Moderate leaders met to-day in a national conference, under the chairmanship of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru. The speakers included Mr. Sastri and Mrs. Annie Besant, ...
Article : 564 wordsThe conference of dockers' delegates decided to recommend acceptance of the terms of the agreement between the men's representatives and the employers. This ...
Article : 444 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Riotuous behaviour on the part of a number of youths on the ferry-steamer Koree when it was returning last night from Clifton Gardens after the ...
Article : 317 wordsContinuing the debate on the Government's financial proposals, the Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution referring articles 47 to 51, which increase the ...
Article : 205 wordsWhen two motor-cars containing members of the Oakleigh "A" bowling team, who had been playing a match at Brunswick were travelling along Dandenong ...
Article : 581 wordsTwo persons who lived in Hoddle street, Abbotsford, perished as the result of a fire which occurred on Saturday night in a small cottage. The victims were:— ...
Article : 1,099 wordsThe "Daily Express" says that the Ministry of Health is favourably impressed with an offer by the Alexander Lumber Co., of the United States and Canada, to ...
Article : 353 wordsA Reuter message states that a woman and two young children were killed by falling from the top of the tower of Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral this ...
Article : 318 wordsThe Premier of Queensland (Mr. Theodore) arrived at Southampton to-day. Interviewed by Reuter, Mr. Theodore said that he would stay in England for five ...
Article : 254 wordsTramway officials experienced a strenuous and anxious time on Saturday morning, when three distinct line troubles occurred. The first was at the intersection of ...
Article : 496 wordsThe "Daily Express" understands that the peer whose life policies, amounting, with interest, to £320,000, were sold by auction for £105,000, is Lord Armstrong, ...
Article : 164 wordsNew disclosures in the oil scandal have revealed departmental endeavours to shield the oil interests and the accused officials by delaying and even refusing assistance ...
Article : 252 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" understands that the Donald committee's report on Empire wireless favours resumption by the Government of the control of wireless stations in ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" understands that the figure arrived at by the second committee of experts concerning the amount of German ...
Article : 552 wordsRepresentatives of the Egyptian Government took over King Tutankhamen's tomb yesterday. The locks which had been affixed by Mr. ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the course of a speech at the annual meeting of the Hong Kong and Shangai Bank the chairman said that the record of events in China in 1923 was one of ...
Article : 240 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Following representations by the relatives of Charles Hurford, the fourth engineer of the steamer Time, who was found banged in his cabin ...
Article : 182 wordsIn his presidential address to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, Sir Alan Anderson said that the depression continued, but he thought that they had ...
Article : 276 wordsNaval officials are exerting the utmost efforts to induce President Coolidge and members of Congress to cancel the order which has halted preparations for the ...
Article : 126 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—A particularly sad drowning case occurred at Bribie Island, Moreton Bay, early this morning. Captain Laidley, master of the coastal ...
Article : 432 wordsA Reuter message from Dayton (Ohio) states that Lieutenant John Macready is believed to have broken the world's altitude record in an aeroplane. He is unofficially ...
Article : 708 wordsCommander Burney, in an article in the "Sunday Times," says:—"Eight hundred modern aeroplanes could drop 170 tons of bombs on London in 24 hours, and would ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the "New York Times" says that after three years of intermittent negotiations the last hope of Japanese recognition of Russia seems ...
Article : 222 wordsSerious developments are threatened in the iron trade of Victoria owing to supplies of smelting coke having become almost exhausted. Stocks in most ...
Article : 440 wordsThe Associated Australasian Banks announce that from February 25 the London selling rates for Australian drafts will be as follow:—Mail transfers, 27/6 per cent. ...
Article : 104 wordsContending that the meat export trade had obtained little encouragement from the Federal and State Ministers, Mr. Angliss, M.L.C., mentioned on Saturday that he ...
Article : 218 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Shortly after the arrival of the White Star liner Medic at the Outer Harbour this morning, one of the passengers, Mrs. Hilda Hunter, was ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. J. W. Jagger), replying to a question in the Legislative Assembly, stated that the railway administration had placed orders for ...
Article : 123 wordsThree months ago a strike began in a textile factory known as the "Filature." It was settled a fortnight ago by the intervention of the Government, but the operatives ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—The verses "Twelve Years on the Chain" in "The Argus" of February 16 will have been read by thousands, and must have awakened many dormant ...
Article : 266 wordsPedestrians in Gertrude street, Fitzroy, were startled about 6 o'clock on Saturday night by the report of a revolver shot which occured during an affray among a ...
Article : 202 wordsGARFIELD, Friday.—The Garfield railway station was completely destroyed by a fire which occurred about 2 o'clock on Thursday morning. The fire was first noticed by the crew of a goods ...
Article : 102 wordsBRISBANE, Saturday. — Benjamin Metcalfe, who escaped from the Boggo road gaol on Thursday morning, was recaptured near Logan, 25 miles from Brisbane, this ...
Article : 61 wordsThe male child which was found lying in a channel at the corner of Newry and Station streets, North Carlton, by a milkman early on Thursday morning, died in a private hospital in Canning ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 25 Feb 1924, Page 9
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