When travelling rapidly towards Castlemaine yesterday morning, the 6.25 a.m. express train from Bendigo to Melbourne left the rails, and a number of carriages ...
Article : 1,524 wordsA refusal of the coal lumpers to unload 5,000 tons of coal from the collier Yankalilla which berthed at Port Melbourne on Saturday, was the most important ...
Article : 1,133 wordsHouse-building has increased so much in cost during the war period that people are wondering whether, and to what extent, there will be a decrease with the coming ...
Article : 763 wordsThe Commonwealth Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) states that the transport of the Australian field army, numbering 100,000 men, from Belgium and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Allies intend to deliver a reply to the German counter-proposals on Friday, and will then allow the German delegates five days in which to sign the Treaty. ...
Article : 448 wordsIt was stated in London on Monday that the set-back to the anti-Bolshevik army commanded by Admiral Kolehak, was due to the insufficiency of trained reserves.The ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Hungarians claim to have defeated the Czecho-Slovaks in a two days' battle, capturing Raschan the capital of Upper Hungary. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe King's Birthday Honours list includes the following awards to the army:— G.C.M.G. ([?]NIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER OF ...
Article : 913 wordsThe Minister for Repatriation (Senator Millen) referred yesterday to a statement by Mr. Palmer, president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers League ...
Article : 663 wordsThe British Air Force Cross has been conferred by His Majesty the King on Commander Read and the officers of the United States seaplane NC4, which crossed the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe following appointments are announced by the British Admiralty:— Vice-Admiral Sir A. L.Duff, to be Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron.He ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. Thomas Sopwith, chairman of the Sopwith Aeroplane Company has stated that Harry Hawker will not make a second attempt on the transatlntic flight ...
Article : 146 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—It was estimated by Trades Hall officials to-day that between 15,000 and 20,000 employees, in New South Wales have been rendered idle as a result ...
Article : 271 wordsThe East Antrim by election on Monday resulted as follows:— Hanna (Independent Unionist)..8,714 Moore (Official Unionist)....7,549 ...
Article : 126 wordsA bitter debate occurred last week in the United States Senate, consequent on charges made by Senator Lodge (Republican leader) that secret copies of the complete ...
Article : 150 wordsThe announcement by the United States Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Josephus Daniels) that the Government had abandoned the naval building programme ...
Article : 219 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—As the result of a meeting of the Seamens' Union, held last night, the crews of the steamers Wandana and Wookata to-day gave notice of ...
Article : 195 wordsRemarkable scenes occurred in the Thames on Saturday, when New Zealand troops who were on the steamer Ruapehu, about to return to New Zealand, welcomed ...
Article : 103 wordsThe president of the State Service Federation (Mr. A. McD. Martin) speaking yesterday on behalf of the members of the State school teaching service who ...
Article : 190 wordsThe correspondent of the "New York Tribune," in a message sent from Amerongen, in Holland, on May 31, stated that he accompanied a group of sight-seeing ...
Article : 238 wordsSir,—With regard to Mr. G. [?]Plamer's statement concerning the demobilised men in "The Argus" to-day, may I place before the public the case for the demobilised ...
Article : 284 wordsMajor General Sir A. J. Godley, in a farewell army order to the New Zealand force says:— "You leave behind a reputation for ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" states that in investigating a scandal affecting 60 "profiteers" the French Food Controllers have ...
Article : 131 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The crew of the State chartered steamer Adonis, although they have been conceded what they demanded at the outset, refused to sign on ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is reported in London that the British Cabinet seeks to raise £1,000,000,000 by means of the forthcoming "Victory" Loan. ...
Article : 25 wordsAdmirial Lord Jelli[?]oe, attended by Com modore F.C. Dreyer and Capt. H. H. Share made a cll at the Navy office, Lonsdale street, yesterday and inquired into ...
Article : 301 wordsSir,—The present restrictions on the use of gas in private houses are largely farcial, and press with undue severity on some while others suffer no inconvenience. A ...
Article : 160 wordsThe board of directors has announced in New York that the Cunard Steamship Co. lost 45 ships totalling 389,853 tons during the war. The total assets of the company ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Allies in their reply to the German Note on the Labour Charter in the League of Nations Convention, point out that from their experience of democratic institutions, ...
Article : 278 wordsA Wireless message was received at Melbourne yesterday evening from the transport Commonwealth advising that the Commonwealth Government schooner ...
Article : 319 wordsA French commission has selected 140 sites for preservation in their present state as monuments of the great war. They include famous battlefields, deep ...
Article : 75 wordsDetective-sergeant P. Sullivan returned yesterday from Korumburra, whither be had gone to make inquiries into the mysterious finding of the body of a young man, ...
Article : 528 wordsFour hundred gallons of oil aro flowing daily from the oil-well discovered at Hardstoft in Derbyshire, from a depth of 3,075ft. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir,—It may be presumption on the part of a layman and a country man at that, to suggest a remedy but I feel with many of my country friends that the arbitration ...
Article : 143 wordsA decision was arrived at by the State Cabinet yesterday to increase the price of sugar beet delivered at the Maffra factory for the 1919-20 season only by2/6 a ton, ...
Article : 153 wordsBy the finding yesterday afternoon of the Red Cross motor-car stolen from the garage at Federal Government House on Saturday night, an interesting story of the doings ...
Article : 258 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—Speaking at the annual meeting of the National Federation to-night, the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Millen) said that the claims on ...
Article : 159 wordsSir,—Mr. Justice Higgins tells us plainly this is not a struggle between employer and employee between the Seamen,s Union and the shipping companies; between ...
Article : 349 wordsSir,—I have read the leader in "The Argus" to-day with much interest. You speak of reform. Well what reform has taken place for the benefit of the masses ...
Article : 397 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The military autorities deny a statement made at the Labour Conference yesterday to the effect that Paul Freeman was confined in a ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Sinn Fein emissaries who are in Paris to interview the Peace Conference are stated by American correspondents to admit that the conditions in Ireland approach ...
Article : 33 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The tobacco worker's strike was settled this afternoon as the result of a conference between the representatives of employers and strikers. ...
Article : 152 wordsThe telegraphists of the United States, numbering 70,000, have called a general strike. ...
Article : 17 wordsLoyalist wharf workers complained yesterday that a statement had been published that of the loyalists who came to the assistance of the Government in 1919, only ...
Article : 239 wordsLAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—The auxiliary ketch Eliza Davies, 46 tons, H. H. Wragge, master went ashore at Shag Point opposite Beauty pointy in the Tamar river on ...
Article : 109 wordsThe embargo upon the exportation of gold from the United States has been lifted. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt the beginning of the war the members of the State public service agreed to extend their daily working hours from halfpast 4 o'clock until 5 o'clock to cover work ...
Article : 70 wordsArrivals.—At London: Brixham, Devon City. At Newport News (Virginia):port Alma. At San Francisco: Georgette. At Colombo: Maundry Manor, Frankinver, ...
Article : 48 wordsBROKEN HILL. Monday.—The unions interested and ali others concerned in the present strike appear to be preparing for a long sturggle. Great attention is being ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 11 Jun 1919, Page 9
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