Their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson gave a dinner party at Government House last evening, at which the following guest were ...
Article : 146 wordsEarly yesterday morning a thin wisp of smoke tailed from the funnels of most of the steamers on the river. It was the signal that the fleet was waking up at last; ...
Article : 744 wordsSatisfactory trial runs were made yesterday by an electric train on the St. Kilda line, and as a result the chairman of commissioners (Mr. Norman) announced that ...
Article : 471 wordsOver two years ago Dr. Waite, who is on the staff of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, was invited by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 549 wordsThe Peace Loan campaign was launched in Melbourne at noon yesterday, when, at a ceremony in front of the Town Hall, the Lord Mayor (Alderman Cabena) bought ...
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Advertising : 345 wordsMr. Ryan, M. L. A., who had been absent from his place in the Legislative Assembly for a fortnight owing to influenza, attended the House yesterday, and was congratulated ...
Article : 554 wordsOpposition to Mr. Tudor in the pre-selection of a Labour candidate to contest the Yarra seat in the next election for the House of Representatives has a much wider ...
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Advertising : 558 wordsMails despatched by the Ventura on July 8 and the Kaisar I Hind on July, 9 arrived in London on August 21 and August 22 respectively. ...
Article : 34 words"I am in the place where I am demanded of conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speake, impugn it whoso list." ...
Article : 28 wordsNo very keen interest is being taken, generally speaking, in the municipal elections, which will be held to-morrow. Practically no big issues, even from a local point ...
Article : 310 wordsEvery letter must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as guarantee of good faith. Correspondents are requested to inform the ...
Article : 115 wordsAt one stage of the shipping strike a threat was made that Melbourne might be thrown into darkness. No such catastrophe occurred, and to some extent the fact is ...
Article : 221 wordsTwo striking instances of reckless gambling for public favour by politicians have been made within the past few days—one by Sir Joseph Ward ...
Article : 2,402 wordsThe motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply to the Governor's Speech was agreed to by the Legislative Council yesterday. Subsequently a bill making ...
Article : 148 wordsErnest William Glerisch, of Hubtly farmer, who died on May 6, left by will dated February 14, 1919. real estate valued at £4,250 and personal property valued at £3.467. His property, at ...
Article : 180 wordsSatisfactory reports of increase of membership were received at the meeting of the Taxpayers' Association, held at Scott's Hotel yesterday afternoon. The organiser ...
Article : 122 wordsWith a membership of 1,250, the Collingwood branch of the Australian Natives' Association sent to the war 189 men, 31 of whom died on service. To commemorate ...
Article : 464 wordsHat manufacturers of the Commonwealth and their employees were represented at a deputation which waited upon the Minister for Customs (Mr. Massy. Greene) ...
Article : 363 wordsThe announcement of the death of the very Rev. Charles John Godby, Dean of Melboune, Which occurred yesterday afternoon at a private hospital, after a ...
Article : 242 wordsIn the pictorial section of "The Australasian," the country edition of which is published to-day, some picturesque snapshots of Wattle Day are given. The ...
Article : 545 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.— The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Grahame), in his speech in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday night on the wheat question, stated that ...
Article : 229 wordsThe closing times shown hereunder are for Elizabeth street P. O. Mails close at the G. P. O. twenty minutes later, unless otherwise stated. Late fees at G. P. O. and Elizabeth street as follows:— New ...
Article : 634 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. K. Ohkubo, a Japanese merchants, fell from the top of Usher's Hotel. Sydney, this afternoon, a distance of 150ft., and was killed. Mr. ...
Article : 110 wordsAmongst the passengers who reached Melbourne by the Sydney express on Saturday was Mr. Oliver Bainbridge, the well-known traveller, lecturer, and author. Born near ...
Article : 458 wordsReferring last night to the opposition by the City Council to the recommendations by the Fish Commission that all sales in the markets be made by auction, that fish ...
Article : 233 wordsAn interstate conference will be held in Sydney to-morrow between producers and exporters to determine the basis of future meat contracts with the Imperial ...
Article : 147 wordsA meeting of Farmers' Union delegates held at Murchison on Monday evening selected Mr. W. C. Hill, the president, to contest the by-election in the Federal ...
Article : 58 wordsAdvertisements appeared in the morning papers on Friday and Saturday, calling for applications for positions on the staff of an American steel corporation, as ...
Article : 219 wordsReferring yesterdav to the reported sale of five wooden vessels—namely, the Bellata, Bundarra, Bethanga, Berringa, and Berriwa—built to the order of the ...
Article : 134 wordsWe have received the following subscription for the Distressed Loyalist Workers' Fund, for which Dr.Rentoul and the Rev. A. R. Stephenson are making an appeal: ...
Article : 37 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—In the Legislalative Assembly to-day the Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) moved that the House at its next Billing in committee consider the ...
Article : 103 words"The Argus" List.—Previously acknowledged, £508/14/11; L.F., 5/; total, £508/19/11. ...
Article : 18 wordsCOMMONWEALTH ARBITRATION COURT.— In Third Civil Court.—Before Mr. Justice Higgins:— At 10.30—Wateraide Workers' Federation of Australia v. Commonwealth Steamship Owners' ...
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Advertising : 53 wordsThe clearances shown above are at Elizabeth street office. Clearance at G. P. O. will be 20 minutes later, unless otherwise stated. Mails for Broken Hill will be despatched Mon., ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 27 Aug 1919, Page 8
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