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  2. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    A meeting of returned soldiers was held at the Old Trades Hall last evening for the purpose of forming an organisation to protect the interests of soldiers at the front ...

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  3. STATE ECONOMIES.

    Some suggestions for efficiency and economy in railway administration are put forward by a correspondent. He describes the office of superintending road master as ...

    Article : 411 words
  4. MORE PEACE TALK.

    The Rome correspondent of the United Press Association states:— "I believe that the Vatican has drawn the attention of the Austrian Emperor to President Wilson's ...

    Article : 346 words
  5. SHIP-BUILDING PROPOSALS.

    SYDNEY. — Mr. Ball, .Minister of Works, leaves for Adelaide this week, and when passing through Melbourne he will discuss various questions connected with the future ...

    Article : 53 words
  6. THE PRIME MINISTER.

    SYDNEY. — A meeting of the council of the National party was held on Monday night, at which a motion was submitted "that the association desires to express its ...

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  7. MAN-POWER BILL

    A conference of the Clyde committees of the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades' Federation met at Glasgow yesterday of consider the new Government's ...

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  8. DISEASE AMONG STOCK.

    Grave concern has been caused to farmers in the yannathan district (near Kooweerup) through an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle. The ...

    Article : 391 words
  9. Enemy's Next Blow.

    A well known neutral who has just arrived in Paris from Berlin states :— great offensive will be decided upon by Germany directly the weather conditions ...

    Article : 482 words
  10. RUSSIA'S COLLAPSE.

    The Stockholm correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" This interviewed Sir George Buchanan, the British ambassador in Petrograd, who is on his way to ...

    Article : 600 words
  11. ENGINEERS TO RECONSIDER.

    NEWCASTLE. — Members ut the Amalgamated Society of Engineers are being asked to reconsider the Commonwealth Government ship-building proposals. This is ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN HARDWOODS.

    NEWCASTLE. — Agents for United States principals are actively engaged inquiring in the Newcastle, Gosford and North Coast districts as to the supplies of ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. STARVING AUSTRIANS RIOT.

    A message received via Switzerland states that a gigantic food riot occurred in Vienna on New Year's day. Twenty thousand Starving people unable to buy ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    The Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce), whose health has been unsatisfactory for some tune past, has been counted by his medical adviser to take a ...

    Article : 273 words
  15. IN THE WILDS OF PERSIA.

    In a letter to his father, who resides near Stawell, Signaller James Carroll, a member of the Mesopotamian Wireless Corpe, who recently joined a Russian ...

    Article : 644 words
  16. IRISH CONVENTION.

    The "Daily Chronicle" publishes a long article from Dublin emphasising the fact that these are critical days for the Irish Convention, and urging the necessity for a ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. Railway Offences.

    At the City Court yesterday, Frederick Cathcart Downie and Benjamin Smith, insurance clerks, wore charged with using insulting words in a railway carriage, and ...

    Article : 647 words
  18. South Australian Coalition.

    ADELAIDE. — It is considered probable that after the meeting of the National party on Tuesday Mr. Jackson and Mr. Blundell will resign from the Cabinet and the ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. SENIOR CADET TRAINING.

    On Saturday last a recent amendment of the Defence Act, which made it compulsory for senior cadets to attend drill during the morning in their employers' ...

    Article : 344 words
  20. THE REFERENDUM.

    With the announcement of the final figures of the Australian Reinforcements Referendum editorial comment on the subject has been reopened here. The ...

    Article : 121 words
  21. Melbourne Harbor Trust

    The Melbourne Harbor Trust finished up the year just closed with a surplus of £5199, as compared with £22,309 for the previous year. The actual surplus is about ...

    Article : 361 words
  22. WILLS AND ESTATES.

    Fanny Elizabeth Bushell, late of Orrong-road, Armdale, married, who died on 8th December, left by will dated 20th september, 1907, £2170 realty and £1613 personalty to her husband and ...

    Article : 126 words
  23. THE COLLIERY DISASTER.

    The efforts to rescue the 147 miners who are entombed in a coal mine at Hahncrend, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, as the result of an explosion, are being continued day ...

    Article : 81 words
  24. GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

    Sir F. K. Smith, the British Attorney-General, in the course of this speech before the United States Bar Association said he supported the suggested formation of a ...

    Article : 151 words
  25. PAY OF OFFICERS.

    The War Cabinet has decided to increase the pa of subalterns during the war to a minimum of 10/6 per day as from lst October last, with consequential inercases to ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE.

