The Nepean electorate will have the honour of recording the first votes on the conscription issue, as at Liverpool camp to-day absentee votes will be recorded by the men in the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe latest combined Anglo French advance shows that the offensive is entering on another phaso so far as the British line between Thiepval and Combles is concerned After the ...
Article : 323 wordsThe new Government taxation provides for an amusement tax of a half-penny on threepenny tickets a penny on sixpenny tickets, and a penny on every additional sixpence; a ...
Article : 2,612 wordsA very serious explosion took place at about 11.30 yesterday morning on board the Union Company's cargo steamer Walruna, lying at the Union Company's wharf. No. 5, Darling ...
Article : 733 wordsA somewhat anxious time is being passed by the railway authorities, owing to the Interruptions in traffic occasioned by the floods. The Goulburn Valley district has, so far, been ...
Article : 421 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday further consideration was given to the proposal to allow soldiers abroad to vote at the general elections. ...
Article : 984 wordsThe Inspector-General of Police, Mr. G. Mitchell, received a telegram yesterday morning, stating that Constable George Joseph Duncan was found dead in the office of the ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. P. Airey, secretary of the Universal Service League, has received a telegram from the Prime Minister stating that be will speak in Brisbane on October 4. ...
Article : 31 wordsArrangements were being made for a meeting in favour of conscription, to take place In the Willoughby Town Hall on Friday night next; but as the time is too short the meeting ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Miners' Delegate Board, during a two days' sitting, discussed principally the question of conscription. A motion was carried,— "That the members of the board co-operate ...
Article : 82 wordsThe question of compulsory service was touched on at yesterday's meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The Rev. P. J. Murdoch submitted a motion ...
Article : 623 wordsThere is a shortage of 200,000,000lb of wool confronting the American clothiers, owing ' to the poor domestic crop and the difficulty of purchasing abroad. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Cobar branch of the Federated Enginedrivers and and Firemen's Association of Australasia:—"That this sub-branch of the ...
Article : 43 wordsIn replying to a question to-night, Mr. Jensen said that the total number of men enlisted to September 20 was 318,617, while those rejected on medical grounds totalled ...
Article : 48 wordsIn order to secure the high ground to the east of Thiepval the British advance also took a northorly, as well as an easterly, direction. Thiepval, however, pinned down ...
Article : 258 wordsMessrs. Watkins, Barker, Glynn, Hampson, and other Australian and New Zealand members of the Empire Parliamentary Association arrived en route for home. ...
Article : 69 wordsA letter was received by the Mosman Council from the Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes, asking the Mayor to convene a public meeting, and to establish a strong ...
Article : 116 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Thomas Reel Price, K.C.M.G., Commissioner of the South African railways. ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Rosslyn has issued a warning that, owing to moneylenders tempting his son, Lord Loughborough, to borrow money, he will not be responsible for his son's debts. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe death occurred at his late residence, Eveston, Gipp-street, Waverley, on Tuesday night, of Bro. Thomas Kemp, Grand Secretary of the Manchester Unity, I.O.O.F. His death ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 196 wordsA telegram received late on Monday night stated that one of the four of Chinnick's children who were swept "away by the flood at Seymour, and given up for dead, had a ...
Article : 91 wordsThe funeral of the late Captain J. Lang Niven, M.O., took place at the South Head Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Deceased was ' buried with full military honours, the ...
Article : 114 wordsA scene occurred in the Legislative Assembly early this morning during the debate on the question of giving votes to soldiers in the trenches. An amendment, moved by Mr. ...
Article : 432 wordsIn addition to the fact that it helps to widen the basw of the allied drive, the capture of Thiepval is an important step in the further operation of turning the enemy's ...
Article : 268 wordsNEWCASTLE (62m).—Arr: Sept. 27, Mallina, s, from * Brisbane; Tarcoola, s, from Melbourne; Hexham, s, from Port Pirie; Perth, s, from Fremantle; Mrola, s, Age, s, Wollongbar, s, Alice, s, Hunter, s, ...
