The Australian High Commissioner (Mr. Andrew Fisher) gave an interesting farewell dinner to Mr. Hughes and Sir Joseph Cook at Claridge's Hotel. Among the guests ...
Article : 486 wordsOwing to the announced increase of 6/ a ton in the price of coal in Great Britain, it is estimated that the steel price will be sent up by 30/ a ton, gas by 8d. a ...
Article : 319 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" has written approving of Mr. McPherson's representations regarding State Governors, and says that "the suggestion that ...
Article : 77 wordsNo summons was issued on Saturday against the Seamen's Union or the general secretary (Mr. T. Walsh) in consequence of the Federal Cabinet's decision to ...
Article : 50 wordsThe German official note announcing the ratification of the peace treaty has been formally received in Paris, and the blockade has been raised. ...
Article : 182 wordsThe feature of the shipping strike at the week-end were the menacing speeches made at the Bijon Theatre by some of the leaders. Mr. T. Walsh, the general secretary ...
Article : 325 words"This strike is going on," said Mr. F. Riley, organiser of the Wharf Labourers' Union, in appealing for funds at a meeting on the Yarra bank yesterday. "The strikers ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Greene) would not add anything on Saturday to the statement made in Parliament on Friday by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) to ...
Article : 108 wordsNothing definite concerning the actual representations made by the State Treasurer (Mr. McPherson) to the Colonial Office regarding the abolition of State ...
Article : 194 wordsRelief to a large number of "loyalist" wharf-workers was distributed in the form of money, food, and clothing on Saturday. The distribution was carried out under the ...
Article : 311 wordsFrom the strikers' point of view, everything now depends upon the success of the delegates from the Trades Hall Council who have gone to Sydney and Adelaide to ...
Article : 268 wordsFrom Amsterdam it is stated that, following on unofficial negotiations, Holland has agreed to the extradition of the exKaiser, and that he will be handed over at ...
Article : 211 wordsThe British Food Minister (Mr. G. H. Roberts) is acutely concerned about prices, though he is not apprehensive regarding supplies. He suggests that a council of ...
Article : 79 wordsMelbourne has once been "plunged into darkness" as the result of a seamen's strike. The way in which that wanton attack on the community was met by the authorities ...
Article : 672 wordsShooting in the sweepstakes competitions at Bisley, 10 shots at 600 yards, Armourer-Sergeant F. G. Harrison (Randwick, N.S.W.) won the first prize of £5. ...
Article : 228 words"We are going to throw this city into darkness," declared Mr. T. Walsh, general secretary of the Seamen's Union, at a meeting at the Bijou Theatre yesterday ...
Article : 1,427 wordsM. Clemenceau, the French Prime Minister, has had several conferences with his Ministers in an endeavour to solve the problem of high prices. Important decisions ...
Article : 38 wordsBALLARAT, Saturday.—The Ballarat Federal electorate committee of the National Federation has unanimously resolved: ...
Article : 85 wordsWhen the giant British airship R34 set out from Long Island, near New York, at midnight on Wednesday for the return flight to Great Britain, after having ...
Article : 169 wordsWith the closing again on Saturday of those industries which resumed work, on Wednesday, when there was a prospect of the industrial outlook becoming more ...
Article : 105 wordsIn Italy the Government has empowered all local authorities to fix prices. All the mayors immediately reduced the prices of clothes, boots, food, and other articles of ...
Article : 42 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Sir William Clarkson has been advised by the agents of the overseas steamer Port Chalmers that they cannot see their way to prejudice the ...
Article : 154 wordsThe British Board of Trade has authorised, with certain reservations, the resumption of trade with Germany and German-Austria by means of general licenses. The ...
Article : 227 wordsAir Mechanic J. Bell, of the Australian Flying Corps, won the Wimbledon Cup, 10 shots at 600 yards. The winner is a well-known Melbourne ...
Article : 76 wordsTram and probably train services will be reduced from Wednesday. There will be no trams on week nights after the cable cars have left their city termini, and ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), in an interview, said that direct action by the trade unions was pure Bolshevism. The workers themselves suffered most from it in ...
Article : 69 wordsNew Zealanders using the Ross rifle in sweepstake matches at Bisley carried everything before them. The Australians, using Lee-Enfields, could not satisfactorily ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Seamen's Federation officials at Naples have stopped a British steamer from calling there, on her way from London to Vladivostock, with munitions for the ...
