Although both Houses of the State Parliament adjourned last night for three months, the session was not brought to a close. This means that there will not be any formal ...
Article : 679 wordsThe Murray River at Yarrawonga fell 2 feet 1 inch yesterday, and is now 21 feet 6 inches above summer level. At Cobram a fall of 1 foot was registered to-day, [?]d the main street ...
Article : 135 wordsNews has been received by Mrs. Gillespie, Rose Bay, that ther son, Lieutenant F. Reginald Bennett, was killed in France on October 17. Lieutenant Bennett, who was 26 years of ...
Article : 1,667 wordsMr. Loxley Meggitt, of the Royal Society of New South Wales, who has also held the position of chairman of the local section of the Society of Chemical Industry, was ...
Article : 239 wordsHorse-racing at Warwick Farm, and pony and galloway racing at Kensington provide outings for metropolitan racegoe[?] this afternoon; while a race[?] meeting at Boolaroo furnishes an afternoon's ...
Article : 854 wordsThe new American musical comedy "Mr. Manhattan," staged this year with much success in London, will be produced by Chas. A. Wenman at the Criterion Theatre to-night (8 o'clock) by a third J. C. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Rev. George Walters announces another of his popular Dickens recitals for next Tuesday in the Hyde Park Unitarian Church. The principal item will be "Sidney Carton's Self Sacrifice." There will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsOn Tuesday evening next the anual concert in aid of St. Joseph's Convent, Bondi, will be given at the Coronation Hall, Bondi Junction, when an attractive programme will be presented. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsMiss Grace Stafford (in the name-part) and her Strollers will produce the three-act comedy, ``All-of-a-Sudden Peggy" for the first time in Australia at St. James's Hall, during their patriotic ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsEdmond Rostand's famous Napoleoni[?] play "L'Aiglon" will be produced at the Criterion Theatre next Saturday, when a cast of some two score characters will be headed by Kathlene Macdonell in the ...
Article : 142 wordsOwing to floods having cut off all communications with Victoria, it has been decided by the local A. and P. Society to abandon the annual show. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsAt the Repertory Theatre next Saturday a dramatic and humorous recital will be given by Mr. Ellis Price, the proceeds of which will be in aid of Christmas gifts for the patients of the Children's Hospital. Misses ...
Article : 73 words"Very Good, Eddie," the musical farce, in which the J. and N. Tait Company made their highly successful debut last February, will be revived (for one week only) at the Palace Theatre to-night (8 p.m.), when ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsA meeting of real estate agents was held at the School of Arts last evening to consider the bill now before Parliament for the registration of real estate agents. Mr. ...
Article : 278 wordsAt the Conservatorium Hall on Monday evening, November 5, a Chamber music recital will be given by Mr. Albert W. Arlom (flautist), and Mr. Wilfred Arlom (pianist). An interesting programme will be ...
Article : 59 wordsVince Blackburn and Sid Godfrey will meet at the Stadium, to-night, in a 20 rounds contest, for the featherweight championship of Australia. They will enter the ring at 8.30, and will be preceeded by Bill ...
Article : 55 wordsThis afternoon and evening the new star feature at the Tivoli Theatre will be the first performance in Australia of the modern, sensational, realistic comedy, "The Beauty Shop." A special company has been ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the King's Hall on Monday, November 12, a pianoforte recital will be given by Mr. E. Carlyle Kenney. Assistance will be given by Mr. P. Moore MacMahon (violinist) and Miss Kathleen Short (accompanist). ...
Article : 46 wordsThe trial was commenced in the Criminal Court to-day of Robert Bennett and Angus Murray, whom the Crown alleged had, on September 18, bailed up Harold David Brooke, ...
Article : 189 words"The Mikado" will be produced by the Petersham Choral Society, under Mr. H. Sherlock's baton, at the local Town Hall on November 24 and 28, and December 1 next Messrs. Winslow Knight, Frank Outred, ...
Article : 63 wordsCommenting to-day on the flood situation in the north-eastern part of the State, the chairman of the Water Commission stated that, unfortunately, the Government ...
Article : 126 wordsThe final matinee and the farewell performance of "You're in Love" are underlined for Wednesday next at Her Majesty's Theatre, where this buoyant musical comedy has drawn consistently large audiences ...
Article : 54 words"The Woman in White," a five-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel, featuring Florence La Badie, will he presented at the Lyceum Theatre to-day. At the Crystal Palace, commencing Monday, the ...
Article : 121 wordsAt 2.30 to-day there will be a matinee of "Seven Days' Leave" at the Grand Opera House, where the Fuller management has had the enterprise to stage a popular war-drama whilst it is[?]still in the middle of ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Harbour Board is to consider a proposal that the Shipowners' Federation and the Waterside Union should be each invited to send representatives to meet the ...