Article : 285 wordsThe impression that prevails in some quarters that the Labour party as a whole is opposed to conscription is effectively answered by a list of Labour members who will speak ...
Article : 122 wordsA special meeting of the Federal Labour caucus was held this morning to consider the Ministry's taxation proposals. Ministers met in Cabinet at 10.15 a.m., and the caucus ...
Article : 147 wordsThere is now abundaat evidence that the two most recent Zeppelin raids over England did not succeed in achieving any serious damage to places of military importance. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsOn behalf of the National Referendum Council, Mr. W. A. Holman and Mr. C. G. Wade appeal for the formation of local committees throughout the State. ...
Article : 174 wordsMajor Robert Henry Beardsmore, D.S.O., V.D., is a well-known Sydney man, having held the position of secretary to the Aborigines Protection Board for many years prior to the ...
Article : 437 wordsThe police magistrate, Mr. Butler, has been recalled to Sydney until after the war. This action, it is understood, has been taken because of certain remarks affecting Germans, ...
Article : 178 wordsWhen the Senate assembled to-day the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) briefly outlined the new taxation proposals of the Ministry, and the motion that his statement be ...
Article : 39 wordsThe new hut erected by the Young Men's Christian Association at the Liverpool Camp was officially opened by Colonel Miller last night. ...
Article : 306 wordsYesterday the Legislative Council resumed the debate on the Rural Tenants Improvomonts Bill. The bill was passed through committee. The third reading was made an order ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Australian Red Cross commissioners have made arrangements to provide for Australian prisoners of war in Germany The inquiry department is in a position to receive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Poynton (S.A.) directed the attention of the Prime Minister to the alloged statements of two members of the House, wherein they ...
Article : 130 wordsThe official announcement shows that the two Zeppelins brought down in England on Sunday morning last have been identified as 132 and 133, two of the latest and biggest of ...
Article : 276 wordsThe District Commandant states that there appears to be some misapprehension regarding the definition of the term "effects" of a personal nature and of "sentimental ...
Article : 129 wordsAt Victoria Barracks yesterday 119 men offered themselves for active service, and of that number 71 were accepted. Private George Woods was recently made a ...
Article : 37 wordsIt was announced yesterday by the secretary, Mr. J. Curtin, of the national executive of the Trades Union Anti-conseription Congress that, "In pursuance of the resolutions ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsTo-day's recruiting figures were as follows:—Volunteered, 170; accepted, 94; deferred, 32. BRISBANE, Wednesday. ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant Lavender Panton, who won his commission on the field at Pozieres, and his cousin. Driver Alan C. Panton, both of whom have been wounded, represent a family which ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced last night that the details in connection with the proposed Australian arsenal had been referred to the Ministry of ...
Article : 154 wordsAt the last meeting of the Mosman Council a letter was received from the State War Council asking if the council would coach returned soldiers in clerical and shire duties. ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Justice Higgins, in the Court of Conciliation and Arbltintlon to-day, amended [?] award of April. 1913, in the case of the Australian Postal Electricians' Union against the ...
Article : 107 wordsAn inquiry into the wreck of the Antiope was held at the Bluff yesterday. The Court found that the captain and officers were not to blame, and returned their certificates. ...
Article : 37 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the municipal council it was resolved:—"That this council expresses its unswerving loyalty to the British Empire, and desires to assist as far as possible ...
Article : 75 wordsYesterday afternoon the residence of Cecil I Keele, at Tahlee-street, Burwood, was entered during the absence of the inmates, and jewellery valued at £15 was stolen. ...
Article : 48 wordsOwing to the closing of the sugar mills in Queensland, by reason of the recent award, a number of men are arriving here, seeking employment in cane-cutting gangs. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 28 Sep 1916, Page 8
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