An important correction of the official summary of the peace terms imposed on Austria by the Allies has been issued from Paris. It leads:— ...
Article : 277 wordsThere was no important development in the strike situation in Melbourne yesterday. The ballot of seamen on the question of returning to work was opened, but, as ...
Article : 258 wordsBearing in mind that the Legislative Council is essentially a House of review, it is of the utmost importance that Nationalists should ponder before casting their ...
Article : 1,341 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" states that the Allies have decided to refuse the latest German proposals and will notify the Germans that they must either sign or refuse to sign the ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Secretary of State for India (Mr. Montague), in a statement in the House of Commons on May 22, said that the perplexity in the ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—An extension of the tobacco workers' strike occurred to-day and there does not appear to be any immediate prospect of settlement. To-day 400 girls ...
Article : 163 wordsA visit to the naval depot at Williamstownl was made yesterday morning by Viscount Jellicoe, and on his return journey to the city he inspected the drill hall at ...
Article : 1,034 wordsSir,—I should like to suggest in view of the present shortage of coal and fuel, due to the seamen's strike, that a flat rate for firewood be arranged with the Railways ...
Article : 159 wordsA bomb was thrown on Monday night in front of the house in Washington occupied by Mr. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney-General. The front of the building ...
Article : 125 wordsThe polling booths in the various divisions of the South-Eastern Province are as follow:— BERWICK.—Berwick, Courthouse; Paken[?]am, ...
Article : 749 wordsSir,—Surely we have reached the days when women should be consulted in the making of laws and regulations which directly affect them. The gas restrictions have ...
Article : 157 wordsSir Joseph Cook (Commonwealth Naval Minister) when interviewed in London on Monday, deplored the Labour manifesto adversely criticising the German Peace ...
Article : 342 wordsAfter the general cargo had been discharged from the steamer Melbourne by loyalists the vessel was taken yesterday from the compound at the North Wharf ...
Article : 923 wordsTheir Majesties the King and Queen and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Princess Mary, and Prince Albert will attend the Derby, which is to be run ...
Article : 181 wordsThousands of American tropps now in London welcomed Commander Read, who piloted the United States naval seaplane from Newfoundland to Plymouth, via the ...
Article : 103 wordsOne of the results of the seamen's strike is a marked increase in goods traffic on the Great Western railway. Before the strike the average quantity carried was about 40 ...
Article : 296 wordsThe master builders will hold a special meeting at 4 o'clock this afternoon to consider the builders' labourers' strike, but it is not considered that there is the slightest ...
Article : 213 wordsArising out of the threatened closing of the South African gold mines because of the unprofitable[?] character of the industry under prevailing conditions, the ...
Article : 335 wordsThe House of Commons has passed a resolution authorising a Government loan not exceeding £250,000,000, terms not to be disclosed until the prospectus is issued ...
Article : 151 wordsAt midnight tonight all the restrictions on the use of coal, gas, and electricity imposed by the Coal Board in consequence of the strike, will come into operation. They ...
Article : 732 wordsA report by the Montreal correspondent of the New York Times," despatched on May 21, stated that the strike in Wi[?]nipeg had spread until it covered every phase ...
Article : 126 wordsAccording to the annual report of the Minister for Education (Mr. Hutchinson), issued yesterday, there were in Victoria when the last returns wen available, 2,135 ...
Article : 805 wordsA big strike movement having taken place in Konigsberg (East Prussia), in which the vital industries of the city were affected, the middle classes declared a ...
Article : 46 wordsPresident Wilson's consent to the Allied message to Admiral Kaltchak, leader of the anti-Bolshevik army in Russian, offering to recognise his Government if he agrees ...
Article : 99 wordsThe man Vogel who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in Berlin for the murder of the Socialist lender Fran Luxembourg has escaped. A man wearing an ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—Councillor Ward's letter to-day is an attempt to delude electors into a belief that he is willing to retire but his ignorance of politics has probably ...
Article : 263 wordsThe directors of the International Mercantile Marine Company of New York have approved of the proposed sale to a British syndicate of the company's British ...
Article : 137 wordsThe postponement of the strike of London police is explained by the fact that the police union lenders hope to receive the support of the triple labour alliance ...
Article : 75 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) has informed the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) that he has received the following cable message ...
Article : 90 wordsSir,—The cruiser H.M.A.S. Melbourne having returned to Melbourne waters after four years' strenuous war work in nearly every quarter of the globe, it is fitting that ...
Article : 257 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday the Minister of National Service and Reconstruction (Sir Auckland Geddes) said that the Board of Trade was making an ...
Article : 56 wordsA deputation from Manchester waited on the Food Ministry on May 22 in connection with the shortage of beer, due to the Government continuing to restrict the ...
Article : 122 wordsThe official announcement is made in London that the Ameer of Afghanistan has sent to the Viceroy of India (Lord Chelmsford) a letter asking for peace, and ...
Article : 244 wordsSir,—I desire, on behelf of the Australian Women's National-League, to state that this organisation made no selection of a candidate for the above province while ...
Article : 93 wordsThe cricket match between Surrey and Australia was continued on the Oval today. Surrey's first innings closed for 344, Hobbs contributing 205 not out, going in ...
Article : 130 wordsThe following appeal has been issued to members of the National Federation:— "On Thursday there will be several contests in the Legislative Council elections, in which ...
Article : 161 words[?]NEY, Tuesday.—There were no developments in Sydney to-day in connection with the seamen's strike. Officials of the Seamen's Union, when spoken to, refused ...
Article : 124 wordsSir,—Sir Henry Weedon has refused to arbitrate before an independent tribunal of three leading business men. This clearly proves his insincerity. The split vote ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Weet Australian Agent-General (Mr. J. D. Connolly), in a letter to the London newspapers regarding the emigration proposals of Lord Milner (Secretary of State ...
Article : 63 wordsSir,—"Shoddy" and "Veritas" miss my main contention, that we are not allowed to use terms that are intelligible all over the English-speaking world. The Federal ...
Article : 195 wordsSlowly the loyalists who were driven off the wheat stacks at Brooklyn are returning to work. Yesterday there were eight more than on the previous day. At ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Order of Merit (O.M.) has been conferred by His Majesty the King on Admiral of the Flet Sir David Beatty and FieldMarshal Sir Douglas Haig. ...
Article : 107 wordsIt is now known that there were 80 deaths as a result of the picture-show panic in the French town of Valence during the celebrations in honour of Joan of ...
Article : 52 wordsThe president-elect of the Wharf Labourers' Union (Mr. F. V. Bates), replying yesterday to the criticism of the secretary of the Shipowners' Federation ...
Article : 534 wordsSir,—Numerous inquines arc reaching me as to the truth of the statement that Councillor H. S. K. Ward, when a candidate for the North Melbourne Province ...
Article : 243 wordsA conference of members of the House of Commons has considered the formation of a Parliamentary group for the purpose of arranging a scheme of Imperial ...
Article : 36 wordsSir,—Owing to the influenza epidemic the president and committee of the Sutherland Homes have decided not to hold their annual entertainment on Pound Day[?] and ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. F. W. Dawborn, who is a candidate for the Legislative Council, Melbourne [?] Province, addressed a meeting in the Collingwood Town Hall on Monday night. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 4 Jun 1919, Page 9
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