Article : 65 wordsFollowing the request of the Premier (Mr. Lawson) that as much brown coal as possible should be mined, the Minister for Mines (Mr. Barnes), has arranged for about ...
Article : 127 wordsIn pursuance of threat the discontented electricians, who want higher pay, have already discontinued the preparatory work in connection will the peace illuminations ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Lancashire cotton spinners, who have been on strike, are resuming work. ...
Article : 16 wordsTen cr[?]ws will compete in the eight-oar race in Paris, which will take place probably on July 17. There will be crews from Italy, Portugal, and Czeeho-Slovakia. ...
Article : 80 wordsRegulations for lighting and heating will be maintained. The operation of the threatened restrictions, which would have required all lights to be put out at ...
Article : 49 wordsA great sensation has been caused in Vienna through the revelation by the police of what is described as a Bolshevik plot hatched at Budapest for the capture of ...
Article : 80 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Sunday.— The Government Tramway Employees' Union has withdrawn its affiliation with the Trades and Labour Council. The ...
Article : 184 wordsApplications for the British Victory Loan closed on Saturday night. [?] is estimated that the subscriptions include nearly £1,500,000,000 of new money. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe French Government has appealed to the railway and postal employees to refrain from taking part in the general strike on July 21, which was decided upon recently ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The present feeling in union circles is that a general strike in sympathy with the seamen will not be declared in New South Wales. ...
Article : 400 wordsAt the annual demonstration of the Loyal Orange Institute of Victoria, held in the Town Hall on Saturday night, reference to the strike was made by ...
Article : 616 wordsIn the finals of the lawn tennis competitions at Rochampton, Thomas and Lycett (Australia) beat Norton and Raymond (England), 13—11. 6—[?]. Lyeett (Victoria) ...
Article : 98 wordsThe inquest on the famous London beauty, Mrs. Eliot, the wife of Captain Eliot, grandson of the Earl of St. Germans, and formerly wife of Colonel ...
Article : 386 wordsFrom B[?]luwayo it is reported that owing to the demand for the immediate granting of an increased war bonus, based on the increase in the cost of living not having been ...
Article : 94 wordsSir Douglas Haig, in acknowledging the presentation to him of an honorary degree by the Aberdeen University, said that we must be prepared for the future. Every ...
Article : 67 wordsMILDURA, Sunday.—The Minister for Forests (Mr. Hagelthorn) on Friday and Saturday inspected the river bends in this locality at the instance of the Mildura ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Cecil Ha[?]worth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, announced in the House of Commons that a British mission was attached to the ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the cricket match between E[?]on and Harrow, Eton scored 176 in the first innings and 75 for eight wickets in the second. Harrow's first innings total was ...
Article : 40 wordsSir Eric Geddes, British Minister for Transportation, foreshadows increased railway freights. He says that the railways must be made to pay, and that he has ...
Article : 92 wordsNineteen deaths occurred in influenza hospitals in the metropolitan area during the week-end, six of them taking place on Saturday and 13 yesterday. Figures supplied to ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. Roos, chairman of the Transvaal Nationalist (anti-imperial) party, in a letter, repudiates the proceedings of the recent reunion congress at Somerset East, and ...
Article : 76 wordsNo definite arrangement was made during the week-end in connection with the proposal to repatriate Tasmanian soldiers at present in Melbourne by means of the ...
Article : 245 wordsSir,—With reference to Mr. Mathews's criticism in the House of Representatives of Captain Glossop's handling of the Sydney-Emden fight. [?] desire to point out that every ...
Article : 255 wordsThe United States Federal Trade Commission has reported to President Wilson that in the meat-packing industry a virtual monopoly of international scope had ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The influenza position did not alter much over the week-end. During the 48 hours ended at 8 o'clock to-night, 2[?] deaths were reported from the ...
Article : 44 wordsA thief entered the rooms of Mrs. W. K. D'Arey, formerly of Queensland, at Claridge's Hotel, London, and stole diamonds worth several thousands of pounds. ...
Article : 37 wordsLieutenant Navarre, the most famous French aviator after Lieutenant Guynemer, has been killed while testing a new machine. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. McPherson, the Victorian Treasurer, was due to embark from England on the Aquitania on Saturday on his return to Australia. and is to catch the Makura at ...
Article : 87 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—During the weekend one death from influenza was reported. BROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Sunday,—One ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government of Bombay is repatriating all Austrians and Germans formerly resident in the province including missionaries. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 14 Jul 1919, Page 7
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