Party politics appear to be outweighing all other considerations in regard to the election this afternoon of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, in succession to ...
Article : 1,433 wordsTo-day was the qui[?]test at the Empire Exhibition since it was opened, a fact due largely to the cold and showery weather. However, in the Australian ...
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Article : 192 wordsA new sensation, involving President Coolidge, was revealed in the Senate Agricultural Committee's discussion on the disposal of the so-called Muscle Shoals in ...
Article : 362 wordsIn view of the Australian scientists' search for an Australasian wood suitable for the manufacture of paper, the announcement of the United States forest ...
Article : 177 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Tuesday.—Speaking to-night in the Mechanics' hall to a crowded audience, some of whom had come many miles to hear him, the Prime minister ...
Article : 993 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Tuesday.—"Two on earth could tell where an invader would land on our coastlie of 12,000 miles," exclaimed the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) ...
Article : 367 wordsOfficial opinion at Downing Street is most optimistic concerning the spirit of the Allies' replies on the reparations question. It is considered that M. ...
Article : 815 wordsContinuing their seaplane flight around Australia, Wing-Commander Goble and Flying-Officer Mel[?]tyre left Broome at half-past 6 o'clock yesterday morning. ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald), accompanied by his eldest daughter (Miss Ishbel MucDonald), toured his constituency in a motor-car, and everywhere he ...
Article : 143 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday,—When the High Court assembled to-day the Chief Justice (Sir Adrian Knox) announced that the application for an injunction brought by the ...
Article : 490 wordsMr. Roos, the Transvaal Nationalist leader, complained of misrepresentation of the Nationalists by the press. He foreshadowed legislation making any false ...
Article : 804 wordsA committee representing artists and writers from the Dominions has decided to organise a Dominion Artists' Club in London. Dominion musicians, actors, ...
Article : 153 wordsA meeting of the board of control at Lords appointed Messrs. H. D. G. Lev[?]son-Gower (Surrey), J. Daniell (Somerset), and J. Sharp (Lancashire) selectors for the ...
Article : 355 wordsThe fifth annual smoke social of the Victorian Police Association was held in the Town Hill last evening when Mr [?]. W. kroger (president) occupied the ...
Article : 681 wordsIn response to a request by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden), the British Empire Producers' Organisation has submitted to him a memorandum ...
Article : 158 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Edward Williams, who was sentenced to death for the murder [?] children at Paddington, was hanged at the Long Bay gaol at 9 ...
Article : 255 wordsLieut.-Colonel Charles Jarrott, who is chairman of the Automobile Association and of the Junior Car Club, also a former vice-president of the Society of Motor ...
Article : 146 wordsMembers of the Young Australia League were treut[?]d to a special all-day aerial display at Farnborough a[?]rodrome. Flying-Officer Barrett and Lieutenants Bulman, ...
Article : 190 wordsA few days ago the home of the Rev. Littleton Smith, of Buffalo, was destroyed with a bomb as a protest against his prohibition activities. This form of ...
Article : 141 wordsOfficials of the Health department do not view with alarm the position with regard to the prevalence of diphtheria. The City Council at its meeting on Monday ...
Article : 517 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—In connection with the fire on the steamer City of Singapore, on which a disastrous explosion occurred on Saturday night, it was reported ...
Article : 232 wordsApplications for the City of Sydney 5 per cent. loan of £1,000,000, issued at £97 10/ per cent., receive an allotment of about 15 per cent. of the amount of their ...
Article : 97 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—That Australia's credit in the world's markts is good, but that heavy borrowing by the State and Commonwealth Governments is making ...
Article : 210 wordsAnxiety in regard to the financial position of the Melbourne Hospital was again expressed by members of the board of management of the Hospital at a meeting ...
Article : 263 wordsIt is reported from Wheeling (West Virginia) that 107 miners were entombed by an explosion in the Benwood coalmine. All of the entrances have been blocked by ...
Article : 77 wordsThe move for a compromise between the Executive and Legislative branches of the Government on the question of Japanese exclusion continues, and there has been ...
Article : 136 wordsThe steamer Cornwall's New Zealand apples, as unloaded, appear to be in a somewhat wasty condition and over-ripe. Cox's Pippins are selling at 10/ to 14/. a case, ...
Article : 113 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—A march through the streets of about 1,200 officers and men of the Special Service Squadron yesterday was watched by many ...
Article : 131 wordsA curius position prevails in Rhodesia, where the election campaign will close to-night. All shades of political opinion accept Sir Charles Coghlan and his ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Ford Motor C[?]pany has filed its financial statement for 1923, indicating that it is probably the third in strengh among industrial organisations of the United ...
Article : 119 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—The mother of Leslie Arthur Hughes, aged 16 years, of West Perth, who was found dead on Monday, with a bu[?]et wound in his head, stated ...
Article : 98 wordsA movement has been begun by the Actors' Association with the object of regulating entry to the stage. It is suggested that admittance be only by diploma. The ...
Article : 66 wordsExcitement was caused in Little Collins street shortly before 6 o'clock last night, when smoke was seen issuing from the ground floor of an eight-[?] concrete ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 283 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—At the Australian Bowling Carnival yesterday the Single-handed Championship was won by Gusta[?]son (Western Australia), who scored 33 to 24 against W. Swain (Victoria)[?] ...
Article : 222 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—A series of explosions occurred on Monday night on the railway line near Bickley, 13 miles south-east of Perth, as the result of pieces of gelignite ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday Mr. Jones gave notice of his intention to ask the Attorney-General (Sir Arthur Robinson) on May 13 the following ...
Article : 86 wordsThe King, who was visiting the railway shops at Swindon, unexpectedly mounted the footplate of a new engine, named Windsor Castle, called the Queen to join ...
Article : 54 wordsAn organisation known as La Renaissance des Cites proposes to build a village suburb of Paris, to be named Sarah Bernhardt, after the famous French ...
Article : 57 wordsAs the 11.25 a.m. electric train to Heidelberg was approaching the viad[?]ct over Elizabeth street near the North Richmond railway station yesterday the ...
Article : 117 wordsQUEENSTOWN (T.), Tuesday.—The following recommendation with regard to the timber workers' dispute, which had been submitted by the combined unions' ...
Article : 91 wordsDARWIN (N.T.), Tuesday.—A telegram from Newcastle Waters to-day states that of three large mobs of cattle, belonging to Vestey's meatworks, en route to ...
Article : 75 wordsWELLINGTON, Tuesday.—William Cross, traffic inspector, who was injured by being knocked down by a motor-car while endeavouring to control the traffic on ...
Article : 52 wordsThe [?]rator of the estates of deceased persons has obtained r[?]les to administer the estates of the following:—Bourke, Thomas ([?]therwise Bourke, Thomas James), Bolton, £47/10/; [?]ough, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 30 Apr 1924, Page 19
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