The Commonwealth Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has completed the arrangements begun by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to ship the 11-in. railway ...
Article : 450 wordsThe Minister representing the Minister For Repatriation (Mr. Poynton) informed Mr. Riley (Cau., N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives yesterday that it was not ...
Article : 709 wordsThe prospectus of the new Commonwealth Peace Loan for £25,000,000 was issued yesterday. The subscription list opens on August 26 and closes on September 23. Most ...
Article : 380 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Mr. Winston Churchill), replying in the House of Commons on Monday to criticism of the British military policy in Russia, said that ...
Article : 334 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen, accompanied by several members of the Royal Family, paid a visit to the City of London on Tuesday, to receive ...
Article : 367 wordsAfter waiting for two days the Federal Council of the Seamen's Union has received from the acting leader of the Federal Government (Senator Millen) a reply firmly ...
Article : 691 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Sir Robert Horne) has sent a message to the Miners' Federation, asking why the Yorkshire miners have not resumed work, what steps ...
Article : 328 wordsAs long as there is no marked change in the position the Coal Board will not find it necessary to impose further restrictions on the use of fuel and power. On the other ...
Article : 584 wordsBRISBANE, Friday. — Information has been received in Brisbane to the effect that the residents of Cairns have been reduced to such straits for bread that they ...
Article : 39 wordsSir.—It may be that there are many people unaware of the satisfactory results obtainable from a motor-cycle as a source of power in small factories. (This is where ...
Article : 247 wordsSir,—"Inquirer" asks if there is not something "very much amiss with our State teaching" in face of the flouting of Government by the youth "educated by ...
Article : 139 wordsThe quotas allocated to each municipality, and the advisability of extending the date of closing subscriptions to the Peace Loan, were the chief matters discussed at a ...
Article : 771 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says that Germany is sick of disorder. "The okl military leaders," he says, "are ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Rhondda, in Wales, Mr. Tom Mann, the well-known Labour agitator, had a hostile reception from a crowd which was largely composed of demobilised soldiers. ...
Article : 76 wordsIn a letter to the Government organ "Ons Land," Mr. Malan, Minister for Industries, discusses the movement for the reunion of the South African party and ...
Article : 225 wordslt is reported in Parliamentary circles in London that the Government has decided against introducing nationalisation of the coal-mining industry, but will propose ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British Minister for Labour (Sir Robert Horne), in a press interview on July 28, stated that the wealth of the country had been depleted and the industrial ...
Article : 95 wordsReferring to the controversy aroused by Herr Erzberger's speech charging the exChancellor, Dr. Michaelis, with having failed to take advantage of the Pope's peace ...
Article : 156 wordsThere is great congestion at Tilbury Docks (London), where several vessels have been held up for over a fortnight awaiting berths, including, some from Australia. ...
Article : 108 wordsLarge consignments of foodstuffs and general cargo for Tasmanian ports are now being loaded at Melbourne wharves by the steamers Wainui and Rotomahana, and by ...
Article : 467 wordsWhen moving the second reading of the Soudan Loan Bill in the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth (Parliamentary Under Secretary for ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is reported from Athens that Admiral Fitzmaurice, commander of the British Navy in the Mediterranean, sent a mission to Denizli, in Asia Minor, under ...
Article : 81 wordsConsiderable interest was taken, in a debate in tho House of Lords on Tuesday at the committee stage of the Transport Bill. ...
Article : 199 wordsSir,—In your issue of the 20th ult., under the heading of "Notes for Soldiers," "Land Settlement," I was interested to see that the com[?]troller of Repatriation had relaxed ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Commonwealth Government steamship line has notified the Australian.Merchants' Association that the line is prepared to enter into contracts with ...
Article : 250 wordsThe broad subsidy is costing the British Treasury £47,000,000 annually. The Government has now decided that this amount cannot be increased, and that if ...
Article : 207 wordsA representative of the London "Daily Chronicle" has obtained an interview with the Governor-General of the Archangel province of Russia. ...
Article : 121 wordsIn view of the British Government's invitation to merchants to trade with Germany, commercial circles in London are anxious for an carly pronouncement of ...
Article : 112 wordsOn the motion for the adjournment of the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Sampson (Nat.), said that as Parliament would not meet,for several days he ...
