The policy of quick revivals will be continued at Her Majesty's Theatre this evening with "The Girl in the Taxi," in which the J. C. Williamson Company will furnish the following cast:—Baron Danvray, Robert ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Chief Secretary yesterday granted a postponement of the Rosehill December meeting, fixed for to-day, until Friday next. The grounds on which the postponement was ...
Article : 908 wordsA verdict of accidental death was returned by the City Coroner, Mr. H. S. Hawkins, at an inquiry yesterday as to the death through drowing, near Clontari, of Albert Wotton, ...
Article : 82 wordsMany of the private citizens of the United States who have contrasted the persistent and assiduous efforts made by Germany to influence public opinion in America with the ...
Article : 462 wordsThey Toy Work Shop was opened carly in June, 1916 The proceeds of sales of the voluntary helpers have amounted to over £87, which has more than civered the initial working expenses. As regards the ...
Article : 145 wordsThere is no more glorious page in the Somme battles than the taking of High Wood on September 15. High Wood had been a hard nut for us to crack (writes an officer ...
Article : 422 wordsThe Criterion Theatre was successfully reopened last night, when the interrupted run of "Common Clay" was resumed, to the evident contentment of a large audience. The new drama is one in which Miss Florence ...
Article : 104 wordsThe annual meeting of the Newtown Red Cross League wa held at the Town Hall, Newtown. The Mayor (Alderman C. H. Turtle), prosided. The report submitted by the secretary (Mrs. H. Stead) ...
Article : 162 wordsThe body of William Dunban, aged 52 years, was found in a building in course of crection in Belford-street, Hamilton, to-day. His throat was cut. A razor was found [?] ...
Article : 17 words"Tom Moore," Theo. Burt Sayre's romantic drama, upon the early struggles of the Irish poet, continues to all the Palace Theatre, where Allen Doone plays the central character with gaiety and good feeling. ...
Article : 94 wordsFrederick Fallowfield, aged 3 years and [?] months, fell from the Taree punt, when it was nearing the shore, and was drowned in the Manning River. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe above club will hold a double sculls novice race over the Double Bay course to-day. Following are the handicaps:—E. Adams and N. Duars, scr.; M. Rankin and V. Tamplin, scr.: M. [?]ey and V. ...
Article : 68 wordsMessrs. Percy Hunter and Walter Beavis, joint hon. secretaries, Challis House, acknowledge:—Amount previously acknoweldged, £408,214/9/; Alfred Bignell (further contribution), £21; Arthur Cocks and ...
Article : 214 wordsAt the Grand Opera House this afternoon (2.15) and evening the Follies of Pleasure will appear in the new musical trifles "In Mexico" and "The New Coachman." There are a score of dancing numbers in this piece, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe first Anglican Synod was opened by Bishop Barker on December 5, 1866, and De[?] Cowper, in his reminiseences calls it, "a notable day in the Sydney Diocese, and ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Walter Thorman's annual pupils' recital will take place at the Conservatorium on Saturday, December 16, at 8 p.m. The assisting artists will be Mr. Cyril Monk and Mr. Nelson Illingworth, and the ...
Article : 56 wordsSydney Club: 75yds general handicap and polo match, at Domain Paths. Eastern Suburbs Amateur Club: 66yds handicap, at Bronte Baths. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the Crystal Palace all next week Clara Kimhall Young, an American actress, and Mr. Conway Tearle, an English actor who played in Australia some years ago, will be seen in "The Common Law." The English ...
Article : 113 wordsAt the matinee and evening performances to-day the Tivoli Follies, including Vern Pearce, Thelma Raye, Daisy and Sydney Yates, Jack Cannot, George Welch, Billy Rego, and Walter Weems, will make their ...
Article : 47 wordsThere will be no eighteen footers' race this afternoon, owing to the inability of the club to obtain steamer accommodation. ...
