The adjournment of the Assembly was moved by Mr. Murphy (Cau., Port Melbourne), to discuss "the neglect of the Ministry in not obtaining the opinion of a ...
Article : 156 wordsA Supply Bill, to make available a sum of £2,367,826 for public services, was discussed in the Senate yesterday. On the motion that the bill be read a first time ...
Article : 375 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Ballarat Trustees and Executors Agency Company on Wednesday, the chairman (Mr. John Macleod) stated that during the year 104 estates, valued at £304,894, had been ...
Article : 329 wordsThe following are the wholesale prices [?]ng at the Western Market:—Apples.—Good to choice eating, 5/6 to 8/; inferior eating 4/ to 4/6; good to choice cooking, 5/ to 7/6; interior cooking, 3/6 to ...
Article : 4,001 wordsThe Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee, which has been discussing the position relating to butter and cheese, has Come to a decision that shipments of butter ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,644 wordsBetter values are showing in the stopes on the eastern formation at 1,108ft. at the NEW CHUM GOLDFIELDS, NEW RED, WHITE, AND BLUE continue to break fair quality stone in the stopes ...
Article : 638 wordsFor Commonwealth Government 5 per cent. bonds dated 1927 £92/12/6 was on offer at the close, and the 4½ per cents. were readily absorbed at £92/10/. ...
Article : 598 wordsThe debate on the motion for the second reading of the Public Service Bill was resumed. The measure provides far increasing the salaries of the public service, the ...
Article : 235 wordsMr. C. E. Norman, chairman of the Railways Commissioners, and Mr. J. Miscamble, third Commissioner, visited Bendigo on Wednesday and made an inspection of the new yards, which are being ...
Article : 139 wordsSenator J. F. Guthrie, Alderman Hitchcock, and Brigadier-General R. Smith have been appointed trustees of the Geelong and District Returned Soldiers' Worsted and Manufacturing Company. Their ...
Article : 354 wordsMr. Nicholls (Cau., N.S.W.) moved, in the House of Representatives, yesterday:- "That Mr. Deputy Speaker's ruling—that on ...
Article : 188 wordsIf a bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly by the Premier (Mr. Lawson) is passed, the fees for persons engaged as jury-men will be increased from 7/ to 12/ a day. ...
Article : 83 wordsA fine discovery of alluvial and quartz gold has been made in New South Wales, just over the border, at Little Plain, near Delegate. The directors of an alluvial claim visited the spot on July ...
Article : 114 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier (Mr. Lawson) informed Mr. Rogers (Cau., Melbourne) that the Ministry did not propose to take any action to test ...
Article : 182 wordsRapid progress has been made at the May Queen, Mainsbury. The water has been lowered to within a few feet of the bottom level; the machinery is working highly satisfactory. At the 120ft. level the ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Cunningham (Cau., N.S.W.), [?] House of Representatives yesterday, asked the Prime Minister "to bring under the notice of the British authorities the action ...
Article : 555 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Aust. Bank of Comme[?] 18/9; National Bank (ord.) £6/8/6; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £20/3/9; Adelaide Steam., 21/3, 21/4; Aust. Gas (A), £6/7/; do., B. £6/8/6; Brit. ...
Article : 231 wordsA ballot taken by the Farmers Union [?] in Mr. W. J. Nankervis being selected to contest the Dundas seat at the State election. The other candidate was Mr, G. J. Gr[?]ian. ...
Article : 760 wordsPhilippine Dredgen. — July. — No. 2 (Philippine) —24[?]oz; treated 46,000 cubic yards. Previous yield (June)—349oz. Tyreonnell.—For month July the battery ran ...
Article : 15 wordsAsam Kumbang, F.M.S.—Return for July—Hours run, 465; cubic yards treated, 70,000; tin oxide recovered, 43 tons; realising £6,941. Kampong Kamunting. F.M.S. — Return for July ...
Article : 72 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday. — Reasons for the decision of the Ministry to establish a compulsory pool for the handling of the next wheat crop were given by the Premier ...
Article : 316 wordsAustralian quotations on the London Stock Exchange are:—Broken Hill Propa., 60/7, 61/; P. and [?]. (def. stock), £440, £460. ...
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Advertising : 106 wordsPrices for NEW LANGI were inclined to ease, for, alter opening with acceptance at 3/7, shares were obtained at a couple of pence below that rate; and further supply was offered at the same ...
Article : 173 wordsThe managers report:- Cock's Pioneer, Eldorado, 31st.—Completed run No. 27, total time 1,204 hours. Actual sluicing time, 1,133 hours. Plant ran satisfactorily. Water ...
Article : 69 wordsThe latest exchange rates are as follow:—Paris, 49.05fr.; Stockholm, 17.63kr,; Christiania, 23.67kr.; Calcutta. 22[?]d. to the rupee; Montreal, 4.61½dol.; New York, 3.68dol. ...
Article : 30 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—It is announced by the Premier (Mr. Storey) that a compulsory wheat pool will be established in New South Wales to control the next ...
Article : 63 wordsStocks of tallow at the end of July were 8,439 tons. Imports for July were 1,740 tons, and deliveries 1,920 tons. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere was a large attendance at the first reunion of present and past boys of St. Kevin's College, East Melbourne, conducted by the Christian Brothers. The Rev. Brother Tevlin, M.A., who ...
Article : 86 wordsFurther consideration was given to the Budget by the Federal Cabinet yesterday. The Treasurer (Sir Joseph Cook) stated that it had not yet been possible to fix the ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Eggs—Hen, new-laid, 2/7 to 2/8; [?]ase, 2/4 to 2/5; duck eggs, new-laid, 2/6 to 2/7: case, 2/3 a dozen. Flour, £19/2/6; bran, £9; pollard, £10 a ton net cash at mill. Forage Chaff. ...
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Advertising : 184 wordsIn the Court to General Sessions yesterday. before Judge Dethridge, John Harris and David Neill pleaded not guilty to the charge of having stolen a parcel of [?] from a carner's waggon outside ...
Article : 134 wordsAfter writing off £465 depreciation, the net profit of the Theatre Royal Proprietary Company Limited for the half-year ended June 30 amounted to £1,276. The balance brought forward from ...
Article : 94 wordsBALLARAT (Aug. 3).—Cattle—98 [?] ing a few trucks of prime heavy-weight bullocks, prime he[?], and some nice handy-weight bullocks, the remainder being ordinary lightweights and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsSir,—Sugar for daily domestic needs is practically unobtainable, and repeated shortages are likely to continue. For months past thousands of tons of good fruit ...
Article : 182 wordsHerbert Aubrey Chapman, a labourer, of 106 Pakington street, Geelong West, yesterday filed his insoveney schudule with the acting registrar (Mr. T. J. McKeenel. He gave as causes—Shortage of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe revenue collected at the Custom House on August 4 amounted to:—Revenue. £30,028/7/11; light dues, nil; trust account, £1,667/7/9; pilotage, £191/17/1; State, £[?]78/1/6; wharfage, £1,138/7/8. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe fodder position at border stations as at 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and the truck clearances during the subsequent 24 hours, are reported by the Railways department as follow:—At ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 5 Aug 1920, Page 4
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