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Advertising : 39 wordsThe Trustees of the Felton Bequest have purchased for the Melbourne Art Gallery a Tvatercolour painting, "The Star of This World," by Mr. J. A. Ingres. The price ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Daily Express correspondent at Beirut, Syria, has telegraphed:—An American, who has arrived from Ur[?]a, in Mesopotamia gives horrible details of a ...
Article : 128 wordsThere are indications that from 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 workers in Great Britain will strike on May 1 to celebrate Labour Day. The leaders explain that the object ...
Article : 371 wordsMOUNT BARKER, April 30.—On Wednesday night last, one of the most pleasant and important functions held in Mount Barker for many years was the banquet of the Mount Barker branch of ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsThe annual Federal Congress of the Returned Soldiers' League was concluded on Saturday. Nominations were submitted by the various States for a soldiers' ...
Article : 186 wordsAt a luncheon in connection with the Inter-Church World Movement, Dr. Atchinson announced that he had received an offer by Mr. Rockefeller, jun., to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Australian Federated' Olympic Council, representing the councils of Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia, held several meetings in ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Washington correspondent of The New York Tribune says:—A United States coastguard's cutter has been dispatched to Alaska to take measures against ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is understood that £600,000 in gold will shortly be cent to China. ...
Article : 20 wordsCabinet has deputed Sir L. Worthington Evans to examine the mutton glut, and decide the best course to pursue to relieve it. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Japanese War Office has announced that Bolsheviks, aided by Koreans and Chinese, massacred 270 Japanese in the Consulate of Nikolaevsk, Siberia. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Walter Long (First Lord of the Admiralty), speaking at the Constitutional Club, said the Imperial Conference, to be held in London in the spring, was designed ...
Article : 61 wordsLanding parties from the warships Revenge and Families have dismantled the fortifications at Trebizond, on the Asia Minor coast of the Black Sea, under the ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is semi-officially announced that Mr. Debuchi (Japanese Chaise d'Affairs at Berlin) is negotiating for the Shantung documents. It is expected that in the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (Sr. Russell) announced on Saturday that for the period from January 1 to March 15 a seaport return on the basis of ...
Article : 137 wordsDisturbances occurred at the Garrick Theatre last night which recall the "O.P. riots" at Covent Garden in 1709. Miss Taylor, Mr. Cochrane (the lessee), and Mr. ...
Article : 269 wordsThe London branches of the railwaymen's unions, amounting to 30,000 employes, passed a resolution lost Saturday to "work to rule" until they receive the ...
Article : 148 wordsFour thousand Chinese residents in Mexico have petitioned the American State Department for permission to cross into the United States in the event of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Washington correspondent of The Near York Times says:—Republican leaders in the United States expect considerable difficulties in obtaining a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsJack Thompson, a confirmed horse thief, who escaped from the police custody at West Perth two months ago, and has since gained a reputation as "the hills ...
Article : 140 wordsThe railwaymen's "work to rule" threat fizzled out in London, except among a few extremists. The goods staff at the Paddington and Euston stations were in ...
Article : 110 wordsFifteen thousand coalminers in the Nora Scotia district have struck work as a protest against the refusal of the authorities to release the Winnipeg strike leaders on ...
Article : 35 wordsA daring attempt was made by a masked youth late on Saturday night to rob a clerk on the East Richmond Railway Station at the point of a revolver. The ...
Article : 185 wordsAt the French capital, contrary to expectations, the morning and afternoon of Labour Day, with a single exception, passed off quietly. The strike on the ...
Article : 149 wordsProjected sailings for Australia are:—From Middlesbrough. Hull, and London, for Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, and Sydney. June 19—Araluen. ...
Article : 121 wordsThirty-four more Sinn Fein hunger strikers from Belfast Gaol have been released, also seven from Wormwood Scrubs. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork ...