Article : 23 wordsOn Monday "The Passing Show, 1916-1917," will provide an entirely new entertainment, headed by Sydney James, and introducing Lady Sen Mei, Chinese nightingale, Vaude and Verne, Winifred Leviere, and Eileen ...
Article : 70 wordsThe above club will hold a general handicap to-day over the usual course, and the winner will receive the vice-president's (Mr. A. M. Merrington) trophy. Following are the entries:— ...
Article : 119 wordsThe attractions to-day and to-night at Hoyt's Picture Theatre, George-street, are "Passers By" and "Merely Mary Ann." Patrons of the Kinema Theatre, Mosman, will see Olga Petrova in "The Eternal ...
Article : 47 wordsThe latest, casualty list shows that nine men [?] killed in action eight died of wounds, and twenty-one were wounded. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Frank Green, the Y.M.C.A. secretary at Pettah, Colombo, writing to the secretary of the local organisation, under dnte of September 20, says:—"These are busy days for us in ...
Article : 666 wordsThe Dandies at the Garden Theatre, Bayswater-road, submitted their usual weekly complete change to another large audience last evening. Concerted and topical numbers by Messrs. Dampier, Hawthrone, and ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Overseas Club's Southern Cross Tob[?]co Fund acknowledges the following collections:—Previously acknowledged £2515/18/6; Casino branch, City War Chest, £25; P.M., Mungindi, £21/12/; Miss ...
Article : 153 wordsThe new programme at the Lyceum tonight includes "Fifty-fifty," a Triangle drama, featuring J. W. Johnson and Nora Tahnadge. The "Velvet Paw" is a story of political graft in the United States, with House ...
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Advertising : 13,634 words"We Christians and the Present Military Situation," is the title of a pamphlet issued in Germany by an Evangelical divine, Herr Kastan, Superintendent-General ot Schleswig. ...
Article : 501 wordsAt the Stadium to-night Jimmy Bill, the featherweight champion, will meet Wave Geike, the Queenslander, as a lightweight. They will enter the ring at 8.[?]0, and there will be two six-round preliminaries, ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the director's fourth choral and orchestral concert to-day (3 p.m.) the director's select choir will make their debut in the celebrated Bach Motet, "Jes[?] Priceless Treasure." The augmented orchestra will ...
Article : 122 wordsThe children's matinee wil start to-day at West's Olympia, in Oxford-street, at 2.30. To-night "The Old Folks at Home" will be screened for the last time, with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in the principal part. ...
Article : 64 wordsBoxers will resume their clearing and building work at French's Forest this weekend, starting from the Customs House, Circular Quay, at 9 a.m. ...
Article : 28 wordsThis morning in the vestibule of Her Majesty's there will be a sale of flowers in aid of the Comforts Fund of the Seventh Brigade Field Artillery. The Misses Deer will be in charge. ...
Article : 39 wordsThis evening Eslick's Palladium will be open from 7.30 to 11 o'clock. What was styled a "Coal Strike Carnival" was held on Thursday. ...
Article : 26 wordsYesterday morning, at the Local Government offices. Department of Education, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald M.L.C., Minister for Local Government, received a deputation in ...
Article : 356 words"Charley's Aunt" will be staged at the Palace Theatre this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, by the North Sydney District Comedy Club, in aid of the Cremorne branch Australian Red Cross Society, when the cast ...
Article : 96 wordsA cable message has been received from the High Commissioner by the Minister for Defence informing him that, owing to military oxigencies, the War Office had found it ...
Article : 71 wordsBattleplanes presented and previously acknowledged, 11, including cables. £20,726/17. Women's battleplane, previously acknowledged, £1644/3/11. Collected by Mrs. W. R. Russell, ...
Article : 255 wordsThis evening (7.45), at St. James's Hall, Mr. D. Henry Stewart's pupils will give their 13th annual concert, when a well-arranged programme will be rendered, and the prizes and medals for 1916 ...
Article : 58 wordsOyster culture on the Manning River is coming into great prominence. Recently oyster leases were sold tiy auction in this district, and realised large sums. Three leases, ...
