It was pointed out yesterday by the Railway Commissioners that the position with regard to tracks was quite abnormal. Starving stock are now, it is explained, ...
Article : 137 wordsAt a meeting convened by Mr. F. F. Cow[?]roy at the Customs House yesterday a committee was formed to make the preliminary arrangements for forming a Customs Rifle ...
Article : 220 wordsIn a statement presented by the officials and members of the council of the Australian Sugar Produccers' Association, Ltd., to the Necessary Commodities' Control ...
Article : 1,424 wordsThe hospital is so overcrowded that the board of management has been obliged to refuse to admit patients. An intolerable condition of affairs prevails. Beds are made up ...
Article : 163 wordsAn agreement has been arrived at by which the next Premiers' Conference will be held in Sydney early in May. Twenty-nine subjects have been suggested by the Premier of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 398 wordsAlready acknowledged, £190,859/11/4; Kyeamba Shire Patriotic Fund, £7/17/6; Mitchel Shire Patriotic Fund, £15/3/6; Raymond Terrace Patriotic Fund, 12/6; Coopernook Public School, 11/6; Badgerebong Patriotic ...
Article : 58 wordsThe twelfth annual congress of delegates of the Chambers of Commerce of the Commonwealth was opened by the Governor in the Legislative Council Chamber yesterday. Mr. ...
Article : 1,885 wordsSince the produce department made an appeal for jam there has been a great response from the branches. Eleven tons of beautiful jam is a tribute to the industry of the workers. Seven hundred pounds of honey ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsThe recently-appointed Minister for Public Instruction, Mr. Griflith, yesterday was introduced by the Director of Education Mr. Peter Board, to the heads of the various ...
Article : 77 wordsThe well-known coastal steamer Coomonderry, which belonged to the Illawarra and South Coast Steam Navigation Company, Limited, is reported to have been sold. The ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce acknowledges the following subscriptions:—Amount already acknowledged, £100,364/10/8; Denham Bros., proceeds of 3 cheese, given by Mrs. F. M. Du Ross, Bergalia, £1/3/11; ...
Article : 115 wordsA meeting under the auspices of the Pennaut Hills District Rifle Club was held in the Beecroft School of Arts for the purpose of urging the public to become members. Mr. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe attention of the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) was directed to-day to Lord Kitchener's statement in the House of Lords that "where service in this great war and the ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Asquith stated in the House of Commons that he regretted Welsh members of the House of Commons had not been consulted with respect to the Compromise Bill dealing with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 909 wordsThe hon. treasurer of the Citizens' War Chest Fund, 113 Pitt-street, acknowledges the following further contributions:—Amount already acknowledged, £10,355/19/9; employees Colonial Sugar Refiing Co., ...
Article : 190 wordsShortly before 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the back portion of Mr. William Brown's Australian Picture Palace, in Oxford and Brisbane streets, and above the ...
Article : 321 words"I am just as much convinced as over," said the Prime Minister to-day, in referring to the loan of £250,000 which is being obtained by the Victorian Government on the London ...
Article : 254 wordsAt a meeting at Kensington it was decided to form a South Kensington section of the recently gazetted Maroubra Club. The Kensington Recreation Club officials have intimated ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Rugby Union drill squads are now in full force at North Sydney, Randwick, Newtown, Glebe Balmain, Eastern Suburbs, and Y.M.C.A. Thus seven out of the 12 sections ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Walter Crane, artist, writer, lecturer, and socialist. ...
Article : 22 wordsA federal conference of the Licensed Victuallers' Association was opened in Adelaide to-day. The Mayor (Alderman A. A. Simpson) tendered the visitors a reception. He ...
Article : 229 wordsPrivate letters rcccived from the [?]ta of France [?] pirticulars of the great distress existing in that unfortunate rcgion is a result of the devastrations of the invaders. Much help is [?]eq[?]d, and all in this ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsSeveral public meetings have been held here with the object of forming a rifle club, but the obstacle has been the difficulty in obtaining a supply of rifles. In deference to the ...
Article : 136 wordsMELBOURNE (576cm).—Arr: March 16, Cadmus s, Urilla, s, Alabama, s, from Newcastle; Maresfield, s, from New York; Borderdale, s, from St. John; Umballa, s, from Calcutta; Lialccta, s, from Hobart Dep; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 320 wordsArchdeacon Dunstan died at Mudgee rectory at 8 o'clock this morning, aged 73 years. Deceased, who was born at Wilberforce, was a son of the late Tristram Dunstan, who ...
