When the gold mines in Bendigo were producing an average of 200,000oz every year very little attention was paid to subsidiary industries but of late years the big ...
Article : 1,221 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Hogan moved the adjournment of the House to discuss "a glaring miscarriage of justice in the withdrawal of charges of ...
Article : 2,402 wordsThe Thames pageant, to mark the part played in the war by the British mercantile marnie was the centre of attraction for all holiday-makers in London on Monday ...
Article : 335 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A mass meeting of members of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union was held this afternoon. It is estimated that 2,500 of the 4,000 members ...
Article : 173 wordsThe central council of the Victorian Funnels' Union yesterday resolved:- "That thegrowers' representative on the Australian Wheat Board he asked to take such steps. ...
Article : 60 wordsA report confirming the occupation of Budapest by the Romanians has been received in Paris from the British Mission to Hungary. ...
Article : 238 wordsReplying to a question in the Senate yesterday, Senator Millen said that developments within the next few hours might justify the action of the Governmen[?] in ...
Article : 360 wordsHis Majesty the King has conferred honours on the following officers of the British Navy and Army in recognition of services rendered during the war:— ...
Article : 451 wordsSYDNEY Wednesday—The inquiry by a Royal commission into the circumstances surrounding the making of a contract by the State Wheat Board for the sale of ...
Article : 412 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The sugar fumine in Sydney has become very real, and a great majority of households are without this commodity. To-day, at even the ...
Article : 46 wordsPERTH. Wednesday —A telegram from the secretary of the Butchers Union at Wyndham states that 400 workers at the State meat works are living on almost meat ...
Article : 157 wordsThe following Bolshevik wireless message has been sent from Moscow:— "The Bolshevik Foreign Minister has sent a note to Afghanistan, expressing ...
Article : 338 wordsMass meetings of the Yorkshire miners of which were held on Monday, were strongly in favour of continuing the strike. ...
Article : 27 wordsBRISBANE Wednesday.—In the Legislative Assembly today Mr. Swayne directed attention to the bad conditions in North Queensland. There was no reference to this ...
Article : 132 wordsThe shortage of coal in France, due to the British strike of miners and other causes, has turned the attention of french scientist to the possibilities of using the water ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the Senate yesterday afternoon Senator Foll (Nat. Q) asked the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Millen) whether he was aware that owing to strike conditions ...
Article : 160 wordsConsideration of the Moratorium Bill,extending the existing regulations providing various prescribed dates from August, 1919, till June, 1920, for the repayment of ...
Article : 896 wordsFor the purpose of criticising the sale of the surplus stock of cornsacks held by the Federal Ministry, the adjournment of the House of Representatives was moved by ...
Article : 976 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday— The State Government dredge Ramora, inden with nearly 200 tons of flour, which is urgently needed to relieve the food istress in ...
Article : 245 wordsMr. W. A. Appleton (secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions in Great Britain), in a press interview in Paris, advocated the immediate liberation ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Lister (Nat.) inquired in the House of Representatives yesterday whether the Acting Prime Minister had seen the suggestion in the press as to the manning of ...
Article : 393 wordsThe rioting and looting continued in Liverpool, where the police are on strike, until 3 o'clock on Monday morning. Soldiers several times charged the looters ...
Article : 133 wordsA shocking aviation disaster occurred in Italy on Sunday, when a new Caproni passenger plane was destroyed and fourteen of those on board, including five well-known ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) appealed at the bar of the House of commons on Monday and delivered message from his Majesty the King commending ...
Article : 173 wordsOn a special voyage to King Island and Tasmanian ports, the steamer Marrawah, which [?] her regular crew early in the strike, is timed to leave South Wharf this ...
Article : 87 wordsTowards the unemployed relief fund administered by Archbishop Mannix the sacred Heart pairsh, St.Kilda West, has contributed £50/9/, and the Carmelite purish, Middle Park, £52/10. ...
Article : 28 wordsA "lightning" strike of 600 railway drivers and firemen in London on Monday (August bank holiday) caused extraordinary scenes at the Waterloo raihway station, where tens ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the request of Senator Needham (Cau., W.A..), the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Millen) yesterday tabled in the Senate the correspondence between ...
Article : 491 wordsGeneral Franchet D'Esperey, who commands the Allied forces in Hungary and Austria, has ordred French troops to occupy Bulgaria, on account of repeated ...
Article : 39 wordsAdvices which have reached Washington from Buenos Ayres declare that diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the Argentine are approaching a breach owing ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Speaker of the House of Commons (Mr. J. W. Lowther) will preside over the committee which is to inquire into the subject of Federal Devolution. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe attention of the Acting Minister for Defencc (Senator Russell) was yesterday directed to the cubic messages stating that in addition to the grants to Field-Marshal ...
Article : 144 wordsWith the object of relieving the distress caused by unemployment without reducing the coal supplies below the margin of safety for the more important needs of the ...
Article : 447 wordsBefore a large gathering at the Essendon Town Hall last night Brigadier-General H.E.Elliott unveiled a supplementary honour roll, containing 2, 000 names of the ...
Article : 250 wordsIn the Senate yesterday Senator Newland (Nat., S.A.) moved that the Northern Territory of Australia Ordinance No. 8 of 1919, providing for the appointment of a ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Minister (Viscount Uchida) has issued the statement that Japan does not intend to claim any rights on the Shantung peninsula affecting Chinese ...
Article : 34 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— The Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) and Treasurer (Sir Joseph Ward), who have just returned from Europe, were given a ...
Article : 292 wordsMr F.H.Rose, Labour M.P. for North Aberdeen, has left the Labour patty until Mr. Neil McLean, Labour M. P. for the Govan divison of Glasgow, who recently ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— Before Mr. Justice Isaacs, in chambers in the High Court sitting at Darlinghurst to-day application was made on behalf of the ...
Article : 265 wordsThe forty third show of dogs poultry, pigeons, &c., held annully under the auspiees of the Victorian Poultry and Kennel Club will open to-day and remain open on ...
Article : 179 wordsIt was resolved by the central council of the Victorian Farmers' Union at its meeting yesterday:- "That the central council, Victorian Farmers' ...
Article : 106 wordsPointing out that the ministry had announced that as far as possible war trophies were to be allocated to the States from which the troops came that captured them, ...
Article : 203 wordsSir,—In reference to Mr A. P. K. Morris's speech, I would like to say that I am sure a majority of Australians who have any right to voice their opinions on this to ...
Article : 157 wordsBRISBANE. Wednesday—At a special meeting of the Queensland Railway Union council representing the whole of the organisation in Queensland, reports were ...
Article : 126 wordsTOWNSVILLE (Q.), Wedncsdoy. — In connection with the strike at the meat works, Mr. Justice McCawley has dissolved the compulsory conference, declaring it to be ...
Article : 72 wordsPERTH Wednesday —The strike on the goldfields firewood lines is still unsettled. The Premier (Mr. Mitchell) is of opinion that the only way of settling the trouble ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 7 Aug 1919, Page 7
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