Commenting on the report submitted by Mr. A. G. M. Michell, hydraulic engineer, regarding the practicability of the Kiewa hydro-electric scheme, the electricity ...
Article : 752 wordsThe stewards employed on the Union S.S. Co.'s steamer Rotomahana, which is engaged in the Melbourne Tasmanian service, yesterday morning handed in 24 hours' ...
Article : 297 wordsElaborate tables have been issued by the Central Wool Committee in continuation of those published in May, 1919, showing the results of the appraisement of the ...
Article : 649 wordsMildura, like all country towns, has its grievances against the authorities in Melbourne. It has not reached the apex of its growth. Every year finds it expanding. ...
Article : 808 wordsMatters in connection with the miners' strike at Morwell and Wonthaggi have become complicated in consequence of the new log of wages and conditions demanded ...
Article : 640 wordsA basic rate of 13/6 a day for adult male employees is provided for in the award delivered yesterday by the Railways Classification Board. This is 1/9 more than ...
Article : 1,581 wordsIn his annual report to President Wilson, Mr. Josephus Daniels, United States Secretary for the Navy, advocates another three years' naval building programme, ...
Article : 131 wordsShortly after a Sinn Fein outrage, in which bombs were thrown into a motorlorry containing 12 cadets, incendiary fires broke out in the main street of Cork, and ...
Article : 296 wordsDetails of the new increases in wages of Commonwealth officers under the basic wage scheme are now being worked out by the Commonwealth authorities, and if ...
Article : 215 wordsGreat preparations are being made for the entry of the ex-King to the city on December 19. Constantine, mounted on a white charger, will lead the parade, and ...
Article : 176 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Latest reports show that, the cyclonic storm begun to cause trouble last Tuesday. It followed an almost circular course; its centre being ...
Article : 284 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.— An important announcement was made to-day by the judges of the Queensland Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice MacCawley and Mr. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe cadets were ambushed on Saturday evening at a sharp corner, where the motor-lorry was compelled to go slowly. This enabled the Sinn Foiners to throw bombs ...
Article : 157 wordsThe representative of the Russian Soviet Government at Kovno has warned Lithuania that the Government at Moscow will not sanction the occupation of the Vilna ...
Article : 77 wordsMarconi's Wireless Company Limited conducted an interesting wireless telephonic experiment between London and Geneva. Notwithstanding the interference ...
Article : 62 wordsAccording to returns for 1919-20, compiled by the Government statist (Mr. A. M. Laughton), the number of factories in Victoria has increased since 1904 by 1,830, or ...
Article : 325 wordsThe new demands made by the federation explain the reticence of members of the executive council after their recent meeting in Sydney. It was understood that ...
Article : 448 wordsDr. Colahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, preaching in the Cathedral, said that he would issue a decree excommunicating everybody identified with the ambush of ...
Article : 40 wordsA goods train which was leaving Armentieres this morning ran into the side of a passenger train. Ten persons were killed and 20 injured, and much damage ...
Article : 38 wordsWhen the news of the ambush spread, the inhabitants of Cork were stricken with fear. People living in the district where the outrage occurred fled from their homes ...
Article : 312 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) to-day drew a gioomy picture of the damage done by the late storm to the wheat crops of New ...
Article : 294 wordsThe Elections and Qualifications Committee, sitting at State Parliament House, was occupied for seven hours in hearing a petition lodged by William Hosking ...
Article : 344 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The inquiry by Mr. Justice Pring into statements made in a letter from J. J. Talbot regarding the payment by him of £500 to the Labour ...
Article : 250 wordsIn a recent issue of the Sydney "Freeman's Journal," the Rev Father J. M. Cusack protests against the tendency of Irish priests and laity to give undue ...
Article : 312 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A further list of motions agreed to by branches of the Australian Workers' Union was received to-day by the head office of the organisation ...
Article : 519 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—The Arbitration Court has fixed the cost of living bonus for the current six months at 3/ a week, instead of 9/ as formerly ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Consul-General for China has made an appeal through "The Argus" for assistance for the faminestriken sufferers in China. Owing to a total failure of crops in five provinces of North China, ...
Article : 144 wordsCork grew up around an abbey founded by St. Finne Bar in A.D. 600, and the city walls were built in the ninth century by the Danes. Dermod MacCarthy, King of Cork, ...
Article : 202 wordsIt is believed that the fact that the residents were warned to leave before the fires occurred was responsible for there being no casualties. ...
Article : 74 wordsBISBANE, Sunday.—The Rev. H. T. Steele, who has been for 14 years at Okayaga, a town of 100,000 inhabitants in Japan, in which he was the only white man. passed ...
Article : 228 wordsTwo services were held in St. Paul's Cathedral last week to mark the close of the peace thank-offering campaign of the Australian Board of Missions. On ...
Article : 134 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Chelsea Progress Association, held on Saturday evening, the president (Mr. Roy Beardsworth) directed attention to the proposal ...
Article : 190 wordsSir,—May I urge upon the members of the Australian Women's National League the claims of the Chinese Famine Relief Fund. We have already circularised our ...
Article : 137 wordsFifty houses were destroyed, and the damage is estimated at £3,000,000. The city now looks worse than Dublin after the Easter rebellion in 1916. The ...
Article : 194 wordsA revelation of the low standard of education among a large percentage of Citizen Force trainees at the recent detention camp at Broadmeadows is contained in a ...
Article : 298 wordsIn January, 1914, a fund, now amounting to £625, was opened in Melbourne for the purpose of sending a delegate to the opening of the Irish Parliament, which was ...
Article : 238 wordsA 'three days' fair, organised by the United Protestants' Club of Victoria, was opened in the Independent Hall yesterday evening by Alderman Callena. The Lord ...
Article : 111 wordsBERWICK.—The Berwick and District Agricultural and Horticultural Society held its 62nd annual show on Saturday. The society is the oldest in Victoria. Entries in all classes were better than last year. ...
Article : 134 wordsPERTH, Monday.—In the Criminal Court to-day a Vansittart Bay native named Gunboon and his tin Gelin were charged with the murder of Gustay Ulrich ...
Article : 162 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Petrie asked if the Minister in charge of price fixing would reopen the question of the price of butter, ...
Article : 141 wordsTwo other ambushes of troops occurred yesterday (Sunday), including one in Garryspellan, County Limerick, where several Sinn Feiners are reported to have ...
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Advertising : 213 wordsNicholas Kotzebne, a Russian, was charged before Mr. T. O'Callagban, J.P., at the City Court on Monday, with having on December 12 curried firearms in a ...
Article : 145 wordsA new Roman Catholic school is in the course of erection at Werribee. It is estimated to cost £4,500. On Sunday afternoon the foundation-stone was blessed and laid by the Rev. M. Heaney, parish ...
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Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.— The Australian swimmers. Beaurepaire, Herald, and Kirkland, who took part in the Olympic Games, returned to Sydney to-day. Their opinion ...
Article : 97 wordsF. Is[?]on, commercial traveller, of Flinders and Queen streets, was charged at the District Court yesterday, before Mr. P. Cohen. P.M., with having boarded the ship Hanna Neilson while she was flying ...
Article : 65 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.— In the Legislative Assembly to-night, the Government Inscribed Stock Bill was passed. It provides for the issue of inscribed stock in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 14 Dec 1920, Page 7
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