After two or three weeks of preliminary sparring, the Federal Parliament has at last setled down to work. The break for the Easter holidays has been ...
Article : 1,424 wordsThe late Mr. Thomas Arthur Bailey, whose death was announced last week, had a most interesting career, both as a pioneer and a sportsman (says our ...
Article : 252 wordsThe business sessions of the Congress of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers were begun this afternoon, when there was a large and ...
Article : 1,287 wordsThe battle-cruiser Renown, on board of which the Prince of Wales is travelling to Australia, arrived at Suva to-day, all well. She will leave for New ...
Article : 881 wordsAn official communique issued to-day at San Remo, in Northern Italy, where the Allied peace, delegates are now meeting, states that the Peace Treaty with ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the Budget in the House of Commons this afternoon. He said that this budget ...
Article : 2,193 wordsOne of the chief difficulties with which the naval authorities are confronted in the manning of the vessels of the Australian fleet is the fact that many of ...
Article : 730 wordsThe International Financial Conference is to be held in Brussels at the end of May, and the Council of the League of Nations has invited 25 ...
Article : 290 wordsA move is being made in union circles with the view of bringing about a federation of the maritime unions. An inter-State conference of delegates has ...
Article : 57 wordsA ballot was taken to day at the A.M.P. Society's office on the propasal of Mr. G. R. Campbell, that the extra war risk premiums paid by soldiers ...
Article : 79 wordsThe number of influence cases in New Zealand have increased during the past week, presumably as the result of the unsettled weather, which is now cold ...
Article : 68 wordsThe third series of the London wool sales opened to-day, but competition was dull, and prices showed a decline of about 10 per cent, on the last sales. ...
Article : 37 wordsTestimony was given to-day during the hearing before Mr. Justice Higgins, in the Arbitration Court, of the plaint by the Australian Timber Workers' Union ...
Article : 200 wordsReplying in the House of Commons this afternoon to Lord Robert Cecil, Unionist member for Hitchin, Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy Seal, stated ...
Article : 129 wordsReplying in the House of Commons this afternoon to Captain H. L. Brackenbury, the Unionist member for Louth, Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy ...
Article : 115 wordsSir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador to the United States, who arived at New York to-day in a statement to press representatives said that ...
Article : 96 wordsAfter years of experimental work on the Valiala oilfield in Papua the Commonwealth Government has arranged, is the, result of negotiations begun by ...
Article : 214 wordsMr. G. D. Delprat, general manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, giving evidence before the Coal Commission to-day, said that as long as ...
Article : 192 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. J. M. Kenworthy, the Liberal member for Central Hull, asked whether the warning given to Germany ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. C. A. McCurdy, the Food Controller in Mr. Lloyd George's Government, interviewed by a representative of the "Observer" after a visit of ...
Article : 192 wordsOwing to the fact that in 1918 His Majesty the King renounced on behalf of himself and his family all German titles, dignities, and appellations, there ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Dutch East Indian papers praise the courage of Captain Matthews, who continued his flight even after many sad reverses. The papers express ...
Article : 56 wordsThe chairman of the Victorian Fair Prices Commission (Sir James McCay) stated to-day that a close investigation was to be made into the transactions of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Law Smith case was again mentioned in the Full Court to-day, when Eva Rose Smith wife of Harold Law Smith, applied for the allotment of ...
Article : 101 wordsThe British Air Ministry announces the inauguration by the Ministry of aircraft competitions for 1920, the object being to ascertain the best type of ...
Article : 176 wordsIf the Federal Ministry sends workmen to Canberra to prepare the way for the transfer of the capital to that spot, it will find accommodation ready at a ...
Article : 290 wordsSir Allen Taylor at to-night's meeting of the City Council moved that the Finance Committee be requested to allocate from the city funds a sum not ...
Article : 148 wordsJudge Rolin made further reference to-day to the illegal strike by the New South Wales Bricklayers' Union in refusing to work of Saturday mornings. ...
Article : 220 wordsConsideration was given by the Federal Cabinet to-day to several matters connected with the tariff. In particular, the position in which France has ...
Article : 82 wordsThe chairman of the Fair Prices Commission (Sir J. W. McCay) has written to the Premier of Victoria (Mr. Lawson), suggesting that a conference of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe military occupation of Samoa gives place to civil administration on May 1. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe general manager of the HydroElectric Department (Mr. Butters) conferred with the Mayor of Launceston and the City Electrical Engineer yesterday ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated to-day that when he was asked in the House of Representatives last week by Mr. Jowett whether he would ...
Article : 219 wordsBlizzards of exceptional severity are reported from the Middle Western States of America. It is stated that alread 20 people have lost their lives. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe men at the Wellington oil stores demand the same rates as are paid to waterside workers. This having been refused, no oil was handled to-day. The ...
Article : 47 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 21 Apr 1920, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: