The Chief Commissioner for Railways yesterday issued the following statement:—"The suburban train services are being added to where necessary. On Tuesday an ...
Article : 351 wordsThe 332nd list of Australian casualties was issued yesterday. It contains 877 names, and shows that 117 were killed in action, 9 died of wounds, and 6 from other causes ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is feared that serious results will develop in connection with the strike. Several other unions met on Tuesday night, and decided to join in the strike. The only men now [?] ...
Article : 152 wordsOpinions differ us to the next issue of Labour regarding the Stockholm Conference, but yesterday's vote is regarded as strengthening the hands of the ...
Article : 186 wordsOwing to the shortage of coal, the trouble has further extended to textile workers. The services of 250 men employed by the Australian Woollen Mills ...
Article : 718 wordsA wireless Italian official report states that the battle on the Julian front goes on uninterruptedly. Our troops on the extreme right despite undiminished resistance are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsAn application was made in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday by the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association to have the award of the waterside ...
Article : 383 wordsA meeting of the British Miners' Federations reversed its previous decision in favour of taking part in the Stockholm Conference by resolutioning, carried by ...
Article : 67 wordsThe unwritten law was pleaded successfully for the first time in England, when a Coroner's jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the case of ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Labour Conference was characterised by much rowdiness. After the announcement of the figures the majority sang "The Red Flag," while the minority, led by Mr. Will ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Strike Committee yesterday afternoon issued the following statement:—The strike is not an attack on the National Government, nor a blow aimed at ...
Article : 463 wordsReuter's correspondent at Madrid reports that the Spanish Cabinet has decided to disband the troops who were called up in connection with the recent disturbances. ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is officially reported that the President of the Board of Trades met the Society of Railway Engineers and Firemen and settled the dispute on the basis of the Government's ...
Article : 180 wordsAll the steamers in Brisbane are held up, no work being done on any of the interstate shipping companies' wharves. A further meeting of the Trade Union ...
Article : 129 wordsAn Italian official report states that a battle is raging on the whole front. We are overcoming the resistance northward of Gorizia and gaining new successes along the ...
Article : 117 wordsReuter's correspondent at Rome states that an Italian seaplane dropped bombs aboard a submarine in the mid-Atlantic and sank her. ...
Article : 50 wordsAfter the meeting of the Defence Committee in Sydney last night it was stated, from information received, that it appeared that the Government had handed the whole of the ...
Article : 94 wordsSir.—Without anticipating your report of yesterday's proceedings of the mass meeting on the Park I desire to ask your permission to state my motive for ...
Article : 227 wordsBritish and Italian monitors co-operating with the army effectively bombarded the enemy positions on the lower Isonzo. Simultaneously Italian monitors bombarded the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Government is congratulated on the tact with which it has handled the railway dispute. ...
Article : 27 wordsSome significance is attached to a resolution passed by the Union Defence Committee, inviting the societies affiliated under Federal jurisdiction to appoint ...
Article : 438 wordsThe Federal Government has commandeered the steamer Oona[?] for continuous service between Tasmania and the mainland. She is manned by a volunteer crew. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Board of Trade has issued a lengthy statement regarding the crisis which has arisen owing to the throat of the Associated Society of Locomotive ...
Article : 240 wordsA wireless Russian official message says:—W[?]repulsed several enemy attacks on the Bistritza River, south-eastward of Krutche. The enemy silghtly advanced in the direction of ...
Article : 121 wordsOn the strength of exhaustive comparisons which have been made by the London "Statist," that journal has expressed the opinion that British banks are ...
Article : 257 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met yesterday afternoon, Mr. Storey, the leader of the Opposition, gave notice of the following motion:—"That in the opinion of this House ...
Article : 510 wordsSir,—The brilliant successes being achieved by the ladies' committee towards improving and renovating the hospital are most encouraging. There are still ...
Article : 373 wordsThe food consus, undertaken for the Food Administrator, starts immediately, covering one hundred items, including stocks in farms, warehouses and stores, and in family parties. ...
Article : 66 wordsSir A. Stanley met the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen to-day, and repeated the pledge he gave yesterday—that the Government control ...
Article : 110 wordsParticulars relating to the importation of gas mantles from neutral countries were given by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen) in the House of Representatives last week. These ...
Article : 229 wordsGeneral Ma[?], President of Cuba, has transferred four large interned German steamers to the United States Government. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that a Munitions Council on the lines of the Admiralty and Army Council has been established to co-ordinate the work of the 50 ...
Article : 130 wordsA message from Zurich states that the German Government has doubled the price of hay in order to reserve as much as possible for the army. This is expected to lead to the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) and Mr. Hall, representing the New South Wales Government, yesterday in Melbourne jointly received a deputation from the Trades Hall ...
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The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Thu 23 Aug 1917, Page 6
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