CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A Royal commission will be appointed by the Federal Government to investigate all branches of the wheat and flour industries, ...
Article : 1,762 wordsProhibition in all parts of the United States except those in which the sale of liquor is forbidden by State laws ended at 6.55 p.m. to-day, when a ...
Article : 753 wordsThe chairman and managing director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (the Hon. Alexander Shaw) addressing the annual meeting, of ...
Article : 708 wordsThe Administration, in its campaign to strengthen the capital structure of the banks through the issue of new preferred stock, gained a notable victory to-day ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Thomas) read to the House of Commons this afternoon a despatch received from the president of the Executive Council of ...
Article : 851 wordsCANBERRA, wednesday.—Further details of the conversion loan of £16,647,000. which has been negotiated in London. were announced by the Prime Minister ...
Article : 252 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—On the recommendation of the Tariff Board the Federal Ministry has decided to abandond the embargo on the importation of sheet ...
Article : 367 wordsNot for years has a Melbourne crowd been raised to such a pitch of excitement as yesterday by the wedding of the Lord Mayor (Dr. H. Gengoult-Smith). His ...
Article : 849 wordsIn publishing the prospectus of the Australian conversion loan of —16,647,000, which will give a redemption yield of —3/16/9, the newspapers prophesy the ...
Article : 73 wordsA prcliminary tax programme, which is estimated to yield 237,000,000 dollars (about £47 400,000) a year was recommended to-day by the ways and Means ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Expenditure on invalid and old-age pensions in 1932-33 represented 19.2 per cent of the total Commonwealth taxation and 78.14 per ...
Article : 214 wordsSYDNEY Wednesday.—An important statement was made by the chairman of the Board of Control (Mr. R. A. Oxlade) during a speech at the official luncheon ...
Article : 294 wordsCotton and linen goods that are guaranteed to be 100 per cent, unshrinkable will be placed on the world markets on a large scale as the result of a finishing ...
Article : 129 wordsThe fact that a blunder led to the execution of a condemned prisoner in the Lahore gaol after an order had been issued for a postponement of the execution is revealed ...
Article : 221 wordsDates enough to last Australia for the next 12 months have arrived in Melbourne by the Chindwara. Once a year a vessel is chartered to carry nothing else but ...
Article : 186 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (the Hon. W. Runclman), defending the most favoured nation clause in the tariff at a meeting of Conservative members of ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. W. Findlay, secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club speaking at the annual meeting of county secretaries at Lord's, said that the M.C.C. committee on ...
Article : 141 wordsA meeting of the Fascist Grand Council, that was attended by the Prime Minister (Signor Mussolini), to-day decided that Italy's continued membership of the ...
Article : 154 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6/6/11 an ounce, compared with —6/5/9 yesterday. The price is equal to about —7/16/8 an ounce for fine gold in Australian ...
Article : 45 wordsAbout 100 persons assembled outside Kurneh. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brookes in South Yarra last night in the hope of catching a glimpse of thf bride ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—According to police reports Edward O'Keeffe, aged 16 years a station hand, shot dead Miss Patricia Dorothea Kensmith, aged 20 ...
Article : 160 wordsIn the House of Lords Viscount Buckmaster moved that steps should be taken without delay to lessen the danger from motor traffic. He pointed out that there ...
Article : 161 wordsDollars are quoted at 5.16½ to£1. ...
Article : 13 wordsIn reply to a question whether he proposed to direct the attention of the Free State to the disadvantages that its citizens would suffer in the event of an Irish ...
Article : 393 wordsThe rate of 1d. a mile on the main railway lines of Great Britain, which was temporarily introduced on May 1, has so stimulated the revenue that it has been ...
Article : 133 wordsIt was announced to-day that the Governor of California (Mr. James Rolph jun.) had been expelled from the national advisory board of the National War ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fifty schoolboys had a remarkable escape to-day when a tram in which they were travelling got out of control as it was descending the ...
Article : 144 wordsDiscussing disarmament to-day, the German Chancellor (Herr Hilter) re-emphasised the German standpoint, and reiterated her desire for a speedy ...
Article : 63 wordsEvidence that Gandhi retains his magic sway over Indias millions was given at Sauger, in the Central Provinces, where he is conducting a ...
Article : 208 wordsThe night areoplane from Berlin brought a package that was required by a London doctor of an anti-cancer fluid which has been discovered by Professor ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. P. F. Warner, in "The Daiy Telegraph," writes a glowing review of Duleepsinhji. "The end of his cricket career will be heard with deepest regret." ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" asks:—"Can a dead man be disturbed in his grave in order that his neirs may inherit £12,000?" This ...
Article : 113 wordsTwo three-year-old elephants, the most recent additions to Wirth's Circus, will arrive in Melbourne this morning by the Dutch steamer Nieuw Holland. Only a ...
Article : 154 wordsReplying to a deputation which protested against sentences of imprisonment which were imposed on December 2 upon 12 Republicans who assaulted General ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Earl Roberts Imperial cadet trophy, competed for throughout the Empire has been won by the Otago Boys' High School (Dunedin, N.Z.) with a score of 301 of the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) told questioners in the House of Commons to-day that Great Britain's token payment of the instalment ...
Article : 74 wordsJapan is still Great Britain's greatest trade rival in India according to the Overseas Trade department. Nevertheless imports from Great Britain by India ...
Article : 115 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Having passed the Bankruptcy Bill and the Income Tax Assessment Bill rapidly through all stages, members of the House of ...
Article : 100 wordsOpinion in Ulster commends the refusal to provide president de valera with an election slogan. ...
Article : 26 wordsWith the arrival of an anti-cyclone from the west fine weather has come again over Victoria. The anti-cyclone does not promise to bring very pleasant ...
Article : 79 wordsReplying to a direct question by a special correspondent of the "Petit Parisien" about what Ireland would do if she were given a chance of ...
Article : 89 words"The Times'' declares that the Government wisely gave a conciliatory reply to President de Valera. There can be no doubt that it was right in refusing to be ...
Article : 216 wordsThe first official figures relating to German refugee Jews were given to-day at a meeting of the governing body of the committee appointed by the League of Nations ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Fascist Grand Council decided today to pay 4,000,000 dollars (about £200,000) to the United States on account of war debt as proof of her good ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 7 Dec 1933, Page 9
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