The police are not taking very seriously the story of the Port Kembla laborer, who first gave currency to a report of a steamer which, he said, Stood off the Port Kembla jetty for ...
Article : 326 wordsAt the Orange Eight-hour banquet to-night, Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, the treasurer, said the State Government had gone through a somewhat strenuous time. They had come ...
Article : 405 wordsThe Sydney Comedy Company staged a comedy farce, Seven-Twenty Eight, in the Repertory Theatre last night, in aid of Soldiers' Widows and Orphans. The play was ...
Article : 152 wordsA luncheon was given at the Savoy Hotel in honor of Admiral Sims, commander of the American Navy, and Mr. Winston Churchill, the American novelist. The latter made a ...
Article : 157 wordsThe members of the Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union held a ballot from 3 p.m. on Friday until 5.30 p.m. yesterday on the question of returning to work. At a late hour last night Mr. ...
Article : 359 wordsAs recent cables have indicated New Zealand has recently been awakened to the fact that it is faced with a decidedly unenviable financial situation. The unpleasant truth is that the ...
Article : 699 wordsAt a meeting of the Dubbo Progress Association last night it was decided to seek co-operation of all the Western centres in sending a deputation to Sydney to ask for restoration of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 280 wordsMr. Joseph Blascheck and Miss Alyce Austin were new arrivals at the Tivoli yesterday. They are well-known in several parts of the world, but not as vaudeville artists up till now. ...
Article : 409 wordsAn official announcement states that six or seven hostile airships attacked the eastern and north-eastern counties of England last evening. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe matter of repatriating our wounded is engaging the earnest attention of the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Millen), now in Sydney. He is burdened with the launching of ...
Article : 158 wordsThe overseas shippers have replied rejecting the offer of the Waterside Workers to resume work on the conditions obtaining before the war. A representative of the owners said ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 772 wordsElizabeth Scott, an unmarried woman, aged 67 years, was fatally burnt while reading in bed in her home in Connell-street, Hawthron, last night. She was taken to Melbourne ...
Article : 63 wordsAn application for an hotel license for the old Frankenfield Hotel, Gunning, occupied the attention of the Yass Licensing Bench for the whole of the day and well into the evening ...
Article : 290 wordsMr. J. Fitzpatrick addressed the farmers on the advantages of a co-operative grain company. He stated that he recently had travelled along the Barellan railway, and saw ...
Article : 92 wordsThe juvenile ball held at the Southern Cross Hall yesterday in aid of the funds of the Voluntary Workers' Cafe was in every way a success. The organisers were, Mrs. Harry ...
Article : 274 wordsThe merry little Japanese play at the Palace entered on its last week last night. It has done quite well, but the Taits have become so accustomed to things that do furiously an[?] ...
Article : 172 wordsLIEUT. R. W. GRAHAM, Killed in action in France. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Graham, of South Shields, England, and before joining the A.I.F. in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsThe Registrar of the Arbitration Court has decided to register the National Waterside Workers' Union. Objection to registration, lodged by the Lumpers' Union, failed. ...
Article : 31 wordsPlaygoers will learn with regret of the death at Prince Alfred Hospital early yesterday morning of Miss Maggie Knight, the Well-known actress, who has been a popular figure ...
Article : 203 words"The Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Chronicle learns from a reliable source of serious friction between Austria and Germany. Germany sent 100,000 troops to Austria, and ...
Article : 93 wordsA meeing of the National Liberal Association's executive was held in the rooms yesterday to discuss the matter of nominating a candidate of the party to oppose Mr. R. A. Price, ...
Article : 153 wordsWilliam Anderson and Co., at the Hippodrome last night, presented a new melodrama. The Village Blacksmith is a play of the kind that delighted our grandparents a half-century ...
Article : 167 wordsA loud explosion attracted the attention of some constables on beat duty in Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, at 3 o'clock this morning. While they were searching for the cause, a smell of ...
Article : 151 wordsThe British Government is building 100,000 workmen's dwellings to standard designs in order to meet the urgent needs of war workers. Another 200,000 will be built later in ...
Article : 61 wordsMiss Mary Cecila Kitson was this morning admitted to the bar. This ir the first time in South Australia on which a lady has attained this distinction. Sitting beside the Chief ...
Article : 54 wordsMrs. W. J. Vance, Campbelltown, has received word from the military authorities that her son, Pte. Stanley Vance, died of wounds received while fighting in France. Pte. Vance ...
Article : 114 wordsMiss Ada Reeve's New Zealand season has been one long and continuous success. With her there have been no show towns good and better, each has topped the score along the ...
Article : 231 wordsOwing to the defection of cab-owning drivers the other London taxi-owners have accepted the terms offered by the Minister for Home Afftirs for the settlement of the strike. ...
Article : 45 wordsEdward Sawley, aged 17½, a student at the Adelaide High School, was drowned in the River Torrens this morning. With another student he was attempting to change seats in ...
Article : 47 wordsTwo rescues, one at 3 o'clock and the other at 5 o'clock, were effected by members of the Newcastle Surf Club this afternoon. Both men were found to be in difficulties exactly at ...
Article : 79 wordsSome interesting events have occurred during the last few weeks at the Richmond aviation school. Last Thursday Miss Fuller (daughter of the Acting-Premier), Miss Edith James, a ...
Article : 291 wordsAt a meeting of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Mr. Newman stated that trouble had again arisen over the stamping of bills of exchange. An ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. J. C. Mack, at the Tivoli this afternoon and evening, treated patrons to what is known in legal parlance as a change of venue. His pantomime tabloid now bears the name of ...
Article : 219 wordsYesterday Mr. V. P. Taylor, the well-known local aeronaut, who has done his share at the front since (as Captain Penfold) he last appeared over Sydney, ascended in a gas balloon ...
Article : 150 wordsMeetings for this afternoon will be in the Domain at 2.30, North Sydney 4.0, Ashfield Park 4.0, and the Stadium at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe final of the three recitals of Beethoven's violin and piano sonatas was given at the Conservatorium last evening. The programme consisted of the No. 4 in A Minor, op. 23, No. ...
Article : 357 wordsMr. Bethel, who has been managing the local branch of the Government Savings Bank, during the absence of the manager on holidays, was suddenly taken ill last night and now lies ...
Article : 79 wordsTo-night the Acting-Minister for Health (Mr. D. Storey) and the Minister for Education (Mr. James) will leave Sydney for Goulburn on a visit of inspection of the local ...
Article : 92 wordsThere, is a call for reinforcements for the railway units on service, and the Department is inviting applications from men in the different grades. There are vacancies for a ...
Article : 127 wordsIt was stated last week that the Lord Mayor's Distress Relief Fund Committee had accepted the offer, conveyed by Mr. Leslie Bridge from himself and Messrs. H. D. McIntosh and H. ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Ernest Truman's popular organ recital attracted a number of people to the Town Hall last evening, despite the sultry atmosphere. ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 21 Oct 1917, Page 2
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