Private Victor W. Clarke of Liverpoolroad, Smithfield, who received 14 wounds at Pozieres, has been killed. His father was a member of the Royal Naval Reserve and his ...
Article : 306 wordsThe report of the Empire Settlement Committee shows that it has carried out its investigations by means of two sub-committees. The first, a general purposes committee, ...
Article : 629 wordsThe strike of Northern Raliway employees is on from midnight. Fifteen cattle and goods trains arrived to-day, but the Western mail was hung up. At Hughenden a mass meeting ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Defence Committee appointed by the meeting of delegates from the unions affected by the strike, sat all day Saturday at the Trades Hall discussing detalla in connection ...
Article : 256 wordsA cowardly assault upon a railway officer occurred in the Sydney railway yards last, Saturday evening. A locomotive inspector who had just ...
Article : 253 wordsSpeaking to-day with reference to the strike in New South Wales, the Premier, Sir Alexander Peacock, said that all employees who bad taken part in the Victorian railway strike had ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. E. A. Chisholm, secretary of the Sydney Fat Stock Salesmen, intimates that sheep and cattle sales will be held at the Flemington saleyards. Homebush, to-day, but ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. P. C. Evans, general secretary of the P.L.L., states that the following resolution was unanimously passed by the executive of the New South Wales branch of the ...
Article : 345 wordsThe Railway Department announced to-night that all the goods and live stock traffle between Queensland and New South Wales had been suspended for the present, at the request ...
Article : 49 wordsThere was a public meeting in Martia-place at noon on Saturday. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Garland, M.L.C., said that the anniversary at the outbreak ...
Article : 1,103 wordsThe grand council of the Railway and Tramway Unions of New South Wales met on Saturday. The following unions, which represent 8000 employees in the railway and ...
Article : 88 wordsSir,—Re the talk of industrial trouble emanating from the Randwick workshops, surely the men will not enter upon a policy of ruinous strike, instead of adopting the humanitarian ...
Article : 259 wordsThe following memorial to the Acting Premier is heing largely signed locally:—"We[?] the undersigned residents of Forbes and district, hereby offer our services to the ...
Article : 70 wordsS[?] out of 30 apprentices employed at the railway workshops at Honeysuckle [?], Hamilton, and Port Waratah workshops returned to work yesterday. It is expected ...
Article : 83 wordsA telegram was received from Sydney on Saturday advising the Victorian' Commissioners not to accept goods of any description, or any livestock for transit over the New South ...
Article : 175 wordsAt a meeting of State school teachers in the Protestant Hall on Saturday a resolution was carried protesting against the minimum salary of adult school teachers remaining ...
Article : 50 wordsThere has probably never been a time when the city was better prepared from the point of view of its stock of foodstuffs, to withstand a hold-up of its railway services. One ...
Article : 871 wordsThe engine drivers and firemen held a spe[?] meeting at Hamilton works this morning, when they were addressed by Mr. R. Hamlin, the district inspector, and Mr. N. K. Allardice, ...
Article : 106 wordsMessrs. D. Murray and H. M. Shedden have been elected to the Abattoir Board in place of Messrs. J. C. Reid and N. B. Creer, who resigned. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe War Purposes Loan Bill for £24,000,000 has passed its final stage in the House by 40 votes to four, the minority being Labour members, including Mr. Webb, the member for ...
Article : 82 wordsOwing to the railway strike, a number of country trains have been cut out, while a considerably reduced time-table will operate on all lines on Monday. The business of the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe salvage operations in connection with the stranded steamer Cumberland at Gabo were again unfortunately delayed by an unfavourable change in the weather. During the ...
Article : 145 wordsAlthough the Government has adopted an attitude of absolute silence in regard to the strike, Ministers are constantly in consultation. There were meetings of the Cabinet on ...
Article : 946 wordsThe strike in this district has so far been a very half-hearted one. The card system had not been introduced into this district, and the men had no grievances at the works. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Richmond Main colliery was idle yesterday. A meeting of the men is to be beld to-morrow. A skip went off the rails and the deputy refused to allow time for ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the absence of trams in the city yesterday buses, each drawn by four horses, plied a busy trade between Circular Quay and Newtown and other points. ...
