The Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, was reticent on the subject of conscription when seen after his arrival on Satuiday. "You had better see Mr. ...
Article : 235 wordsThe only fresh news from the Macedonian front this morning is the claim of the Bulgarians to have repulsed the Servians. This is contained in a Bulgarian official message ...
Article : 395 wordsAt Victoria Barracks yesterday morning 67 men volunteered and 49 were accepted. The recruiting returns for the past week show a slight increase, the total being 436 ...
Article : 208 wordsA meeting "to advocate compulsory universal service for war purposes" was held in the Ashfield Town Hall on Saturday night. The Mayor (Alderman J. H. Hammond) presided, ...
Article : 858 wordsA hurricane to-night destroyed houses, wharves, and pleasure resorts, doing great damage to property. The Government Bureau predicted a ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. J. W. Gulland (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Treasury), replying to a deputation representing the Scottish women's suffrage organisation, said that it was only a ...
Article : 55 wordsSergeant-major Harry Fenton Stead, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stead, of Gad's Hill, Mortdale was killed in action on July 23. He was 21 years of age, and was formerly a lieutenant ...
Article : 732 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Holman) made the following statement last night defining the attitude which the State Labour party has decided to adopt on the subject of contesting ...
Article : 277 wordsThe Governor has announced that the damage done by the hurricane is far greater than first estimates indicated. Bananas and other crops suffered, but the sugar cane was ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, accompanied by Brigadier-General Ramacciotti, V.D., District Commandent; Lieutenant Frank Smith, A.D.C.; Lieutenant-Colonel ...
Article : 114 wordsThe enrolment of both divisions of the Expeditionary Force Reserve will be proclaimed at the beginning of September. This is a necessary and important preliminary to the ...
Article : 62 wordsLord Crewe has been appointed President of the Education Board in succession to Mr. Arthur Henderson. Mr. Henderson has been appointed ...
Article : 56 wordsThe reference made by the naval correspondent of the "Daily Express" regarding the now British airships is most welcome. Although he uses the term "Zeppelin," he is ...
Article : 389 wordsA motor car and a tram came into collision at Circular Quay early last night, with the result that one of the passengers in the car was killed and the car itself was badly ...
Article : 217 wordsApproval has been given for the raising and immediate despatch of the following details as 2nd reinforcements to No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps:—One electrician, six ...
Article : 50 wordsPresident Wilson is urging Congress to appoint a commission to consider details of the railroads dispute. President Wilson says:— "I have recommended the concession of eight ...
Article : 149 wordsComplaints have been received by the military authorities that vessels navigating defended ports are being inconvenienced by the use of searchlights. The military authorities ...
Article : 43 wordsLance-corporal Fred Glenn, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn, of Glenella, Chelsea-street, Redfern is reported missing. He is 20 years of age, and prior to enlisting was ...
Article : 193 wordsOn Saturday there was a large gathering at the Baulkham Hills School of Arts, when, under the auspices of the local patriotic league Captain S. Cook, Captain-Chaplain the ...
Article : 366 wordsPrivate Peter Hogan, 40, a returned soldier, who is believed to come from Emmaville, was run down by a goods train near West-street Bridge, between Petersham and Lewisham, on ...
Article : 37 wordsCharles Dabolo, 25, a farrier living in Victoria-street, Zetland, was taken by the Civil Ambulance from his home yesterday evening, and was admitted to Sydney Hospital, ...
Article : 36 wordsChina has protested to Japan against the sending of 2000 troops to check the recent disturbance, at Cheng Chiatung, in Mongolia. China asserts that the trouble was due to ...
Article : 63 wordsEarly on Saturday morning the inmates of Chatsworth residential chambers, Potts Point, were disturbed by a commotion, which proved to result from the presence of a stranger ...
Article : 246 wordsMichael Riordan, 50, of Telfer-street, Zetland, fell from a tram in Quay-street, city, yesterday evening. The Civil Ambulance took him to Sydney Hospital, where he was ...
Article : 42 wordsSignaller Reynold S. Thorn, who, previous to the war, was in charge of the Round Hill Public School; Sergt. Robert M. Inwood, late of the Proprietory mine; and Sergt. R. V. ...
Article : 61 wordsAs the result of a collision with a motor car in Centennial Park yesterday afternoon, Reginald Morris, 21, of Napier-street, Paddington, who was riding a motor cycle at the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Kitchener Memorial Fund has reached £235,000. A "Gazette" announces that Second-lieutenant F. R. Koch, of the 47th Australian ...
Article : 317 wordsPrivate Esric M. Dowling, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dowling, of Pearcefield, Dalton, died of wounds on June 20. He was among the first draft from Egypt, and was in the ...
Article : 140 wordsDuring the past few weeks there has been great activity in business circles in Tonga as a consequence of the recent legislation in regard to enemy trading. ...