    Colonel T. H. J. C. Goodwin, C.M.G., D.S.O., who has been appointed to succeed Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh as Director-General of the Army Medical ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND THE LATE CRISIS.

    Sir, — Your correspond cut, Mr. R. A. Crouch, is singularly ill-informed upon the subject concerning which lie has. ventured to instruct the public. Mr. Crouch makes ...

    Article : 310 words
  28. ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION.

    The Swedish consul-general (Mr. Goes) has received from Professor J. U. Richert, of Stockholm University, a letter suggesting means for improving the commercial ...

    Article : 276 words
  29. "ON TOUR."

    Sir, — May I through the columns of your widely circulated journal make a suggestion to the residents of that rich wheat growing district of Victoria extending from Murtoa ...

    Article : 416 words
  30. Success of Arab Raiders.

    A British official report states :— "Confirmation has been obtained of the success of Arab operations against the Hedjaz railway, northward of Mann (south of the Dead ...

    Article : 73 words
  31. Ocean Road Project.

    GEELONG. — The mayor, Cr. Hitchcock, and Cr. Heady, who had spent last week in the Cape Otway, Apollo Bay and Forrest districts with Mr. Fricke, of the Country ...

    Article : 259 words
  32. THE SUNKEN HOSPITAL SHIP.

    Although some of the German newspapers suggest Unit that the British hospital ship Rowa, which was torpedoed a few days ago in the Bristol Channel, was sunk ...

    Article : 283 words
  33. British Arlillery in Italy.

    An Italian official report states: — our artillery has been active on the Asiago Plateau and eastward of the Piave Vecohia, British batteies scored many direct hits ...

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  34. UNPRECEDENTED TILLAGE.

    Never within living memory has so much wheat been sown in England as during last autumn. The Food department expects that 3,000,000 acres additional will ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. RELEASED AUSTRALIANS.

    A party of wounded Australians who toOK part in the Somme offensive has arrived at Rotterdam, from the prison camps of Germany. They were ...

    Article : 226 words
  36. The Complaints of Bad Gas.

    Redlemond council last night discussed a letter from the Gas Conference in reply to complaints made as to the quality of gas during the recent coal strike. This ...

    Article : 287 words
  37. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, — I think there ia general approval of Colonel Crouch's letter in your issue of Saturday, as there is little doubt that the Governor-General did the wrong thing in ...

    Article : 260 words
  38. Thunder Storm in the City.

    Shortly after 7 o'clock last night a severe thunder storm, accompanied by lightning and heavy showers of rain, was experienced in the city and suburbs. During ...

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  39. RANDWICK HOSPITAL INQUIRY.

    The changes forecasted in the personnel of the Randwick Military Hospital by the Minister of Defence, when he made available the hospital advisory committee's ...

    Article : 140 words
  40. SIZE OF SCHNAPPER.

    Sir, — Colonel Semmens issues a warning to anglers of fishermen regarding length of schnapper that can be legally caught in Hobson's Bay and elsewhere Does he ...

    Article : 228 words
  41. Voluntary Recruiting.

    Twenty-three recruits were accepted in Victoria for the 24 hours ended 3 p.m. yesterday. ...

    Article : 19 words
  42. State Recruiting Committee of Victoria

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  43. MOTOR LAUNCH DRIVERS FOR MESOPOTAMIA.

    The Australian Red Cross Society having received a very large number of applications from persons qualified to undertake posts as motor launch drivers under the Britain ...

    Article : 61 words
  44. THE RAIDS ON BARRIER MINES.

    BROKEN HILL. — The hearing of the elses against of the men concerned in the raids on the mines during the strike was continued in the police court on ...

    Article : 137 words
  45. Advertising

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  46. THE MILITARY MEDAL

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  47. Advertising

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  48. Advertising

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  49. Great Britain and Japan.

    A Tokio newspaper, commenting upon the action of King George in conferring the British rank of field marshal on the Emperor of Japan, says :— "It is a unique ...

    Article : 65 words
  50. Advertising

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  51. THE PRICE OF RABBITS.

    WALLAN. — Melbourne rabbit buyers have reduced the price to local trappers from l/ per pair for large and 6d. for small, to 9d. and 4d. respectively. The ...

    Article : 102 words
  52. Advertising

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  53. GENERAL CABLES.

    Many military honors have been awarded to native West Africans who are fighting in France. ...

    Article : 24 words
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