As noon as questions without notice had been disponed of in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the House proceeded with the second reading debate of the Arbitration ...
Article : 1,384 wordsThe official figures for recruiting in New South Wales show that last week 192 men were accepted and l38 rejected or deferred. This evening Lieut Nicholls, Lieut, Godfrey, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe full story of the wrick of the Orcle by the sole surviver of that ill-fated vessel came to hand through Captain Brown, of the steamer Timaru, who left Rockhampton ...
Article : 724 wordsOne of the correspondents, who referred to the possibilties of the coming German offensive on the Western front recently, stated that the Germans would probably attempt to ...
Article : 346 wordsIn the House of Lords, the Karl of Derby (Secretary of State for War) strongly supportod the Versailles Conference, which, he said, bad already achieved excellent results. ...
Article : 69 wordsSir Douglas Haig reporting on Tuesday morning stated: We successfully raided in three sectors of the front. Irish troops entered trenches south-eastward of Epehy ...
Article : 207 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded this afternoon. The Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) followed his notes closely. The House seemed generally to accept his ...
Article : 634 wordsThe Germans have captured Dvidsk (south-east of Righ), and the Austrians have taken Lutsk (In V[?]). (Admirally.—Per Wireless press.) ...
Article : 915 wordsOne hundred and fifty arrests have been made in connection with the conspiracy to kidnap Lenin, which was discovered at the Smolny Institute. ...
Article : 25 wordsThis State Government has agreed to build another large work out of money to be loaned to the Government from private, local sources. At a meeting of the Cabinet it was decided ...
Article : 220 wordsInvestment stock is quoted as follows:— Australian Mercantile, £67/5/; City of Sydney, £97/5/; Dalgety, Ltd., £70/5/; Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co, 77/5/. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Minister for Defance (Senator Pearce to-day intimated that it has been decided not to alter for the present the temporary administrative arrangement in the Australian Army ...
Article : 263 wordsA Washington message says that Mr. Hoover (member of Super-War Council), charactertses the U-boat campaign as a failure. He said the loss of food shipments (or the Allies ...
Article : 113 wordsThe enemy would have to smash the British line completely here in ordor to secure any result worth having. Minor gains on this portion of the front would be of little ...
Article : 245 wordsBrigadier-General Jobson addressed the general committee of the Red Cross Society yesterday afternoon. Lady Cullen, who presided, said sho was sure they would all listen with ...
Article : 558 wordsA Paris message states that after a discussion, which lasted all day, the Socialist National Council agreed by 1548 votes to 415 that the Chamber of Deputies' War Credits should ...
Article : 37 words"Over 90 per cent. of the men who have left New South Wales for the front have at one time or other attended the State Public schools, and this fact speaks for itself." The ...
Article : 403 wordsIt is stated at Washington that much gratification is felt at the appointment of Baron Ishll as Japanese Ambassador. The Press welcomes him as Japan's most prominent figure. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe air-raid on Zeebrugge reported this morning has followed closely upon the destroyer attack on the Dover patrol which occurred on Saturday morning last. This is a ...
Article : 240 wordsA bill has been introduced into the Senate living the minimum price of wheat at £250 cents a bushel. ...
Article : 22 words"There seems to be a good, deal of misapprehension on the part of the meat trade in Sydney as to the intentions of the Federal Government in connection with the proposal ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Prince of Wales took the oath and his seat in the House of Lords to-day during an imposing ceremonial, the Peers introducing his Royal Highness wearing the robes and ...
Article : 115 wordsThe unprecedented floods on the East Coast belt continue, and are causing great damage. It is reported that a serious shortage in the sugar crop is imminent. In the Umfolosl ...
Article : 62 wordsOwing to the absence of military organisation on the part of the Russians, It is almost useless to attempt to regard the position on the Eastern front from a military point of ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated yesterday in regard to the Central Board of Business Administration, that as Mr. McBeath would be continuing as chairman ...
Article : 163 wordsGeneral Sir Henry S. Rawlinson has been appointed British representative on the inter-Allied War Council at Versailles in succession to Sir Henry Wilson, who has ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Australian Red Cross Commissioner in London writes by last mail that the removal of the London offices to 36 Grosvenorplace has provided the required ...
Article : 354 wordsExtended powers have been granted to the Commonwealth Shipping Borad, and these were set out in a special Gazette issued to-day. The functions of the Board are as follows: ...
Article : 157 wordsIntroducing the Railway Budget in the Assembly this afternoon, the Minister for Railways stated that the revenue exceeded the estimates by £620,000. This was chiefly due ...
Article : 70 wordsAs a declared Imperialist the services of the new State Governor were eagerly sought for the opening ceremony of the Imperial Service Club yesterday. Historically this is the ...
Article : 423 wordsIt is officially notified that the special appeal for the Italian Red Cross fund resulted in the sum of £1541/8/ being subscribed. The sum of £1519/15/3 was handed to the Italian ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo severe earthquake shocks were felt in Wellington and various paits of the North Island this morning. The first, at about a quarter to 2, awakened the people ...
Article : 40 wordsThe United Press Agency's correspondent at Washington says the Military Committee of the House of Representative is framing a War Appropriation Bill estimated ...
Article : 43 wordsTwo new eases of X disease were admitted to the hospital yesterday, and another case has also been reported. Another death occurred to-day. Dr. Steven, who has had ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Coroner's Inquiry into the iccident in the Bathurst Railway Yards last week, when Charles Edmund Bradley and Walter, Hochkins were killed and mother man Injured. ...
Article : 204 words"Picture," says Stanley Washburn, in his book, "The Russian Offensive," "a small, sluggish stream winding through the meadow, curving in a great elbow around a hill on ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Premier has received a letter from Mr. Crawford Vaughan, dated Chicago, January 2, in which the ex-Labour Premier or South Australia says:—"The feeling throuhgout the ...
Article : 133 wordsThere was an extraordinary scene in the police court at Ennis, when 22 youths were charged with cattle-driving. A Sinn Fein leader in unform made a dramatic ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Westland Chamber of Commerce has objected strongly to the Government Instructions that no white plue should be exported from the Dom[?]n, but that all should be ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday, leave having been given, a bill to amend the Registration of Deeds Act, 1897, was introduced and rend a first time. ...
Article : 427 wordsThe Premier, in the Legislative Assembly to-day, said the the Cabinet had considered the matter of the dispite between the Friendly Societies and, the British Medical ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Gilbert Henderson. aged 54, a produce merchant, living in Dora-street. Hurstville, was killed by lightning at Cron[?] during the fierce storm yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Vew York authorities have arrested Johannes Workhoven, who is charged with bringing German-owned b[?] coupens to [?] for the purpose od [?] them ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the close of a meetig of the State Cabinet, held yesterday, the Premier announced that a commission had been handed to Mr. D. R. Hall, Attorney-General, to inquire into ...
Article : 86 wordsA bailot taken by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers rejected the Government's [?] power proposals by [?] to 27,470. The vote represent an insistence upon the society's ...
Article : 41 wordsA return was issued to-day showing the results of the [?]rst quarter's working of the East-Went Railway. The working expenditure amounted to £68,450, and the revenue ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Guy M[?] a returned soldier, has been appointed Resident Commissioner of the Niue and Cook Islands. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 21 Feb 1918, Page 7
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