Article : 146 wordsA special matinee is announced at West's Olympia at 2.30 to-day, when a programme suitable for the youngsters will be screened. The chief night attraction is the big Fox feature "The Tiger Woman," ...
Article : 68 wordsMessrs. J. and N. Tait announce that their English Comedy Company ("Peg" Company) will give a short season of "Quinneys" at the Playhouse, commencing on Saturday, November 10. "Quinneys" is further ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Chief Interstate Commissioner (Mr. Piddington) continued taking evidence today. A. R. Spencer, manager of the Stock-buying department of the Australian Meat ...
Article : 304 wordsEvidence bearing on the production of salt in Australia, chiefly by evaporation, and the possibility of utilising the supply from the inland lakes was given before Mr. G. ...
Article : 127 wordsSt. James's Hall was densely crowded and gaily bef[?]agged last night, when a War Chest concert was thoroughly well organised by the staff of the Electric Light Department of the Sydney Municipal Council. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 words"The World Against Her," a popular emotional drama which has been staged throughout the British Empire, will be revived this evening at Wirth's Hippodrome Theatre. Mr. George Cross and Miss Lorna Forbes, ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Philip Lytton has not only dramatised and staged the Australian play "The Waybacks," but has actually run it through the Commonwealth and New Zealand for two solid years, a remarkable record for ...
Article : 65 wordsThe seventh annual celebrations in connection with the New South Wales Gould League or Bird Lovers was held at the King's Hall last night, the president, Mr. J. Dawson, M.A., ...
Article : 217 wordsA New York message says Sir George Reid has arrived. He will lecture on the war and international questions, also on the Australian view of America. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Legislative Assembly, by 28 votes to 15, carried a motion censuring Mr. W. J. Vowles, the member for Dalby, for abusing the privileges of Parliament by making, in ...
Article : 57 wordsThis afternoon at 2,30 the fifth orchestral Concert of the session will be held, when the Conservatorium Orchestra, under Mr. Henri Verbrugghen, will perform the Symphony in E Flat of Marshall-Hall, a ...
Article : 88 wordsThe V.R.C. committee to-day heard the appeals of C. C. Bott (owner) against two years' disqualification of himself and Lady Sunderland for alleged dishonourable practice in connection with the running of the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Arsenal Site Investigation Committee arrived in Bathurst last night, and is engaged to-day in inspecting the sites. The committee will later inspect the Lyndhurst ...
Article : 106 wordsThe bill to provide for the retirement of certain Judges, and the arrangement of their pensions, was read the first time, and the second reading made an order of the day for ...
Article : 184 wordsThe interest in this year's musical season will be further sustained by the appearance at the Conservatorium Hall this evening of Messrs. Keith Lance and Laurie Kennedy, a trio of violin, flute, and 'cello ...
Article : 154 wordsNEWCASTLE.—Arr: Oct. 26, Ko[?]ah, ketch, from North Coast; Rocklily, s, from Sydney. Dep: Oct. 26, Maianbar, s, for Manning, River; Tintenba[?], s, Narani, s, Coolebar, s, for North Coast; Yuloo, s, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe second round of the grade matches will be concluded to-day. The first grade teams stand, as follow:— Sydney 94 v University six for 105, at Rushcutter ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 wordsGiving evidence before the Chief Interstate Commissioner (Mr. Piddington), Arthur H. G. McDonald, grazier, of Miriam Vale, attributed the high price of meat to the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe exports of coal to the interstate ports during the seven days ended to-day totalled 34,040 tons, being only 930 tons more than was shipped last week. Several collieries ...
Article : 68 wordsThis evening, at the Town Hall, the city organist will give a recital of operatic and romantic music, including the prologue to "I Paglia[?]i," the sestette from "Lucia," a paraphrase on "Cavalleria ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsHenry Roberts, 34, and Andrew Wells, 27, labourers, who were arrested at the Gawler races on Saturday last in connection with a burglary at Fitzroy, Victoria, on October 5, ...
Article : 113 wordsThis evening in St. James's Hall Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ancelon's School of Elocution students will appear in scenes from "Peg Woffington," "Antony and Cleopatra," and short plays, including "Yellow ...
Article : 48 wordsThe House of Representatives has amended the Expeditionary Forces Bill in the direction of exempting all teachers from military service. This includes the Marist Brothers, ...
Article : 51 wordsAn official communication states:—"Mr. Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, in his powerful London speech on Monday, when launching the national economy campaign, ...
