General Birdwood had a varied round of engagements yesterday. In the morning he visited the Shoe Trade Technical School for returned soldiers, from there he went ...
Article : 280 wordsCush prices for bread have now been increased to 3d. for a 1lb. loaf, 5½d. for a 2lb. loaf, and 11d. for a 4lb. loaf. Inquiries among pastry-cooks yesterday ...
Article : 291 wordsFor years one of the needs of the Northern Territory has been adequately watered stock routes across the vast belt of pastoral country on the Barkly tableland, to enable ...
Article : 645 wordsApart from the fact that there was an aggregate majority in all States of 215 against a resumption of work by the marine engineers on strike, the most important ...
Article : 2,488 wordsThe naval staff of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on his approaching trip to New Zealand and Australia on H.M.S. Renown will include Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey ...
Article : 179 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" asserts that the Allies will firmly insist on the surrender of the war criminals, and that their reply to the Dutch Note concerning the ex-Kaiser ...
Article : 231 wordsAccording to a report from Berlin, the Soviet Government on January 5 executed the commander, Malinovsky, and six officers of the Red Guards for having plotted to ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Federal Parliament will be opened formally by His Excellency the Governor-General either on Wednesday, February 25, or Thursday, February 26, probably the ...
Article : 1,209 wordsThe Irish authorities have instituted a new system of mixed military and police patrols. Nothing serious occurred in Dublin beyond crowds jeering and singing. ...
Article : 254 wordsThe situation as regards international finances was discussed at a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) and a number of leading ...
Article : 385 wordsPursuing his campaign for the establishment of fruit barrows in the principal streets of the city and suburbs, the State Treasurer (Mr. McPherson) yesterday sent ...
Article : 242 wordsMr. Mark Sheldon, the Australian commissioner in the United States, haas submitted a report to the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) on several aspects of ...
Article : 570 wordsThe P. and O. Company's steamer Berrima, from Australia, which went ashore off North Foreland, in the Straits of Dover, on Monday morning, was refloated on ...
Article : 104 wordsDr. Grayson, who is in attendance on President Wilson, states that the President has had a bad cold and narrowly escaped influenza. Every precaution is being taken ...
Article : 66 wordsThe industrial trouble in India is still acute. There are local strikes in Calcutta and Madras, and also in Rangoon. The strike in Bombay is ...
Article : 99 wordsNorman Ross, the American champion swimmer, decisively won the 41[?] yards championship of Victoria at the City Baths last night in time that broke two records. The Victorian crack, Frank ...
Article : 819 wordsThe Council of Allied Ambassadors has informed the Hungarian Government that the re-establishment of the Hapsburg dynasty would be a violation of the basic ...
Article : 41 wordsThe coroner's inquiry into the death of James Jackson Morris, merchant, of Tunstall adjourned from last week, was continued yesterday at the Morgue before the ...
Article : 560 wordsAdmiral Viscount Jellicoe, in H.M.S. New Zealand, arrived at Spithead on Monday, and landed at Portsmouth next morning. He received a warm public welcome, ...
Article : 329 wordsIn giving evidence before the War Investigation Committee of the United States Senate, the Secretary for the Navy (Mr. Josephus Daniels) stated that ...
Article : 140 wordsLouis Guaspers, also a former member of the German espionage service, was to have been executed in Paris at the same time as the ex-officer Funck who was s[?]ot on ...
Article : 78 wordsThe United States has received twelve German Fokker aeroplanes as its share of the distribution of enemy aircraft under the terms of the armistice. ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the Bendigo pro-Cathedral last night the enthronement took place of the newly elected Bishop of Bendigo (the Rev. Donald Baker). Archbishop Clarke, as ...
Article : 245 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The district inspector has advised the Deputy Postmaster-General that a severe cyclone was experienced at Cairns on February 2 and 3. ...
Article : 286 wordsAddressing a gathering of meat retailers, Mr. C. A. McCurdy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Ministry, admitted that there was a temporary glut of Colonial ...
