The Premier (Mr. Bowser) stated yesterday that he had complied with the request of a wine-making firm that the AgentGeneral (Sir Peter McBride) should be ...
Article : 1,782 wordsIt was expected, according to Amsterdam messages that the Gorman Chancellor (Baron von Hertling) would make a speech in the Reichstag on Thursday which would ...
Article : 1,242 wordsIn a message to his paper the Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" states:—"France is awaiting with confidence the great German offensive on the ...
Article : 542 wordsIn the 24 hours to 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, 28 recruits wert accepted in Victoria. The organising secretary of the State ...
Article : 824 wordsA striking speech on Labour's war aims was made at the labour Congress at Not tingham on Wednesday by Mr. W. F. Purdy, chairman of the executive of the ...
Article : 765 wordsIn the Senate yesterday morning Senator O'Keefe (T.) resumed the debate on the Supply Bill. He said that the Ministry was still clinging to office in spite of all ...
Article : 1,536 wordsThe question of the Cambrai reverse and the inquiry that followed it was again raised ia the House of Commons on Wednesday. ...
Article : 753 wordsMessages from the frontier of Finland, received in Stockholm, state that a reign of terror provails in the Finnish towns. There were sanguinary encounters on Monday at ...
Article : 332 wordsThe following statement was made in the House of Commons of Wednesday by Dr. T. J. Macnamara (Financial Secretary to the Admiralty):— ...
Article : 566 wordsReferring in a speech at Ottawa to the resignation from the Imperial War Cabinet of Sir Edward Carson, Sir Frederick E. Smith (British Attorney-General) said that ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" of Thursda:— THE PETROGRAD MURDERS. ...
Article : 432 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following statement with regard to a bonus for pieceworkers in the munition trades:— "The War Cibtnet has decided to pay a ...
Article : 145 wordsSir Herbert Wallen, professor of poetry at Oxford, read an interesting paper on "Overseas Poetry" at the Royal Colonial Institute on Wednesday. He said that ...
Article : 108 wordsGreat Britain's war expenditure for the seven weeks ended on January 10 was at the rate of £7,518,000 a day. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe value of the pinus insignis plantations on the reserves of the Ballarat Water Commission was evidenced in the financial statement for the year ended December 31. ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. J. L. Macpherson, Parliamentary Sroretnry to the War Office, announces the following changes on the staff of FieldMarshal Sir Douglas Haig:—Lient-General ...
Article : 118 wordsThe British Admiralty reported on Wednesday:—Our aircraft made further day and night attacks on the Goeben and secured two hits with heavy bombs. They also ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Parliamentaty representative of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the vacaney in the Imperial War Cabinet caused by the resignation of Sir Edwnrd Carson will ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the course of a lengthy paper read before the New South Wales Wine Association yesterday Mr. P. Wilkinson, Commonwealth analyst, strongly urged ...
Article : 103 wordsSir John Wolfe Wolfe-Bary, one of the foremost engineers of Great Britain, died in London on Wednesday, in his 82nd year. [Sir John Wolfe-Barry, the youngest son ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" says:— "The visit of Signor Orlando (italian Prime Minister to Paris is welcomed here ...
Article : 65 wordsBecause of an alleged difference with a forman 10 stage hands employed at the Palace Theatre went on strike last night. The performance was not interrupted, and ...
Article : 260 wordsDuring the Supply Bill debate in the Senate yesterday, Senator Bakhap (T.), in order to emphasise Australind perils should the Germans win the war, read some striking ...
Article : 678 wordsConvened by he mayor (Councillor H. A. Embling), a largely attended meeting of Prahran citizens was held in the municipal chambers last evening to take steps to assist in the appeal for ...
Article : 244 wordsThe United States Fuel Controller (Mr. H. A. Garfield) announces that the danger of interruption to the supplies of ammunition for the Allies as a result of the lack of ...
Article : 86 wordsAt Buckingham Palace on Wednesday His Majesty the King invested Sergeant John Janies Dwyer, of the Australian Imperial Forces, with the Victoria Cross. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe poor law report submitted to the House of Commons by the Ministiy embraces a reconstruction scheme. This scheme piovides for the abolition of workhouses ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "London Garette" announces the reinstatement of E. P. England as lieutenantcolonel in the Royal Horse Artillery. This officer was dismissed from the army in ...
Article : 57 wordsTRAFALGAR, Thursday.—Patrick Harkin, a wellknown farmer of the Moe Swamp district, hanged himself yesterday from a willow tree on an adjoining farm. ...
Article : 32 wordsBrigadier-General Sir Newton Moore, the general officer commnnding the Australian Imperial Forces in the United Kingdom, and formerly Agent-General for Western ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Department of Labour has issued summonses against six contract wheelers from Lymington Colliery, calling upon them to appear at ...
Article : 58 wordsCouncillor A. L. Page, of Port Melbourne, presided yesterday at the meeting of the committee appointed by a conference of representatives of urban councils in the metropolitan area, to ...
Article : 84 wordsThe announcement has been made by Mr. J. L. Macpherson, Parliamentary Secretary to the A War Department, that suitable provision is being made in the ...
Article : 42 wordsBread cards," under which each person will be allowed 12oz. of-bread a day, will be in fromce in France from Tuesday, January 29. ...
Article : 68 wordsSome particulars regardig the coast of the Northern Territory to the Commonwealth were furnished in the Senate yesterday by Senator Millen on behalf of the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe House of Lords rejected the proposal to I insert a provision lor the alterm tue vote in the Reptcsentalion ot the People Bill. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 25 Jan 1918, Page 7
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