Cable messsages from Australia allege that business men estimate thal it will be necessary to write off £8,000,000 of the capitalised value of commonwealth ships ...
Article : 133 wordsEUROA, Sunday.—The most devastating bush fire experienced in this district for many years occureed yesterday. For some days past a fire has been burning on Corwn ...
Article : 514 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Forster) will open the first session of the ninth Federal Parliament on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Both ...
Article : 530 wordsDetectives arrested five of the principal irregular leaders at an army council meeting in Drumcondra. The authorities are most reticent regarding the names of the ...
Article : 448 wordsThe Royal Colonial Institute gave a luncheon in honour of the Premier of Victoria (Mr. Lawson) at the Goldsmiths' Hall. Before proposing Mr. Lawson's ...
Article : 834 wordsInformation received by the French indicate that extensive preparations are proceeding to arm various Nationalist organisations in the Ruhr. Arms are known ...
Article : 314 wordsPresident Harding has despatched a message to the United States Senate advising that the United States should become an official member of the Permanent Court of ...
Article : 1,042 wordsAbout 160 members of the Federated Municipal Employees' Union, who are responsible for the cleanliness of the streets of Melbourne and the removal of house ...
Article : 731 wordsDamage estimated at approximately £40,000 was caused hy a fire which enveloped with amazing rapidity premises occupied by the Cork and Crown Seal ...
Article : 631 wordsThe Indian Government publishes Mr. Srinivasa Sastri's report upon his mission to the Dominions of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada for urging that practical ...
Article : 338 wordsHerr Breitscheid, a leading Socialist, who visited Great Britain with a view to obtaining mediation on the question of the Ruhr, is giving a grotesque view of the ...
Article : 137 wordsTwo hundred and seventy-five cases of modern high-power ammunition, including a large quantity of hand grenades, have been discovered by agents of the ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Wallis Myers, the tennis, expert, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," reports that there is general satisfaction among all players at Monte Carlo at the ...
Article : 86 wordsSCOTT'S CREEK, Sunday.—Bush fires have been burning in many places near the Heytesbury Forest during the last ten days. Around Scott's Creek and the country near ...
Article : 308 wordsA remarkable lunar halo was witnessed in the English Channel to-night. It brilliantly lit up the sky with a dazzling arch in the shape of a half-moon. The sea, ...
Article : 289 wordsAuguste Deculoux, aged 83 years, a retired ship's captain, was found bound in his bedroom at Villeter-Renuve. Recently, in spite of his protests, his son-in-law, aged ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. Morris (Nat. Lib.) in the House of Commons moved the second reading of a bill previously passed three times by the House of Lords permitting local authorities ...
Article : 180 wordsThe return match between Georges Carpentier and Siki is becoming more unlikely. Carpentier is now demanding that scientific funds should receive only a fixed ...
Article : 46 wordsWith deference suitable to the rank of an ordinary litigant. Henry Bourne Higgins. who in evidence described himself as "a Justice of the High Court of Australia," ...
Article : 271 wordsA match between the English XI. and a team representing the Orange Free State was commenced to-day. Heavy rain fell during the night, and the wicket was slow ...
Article : 222 wordsA report from Kansas City, in the United States, states that 13 persons were burned to death in a fire in an apartment house. Two flight officers and one mechanic ...
Article : 772 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.[?] Twenty-five mail bags containing registered articles were stolen from the parcels post-office at Central Square, Sydney, early this morning. ...
Article : 214 wordsNominations for the Mitenam by-election produced a last-minute surprise. Liberal and Labour candidates have been conducting their campaign against Sir ...
Article : 63 wordsThe unfortunate differences in connection with the Empire Exhibition has led to a report that South Africa may withdraw its proposed subsidy of £50,000. The ...
Article : 180 wordsALBURY, Sunday.—A large, bush fire on Saturday afternoon swept over the hills near Albury and to within less than half a mile of one of the main residential portions ...
