An application has been made by the Master Builders' Association to the Minister for Labour that the wages board determinations covering all sections of the ...
Article : 218 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Sir R[?] Smith and Sir Keith Smith fulfilled private engagements only to-day, although in the afternoon there were courtesy calls on the State ...
Article : 609 wordsSWAN HILL, Monday.—Graziers and stock dealers who truck stock from Swan Hill to the Melbourne market have a long-standing grievance against the Railways ...
Article : 1,084 wordsA house in Pimlico London, occupied by Corporal King, described as formerly of the Australian military police, was raided by detectives early on Sunday ...
Article : 288 wordsThere has been prompt fulfilment of the expectation that the resignation of Mr. Robert Lansing of the office of Secretary of State of the United States, in ...
Article : 160 wordsSignor Guglielmo Marconi, of wireless telegraphy fame, in a sensational article in the "N[?]ovo Giornale" (Rome) predicts an imminent revolution in wireless ...
Article : 311 wordsPersistent rumours were current in Melbourne yesterday in shipping circles and among the waterfront unions of an impending settlement of the marine engineers' ...
Article : 1,505 wordsA deputation introduced by Senator Pearce and comprising Senator De L[?]rgi[?], Messrs. Gregory, Fowler, and Burchell, M.H.R.'s, and Mr. G. W. Miles, M.L.C. ...
Article : 547 wordsIt is announced that the Bolsheviks have captured Plesetskaya, in the direction of Archangel, Northern Russia. Alleviation of Distress. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,202 wordsA gang of Sinn Feiners attacked the police barracks at Ballytrain, County Monaghan, Ireland, and a three hours' fight took place. The raiders blew up ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Amsterdam "Handelsblad" says that the Dutch police have arrested or expelled a number of Germans, Russians, and others who were attending a secret Bolshevik ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Vickers-Vimy aeroplane which is engaged in the Cairo-Cape flight, and had to descend for repairs near Jebel-Ain, 200 miles north of Khartoum, was able to ...
Article : 225 wordsSignor Sechi, Italian Minister of Marine, has stated in an interview that large vessels are no longer necessary in modern fleets, and that Italy is foregoing the ...
Article : 77 wordsIn response to an invitation from Dean Weldon, the Rev. John Jowett, Nonconformist, occupied the pulpit in Durham Cathedral at evensong on Sunday. There ...
Article : 74 wordsAmongst the officers who returned by the s.s. Mantua yesterday was Brigadier-General A. Goddard, C.M.G., D.S.O., Croix de Guerre, who formerly commanded the 9th ...
Article : 206 wordsUp to the end of 1919 9,500 firms of employers in Great Britain were entitled to use the King's seal of honour for employing disabled ex-service-men. They employ ...
Article : 43 wordsDoctor Schaeger, of Vienna, who is administrator of the ex-Emperor Karl's property, complains of the delay of the Austrian Government in settling the affairs ...
Article : 76 wordsFifteen barrowmen waited on the State Treasurer (Mr. McPherson) yesterday to explain how barrows in the principal city and suburban streets would assist in the ...
Article : 626 wordsHOBART, Monday.—General Sir William Birdwood on Saturday visited the No. 9 General Hospital at Hobart, and the Repatriation department, and in the afternoon ...
Article : 201 wordsWith a view to preventing foreigners from availing themselves of the lowness of the mark to acquire control of German companies, some of the companies are ...
Article : 55 wordsThe chairman of the United States Shipping Board, Mr. J. B. Payne, told the Commerce Committee of the Senate that the board would delay the selling of the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe German Embassy in London has been reopened and the German flag will be flown there for the first time since the outbreak of the war when Herr Sthamer, the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe British Post-Office is returning indiscriminately all lottery letters addressed to lottery promoters, on the ground that lotteries are illegal whether they are ...
Article : 43 wordsIn 1916, when the Government scheme for the control of wool was inaugurated, fellmongers, in common with other owners of wool, were entitled to participate in the ...
Article : 368 wordsA telegram received at Rome from Rio de Janeiro reports that the patients in a leper asylum have been cared by the application to their sores of a tincture ...
Article : 60 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Samuel May, the keeper at the Zoological Gardens, who had his arm torn off by a polar bear on Sunday morning, died at the Adelaide Hospital ...
Article : 273 wordsNews has reached Paris of the occurrence of a serious mutiny at Fiume, but particulars are not available. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Railway Classification Board resumed its hearing of employees' claims yesterday. Judge Winneke presided. Mr. A. S. Drakeford, who appeared for ...
Article : 269 wordsOwing to a landslide which occurred near San Remo, in the Italian Riviera, a motor char-a-ban[?] fell into the bed of a river 200ft. below. Twenty-two passengers ...
Article : 38 wordsReturned soldiers are anxious to learn whether the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) intends to press for the grant of a special clasp to the 1914-15 star for men ...
Article : 255 wordsThe King, at Buckingham Palace, inspected the London motor-'bus B43, which served on the continent throughout the war and is now plying again in London ...
Article : 99 wordsResidents of Johnston street, Fitzroy, were awakened early on Friday morning, and observed through their windows three men wheeling a small iron safe in a ...
Article : 293 wordsPERTH, Monday.—Mr. Canning, P.M., who acted as umpire in the dispute between the "West Australian" newspaper and its mechanical staff, which led to a ...
Article : 135 wordsThe annual meeting of the Australian Catholic Federation, held last evening in the Melbourne Town Hall, was largely attended. Archbishop Mannix presided, and ...
Article : 314 wordsAn extraordinary story was recently told to the Berlin Court by a man named Victor Sandner, who was arraigned on a charge of theft. Sandner, who described himself as ...
Article : 261 wordsWhen Thomas Carson, a dairyman, living in Cremorne street, Richmond, was driving a pony and jinker along yarra Bank road to the city at about 10 o'clock on Sunday ...
Article : 278 wordsPursuing inquiry into a number of softgoods robberies that have occurred in the suburbs recently, Detective-sergeant P. Sullivan, Senior-detective Hawkins, Detectives ...
Article : 199 wordsSitting as a justice of the High Court in chambers yesterday, Mr. Justice Higgins heard an application by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers for a certificate that a dispute existed between the ...
Article : 78 wordsTramway traffic on the Carlton and North Carlton lines was considerably disarranged last night by a mishap which resulted in the cable serving the short section ...
Article : 183 wordsIn the Divorce Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice McArthur, a decree nisi was granted to Henry William Jeffrey, 36, ga[?]er, of Cochrane street, Brighton, from Martha Jeffrey, 3[?] years of age, ...
Article : 74 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—Significance appeared to attach to a special meeting of the Caucus party, which was held at Parliament House this afternoon, in view of the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 17 Feb 1920, Page 7
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