The large hall at the Commercial Travellers' Association was packed by members on Saturday morning, when the question of compulsory reinforcements for our soldiers at the ...
Article : 1,457 wordsM. Branting, the Swedish Socialist leader, passed through London recently on his way back to Stockholm from the conference of neutral Socialists at the Hague, and was ...
Article : 587 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his noon report to-day, states:—We captured 100 prisoners in the Stuff Redoubt. We made an important advance ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Prime Minister's visit to Launceston was completely satisfactory. He addressed a crowded audience of women at the Princess Theatre, and had a most enthusiastic ...
Article : 1,097 wordsA correspondent of the "Times" reports that the Wheat Commission met yesterday, and discussed the difficulty of the problem of the long voyage from Australia. Grain ships ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Premier of South Australia (Mr. Crawford Vaughan) will speak at St. George's Hall, Newtown, instead of the Randwick Town Hall to-night. Other speakers will be the Attorney-General (Mr. D. R. Hall), ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Lamond on Saturday said:— The amateur generals, of whom we have so many in Australia just now, are very busy correcting the War Office estimates of the ...
Article : 508 wordsAfter my experience on the Eastern front, I was delighted at the opportunity to visit the stuff or a British army in France (writes Mr. Bernard Pares in the London "Daily ...
Article : 1,047 wordsMeetings in opposition to conscription will be held at Ashfield, Botany, Petersham, Chatswood, Parramatta, Bexley, Dulwich Hill, Zetland Hotel, Five Dock, Surry Hills, Petersham, Glebe, St. Peters, ...
Article : 81 wordsAddressing an open-air gathering at Marrickville Park yesterday afternoon, the Premier was subjected to much heckling, and the crowd, at each moment he tried to give ...
Article : 603 wordsWhile attempting to board the 6.30 p.m. train from Picton to Sydney, at Liverpool station on Saturday, Private S. R. Bendefield, aged 33, late of Bombala, and a member of ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Hughes, Presidential candidate, speaking at Louisville last night, for the first [?] defined his position in regard to the sinking of the Lusitania. ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Walter Earle, a well-known resident of Waroona, was found dead in the bush near his home. The top of his head had been shattered by a gunshot. It is surmised that the ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Joseph Cook, speaking in the Ryde Town Hall on Saturday night on the conscription issue, said the crux of the whole question was the duty we owed to the brave Australians ...
Article : 701 wordsCecil Bassett, 6 years old, was running across Union-street, Adamstown, yesterday, when he was knocked down by a sulky. He received severe stomach injuries, and died in ...
Article : 36 wordsThe International Protestant Epl[?] Convention has reported on a colossal [?] for a world conference on the question of the union of the Churches. Favourite ...
Article : 51 wordsAt about 9 a.m. on Friday a dispute occurred in Hay-street, city, between three Chinamen. Young Buck Boy, otherwise Harry Young (40), was found with his skull ...
Article : 56 wordsFifty-three men offered themselves for active service at Victoria Barracks yesterday, and twenty-three were accepted. The voluntary recruiting is still maintaining ...
Article : 89 wordsThe steamer Australstream has left London for Sydney. The steamer Eastern has left Kobe for Melbourne. The barque Withara has left Iquique for Melbourne. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 773 wordsThe registration figures in Victoria up to last night were:—Reported, 53,007; examined, 52,436; fit, 23,734; unfit, 16,400; doubtful, 10,356; temporarily unfit, 1946; applications for ...
Article : 128 wordsDuring last week a number of Italians offered their services for the A.I.F. It is pointed out that they cannot be accepted, as they must report to their Consul, and enrol ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 wordsYesterday so men volunteered and 41 were accepted, making the figures for the week—Volunteered, 748, passed, 442. HOBART, Sunday. ...
Article : 40 wordsIn connection with the death of Mrs. Ellen Eyles (42), who was found on Friday hanging by a buggy-rein attached to a bedpost in her room, the police are convinced that ...
Article : 138 wordsThe band stand reserve on Coogee front was thronged with an orderly crowd yesterday afternoon when an enthusiastic conscription meeting was held. ...
Article : 410 words"If the demands of the no-conscriptionists meant anything at all, it meant that the Australian soldiers in France could either remain without reinforcements till they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsA garden fete in aid of the Greenwich branch of the Red Cross Society was held on Saturday by Mrs. J. Wallace Turner (president) and the ladies who are associated with her in Red Cross work, in the grounds of ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. T. Rowlands, or Manly, has [?] ceived word that his son, Major Verner Rowlands, has been killed in France. The deceased officer left Australia as ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Prime Minister's special from Devonport to Burnie stopped at the railway station at Ulverstone, where about a thousand people had assembled, and a half-hour's address ...
Article : 286 wordsSpeaking to a large gathering of people in the Corso, Manly, yesterday afternoon, presided over by Mr. A. T. Keirle, Mayor, Mr. Arthur Griffith, Minister for Education, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsThe largest and most successful conscription meeting yet held in Newcastle took place last night, when a gathering of 6000 persons attentively listened to speeches by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsThomas Corbett (26), an assistant steward on board a steamer at present in port, was drowned whilst surfing at Narrabeen yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 157 words"Desirous" (Canterbury).—He must be 23 years of age. You can only do this by enlisting for general service, and showing that you are worthy of being sent to the school. ...
Article : 325 wordsSir William Irvine, M.P., will leave for Sydney to-morrow, and will speak in favour of conscription at Hurstville, Burwood, and Canterbury. ...
Article : 29 wordsPeople desirous of helping our men at the front are requested to send old jewellery or gold and silver articles or scraps to the head depot, City Mutualchambers, 62 Hunter-street, or to any country or ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) will, on Sunday week, leave Melbourne by special train for Wagga, where he will speak on the following night. He will address a meeting at ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Dutch steamer Roggeveen, which arrived to-day from Sourabaya, after being out 13 days, has just completed her maiden trip to Australia. She made her first voyage in April last from Holland to Buenos ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes addressed a meeting of women last week, and an overflowing audience in the Albert Hall in the evening. Resolutions supporting conscription were ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Lord Mayor left by last evening's express for Melbourne, where, at the invitation of the Victorian Referendum Committee, he will address several meetings, ...
Article : 59 wordsSpeaking in Petersham Park on Sunday, Mr. G. H. Fuller, deputy leader of the State Opposition, said that patriotism was a virtue which belonged to all classes. The workers ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, rector of Bishops Hatfield, has been appointed Bishop of Exeter. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe captain of the steamer Yarra reports that he passed a log 12ft long and 4in in diameter at 12.10 p.m. on October 11. The vessel was off Tathra Head at the time. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe anti-conscription party practically took possession of the Domain yesterday afternoon, and from half a dozen platforms they put forward their views to one of the largest ...
Article : 239 wordsWILSON'S PROMONTORY (426m).—Inward: Oct. 15, Karitane, s, 12.30 a.m.; Dilkera, s, 7.10 a.m.; Sydney, s, 12.20 p.m.; Tarcoola, s, 2.45 p.m. Outward: Oct. 15, Goulburn, s, 3.30 a.m.; Period, s, 5.30 a.m.; ...
Article : 130 wordsSir John Ellerman has purchased shares in Thomas Wilson and Son[?] Limited, including 80 vessels of 200,000 [?] aggregate, making the ships controller by the Ellerman ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 16 Oct 1916, Page 10
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