In the Senate to-day,— The Immigration Act Amendment Bill was introduced, and read a first time. ...
Article : 35 wordsIncreases have been made in both excise and import duties on ale, [?]rter, and beer. The excise on beer and [?]orter has been raised from 1s. to 1s. 3d. per ...
Article : 837 wordsThe tariff was introduced in the House of Representatives to-day. The House having gone into Committee of Ways and Means Mr. Massy Greene, ...
Article : 3,093 wordsCaptain Van Reyneveld, who, with Lieutenant Brand, successfully accomplished the fight from England to Capetown, interviewed to-day, stated ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Minister of Repatriation (Senator Millen), in the Senate to-day moved the second reading of the Repatriation Bill. He said the Repatriation ...
Article : 825 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon. Mr. Clem Edwards, the Labour member for Bedwelty, asked Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, whether ...
Article : 129 wordsIt is understood that President Wilson intends, if it is passed, to veto the resolution introduced by Senator Knox declaring the state of war between the ...
Article : 107 wordsIn the House of Representatives today,— The Postmaster-General (Mr. Wise), replying to Mr. Page (Q.), said that the ...
Article : 418 wordsThe two aeroplanes piloted by [?]eut. Parer and Captain Matthews bound for Australia, and the two Italian aeroplanes, bound for Tokio, will all leave ...
Article : 45 wordsLord Robert Cecil, the Unionist member for Hitchin, suggested in the House of Commons this afternoon that Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, ...
Article : 128 wordsSir Ross and Sir Keith Smith were tendered a civic reception this morning amid the most demonstrative enthusiasm. The Lord Mayor (Mr. F. B. ...
Article : 202 wordsThere was a serious affair in Dublin last night. A crowd followed soldiers leaving a theatre in the city, and a collision oc ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the Nationalist member for the Scotland division of Liverpool, adverting to his ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the committee stage of the army estimates, which were before the House of Commons this afternoon, several speakers strongly advocated the estab ...
Article : 795 wordsIn the final Budget discussion in the Indian Legislative Council to-day, Mr. W. M. Hailey, the Minister of Finance, said the actual deficit had been now ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Grand Rapids (Michigan) correspondent of the United Press Association of New York states that Senator Newberry has been sentenced to two ...
Article : 46 wordsLast night members of the Builders Labourers Federation met at the Trades-hall, and resolved that they would not work for less than a ...
Article : 163 wordsInquiries made of the Acting-Premier (Mr. Fihelly) this morning elicited the fact that nothing so far had been heard officially of any appointment having ...
Article : 257 wordsTwo more deaths have occurred in connection with the sensational burning fatality at M[?]lville's fish shop in Adelaide yesterday evening. Miss ...
Article : 90 wordsThe changes on articles produced in Tasmania, and upon the local prices of which the duty placed on imports will exercise an important influence, are as ...
Article : 815 wordsThe leader of the Australian Labour movement has cabled to Senator J. J. Ware stating that the gains by Labour candidates in the recent South African ...
Article : 55 wordsIncluded in passengers for Melbourne by the Rotomahana from Devonport yesterday was Hon. H. Hays, Honorary Minister, who, as Warden of the ...
Article : 314 wordsIn the South African House of Assembly this afternoon, General Smuts, the Prime Minister, stated that the propert[?] of Germans domiciled or ...
Article : 70 wordsA verdict of £450 damages waa given by the jury in the County Court today on the claim for £1,000 compensation for breach of promise of marriage ...
Article : 117 wordsVery little alteration in the prospective general position of parties in the new Parliament is possible until all the primary votes have been counted, and ...
Article : 414 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Major V. L. Henderson, the Unionist member for Tradeston, asked whether it was proposed to introduce ...
Article : 83 wordsThe inquiry into the administration of the affairs of the Northern Territory was continued to-day. In reply to Mr. A. [?] Mills (counsel ...
Article : 192 wordsReplying in the House of Commons this afternoon to Mr. J., M. Kenworthy, the Liberal member for Central Hull, Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime ...
Article : 71 wordsThe decision of the Fair Prices Commission in connection with the price of Mildura dried fruits was given today. The chairman (Sir James McCay) ...
Article : 148 wordsThe battleship Maryland, which is the largest super-Dreadnought so far constructed for the United States Navy, was launched at Newport News ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for War, speaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, said the question of battle clasps was being ...
Article : 93 wordsA woman, whose name has not been ascertained, late to-night was killed at a railway crossing at Kilkenny, on the Port Adelaide line. She had alighted ...
Article : 53 wordsThe six torpedo boat destroyers presented to Australia by the Imperial Government arrived at Bombay at noon yeterday (Monday). ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 25 Mar 1920, Page 5
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