Article : 172 wordsThe most disastrous fire which has occurred at Wagga for many years broke out at midnight last night, when Preseott's, Ltd., produce merchants, store and premises were ...
Article : 91 wordsOn Monday morning, shortly after the steamer Miltiades arrived from England, via Brisbane, a man, dressed in the uniform of a British military officer, and wearing two rows ...
Article : 396 wordsThe question of expediting the hearing of an appeal from Western Australia was before the High Court yesterday. The circumstances were that in the "Dally News," of Perth, of ...
Article : 214 wordsIn the live stock market to-day 43,700 fat sheep were penned; including a fair proportion of good quality. There was a good attendance of the trade, exporters, and graziers. The market opened ...
Article : 240 wordsThe statement of the secretary of the Corrlmal Balgownie Company, published yesterday, regarding the stoppage at the Corrimal colliery, is resented by the minors' general ...
Article : 251 wordsThe President of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, acknowledges the following additional subscriptions to the Regimental Comforts Fund:— "39/85," £2 Total fund, £1551/12/5. Less ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Minister for Labour and Industry and Minister for Mines, Mr. Estell, yesterday took exception to the statement in the "Herald" that the man on the land in want of labour ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Premier is informod by the Governor that the imperial Government has had under consideration the question of the proper procedure to be pursued in regard to appeals ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 wordsMr. T. Gascoigne, A.B., who was severely wounded in the Sydney-Emden fight, was last night tendered a public welcome home in the Literary Institute. ...
Article : 142 wordsThe first stop has been made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) in connection with surveying the route of the proposed strategic railway from Port Augusta to Brisbane. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe High Court of Australia to-day dismissed the appeal on a special case stated by Judge Murray, of Papua, in the case of George Bornasconi, manager of a station on the south ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Navigation Department received a telegram yesterday morning from Captain Schubert, owner and master of the auxlliary wooden schooner Advance, stating that his vessel was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsIn reply to several complaints by correspondents regarding delays in payment of moneys to relations of employees who have gone to the front, the Railway and Tramway ...
Article : 159 wordsA double-seater car owned by Mr. C. D. Turton, manager of the local wool-scouring works, was destroyed by fire in a lane on Hereford Estate to-day. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Premier is informed by the Master Builders' Association that it proposes to organise within the industry a monthly fund for the provision of food for distressed ...
Article : 330 wordsThe well-known racing mare Orvieto, belonging to Mr. J. V. Smith, was stolen from James Scobie's stables at Flemington early this morning. Later in the day a constable saw ...
Article : 63 wordsSir,—Does it occur to those who write so bitterly of those few men who were sent back or the Kyarra that "undesirable" (in milltary sense) may mean anything they themselves ...
Article : 261 wordsThe St. Patrick's Day celebration concert will be held in the Sydney Town Hall this evening. There will be a number of attractive items, including contributions by the loading Roman Catholic colleges, ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the meeting of the North Sydney Council last night a heliograph was received from the secretary to the chief Commissioner of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsMiss Claire Sear has organised a concert in aid of the Belgian Fund for Tuesday evening next, at Warringah Hall, Neutral Bay. The Paris-trained contralto will be assisted in a bright programme by Miss Lynn ...
Article : 78 wordsA fire ocurred late this afternoon in Kingstreet, in a building occupied by Henry Olsen and Co., exporters and importers; and Henry Berry and Co. Proprietary, Limited. ...
Article : 194 wordsWirth's circus will open its season in Sydney next Saturday night, at Prince Alfred Park, with a programme of new artists and acts, including M. Mussa, Mamico, a Russian Cossack cavairy officer, whose ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. W. F. Fitzpatrick, the Chief Commissioner of Railways, will retire from the service of the Railway Department on the complction of his present term of office on April ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Railway Department is buying water from the Hotel Culcairn water scheme at 3s per 1000 gallons, and retailing the water at various stations for 10s. The local scheme ...
Article : 77 wordsThe photo-play "Neptune's Daughter," will be given its first presentation in Australia to-night. Aunette Kellerman, the famous Australian, will be seen in the role of the mermaid, daughter of Neptune. The plan ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 17 Mar 1915, Page 14
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