Article : 90 wordsThe French General Labour Federation supports the French railwaymen's derision to strike for the nationalization of transport. It is considering steps to assist the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Queensland Minister of Mines (Mr. Jones) is at present visiting Perth in connection with an action taken by his Government over iron deposits at Yampi ...
Article : 133 wordsThe course of the New Zealand Railway strike has provided dramatic alterations, and hopes and fears more than sufficient to satisfy the most eager seekers. The ...
Article : 1,286 wordsMr. J. Sexton (Labour) addressing his constituents at a May Day gathering at St. Helens, and Mr. J. R. Clynes (Labour) speaking in his electorate, Man-chester ...
Article : 62 wordsFrom C. A. THOMAS, late 31st Battalion, A.I.F.:—For the past three weeks there has been in our midst an emissary of God. May I call the, attention of your ...
Article : 194 wordsIn spite of the opposition of the German Assembly, May Day celebrations were held, and factories, shops, and offices in general were closed, and traffic—with the ...
Article : 44 wordsAbout 20 minutes to 10 o'clock on Saturday, night, a robbery took place at the Strathneld Railway Station, and a man and a woman have since been arrested. ...
Article : 109 wordsTo-day sensational evidence was given at the trial of Gen. Fournier and his subordinate officers for having surrendered to the Germane the fortress of Maubeuge in ...
Article : 121 wordsIn the May Day riot in the Place de la Republique, Paris, four civilians were killed and 12 were wounded. ...
Article : 28 wordsNo newspapers were published at the Italian capital to-day. It is not yet known whether the railway strike was general. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe London correspondent of The New York American has interviewed Field-Marshal Earl Haig, who said:—"I cannot understand how it can have been possibly ...
Article : 196 wordsAn important motion for recommendation to the State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League was carried at a general meeting of delegates from sub-branches of the ...
Article : 155 wordsMay Day in Italy wad celebrated by a 24-hours strike of railwaymen, and a general abstention from work. In most of the towns the shops remained shut, and the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe negotiations with the intention of preventing the threatened strike of cotton spinners and wardroom workers have to the present failed to secure a ...
Article : 33 wordsA question asked in the Federal Parliament some days ago recalled the foot that a report dealing with conditions in the Commonwealth Public Service has been in the ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Government of Czechoslovakia forestalled the Socialist extremists by proclaiming Labour Day a general holiday throughout the Republic. ...
Article : 26 wordsFrom F. W. BIRRELL (President Adelaide Trades and Labour Council):—At a meeting of the council on Friday evening the leading article in The Register on ...
Article : 290 wordsThe South Wales Miners' Conference has reserved its decision to declare a strike of miners on Monday, May 2, and business will go on without interruption. ...
Article : 32 wordsCharles Hease was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on each of two charges of having fraudulently obtained £10,000, and of having attempted to obtain ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is feared that grave disorders, will eventuate as the outcome of Labour Day in Finland. A general strike is threatened, and already several conflicts between ...
Article : 52 wordsThere is no alteration in the equation at Liverpool, where 4,000 Irish labourers—a much less number than was expected—responded to the Sinn Fein call to "down ...
Article : 60 wordsAn interesting meeting of the Scottish Liberal Federation was held yesterday. The annual report presented contained a vigorous justification of Mr. Asquith's ...
Article : 92 wordsA wireless message sent out from Moscow says:—Russia is celebrating May Day as a holy day for voluntary work, and the factories began operations earlier than the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Acting Comptroller-General of Trade and Customs announced on Saturday the receipt of the following cablegram from the High Commissioner relative to the ...
Article : 84 wordsTransport "Workers' Federation delegates attended a conference of workmen and employers, to consider the busworkere' demand for an increase of 10/ a week. The ...
Article : 58 wordsThe United States Attorney-General (Mr. Palmer) asserts that Boishevists in America have plotted to murder various State officials in the American Federation ...
Article : 142 wordsSevere fighting is reported in China and Trans-Baikalia Between remnants of Gen. Kokchak's army and opposing the Bolshevist factions. ...
