The Berlin rate of exchange on London has slumped to 135,000 marks to the £1 sterling, compared with 98,000 marks to the £1 on April 16. At one time the rate ...
Article : 174 wordsHaving agreed that the question of unifying the railway gaugs of the Commonwealth should not be left in the present state of inactivity, the Prime Minister ...
Article : 862 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.— The steamer lron Prince, carrying a cargo of 5,000 tons of limestone, ran aground off Cape Howe between 1 and 2 o'clock this ...
Article : 694 wordsThe chief witness for the Crown in the trial yesterday of [?]annah Elizabeth Mitehell [?] midwife, who is charged with the murder of Bertha Evelyn Coughlan, was ...
Article : 4,423 wordsWhile the actual federal expenditure for the period of nine months ended March 31 exceeded the receipts by £357,843, it is expected that the revenue ...
Article : 693 wordsFor the first time for many years the Metropolitan Board of Works has found it necessary to warn householders of a shortage of water. On behalf of the ...
Article : 580 wordsThe debate on the British budget was resumed Mr. P. Snowden (Labour), who said that he had hoped that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Baldwin) would ...
Article : 510 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Amery), speaking at the Junior Constitutional Club, outlined the Government policy relating to migration and overseas ...
Article : 946 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that there are good reasons for supposing that the majority of the dominating personalities in the ...
Article : 288 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press Association at Washington states that the former President (Dr. Woodrow Wilson) has assumed the active direction of the ...
Article : 219 wordsMessrs. W. A. Adamson. T. Shaw. C. R. Buxton, and T. Thomson, Labour members of the House of Commons, after a visit to the Ruhr, have reported to the party ...
Article : 516 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent suites that orthodox Mosle[?] feeling is already hurt at Kemal Pasha's suppression of the Caliph's temporal power. ...
Article : 128 wordsReports of light falls of rain in the Mallee yesterday gave rise to the hope that the long, dry spell from which the State has been, suffering had at last been broken; ...
Article : 224 wordsThe capture of Dan Breen has put the last militant Republican out of the way. His dramatic arrest has caused a stir in Dublin, which sees in it the dawn of ...
Article : 139 wordsThe first news received in Melbourne [?] the vessel was stranded off Cape Howe, [?]h is at the eastern extremity of Vic[?] mentioned that the No. 2 hold was ...
Article : 166 wordsAt Cleveland Magdalene Wolf has created a new continuous dance record of 73 hours. ...
Article : 23 wordsA thrilling narrative is related of a 50 hours' attack on a rebel stronghold, a cliff using sheer from the sea on[?]the Kerry coast, near the causeway overlooking the ...
Article : 263 wordsIn the financial statement an important disclosure is made in regard to the [?]923 fruit pool. From the Treasurer's advanee account a sum of £350,500 has been ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Council of the League of Nations has decided to invite the Irish Free State to be represented at the conference called for October 15 to consider the simplification ...
Article : 687 wordsThe death has occurred at Edinburgh of Mr Thomas David Wanliss, formerly proprietor of the Ballarat "Star," aged 94 years. ...
Article : 439 wordsReports received by the Railways Commissioners show that rain has fallen at various places in the north-western areas of Victoria and on the New South Wales ...
Article : 375 wordsHOBART, Thursday.— On his arrival in Hobart to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) was given a civic reception in the major's parlour at the town hall. The ...
Article : 314 words"Some of the selected immigrants on the Hobson's Bay are mentally deficient," was the opinion expressed yesterday by Mr. J. S. Garden, secretary of the Sydney ...
Article : 355 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.— The Minister for Customs (Mr. Chap man) said to day that the revenue derived from the Customs tariff during the current financial ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Rudyard Kipling's history of the "Irish Guards" contains many references to the Australian troops. In his characteristic genius for "the right phrase," ...
Article : 258 wordsThe British Ambassador (Sir Auckland Geddes) has informed the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Mellon) that Britain is ready at any time to conclude the debt ...
Article : 79 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Thursday —A message was received this morning from E. A. Cook, leader of the transcontinental walking party which left Broken ...
Article : 325 wordsThe British War Office announces that since early in 1919, 14,000,000 war medals have been issued, with ribbons attached, measuring in the aggregate 1,800 miles. The ...
Article : 87 wordsAt a luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce, at which 100 representative men were present, the president (Mr. J. R. Johnston) alluded to the "iniquitous ...
Article : 279 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Evidence concerning the proposed Parliament House at Canberra was given by the former Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day before the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe market for apples is weak. Tasmanians per the s.s. Port Albany are selling at 7/9 to 10/6 a case; Western Australians ex the s.s. Moreton Bay, at 9/6 to 12/; a few ...
Article : 141 wordsThe High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir James Allen), and the High Commissioner for South Africa (Sir Edgar Walton) are proceeding to Geneva ...
Article : 124 wordsThe New South Wales Government is underwriting a loan of £8,000,000. The rate of interest is 41/2 per cent, and the minimum is £94. Of the amount, £2,000,000 ...
Article : 96 wordsThere was a diversity of types in the contingent of new settlers which reached Melbourne yesterday by the steamer Hobson's Bay. The majority of the Melbourne ...
Article : 131 wordsA conference to adjust finally the dispute between the Metropolitan Tramways Board and the employees on the electric trams of the eastern system will be held at 11 ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Resenbaeh an American book colleetor, has returned to New York, after having spent £255,000 in rare books since February 25. The books are chiefly early ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Works (Mr. Ball) to-day replied to a statement made by the Federal Minister for Works (Mr. Stewart) regarding Mr. ...
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Article : 61 wordsIn an endeavour to protect lmmigrants to Australia from making unwise purchases of land, the Victorian Division of the New Settlers' League of Australia has ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 20 Apr 1923, Page 9
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