Article : 475 wordsJohn Williams, 75, who lived in Bishop-street, St. Peters, was found near the Sandringham tram sheds on Saturday evening with a bullet wound in the head. Constable ...
Article : 62 wordsThe opposition to certain features of the treaty for the purchasing of the Danish Indies is likely to prevent its consideration during the present session. Senators are ...
Article : 104 wordsA large and enthusiastic meeting under the auspices of the Universal Service League was held at Killara on Friday, Mr. William Brooks occupied the chair, and in opening the ...
Article : 323 wordsAlexander Hutchinson, 52, a labourer, living in Hordern-street, Newtown, fell from a moving tram at the Pyrmont terminus on Saturday night and fractured his left kneecap. ...
Article : 47 wordsIn connection with the concert that will be given in the Town Hall next Friday night to raise funds to provide instruments for a band for the military camp at Kiama, a ...
Article : 241 wordsOn Saturday afternoon Inspector Bronston and a party of police raided premises in Wentworth-avenue, Ultimo, where it was suspected "two-up" was being conducted. ...
Article : 75 wordsMrs. Matilda Willis, of Kelvin, Harbourne-street, South Kensington, whose husband is a jockey, has made a report to the police. She says that early on Friday night she answered ...
Article : 152 wordsIchiya Kumagae, the Japanese player, defeated William Johnston on Saturday, in a five-sets match, winning the Casino Cup, but the National Singles Championship was not ...
Article : 44 wordsMajor Dudley Smith, of Gamboola Cabonne station, Molong, who has been reported wounded in the Suez Canal region, enlisted immediately upon the outbreak of war, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsPittsburg steel, used in munition contracts since the beginning of August, amounts to 300,000 tons, and a heavy demand continues. The output of the mills has been sold up to ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Newcastle Trades and Labour Council held a special meeting at the Trades Hall last week to hear the views of candidates who have been nominated to contest the Wickham ...
Article : 205 wordsSpeaking at the unveiling of a roll of honour in the Baulkham Hills School of Arts on Saturday evening, Mr. Joseph Cook, M.P., said that the able-bodied young men who ...
Article : 297 wordsYesterday afternoon Archbishop Kelly laid the foundation-stone of the new building in connection with St. Michael's Orphanage, Baulkham Hills. It is designed to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsThe Pacific mail steamship service between San Francisco and the Orient will recommence on Saturday. ...
Article : 26 wordsPresident Wilson has vetoed the Army Appropriation Bill on account of a provision to exempt retired army officers from liability for service under articles of war. ...
Article : 38 wordsA small fishing boat containing three men was blown about four miles off the port to-night, and picked up by the pilot steamer Ajax. The men had been outside fishing all ...
Article : 127 wordsWhen his attention was directed yesterday to a rumour in the city that the Imperial Government intended to commandeer the Australian wool clip, the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 87 wordsJ. P. Morgan and Company announce that the subscription books of the syndicate for the British loan have been closed on account of the large subscriptions. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsThe New Zealand Federated Boot Trade Union has initiated a movement with the object of securing legislation providing that all the Dominion's manufactures shall bear the ...
Article : 41 wordsForty guineas has been paid to reinsure the steamer Matatua. [The Matatua, which belongs to the Shaw, Saville, and Albion Line, caught fire on March ...
Article : 51 wordsA meeting of returned soldiers and their sympathisers was convened by the association, and held at the Town Hall on Friday night, "to consider what action should be ...
Article : 138 wordsRobert Clem, aged 27, a labourer, was fined £20, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment, at the police court on Friday on a charge that, being a subject of the Emperor ...
Article : 57 wordsWILSON PROMONTORY (426m).—Inward: Aug. 20, Smithborough, s, 3.40 a.m.; Sydney, s, 7.5 a.m.; Moorabool, s, 9.20 a.m.; Port Hunter, s, 10.35 a.m.; Clan Macarthur, s, 4.30 p.m. Outward: Aug. 20, Changsha, ...
Article : 125 wordsOn Saturday evening an enthusiastic meeting of troop and patrol leaders in connection with the Boy Scouts was held at the Royal Naval House for the purpose of arranging a "patrol ...
Article : 79 wordsThe trouble at the Small Arms Factory is still unbottled. At an aggregate meeting of members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers it was decided with practical ...
Article : 86 wordsThe price of the New York "Herald" has been reduced from 3 cents (1[?]d to 1 cent ([?]d). ...
Article : 27 wordsAlderman T. H. Weldon having resigned from the Botany Municipal Council, an election was held on Saturday, with the result that Mr. Thomas Griffin was elected. ...
Article : 30 wordsMessrs. [?]s, Philip, and Co., Ltd., have been advised that the steamer Strathendrick sailed from Calcutta on August 16 for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, via Singapore. Also that the steamer Ormara ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 21 Aug 1916, Page 8
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