The Prime Minister has received a cablegram from Sir Edmund Barton, who is now in England, in which he states:—"Lord Kitchener authorises me to say that the ...
Article : 46 wordsOne hundred and sixty-eight men celebrated the King's Birthday by wending their way up to the enrolling office at the Barracks, and offering their services, and 116 men paraded ...
Article : 1,917 wordsOf a series of articles in the April number of the "Atlantic Monthly" bearing on various aspects of the great war, first place is given to one by Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president of ...
Article : 450 wordsLance-corporal H. N. May, killed in action, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. May, of Casino, Deceased was a corporal in the training forces before his departure. He was only 21 ...
Article : 1,155 wordsA dreadful tragedy was enacted at Mile End, a thickly-populated centre near Adelaide, some time after midnight of Sunday, and six bodies are now in the morgue as the result. ...
Article : 284 wordsWhile the steam trawlers Brolga and Koraaga were fishing off Wollongong and Bungaree Norah, respectively, on Saturday last, the firemen on board each vessel refused ...
Article : 210 words"You imagine that you know the Marseillaise," writes a French artilleryman in a letter recently published in "Le Temps," "because you have heard it played at distributions of ...
Article : 683 wordsThe conference, under the auspices of the Workers' Educational Association, the Economic Research Society, and the Labour Council of New South Wales, was concluded at the ...
Article : 608 wordsOne very important factor in the camp at Liverpool deserves special mention, and that is the field hospital. This institution, like the camp itself, has been the subject of ...
Article : 1,468 wordsThe annual telegraphic chess match between New South Wales and Victoria took place yesterday. The local team played at the Sydney School of Arts. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsColonel McCay, B[?]gadier in command of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, expects to return to the front this week. This information is contained in a cable message received by ...
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Article : 193 wordsA tragedy occurred three miles from Jindabyne on Saturday night. Samuel William Dainer, 45, farmer, living three miles beyond [?]indabyne, in the direction ...
Article : 155 wordsCambridge University is paying a heavy toll, and every week the University magazine has a list of those who have fallen at the front. It makes sad reading, this account of men ...
Article : 444 wordsThe State Attorney-General on Saturday inspected the prisoners' camp at the Ema Plains, where, on the banks of the Nepean River, vegetables are being grown for the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following letter, forwarded by Dr. J. Campbell Nicholsen, Presbyterian missionary at Tanna, in the New Hebrides, to the hon. secretary of the John G. Paton Mission Fund, ...
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Article : 414 wordsThe Clanricarde Refugee Committee, London, has for the last six months given hospitality to 25 Belgian women and children. The committee desires to thank the people of Australia for gifts of meat, rabbits, biscuits, ...
Article : 217 wordsSir,—Mr. Lloyd George's latest utterances, as reported in your Saturday's issue, make but sorry reading for a patriot. I refer to this astounding paragraph—"We were the ...
Article : 329 wordsThe High Court refused an application for special leave to appeal in the action in which William Meredith Holliday had obtained £150 damages against Mary Ann Hewitt, of The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsOn Saturday Admiral Chisaka, of the Japanese squadron, entertained at luncheon on his warship the Governor (Sir Harry Barron), the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir Edward ...
Article : 179 wordsThe German newspaper, "Der Tag," which during the first month of the war shouted; "Herr Gott, sind diese Tage schon" (O Lord, how delightful these days are), has arrived ...
Article : 289 wordsAt the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday the Queensland Rugby League team were beaten by the New South Wales team by 39 points to 6. There was a great falling off in the attendance, and the returns ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsSir,—I shall be very grateful if you will allow me through your columns to express my thanks and warm appreciation to the good people of New South Wales for their ...
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Article : 186 wordsWhile fishing 400 or 500 yards off Rose Bay late yesterday afternoon, Robert Robertson, a married man, 51, living at Beach-street, Double Bay, fell overboard, and was drowned. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the closing sitting of the Commonwealth Labour Conference at the Trades Hall to-day a motion by the Political Labour Council of Victoria was discussed, to the effect that ...
Article : 158 wordsSir,—I would like to state a few facts in answer to a letter asking why the Red Cross Society, which has been sending so much to England and France, has overlooked the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe comet Mellish is now visible to the naked eye in the south-south-east during the evening. It has a blunt-shaped head, a sharply-defined nucleus, and a tall ...
Article : 45 wordsJacques Goujon, a young lad of 17, who volunteered for service at the beginning of the war, has just been awarded the Medaille Militaire (says the Paris correspondent of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsTaiyuan, s, passed South Head, proceeding north, yesterday at 8.30 p.m. Invertay, s, from New York, via ports, arrived off the Heads last night, and waited until daylight to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. D. R. Hall) is enthusiastic on the question of motion study, which he considers will be a big factor in reducing friction between the employer and ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Naval and Military Club entertained the men and officers of the 28th Battalion. Ten officers from the Japanese warships were also present. The toasts of the King and ...
Article : 100 wordsIt has been reported that the southern butter demand has been largely transferred to the New Zealand market, in consequence of the falling away in the interstate inquiry. The ...
Article : 85 wordsNEWCASTLE (62m).—Arr: June 7, Antiope, bq, from Eureka; Wear, s, Cape Transport, s, Kadina, s, from Melbourne; Ennerdale, s, from Brisbane; Kaipol, s, from Auckland; Andry D., s, from Sydney; Boambee, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 Jun 1915, Page 8
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