Concerning the action taken in the Senate on the adjournment on Thursday last on the question of unemployement the Federal Minister for Works (Senator Lynch) said ...
Article : 450 wordsMembers of the new Railway Unit and reinforcements from the Royal Park camp will march through the city this morning. It is expected that about 1,500 men will ...
Article : 729 wordsLondon made a splendid final effort to awaken laggards to a sense of their duty in regard to the war loan. All the newspapers devoted much space to the subject, ...
Article : 253 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle" correspondent on the Western front, writes:— "The thaw has set in, and the landscape ...
Article : 718 wordsFrom its Berlin correspondent, the "New York World" has received a report of an interview which the Kaiser gave to Hans Mueller, the playwright and poet, during ...
Article : 497 wordsWhen the House of Commons met on Thursday afternoon, Mr. J. C. Wedgwood (Liberal member for Newcastle-underLyme) directed attention to the interview ...
Article : 453 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association (an American news service), who was formerly at Berlin, and is now at Berne, Switzerland, says that the Germans ...
Article : 573 wordsOnly a few submarinings were reported on Thursday, the largest victim being the British steamer Ferga (791 tons). The other issues were four trawlers. ...
Article : 1,296 wordsBrigadier-General E. G. Sinclair-Maclagan, D.S.O., has been awarded a Companionship of the Bath (C.B.). [General Sinclair-Maclagan waa in ...
Article : 47 wordsThrough the British Press Bureau, the Minister for Munitions (Dr. Addison) has announced that there was a small fire on Wednesday at a factory in Hertfordshire. ...
Article : 44 wordsExcellent music was provided by the competitors in the brass band contest at the Exhibition Building last night. The A grade (Albury Town, Malvern Tramway, ...
Article : 219 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" of Friday:— HUNTING SUBMARINES. ...
Article : 388 wordsDuring the debate on the Consolidated Fund Bill in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. A. J. Sherwell (Liberal member for Huddersfield) directed attention to ...
Article : 664 wordsIvo Scott, formerly accountant at the Geelong and Western District Preserving and Jam Factory, from which he embezzled sums amounting to £13,000, and who ...
Article : 183 wordsLieut.-General Smuts, who has been in command of the British forces in German East Africa, had a very enthusiastic reception on his return to Cope Town on ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Canadian Government is considering calling out the Militia under the compulsory provisions of the Militia Act, in orderto guard the American border. ...
Article : 71 wordsArrangements have been made to accommodate the oversea delegates to the Imperial Conference at the Savoy Hotel. The first meetings of the Conference will ...
Article : 40 wordsBUNDABERG, Friday.—The cable office received the following message from Gomen, in "New Caledonia, late this afternoon:— "The and line is still down between ...
Article : 152 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The board of inquiry appointed under the War Precautions Act by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), to investigate the systems and ...
Article : 83 wordsA lively interlade occurred in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon. Mr. R. D. Holt (Liberal) protested against the action of the Admiralty in ...
Article : 279 wordsThe British Press Bureau announces that the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Walter Long) has appointed a committee of 25 to report on measures for settling ...
Article : 178 wordsThe President of the Council (Lord Curzan), replying in the House of Lords on Thursday to criticism of the multiplication of officials, pleaded the immensity and ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—It was suggested by the Premier (Mr. Ryan) recently that an appeal might be made to the country by a referendum on some of the measures rejected ...
Article : 205 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The conference of the Australian Sugar Producers' Association was concluded this afternoon. A motion was unanimously canned in favour ...
Article : 167 wordsBEALIBA, Friday.—Thomas Stevenson, a labourer, was to-day arrested by Constable Waekham on a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Mr. A. Tucke[?]t, hotelkeeper. ...
Article : 78 wordsThat a battle is in progress in Galicia was officially announced at Petrograd early on Thursday afternoon. The only information supplied was to the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe "Westminster Gazette" recently published an appeal to the people of London to extend hospitality to Australian soldiers who were on leave. ...
Article : 58 wordsHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley) will open the Brighton Red Cross Festival at the Wilson Recreation Hall, Brighton, on Saturday, February 24, at 3 ...
Article : 64 wordsAdvices from Petrograd state that the agitation by the Russian nobles for a Government possessing the country's confidence has not abated. At nearly all the ...
Article : 126 wordsAt the meeting of the South-Eastern Railway Company in London on Thursday, the chairman said that the company's steamer Engadine, which was mentioned in Admiral ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe following resolution has been passed by the directors of the Metropolitan Milk Suppliers' Co-operative Company Ltd., representing 600 milk producers:— ...
Article : 53 wordsA deputation from trade unions waited on the President of the Board of Education (Professor Fisher), and submitted resolutions for the reform of education. ...
Article : 134 wordsSpeaking at Birmingham on Thursday evening, the President of the Board of Agriculture (Mr. R. E. Prothero) said that a declaration which the Prime Minister ...
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Article : 95 wordsDealing with the operations in the Monastir region of the Macedonian front, a French communique, issued from Salonika, says:— ...
Article : 71 words"The Times" states that the interim report of the Dardanelles Commission, covering the initiation of the expedition, will be published on February 21. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Feb 1917, Page 17
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