Recruiting dropped considerably last week, only 534 men being accepted at Victoria Barracks, the figures each day being: Sunday, 47; Monday, 133; Tuesday, 108; Wednesday, ...
Article : 866 wordsNews of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition is expected within the next few days. As stated in the "Herald" last Wednesday, the Aurora, with half the members of the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe communiques show that the Germans have resumed their big infantry assaults upon the Verdun salient, and once again they are throwing their main weight against the ...
Article : 373 wordsThe Stale Attorney-General on Saturday made the following reply to Mr. Wade's figures showing a big loss on State importation of wheat, hay, and butter:—"Mr. Wade ...
Article : 492 wordsThe Acting Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. R. H. Cambage) on Saturday furnished a preliminary statement of the mineral production of this State for the year 1915. ...
Article : 1,045 wordsOn Friday evening a meeting of representatives from all organisations registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act (Public Service section) was held ...
Article : 220 wordsInformation regarding the Australian imperial Forces and the navy, that is now and interesting, is contained in the latest" digest of the Home Affairs Department. ...
Article : 320 wordsBetween 2000 and 3000 persons gathered on the Yarra bank this afternoon to listen to speeches by anti-conscriptionists. The meeting was organised under the auspices of the ...
Article : 395 wordsIt s officially stated that Kwang-si, a prevince of China, has proclaimed its independence. ...
Article : 32 wordsA football match was played at Bexley Heath to-day between soldier teams representing New Zealand and Australia, which resulted in a win for New Zealand by 14 points to 3. The ...
Article : 139 wordsAlthough enemy subjects who are interned in what is known as the German camp at Liverpool are allowed to receive presents from their friends outside, knowledge of ...
Article : 154 wordsIt is intimated from Athens that German troops from the Russian front have arrived on the Greek border opposite Salonica, and are commencing serious military preparations. ...
Article : 329 wordsThe estate of the Lord Algerstone has been valued at £311,000. Lord Alverstone was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1900 to 1913. He died a few ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Governor-General and the Victorian Governor, with a Parliamentary party, visited Wentworth district to-day unofficially. [?] addition to the Governors there were Captain ...
Article : 369 wordsOnly last week eight business premises were destroyed by fire at Beaudesert. Another outbreak occurred early this morning, as a result of which three buildings were ...
Article : 54 wordsWhile walking along Kent-street on Saturday Mary King, 46 years of age, living at 319 Pitt-street, slipped and fell on the footpath, sustaining a lacerated shin and a probable ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Budapest correspondent of the "Morning Post," in course of a despatch, dated January 31, wrote:- The mobilisation of women is the next move ...
Article : 414 wordsConcussion of the brain and a lacerated scalp wound were sustained by Mrs. Hernlett Evens, 03, living at Summer Hill, as the result of falling from a tram to the roadway in ...
Article : 59 wordsReferring on Saturday to the efforts of speculators to secure wheat scrip at low prices, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) stated yesterday that some ...
Article : 159 wordsThe trouble at Kalgoorlie between the men engaged on the railway construction works and the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. O'Malley), as a consequence of the Minister's ...
Article : 379 wordsA labourer named James Roslyn, 65, living at 138 Paddington-st, Paddington, was knocked down by a motor car in Oxford-street, near the Victoria Barracks, on Saturday ...
Article : 59 wordsWilliam Morris, of Hunter-street West, was kicked on the side of the head by J. Jewell's filly Double Strength in the weighing paddock at the Newcastle races yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe attitude of Roumania has lately compelled the Bulgarians in self-defence to withdraw some of their troops from opposite Salonica, and send them to the northern ...
Article : 350 wordsA machinist working at Dodds' joinery works had portion of the fingers of his left hand cut off with a planing machine. ...
Article : 29 wordsArchbishop Kelly, in St. Mary's Cathedral last night, preached one of a series of sermons on the drink traffic. He said that partaking of alcoholic drink was not of itself a sin, but ...
Article : 109 wordsThe steamers Tuncurry and Fitzroy arrived off the Heads last night, and waited outside for permission to enter. The steamer Cape Transport passed South Head at ...
Article : 58 wordsIn Victoria on Saturday 256 men volunteered, and 167 were accepted. During the week 2091 offered their services, and 1270 were accepted. PERTH, Sunday. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe president of the Nepean Cottage Hospital has succeeded in obtaining a grant of £50 from the committee of the Walter and Eliza Hall Trust, conditional upon the ...