Article : 60 wordsIn a statement appearing in the press it has been assorted that Mr. Staniforth Smith, the acting administrator at Darwin, "is receiving little or no encouragement ...
Article : 207 wordsTwenty Russians s who had entered England without passports have been deported. The authorities of Scotland Yard are systematically searching the East End of ...
Article : 38 wordsAt about 5.30 p.m. on Saturday a collision occurred on the Port road, Hindmarsh, between a motor cycle and sidecar, driven by Mr. E. Tamo, of Ranelagh street ...
Article : 109 wordsThere is a good deal of business which the Ministry is anxious to dispose of before the adjournment during the visit, of the Prince of Wales. The ...
Article : 102 wordsAlthough a number of men in the building trade continued at work on Saturday morning, a larger number did not report at their jobs. It is fairly certain that as ...
Article : 127 wordsA military procession took place through the city streets in honour of Gen. Sir William Birdwood, on Saturday morning. The route was lined with members of the ...
Article : 131 wordsA message received from Gapt. Ronald Amundsen; the Arctic explorer, says that he proposes to winter, in Alaska, and thence to go to Wrangel Island. From ...
Article : 55 words"W. J. V."—1. Names and addresses of anonymous correspondents cannot be disclosed without their authority; if you send a letter, addressed to the nom de plume, accompanied by a stamp, it ...
Article : 49 wordsFor the first time in the history of the Union of South Africa May Day was this year generally observed as Labour Day. Factories and workshops were closed, and ...
Article : 223 wordsSYDNEY.—Arrived: April 30—Makambo, N.w Hebrides via Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands May 1—Melbourne, Tasmania; Ihumata, Hokiangs; Bulla, Newport via ports; Taviuni, Devonport ...
Article : 198 wordsThe second "first night" of the play at the Garrick Theatre is balled for Monday. There is a big demonstration of public' sympathy with Miss Laurette Taylor. The ...
Article : 70 wordsPORT WAKEFIELD, April 30.—A serious motor accident occurred about four miles from here this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Schrapel, with their daughter and ...
Article : 124 wordsA specially summoned meeting of the Printing Industry Union was held on Saturday, when about 250 members were present Mr. E. Piper (President) occupied tho chair. Mr. R. W. Bryan, a ...
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Advertising : 281 wordsThe judicial committee of the Privy Council, has reserved judgment in the appeal of the Commonwealth of Australian v: Zechariassen, and in the case of the ...
Article : 39 wordsResolutions of a far-reaching character have been carried during the past two days by the Federal Council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employes' Federation. One ...
Article : 198 wordsRailway matters occupy an important position on the agenda paper for the Premiers' Conference, which is to be opened in Melbourne on May 21. The ...
Article : 119 wordsThe following athletes have been selected to date to represent Australia at the Olympic games:—Swimmers—F. Beaurepaire, I. Stedman, W. H. Herald, H. Hay, K. ...
Article : 54 wordsGeneral Bramwell Booth, accompanied by the headquarters staff of the Salvation Army, arrived at Fremantle this morning by the R.M.S. Ormonde. There ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 80 wordsThe following passengers; for Adelaide were aboard the R.M.S. Ormonde, which arrived to-day:—Mesdames Hinds; Proctor, Longbottom, LeCornu, Ruthven, Smith ...
Article : 67 wordsFifteen vessels being built in Japan for the United States Shipping Board have been launched, and 15 more are expected to be ready shortly. Two 10,500-ton ...
Article : 56 wordsAustralian notes to the value of £56,994,463 were in circulation on April 28, and against them cold coin to the value of £33,858,819, representing 41.51 per cent, of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe cargo steamer Inga, from Newcastle, to Wanganni, struck an obstacle about 50 miles on Wanganui early yesterday morning, The vessel came on to Wellington. ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 3 May 1920, Page 8
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