In the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration yesterday, before Mr. Justice Higgins the hearing of the plaint of the Australian Tramway Employees' ...
Article : 1,727 wordsThe joint conference of the parties to the coal trade dispute and members of the Cabinet met again yesterday, and continued the general discussion of the best means ...
Article : 786 wordsSeven battalions of Italian infantry and five batteries of artillery were engaged in the fighting near Benghazi on Tuesday, when the Turks and Arabs were defeated with ...
Article : 211 wordsA scene of an unusual character was witnessed in the House of Commons to-day, during the discussion on the Army Estimates. ...
Article : 152 wordsImportant developments in Imperial communication were predicted by the Postmaster-General (Mr. Samuel) in a speech at a banquet held last evening in connetion ...
Article : 131 wordsA great sensation was caused this morning by the attempted assassination of King Victor Emmanuel. The King's assailant failed in his object, and His Majesty escaped ...
Article : 477 wordsA conference convened by the Catholic Federation for devising the best means of suppressing impure literature met in the Lord Mayor's rooms at the Town-hall last ...
Article : 2,880 wordsAmongst the visitors at Menzies' Hotel are Sir Robert Anderson, Bart, and Lady Anderson Accompanying them are Mr. and Mrs. W. H. M. Lauchlan Sir Robert ...
Article : 577 wordsReuter's correspondent at Tokio states that the Powers have accepted Japan's proposal to recognise China's new President, Yuan Shih-Kai, with the Russian ...
Article : 39 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill) is inquiring into allegations concerning the existence of a ring amongst manufacturers of armour plates. ...
Article : 31 wordsOfficial accounts of the fighting at Torbruk, on March 11, have been received. They indicate the success of Turkish arms against the Italians. Edhem Pasha, the Turkish ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Governor-General of Canada (the Duke of Connaught) smoked the pipe of peace yesterday with a delegation of Red Indians from the Six Nations reserve, at ...
Article : 104 wordsThe rebellious General, Shen-yung, continues to give trouble in the interior province of Kansu. He is at the head of an army of 10,000 men, and has defeated a ...
Article : 71 wordsThe elashing of French and Spanish interests in Morocco, which has caused some irritation for some weeks past, continues. Spain is being warned by the "Figaro" and ...
Article : 67 wordsBy 95 votes to 36 the House of Lords has agreed to a motion by Lord Midleton demanding the removal of Mr. John Fitzgibbon. Nationalist member of the House ...
Article : 322 wordsIt is understood that the recall of M. Charikoff, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, was due to his outspoken opposition to the proposal that Russia and other ...
Article : 119 wordsReports received from Colon indicate that a sleeping voleano lies under the Culabra cut in the Panama Canal. The reports state that steam is escaping from numbers ...
Article : 107 wordsGELLONG, Thursday. —This afternoon the electric tram system was officially inaugurated. The streets of the city and boroughs were decorted with bunting and ...
Article : 540 wordsPORT DARWIN, Thursday. —Eastern files give graphic accounts of the increase in piracy and lawlessness. Attacks on junks and steamers are reported to occur daily. ...
Article : 301 wordsLicutenant Sevelle, whilst monoplaning at Pau. fell from a height of 300ft., and was killed. TRAIN IN RIVER. ...
Article : 512 wordsA elever ruse was resoried to by an express messenger to out wit robbers who had "held-up" the train on which he was employed. ...
Article : 108 wordsOne of the suffragetts who engaged in the window-smashing exploits was sentenced to-day to six months' imprisonment. Four others each received sentences of four ...
Article : 39 wordsUnder the auspices of the Independent Workers' Association, a meeting of engineers and mechanics was held on Wednesday at the club-rooms, 226 Flinder-street, ...
Article : 494 wordsT. B. Tartakover the ex-Sydney champion swimmer, was recently disqualified by the Southern Counties Amatcur Swimming Association for having given an exhibition ...
Article : 198 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the Protestant Defence Associtation of Australia was held at the Baptist-hall, Collinsstreet, last night. when the ...
Article : 774 wordsA well-dressed suffragette was arrested in Glasgow to-day on a charge of having smashed six shop windows. ...
Article : 26 wordsFor the first time the expenditure provided for in the Budget exceeds £309,000,000. The Duma in a period of five years has ...
Article : 145 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. —Mention was made in the Legislative Assembly this evening by Mr. M'Garty of the unsatisfactory state of the walers of the Murrumbidgee River ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsThe miners on strike have been reinforced at Herne, where three-fourths of those employed have gone out. As in other places, they have given way to disorder, and they ...
Article : 98 wordsThe accounts of the Norddeutscher Lioyd for 1911 show a profit of £2,075,000 sterling. The increase is due to freights from South America and Australia. ...
Article : 110 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. —At its sitting today the Methodist Conference received a report from the committee on the union of churches. It was reported that the ...
Article : 198 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—The preliminary work in connection with the Light Horse camp was entered upon to-day, when an advance party of the Army Service Corns, ...
Article : 235 wordsBefore the end of the year, and probably not later than September, the new head office of the Saving Bank in Elizabethstreet will be completed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsHAMILTON, Thursday. —The business of the Rechabite Conference was concluded today. It was decided to recommend that the voting for officers be carried out under ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. —There was a large attendance to-day at the dispersal by auction of the St. James' stud, which was recently imported from America by Mr. ...
Article : 242 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. —The Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to inquire into the operations of the Australian Jockey Club met this afternoon, Mr. ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. —During a quarrel between Joseph Kierley and Alfred Worthington, in a shop in Penshurst-street, Chatswood, this afternoon, a revolver shot was ...
Article : 75 wordsThe efforts made in the interests of the troops at the 3rd Light Horse Brigade camp at Kilmore by the field service department of the Young Men's Christian ...
Article : 105 wordsBROKEN HILL, Thursday. —The Barrier Labour Federation last night carried a resolution "That all umonists patronising hotels and restaurants he asked to observe ...
Article : 62 wordsADELAIDE ([?]99 Miles) [?] Arrived, March 11 Ade[?]e from Sydney, S[?]ted March 11 Labotor He[?]t. ...
Article : 28 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday. —The average yield of wheat throughout the Dominion for the season 1911-12 is estimated at 33.44 bushels; the yield of oats at 44.61, and ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the last meeting of the Northern District Milk Produc[?] Association, held at the Epping Shire-hall on Wednesday evening, it was unanimously decided to charge ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 15 Mar 1912, Page 7
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