A large crowd at the Hippodrome last night apparently enjoyed immensely a torrid tussle, wherein Mick Mulqueen (8.12½) and Bob Andrews (9.0½) figured. ...
Article : 491 words"Last year," said Mr. James, yesterday, "the Education Department tried to institute a thrift campaign in the Public Schools, with the result that the deposits ...
Article : 339 words"I am sure that the general public has no idea of the state of things existing in the Education Department," writes a school teacher correspondent to the ...
Article : 292 wordsAnyone who is feeling at all depressed should certainly see the Potash and Perlmutetr production at the Criterion Theatre. Last night the audience ...
Article : 606 wordsThe butter shortage became serious during the week. In some suburbs shopkeepers had to allowance their customers and ask them to take butter in small ...
Article : 252 wordsCollections so far totalled for A.I.F Day show that the grand total presently is going to run into very big figures. Mr. F. Harvey and his staff of five and ...
Article : 175 wordsPending the enquiry now being conducted on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, the meat-prices question has undergone no important development. ...
Article : 154 wordsAmendments of the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations were gazetted yesterday, and come into operation at once. It is provided that no wholesaler shall ...
Article : 271 wordsThe butchers of Wollongong, Balgownie, Corrimal, Port Kembla, Bulli, and Thirroul, have discontinued delivering meat on account of the fixing of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Federal Executive Council has approved of the payment of an amount not exceeding £25,136 to the New South Wales Government for the manufacture ...
Article : 45 wordsLight rain fell daily at Lismore during the week; but the total registration was only three-quarters of an inch. A great deal more rain is required for the ...
Article : 52 wordsA return compiled by the Defence Department shows that 2200, nurses from Australia have been engaged in military work since the outbreak of the war. So ...
Article : 102 wordsHouseholders in Maitland have not, as far as prices of beef are concerned, received any benefit from the fixing of the price of meat. These were a good deal ...
Article : 48 wordsWith a view to maintaining the traditions and perpetuating the records made and the distinctions gained by the A.I.F. in the present war, the military ...
Article : 152 wordsAt a meeting of the Clarence, Richmond and Tweed Local Government Association, it was decided to ask the Government to make a hydrographic survey ...
Article : 76 wordsThe decision arrived at to fix the price of meat, and the ultimate carrying out of the idea, has caused some alarm amongst stock owners at Forbes. It is regarded ...
Article : 360 wordsArthur Bailey, aged 45, who was arrested in connection with the death of Leslie Gordon Bambach, at Euwyalong, near Raymond Terrace, was late last ...
Article : 83 wordsProfessor A. J. Gibson is gazetted as chief engineer, temporarily, and acting-manager of the Australian arsenal at a salary of £1200 per annum. ...
Article : 62 wordsJust before reaching the North Coast S.S.N. Company's wharf yesterday afternoon, the steamer Poonbar grounded; but, after a couple of hours, she got clear ...
Article : 61 wordsAn inquiry was held to-day into the death of George Wilson, son of Mr. Richard Wilson, a well-known resident of the district. Wilson was found at ...
Article : 95 wordsIndustrial troubles are still with us in Broken Hill. Engine drivers and firemen want a variation of their Arbitration' award. The underground men, or a ...
Article : 83 wordsAs the Governor (Sir Francis Newdigate-Newdegate) was riding in the Domain near the Cricket Ground his horse [?], causing him to fall to the ground. ...
Article : 52 wordsEfforts have been made to secure a uniform code of signals in connection with knocker lines or bells in mines. All the States agreed on the new code, ...
Article : 135 wordsThe enlistments for the week ending Friday totalled 266, though the recruiting authorities state that the figures are not absolutely complete, and that the 300 ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Woolgrowers Committee was informed to-day of the basis of calculation of the profits for next season's wool in England, which was that half the ...
Article : 90 wordsAndre Chariot's revue made a second appearance at the Tivoli Theatre yesterday, and as greeted with affection by a big house. The success of Samples is ...
Article : 394 wordsA packed house greeted the Sydney Choral Society last night at the Town Hall, when Elgar's Trilogy, The Spirit of England (which embraces The Fourth ...