Article : 316 wordsA New South Wales soldier, Private Muirhead, who was on board the troopship Ormonde, which arrived at Port Melbourne yesterday, was killed by falling down the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Council of the Peace Conference in Paris is discussing a project submitted by the Italian Minister for foreign Affairs (Signor Tittoni) for the formation of an ...
Article : 77 wordsA Japanese syndicate has purchased an area on the upper reaches of the Amazon, in Peru, of 800,000 acres, suitable for sugar, coffee, and cotton growing. This, it is ...
Article : 47 wordsThe German allegations that the Belgian archives proved the existence of AngloBelgian complicity in the outbreak of war have been disproved by Colonel ...
Article : 82 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Chubb, John Summerville, a returned soldier, Sought a dissolution of his marriage with ...
Article : 80 wordsSentences have been passed by the courtmartial sitting in Paris on the Frenchmen and Germans who informed on leading townspeople during the German ...
Article : 243 wordsThe English company which has been formed in London to utilise the present opportunity to introduce Australian wines into Northern Europe, and to secure a hold ...
Article : 121 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—A telegraph message from Thursday Island states that trouble has arisen in the pearishell industry, through the Japanese crews ...
Article : 118 wordsFollowing the statement by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Prendergast) that the City Council could continue supplying electrical energy for factories if they were not ...
Article : 549 wordsThere are 91,818 German war prisoners in the United Kingdom, including 2,908 sailors and 4,306 civilians. Most of the prisoners are employed in ...
Article : 43 wordsThree prospectors named J. Annand, W. Annand, and W. T. Knight, have had another profitable return from their claim at Welshman's Reef, four miles south of ...
Article : 100 wordsIn consequence of her crew having refused to put to sea, the Commonwealth Government line steamer Australport has been detained in port on the eve of her ...
Article : 416 wordsGeneral Sir W. R. Birdwood is now in France for the purpose of presenting a 15in. naval gun which the 3rd Battalion, A.I.F., captured at Chuignes in August, 1918, to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Sir Auckland Geddes) has announced that a Government scheme has been devised, in conjunction with the banking and trading ...
Article : 51 wordsAfter Mrs. Eliot, the well-known London beauty, and wife of Captain Eliot, committed suicide recently, it was found that she had left no will, and that her estate ...
Article : 176 wordsA committee of the House of Commons has reported in favour of providing an extra £20,000,000 in order to add 40 per cent, to the pensions of British soldiers, and thus ...
Article : 55 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The Marine department in practically certain that the wreckage found north of Mackay belongs to the missing steamer. Llewellyn. Several ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Bona Law announced in the House of Commons on Monday that the Government was not prepared to invite representatives of the dominions to participate in ...
Article : 71 wordsThe final quota of the mobile Australian force has sailed from England by the Ulysses. They represent the last of from 80,000 to 90,000 men comprising the five ...
Article : 152 wordsThe result of the action of the Federal Ministry in forcing the owners to pay the increased wages demanded by the coal [?]ers in New South Wales is still being ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Under Secretary of State for Air (Major-General J. E. B. Seely) announced in the House of Commons on Monday that all the German airships were to be handed ...
Article : 42 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Friday.—The Postal department has been advised from Rockhampton that the motor-boat Maura, which left Townsville on July 12 with a ...
Article : 42 wordsFrance has purchased. America's war stores on the west front to a value of £200,000,000. The stores include 100,000 motor-lorries ...
Article : 33 wordsSir,—In the report of the purchase of the Old Exchange site for the purposes of the Commonwealth Bank, it is mentioned that a beginning will shortly be made will the ...
Article : 80 wordsA Hungarian communique by wireless admits a retirement on July 27 behind the Theiss, "in order to obviate collision with greatly superior Roumanian forces." ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is announced from Berlin that demolition of the Heligoland forts has been in progress far some tune, and will be completed in a few days. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe British Admiralty is having 200 vessels of the navy of pro-Dreadnought types sold to be broken up. They include a number of destroyer. ...
Article : 30 wordsA branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has been formed in London. The New Zealand and Australian Officers' ...
Article : 115 wordsIt was reported in London a few days ago that the Allies had agreed to give Cyprus to Greece. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. ...
Article : 92 wordsSir,—Some time age the electors of Victoria chose 65 gentlemen to represent them in Parliament for a maximum period of three years, at a minimum remuneration of ...
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Article : 58 wordsIn view of the British Government's invitation to merchants' to trade with Germany, commercial circles in London are anxious for an early pronouncement of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 2 Aug 1919, Page 19
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