His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) has received from His Majesty the King the following reply to the message sent by His ...
Article : 106 wordsNEWCASTLE, Friday.—Throughout the Newcastle district the action of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), in deciding to grant preference to Australian coal ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is apparent that the Polish counter-offensive to the Bolsheviks attack on Warsaw has met with considerable success. The latest news from Warsaw is that ...
Article : 249 wordsTo consider the Charities Bill a special meeting of the Country Hospitals Association was held at the Melbourne Town Hall yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 469 wordsThe diplomatic correspondent at Washington of the "New York World" understands that Mr. Lloyd George is to cross the Atlantic in October in order to meet ...
Article : 211 wordsGovernor Cox, of Ohio, the Democratic candidate for the United States Presidency, in a speech delivered at Columbus, Ohio, said:—"We promise that after March, 1921, ...
Article : 138 wordsIt was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) on his return from Sydney yesterday that the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Storey) had approved of the ...
Article : 99 wordsIn resuming the disussion in the House of Representatives yesterday on the motion for the second reading of the Amending Arbitration Bill, the deputy leader ...
Article : 679 wordsSir,—After reading the letters which have appeared in "The Argus" one would conclude that absolute power is to be handed over to the "director," who would ...
Article : 458 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—When the Broken Hill strike tribunal met this morning, Mr. Emery, on behalf of the emplyers, said that if the men's claims for two six-hour ...
Article : 325 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce to-day agreed to the following motion:- "That this chamber, while approving of the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Lower House of the State Legislature of Tennessee has adopted the principle of woman suffrage by a majority of two, but is to be given an opporunity of rescinding ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor (Sir William Irvine) last night received the following message from the Prince of Wales:- "H.M.S. Renown. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), when his attention was directed to the above cable message yesterday, said that he had not been advised of any Dominions' ...
Article : 61 wordsThe colliers Werribee and Wear arrived at Melbourne yesterday with 8,100 tons of coal from Newcastle. On Monday 10,500 tons of coal will reach Melbourne by the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Federal president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (Captain G. J. C. Dyett) has seat the following cable message to H.R.H. ...
Article : 481 wordsIn shipping circles in Tokio it is complained that the influence of Japanese merchantmen in the South Seas has declined owing to the resumption of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" Buys that the Vatican has been deluged with telegrams from Catholic hierarchies all over the world, urging the Pope ...
Article : 85 wordsAn earlier Moscow wireless message reports that at the opening of the Minsk conference, M. Danishevuky, who presided, outlined the Russian pacific policy, ...
Article : 80 wordsM. Jean V. Parmentier, the Administrator of the French Ministry of Finance, has reached New York in order to float a loan of £150,000,000 in the United States, ...
Article : 90 wordsA total of £334,090 has been received by the Commonwealth Bank, Melbourne, in subscriptions to the Second Peace Loan. The amount received yesterday was ...
Article : 452 wordsMILDURA, Friday.—In addressing the Mildura Hospital Committee to-day the Treasurer (Mr. McPherson) made reference to the criticism of "The Argus" on the ...
Article : 292 wordsWattle Day collections on behalf of the institutions and societies which undertake the care of sick and destitute children and provide for them in other ways were ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Commonwealth Government line steamer Bakara is still idle owing to a dispute with the Seamen's Union, which is demanding that three additional trimmers ...
Article : 154 wordsThere was rain on the fifth day of the Olympic Games. In the 10,000 metres race T. S. Hewitt (Vic.) had to retire when he had covered half the distance. ...
Article : 98 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A cable message was received to-day from the chairman of the British Labour party by the Australian Labour party to the effect that a ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Overseas Settlement Committee in England has received 47,000 applications from ex-service men and women for free passages to the Dominions, covering 250,000 ...
Article : 112 wordsThe French Socialist Parliamentary party has followed up its protest against the expulsion from France of the British Labour representatives, Messrs. Adamson ...
