Contrary to the exhortation of their leaders, delegates of 150,000 Welsh miners passed a resolution at Cardiff to-day strongly advising the miners to ...
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Article : 110 wordsOwing to the early closing of the Devonport telegraph office, our report of the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Mersey Shipbuilding ...
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Article : 51 wordsImpressed with the imprerativeness of means being adopted to simplify the Commonwealth and State methods of the collection of income taxes, some ...
Article : 212 wordsThe German Foreign Office has decided to act in reference to the armstice only on the basis of President Wilson's 14 points. ...
Article : 407 wordsThe Board of Health's final report to-night shows that the prenmonic influenza epidemic continues to increase in virulence. There have boen l8 ...
Article : 133 wordsIn the Japanese House of Kepresentatives to-day, General Tanaka, the Minister of War, stated that the American troops, during the fighting at ...
Article : 63 wordsSeveral aerial companies have applied to the Federal Treasury for registration for excursion or general transport work in Australia. The Federal Cabinet ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Omsk correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that a detachment of Siberian troops, after leaving Chordin, 80 miles to the northward of ...
Article : 93 wordsHalf a million women in Great Britain are in receipt of unemployment allowances, but a further 1,000,000 women are idle, owing to the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. J. M. Ward (acting socretary of the Provisional Apple Pool Committee) has received the following letter from the Chief Prices Commissioner (Mr. P. ...
Article : 477 wordsThe State Cabinet to-day decided to remove the border quarantine restrictions, and to admit into New South Wales travellers from Victoria on the ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. C. B. Harmsworth, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Russian ...
Article : 126 wordsMartial law has been proclaimed at Barcclona owing to a general strike, and all activities, including lighting, the newspapers, and the banks, have ...
Article : 37 wordsMiss Charlotte Munday, aged 68 years, was admitted to the General Hospital at 11 o'clock on Monday evening, suffering with injuries to her ...
Article : 262 wordsA statement issued by the Repatriation Department to-day in connection with the grant of £500,000 made to municipalities for the purpose of providing work for ...
Article : 149 wordsThe labourers of the Ruhr district, at a conference held yesterday, decided upon a general strike throughout the Rhineland and Westphalia unless a ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo hundred and seven fresh cases were reported to-day, 189 of them being in the metropo[?]nan area, and 18 in the country. ...
Article : 123 wordsa message received in Capetown from Johannesburg states that the Town Council this morning passed a resolution declaring that, although there was ...
Article : 181 wordsThe ex-Emperor Charles of Austria arrived in Switzerland yesterday, wearing a general's uniform, with decorations. Count Czernin, his former ...
Article : 63 wordsA cable message from London states that Madame Stralia, the well-known Australian singer, has been engaged for the opera season at Covent Garden. ...
Article : 176 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Bonar Law, the leador of the Government stated that the Allies had not yet fixed the indemnities to be ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the High Court jurisdiction to-day Mr. Justice Higgins sat to determine an application by the Waterside Workers' Federation as to whether there was a ...
Article : 196 wordsThere was a bitter debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on the motion for the third reading of the Military Service Bill. The Lahour ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the Cabinet meeting to-night, the position of Tasmania, so far as the quarantine regulations are concerned, was considered. ...
Article : 441 wordsRegarding the proposal for a restrictive policy on Germany's trade, it is stated that, on the other hand, substantial or complete freedom is ...
Article : 228 wordsConsiderable dissatisfaction was expressed in commercial circles yesterday at the official explanation by the postal authorities at Sydney as to the delayed ...
Article : 709 wordsThe first annual meeting of the Child Welfare Association was held at the Town-hall this afternoon, presided over by Alderman R. J. Sudler, ...
Article : 410 wordsA meeting of the Cabinet was held at the Government-buildings, Launceston, this afternoon, when all Ministers were present, with the exception of the Hon. ...
Article : 463 wordsMr. Guy Scholefield delivered a lecture at the Royal Colonial Institute to-day on reconstruction in the Pacific Sir Everard Im Thurn, formerly ...
Article : 100 wordsIn connection with the claim on be half of the miners of all the States except Queensland, for increased rates of pay and improved working conditions ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Pope has authorised the reading of the Gospel during mass in all Italian churches, and has made a similar concession in other countries. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe covenant submitted by the Labour Commission at the Peace Conference comprises 41 articles. The preamble declares that existing labour ...
Article : 309 wordsMr. C. B. Harmsworth, the Parliamentary Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that Government ...
Article : 47 wordsThe members of the Launceston Fruit Board met the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. J. B. Hayes) this evening, and discussed with him the regulations ...
Article : 184 wordsIt was reported at the Public Health Department yesterday that Fireman L. Greaves, who was isolated at Barnes Bay from the Oonah on Friday week, ...
Article : 206 wordsIn the House of Lords this afternoon Lord Faringdon called attention to the country's financial condition, and said the burden was fast becoming ...
Article : 155 wordsConcessions have been made to the railway workers by the New Zealand Government. Three bonuses granted during the war are to be made ...
Article : 182 wordsThe conference between employers and employees in the coal mining industry which was convened by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) resumed ...
Article : 117 wordsIt is reported that French troops between Buda Pesth and Rumania have been attacked by the Hungarians, losing many prisoners, and that a ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Bonar Law, the Leader of tne Government, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Government, would consult the Dominion ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following amounts have been received for the above fund, and we shall be pleased to acknowledge forther donations:— Already acknowledged. £357 8s 10d.; Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Privy Council has allowed the appeal in the case of the Melbourne Tramway Co. versus the Tramway Board, and dismissed the cross appeal ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 2 Apr 1919, Page 5
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