Article : 158 wordsThe [?]th concert of the club will be held on Wednesday next, at the Conservatorium of Music, under Mr. Alfred Hill's direction, when the popular arrangement of Gounod's "Nazareth," by Max Vogrich, two ...
Article : 118 wordsThe following scratchings were recorded yesterday:— A.J.C. SUMMER MEETING. December Stakes: Tresstoto, Dolores f[?]y. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney will give a miscellaneous concert at the Town Hall on Thursday evening next, when Mr. Joseph Bradley will conduct the full chorus and orchestra (led by M. ...
Article : 85 wordsA paper was read recently before the Australlan Historical Society by Mr. S. H. Smith, Inspector of Continuation Schools, on the Early History of Education in New South ...
Article : 345 wordsDuring the last 24 hours general rain has fallen in the extreme south-east, including the South-eastern Downs, Blackall Range country, and East Moreton district. ...
Article : 31 wordsOn Monday evening next (8.15) a novel and attractive entertainment, organised by Mrs. E. H. Binney, will be given at St. James"s Hall, consisting of tableaux vivants, "Freaks of Fashion," on silhouette ...
Article : 109 wordsGeo, Bertram Bowser, a bookmaker, appeared at the police court before Mr. Butler, S.M., to-day, on a charge of having used a house at 8 Royal Court-chambers, on ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the Fielding Jockey Club's spring meeting yesterday the principal race resulted as under:— Fielding Stakes, of 500 says, w.f.a, 5f.—Mr. G. L. Stead's br c Koesian, by Elysian—Komerenere. 3yrs. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Grand Duke Michael of Russia, accompanied by his daughters. Countess Zia and Countess Nada Torby, opened the autumn exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. ...
Article : 233 wordsMessrs. Enoch and Sons publish new songs, which they now forward. "Four Songs of Innocence" (under one cover) are settings by Landon Ronald of lyrics of infantile simplicity ...
Article : 406 wordsAt St. James's Hall on Tuesday evening next Miss Mary L. Macnicol and her pupils will give a patriotic elocutionary and dramatic recital, including the play. "The Queen Decides," when the assisting artist will ...
Article : 60 wordsThe pupils of Miss Mary Tracy, organist of the Mary Immaculate Church, Wavcerley, will give a recital at the Southern Cross Hall on Tuesday evening next. Mr. Harry Thomas will be the assisting artist. ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the Auckland spring meeting yesterday the c[?] test for the principal event resulted as under:— Auckland Spring Handicap, of 375 sovs. 1m.—Mr. H. D. de Laton's br[?]g Pacific Slope. by California—Helena ...
Article : 77 wordsWounded soldiers at a Hove (England) hospital (says a London paper) were startled during the night by hearing a man, who had been d[?] for months, shouting. Stuttering ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Bamford). replying to a question by Mr. Brennan (Vic.) in the House of Representatives, on Thursday, stated that application had been ...
Article : 128 wordsAt St. James's Hall on Wednesday evening next Mr. S. Vost Jonssen will introduce his pupils. Miss Essie Neal, Mr. Robert Atcheson, and Mr. Claude M'Glynn, at an invitation violin recital. Miss L. ...
Article : 63 wordsFollowing are to-day's fixtures:— First Grade: Leichhardt v Petersham, at Leichhardt Oval (Mr. W. C. J. Kelly); Sydney v St. George, at Marrickville Oval (Mr. D. Warton). ...
Article : 117 wordsA now political organisation has made its appearance in Germany. This ia the People's Committee for the Rapid Defeat of England, which desires to convince the German high ...
Article : 109 wordsAt St. James's Hall next Thursday evening the Rev. Thomas Ta[?], M.A., [?].D. (Scots Church), will give a unique drawing-room entertainment, entitled "An Evening in Society," describing types of talkers, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe testimonial to the principal of the Austral Elocution College announced by the Walter Bentley Players wil now be given on Monday, Deecmber 18, instead of December 7, with scenes, from the "Merry ...
