The citizens of Hobart have on many occasions assembled at the Town-hall in large numbers to welcome home returned soldieis, and the speeches and ...
Article : 1,665 wordsThe Premier (Hon. W A. Holman) announced to-day that the Government spent over £200,000 during the past six months in combating influenza and ...
Article : 70 wordsCaptain W. J. Earle, who has been appointed Deputy Housing Commissioner for Tasmania under the War Service Homes Act in connection with ...
Article : 1,018 wordsThe public are disgusted at the attitude of the Yorkshire miners, who state that they will decide their own policy, irrespective of the decision of the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe racial rioting which broke out in Chicago on Saturday was resumed yesterday, numerous encounters, in which shots were exchanged, taking place. ...
Article : 94 wordsM. Ribot, who was Prime Minister of France and Foreign Secretary for the greater part of 1917, was interviewed yesterday regarding the statement made ...
Article : 183 wordsAs a result of the mass meeting of seamen this morning, an immediate settlement of the strike appears remote. The seamen decided that they ...
Article : 902 wordsA mass meeting of Sydney seamen to consider the Government's proposals for a settlement of the strike was held this afternoon at the Protestant-hall. ...
Article : 266 wordsOnly one death from pneumonic influenza was reported by the Board of Health to-day. Admissions to hospitals numbered 23. ...
Article : 31 wordsFour deaths occurred in metropolitan hospitals to-day, and, in addition, the registrars' reports accounted for five deaths in the city and eight in the ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Walter Long, the First Lord of the Admiralty, in moving the Navy vote of £60,000,000, said the present ...
Article : 118 wordsImperial Consols, 2½ per cent., quoted at £52, the same rate as on Thursday last. British war loan, 3½ per cent., £87, a fall of 5s., and 5 per cent. £94 ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. W. H. Taft, ex-President of the United States, who formerly advocated the unreserved ratification of the League of Nations Covenant in the ...
Article : 189 wordsOrganising for the forthcoming Commonwealth peace loan has already been entered upon, and by the time the prospectus for the loan has been issued the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. Justice Higgins certified to an agreement between the Federated Artificial Manure Trade and Chemical Workers' Union on ...
Article : 355 wordsMr. Justice Hood, in the Practice Court to-day delivered judgment in the case in which Charles Arthur Betts (34), manufacturer, and formerly a chauffeur, ...
Article : 269 wordsSubsequent to to-day's meeting of seamen at Port Adelaide the secretary of the S.A. branch of the Seamen's Federation (Mr. Woodsford) stated that ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the Paris "Matin" states that the Rumanians have resumed the offensive against the Hungarians, and after several ...
Article : 75 wordsAll the arrangements are well in hand for the reception of soldiers from Barnes Bay at the Ocean pier at 10 a.m. to-day. The s.s. Excella will berth ...
Article : 408 wordsThe report of Mr. G. J. Dethbridge, who inquired, as a Ryal Commission, into the working conditions on the Melbourne wharves, particularly regarding ...
Article : 62 wordsIf the steamers Rotomahana and Wanui leave*for Tasmania on Thursday with civilian passengers they will be full ships. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe operations of the Department of Repatriation throughout the Commonwealth dining the mouth of June were reviewed in a statement issued by ...
Article : 753 wordsThe taxpayers of Australia are anxiously awaiting some official statement regarding the share Australian is to have in the war indemnity exacted from ...
Article : 130 wordsFurther examined before the Wheat Commission to-day, Fank Digbvy mmaiager of the State Wheat Office, denied that during the negotiations with George ...
Article : 389 wordsMembers of the A.I.F. returning from the front are now granted a war gratuity proportionate to the length of time they have spent abroad. ...
Article : 58 wordsAfter questions were answered, and a few bills were introduced and read a first time, Mr. Payne moved the adjournment of the House of complain of ...
Article : 168 wordsA large gathering assembled at the Carnarvon-hall to welcome home Stoker James Boden, of H.M.A.S. Australia. Stoker Boden served on the Australia ...
Article : 148 wordsAn escaped lion is reported to be roaming the country in the vicinity of the township of Yeoval. Losses of lambs are reported by ...
Article : 62 wordsNo further information about the missing Government steamer Llewellyn has been received by the Treasury Department. ...
Article : 149 wordsSenator Millen, who is acting as leader of the Government, was not officially informed to-day of the decision of the seamen. He received no ...
Article : 84 wordsMatters of interest to licensed victuallers were submitted to an inter-State conference of representatives of the trade, which met this afternoon under ...
Article : 123 wordsWhen the Australian forces occupied German New Guinea and other Pacific islands they seized a considerable quantity of unused postage stamps, and ...
Article : 91 wordsA welcome social was held in the Town-hall to five more of our returned men, viz., Lieut. Rattray, Corporal Gus. Bailey, Driver V. Emery, Privates ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Premier (Hon. W A. Holman) stated to-day that the former Minister of Labour (M. Beeby) had requested thoe widening of the scope of the Weat ...
Article : 161 wordsTo-night a public meeting of sympathisers with the seamen was largely attended. Mrs. Jennie Baines presided. Mrs. T. Walsh was also present. ...
Article : 363 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, James Turpenny was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with hard labour, for the manslaughter of Rose Turpenny, his ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the Asembly to-night, the Premier (Mr. Lawson) said it had been stated that the cost of living was the cause of the providing industrial unrest. ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. Justice Higgins, in the Arbitration Court to-day, gave preliminary judgment in the matter of chart orders respecting the plaint of the Federated Clothing ...
Article : 236 wordsA welcome home was given at Gordon to Sergt. Laurence Phillips (son of Mr. W. Phillips, and brother of Sergt. Walner Phillips M.M.) and Corporal ...
Article : 208 wordsGeneral Henry J. M. Macandrew, who led the Fifth Cavalry Division in the dash for Damascus, arriving there simultaneously with the Australian Mounted ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Federal Cabinet decided to-day to extend to General Sir William Birdwood an invitation to visit Australia. It has been decided that, if the date ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 30 Jul 1919, Page 5
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