Allegations that the Shell Oil Company had inflated its invoices by more than 100 per cent., and had inserted other charges to increase the cost of working to the ...
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Article : 339 wordsThe second terrorist outrage in three days occurred this afternoon at Lebong, near Darjeeling, the summer hill station of the Bengal Government. The Governor ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 274 wordsFollowing the decision of the Centenary Council that it could not provide sufficient funds to present all the State school children of ...
Article : 129 wordsThe proposal that a Pan-Pacific conference should be arranged during the Centenary celebrations was again discussed at the meeting of the ...
Article : 677 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A warning against proposals for reckless tampering with the tariff endangering the livelihood of 350,000 persons and their dependants ...
Article : 371 wordsWar debt developments which officials of the administration believe will allow President Roosevelt to send to Congress not only a detailed report on the debts, ...
Article : 110 wordsAn expert in the Lancashire cotton trade told the "Daily Telegraph" that the Governments restriction of Japanese textile exports to the colonies would ...
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Article : 232 wordsThe "Herald-Tribune's Washington correspondent understands that the token payment method of meeting was debts has been discarded with the determination ...
Article : 147 wordsRain, which caused the loss of nearly an hour's play, conditions which handicapped the bowlers, Dawson's fine batting, and the resistance of the tall-enders were all ...
Article : 291 wordsReplying to a question in Parliament regarding the Anglo-Danish trade agreement, which came into operation last June, the secretary of the Overseas Trade ...
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Article : 138 wordsIn the House of Lords, before a large attendance, including many in the pecresses' gallery, the Marquis of Salisbury (Cons.) moved ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 234 wordsWhen the report of the Centenary celebrations committee was before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria last night, delegates debated ...
Article : 256 wordsA grand jury at Pittsburgh disposed of the Government's charge against Mr. Andrew Mellon, former Secretary to the Treasury and Ambassador to Great ...
Article : 89 wordsBy the New Guinea mail delivered yesterday, Mrs. N. Levy, of East Melbourne, received a letter, which had been written by her brother, Captain Bernard McGrath, ...
Article : 328 wordsJean Harlow, the film actress has announced that she and her husband have separated and she intends to seek a divorce on the grounds of incompatibility. ...
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Article : 107 wordsThe following is the team to represent Marylebone against Australia in the match to begin on Saturday:— A. P. F. Chapman (captain), J. C. White, ...
Article : 61 wordsScores in county matches played to-day were:— Middlesex, 220 and four for 50 (Peebles 5/54, Robins 5/39), v. Northants, 152 (Mathews ...
Article : 106 wordsAlthough the Centenary lyric competition was previously regarded as a complete failure, it was revealed at the meeting of the Centenary Council yesterday ...
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Article : 124 wordsA. F. Kippax is suffering from influenza, and is unable to play against Cambridge University. Several other members of the team are suffering from colds, ...
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Article : 191 wordsThe Australians, including Chipperfield, who has been suffering from influenza, travelled by road from Leicester to Cambridge to-night. Bromley, who has a ...
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Article : 50 wordsThe Leicestershire match ended in a draw. At the tea adjournment Australia appeared to have a chance of victory, Leicester then having lost seven wickets ...
Article : 367 wordsThe price of gold is £6/15/11½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/16/1½ yesterday. Adding exchange and allowing for realisation charges, the price is equal to ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. H. F. Broadbent, a former assistant instructor to the New South Wales Aero Club, intends to enter the handicap event of the London to Melbourne air race if ...
Article : 46 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Alderman J. J. Wignall was re-elected Lord Mayor of Hobart at the city council elections to-day. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 10 May 1934, Page 9
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