At a meeting of the State Executive Council yesterday[?] His Excellency the Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley) gave his assent to the bill restricting the trading hours of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsThe United States Ambassador in London (Mr. W. H. Page) has informed the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) that a representative of the ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Registration (War Census) Bill was again before the House of Commons on Monday. The President of the Local Government ...
Article : 248 wordsKORUMBURRA, Tuesday.—Sir William Irvine was the principal speaker at a recruiting meeting held here to-night. Lond before the trian arrived the hall was ...
Article : 382 wordsIt has been learned on trustworthy anthority that the following are the arrangements the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) has made with the Queensland ...
Article : 505 wordsSir,—While out during the luncheon hour to-day. I noticed a crowd of men outside the Town Hall listening to recruiting addresses. On returning to the office, I asked ...
Article : 242 wordsA joint meeting of the city and town councils was held on Tuesday, to deal with tenders for works at the Yarrowee Creek. For the northern section, which is to be completed within 12 ...
Article : 325 wordsSeveral leading city hotelkeepers expressed the opinion yesterday that the new act would crush many of those in the trade and sacrifice the public convenience in very ...
Article : 525 wordsTwo British aviators landed in a French biplane on the Dutch frontier, and burned the machine, believing that they were in the German lines in Belgian territory. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir,—In last Thursday's issue, you published particulars of the reductions in the standards for recruits for the A.I.F., and stated that such standards had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsThe Minister for Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) has announced in the House of Commons that for the week 67,650 volunteers had been registered in London for ...
Article : 105 wordsA splendid gathering of about 700 men was held yesterday afternoon in the car-barn of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway Trust. Mr. Alex. Cameron (the chairman of the trust) presided, and the men ...
Article : 273 wordsMr. A. T. Andrews has resigned as engineer and surveyor to the South Barwon Shire Council, and Mr. H. E. Moors has been appointed to the vacancy at £100 per annum. Mr. H. W. ...
Article : 165 wordsNegotiations are in progress between the Minister for Railways (Mr. Mackinnon) and the Defence department with the object of providing better railway facilities for the ...
Article : 110 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Goondi mill was the first of the mills owned by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company to commence crushing. A second mill will start about ...
Article : 61 wordsLord Haldane (former Lord Chancellor), speaking at the National Liberal Club on Monday, said that the Government in October of last year had been quite aware that ...
Article : 267 wordsBANNOCKBURN, Tuesday.—At the meeting of the Bannockburn Shire Council, Councillor Mac-Donald moved that the best thanks of the council be accorded the board for its co-operation and ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Necessary Commodities Control Commission has decided to call for the return of all sugar in excess of half a [?]on ...
Article : 142 wordsBUNINYONG, Tuesday.—Dr. Longden received a cable message from one of his sons asking him for a remittance. Four hours afterwards he received another cable ...
Article : 94 wordsBALLARAT.—The platform, Gallery, and floor of the Alfred Hall were packed on Tuesday night, when the recruiting campaign was opened in Ballarat. Outside the hall 3,000 people knocked at ...
Article : 487 wordsBEAUFORT, Tuesday.—Alexander Garland, alias Alexander Gray, was charged, at the police court to-day, with having endeavoured, at Beaufort, on June 30, to impose on George W. Congle ...
Article : 1,003 wordsSir,—The report on the meeting of the University Council in "The Argus" to-day quotes as a statement made by several members of the council that I was "an officer ...
Article : 164 wordsThe response to the appeal that appeared in "The Argus" a fortnight ago has been very generously supported, 10,800 pairs of bootlaces, including several thousand through the Education department; ...
Article : 100 wordsConsiderable feeling was displayed at the fortnightly meeting of the North Fitzroy branch of the Political Labour Council last evening, when Mr. W. H. Turner, the ...
Article : 691 wordsA rumour was current yesterday in certain Federal political circles that the Cabinet had decided to appoint immediately a Minister for Munitions, and that at the ...
Article : 307 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" of Saturday you were good enough to publish two letters— one from Mr. Macmeikan and another from Mr. Richard Linton. Each of those ...
Article : 652 wordsSir,—It is regrettable that those anxious to engage in shell-making had not received anticipatory instructions. For example, some of the beautifully finished shell-cases ...
Article : 544 wordsGuinness, Son, and Co. Ltd., the famous brewing concern, have subscribed for £5,000,000 worth of the British War Loan. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir,—What is the use of all this special effort to obtain recruits when eminently suitable men are being daily rejected on account of little discrepancies in their teeth ...
Article : 636 wordsMr. Will Thorne (Labour) asked in the House of Commons on Monday whether the American Beef Trust had lately acquired meat works and sources of supply in ...
Article : 181 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Brisbane wool sales commenced to-day, when catalogues aggregating 19,854 bales were submitted. There was a good selection of greasy, but a fair proportion consisted ...
Article : 469 wordsThe British Admiralty reports that instead of bombarding a fort at Harwich, on the cast coast of England, as the Germans claim to have done, German seaplanes and ...
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Advertising : 242 wordsSir,—I am directed by my council to ask you to publish the following resolution carried at its meeting to-night:— "That this council repudiates the suggestion ...
Article : 152 wordsSir Henniker Heaton has been appointed a second lieutenant in the Welsh Horse. [Sir Henniker Heaton is the son of the the first baronet, who resided in New South ...
Article : 112 wordsSir,—In the country towns, men and youths would gladly form rifle clubs, but cannot get rifles. Could not those who have rifles, send them in to an appointed depot, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 7 Jul 1915, Page 10
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