R. H. Spooner, who has been appointed captain of the English Eleven, chosen on Monday by the Marylebone Cricket Club to visit Australia this year, says that he ...
Article : 630 wordsIt is proposed by the State Ministry, under the Public Service Bill, which was submitted in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, to increase the salaries of civil ...
Article : 2,021 wordsA Moscow wireless message states that the Polish-Soviet armistice negotiations will open on Friday at a "Red" outpost between Baranovitchi and Brest-Litovsk. ...
Article : 337 wordsResolute, the defender, on tuesday won the fifth, and deciding heat, and the America Cup remains in the United States. ...
Article : 245 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. — It was in tropical heat for the most part that the Prince carried out to-day's programme, a cool change setting in late in the afternoon, ...
Article : 850 wordsIn consonance with his recent promises, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) introduced the Industrial Peace Act in the House of Representatives late last night, ...
Article : 732 wordsThe first notice on the business paper of the House of Representatives yesterday after the questions bad been disposed of was a motion by Mr. Ryan (Cau., N.S.W.) ...
Article : 996 wordsMr. Marks, M.H.R., who was on the Shamrock when she crossed the Atlantic in 1914, said last night that he was naturally greatly disappointed that the ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, special correspondent of the "Daily Express" at Constantinople, states that a well-known English business man, who has just come from the ...
Article : 145 wordsA voluminous report on the public service administration by Mr. D. C. McLachlan, who was public service commissioner from 1902 to 1910, was tabled in the House ...
Article : 681 wordsWork was resumed yesterday afternoon by members of the Gas Employees' Union at the various gasworks controlled by the Metropolitan Gas Company and the ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Austialian trade commissioner in the United States (Mr. Mark Sheldon), in a statement to the Australian Press Association on the visit of Dr. Mannix to ...
Article : 130 wordsSpeaking in the Reichstag on Tuesday, the German Chancellor (Dr. Fehrenbach) declared that no advantage whatever had been gained at Spa, and urged that every ...
Article : 201 wordsCricketers almost unanimously endorsed the view that the English team as selected will take some beating. Form in Australia is the all-important factor. ...
Article : 138 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees Federation, referring to-day to the dispute bcttveon the ...
Article : 697 wordsThe press delegates from England and some of the overseas Dominions landed here from the steamer Victorian to-day. A civic luncheon was the first formal function ...
Article : 255 wordsIn a twelve-rounds' contest at Newark, New Jersey, on Monday night, "Harry" Wills, a negro heavy-weight, knocked out "Fred" Fulton, the "giant," in the third ...
Article : 52 wordsRepresentatives of the Chamber of Manufactures conferred for two hours yesterday with delegates from the Federated Enginedrivers' Association and members of the ...
Article : 148 wordsALLAHABAD, July 27.—The conference between British and Afghan delegates, which has been sitting at Mussoorie since April, has ended, and the Afghan ...
Article : 117 wordsThe "Daily Express" announces that the Prince's visit to India has been postponed to give him time to recuperate. It is stated that the postponement is in ...
Article : 161 wordsLieutenant Shirass, who in 1907 attempted to reach the South Pole by sea, has now asked the Japanese Diet to appropriate £20,000 to cover the expenses of an aerial ...
Article : 212 wordsAfter a dull afternoon there was plenty of incident in the proceedings in the House of Representatives yesterday evening. Mr. Considine (Cau., N.S.W.) was suspended, ...
Article : 1,210 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—Some progress seemed to have been made last night to-wards a settlement of the civil servants' strike, and only one point of difference ...
Article : 434 wordsAn incendiary fire has destroyed the Royal arsenal at Venice. Damage amounting to £500,000 was caused. Only the outer walls are standing. ...
Article : 210 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The ladies' golf championship was continued at Kensington to-day, when the second of the three rounds was played. The weather was again very unfavourable. Miss ...
Article : 327 wordsWriting from Helsingfors, the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the "socialisation" of large estates in the Baltic republic of Esthonia has ended in ...
Article : 109 wordsA deputation of men and women associated with the Labour movement placed before the Chief Secretary (Major Baird) yesterday a number of specific cases in ...
Article : 339 wordsIn the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Food Controller (Mr. C. A. McCurdy), replying to a question whether he had any knowledge of the operation of a jam ...
Article : 92 wordsConsideration is being given by the United States Treasury to a proposal for reducing the debts owing by the Allies by the amounts awarded on the war claims of ...
Article : 90 wordsBelated reports for 1919 on the Commonwealth Government factories, including clothing, cordite (including acetate of lime), harness, saddlery, and leather ...
Article : 403 wordsThe Admiralty Prize Court has awarded £22,000 in prize-money to 151 British warships which took part in the battle of Jutland. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A 36 holes stroke professional competition for a purse subscribed by the Manly club was played at Manly to-day, and resulted in a win for the open champion, J. H. ...
Article : 307 wordsLord Burnham (London "Daily Telegraph"), speaking at a civic luncheon given at Sydney (Nova Scotia) to the Empire press delegates, said that on Sunday night ...
Article : 73 wordsA Greek communique issued on Tuesday, concerning the operations against the principal Turkish forces in Thrace, states that they practicallu ended by the complete ...
Article : 56 wordsPrivate cable messages from Liverpool advise that the British Government has bought 250,000 tons (9,250,000 bushels) of Manchurian wheat. ...
Article : 29 wordsWhile working beside the railway line, between Ch[?]tenham and Me[?]tone, at about 2 p.m. yesterday, Robert Churchill, labourer, aged about 50 years, residing at Mordialloc, was struck on the ...
Article : 90 wordsLieutenants R. J. Parer and J. C. Melatosh, who are flying to Australia, left Sourabaya at 7 o'clock this morning for Bima, in the island of Sumbawa. Their ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Australian Press Association representative at New York interviewed Mr. Mark Sheldon, the Commonwealth trade commissioner on the proposed appointment ...
Article : 93 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—A meeting of members of Parliament who represent country constituencies was held to-day. At the conclusion of the meeting the leader of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 29 Jul 1920, Page 7
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