Advices from China states that the price of beche-de-mer has reached £600 a ton. A number of luggers are being fitted out to fish for beche-de-mer on the reefs near ...
Article : 636 wordsA railway strike which was begun by switchmen in the Chicago district without the sanction of their union has suddenly spread throughout the United States. ...
Article : 389 wordsBoth Houses of the Federal Parliament will resume their sittings on Wednesday. The Easter recess was welcomed by Ministers and members generally, and was taken ...
Article : 664 wordsThe United States House of Representatives has adopted a resolution for the declaration of peace between America and Germany. To allow the motion to be dealt ...
Article : 162 wordsAn authoritative statement has been issued in London regarding the AngloFrench situation which has arisen over the action of France in sending troops into the ...
Article : 2,177 wordsSergeant-Major J. G. Gray, of Richmond, Melbourne, formerly of the 18th Battery, has returned to London from Russia, where he was engaged in the British Secret ...
Article : 994 wordsA message from San Diego Southern California, on Thursday afternoon states that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, after a ball which lasted till midnight, spent ...
Article : 227 wordsA party lying in ambush at Nenagh, County Tipperary, fired at three constables. One was killed on the spot, one succumbed later, and the third is dying. ...
Article : 139 wordsDiscussing the possible effects of the new tariff, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said on Saturday that if new industries were established and existing ...
Article : 251 wordsIrish pickets have reappeared at the British Embassy at Washington, and have been arrested. Those who were previously arrested ...
Article : 40 wordsCaptain Corbesco and Lieutenant Grassa, Italian aviators, who are flying from Rome to Tokio, have arrived at Bagdad. They state that two other machines which ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is officially announced that the Government motor depot at Slough, near London, was sold for £3,150,000. It cost £2,500,000; thus the nation realised a profit of ...
Article : 107 wordsProperties aggregating 88,410 acres were purchased by the Closer Settlement Board during March in connection with the scheme for settling discharged soldiers on the land. ...
Article : 400 wordsStaggering into the Homoeopathic Hospital at 8 o'clock on Saturday evening in a dazed condition, Henry Wharton, 52 years of age, of 2 McNall street. South Richmond, ...
Article : 658 wordsAt the official luncheon at the Port Phillip Stevedores' Union picnic at Bacehus Marsh on Saturday, Mr. Frank Hall proposed "The Early Restoration to Sound ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. Shortt) has refused to reprieve the ex-army officer Frederickf Rothwell Holt, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Katheleen ...
Article : 118 wordsDistress among discharged Australian soldiers in London waiting for passages to Australia is becoming acute. A number of the men are on the verge of starvation, and ...
Article : 115 wordsCaptain G. C. Matthews, with Sergeant T. D. Kay in a Sopwith Wallaby aeroplane will leave Singapore at 6 o'clock on Monday morning in continuation of his ...
Article : 54 wordsIn evidence before the Senate committee which is inquiring into United States naval affairs, Rear-Admiral Washington stated that there have been so many desertions ...
Article : 84 wordsNine farm workers have been killed near Lille, France, through the explosion of a buried German bomb, which was struck while the ground was being ploughed. ...
Article : 31 wordsManufacturing chemists complain that the duty imposed upon "crude drugs" will hamper the Australian manufacturer. The term is applied to certain herbs and other ...
Article : 507 wordsAs the time for the opening of the session of the State Parliament approaches more [?] usual interest is being shown in State questions. There is evidence that country ...
Article : 181 wordsROCKHAMPTON (Q.), Sunday.—At a joint meeting of the Nationalist supporters in the Rockhampton and Fitzroy clectorates Mr J. C. Stewart, who was a Labour ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Congress of Salvador, one of the Central American Slates, after receiving the United States interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, decided to attempt the ...
Article : 43 wordsIn addressing a large audience at Wesley Church yesterday afternoon on the coming prohibition struggle the Rev. T. S. B. Woodfull claimed that this year would ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Society of Australian Artists in London is holding a representative show. Those who are exhibiting include Allport, Bryant, Evergood, Coates, Leist, Dora Meeson, ...
Article : 52 wordsAustralian wool sales opened at Antwerp on April 8. There was a large attendance, and competition was brisk. Prices were 5 per cent. above recent rates. There were ...
Article : 41 wordsTALLANGATTA, Saturday.—Mr. Roy Nichol, of Tallangatta Valley, was seriously injured last week by a fall from a horse. He went after some cattle, and the horse ...
Article : 89 wordsPublic appreciation of the action at the Lord Mayor (Councillor Aikman M.L.C.) in providing free Sunday night concerts was again shown on the occasion of the second ...
Article : 188 words"Pussyfoot" Johnson the American prohibitionist campaigner, who is returning to America from England, interviewed by the "Daily Chronicle," said:—"I am going back ...
Article : 137 wordsWilliam James Thomas, a wharf labourer and returned soldier, aged 25 years, died in the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday from the effects of a bullet wound received in a ...
Article : 90 wordsEarly on Sunday morning a railway employee named Tomlinson found the body of a young man on the rails between South Kensington station and the bridge over ...
Article : 69 wordsSpeaking at the conference of the Catholic Women's Social Guild on Saturday afternoon, Archbishop Mannix said that the Catholic teachers in the ...
Article : 144 wordsSir.—I wish to direct attention to the position the northern irrigation districts are drifting into. At the present time no irrigation water is being supplied although the ...
Article : 335 wordsThe police are anxious to establish the identity of in elderly man who was knocked down by a bolting horse attached to a lorry at the corner of Flinders and Spencer ...
Article : 116 wordsWELLINGTON, Saturday.—New regulations have been gazetted restricting the use for betting purposes of the services provided by the Post, Telegraph, and Telephone ...
Article : 77 wordsA compulsory conference between representatives of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Federation and the Merchant Service Guild was ehdl before Mr. Justice Higgins at the Law Courts on ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—At the close of the Australian congress of the Consumers' Cooperative Societies in Sydney on Saturday, it was decided to convey to the Prime ...
Article : 133 wordsYasuichi Takata, a Japanese sailor, who was acquitted at the Court of General Sessions on Friday of the alleged manslaughter of a fellow Japanese, Sohebl [?] was rearrested shortly afterwards. ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. John J. Virgo British Empire secretary of the Young Men s Christian Association, in the course of an address to men in the Auditorium yesterday said that when ...
Article : 167 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Polling for the Herbert by-election, rendered necessary by the appointment of Mr. Lennon as Lieutenant-Governor, took place on Saturday. ...
Article : 38 wordsSir,—My attention has been directed to an inaccuracy in the concluding paragraph of the article by me which appeared in "The Argus" of to-day. A scheme had been ...
Article : 70 wordsThe factory of William Lawrence, dyer, at 40 Ellis street, South Yarra, was broken into on Friday morning and clothing valued at about £100 stolen. It consisted ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 12 Apr 1920, Page 7
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