After a dismal week, the Stock Exchange improved somewhat on Friday. There has been a considerable amount of forced selling, chiefly of oil and industrial shares. This ...
Article : 624 wordsIn order to complete its business by December 18, at the latest, the Assembly of the League of Nations has decided to hold two sessions a day. ...
Article : 679 wordsThe leader of the Nationalist party (Mr. Hertzog) has issued an extrardinary manifesto in which increasing want and poverty, the high cost of living, the increased pirces ...
Article : 321 wordsDetails of the Australian wool realisation scheme have not yet been disclosed. The "Yorkshire Observer" says that the scheme would be regarded seriously at ...
Article : 303 wordsAfter a three days' trial on a charge of murder, the Pierce brothers were remanded on Saturday night for re-trial in February, as the jury failed to agree. James ...
Article : 2,295 wordsMr. T. C. Maher, general secretary of the Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Associatiom, stated yesterday that the officers of the service were far from being satisfied ...
Article : 988 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) announced in the House of Commons on Friday that the Ministry had decided to proclaim martial law in a certain area of ...
Article : 1,353 wordsIt is reported in diplomatic circles at Santiago that Chili and Japan are on the verge of an incident of considerable gravity following a formal protest from Japan ...
Article : 87 wordsThe position of ex-King Constantine is the cause of much speculation in London. The telegraphic delays affeeting messages from Athens are alleged to be [?] to an ...
Article : 169 wordsA bomb thrown into the Roumanian Senate killed the Minister for Public Works (General Baleano) and Bishop, Radea. Several other members were, dangerously ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the sales of "free" wool in London on December 10, offerings were, chiefly of Punta Arenas and Falkland Island wools. A small number of West Australian merino ...
Article : 119 wordsConsiderable delay has been caused to oversea, and interstate shinning owing to stormy weather off the New South Wales coast. Exceptional rains in Sydney affected ...
Article : 364 wordsThe chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives has informed the members of the House who are seeking an embargo on ...
Article : 200 wordsThe judicial committee of the House of Lords has reserved judgment in the case of the claim of the infant daughter of Selwyn Lucas-Tooth to the right to inherit ...
Article : 180 wordsDifficulties in the settlement of the longstanding dispute between members of the theatrical profession and the principal theatrical companies of Australia were ...
Article : 699 wordsMr. F. S. Kellaway, the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has informed the Australian Press Association that Imperial trade prospects were not ...
Article : 411 wordsThe Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives has approved of an amendment to the Immigration Bill safeguarding the existing treaty between Japan ...
Article : 229 wordsIn an interview given to the press, the Japanese representative, Count Hsyashi, had expressed regret that China bad not established a stable central Government. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe report of the controller-general of civil aviation (Major-Gencral Sir Frederick H. Sykes) states that the aggregate "machine mileage" for commercial flying is ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Speaking at a dinner given to the Governor-General (Lord Forster) by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, the Premier (Mr. Storey) said that ...
Article : 245 wordsThe famous Italian tenor, Enrico Caruso, while singing in L Elisir d'Amour, in New York, broke a blood-vessel in his throat. It is feared that he may never sing again. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of America says that the isolated position of the United States in the world is beginning to agitate ...
Article : 229 wordsThe annual report of the United States Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Edwin T. Meredith) states that in the face of enormous difficulties, American farms have ...
Article : 96 wordsThe federated trades unions will perse[?] with their campaign, which aims at [?]ing recognition of the rate of £5/16/6 [?] by the Basic Wage commission. ...
Article : 100 wordsAn earthquake has destroyed the village of Tepelini, in Albania. Of a population of 620 persons, 200 were killed. ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Since Tuesday the people of Sydney and the central coastal districts of New Sonth Wales have not seen the sun. They have experienced almost ...
Article : 172 wordsA curious situation has arisen in connection with large stocks of Canadian flour held by the Government. Negotiations with the millers, designed to induce them to ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "first hundred" of the leading business men and bankers of the United States have met in conference at Chicago to consider the American Bunkers' Association's ...
Article : 188 wordsA British mission is on its way to Kabul to conclude a treaty with Afghanistan. It is going at the Amir's pressing request. Recent Bolshevik successes in Bokhara have ...
Article : 77 wordsSir.—The log of the Australian Coach[?] Employees' Federation received by [?]ployers within the last three weeks is in[?] reading, in view of the Federal ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Secretary to the United States Navy (Mr. Josephus Daniels), in commenting on the announcement that Great Britain had decided to suspend, naval construction until ...
Article : 134 wordsLabour troubles in Madras have led to serious riots; the native workmen; who had been on strike for over a month, attempted to rush the mills. ...
Article : 69 wordsJohn Berman, manager of the Whitechapel branch of Lloyd'B Bank, and a client of the bank named Jacob Prager have each been sentenced to five years' imprisonment ...
Article : 71 wordsThe seventh annual meeting of the Old Scotch Collegians' Association was held at the college on Friday night. The annual report showed that the membership had ...
Article : 138 wordsReports received from Poland state that the Bolsheviks, are employing 15,000 agents abroad. Two secret printing offices are working in Great Britain, four in France, ...
Article : 169 wordsA Republican Army proclamation issued at Monaghan declares that Ireland is in a state of war with Great Britain. Armed murder gangs aggressive to the Republican ...
Article : 79 wordsAdvices from Berlin are that the beet harvest of Germany for 1920 will amount to 23,000,000 hundredweight). This yield means that the nation will not require to ...
Article : 55 wordsThe United States Slipping Board has issued a statement inlicating that the loss on the shipping and shipbuilding operations of the board and the Emergency ...
Article : 62 wordsPrsident Wilson has accepted the Nobel P[?] Prize for 1919. The prize, which is of [?]alue of about £8,000, is awarded to the [?] who has, in the opinion of the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe crew of the destroyer Espero has mutined and arrived at Fiume to join d'Annunzio, who boarded the vessel and found the commander lashed to a gun ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. J. B. Remer, the Coalition Unionist member for Macclesfield, has issued writs against three Northeliffe newspapers, the "Daily Mail," the "Evening ...
Article : 90 wordsIn connection with the scheme for reorganising the citizen force and senior cadet units, the State Commandant (BrigadierGeneral Brand) will meet brigadiers and ...
Article : 99 wordsThe military forces made a raid on a bicycle repair shop in Dublin on Saturday, and found sacks of gelignite, large quantities of ammunition, revolvers, and ...
Article : 320 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday. —The Postmaster- General announces that arrangements have been made for a postal aerial service between Christchurch and ...
Article : 62 words[?]trouble started in the scalp, and took the [?] of lumps of dandruff, becoming influmed [?] the crown of the head. It caused little [?] [?] to come around the forehead. The ...
Article : 65 wordsKALGOORLIE (W.A.), Sunday. —A large open-air meeting van addressed by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) and Senators Henderson and Buzacott last ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 13 Dec 1920, Page 7
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