Addressing a deputation yesterday from the electric supply committee of the Melbourne City Council, the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Arthur Robinson) ...
Article : 651 wordsAll the representatives of the Allied belligerents except those of Italy wall attend a plenary secret session of the Peace Conference on Saturday, when they will be ...
Article : 363 wordsReports reaching the State Department at Washington from neutral sources state that the Bolshevik regime in Russia is collapsing. ...
Article : 90 wordsThirty deaths from influenza were reported by registrars to the Board of Public Health yesterday, 22 occurring in the metropolitan area and eight in the country. ...
Article : 533 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) on Wednesday submitted the Budget in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 946 wordsA special meeting of the Federal Executivc,Council was held yesterday to pass the regulations under the War Precautions Act which will give the Commonwealth ...
Article : 1,355 wordsADELAIDE Thursday.—The chairman of the Central Board of Health (Dr. Ramsay Smith) said to-day:—The position as regards influenza in this State is serious, if ...
Article : 124 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C., Royal commissioner, continued his inquiry to-day into the coal industry of New South Wales. ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—It is reported that the influenza epidemic has reached the Solomon Islands. The cases reported so far are of a mild type, but several deaths have ...
Article : 35 wordsAmong the applicants for the positions of managers of seven refreshment-rooms on the Victorian railway lines which the Railways authorities will control in future are ...
Article : 314 wordsSir,—May I suggest tents for convalescents after coming out of hospitals. What better spot than the Grange, at the corner of St. Kilda road and Domain road. Double ...
Article : 219 wordsA thousand refugees from Russia have arrived in Malta. They include members of some of the noblest families. Three Russian countesses are wishing dishes in a military ...
Article : 83 wordsA Polish-Ukrainian armistice commission is to sit in Paris under the presidency of General Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa. The Ukrainian delegates are ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a conference held in the Y.W.C.A. building yesterday, "The Girl of To-day: Her Potentialities and Contribution to the Life of the Community," was discussed. ...
Article : 494 wordsThe British delegates have played a more prominent part in the work of the Peace Conference than appears on the surface. The Labour Convention in the Treaty is ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Swiss authorities have discovered in Moscow a set of complete instructions by the Bolshevik Government for the institution of a revolution in Switzerland, to be ...
Article : 78 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—Early this morning a shocking double tragedy was enacted in a motor-car in Subiaco. The victim was Miss Eva Downey, a barmaid employed at ...
Article : 318 wordsInfernal machines have been found in the mails at New York addressed to leading people throughout the States, chiefly opponents of the I.W.W. propaganda. ...
Article : 64 wordsProblems connected with the organisation and distribution of supplied from the Red Cross kitchen were considered at a meeting of the committee of the Red Cross ...
Article : 244 wordsSir,—The disputants in regard to the methods of utilising our brown coal deposits seem to overlook the commercial aspect of the matter. The imperative need ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Council of Three (Great Britain[?] France, and America) on Tuesday debated the Italian claim to Fiume and Dalmatia. Before Signor Orlaudo left Paris for Rome ...
Article : 160 wordsA conference of the Independent Labour Party has been held at Huddersfield, with Mr. Philip Snowden (formerly Socialist M.P. for Blackburn) in the chair. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Electricity Commissioners at a meeting yesterday appointed as their chief engineer Mr. H. R. Harper from a large number of applicants for the position. Mr. ...
Article : 261 wordsRepresentatives of the executive committee of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria interviewed the chairman of the Board of Public Health (Dr. Robertson) ...
Article : 600 wordsIn the House of Commons on Tuesday the Food Controller (Mr. G. H. Roberts) announced that the cost of food for a working man's family, when compared with ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is announced officially from Paris that the dispute between Japan and China concerning Kiaochau (which was leased by China in 18[?]8 to Germany for 99 years, and ...
Article : 203 wordsRecent occurrences have indicated that the robberies committed in the streets of the city and suburbs at the point of a revolver were not the work of well-known ...
Article : 293 wordsAlthough only 21 years of age, Flight-Commander R. P. Minifie, R.N., D.S.O. (and two bars), who has returned to Melbourne after an absence of over three years, has ...
Article : 366 wordsThe British Press Bureau announces that with a view to emphasising the distinction between settlement overseas within the Empire and emigration to foreign countries the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following cable messages appeared in the later editions of "The Argus" on Thursday:— ITALY AND FIUME. ...
Article : 404 wordsA by-election in the constituency of Central Aberdeen has resulted in the return of an Asquithian Liberal. The polling was:— Wood (Asquithian Liberal).. 4,950 ...
Article : 219 wordsA deputation from the electric supply committee of the Melbourne City Council, consisting of Councillor Morell, Councillor Atkins, the City electrical engineer (Mr. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Cecil Harmsworth) stated in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the Government had received a ...
Article : 66 wordsThe increase in the price of coal will be felt by the general public in several ways. It may be assumed that on coal purchased for household consumption the increase of ...
Article : 519 wordsSir,—George Samuel Evans, LL.D., Postmaster-General of Victoria, 1858-59 and 1861-63, who died in 1868, was head master of Mill Hill schoo, London, in 1828. He ...
Article : 132 wordsIt is announced that the first meeting of the International Labour Bureau set up by the Peace Conference will be held in Washington in October. ...
Article : 29 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—During the visit of the Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) to Grafton, the George scheme for providing huge storage for the generation of electric ...
Article : 177 wordsAt a meeting held at Marconi School of Wireless on April 1, it was decided to form a wireless institute in Victoria, and a committee of four was elected to draw ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Allied Foreign Ministers in Paris are discussing the question of what should be done with the submarine cable lines captured from the enemy. It is believed that ...
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Commenting upon the decision of the Federal Government to commandeer all the coal in the Commonwealth, the Premier (Mr. Holman) said ...
Article : 1,471 wordsThe British Government directed to Australia during April 30 steamers to lift Grest Britain's wheat in June, July, and August, the total capacity of the vessels being about ...
Article : 58 wordsIn view of the growth of Mel-cod district and traffic, the Railway department, in answer to a request for better service, has established a full suburban railway service from Melbourne to ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Australian artists who will be represented at the forthcoming Royal Academy exhibition in London are:—Miss Bessie Gibson, Arthur Burgess, George Coa[?]es, ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—The Lord Mayor of Melbourne should study the subject of national flags before needlessly insulting Irish citizens of different political views regarding Ireland. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe President of Switzerland (M. Gustave Odor) has arrived in Paris. It is thought that he will discuss with the Allied delegates the question of Switzerland's ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the annual conference of the Australian Women's Association, which was concluded yesterday, office-bearers for the coming year were elected as follow:—Chief president, Mrs. Fawkner; ...
Article : 66 wordsSir,—Referring to the rather unique "autumn-spring," I was surprised to-day to find a row of my apple trees freely bearing young apples, ranging in size from that ...
Article : 126 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Eight additional cases of influenza have been landed at Lytton from the steamer Mourilyan. The number of cases ...
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Article : 84 wordsWheat.—The supply of wheat visible east of the Rocky Mountains is 63,968,000 bushels. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 2 May 1919, Page 7
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