The fears expressed in certain quarters that there is danger of a meat famine in Sydney are not shared officially. It was stated yesterday that there has ...
Article : 304 wordsHe was a young returned soldier with a firm cast of countenance and a bright eye who took part in the general discussion on the Referendum result. ...
Article : 468 wordsAbout 9.30 last night, Alfred McEwan, a butcher, living in Gordon-street, Petersham, was driving a Ford car along Broadway, Glebe, being then on his way home from a trip to ...
Article : 246 wordsMr. Kermode, State engineer of Ports and Harbors, and Mr. Bomphrcy, manager of the State Shipping yards, recently conferred with Mr. Curtim, Chief Commonwealth shipping ...
Article : 67 wordsThe disappearance of a document from the Premier's office during the Referendum campaign has resulted in a strict inquiry being instituted. ...
Article : 357 wordsOfficially the political situation was ad[?] nothing to-day, but there is an impre[?] in some quarters that members of the Ministry see more daylight than for days past. ...
Article : 426 wordsWhile the Acting-Treasurer, Mr. Fitzpatrick, anticipates a small deficit at the end of June, due to the strike and the comparative failure of the Totalisator, he is by no means ...
Article : 532 wordsSome of the trade unions embraced within the Commonwealth scheme of shipbuilding are still engaged considering the question of piece-work. It really looks now as though the work ...
Article : 301 wordsThe mystery which attached to the disappearance of Mr. T. de Burgh, whose clothing was found in the dressing-sheds at Manly, but of whom no trace could be discovered, has been ...
Article : 244 wordsThe general impression, outside the fruitgrowing areas, is that all birds are the enemies of the orchardist, and that the worse of the pests are the feathered ones. At the conference of ...
Article : 219 wordsShipping men discussed the rumor abroad yesterday that the three steamers of the Spreckels line would shortly be withdrawn from the run between this port and San Francisco. ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Arthur Rae, Press representative of the No-Conscription Party, Macdonell House, writes: "The present situation in Federal politics is the natural outcome of the ...
Article : 307 wordsNo trace has yet been found of Miss Effic Selbie, 17, of Temora, who hired a bathing costume at the ladies' bathing shed on the Newcastle beach on Wednesday morning, and has ...
Article : 79 wordsAn order nisi calling upon Mr. R. F. Toutcher. M.L.A., as executor of the will of Henri De Bacre, of Ararat, to show cause why the will and two codicils should not be pronounced ...
Article : 158 wordsCecil Geddes, described as a medical student, was fined £1 to-day at the City Court on a charge of having unlawfully worn a military uniform. It was stated in evidence that ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, will again confer with the Victorian Minister for Mines to-day regarding the working of the ...
Article : 118 wordsA well-organised raid by Inspector Branston, with a detail of police, resulted in a bag of 20 Europeans and Chinese, taken from premises in Sussex-street and Mary-street, last night. ...
Article : 47 wordsCoogee's Carnival Queen was crowned with much ceremony yesterday. Mrs. H. Goldstein (Coogee War Chest) had secured 31,640 votes, her nearest rival being Mrs. Upton ...
Article : 422 wordsFor some time patrons of the racecourses in the city and suburbs have had first-hand information of the presence of pickpockets on the grounds. In some cases the victims have had ...
Article : 121 wordsThe grass fires last Saturday burned a strip of land through Clare Station. The holdings of Messrs. Harry Lear and Byrnes suffered severely. ...
Article : 80 wordsAt a meeting of the Wollongong Citizens' Association, Mr. M. J. Wilson gave notice to move at next meeting that the Association protest against the continued centralisation of the ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the conference of fruit-growers yesterday it was resolved that the Railway Commissioners be approached with a request for the provision of refrigerating cars on some of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsA remarkable story comes from Goondiwindi of a boy who was found sitting on a log near the town. He said his mother put him on a train at Toowong, near Brisbane, and told him ...
Article : 89 wordsThere is considerable dissatisfaction on the South Coast, states Mr. Willis, owing to the failure of the Government to deal satisfactorily with the question of victimisation. As a ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Railway Refreshment Rooms is further extending its operations at the Central Railway Station. A shop has been opened in Pitt-street where tobaccos, cigars, and other articles are ...
Article : 53 wordsA fire broke out on C. Shanahana's farm, eight miles from Jerilderic. A strong wind caused the fire to spread rapidly on the south side almost to Urana-road, and to Colombo ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. W. A. Lloyd, official organiser for the "Yes" campaign in Corowa and district during the recent Referendum, has enlisted at Corowa in the Australian Imperial Forces. ...
Article : 301 wordsActing on information detectives Pattinsor and Mitchell yesterday effected the arrest of man who, subsequently, told them where quantity of gold and other jewellery was [?] ...
Article : 226 wordsOne of the numerous troubles of the fruit growers of the State is the difficulty in obtaining fruit cases at a reasonable price. It was stated at the conference of delegates from ...
Article : 138 wordsWhen playing at Leichhardt in a Second Grade baseball match, Oscar Tribe, of the Leichhardt team, fell, and ripped his leg from the knee to the ankle. He was taken to the ...
Article : 47 wordsA stoppage occurred on Friday at Scarborough tunnel because the management increased the number of men. The cavil was not drawn at Coalcliff Colliery, as the men ...
Article : 163 wordsThe last fishing voyage of the State trawler Koraaga was principally carried out in very bad weather. Out of a voyage lasting 128 hours, it was only possible to fish 55½ hours. ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Voluntary Workers' Cafe, Holland House, Elizabeth-street, has already a record of three houses built for returned soldiers—at Merrylands, Sandringham, and French's Forest. The ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Wheat Board overdraft on December 31 was £690,000, of which New South Wales was debited with £14,000. Of the 1916-17 harvest there is 36,357,000 bags held by shipping agents ...
Article : 60 wordsHenry Hugler, a soldier from Liverpool Camp, missed his footing when getting on a moving train at Strathfield yesterday morning, and fell heavily to the track. Porter Tierney ...
Article : 55 wordsThe secretary of the Women's Hospital, Miss Mona Daley, yesterday morning received an unsigned letter, enclosing £100 towards the building fund. The original oiler (which was ...
Article : 109 wordsIt has been reported to the police that George Duncan Wickbold, 55 years of age, has disappeared from a hotel at St. Arnaud (Vic.), where he was boarding. Wickbold had ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Minister for Mines announced to-day that he will visit Biggenden immediately personally to inspect the work of experts who are going into the matter of utilising arsenical ...
Article : 44 wordsHenry Henley, of Walker-street, Redfern, in charge of a horse which bolted in Alexander-street, Coogee, yesterday afternoon, and caused the capsize of the vehicle to which it ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsThe turbine steamer Loongana, which cleared the Heads on Friday night bound to Melbourne, prior to taking up her running in the Melbourne-Launceston trade, returned to port ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 6 Jan 1918, Page 2
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