Article : 401 wordsThe Eastham braned of the Independent Labour party has forwarded to the right Commissioner for Australia in London (Sir Joseph Cook) a resolution condemning the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Australian Fruit Delegation (Messrs. C. E. D. Meares and F. McDougall) inspected facilities for handling produce at Hull, and attended a joint meeting of ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, Feb. 24.—Rugby.—Wales v. France, at Swansea, 16 to 8; Ireland v. Scotland, at Dublin, 3 to 13. Rugby Union.—Guy's Hospital v. Plymouth ...
Article : 393 words"I emphatically protest against the embargo which hus been placed on my becoming a member of the investigating committee regarding the conditions for soldier ...
Article : 273 wordsFollowing his judgment on the law points [?]rising out of the arbitration in the dispute between Reynolds Driver and the War Service Homes Commission relative ...
Article : 122 wordsThe market for metals is very strong. American copper consumers are buying on a hugh scale, the smallness of the existing stocks, and the improbability of any ...
Article : 174 wordsViscount Astor presided at a meeting of the Devon and Cornwall Migration committee, at which a letter was read from the Agent-General for Western Australia (Sir ...
Article : 175 wordsThe "Central News" is officially informed that the clergy committee which assisted in the defence of the Rev. John Wakeford has been reconstituted and enlarged. The ...
Article : 147 wordsThe fourth annual conference of the Sailors and Soldiers' Fathers' Association will he held in the Soldiers' Hall, Geelong, to-morrow, commencing at a quarter to ...
Article : 378 wordsECHUCA, Sunday.—George Penny, aged seven years, a sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. Penny, of Echuca, is thought to have been drowned in the Murray River. The lad ...
Article : 124 wordsA report from Constantinople states that Ministers have drafted a reply to the Allies' peace proposals, and that it was presented to the Turkish National ...
Article : 62 wordsSeveral women are training for a novel London to Brighton walking race on April 7. The competitors must wheel a baby in a perambuator. Mrs. Firmager, aged ...
Article : 53 wordsSeveral acres of grass on land studded with timber, comprising portion of the farm property attached to the Kew Asylum, were, destroyed by fire yesterday ...
Article : 179 wordsThe report of the Civil Air Transport Subsidies' Committee favours the termination of the present agreements with British companies running cross-Channel services, and ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Victorian 5 per cent, loan of £5,000,000, which was offered for subscription at £99/10/, was heavily oversubscribed. Mr. Lawson regards the success of ...
Article : 50 wordsWith half-a-crown in big pocket. Leslie William Harris, aged 11 years, arrived in Melbourne by the Sydney express on Wednesday. The lad, whose parents ...
Article : 98 wordsAlterations to the Palace Theatre, planned by Mr. Henry E. White, theatre architect for Hugh J. Ward Proprietary Limitted's Bourke street playhouse, ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) in the House of Commons tabled the following comparison of present taxation:—United ...
Article : 48 wordsAfter meeting in conference, the shipping lines announce that in view of the opinions expressed by the deputation from the National Federation of Fruit Trades ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. J. Milward, of the Pacific Cable Board, before the departure of the Makura for Australia this morning, said that the duplication of the cable would be postponed ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,—I was interested in Vesta's remarks on the "Maternity Bonus." As a medical practitioner I think an allowance (of even £10) should still be made in these cases ...
Article : 147 wordsReferring to the recent bush fires in the Dandenong Ranges, the secretary of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (Mr. G. A. Gibbs) said on Saturday ...
Article : 149 wordsIn connection with the proclamation of Sandringham as a city by His Excellency the Governor (the Earl ol Stradbroke) on March 21, the council has decided that all ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Hull wool sale was moderately well attended, and there was good "home" and Continental competition. Practically everything was sold. Prices were without ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe City of Brighton G.B.E. festival will be opened by Sir Alfred Pickford, of the Loudon headquarters Boy Scouts' Association, on Saturday afternoon, March 10, at ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 26 Feb 1923, Page 7
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