SYDNEY, Friday.—As soon as the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon the Acting Premier (Mr. Cann) moved the second reading of the Income Tax Amendment Bill. ...
Article : 1,351 wordsThere was a distinguished gathering at the banquet held last evening to bid farewell to Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson (Governor-General Designate of Australia) ...
Article : 509 wordsThe Premiers' Conference resumed its sittings at the State Parliament House at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Watt presiding. The following Ministers were ...
Article : 4,581 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. W. Joynson Hicks (Unionist) asked Mr. Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies) whether he had directed Dr. ...
Article : 382 wordsThe newspapers contain many suggestions for a pacific settlement of the Home Rule question. It is understood that the Ministerialists and the Unionists are ...
Article : 951 wordsDisaster has overtaken the sealing vessel Newfoundland. Caught among the ice floe some miles from Cape Race, the steamer was jumbed between two large blocks of ...
Article : 363 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Denman entertained at luncheon yesterday the Prime Minister and Mrs. J. Cook, General Sir [?]an Hamilton, Mrs. ...
Article : 309 wordsTorreon, the scene of many days' fighting in Mexico, has fallen to the rebels. Messages which have filtered through during the past few days showed that General ...
Article : 218 wordsYorkshire miners have struck work, and it is expected that 17,000 men will be directly involved. This action has been taken by the miners ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Agar Wynne) intends to eatch Sunday night's express from Sydney for Melbourne. He had hoped to remain in Sydney over Easter, ...
Article : 1,045 wordsA Queensland 4 per cent. loan of £2,000,000 which had been underwritten for issue at £99, has been floated. When applications closed at noon to-day, it was ...
Article : 149 wordsA deputation from the Society of Friends, led by Sir John Barlow (brother-inlaw of Lord Denman), have had a private interview with Sir Ronald Munro ...
Article : 512 wordsAlthough the judge summed up against the student Kanto Roy, in the retrial on the charge of having murdered Police-inspector Ghose at Calcutta in January the ...
Article : 255 wordsPERTH, (W.A.), Friday.—Meagre details of what is supposed to be a terrible tragedy at the Drysdale River Mission reached Perth to-day. A telegram from Sub-inspector ...
Article : 619 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Lord Crewe), replying to Lord Lansdowne in the House of Lords to-day said that the Government's proposals to reform the House of Lords ...
Article : 57 wordsALBURY, Friday.—Mr. James Mitchell, owner of Table Top Station, near Albury, died at his homestead this morning. He was born near Goulburn, at the estate ...
Article : 427 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the "Morning Post" has advised that a British firm has obtained the railway concession for a line from Nanking to Hunan. It is the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe committee appointed by the House of Lords to make inquiries regarding the investment of the Liberal party's funds by Lord Murray, of Elibank, has concluded ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 340 wordsProceedings at the Bow street Police Court were continued to-day regarding eight army officers, a non-commissioned officer, and eight civilians who were ...
Article : 88 wordsPERTH, Friday.—Replying to a deputation from the Australian Labour Federation, which asked for an amendment of the Arbitration Act and the ...
Article : 210 wordsAs a result of the Maroondah channels having been blocked, no water has been obtained from that source for the metropolitan supply during the past five days. It ...
Article : 150 wordsInjuries, which will probably result in the loss of his left foot, were sustained last night by Peter Muir, aged 47 years, a confectioner, of Reeves street, Carlton, ...
Article : 218 wordsAt the public service commissioner's office last night an election was held to fill a vacancy on the committee of classifiers. There were three candidates—Messrs. D. Chessell, ...
Article : 92 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—Although a week has clapsed since the unprecedented hailstorm occurred in Bendigo, tons of hailstones still remain in the low-lying portions ...
Article : 110 wordsAn appeal was made in "The Argus" of March 6 by Councillor Burgess. Mr. Cotter, M.L.A., and other members of the Kortlang Benefit Club committee for assistance ...
Article : 87 wordsThe period of quarantine to which passengers who arrived in Victoria by the R.M.S. Orsova were subjected, as a result of a mild ease of small-box occuring on ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 4 Apr 1914, Page 19
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