Mrs. T. H. Nesbitt, wife of the Town Clerk of Sydney, died this afternoon. She had been in bad health for some months. The funeral will leave Westminster. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 445 wordsReferring to-day to the decision of the British Government with regard to the adoption of compulsory enlistment for single men of military age, Mr. Hughes (Prime Minister) ...
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Article : 153 wordsA Paris official message says: -- "There has been fighting in the Vosges and at Richfelsen and Hirzstein, in Alsace. We have mastered a series of German works, ...
Article : 69 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reports: -- "We are malting effective artillery practice to-day in many places. There is a heavy reciprocal bombardment at Ypres." ...
Article : 71 wordsA New York message, states that advices from Paris disclose that nine Austro-German submarines have been sunk in the Mediterranean. It is believed that these figures will ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Times points out that the economic arguments against compulsion are fallacious. "Soldiers come first," it says, "and if we do not provide the necessary troops we shall be ...
Article : 203 wordsHeavy fighting between Russia and Austria has taken place on the Bessarabia-Bukovina frontier. Austrian official messages claim that the ...
Article : 113 wordsThis morning Mr. Nesbitt, Town Clerk, despatched the following letter to the Premier: -- "I have the honor, under the direction of ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is stated from Pekin that the authorities of the Kwang Tung and Kwang-Si provinces, which are apparently loyal to the Government, have each despatched a commissioner ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Mahon, Minister for External Affairs, stated that he objected to the word "Conscription." "It is altogether inappropriate," he said, "but assuming that the word means ...
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Article : 36 wordsOn alluding to the shortage of live stock in Queensland, Mr. Fihelly, the Minister for Lands in that State, said this afternoon that previous to his Government's entry to office ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 229 wordsMr. M'Kenna objects to conscription mainly on financial grounds, thinking that Great Britain's financial commitments are already as heavy as can be borne. Mr. Runciman's ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Jefferies, the London Daily Mans correspondent in the Balkans, writes: -- "An enemy advance is unlikely. The Germans and Bulgarians are fortifying, and ...
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Article : 76 words[?] the influence of grief, a person is [?]ble to do strange things. A man 50 years of age, who had three sons at the war, one having been killed, and another severely ...
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Article : 301 wordsThe Times correspondent at New York says that Captain Boy-Ed, the German naval attache in America (whose recall was demanded after the revelations in the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe inquest concerning the death of Michael M'Cue was concluded this afternoon, when the Coroner (Mr. Treatt) returned a verdict of wilful murder against deceased's ...
Article : 48 wordsThe art union conducted by Messrs. Anthony Hordern and Sons, Ltd., in aid of the Allies' Day Fund, was drawn this afternoon. The winning numbers were: -- ...
Article : 190 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Cabinet the details of the bill will be decided. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Times correspondent in Paris says that there is widespread satisfaction in Franco at Mr. Asquith's decision. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is stated in Washington official circles that Mr. Lansing, United States Secretary of State, is preparing a protest to England against the seizure of mails from Holland. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. J. Fihelly, Minister for Lands in the Queensland Government, who is at present in Sydney, is an enthusiastic advocate of State enterprise. ...
Article : 176 wordsSingleton welcomed the Wallabies this morning. The men from the north-west had breakfast at Camberwelll, nine miles out, this morning, and afterwards left for Singleton ...
Article : 250 wordsNationalists will attend in full strength in the House of Commons next week, determined that compulsion shall not be applied to Ireland. ...
Article : 30 wordsEight thousand people attended the West Australian Trotting Association's Cup carnival last night, and put £5000 through the totalisator. The Trotting Cup of £530 with an 80-guinea ...
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Article : 35 wordsThe London Daily Mail says that it is possible that there will be no resignations from the Cabinet. Ministers had two courses to follow, and they might decide upon ...
Article : 267 wordsThe injuries received by Mr. Harald Baker while on the way to Egypt prove to have been serious. He is suffering from concussion of the spine, and at ...
Article : 67 wordsThe city editor of the Times writes saying that the history of wolfram in India is similar to the history of zinc in Broken Hill, German interests securing control of it. There ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the Auckland Racing Club's Summer meeting to-day the Islington Plate, a weight-for-age race of 650 sovs., one mile, was won by Desert Gold, with Flying Start second and ...
Article : 39 wordsAnother transport with sick and wounded soldiers is expected,to reach Sydney on Monday next. The vessel has on board 6 officers, 52 rank ...
Article : 62 wordsA Geelong Boy Scout picked up on the local beach a bottle which was found to contain a letter from a troopship. Mr. C. H. Fleet, the District Scout Master at South Geelong, ...
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Article : 125 wordsNursery Handicap: Neata Knight, Glassie All Engagement.: War Mist, Colugo. La Balfour. Cool Air, Bellara, ...
Article : 19 wordsSir George Reid does not approve of a suggestion that has been made that the name of the Federal capital should be changed to Anzac, but suggests that the name should ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following decrees absolute for the dissolutions marriages were made by Mr Justice Gonlon in the Divorce Court to-day: -- Ephrain Alfred Rosen v. Rosetta Rosen Dora ...
Article : 300 wordsHarold Edward Denn, 15. son of Mr. George Edward Dean, of Walroa, Waters-street. Wahroonga, died on December 20 as the result of the discharge of a shot gun. This ...
Article : 232 wordsMr. Furse, secretary of the Meat Industry Employees' Union, has notified members of his union that butchers' shops will remain open on Saturday until 1 p.m. in accordance ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the suggestion of the Royal Colonial Institute a number of the London livery companies have decided to entertain Australian soldiers in London to afternoon tea ...
Article : 45 wordsThe West Australian Government has ordered all places of amusement to be closed next Sunday, which is to be a day of prayer. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Daily Mail says that Mr. Henderson's position is specially interesting. His continued presence in the Cabinet depends upon the altitude of the Labor Party at ...
Article : 125 wordsLeonard Creer, 7 years of age, 13 Derby-street, Watson's Bay, was drowned this morning. The lad fell from the ferry wharf into the ...
Article : 55 wordsA story from Switzerland is to the effect that German chemists are feverishly working upon the composition of new diabolical gases for war purposes. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsMr. O'Malley, Minister for Home Affairs, has accepted the tender of the Cape Explosive Co. for the supply of 77 tons of gelignite for use at the eastern end of the ...
Article : 101 wordsPercy John Pearse, 30, died at Prince Alfred Hospital on December 21 as the result of Injuries received through falling into a brick-pit at the Federal Brick Company's ...
Article : 52 wordsGeneral Townshend, who is in command of the British force at Kut-el-Amara, in Mesopotamia, reports that there has been an entire cessation of attacks and bombardments ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Thu 30 Dec 1915, Page 5
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