Matters generally in connection with the mining industry on the coast are unsettled The largest colliery (South Bulli) has been idle for a week over wheelers' troubles. Bul[?] ...
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Article : 121 wordsOwing to a nervous breakdown. Paul Smith, the manager of the Chalmers motor works, committed suicide by jumping from the 13th floor of the Biltmore Hotel. Smith was a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 wordsThe newspapers acclaim Nippon Kumagae, a Japanese visitor, as a great tennis player. He easily won the singles championship of the State. ...
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Article : 407 wordsAt Chatswood East on Saturday afternoon Archbishop Wright performed the ceremony of officially opening and dedicating St. Barnabas' School Church. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe tug Milmington and the lighthouse tender Cypress at daylight rescued 60 marines, 12 officers and 70 of the crew of the naval collier Hector, which broke in two off ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Miners' Federation has decided to forego the August holiday. The Mansion House fund for a memorial to Lord Kitchener has reached £18,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsMr. W. Blacket, K.C.. the Royal Commissioner appointed by the Commonwealth Government to investigate certain matters concerning the Department ot Home Affairs and ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe gross procoeeds of the French week of appeal in aid of the Trench Red Cross Fund will, it is anticipated, amount to £60,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsMr. C. McDowall, Labour member in the State Parliament for Coolgardie, who died suddenly at Perth Hospital, was 54 years of age, and a New Zealander. ...
Article : 37 wordsThirty-one collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts averaged 8½ days' work out of l[?] during the fortnight ended yesterday. There were eight other pits idle for the whole ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 17 Jul 1916, Page 10
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