Notwithstanding that the business demands on the staff of Messrs. Farmer and Co. necessitate the early attendance of hundreds of male employees, no fewer than 170 members ...
Article : 260 wordsThe State Premier and the Prime Minister have recently been corresponding with each other regarding the attitude of the British Government towards relief funds for ...
Article : 59 wordsThe secretary of the Necessary Commodities' Commission is in receipt of a letter from the secretary of the Wheat Acquisition Board informing him that it has been decided by the ...
Article : 133 wordsPrivate Frederick Lassetter, son of Colonel H. B. Lassetter, was a passenger by the R.M.S. Orsova, which arrived yesterday. Private Lassetter was studying law at ...
Article : 524 wordsBetween £4000 and £6000 worth of stock was destroyed by fire which almost gutted the premises of Thos. Cooke and Co., general drapers 408-10 Oxford-street, Paddington, last ...
Article : 259 wordsSir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, has received hundreds of congratulatory messages and telegrams on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of his birthday, ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Methodist Conference was continued yesterday, under the presidency of the Rev. J. Woodhouse. The Rev. R. B. Bowes reported for the ...
Article : 906 wordsWhen the suggestion was made at the Methodist Conference to-day that a joint contribution should be made to the Belgian Fund, the proposal was taken up enthusiastically. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 781 wordsNo reply has been received by Mr. Massey in answer to inquiries made of the Imporial Government as to the special appeal recently sent out by the Belgian Commission. Mr. ...
Article : 119 wordsReference was again made to-day by the Prime Minister, Mr. Fisher, to the scheme which he has already outlined for building a strategic railway from Port Augusta to ...
Article : 303 wordsOwing to Jack Johnson being barred in Mexico by General Carranza's orders, the boxing contest between him and Jess Willard has been indefinitely postponed. ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. H. E. Partridge has given the Lindaeur collection of Maori paintings, valued at over £20,000, to the fund. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. W. W. Hill, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, is in receipt of the following letter from Senator Pearce, Minister for Defence, in connection with the union's ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Melba concert in aid of the Red Cross Society and the Belgian Relief Fund, held on Wednesday night in Geelong, realised £1535. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe strike of men belonging to the Railway Workers and General Labourers' Association, which took place on the Glebe-Wardell railway construction works on Thursday was ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the matter of the Minister for Lands of New South Wales versus Coote, has allowed the appeal. ...
Article : 110 wordsIn connection with the Belgian appeal, Mr. Massey says it is no use New Zealand sending help unless it is absolutely certain there is no chance of it being diverted to the Germans. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe manner in which, it is claimed, the Legislature should afford relief to litigants, was mentioned by Mr. Paris Nesbit, K.C., in the Supreme Court to-day. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Minister for Railways, Mr. Mackinn[?] states, in regard to the railway yard at Tocumwal, which is a combined Victorian and New South Wales enterprise, that the New ...
Article : 83 wordsA bomb was thrown during the progress of a gala performance at Sofia (Bulgaria) on February 14, and exploded in the vicinity of a box, in which the wife of the Prime Minister ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. W. Rogers, of Garden Hill, has received an interesting letter from a friend in Wales, dealing with the war. Referring to the part Australians are ...
Article : 124 wordsA cable message has been received from the War Office, asking that 100 medical men be sent, as soon as possible, to join the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day a communication was received from the Director-General of Public Works stating that a cablegram had come ...
Article : 131 wordsThe following motion was passed at the February meeting of the South Australian branch of the British Medical Association on Thursday:—"That in view of the evidence ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Clyde engineers have, by a large majority, rejected the offer of the employers to advance the rates of wages by three-farthings per hour. The dispute affects 100,000 ...
Article : 59 wordsAlready acknowledged, £9794/10/3; War Chest 1, 280, 281, 507, £2/10/1; emp. Wormald Bros., Ltd., £3; emp. Jos. Pickles and Sons, £10/5/; emp. S. Hoffnung and Co., £4/l3/5; Mrs. J. K. Smythe, £1/10/; ...
Article : 156 wordsA message to the "Cape Argus" on January 26, from its London correspondent, stated that a sensation had been caused in Germany by the arrest of Senator Possehl, of Lubeck, a ...
Article : 707 wordsThe prospectus of the Queensland loan of £11,728,000, 4[?] per cent, bonds and stocks, will be advertised on Saturday. The price is 99, and the loan is redeemable 1920-25. ...