Article : 122 wordsAdvices received on Saturday afternoon indicated that the Murray River had risen to he height of 2ft Sin above the critical flood stage. At most of the other registering ...
Article : 59 wordsBetween 4000 and 5000 people attended a combined concert and recruiting rally at the Exhibition Building on Saturday evening. The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes), in the course ...
Article : 117 wordsWellington Woollen Company's directors recommond the payment of a dividend of 4 per cent., with a bonus of 3 per cent., carrying forward £7500. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe president of the Employers' Federation (Mr. W. Brooks, M.L.C.) stated that the keeping of time cards and dockets, so as to be able to get at the ...
Article : 986 wordsThe King held an investiture at Buckingham Palace, to-day, when 255 decorations, including the Victoria Cross awarded to Lieutenant Rupert Moon, were presented. ...
Article : 127 wordsTaviuni, s, 1543 tons, Captain Davies, from Devonport. Union S.S. Co., Ltd., Agents. Alabama, s, from Melbourne. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere is as yet no movement on the part of the Tramway Employees' Union to join the strike, though the matter will doubtless be discussed at a meeting of the union ...
Article : 304 wordsCOOKTOWN (1518m).—Dep: Aug. 4, Musgrave, s, for Brisbane. FLATTOP (1050m).—Arr: Aug. 4, Camira, s, from South. ...
Article : 188 wordsHis Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, accompanied by Lady Cullen, and attended by General Finn, private secretary, was present. at the public meeting held in the Town Hall ...
Article : 254 wordsThe United States Secretary for Commerce, Mr. Redfield, interviewed by the Australian Press Association, commonted on a report that Mr. Hughes had stated that Australia ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 wordsMr. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia) entertained Mr. Herbert Larkin, manager of the Commonwealth Chipping Line, on the latter's departure for America and ...
Article : 65 wordsWhile attempting to board a vessel at the Baltic wharf, Darling Harbour, on Saturday, at about 5.45 p.m., William Kennedy, aged 44, a ship's cook, fell into the water, and was ...
Article : 105 wordsIt became evident, from a conversation with the Chief Commissioner for Railways and Tramways last night, that, whilst the number of strikers is being added to each day, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsFlags were flown in the city yesterday, in commemoration of the third anniversary of the war. There was a military parade, in which about 500 troops took part. On ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. F. Flowers, President of the Legislative Council, speaking at the Rhodes roll of honour ceremony on Saturday, said that they would be saved a good deal of industrial strife if, ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed the appeals in the matter of the Commissioner of Stamps versus the Australlan Stockbreeders' Association, and in the ...
Article : 51 wordsWhilst arresting and taking a woman to the Central Police Station on Saturday evening Constables Lane and Byrne were attacked in Central-street near the station by a man with ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Holman (Premier of New South Wales) conferred with Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, on educational matters. Mr. Holman has had lengthy interviews with ...
Article : 79 wordsReports received by the Water Commission this afternon showed that the River Murray is 31ft 6in at Echuca, or 2ft above the critical flood stage; that the Goulburn River, having ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsThe train service was considerably curtailed yesterday, when there were only 16 trains, ingoing and outgoing and five mail trains during the day. This service from ...
Article : 478 wordsA stoppage of workmen's trains on the South Coast would mean a Cessation of operations at practically all the mines north of Wollongong. Under existing conditions the ...
Article : 283 wordsIt is expected that within the next few days that serious effects will be felt of the decision of the members of the Melbourne Wharflabourers' Union that they will not handle ...
Article : 92 wordsOn Saturday Mr. F. Flowers (President of the Legislative Council) unveiled on the local railway station a roll of honour with the names of the volunteers from the district ...
Article : 61 wordsBetween 80 and 100 employees at the Walsh Island works were paid off yesterday. It is understood that if the ship-building scheme is not commenced more will be paid off at an ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 6 Aug 1917, Page 8
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