On the motion for the adjournment of the House of Representatives last night, Mr. Rodgers (Nat.) asked that Parliament should be given the fullest opportunity of ...
Article : 719 wordsThe German Minister of Finance (Herr Erzberger), who was leader of the Catholic party in the former Reichstag, in defending himself in the National Assembly last ...
Article : 537 wordsMartial law has been proclaimed in Chicago for the purpose of preventing further spread of the race riots between negroes and whites, which have already led ...
Article : 61 wordsCarrying the last of the A.I F. troops who fanned the Field Army in Fiance, the s.s. Bakara left England on July 24 for Ausrralia The only personnel remaining ...
Article : 310 wordsMembers of the Federal council of the Seamen's Union spent yesterday awaiting assurances from the acting leader of the Federal Government (Senator Millen) as a ...
Article : 656 wordsCancus members in the House of Representatives complained on Wednesday when times were fixed in which various stages of the Commercial Activities Bill should be ...
Article : 1,514 wordsSpeaking in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. J. W. Billson (Cau., Fitzroy) predicted a delay of three or four months before the appointment of the ...
Article : 358 wordsThe Italian Prime Minister (Signor Nitti) speaking in the Italian Senate on Tuesday said that Italy would be unable to face the coming year without foreign ...
Article : 104 wordsA great mercantile marine pageant will be held on the Thames on the August Bank Holiday (first Monday in August) A procession will be formed of lifeboats ...
Article : 86 wordsQuestions relating to reduced working hours, without a reduction of the present output, were discussed yesterday in the Arbitration Court, before Mr, Justice ...
Article : 547 wordsThe British Board of Trade will hold an exhibition of Empire timbers in London in the autumn of 1920. The Commonwealth High Commissioner ...
Article : 41 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—A deputation of wharf labourers of Bunbury, headed by Labour members and Trades Hall officials, interviewed the Premier (Mr.Mitchell) ...
Article : 147 wordsOn the s.s. Ormonde, which is expected to reach Port Melbourne at 2 o'clock to-day, 475 Victorian soldiers are returning, In order that they may be conveyed to the ...
Article : 758 wordsMr. Sampson (Nat.) was informed in the House of Representatives yesterday that the arrangement with the Commonwealth Bank under the War Service Homes Act ...
Article : 749 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Owing to the seriousness of the food and industrial situation at Mackay the Government has decided lo send the dredge Remora to ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that the ex-Kaiser wishes to leave Amerongen, in Holland, whore he is at present the paying guest of Count Bentinck. He would prefer ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Fitzroy Court on Wednesday, before Mr. A. A. Kelley, P.M., Ada Clare, of Brunswick street, was charged with having used gas during prohibited hours. William Lueas, as inspector ...
Article : 239 wordsIt is reported from Rome that Jugo-Slavs suddenly attacked Italian outposts in the direction of Laibach (an Austrian town now included in Jugoslavia). A furious ...
Article : 58 wordsDeaths from influenza during the 21 hours ending at 9 o'clock last night numbered 31, or five more than were reported on Wednesday: Of these, 11 occurred in ...
Article : 324 wordsReplying in the House of Representatives yesterday to an inquiry by Mr. Bamford (Nat., Q'land)as to wether there had been any development in the seamen's ...
Article : 64 words"Nothing is known of any such photographs being in the possession of the department" was the answer which the Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Wise) ...
Article : 409 wordsSTAWELL, Thursday.—At a public meeting held last night it was resolved to take systematic action to assist to relieve distress in Melbourne. The mayor(Councilor George Mctchell)presided. ...
Article : 98 wordsBy 05 votes to 22 the Trades Hall Council last light adopted the disputes committee's special report on the seamen's strike negotiations, which included a plain ...
Article : 325 wordsSir,—Surely there must be, something very much amiss with our State schools teaching. Presumably a large proportion of the present strikers have been educated ...
Article : 62 wordsBROKEN HILL,.Thursday.— The damage done by the disastrous fire at the Broken Hill South mine is after investigation, estimated at £100.000. The ...
Article : 207 wordsSir,—To-day at 1 o'clock two of Vaughan's double lorries laden with large coal(bagged and loose)were drawn up to the footpath outside the Titles Office in ...
Article : 176 wordsA motor-car arrived at the Melbourne Hospital shortly bofoie 8 o'clock last night, bringing two young men, whose clothes were torn and dust-smeared, and who ...
Article : 162 wordsA meeting of strikers and sympathisers was held at the Socialists Hall last night. The American Court and every constituted authority came in for the usual ...
Article : 93 wordsBy attending at the Domain Camp yesterday in large numbers, returned soldiers showed their appreciation of the State commandant's scheme to provide them with ...
Article : 197 wordsOwing to the fact that the Broken Hill mines have, been idle for the past ten weeks on account of industrial disputes, the Associated Smelters at Port Pirie have had ...
Article : 168 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.— The Treasury department has been advised by the master of the steamer Florant that wreckage has been discovered on the islands near the ...
Article : 296 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.— Mr James Howard. the proprietor of the Buniyong box factory who three years ago lost £18,000 through fire, was a heavy sufferer ...
Article : 281 wordsIn a statement issued by the Central Coal Board yesterday the announcement was made that the date of the expiration of the special certificates permitting the use of ...
Article : 106 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The third session of the tenth Parliament of Western Australia was opened to-day with the usual ceremonies. In the legislative Council Mr. ...
Article : 343 wordsFor many years past inconvenience has been caused by congestion in the sheds at the Victoria Dock. In 1912 the Harbour Trust Commissioners considered plans ...
Article : 200 wordsIn the second match played by the New Zealand Rugby football team (military) their opponents were a Cape town team. It ended in a draw, each side scoring one ...
Article : 49 wordsAmong the, workers thrown out of employment by the strike are about 500 employees of the Victorian Harbour Trust. Owing to the lack of coal dredging ...
Article : 79 wordsThe classification of Australian's war trophies is proceeding and the Minister for Home and Territories(Mr. Glyin)stated yesterday that as soon as possible ...
Article : 153 wordsTo enable Melbourne residents to witness the anveiling of a memorial [?] at Eltham on Sunday, a special train will be despatched from Princes Bridge at 1.43 p. m. stopping at all ...
Article : 137 wordsA cat show under the auspices of the Australian Ladies kennel Club will be held at the Masonic Hall, Collins street, city, to-day. Especial intrest is taken in the ...
Article : 124 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Prendergast (lender of the Opposition) renewed his complaints against the stopping of the tramears at 7 o'clock in the ...
Article : 537 words"My little boy suffered with a rash all over his neck, and shoulders. It first broke out in small, watery pimples and charged. The rash was very itchy, and i had to tie a bandage on ...
Article : 139 wordsA smoke social and reunion was given to about 200 returned soldiers and sailors in the Recreation Hall. Box Hill, on Wednesday night, by an organisation styled "The Boys of the Village" ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 1 Aug 1919, Page 7
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