The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), the Minister for External Affairs (Mr Thomas), and the Postmaster-General (Mr. Frazer) were entertained on Thursday at ...
Article : 888 wordsA deputation, consisting of about 50 prominent representatives of religious bodies other than the Anglian and Romam Catholic Churches, and of anti-liquor ...
Article : 1,906 wordsNotwithstanding the declaration by Mr. McGoweu that the State and Commonwealth Governments were on the best of terms, there always seems to be something ...
Article : 466 wordsThe trouble in connection with the superphosphate strike terminated on Thursday night. A meeting of the Chemical Workers' Union was held at the Trades ...
Article : 781 wordsThe hearing of the application for cancelling the registration of the Australian Tramway Employes' Association was resumed before the President of the Federal ...
Article : 535 wordsThe Miners' Federation has decided to take a ballot on the question of the men returning to work. The ballot asks whether the miners are agreeable to resume pending ...
Article : 163 wordsThere was apparently no alteration in the position of the strike of the corporation employes on Thursday so far as the public were able to gauge, but still a greater ...
Article : 420 wordsA sensational disturbance has occurred at the Illinois city of Rock Island. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the Mayor (Mr. Shriever) by an ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald) in an interview to-day, advised the strikers to accept the Bill and proceed to establish the ...
Article : 98 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Hon. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore (Unionist member for Denbigh, only son of Lord Harlech) raised a debate on the spread of ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Vernon Hartshorn, the South Wales miners' leader, questioned after the passing of the Bill, remarked:—"The strike is only just commencing. I anticipate, with ...
Article : 69 wordsSpeaking in Camberwell last night, Mr. Keir-Hardie said that the Coal Mines Bill was compulsory, and both sides must accept it. District boards appointed to fix ...
Article : 149 wordsConsiderable discussion occurred at the meeting of St. Peters Council on Thursday evening on the subject of, the wages which should be paid to draymen doing ...
Article : 429 wordsMr. C. B. Stanton, another Welsh leader of the miners, stated that in view of the solidarity of labour, the miners could, within a week, by the stoppage of railways ...
Article : 61 wordsNotwithstanding the foregoing statements the opinions held outside of the Miners' Conference are that the latter's recommendation to take a ballot can only ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Times states that a split has occurred between the trade union wing of the Socialists and the Labour Party, and there were angry scenes and recriminations at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Times, in commenting upon Mr. Lloyd George's retaliation to Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald for his "deplorable language" on the Minimum Wage Bill, describes the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe deaths of Florence M. Faulkner, aged 34, and her son, Reginald William Faulkner, aged 13 months, who were drowned near the St. Kilda Pier on March ...
Article : 516 wordsTo-day the Premier (Mr. McGowen) dispatched a cablegram to the Agent-General for New South Wales, and gave him authority to spend £1,000 in providing meals for ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Minimum Wage Bill, which passed the Commons yesterday, was discussed in the House of Lords to-day. On the motion for its second reading. ...
Article : 372 wordsThe primaries held throughout the State of New York for the appointment of Republican delegates to the Chicago Convention, which will meet in June to select the ...
Article : 94 wordsPORT BROUGHTON, March 27.—William Lewis, aged 24, committed suicide by hanging himself with his belt in the police cell last evening. He arrived here from ...
Article : 170 wordsSome of the Afghan camel drivers holding contracts for carriage with wholesale firms and station owners have refused to charge the now rates of the Carriers ...
Article : 69 words"Lax inspection in Australia would not benefit exporters when their produce arrived in London," was the answer made to-day by the Minister for Customs (Mr. ...
Article : 154 wordsEfforts are being made with the object of annulling the primaries in favour of Mr. Taft's nomination for the Presidency. Mr. Roosevelt's friends contend that the ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsPORT PIRIE, March 28.—The Tarcoola grounded near No. 2 beacon when coming up river this morning. She was on the bank all day, but with the aid of the tug ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Roosevelt delivered a fighting speech in this city last night. He characterized the methods that were being used to secure his defeat as the Republican nominee for ...
Article : 52 wordsThe importance of the Murray River navigation is evidently increasing. The requirements of the traffic are so great as to induce Messrs. Murray & Jackson of ...
Article : 151 wordsBROKEN HILL, March 28.—A fire last night destroyed a shop and five-roomed house in Patton street, South Broken Hill, owned by Mr. Murray James, and occupied ...
Article : 112 wordsMesrs. Covington and Albert, two wealthy Englishmen, had a remarkable escape from death to-day while climbing Mount Bernardino, in the San Bernardino Range. ...
Article : 78 wordsA return issued by the Commonwealth Treasury to-day shows that the Australian note issue has now exceeded £10,000,000 The value of the paper in circulation is ...
Article : 51 wordsSerious disturbances haw occurred at the Littleton collieries, at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire. The mob are preventing miners who have broken away from the strikers and ...
Article : 179 wordsMELBOURNE. March 28.—Berley Hunt, aged four, and Edmund, aged two, cousins fell into the channel at Nannella last evening and were drowned. ...
Article : 25 wordsMELBOURNE, March 28.—The present year has been the worst experienced in Victoria for more than 20 years so far as the rabbit pest is concerned. This is attributed ...
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Advertising : 47 wordsAld. W. H. Wright and J. H. Wicks, two of the Independent members of the city council, have tendered their resignations. Only two Independents are now in the ...
Article : 38 wordsMELBOURNE, March 28—The Coroner conducted an enquiry to-day into the death of Leonard Henry Mitchell, grocer's assistant, who was shot at a boarding house kept ...
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Advertising : 100 wordsLAUNCESTON, March 28.—The mail coach from Lefrov to Launceston capsized this morning when proceeding down Doctor's Hill, through the brakes failing. ...
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Advertising : 11 wordsInfantile mortality in Manchester has risen from 84 per thousand to 135 per thousand. A similar rise in the death rate in the Potteries is reported. ...
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Advertising : 32 wordsThe railway companies have decided not to run goods trains next week, except for the conveyance of foodstuffs. Several companies have cancelled their arrangements ...
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Advertising : 70 wordsAngry meetings of miners on strike have been held in Warwickshire, owing to the announcement that the strike pay fund is ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 29 Mar 1912, Page 5
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