Article : 320 wordsMr. E. M. Land, M.L.A., said before the Interstate Commission to-day he bad been told on good, authority that "reject meat" was sold by the meatworks to butchers, who ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Japanese operetta, "Princess Ju-Ju," with full scenic and costume effects, will be given this evening at the Repertory Theatre by the Pymble Cecilia Ladies' Choir, under the baton of Madame Ada Baker, in aid ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 554 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. Joseph Morrow, late of the Stores[?] Supply Department, took place yesterday. The Rev. Percival Watson, pastor of Summer Hill Congregational Church, ...
Article : 158 wordsAt Coronation Hall, Bondi Junction, this evening and on Monday, the pantomime "Babes in the Wood" will be staged, under Miss Ruby Davies's direction, when that artist will appear as Robin Hood (principal ...
Article : 66 wordsThe coastal shipping trouble was settled to-day, and the men will resume to-morrow on an assurance that a conference will be held within 14 days to decide outstanding ...
Article : 39 wordsBy proclamation issued to-day the price of soda ash was fixed at the landed cost, plus £2, in all the States. It was announced in to-day's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 249 wordsThe closing days of Mr. Sidney Cocks' exhibition of water-colours at the Aldenhoven Art Gallery in Hunter-street are now notif[?]ed, as the show will not be open after next Wednesday. ...
Article : 34 wordsA bookmaker named Cyril Ismay, at the Police Court to-day, was fined £22/15/ on four charges of assaulting and using insulting words to two sisters, aged 14 and 17 years ...
Article : 55 wordsThis afternoon, at 3 o'clock, a concert entertainment of an attractive character, at popular prices, will be given at the Coast Hospital, Little Bay (tram to the door), in aid of the War Chest Day Fund. ...
Article : 49 wordsOn Monday evening Mr. Edward Goll will give his second and final recital at the Conservatorium, where his classic programme will be of a popular repertoire character. Opening with Bach's ...
Article : 82 wordsThree men, John Brown (45), Robert Madigan, and Arthur Wicks, all employed at Archer Bros. station at Gracemere, left Rockhampton on Wednesday night for ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the District Court to-day, Mr. W. G. Mann, who appeared for the Federal Income Tax Commissioner in a number of cases in which persons were charged with having ...
Article : 92 wordsMembers of the Local Government Association visited the Mortlake Works of the Australian Gas Light Co. yesterday afternoon at the invitation of the directors, the object of ...
Article : 183 wordsA meeting will be held at the Australia Hotel on Monday next at 3 p.m., with Mrs. George Lee in the chair, to further the efforts of Miss Grace Stafford and the Strollers in aid of the prisoners of war in ...
Article : 146 wordsIt transpires that Dark Legend, which has been sold for 8000 guineas, was purchased by the Maharaja Jam Sahib, of Nawanagar (formerly Prince Ranjitsinhj[?]). ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 260 wordsFollowing is an official statement by the Wholesale Meat Trade Committee:—"In view of the fact that the woolscouring establishments have advised they will be able to ...
Article : 106 wordsOperations at the South Johnstone Mill were hung up yesterday consequent on a few men refusing to contribute to the Southern strikers by way of a levy. The mill hands then ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Patriotic Operatic Society, headed by Mrs. E[?]stace Holroyde, as O Mimosa San, will stage "The Geisha," at the Repertory Theatre, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next, in aid of the 5th, 6th, and ...
Article : 83 wordsA public meeting held in the rooms of the Country Club last night, resolved to raise a sum sufficient to defray the cost of a vault section at Waverley Cemetery, and to erect ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsAs a preliminary to the screening of the "Sons of the Empire" repatriation films at the Theatre Royal this afternoon and evening, Lieut. S. J. Stutt, the Australian aviator, will ...
Article : 152 wordsNegotiations are proceeding for the sale to the United States, through the Imperial authorities, of a large quantity of Australian jam, stated to be 38,000,000lb. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe hearing was continued to-day before Mr. Justice Higgins of the case in which the Professional Officers' Association of the Commonwealth Public Service was the applicant, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe final of the three song recitals by Mr. Nelson [?]lingworth, which was to have taken place at the Conservatorium on Monday next, has been postponed till November 12. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe various temperance alliances of Australia have conjointly published the first issue of an Australian Prohibition Year Book, under the title of "Wiser Through the War." ...
Article : 98 wordsTuesday next will mark a new departure at the Conservatorium. It has been decided to give a number of attractive students' concerts freely open to the public. Seats will be kept, however, for those ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsIn consequence of a new regulation of the Customs Department providing for the search of all luggage of those who travel by steamers, passengers on interstate steamers will in ...
Article : 77 wordsThe eighteenth annual concert of the London College of Music will be given at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next when Mr. A. G. F. James. M.L.A. (Minister for Education) will distribute the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Oct 1917, Page 18
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