Article : 103 wordsAccording to advices from Tokio received at Washington, the "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" publishes the statement that the Japanese Cabinet intends to permit a separate ...
Article : 46 wordsA revolution has broken out in the Central American Republic of Honduras. The revolutionists have been defeated, however, and are retiring towards the ...
Article : 30 wordsCaptain Wilkins and Lieutenant Rendle, whose flight to Australia was interrupted by adverse weather, have returned to England, from Crete, travelling via Corfu in ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the appeal case of McCawley v. the Government of Queensland, in which the point at issue is the validity of the appointment of Judge McCawley to the ...
Article : 89 wordsDARWIN (N.T.), Wednesday.—At a public meeting held at the Darwin Town Hall to-night, a motion was agreed to deploring the action of Mr. Hogan, the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Red Cross Society needs helpers to assist in carrying on work for the sick and wounded men in the military hospitals. Ladies with spare time could find useful ...
Article : 151 wordsThe British Prize Court has awarded £31,000 to the crew of submarine 14 for the sinking of the Turkish troopship Gujd Jemal, with a large number of Turkish ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Old Castlemaine Schoolboys' Association will hold a smoke social reunion in the upper hall of the Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday, February 18, at 8 p.m., the ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Professional Golfers' Association of America is considering plans for special matches between the American professionals Hagen and Barnes and the British ...
Article : 45 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—An interesting disclosure was made in the Legislative Assembly, when the police vote was under discussion. Mr. James stated that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsCHARLEVILLE (Q.), Wednesday.— Captain Sir Ross Smith and party arrived to-day. If the trial of the machine is satisfactory the flight to Melbourne will be ...
Article : 39 wordsThe interstate conference of wheat[?]wers continued its sittings yesterday at the rooms of the Employers' Federation, 325 Collins street. The greater part of the day ...
Article : 164 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— The Imperial authorities have communicated by cable with the Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) asking, should it be decided ...
Article : 60 wordsSevere losses, including five officers killed, were sustained by a French force in an encounter with a body of Berber tribesmen at the sacred town of Wazan, in Morocco. ...
Article : 133 wordsLarge numbers of persons were attracted to the A.N.A. Exhibition yesterday afternoon and evening. Some of the stands have new attractions, and there will soon be ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,—Permit me to draw attention to the plight of passengers for Malvern, Armadale, and Hawksburn, by the Bairnsdale to Melbourne train arriving at Caulfield at 1.10 ...
Article : 231 wordsSir,—Will no influential section of the community take pity on the inhabitants of the district ranging from Kensington to Moonee Ponds, and make an attempt to ...
Article : 154 wordsThe English wife of an Australian soldier, who arrived with her husband yesterday, disappeared mysteriously a few hours after landing. She accompanied her ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Gippsland and Northern Co-operative Selling and Insurance Co. Ltd., associated with Messrs. T. Shaw, L[?]gan, and Co., report having held, by order of Mr. A. D[?]ey, Cummins lane, Brighton, on ...
Article : 92 wordsThe committee of the City of Camberwell Soldiers' Memorial feels that the time has arrived when some practical steps should be taken to commence the erection of the building. It has been decided ...
Article : 122 wordsThere is a fear in medical circles that a recurrence of the influenza epidemic will be experienced within the next few weeks, though it is generally believed that it will ...
Article : 55 wordsDuring a debate at last meeting of the Trades Hall Council on the future organisation of unionism, the following objective and procedure were proposed:— ...
Article : 130 wordsIn the report of the a[?]aisement No. 68 of Dalgety and Co. Lted., Geelong, which appeared in "The Argus" of February 2, the quotations for the WTA over Boorook brand should have read[?]Su[?] ...
Article : 13 wordsMessrs. Bea[?]champ B[?]s. report the following recent [?] of free[?]old property:—"[?]ipplesmere," Grey street, St. Kilda, earner Dalgety street, two-story brick residence. £2[?]; Nos. 15·17 Bowen ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 5 Feb 1920, Page 7
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