Article : 79 wordsWhen the Senate reassembled at 10 o'clock yesterday morning the third readings of the Institute of Science and Industry Bill and the Nationality Bill were ...
Article : 491 wordsThe most important business to come before the City Council on Monday will be the recommendation of the public works committee that approval be given to ...
Article : 172 wordsThe English, Scottish, and Australian Bank Limited is arranging to purchase the controlling interest in the London Bank of Australia Limited. ...
Article : 32 wordsA War Office report dated Thursday, says: "Further outbreaks have occurred in Mesopotamia on a considerable scale, particularly north-east and west of Bagdad. ...
Article : 190 wordsBEECHWORTH, Friday.—At a meeting of the Ovens District Hospital Board on Wednesday night strong opposition to the Charities Bill was expressed. The opinion was general ...
Article : 1,138 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A circular has been issued to the shareholders of London Bank of Australia on the subject of the proposed amalgamation with the English, ...
Article : 858 wordsIn view of the beginning of the legislative reform scheme in India, several new appointments have been announced, including that of Lord Sinha, who is to be the ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Australian Naval Board, on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy, wishes to express appreaciation for the public kindness and hospitality to the officers and men of ...
Article : 67 wordsNearly 10,000 men engaged in the iron trades in Victoria will be repiesented at meetings which are to be held to-morrow and on Tuesday to consider the offer of the ...
Article : 484 wordsStrong opposition to the Canberra capital proposal has been expressed by the executive committee of the Graziers' Association of Central and North Queensland. In ...
Article : 133 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The Legislative Council rejected by 15 votes to 7 Mr. Panton's amendment to the Address in Reply, proposing the abolition of the Upper House. ...
Article : 186 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Both Houses of Parliament sat all night, and after passing in Appropriation Bill, adjourned till September 10, when the Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 417 wordsIt is understood that the draft agreement embodying the resolutions adopted at the last Premiers' Conference, to transfer to the Murray Waters Commission full ...
Article : 210 wordsThe British Cotton Growing Association has now offered to gurantee 1/6 a 1b. for five years for clean cotton grown in Queensland, but has put a [?] of £10,000 on the ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. G. A. Hobler, who represented the Commonwealth on the visit to the "far north-west" of Western Australia, arranged by the West Australian Ministry and the ...
Article : 238 wordsNominations of candidates in the Labour interest to contest the State electorates of Benambra, Daylesford, Evelyn, and Wal[?] will close with Mr. A. Stewart, at the ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Mathews (Cau.) moved the adjournment of the House of Representatives yesterday in order to direct attention to the "unsatifactory distribution of sugar to ...
Article : 231 wordsAt the auction sales of Australian wool held in Hull on Wednesday 8,650 bales were offered. There was a good attendance, and fair competition. Prices realised about the ...
Article : 71 wordsIt [?] seems probable that the proposed Federal Parliamentary visit to the former German territories in the Pacific, for which Australia has been granted a ...
Article : 184 wordsThe amended determination of the Aerated Water Trade Wages Board, which will come into operation on September 10, provides for substantial increases to all employees. The wages of ...
Article : 339 wordsOpen trading in wheat, futures has been resumed in Winnipeg for the first time since the war. Fairly large purchases were made for October delivery. ...
Article : 36 wordsI confess (writes Mr. Austin Dobson in a pleasant literary causeric in the "National Review") to have formerly sympathised with the matter-of-fact matron who ...
Article : 222 wordsMatters connected with the termination of the last Federal wheat pool and the coordination of the management and control of the State pools, which are to take its ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. George Bell, a Victorian artist, who began his studies in Melbourne and has since studied for a number of years in London and Paris returned to Australia ...
Article : 155 wordsThe [?] [?] the Officer in Charge, [?] Victoria [?] Melbourne [?] Mrs. [?] ...
Article : 265 wordsDARWIN (N.T.), Friday—The unemployed interviewed the Administrator to night, with a view to commencing relief works. The Administrator stated that he ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 21 Aug 1920, Page 21
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