Article : 266 wordsTamon Maru, s, from Kobe Suzuki and Co., agents. ...
Article : 10 wordsA new camp has been established at Kiama Point, on the Agriculture Society's Show Ground. It was opened last Friday with members of the signalling school. Captain Ryan, ...
Article : 55 wordsWILSON'S PROMONTORY (426m).—Outward: March 19, Barwon, s, 12.5 a.m.: INdarra, s, 4 a.m., Corio, 6.80 a.m.: Bulga, s, 10.30 p.m.; Kokiri, s, 8 a.m. Time, s, 6 a.m.; doulbarn, s, 7 a.m. Woolgar, ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the meeting of the Wagga District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Saturday Mr. G. S. Bceby expounded the policy of the Progressives, and explained the terms ...
Article : 121 wordsSeveral interesting details about naval incidents in the Dardanelles are published in "L'Illustration" (Paris) by M. Emile Vedel. One of the most striking incidents he ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsThe military authorities have announced that, with reference to members of the Citizen Forces who have been mobilised, the Minister for Defence has approved the granting of two ...
Article : 82 wordsA fire occurred at about 11 o'clock last night in a house which was in course of construction at Roseville for Mr. James Archbold. ...
Article : 68 wordsApproval has now been given for the issue of separation allowance on accpunt of stepchildren of a member of the Australian Imperial Force, providing that such stepchildren ...
Article : 44 wordsBrigadier-General Ramaciotti, the District Commandant, will hold an inspection of troops in the outer Domain this afternoon at 4 o'clock. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe desmatch issued by the Press Bureau suggests that we need no longer fear any serious trouble on a largely-organised scale on the western frontier of Egypt. General ...
Article : 552 wordsOn Saturday night a fire caused severe damage at premises 57 Parramatta-road, Forest Lodge. The building, which is of brick and iron, contains one main floor and two ...
Article : 226 wordsThe military authorities have decided that officers of the A.I.F., whose services are terminated on account of medical unfitness, but who are fit for home senvice, may be called up ...
Article : 253 wordsAt the police court yesterday, before Mr. Adrian, S.M., John Sherrin, John M'Bride, and William Scott, privates at the local camp, were each charged with impeding a tramway ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsRecord time was made by Mr. Boyd Edkins, driving a 16-20 h.p. Vauxhall motor car, from Melbourne to Sydney. Mr. Boyd Edkins concluded his journey on Saturday night, his time ...
Article : 118 wordsIt is generally understood by Ministerialists that during the coming recess of the State Parliament the Premier will visit England. It is stated that there are a number of public ...
Article : 83 wordsThe coin attachments of the telephone bureaux at North Sydney have several times been broken into of late. On Friday again three more were pilfered—one at Cremorne ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 wordsAfter a temporary closing down, for the purposes of renovation and a little remodelling, the Lvce[?]n Theatre was re-opened on Saturday night "as the home of the Triangle picture plays." Always a picturesque ...
Article : 366 wordsIn January of this year a communication was received by the "Herald" to the effect that a broach and ribbon won by an officer in the South African campaign had been picked up ...
Article : 233 wordsTivoli Theatre: Hospital Carnival Matinee, 2 p.m. Conservatorium: Mr. Holman's Lecture 8. Yorkshire Society: Concert, steamer Fort Macquar[?] 7.45. ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Theophilas John M'Carthy, a station owner, who was just arranging to follow his two brothers to the war, was thrown from his horse and killed. ...
Article : 31 wordsColonel R. H. Owen, who commanded the 3rd Battalion of the First Brigade of the A.I.F., lately at Gallipoli, and Mrs. Owen, were the guests of honour at a reception by ...
Article : 186 wordsReferring on Saturday to the matter of the Federal Arsenal, the Ministed for Defence (Senator Pearce) said that it was incorrect to say the question of building the ...
Article : 147 wordsSteamers left Devonport early on Saturday morning for Sydeyn, with 2[?] 174 bags of potatoes, 577[?] bags oats, [?] bags of wheat, 704 bags of turnips, [?] bags of peas, 161 bags of grass seed, 426 bags of chaff, [?] cases of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 20 Mar 1916, Page 10
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