Article : 67 words"This is the first book upon Germany which I have written without pleasure," says Mr. William Harbutt Dawson, author of "What is Wrong with Germany?" And he adds: "Had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsThe attendance at the Town Hall was much improved during the week, though there is still room for more workers. Last Tuesday was a record day, 94 shirts being finished. The ladies have been busy ...
Article : 209 wordsSenator J. A. C. Graaf has been appointed Minister of Finance. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe State Government has as yet taken no definite steps under the Meat for Army Purposes Act, recently passed at the special request of the Imperial Government. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsAfter a heated debate the City Council decided to cut out all the sectarian papers from the public library. The "Watchman" was recently-added to the library list, and ...
Article : 74 wordsAlready acknowledged, £345/18/9; Mrs. A. A. Smart, £3/3/; W.C.[?]., 5/; The War Horse, £25; Mrs. W. D. Donkin, £1/1/; G. H. Brown, £1/1/; Lover of Horses, 5/; E. L. Clarence, £1/1/. Total, £377/14/9. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn order to satisfy numerous inquiries, a representative of the "Herald" yesterday made a close investigation into the matter of the despatch of letters, newspapers, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce acknowledges the following subscriptions:—Amount already acknowledged, £94,570/7/1; employees N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Ltd., further donation, £5; Mrs C. B. Stephen, £10; Miss ...
Article : 176 wordsEarly yesterday morning John Smith, 59, farmer, at Bishopbourne township, about 17 miles from Launceston, was shot dead. His wife, Alice Mary, who is a few years younger, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsThe twenty-fourth annual communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Tasmania was held this afternoon and evening. M.W.G.M. Bro. Sir William Grey Ellison Macartney, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Government has agreed to the Imperial Government's proposal that all meat available for export from New Zealand shall be sent to the Imperial Government for the use ...
Article : 76 wordsMiss Mary Jay acknowledges the receipt of a number of knitted socks for the mine sweepers in the North Sea. The girls of the Armidale knitting class sent 40 pairs Miss Jay is now despatching the second hundred ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Lord Mayor has convened a meeting to discuss and determine what action shall be taken in connection with the appeal to Australians for assistance for the distressed ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. F. E. Wincheombe, president of the Chamber of Commerce, acknowledges receipt of £5 for the above fund from "Sympathiser." Total fund, £1521/16/8; less disbursements £947; leaving in hand £574/16/8. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe mail train, Sydney to Hay, left the rails yesterday evening 13 miles from Hay. A duststorm had been raging all day, and the sand had silted up over the rails, causing the ...
Article : 110 wordsIt was announced to-day by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) that the Cabinet had decided to extend the concession upon bran, pollard, and oaten straw imports to private ...
Article : 67 wordsIt seems safe to say that no book connected with the war will have a larger sale than "Princess Mary's Gift Book," a copy of which has reached us from the publishers, Messrs. ...
Article : 259 wordsThe Belgian Relief Committee has decided to ask the Government to give £20,000 monthly to the Belgian Relief Fund, and also subsidise private donations. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir,—Your report of the proceedings against Theodore Tobias, in which the name of Farmer and Company, Limited, appears, is necessarily condensed, and hardly makes our position ...
Article : 166 wordsAll speculation regarding the vacancy in the Ministry was set at rest this afternoon when Mr. K. M. Grant was sworn in as a member of the Ministry. Mr. Grant was ...
Article : 70 wordsHer Majesty's Theatre::High Jinks," 7.[?]. Theatre Royal: "The Silver King," 8. Criterion Theatre: "The Travelling Salesman," [?]. Adelphi Theatre: "Base Coin," 2 and 8. ...
Article : 143 wordsSir,—I have read the letters of de Pl[?]ter and J. Czaykowska in your valuable columns, and I sincerely agree with your correspondents that the people of Australia, who have so ...
Article : 114 wordsThe War Chest is issuing a circular in which it is stated:—"The committee of the Citizens' War Chest' Fund have decided to assist toward the special appeal of the International ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Necessary Commodities Commission, sitting in camera last night, decided not to make any recommendation with regard to the application of the newsvendors to have ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Victorian Price of Goods Board has approved of the following as the highest selling wholesale prices:—Oatmeal, £29 10s a ton; split peas, £25 a ton; and pearl barley, ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Massey informed a Wellington deputation that legislation would be introduced next session for the establishment of a New Zealand Board of Trade. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Feb 1915, Page 16
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