His Excellency the Governor (Sir William Allardyce) last evening received the following message of farewell from His Royal Highness the Prince ...
Article : 73 wordsAfter hearing a little further evidence on the cost of clothing from employers' witnesses, the Royal Commission, collecting information upon which to fix the ...
Article : 1,701 wordsThe Senate held a short sitting to-day. The Institute of Science and Industry Bil land the Nationality Bill were read a third time. The second reading debate ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Admiralty has decoded a [?]ypher message passing between M. Tchitcherin, Soviet Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Russia, and M. Litvinoff, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe daplomatic correspondent of the "New York World" at Washington telegraphs that he understands that Mr. Lloyd George is to cross the ...
Article : 165 wordsIn a speech at Columbus (capital of the State of Ohio) to-day, Governor Cox, the candidate of the Democratic party for the Presidential election, ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Russians are fleeing in disorder on the Vistula and the Bug front. The Poles have captured 3,000 of the enemy. ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Ryan (N.S.W.) asked the Assistant-Minister of Defence, whether a considerable military force had been send under ...
Article : 784 wordsThe following cablegram was received yesterday by the Premier (Sir Walter L[?]) from Mr. A. H. Ashbolt, Tasmanian Agent-General in London, for ...
Article : 507 wordsA telegram was received by the Premier's Department yesterday, stating that prior to the departure of the Prince of Wales in the Renown from ...
Article : 80 wordsPolish aviators are heavily bombing the roads behind the Bolshevik lines, which are crowded with transport. A Polish counter-offensive has been ...
Article : 63 wordsThe following report on the Mesepotamia situation was issued to-day:— Further outbreaks have occurred in Mesopotamia on a considerable ...
Article : 191 wordsThe conference between representatives of the Commonwealth Coal Owners' Association and the representatives of the miners has concluded, and the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said when his attention was drawn to the contents of the cablegram re a conference at Vancouver to-day that he ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Governor-General has received from His Majesty the King the following reply to the message sent by His Excellency yesterday:— ...
Article : 98 wordsA Bolshevik communique received to-day states that fierce fighting is in progress to the north-east of Novo Georgievsk (30 miles north-north-west ...
Article : 33 wordsA message from Warsaw states that M. Trotsky, addressing the Moscow Soviet, admitted that the Russian advanced troops had been held up before ...
Article : 58 wordsEight thousand six hundred and fifty bales of Australian wool were offered for sale by auction at Hull to-day. There was a good attendance, and fair ...
Article : 74 wordsYesterday a cabled address was received from the Prince of Wales to the cildren of the public schools, and they were granted a public holiday. At a ...
Article : 59 wordsA wireless message from Moscow states that the Minsk Conference has opened, M. Danishevsky presiding. He outlined Russia's peace policy, and ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. E. Hobbs, M.H.A., placed before the Minister of Works (Hon. J. B. Hayes) yesterday a request to have the money voted last year expended on ...
Article : 364 wordsThe request of the Prince that all the men in the Australian[?] Navy should "splice the main brace" has caused the Naval Board some concern, for it is not ...
Article : 130 wordsA movement has been set on foot among soldiers to make some[?] public recognition of the work done by the Prime Minister during and after the ...
Article : 143 wordsUnless the Lower House of the State Parliament of Tennessee to-morrow reseinds a resolution adopted to-day by a majority of two granting woman's ...
Article : 73 wordsMessrs. Adamson and Gosling, the [?]elegates of the "Council of Action" who went to Paris to confer with French Socialists concerning the Polish ...
Article : 50 wordsAmong the farewell messages to the Prince was one from the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) containing the following:—"Rest assured that the people of ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Overseas' Settlement Committee has received 47,000 applications from ex-service men and women for free passages to the Dommions, numbering ...
Article : 109 wordsIn the course of an inquiry into the causes of strikes, Mr. Samuel Crowther, in the "North American Review," says in effect that the inflation of currency ...
Article : 733 wordsThe Socialist party has followed up [?] protest against the expulsion of Messrs. Adamson and Gosling by demanding the immediate convocation of ...
Article : 40 wordsCompulsory conferences have been summoned by the President and the Deputy President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Higgins ...
Article : 213 wordsThe New South Wales Labour Council has decided to oppose any military intervention against Russia. The manifesto issued on behalf of the Labour ...
Article : 147 wordsProposals of a revolutionary nature in regard to the management and employment of prisoners were to-day placed before the board of inquiry ...
Article : 236 wordsIn view of the beginning of the reform scheme in India, several new appointments are announced, including that of Lord Sinha as Governor of the ...
Article : 151 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday, William Pelham was charged with having neglected to quit the house situated at 22 Grosvenor-street, Sandy ...
Article : 239 wordsThe English mail for H.M.S. Renown, Which left Port Augusta by aeroplanes at 7.45 a.m., arrived in Sydney at 8.25 p.m. on Thursday. The ...
Article : 212 wordsThe English and Scottish Bank is arranging to purchase a controlling interest in a banking institution in Australia. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn his report for the year ended December 31, 1919, the Inspector-General of Police (Mr. James Mitchell) says the outstanding feature is ...
Article : 154 wordsWhen the British Cotton-growing Association recently-offered to purchase cotton from Queensland growers at 1s. 3d. per lb[?] for five years, in connection ...
Article : 166 wordsMajor-General Sir Henry Burstall, who commanded the Second Canadian Division at the front, has been appointed Inspector-General, with the rank of ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Harkness, Chief Electoral Officer, has formally advised the Government that he cannot conduct the by-election for a successor to Mr. Beeby ...
Article : 84 wordsSubstantial increases in wages and conditions are proposed in a log which has been drawn up by the Federated Carters' and Drivers' Union, and ...
Article : 280 wordsThe brickmakers in the metropolitan area, ceased work this morning, not-withstanding that the new wages board determination was published in this ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says the Vatican is leing deluged with telegrams from the Catholic hierarchy throughout the ...
Article : 89 wordsTwo of the more important of the new positions recently created in the department in charge of the Director of Navigation (Captain J. K. Davis) ...
Article : 64 wordsIn connection with the vote on the proposed union between the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational churches to be taken throughout the ...
Article : 167 wordsTo-day was the fifth day of the Olympic games, which were contested in rain. In the 200 metres hurdle race (250 ...
Article : 127 wordsIn answer to an inquiry to-day concerning the levying of income tax upon the visiting journalists accompanying the Prince of Wales to Australia, the ...
Article : 80 wordsAmongst the 96 amendments in the Navigation Act desired by the Seamen's Union which are now being considered by the Federal Ministry, is ...
Article : 77 wordsTOKIO, Augus 19. Shipping circles in Tokio complain that the influence of Japanese merchantmen in the South Seas has declined ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 21 Aug 1920, Page 7
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