Article : 90 wordsIn the final award to-day on the claims of the storemen and packers against hide and skin merchants and others, Mr. Justice Powers declined to grant a claim for an annual ...
Article : 86 wordsNoel, the French airman of Hendon who made the flight to Bucharest and back has been docorated by General Sarrail with the Legion of Honour (says the London "Daily ...
Article : 284 wordsThe fourth round of the grade matches will be continued to-day. Following is the state of first grade games:— Paddington, 257, v Bilmain, two for 8, at ...
Article : 85 words"Doctor" (Sydney).—(1) £1 2s 6d per day, plus 3s 6d a day field allowance. Of this 3s a day is deferred until be takes his discaharge. (2) Yes. (3) Not necessarily. ...
Article : 333 wordsAn explanation of an outbreak of anthrax in England which at the time caused considerable alarm and threatened to become serious, is given in the annual report by Dr. W. H. ...
Article : 235 wordsMiss Grace Stafford's students will perform "A Dream of Fair Women" at their final recial at St. James's Hall on Saturday next. Miss Stafford will appear as Barbara in [?]me's comedy of that name, ...
Article : 60 wordsWidespread regret wll be felt at the death of Chief inspector Alfred Ward, of the Criminal Investimation Department of Scotland Yard. Besides being one of the most ...
Article : 330 wordsAt the Conservatorium Hall on Monday evening December 11, a violin recital will be given by Miss Mariel Buchanan (pupil of Mr. S. Vost Janssen). Assistance will be given by Miss Rosa Allen and Mr. ...
Article : 54 wordsFollowing is the draw for to-dau:— Mixed Doubles Handicap. Fry and Miss Hanlon v Lucas and Mrs. Lucas; Lucas and Mrs. Lucas v Hill and Miss Hill, Halon ...
Article : 237 wordsMiss Eadith Sullivan (pupil of Mr. S. Gordon Lavers) will give a farewell pianoforte concert at the Conservatorium Hall on Tuesday evening, December 12. Miss Sullivan recently ga[?]ed the Emmeline W. ...
Article : 102 wordsFor some weeks past efforts have been made by several unions affiliated with the Federal Ironworkers' Association to declare all castings "black." This is an outcome of the ...
Article : 173 wordsA matinee entertainment will be given in aid of that admirable institution, the Hospice for the Dying, at Her Majesty's Theatre, on December 14, when the J. C. Williamson management will arrange for the ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the manifesto to Socialists in Canada, Australia New Zealand and South Africa the Nationalist Socialist party state that they see with surprise and regret that a ...
Article : 120 wordsThe open 100 yards handicap which was provided for members of the N.S.W. Amateur Athletic Association at the United Storemen's picnic to-day has been cancelled, owing to the paucity of entries, but the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Criterion Theatre has been lent by J.C. Williamson, Ltd., for a matinee, on December 16, in aid of the "Joan of Arc Gift Day," for Christmas presents to the children of soldiers fallen at the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe annual sale of work and garden fete, which was unavoidably postponed through the coal strike, will be held on Saturday afternoon, the 16th inst. The fete will be opened ...
Article : 39 wordsThere was a scene recently in the Greek Orthodox Church in Paris (says an English paper). The Aichpriest had begun the usual prayer for the King and Queen of Greece ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Public Works Committee recommended that the new Government Printing Office should be erected at Circular Quay. Efforts have been made by various bodies, notably ...
Article : 66 wordsA cass of meningitis has been reported to the Culcairn Shire Council, from Henty. The patient is a lad named Wilson, 10 yoars old. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe bowling season for 1916-17 will commence to-day, when the first round of the Pennant and [?] competitions will be played. In the metropolitan area ...
Article : 258 wordsLast night's audience at St. James's Hall was by no means prepared for such a well-schooled artist as Miss Winifred Burston quickly proved herself. Her return here has been somewhat ob[?]cured by the whirl ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 2 Dec 1916, Page 16
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