A statement made yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, Mr. Grahame, with reference to the still unfinished contract for building Barren Jack dam, shows ...
Article : 481 wordsRecruiting was conducted at Victoria Barracks last night instead of at the Board of Health. Of the 25 men who enrolled up till 9 o'clock, 21 were accepted and four ...
Article : 38 wordsThe proclamation issued by the Federal Government for the early closing of hotels is, according to Senator Gardiner, Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council and ...
Article : 283 wordsFour German seaplanes raided the Kentish coast at noon to-day. It is officially stated that the seaplanes raided the south-east and east ...
Article : 545 wordsGeneral Sir Donglas Haig reports:—The enemy on Saturday night raided our trenches westward of Serre, after a heavy bombardment. The raid fa[?]led ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Grand Duke Nicholas, with lightning blows, continues to attack without intermission along the whole of the front from the Black Sea to Lake Van. The ...
Article : 1,049 wordsThe Russians continue to attack along the whole of the front from the Black Sea to Lake Van, and are straining ...
Article : 173 wordsThe following figures of country enlistments last week have been supplied to the Premier by the military authorities:- Goulburn, 39; Armidale, 34; Narrabri, 33; ...
Article : 58 wordsThere was considerable improvement in recruiting to-day, 357 men being accepted out of 517 volunteers. BRISBANE, Monday. ...
Article : 44 wordsScornful references were made by one of the aldeirnen at a recent meeting of the City Council to the spirit animating the young men to be found in cricketing Hannels in Moore ...
Article : 161 wordsA message from Salonica states that Roumania's attitude and Greece's profound change of opinion towards the Allies have created uneasiness in Bulgaria. The bulk ...
Article : 47 wordsThere is one most interesting phase of the Russian success in the Erzerum region concorning which the Petrograd communiques are tanta[?]singly silent—and that is the ...
Article : 285 wordsThe State Cabinet sat throughout yester day morning and afternoon dealing, among other matters, with the early closing of hotels. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe 600 Carmichael riflemen arrived by special train this morning, and marched out to the camp at Broadmeadow. About 210 men of the North Coast also came down by train ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury addressed a large oversea congregation of soldiers and others in St. Margaret's, Westminster, to-day. Millions of scattered members of ...
Article : 275 wordsWith about 250 members at the front, or in training at military camps, the AUniversity Club is carrying out the early closing order of the Minister for defence. When seen ...
Article : 181 wordsAbout a month ago a public meeting was held at the Leichhardt town Hall for the purpose of forming a local war committee to carry out the Federal Governments ...
Article : 905 wordsIt is a notable fact that the Germans have latterly been malling more frequent raids over England with aeroplanes; but we ean hardly conclude from this that they have ...
Article : 484 wordsSir Edward Grey (Secretary of State for foreign Affairs) has issued a memorandum, which has been sent to the Belgian Minister in response to frequent ...
Article : 410 wordsAlderman Tom Clarke, who was recently elected Mayor of Redfern and who enlisted the other day is a nephew of Mr. T. Clarke of Casino. When the booth African war broke ...
Article : 137 wordsThe District Commandant stated yesterday that the owners of billiard-rooms in both clubs and ordinary hotels had been making inquiries as to how they stood with regard ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Minister for Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George) used the powers of the Defence of the Realm Act, and ordered work on the new London County Connell Hall to cease, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe charge sheets at the Central Police Court yesterday contained the names of but 38 alleged delinquents the ordinary average for a Monday being about 100 cases. There were ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Joseph Francis Huyes who was prominent in commercial cheles in Sydney died in St. Vincent's privatre hospital last evening after two months' illness. ...
Article : 227 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph's" Washington correspondent says that Count Bernstor[?]'s pernicious influence has commenced to decline. It is believed Count ...
Article : 138 wordsAt a meeting of the Prohibition party on Saturday it was unanimously resolved to convey to Sonntor Pearce the thanks and congratulations of the party on account of his ...
Article : 175 wordsDuring the sitting of the tribunals under the Compulsory Military Service Act at Kirkby Stephen (a market town of Westmoreland) many farmers threatened to sell ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Premier stated list night that the question of whether there shall be a board of four or five railway commmissioners has not yet been dealt with by Cabinet. The ...
Article : 135 wordsLord Buxton, Governor-General of South Africa, and the Mayor of Capetown entertained 125 New Zealanders, who are returning by the Arawa, on their ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia), speaking at the Canadian Club, said that preparedness for compulsory service was essential to the security of any ...
Article : 107 wordsA proposal to erect additional drinking fountains in the city was agreed to at yesterday's meeting of the health committee of the City Connell. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Australian casua[?]ty lists continue to show very large numbers of men incapacitated through sickness, and although a great proportiion of these cases have been due to ...
Article : 452 wordsIn reference to the proclamation issued last week by the Minister for Defence closing hotel bars at 6 o'clock, a number of church congregations, through their ministers, ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is reported from Amsterdam that the German newspapers predict a war loan of £500,000,000 in March. New taxes are being prepared estimated to yield ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Justice Powers, in the second Arbitration Court, to-day began the hearing of a plaint by the Federal Clerks' Union of Australia against the Commonwealth and others. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Cairn Steamship Line has declared a dividend and bonus equivalent to 30 per cent., as compared with 10 per cent, in 191[?]. The Moor Line has declared a dividend ...
Article : 96 wordsIgnatius T. Lincoln the self-confessed German spy, who escaped recently, was rearrestedin front of a Broadway restaurant. His capture was due to the proprietor of a ...
Article : 192 wordsAn Austrlan staff officer, who travelled in disguise from Seattle to Yokohama aboard a Japanese mail boat has been arrested in Yokohama for trying to convey ...
Article : 44 wordsThe hotelkeepers have decided to hold a mass meeting on Friday evening at 7.43 p.m., in the Protestant Hall, to consider the position arising out-of Senator Pearce's proclamation. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe official Russian communique this morning concorning the Grand Ducke's campaign in Arm[?] simply states that the pursuit of the retreating Turks continues, and a further ...
Article : 431 wordsThe police were summoned yesterday afternoon to a house in Glenmore-road, Paddington, where they found a married woman. Agnes Pettongoll, aged 35 years, badly ...
Article : 88 wordsThe funeral of the late Sir Winthrop Hackott this afternoon was proceded by a service at St. George's Cathedral, where Archbishop R[?]ey paid a tribute to the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. R. Lansing) has explained that the American Protest against Armenian massacres is unoffici[?] American cannot officially take ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Premier was asked last night if there was any foundation for the report that he intended going [?] England at an early date. Mr. Holman [?]ed that he had no more ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 22 Feb 1916, Page 7
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