A terrible catastrophe occurred while the Jockey Club's races were in process at Happy Valley race course today. A Chinese public stand, with 1000 ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the 24 hours ended 3 p.m. today 18 volunteers were accepted in Victoria for active service abroad. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsIn the "London Gazette" today there appear the names of several soldiers who have won Victoria Crosses. Among them are the following.-- ...
Article : 200 words[?]uncing a new German outrage [?] ment issued by the Admiralty [?] hospital ship Glenart Castle [?] while outward bound ...
Article : 281 wordsA German official message claims that the German raider Wolf destroyed 35 merchantmen, aggregating 210,000 tons gross,and that many larger vessels ...
Article : 164 words"The recent, reorganisation of recruiting officers in the 3rd Military District by Captain G. J. C. Dyett, the organising secretary," said Mr J. M. Giliesple, vice-chairman of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsMetropolitan weather today was warm and pleasant, with occasional light south-east to north-east winds. It is expected that these conditions will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 250 wordsThat a charity tax in the form of a municipal tax for ratepayers should be imposed, was the suggestion made to Mr J. Bowser, Premier and Treasurer ...
Article : 635 wordsVisiting the Returned Soldiers' Institute, Miss Ada Reeve, the English actress, saw an empty unfurnished room, and immediately gave an order for the necessary furnishing ...
Article : 61 wordsThat the Australian soldiers are longing for more news from home is the main feature of a message sent from the trenches in France by a ...
Article : 247 wordsA gale, accompanied by high seas has driven the Spanish steamer Igotz mendi, which was captured by the Ger[?] Wolf toward the Jutland ...
Article : 107 wordsJames Blakey Nixon, 23, plantation overseer, came all the way from Hollo, Philippine Islands, to enlist in the Australian Army. He has been accepted at the Town Hall ...
Article : 84 wordsMrs and Mr Trewartha, Albert Park, have received word that their second son, No. 1627 Sergeant C. L. Trewartha, 22nd Battalion, has been awarded the Military Medal ...
Article : 76 wordsThere were many mourners at the death-bed of the Counter Lunch, when that institution passed quietly away today. ...
Article : 500 wordsCaptain G. J. C. Dyett, organising secretary of the State Recruiting Committee, will pay an official visit to the Echuca electorate tomorrow, and on Saturday and Sunday he will ...
Article : 52 wordsThirty-three recruits were accepted in New South Wales in the 24 hours to 11 a.m. today. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr Walter H. Lucas, Island Inspector of Messrs Burns, Philp and Company, owners of the Matunga, said yesterday that all he was at liberty to ...
Article : 223 wordsSenator G. F. Pearce, Minister for Defence today announced a, relaxation of the restrictions under, the War Precautions regulations regarding the ...
Article : 275 wordsThat the action of the Prime Minister in giving instructions to the Interstate Commission to reopen the inquiry concerning the fixation of meat ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsA French mission to Australia including General Pau, a former Minister, and commercial men, is leaving shortly. ...
Article : 69 wordsIn introducing in the House of Commons the estimates for the Department of Overseas Trade, Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, secretary of the Department ...
Article : 190 wordsA message from Bilboa (Spain) states that the Spanish steamer Neguri (1859 tons), bound from New York to Marseilles, has been torpedoed. ...
Article : 44 wordssailors were drowned when [?] steamer Cherokee (2557 hundred off the Atlantic coast day. ...
Article : 23 wordsMrs Nellie Knott, 82, widow, died in the Melbourne Hospital today from the effects of shock, the result of burns. For years she had lived at the ...
Article : 170 wordsSenator G. F. Pearce, Minister for Defence, is putting up a fight in his own defence in resistance to the condemnation in the press following the ...
Article : 164 wordsLondon despatch says that an [?] between Austria and Ger[?]imminent. Austria refuses to the East, and it is believed ...
Article : 47 wordsBetween 200 and 300 wheat stackers at the Outer Harbor have ceased work in consequence of the refusal of the Government to adopt day work terms. ...
Article : 160 words"As members of the Government were only yesterday presented with printed copies of the second report of the Royal Commission on the business ...
Article : 98 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law. Chancellor of the Exchequer, emphasised the fact that the British output of ships in January and February ...
Article : 114 words[?] issued by the Admir[?] on Monday night drop[?] tons of bombs on the ...
Article : 47 wordsWith the object of placing before him the. opportunity which exists for the establishment in South Australia and other States of the alkali industry, ...
Article : 172 wordsInteresting details of enlistments in the Bendigo electorate are supplied by Lieutenant H. V. Mays, the recruiting officer. The total of the enlistments to date is 3134, ...
Article : 181 wordsMr P. McM. Glynn, Minister for Home and Territories, has received from the Consul-General for Japan in Sydney a communication setting out ...
Article : 182 words[?] contingent, consisting of a from New York, Philadelphia [?] big cities, has been sworn in [?] join the Zlonists and ...
Article : 22 wordsSarah Jane Mott was, at the Supreme Court today, sentenced to imprisonment till the rising of the court, for having committed bigamy. She ...
Article : 133 wordsTrouble is threatened at Port Pirie regarding the steamer Macedon. A cargo of coal is being discharged with a mechanical plant by the crew and ...
Article : 128 wordsSeven boys made their escape last night from the Bayswater reformatory, and information of the affair was given to Senior-Constable Stephenson, ...
Article : 82 words[?] the burden of the patients at the insane, the Police Band yesterday afternoon visited kew, and played a [?] varied programme of music on the ...
Article : 28 wordsSydney Edgar Barrett, a returned solder, who prior to enlisting, was employed at Ger[?]gery, has lodged an application to acquire under the Soldiers' Settlement Promotion Act ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thu 28 Feb 1918, Page 1
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