It is officially stated that the meeting of the Miners' Conference to-day resulted in a resolution being passed recommending the acceptance of the ...
Article : 211 wordsThe four Big Powers—Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States— began a conference yesterday on the peace terms in absolute secrecy, and ...
Article : 206 wordsIn the South African union House of Assembly this afternoon,, Mr. Thomas Boydell, this Labour member of the Cost of Living Commission, submitted ...
Article : 223 wordsThe new print of the Commonwealth and House of Assembly rolls for Tasmania is now open for inspection at all post-offices, police stations, municipal ...
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Article : 78 wordsWith a new to retaining the Australians in five divisional groups while awaiting repatriaton, five camps are being established on Salisbury Plain ...
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Article : 230 wordsThe German financial delegates to the Peace Conference have quitted Berlin for Versailles. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. G. S. Beeby, the Minister of Labour and Industry in the New South Wales Government, interviewed yesterday, expressed the opinion that Great ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe political arrests in Korea by the Japanese now exceed 4,000. The country is seething with unrest. ...
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Article : 112 wordsRegulations were issued to-day under the Deceased Soldiers' Estates[?] Act passed last year by the Federal Parliament, lying down the procedure to be adopted ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Minister of Health (Mr. Fitzgerald) has received from the Director-General of Health (Dr. W. Paton) a letter written by Dr. Reid, Chief ...
Article : 101 wordsA message received in Copenhagen from Buda Pesth, the capital of Hungary, states that Count Karolyi, the former Premier, has been arrested, and ...
Article : 625 wordsSenator Pearce, the Commonwealth Minister of Defence, in an interview with a representative of the "Daily Chronicle," says: The pleasing effect ...
Article : 118 wordsThe United Conference of the Methodist Church of Victoria and Tasmania to-day discussed various phases of the foreign missions work with which ...
Article : 214 wordsAs a result of a conference held yesterday between the Commonwealth. South Australian, and Victorian Ministers and medical representatives, it ...
Article : 59 wordsSenator Bakhap, who has been interesting himself in the serious matter of telegraphic delays between Victoria and Tasmania, has received a letter from ...
Article : 99 wordsAs the Military Commander in Ireland his forbidden meetings and processions on the occasion of the entry into Dublin of Mr. de Valera, the Sinn ...
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Article : 190 wordsAt the Tallangatta Police Court to-day David Wilkinson, an ap[?]ist, proceeded against Elizabeth Cardwell for having damaged some bees. For defendant, Mr. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe steamer Ooma, new loading at Lyttelton, takes a cargo of tallow and edible fats, valued, approximately at £500,000, which is claimed as a world's record ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 28 Mar 1919, Page 5
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