Article : 302 wordsAn order under the Customs Act was gazetted on Saturday prohibiting the importation, except by permission of the Minister, into Australia of posters, ...
Article : 68 wordsOur Liverpool correspondent writes:— On July 4, a letter was posted at Parramatta by a legal gentleman plainly addressed to M. Christiansen, Esq., ...
Article : 100 wordsThe meat price problem is still creating considerable disorganisation in Melbourne. Retail butchers declare that wholesale men are under the thumb of ...
Article : 107 wordsThe following recruiting meetings have been arranged:— Sunday: Domain, 3 p.m., Lieut. Wilson and staff; Ashfield Park, 3 p.m., Mr. R. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe dispute between the cane cutters and growers on the Tweed in respect of this season's cutting is likely to provide a serious strike. It is rumored that ...
Article : 79 wordsThree men were before the Police Court on Friday charged with giving false and misleading information to the authorities. . They were born, according ...
Article : 60 wordsOn Tuesday, Mr. W. A. Watt, Acting-Prime Minister, will receive a deputation urging upon him the paramount necessity of a scheme for giving Australia fuller ...
Article : 78 wordsEx-Police Superintendent H. Trenchard died suddenly at his residence, Gordon-st., Petersham, at 88 o'clock last night from heart failure. The late ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Marches to Freedom are doing great work and laying good seed upon the road, which, it is confidently expected, will result in a fine crop of ...
Article : 106 wordsThere are prospects of a shortage of fat cattle auctioneers at the sales at Hobart on Monday. It is feared that many small butchers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Ryan, left Brisbane, by the steamer Wodonga to-day for Sydney. He said he was going to deal with matters that required his personal ...
Article : 74 wordsJames Johnston, an employee of the Willoughby Hotel, Penshurst-street, Chatswood, was wounded in the cheek yesterday afternoon by a revolver shot. ...
Article : 87 wordsSpeaking in the House of Assembly on Thursday, Mr. Burbury, M.H.A., said he claimed that the price of meat retailed by butchers in Hobart shops ...
Article : 162 wordsKatinka is still going strong at Her Majesty's, and Oh! Oh! Delphine! the Royal Comics' next performance, is still some weeks off. After nine weeks ...
Article : 86 wordsThe yacht Viking, 60ft. over all, has been sold by Ernest Davis to L. C. Johnson, of Sydney. Mr. Davis will sail her across. ...
Article : 273 wordsCaptain C. G. Taylor, M.C., one of the sons of Mr. P. T. Taylor, M.L.C., returned by the Makura yesterday Captain Taylor has been in the Aviation ...
Article : 60 wordsAlthough the Federal Income Tax returns must be in by the 31st inst., no forms are available at the Government offices at Warren. Residents are ...
Article : 261 wordsA programme of infinite variety, introducing themes Arcadian, poetical, and grand, was given at the Conservatorium yesterday afternoon to an audience which ...
Article : 284 wordsFound on the body of a dead German was the following account of a French boy scout's heroism:— "A traitor has just been shot—a little ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Man Who Came Back, a drama which attracted the public more than the critics, goes off at the Royal next Saturday, and Bought And Paid For, ...
Article : 46 wordsA commission of inquiry consisting of Brigadier-General' Ramaciotti, Mr. P. McFarland and Lieut.-Col. Thwaites has been appointed to investigate the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe action of the military authorities in discharging soldiers before leaving the base hospital is severely affecting the various friendly societies in Tasmania. ...
Article : 118 wordsDe Luke Annie looks like lasting another week or two. In the meantime The Favorable Foe is in active rehearsal by the same company. Emelie Polini's ...
Article : 42 wordsIn League Rugby competitions Merthyrs beat Westerns 6 to 3. Western Suburbs and Valley played a dashing game, neither side scoring. A mysterious disease is causing great ...
Article : 70 wordsTime, Please, has survived the Censor, and is drawing packing houses to the Tivoli. Barry Lupino, Beatrice Holloway and Espinosa, with Billy Rego and ...
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Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), Sun 4 Aug 1918, Page 2
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