The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Lord Milner), at the Sheldonian Theatre, in Oxford, on Saturday gave an inaugural address on "Problems of Empire," at a ...
Article : 323 wordsA report was submitted to the State Cabinet yesterday by the Minister for Lands (Mr. F. Clarke) showing the progress of soldier settlement in Victoria. Mr. ...
Article : 640 wordsCopies of the correspondence which passed between the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) and the Shipping Controller in England, dealing with the question of ...
Article : 2,570 wordsWhen one speaks of the Bendigo gold mines nowadays the comment generally is "Oh, Bendigo is worked out!" It is, unfortunately, a fact that since the outbreak ...
Article : 1,783 wordsNo steps are being taken by the authorities to end the trouble in Yorkshire, where the coal miners' executive has refused to recognise the strike settlement agreed to ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies to which the Pence Treaty was referred has approved of its terms by an overwhelming majority. ...
Article : 323 wordsWhat appeared like a movement towards a settlement of the shipping strike yesterday revolved itself into an opportunity for Thomas Walsh to make a proposal, ...
Article : 1,427 wordsThe Federation of British Industries which has a membership of 15,000 firms, and a capital of £5,000,000, has after investigations by committees issued a remarkable ...
Article : 88 wordsMoravian missionaries from Labrador, north-cast of Canada, tell a harrowing story of the ravages of influenza in that region. Many of the villages have last ...
Article : 101 wordsThere are 850 policemen on strike in London, and 630 in Liverpool. The vacancies in the London force caused by the strike have been filled up rapidly. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in that city (Mr.Debuchi) said, in the course of an informal ...
Article : 104 wordsThere was only a moderate attendance at a meeting held in the Town Hall yesterday evening to "denounce profiteering" and to demand that additional relief should ...
Article : 531 wordsThe sentence of live years' imprisonment, with a whipping of 15 lashes, imposed by Judge Woinarski on both Walter Middleton and Francis William Hawken, the two men ...
Article : 922 wordsA number of Indian troops who arrived too late to take part in the procession on Peace Day (July 19) marched in procession through London on Saturday afternoon, and ...
Article : 97 wordsAn official intimation has now been issued that Bela Kun has resigned his position as Premier and Foreign Minister in Hungary, and that the Socialists have formed a ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the London "Daily News" reports that the International Trades Union Congress has agreed that every 250,000 members shall ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. V. K. Davies, secretary of the United States Foreign Trade Council, announces that large American business interests contemplate the establishment of a ...
Article : 74 wordsThe director of quarantine (Dr. J. H. Cumpston), in a lecture which he delivered yesterday to the Public Questions Society of the University, discussed, by ...
Article : 835 wordsNews has been received that the Allies have recaptured Onega, on the White Sea, which recently fell to the Bolsheviks in consequence of the treachery of part of the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe elections to the French Chamber of Deputies have been fixed to take place on October 26. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe trial has begun at Litle of five French women who are charged with treason. It is alleged against them that they wrote to a German commander a ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Government has decided to grant to members of the House of Commons free return tickets each week for travelling from London to their constituencies. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe British War Office is purchasing from the Australian Government the huts and other improvements at Harefield Hospital, where so many of the Australian wounded ...
Article : 37 wordsThe total amount of funds raised for patriotic purposes up to June 30 by the Victoria Racing Club was £102,019, and if was stated by the chairman (Mr.L. K. S ...
Article : 678 wordsA Berlin despatch reports that revolutionary disturbances have occurred at Strasburg, Alsace-Lorraine. Several French officers and soldiers have been killed, and ...
Article : 39 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—The hearing was begun to-day in the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Powers of an arbitration case between Henry Teesdale Smith, of ...
Article : 444 wordsThe Australian Military Stores Surplus Board has sold by auction 6,753 horses in France at an average price of £35 each, and 1,543 of inferior quality to butchers at ...
Article : 122 wordsAt the Essendon Court on Monday, before Mr. C. J. Rogers, P.M., and Messrs. A. Fenton (mayor), J. D. Grabam, W. S. Attwood, N. J. A. Beck, and J. Ward, J.P.'s., Charles Bush, of Puckle street, ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—Surely an enormous saving of light could be effected by not lighting the street lamps on moonlight nights such as this (Sunday) evening. On looking outside it ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—Referring to letters complaining that although the restrictions are carefully followed the meter insists on registering more than on normal occasions, it is ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Food Controller (Mr. G. H. Roberts) has ordered that all cheese bought after August 1 shall be placed at his disposal on arrival in Great Britain at a price not ...
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Article : 196 wordsRupert Ross arrived in Melbourne from the country about a week ago, holiday-making. He was strolling through the city streets, when a young man accosted him, and, after a short conversation, ...
Article : 334 wordsSir,—This all-important question, which is attracting attention at the present, is one that will have to receive practical support for the sake of our ration. I read ...
Article : 262 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.—Delegates to the annual convention of the Protestant Federation were officially welcomed on Monday by the mayor of the city (Councillor T. T. ...
Article : 146 wordsOf the 37 vessels in the Commonwealth Government line, or under its control. 17, aggregating about 70.285 tons, are without crews, and are lying idle in Australian ...
Article : 619 wordsThe traffic returns on the Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust system for July were:- Car Passengers Re. Miles, Carried. venue. ...
Article : 60 wordsAt a meeting of the Dickens Fellowship held at the Austral Salon last night the following officebeerers and committee were elected:—Mr. W. A. Callaway, president; Mr. W. G. Southwell. hon. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 5 Aug 1919, Page 5
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