The little party of 51 Queenslanders who were motored out to the Rose Hall Convalescent Home nt Darling Point contained in their numbers a few of the most distinguished of ...
Article : 908 wordsThe sittings of the P.L.L. Conference were resumed last night under the pres lency of Mr. J. W. Doyle. A spirit of ca[?]m brooded over the proceedings. The Premier was ...
Article : 1,190 wordsA deputation waited on the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to lay before him the views of Victorian municipalities in regard to conscription. ...
Article : 429 wordsThe war activities in South Australia were the subject of a conversation last evening with the Premier of that State (Mr. Crawford Vaughan), who arrived in Sydney by the ...
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Article : 62 wordsMr. Herbert Samuel (Postmaster General) states that the Government is in favour of a Daylight Saving Bill on the grounds of economy in fuel for lighting purposes. ...
Article : 106 wordsFew people would have recognised in the rather corpulent figure of a sergeant of the First Field Ambulance, who was among the returned soldiers, a man who, before the ...
Article : 212 wordsTwo further contingents of wounded and sick soldiers are shortly expected to disembark in Sydney. The following is the list of officers and man in the first contingent: ...
Article : 859 wordsAt the Newmarket First Spring Meeting to-day, the race for the principal event on the card resulted as under:-TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES of 100 ...
Article : 115 wordsMajor Hill, of the 15th Battalion (Queensland), who was decorated by the King with the Military Cross, was on board. He could not be induced to relate how he won his ...
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Article : 364 wordsLady Jellicoe when opening a Y.M.C.A. hut at Pontypridd on March 10, said it seemed to her that, the association was out to "keep the nome fires bunning and read a telegram ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. John Murray, M.L.A., died at Warrnambool to-day. He had been staying with his sister (Miss Murray) for some months past, and just before noon to-day drove into town ...
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Article : 226 wordsMr Ryan, Premi[?]r of Queensland, had an interview with Mr. Bonar Law (Secretary of State for the Colonies) to-day. ...
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Article : 69 wordsIt is not every returned solider who can say that a Turkish concussion bomb exploded between his feet, and that he lived to tell the story. This however, was the ...
Article : 286 wordsTo-day's "Gazette" contains the following appointments and promotions, etc. in connection with the Australian Imperial Force:- To be Major and second in command [?] A B[?]ttalion: ...
Article : 789 wordsDuring a strong southerly s[?]uall to-night the ketch Premier was driven ashore inside tho harbour, near the northern breakwater. She was bound from the north to Sydney, and ...
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Article : 540 wordsAn additional 90 employees in the manufacturing grocery trade were dismissed to-day, for refusing to fill-Parsons Bros. bags with oatmeal. The total number of men who ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that he had received a cablegram from the Australian military authority in Egypt, informing him that the Australian ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Federal council of the Federated Clerks' Union of Anstralia which has been sitting at the Trades Hall, cosidered the advisability of amalgamation being effected ...
Article : 132 wordsA ship waa sighted 12 miles S.E. of Jervis Bay yesterday, at 1.15 P m., standing north. The tug Champion left last evening, and was off the Heads at a late hour, but the ship had not then been ...
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Article : 48 wordsPolitical Labour League: Conference, 7. Theatre Royal: "Brith of a Nation," 2 and [?]. Her Majesty's Theatre: "Mother Go[?]," 7.45. C[?]terion Theatre: "On Trial," 8.10. ...
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Article : 223 wordsAt last-night's meeting of the Sudney Labour Council [?] request by the Melbourne Trades Hall Council that delegates to the Interstate Trade Union Coogress to be held at Hobart ...
Article : 48 wordsA number of the new lathes ordered for munitions making at the Walsh Island Government engineering works have arrived, and to-day a start was made with the working of a ...
Article : 44 wordsA deputation from the Industrial Disputa Committee of the Trades Hall Council waited upon the Pre[?]ler (Sir Alex. Peacock) to-day. and urged that legislation should be enacted ...
Article : 118 wordsThe State executive of the Labour Federation has passed a resolution that the present system of obtaining money for the various war and other patriotic funds was ...
Article : 87 wordsThe annual meeting of the Hibernian Catholic Benefit Society was continued yesterday. The district president, [?]ro. C. C. Lazzarini, presided. The financial report was ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a meeting of the North Illawarra Council last night a fight occurred between Aldermen Madden and Porter, as a result of which Alderman Porter had to seek medical aid for ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor), by proc[?]amation in the Commonwealth "Gazette" to-day, prohibits the importation into the Commonwealth of essence of whisky, rum, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 5 May 1916, Page 8
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