H.M.A.S. Torrens was successfully launched yesterday. The ceremony was performed by Lady Helen Ferguson, who, is a bottle of Australian wine was dashed ...
Article : 391 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Helen Ferguson will return to Melbourne to-day by the express train from Sydney. The Governor presided at a meeting of ...
Article : 1,218 wordsThe treaty of London, With May, 1912, only defined the boundary of the Balkans territory left to Turkey. On 9th June the Peace Conference met for the last time, ...
Article : 1,324 wordsThere were three fatal eases of meningitis during the week end, and seven new patients were admitted to the hospitals. Two of the victims were soldiers—one from ...
Article : 251 wordsReplying on Saturday to the views of local tea merchants regarding the interested price charged to the consumer, the Minister of Customs (Mr. Tudor) stated that ...
Article : 111 wordsA mass meeting of the A.M.A. was held this afternoon. A report from the union delegates in Melbourne was read, advising the men to continue work in view of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsThe gift of a large kerosene lamp of 560 candle power has been made to the Defence department by Messrs. Rankin and Eyral, of Glen Huntly- road, Elsternwick. The lamp has been installed ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—I desire to bring before your readers an opening for war service which some of them may be willing to enter. The fine Y.M.C.A. institute at Flemington, which ...
Article : 262 wordsSir,—How long are the public going to tolerate that farce known as the Price of Goods Board ? According to the list of price in your journal tho other day, the ...
Article : 209 wordsThe police investigations in respect of the double tragedy at Woodleigh, in which Miss Elizabeth Dunbabin was murdered, and Peter Allan her supposed murderer, ...
Article : 248 wordsSir,—In your issue to-day Mr. Tudor makes a statement with regard to the recent advances in the price of ten. In your own comments on the statement yon point ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,—Mr. Tudor's statistics, if not correct, are certainly interesting, inasmuch that they discount the ability and honesty of the Price of Foods Board, and infer that ...
Article : 224 wordsLieutenant F. Marks, who was recently in charge of the Fitzroy recruiting depot during the enlisting campaign was on Thursday presented by his lady and ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—"The Age" deserves the beat thanks of the community for its successful efforts to have the Price of Goods Board's proceedings open to the press, thus enabling ...
Article : 409 wordsReporting on the Trentham camp, the commissioners express the opinion that the head quarters staff is primarily responsible for bringing men into the ...
Article : 253 wordsAn important conference was held at the barracks on Saturday, in the room of Colonel Shepherd, Director-General of Medical Services, to consider the position arising ...
Article : 313 wordsMELTON,—At the meeting of Melton shire council on Friday objection was taken to a report in the issue of "The Age" of 20th June of what was done the State recruiting committee. It was pointed ...
Article : 191 wordsThe announcement was made by the Postmaster-General (Mr. Spence) on Saturday that the abolition of the midday letter delivery in the suburbs would take ...
Article : 250 wordsAmid a shattering roar from eight cylinders, like the tumult of a battery of machine guns, the first aeroplane engine made in Australia on Saturday began its ...
Article : 610 wordsThe local bakers have raised the price of bread from 3d. to 10d. per 4 lb. loaf. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe term of the Wheat Acquisition Board has been extended for three months to permit of its dealing with matters in hand, and with the wheat coming forward ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 words"There are people in this country and in other parts of the Empire at the present time praying of peace," declared Sir Robert Best, M.P., in the course of an address ...
Article : 427 wordsThe Australian Gaslight Company and the North Shore Gas Company will be called upon next week to show cause why the price should not be reduced. It will ...
Article : 109 wordsNo new cases of meningitis were reported to-day. Of the four eases in the hospital, that of Stanley Reid is regarded as critical. He contracted the disease while ...
Article : 193 wordsMeagre particulars were received in Melbourne last night of a fatal motor accident which occurred on the Ballarat Melbourne-road, about five miles from ...
Article : 193 wordsMr. H. D. M'Kenzie (Minister of Lands), who represents the East province, and Mr. Donald Carmichael, a stock broker, both of whom are expert motorists, have enlisted ...
Article : 76 wordsBetween 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. yesterday the mutilated body of a man was found between the rails of the "up" St. Kilda line at Flinders-street station, about 200 ...
Article : 153 wordsNext Thursday, the milk suppliers and vendors will be called upon by the Necessary Commodities' Control Commission to show cause why the retail price of milk ...
Article : 63 wordsMrs. W. Borthwick, wife of Colonel Borthwick, of Fullgam, near Sale, and mother of Lieutenant Borthwick, of the 8th Light Horse, who was killed on 7th ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Government has decided that a limited export of oats be allowed. The position, however, still requires to be watched carefully; consequently the ...
Article : 45 wordsSome of the local grocers have received consignments of the butter imported by the State Government from America. The quality is disappointing, a chemical taste ...
Article : 108 wordsDuring last week nine cases of cerebro- spinal meningitis and three doubtful cases came under the notice of the military authorities, and four deaths occurred. The ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Acting Coroner, Mr. Cohen, P.M., held an inquest on Saturday, into the death of Leslie Howard, who was crushed between two beams at the North Melbourne loco, sheds on 16th August. ...
Article : 316 wordsAt 11.30 p.m. on Saturday the gripman on a cable tram going southwards along High-street, St. Kilda, saw the body of a woman lying across the track at the ...
Article : 558 wordsDuring a visit of 300 soldiers from Claremont camp this week end in connection with a football match against a Launceston association team, three of the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe value of the work done by the Dental Relief Fund has been fully recognised by the Government. As was announced in "The Age" on Saturday, the Minister of ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—I have just seen a copy of "The Age." of Tuesday, in which the smaller manufacturers' evidence is given in support of increased prices for jams, in ...
Article : 637 wordsIn the course of an address delivered by Archbishop Mannix yesterday afternoon to the Catholic of Glen Fluntly, after reflecting on the ...
Article : 185 wordsA Tasmanian invention which is claimed to save four-fifths of the fuel ordinarily used in generating power for machinery, is being offered to the British Government ...
Article : 61 wordsA new aeroplane is likely to be added shortly to the Commonwealth's aerial fleet att the result of a novel offer of patriotic help made to the Defence ...
Article : 146 wordsSir,—As a city publican, may I be permitted, from my own experience, to attempt to account for the seeming increase in drunkenness, despite the recent ...
Article : 229 wordsCaptain Maudsley, of the head quarters staff, visited Kilmore on Wednesday and inspected a number of sites that are available for camp purposes. The agricultural ...
Article : 242 wordsMonarchist outbreaks have occurred in Northern Portugal. Shots were fired at the barracks at Braga and Guimaraes, and telegraph lines were cut. Several people ...
Article : 55 wordsCaptain C[?] V. Watson, area officer, charged Fred John Rae and Albert Roy Hanson, two trainers at Camberwell court on Friday with breaches of disquine while on compulsory ...
Article : 95 wordsA man named William Crawford, who for the past fifteen years has been employed on the Burnewang Estate as a groom, has mysteriously disappeared. ...
Article : 59 wordsIi is not by any means generally known, says the "Financial Times" of 21st July, that the zinc smelters belonging to La Vieille Montagne Company of Belgium are ...
Article : 138 wordsGeneral Gourand, of the French array, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, has been awarded the Honorary Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George for his ...
Article : 60 wordsThe British Government now permits the landing at Avonmouth and Cardiff, for slaughter there of animals from South America, the United States, South Africa, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 30 Aug 1915, Page 8
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