At the public meeting on Friday night, Mr. Dooley, in the course of his address, said on the 31st instant the municipal and shire elections would take place. Labor men were ...
Article : 471 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Western District Labor Council was held in the Trades Hall on Thursday night, when there were present:--Messrs. Munroe, Heaydon, O'Reilly ...
Article : 938 wordsThe number of persons resident in the Lithgow police patrol is, according to figures supplied by Sergt. Burn, 10,468. This includes the Municipality of Lithgow and part ...
Article : 252 wordsMr. J. Dooley, M.L.A., from the balcony of the Grand Central Hotel on Friday night, returned thanks for his election, and touched on some of the proposals ...
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Advertising : 90 wordsThe defence forces will he held in readiness at Pretoria until a proclamation releases them. Yesterday a leaflet entitled "The Strike ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Dooley, speaking at his meeting on Friday night, said no one could say who would or would not fill the important positions in the new Ministry until the caucus ...
Article : 288 wordsAn attempt was made to blow up the engine-house at Vogelstruit Estate. Mine Johannesburg. A cage containing the skipmen was being lowered when a dynamite ...
Article : 77 wordsKing Gustav, in opening the Swedish Rikstag, announced that, in view of the increasing armaments, a special tax was rendered necessary. This would be imposed ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. C. H. Hoskins stated to-day that the second steel furnace had keen lighted up, and would be tapped to-day. The rail rolling was proceeding satisfactorily, and ...
Article : 49 wordsWhat the Lithgow iron industry will have to face next year in the way of local competition may he gathered from portion of the report on the Iron Knob submitted by Mr. E. ...
Article : 248 wordsMiss Sylvia Pankhurst has advised the suffragettes not to attend any meeting unless armed and able to defend themselves. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe bodies of a third officer and seaman of the missing lin[?]r Acilia, as well as a quantity of wreckage, were picked up in the Magellan Straits. The natives report that ...
Article : 56 wordsThe trouble between the Bathurst Friendly Societies' Association and the B.M.A. was settled last night, when the following motion was carried at a meeting of the ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. F. M. Luther announces a stock sale at Oberon on next Saturday afternoon. The Mort's Gully. Gun Club' will hold their first shoot on Saturday, next, at too of Mort's ...
Article : 593 wordsJohn Frederick Harris was lined £50, ill default six months' imprisonment on a charge of using a room in Elizabeth-street for betting purposes. The police alleged that the ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the diocesan examination held at St. Joseph's Convent, Lithgow, during the month of November, the following pupils were successful in securing certificates of merit: ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Associate Chief Secretary, Mr. F. Flowers, has expressed warm approval of the action of the Lithgow unions in declaring in favor of striking a levy of 1 12d per week ...
Article : 114 wordsThe strike of wharf-laborers for increased rates for overtime is viewed seriously by the shipping companies, and there is talk of laying up some of the steamers. The officers ...
Article : 129 wordsOn Saturday and yesterday morning the heat was very oppressive. About mid day, however, a thunderstorm passed over Lithgow, and cooled the air for the remainder ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Lithgow Liedertafel is making great progress in the preparatory work for the next concert. Practices are being well attended, and the conductor is meeting with marked ...
Article : 125 wordsSome forty points of rain were recorded from a thunderstorm to-day, but as usual the heaviest part of the storm or storms passed round. However, the fall, though ...
Article : 35 wordsThere was a very big house at the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday night, when the opera "Tannhauser" was screened. The film was well got up, and contained scenes ...
Article : 237 wordsA railway man whose veracity is beyond question tells the following from his own experience:--Two ladies on holiday bent desired to take the passenger train to Sydney ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. T. Upton, secretary of Lithgow Hospital, is in receipt of a letter from Mr. J. L. Brown, enclosing £10 10s towards the Gannon memorial fund. Mr. Brown says: ...
Article : 84 wordsA gang of four burglars, was busy during the week-end. They attacked Wing Sang and Co.'s store on, Saturday night, but were observed by the night watchman, who gave ...
Article : 67 wordsBalmer and Gess have struck anew reef about half a mile west of MacKellar's mine. The reef varies from eighteen inches to two feet wide, and a crushing of twelve tons ...
Article : 117 wordsPossibly owing to the heavy traffic from the west local and district collieries have, during the fortnight, again experienced a shortage of trucks. In two instances this ...
Article : 206 wordsThe strength of a country is supposed to be its husbandry, but very often the man on the land has to pass through vicissitudes that would break the spirit of the dweller in ...
Article : 191 wordsA correspondent writes from Burrnga:--"The Lloyd copper mine re-opened on Monday after the holidays. A good supply of labor was available. ...
Article : 27 wordsThere are about twenty families living in Airly, about thirty children going to school and sixteen men working in and about the mines. A number of men working at ...
Article : 68 wordsPractically the whole of the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and Natal railway employees have returned to work. Sufficient tramway men have signed on in ...
Article : 257 wordsAt the annual meeting of the local branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, held in the Trades Hall, there was a very large attendance. It was ...
Article : 243 wordsAlf. Edden, talking to a reporter as to his prospects of being included in the Ministry, said the other day:--"Well, all I've got to say is this, as one of the prophets ...
Article : 274 wordsWe are informed that Mr. G . R. McGregor, letter carrier, Masters A. Mostyn, J. Hannan, and W. Hutchison, messengers, of Lithgow, have successfully passed the ...
Article : 147 wordsFor the second time within six months a robbery bus occurred at Eskbank railway station. It appears that about 11.45 on Saturday night the clerk in charge of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsDuring manoeuvres the British submarine A7 foundered in seventeen fathoms of water in Whitsand Bay, and eleven men perished. The death roll by the volcanic disaster in ...
Article : 101 wordsThe annual meeting of the Ivanhoe miners' lodge was held on Friday night, when there was a large attendance. The annual balance-sheet and auditors' report were ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Mon 19 Jan 1914, Page 2
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