolph Beck, who was awarded a substantial sum by the British Government for wrongful imprisonment, appears to have a remarkable ...
Article : 362 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" passes a sharp criticism upon the Japanese rescript in regard to the annexation of Korea for omitting reference to treaty rights. Foreigners, ...
Article : 81 wordsJohn Ramsey, of Durham-street, Ballarat, gentleman, who died on June 21 left by a will dated February 1, 1910, realty of the value of —725, and personalty £4,714, to relatives and friends. ...
Article : 44 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—A young man, known to the police as Gordon Salmon, and also known as George Gordon, entered an ironmongery establishment at Bundaberg ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—I would like to know if the Land Tax Bill, now before the Federal Parliament, purposes taxing a husband and wife's property as one; or is the wife to he ...
Article : 113 wordsFrank E. Beaurepaire, the Australian distance champion, who is on a visit to Finland, competed in two important sprint championships there yesterday. The ...
Article : 183 wordsGEELONG, Friday.—After a serious illness of a few days' duration, the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Austin occurred to-day at her residence, "The Mansion," ...
Article : 451 wordsThe trial at Dacca of the 42 Indian natives who were members of the organisation known as "National Volunteers" is proceeding before a special magistrate. The ...
Article : 62 wordsThe disturbed state of Tibet since the deposition of the Dalai Lama led to fears being expressed for the safety of the British trading post at Gyangtse. Indian ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,—If the Labour Ministry succeed in dotting the map of Australia all over with innumerable homesteads of small but prosperous lando-owners, it will no doubt be ...
Article : 463 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Events in connection with the strike on the railway construction works at Gepp's Cross and Mile End, declaied by the United ...
Article : 262 wordsA man, whose name is believed to be Doran, was brought into the Melbourne Hospital late last night with his face shockingly injured. The man who brought ...
Article : 76 wordsSeveral ship-owning companies in Great Britain are considering a joint scheme to build ten ocean liners, at a cost of £2,000,000, to run between British ports ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. Hughes has furnished in answer to a question propounded to him by Mr. W. H. Irvine in the course of the land tax debate on Thursday night. ...
Article : 282 wordsR. H. Selleck.—At Gough-street, Richmond— Frechold property. J. D. Graham (in conjunction with Messrs. Tadgell Brothers).—At Lincoln-road, ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. H. C. Cameron, the New Zealand dairy expert, has delivered an address before the Sanitary Inspectors' Association, in which he gave details of the precautions ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Inter-Parliamentary Conference resumed its sittings at Brussels yesterday. The meeting resolved to recommend that the countries represented should each ...
Article : 66 wordsPERTH, Friday.—In the Legislative Assembly last night the Standing Orders Committee reported having taken the evidence of the constable concerned in serving ...
Article : 140 wordsA violent earthquake, lasting an hour, was recorded on the seisnlographs in Great Britain yesterday. It is estimated that the centre of the disturbance was at a distance ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 3 Sep 1910, Page 17
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