The late Capt. Archibald Smith, of the steamer Otaki, has been awa[?]led the Victoria Cross. Capt. Smith refused to obey a signal from the German raider Moewe to ...
Article : 131 wordsBy a regulation issued to-day under the War Precaution Act, the existing conditions under which moratorium of mortgages was enjoyed have been withdrawn ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 313 wordsIt is understood that the Federal Cabinet Trill submit to Parliament early in the session a proposal to substitute preferential voting for the present system of ...
Article : 294 wordsUniversal demonstrations were held in celebration of the anniversary of Italy's entry on the war. The censor prohibited the poet Gabriel d'Annunzio from speaking ...
Article : 39 wordsAn aeroplane company arranged to take passengers at three guineas a head to the Derby. Subsequently aeroplanes were forbidden within two miles of the course. ...
Article : 99 wordsAs a result of the general strike of builders' labourers the Whole of the building trade in Melbourne will be thrown idle to-morrow with the exception of a few ...
Article : 198 wordsThe huge liner Imperator (51,000 tons) collided off the coast with the steamer Agwidale. The latter vessel was damaged. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe management, supervision, and control of the Exhibition Isolation Hospital for influenza patients have passed to the Adelaide Hospital Board. In the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe House of Commons has drastically altered the Dogs Protection Bill by carrying, by 147 votes to 69, a Government amendment permitting experiments on ...
Article : 38 wordsElections were hekt to-day for six of the seats in the Legislative Council. The at result was a gain of one seat for Labour—that formerly held by the late ...
Article : 151 wordsQuestioned in connection with criticisms from Australia regarding the lack of aesistance to Mr. Hawker, Admiralty officials point out the extreme difficulty of ...
Article : 265 wordsWilliam Doyle, a frail-looking youth, whose age was given as 17, appeared before the Central Criminal Court to-day charged with having maliciously murdered ...
Article : 167 wordsNine deaths were reported to-day, only one of which occurred in the metropolis. The admissions to hospital numbered 63, and the discharges 68. There are 906 cases ...
Article : 36 wordsAccording to an official report the Canadian House of Commons has adopted the recommendation of a special commission, which said:—"The system of bestowing ...
Article : 39 wordsThere was a substantial increase in the number of cases of influenza reported to-day. The admissions to hospitals in the metropolis numbered 159, and in the ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Hoover estimates that there will be a sufficient food surplus throughout the world. Unless an unexpected catastrophe interferes with the coming harvest the ...
Article : 36 wordsFour deaths from influenza occurred in Brisbane hospitals to-day, and several more deaths were reported from the country. The Registrar-General's office stated ...
Article : 101 wordswho has been removed from the Sonoma. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsIt is expected that a strong agitation to increase British preference by 50 per cent. will be made during the forthcoming Budget debate. ...
Article : 30 wordsRepresentations were recently made to the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) by returned soldiers that after leaving Colombo, on their way back to Australia. no ...
Article : 95 wordsGen. Sir Horace Plumer has been appointed Governor of Malta. ...
Article : 17 wordsIn the House of Commons the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Auckland Geddes) said the coal position was serious. The existing restrictions on consumption ...
Article : 68 wordsThere was an interesting exchange in the Industrial Court to-day between Mr Justice Curlewis and Mr. O. Schriebes (secretary of the Furniture Trades ...
Article : 175 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER, June 3.—So far 16 cases of influents, pneumonic and ordinary, have been reported to the combined Local Boards of Health, and there are eight patients in the influenza ...
Article : 229 wordsThree French aviators—Capts. Madon and Coli and Lieut. Roget—have entered for the Atlantic flight competition. Capt. Madon proposes to fly from Brest to New ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. H. A. L. Fisher, the Minister of Education, says he sympathises with Hazlett, the essayist, who loved a voyage by himself. He thinks it essential to the ...
Article : 404 wordsThe Government is extending for 13 weeks the unemployment donation, to demblized soldiers, who have drawn the 26 weeks' payment to which the donations ...
Article : 40 wordsAmerican marines have been landed in Costa Rica, where a revolution against the Government is in progress. Costa Rica, "The Rich Coast," the most ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the King's Bench the Marconi Company is claiming £7,182,000 from the Government for breach of contract in connection with their Imperial wireless chain. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe High Court was invoked on behalf of Philip Alwyn Incledon O'Brien, of Albert Park, to issue a mandamus to the Acting Federal Public Service Commissioner ...
Article : 362 wordsThe London Daily Mail said of Gen. Ironside:—"The successful defence hitherto maintained on the Archangel front has been due to the splendid work of Gen. ...
Article : 899 wordsLittle did the British Government realize when it provided that a war-widow should receive a dowry on re-marriage, what would be the consequences. The immediate effect ...
Article : 780 wordsAs different meetings are being called to combat Influenza, we again bring before your notice the benefits of using Jackets made of Wawn's Wonder Wool and Muslin ...
Article : 294 wordsGiving evidenee before the Federal Sugar Commission to-day, Mr. F. W. Martyn (district secretary of the Australian Workers' Union) stated that ...
Article : 125 wordsTyphus in Moscow is causing 3,000 deaths weekly. ...
Article : 14 wordsThere is reason to believe that the South African Governments intends to enforce the Deportation Act in the cases of known criminals and undesirables of foreign ...
Article : 84 wordsGerman war loan stock, which was issued at £98, has dropped to £72. The German National Bank is rebuying the stock with notes, of which it is issuing an ...
Article : 55 wordsThe House of Commons, by 187 to 34 votes, has affirmed the principle of federal devolution as applicable to the Empire. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe report was made available to-day of the interstate commission on housing accommodtion and war tents in the Commonwealth, the scope of the investigation ...
Article : 545 wordsAfter having suggested to her brother that they should commit suicide together, Miss Ida Wagner (45), while alone in her home at Battam street, St. Peters, on ...
Article : 216 wordsThe friends of Sip. W. M. Merrett, 11th Field Engineers, A.I.F., have received advice that he is returning by the steamer Wahehe. (Advt.) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 485 wordsThe central council of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia entertained Admiral Jellicoe, who is Senior ...
Article : 397 wordsBy a proclamation issued, to-day under the Customs Act the prohibition of the Importation into the Commonwealth of tinplates, except with the consent of the ...
Article : 38 wordsOn Saturday night George Wason Pretty (49), a tram conductor, of Glyde street. Kensington, sustained a fatal fracture of the skull through a fall from a tramcar on ...
Article : 69 wordsCUMMINS, June 2.—While Mr. and Mrs. J. Williams, of near this town, were driving home on Sunday morning an axle broke, and the occupants of the trap were ...
Article : 56 wordsSpeaking at Mildura to-day, the Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Millen) said the Repatriation Department expected that at least 20,000 men would want to go on the ...
Article : 123 words{No abstract available}
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 6 Jun 1919, Page 8
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