Motor-cycles were sold in Melbourne in 1910 for £18/10/. Up to £52/10/ in duty alone is now paid on a machine. The average price of i motor-cycle to-day is £170. ...
Article : 712 wordsThe sixth interstate conference of Retail Jewellers' Associations will meet at the Commercial Travellers' Association romms to-morrow. the Lord mayor ...
Article : 1,069 wordsUnder the influence of the coal strike and the threatened railway strike business on the Stock Exchange has been dull, but there has not been any pressure to sell, ...
Article : 751 wordsIn a report dated December 30, commissioners who were sent from South Africa to Germany to arrange for the purchase of South African wool, state that the ...
Article : 164 wordsIt is rumoured that there has been a breakdown in the financial arrangements of the Irish Home Rule Act, under which the first charge of the Irish revenue will be ...
Article : 118 wordsBRIGHT, Saturday.—"St. John's wort is not only a curse to this district, but it is a direct menace to the owners of much more valuable land in other parts of the ...
Article : 1,030 wordsThe refusal of the executive of the Miners' Federation to negotiate on the lines of a temporary settlement of the wages question, subject to review when trade revived, as suggested by their secretary (Mr. F. Hodges) to members of the House of Commons, resulted in the railway-men and ...
Article : 2,150 wordsThe State Ministry has taken action to prevent the sale in public thoroughfares of tickets for raffles. It is illegal; but because the police have been tolerent the law ...
Article : 491 wordsWhile Major Mackinnon, an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was playing golf at Tralee (capital fo the county of Kerry), in company with a cadet of ...
Article : 381 wordsAccording to the "Echo de Paris," the council of Ministers and generals has adopted a report by Marshal Foch, in which he points out that the occupation of the ...
Article : 176 wordsWhen introducing the Budget in the assembly this afternoon, the Minister for Finance (Mr. Burton) said that the deficit for the current year would be less than had ...
Article : 290 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The wages and conditions under which the New Zealand mining industry shall be conducted were considered at a conference between ...
Article : 194 wordsIrish residents of Paris entertained Dr. Mannix at dinner. In an interview Dr. Mannix said that the Pope had asked him to be his intermediary in condemning the ...
Article : 195 wordsIn order to domonstrate to the Ministry the weight by which opinions in favour of the Kiewa hydraulic scheme are backed, a conference of delegates from ...
Article : 373 wordsThe following cable message dated London, April 15, has been received by the chairman of directors of the British Australian Wool Realisation Association (Sir ...
Article : 827 wordsA message from Chicago states that it is believed that 75 people have been killes, and property valued at 1,000,000 dollars (approximately £200,000) has been destroyed, ...
Article : 235 wordsReference was made on Friday by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Massy Greene) to complaints made by the mayor of Thursday Island that vessels at present ...
Article : 194 wordsBelfast shipbuilders have notified their employees of their intention to reduce rates of pay by 3/ a day, and piece-work rates by 7½ per cent. They promise that there ...
Article : 50 wordsAt St. Joseph's Church, Collipwood, yesterday afternoon, Bishop McCarthy protested against the proposed chance in the Education Act. At the State ...
Article : 278 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—In connection with the Parliamentary elections, the box containing the papers for Cobdogla, in the Albert district (Renmark sub-division), did ...
Article : 220 wordsA Washington message states that the House of Representatives has passed the Emergency Tariff Bill, which provides the same duties as the previous measure, ...
Article : 133 wordsSYDNEy, Saturday.—Mr. H. J. Moore, one of the oldest white residents of Samoa, arrived in Sydney by the steamer Taiyuan, and, in an interview, spoke with emphasis ...
Article : 237 wordsThe "Morning Post" published another cricket article by Mr. Pelham F. Warner. Discussing the coming test matches, he says: —"Armstrong's side possesses a variety of ...
Article : 365 wordsBRIKEN HILL, Friday.—A meeting of the Industrial Labour party was held last night to discuss the vacancy in the New South Wales Assembly caused by the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe United States Treasury department announces that Great Britain has paid 25,000,000 dollars (normally about £5,000,000) on account of the silver debt. ...
Article : 425 wordsReplying to a suggestion by Naza Ali, a member of the Council of State, that the Indian extremist policy of non-co-operation should be suspended to give the new Viceroy ...
Article : 284 wordsIt is the intention of the leader of the Federal Country party (Dr. Earle Page, M.H.R.) to ask the Postmaster-General (Mr. Wise), in the House of ...
Article : 145 wordsALBURY (N.S.W.), Sunday.—The skid of Lieutenant Roy Parer's aerolane was damaged on Saturday afternoon in landing after an exhibition flight. The machine ...
Article : 99 wordsFor the discussion of the methods of physical and recreational training of cadets and citizen force trainces, a conterence of staff officers from the various States was ...
Article : 136 wordsAt the pleasant Sunday afternoon gathering at Wesley Church yesterday, the Rev. Henry Worrall delivered an address on "Empire Wreckers." Mr. Worrall said that ...
Article : 240 wordsOfficial figures show that the cost of living in England is now 133 per cent above the pre-war rate, or 43 per cent below the maximum reached in November, 1920. There ...
Article : 50 wordsOn Saturday afternoon three young men, whose names have not been ascertained, hired an open boat from Mr. Samuel Blesby, boat proprietor, of Williamstown. ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the final games for the covered courts championship Crawley defeated Lycett, 4—6, 14—16, 7—5, 9—7, 6—3. Gobert (France). the holder of the ...
Article : 75 wordsPERTH, Saturday.—In connection with the reported cases of hookworm disease at the Beagle Bay Mission Station, in the north-west, the commissioner for health ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—Councillor Hardy cannot be in possession of the facts, of he would not have written as he did yesterday. Teh Prahran Council has consistently refused to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 18 Apr 1921, Page 7
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