SYDNEY, Thursday.—Thc council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation to-day further considered the refusal by the Victorian Government to ...
Article : 254 wordsM. Venizelos, the defeated Premier of Greece, has left Athens on board a Greek vessel for Egypt. In an interview before he sailed he said:—"I have done my part, ...
Article : 430 wordsThe student societies of three of Tokio's private universities have organised a meeting to debate the question, "Shall Japan fight the American policy?" The students' ...
Article : 123 wordsSenator Millen, the Australian delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations, has joined all of the six commissions appointed by the Assembly. Sir James ...
Article : 489 wordsIn the Senate yesterday the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) moved the second reading of the Commonwealth Bank Bill. The bill, he said, merely transferred ...
Article : 567 wordsAll urgent plea for the adoption by the Commonwealth of the reciprocal Imperial, scheme for the remission of double income tax within the Empire was made to ...
Article : 1,351 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.— Mr. Gunn moved the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly to-day to direct attention to the seriousness of the coal position. ...
Article : 171 wordsIf coal supplies are again cut off from Victoria, the experience of the public will be the same as in June last, when the suburbs were in darkness, electric trams were ...
Article : 390 wordsThe British Labour party has issued a manifesto demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces in Ireland, placing the responsibility for the maintenance of order ...
Article : 293 wordsApplications was made to the Fair Profits Commission yesterday by Mr. A. K. OakRhind, director of the Melbourne office of the Vacuum Oil Company, for an increase ...
Article : 673 wordsInformation as to the accuracy or otherwise of a published statement that the Ministry had been for some time in possession of the report from the Basic Wage ...
Article : 95 wordsWhen questioned last night, the Premier (Mr. Lawson) made the following statement:- "Though the resolutions of the council, ...
Article : 398 wordsA [?] was introduced into the House of Representatives last night for the purpose of amending the Sugar Purchase Act, by deleting the provision which limited the ...
Article : 408 wordsReports from Reval state that General Pilsudski, the Polish President, has conferred with General Petlura, the Ukrainian leader, and that they have reached an ...
Article : 199 wordsMrs. Catt, one of the "suffragettes" instrumental in the success of the woman franchise movement in the United States, has requested every woman who voted for ...
Article : 54 wordsA protest made by Mr. Cutts (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives yesterday, on a motion that the House go into committee of supply, against the price of wheat ...
Article : 724 wordsIt is reported from Vienna that there have been racial conflicts in Bohemia (formerly part of Austria-Hungary), especially in Prague, the capital, between Germans ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Minister for Mines and Railways (Mr. Barnes) said yesterday that if the federation decided to cut off Victorinn supplies of coal, immediate and drastic action ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Council of the League of Nations has received a telegram stating that robbers attacked Prince Arfad, the chief Persian delegate to the League of Nations' ...
Article : 56 wordsFollowing on a visit to France by the Queensland Agent-General in London (Mr. J. M. Hunter), numerous applications have came from Parisian furniture firms for ...
Article : 74 wordsFrom Washington President Wilson has sent a message to the President of the League of Nations' Assembly (M. Hymans), expressing his ...
Article : 99 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—The Government Loan Subscriptions Bill was made available to-day. It applies to all persons whose average ...
Article : 573 wordsThe chairman of the Metropolitan Tramways Board (Mr. A. Cameron), when the important development in the coal dispute was made known to him yesterday ...
Article : 187 wordsWhen the matter was brought under the notice of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) late last night, he said that the position had become very serious. He would do ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Reginald McKenna, M.P., chairman of the London. Joint City and Midland Bunk, and a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech at Manchester ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. Tudor, resuming the debute on the motion for the second reading of the Immigration Bill in the House of Representatives last night, said that it was panic ...
Article : 53 wordsField Marshal Earl Haig made a feeling speech on Wednesday to the Council of the Farmers' Union on behalf of the employment of ex-service men. ...
Article : 194 wordsSir,—In the report in "The Argus" of my evidence given before the Fair Profits Commission yesterday, I am reported as having stated:—"As a member of Rubber Tyre ...
Article : 101 wordsIn answer to a series of questions asked in the Senate yesterday by Senator Gardiner (N.S.W.), the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated that instructions ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the Honse of Representatives yesterday, Mr. Fenton asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) whether something could not be done to avert the threatening industrial ...
Article : 336 wordsWith the exception of the Railways department, the Metropolitan Gas Company is the largest consumer of coal in this State. As the best quality coal is ...
Article : 98 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—In the Legislative Assembly on Thursday Mr. Bavin moved that the action of the Royal commissioner inquiring into the question of members' ...
Article : 298 wordsPeter Christian Barrie, who was sentenced in London at the end of September to three years' penal servitude in connection with two cases in which he was ...
Article : 99 wordsAt a full meeting of the British Cabinet on Wednesday a long discussion took place on the question of resuming trade with Russia, and there was to be a further ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Acting Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Rodgers), replying to Mr. Fenton, said that all war pensions, except those made permanent under the act, were ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. F. W. Clements, manager of the Melbourne Electric Supply Co., when informed late last night of the miners' decision, said that the outlook was extremely ...
Article : 160 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—For some time a young girl has been missing from her home at Newtown. She has now been found, and her discovery has revealed a glimpse of ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Judicial Commission of the Prussian Diet has agreed to pay an annual appanage to the members of the Hohenzollern family, in accordance with their ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Ryan (N.S.W.) directed the attention of the Assistant Minister for Defence (Sir Granville Ryrie) to an order issued by the Adjutant-General of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 103 wordsThe second Congress of the Universities of the Empire will be held in July next year. Oxford University has invited all members of the congress to be its guests ...
Article : 258 wordsNo official communication of the decision of the Miners' Federation was received at the Melbourne Trades Hall last night, Union leaders, on being told of the decision, ...
Article : 374 wordsAnswering a question in the Senate yestarday afternoon, the Minister in Charge of the Wheat Pool (Senator Russell) informed Senator Pratten (N.S.W.) that the ...
Article : 174 wordsContinuing the Moorhouse Lectures at St. Paul's Cathedral last night, on the "Principles of Church Organisation," the Rev. P. A. Micklem, M.A., rector of St. ...
Article : 236 wordsAt the electric supply works of the Melbourne City Council, the stocks on hand are only sufficient to keep the works running at normal pressure for between two ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—Reference was made at the meeting of the Council of Agricultural Education to the need for the establishment of experimental wheat farms in the Mallee. [?] ...
Article : 133 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Labour Council fears that a fall in prices is imminent, and that in consequence an endeavour will be made to reduce wages ...
Article : 88 wordsAn honour board, containing 102 names of old boys who had served with the A.I.F. at the front, was unveiled last night by the Rev. Father T. McCarthy, of Kyneton, at ...
Article : 201 wordsSir,—The members of the Labour party are most anxious to remove any blame from members of the Wharf Labourers' Union. Whether they are to blame or ...
Article : 156 wordsInquiries amongst leading coal importers yesterday disclosed that only three colliers, with an aggregate of 10,000 tons of coal, are expected to reach Melbourne by the ...
Article : 234 wordsAlbert Streeter, of Ascotvale, stable boy, was acquitted in the Criminal Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Cussen, on a charge of having, at Ascotvale, on October 9. seriously assaulted a young ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 19 Nov 1920, Page 7
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