The King has conferred the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.) on Sir Douglas Haig. The Governor and Lady Stanley, ...
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Article : 530 wordsM. Guineneue, the French naval expert, who is the most active champion of the ideals of La Jeune Ecole—the young naval officers who pin their faith to destroyers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 440 wordsThe robbery of jewellery and clothing from two houses in Brighton is engaging the attention of the detectives. On Thursday night last a valuable collection of ...
Article : 1,272 wordsAbout seventy clergymen, it is officially announced, will attend the ceremony in connection with the consecration on Thursday next of Rev. Father Foley as the ...
Article : 82 wordsHerbert Charles Esler, alias Hannan, 32, who at the Supreme Court pleaded guilty to charges of forgery and larceny, and who admitted eleven prior convictions ...
Article : 64 wordsNews has been received in Melbourne that Lieutenant Eric Brody M'Kay, only son of the late Mr. G. M. M'Kay, Federal Income Tax Commissioner, has died from wounds received in ...
Article : 293 wordsThe jubilee celebration of the Self-Reliance Tent, I.O.R., was commenced on Sunday with a demonstration in the Mechanics' Hall. ...
Article : 35 wordsSYDNEY.—For the week ended Saturday 612 men offered their services, and 435 wore accepted. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe newly-formed brass band of the 66th Battalion Cadets, under Band Master Richards, numbering 23 players, made its-first public appearance on Saturday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 324 wordsBRISBANE.—During last week 130 recruits were accepted in Queensland. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe steamer Ulonga arrived on Sunday from Murrumbidgee ports with 800 bales of wool. ...
Article : 17 wordsIt is notified that the badges for returned soldiers, which are being issued by the Defence department, may be obtained on application at the Sturt-street drill hall ...
Article : 79 wordsMIRBOO NORTH.—About a month ago Mirboo shire council received the sanction of the Country Roads Board to call tenders for the remaining sections of the new Allambee-Mirboo ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 569 wordsTALBOT.—At the local police court, before Mr. D. Berriman, P.M., Annie Gare, of Amherst, for selling liquor without a licence, was fined £25, with 4/4 costs. ...
Article : 32 wordsApplications are being invited by the Defence department for 150 volunteers to go to England to assist in the production of munitions. The men will be chosen ...
Article : 94 wordsIt seems to have escaped public notice in Australia that it was in the Battle of Jutland Bank, as Sir John Jellicoe has called it, that the first Australian-born ...
Article : 262 wordsEUROA.—A land board, presided over by Mr. G. O'Toole, lands officer, was held, when two applications for 200 acres of land at Kelvin View, being allotment 200, parish of Wondoomarook, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,542 wordsTALLANGATTA.—Mr. Callaway, chief engineer of the Country Roads Board, accompanied by Mr. L. H. Samb[?]ll, Tow[?]ng shire engineer, has just completed an inspection of the main roads of the ...
Article : 109 wordsWONTHAGGI.—A Soldiers' Parents' League has been formed in Wonthaggi, with Mr. C. S. Mummery as president, and Rev. J. Rogers as secretary. It was decided ...
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY.—On Friday night Mrs. Matilda Willis, wife of G. H. Willis, a well-known jockey, heard a knock at the front door of her house in Harbourne-street, ...
Article : 133 wordsThe hearing of the case in which the Australian Meat Industry Employes' Union is seeking higher remuneration and better working conditions from W. Angliss and ...
Article : 73 wordsA photo, honor roll, containing the names of 44 members of the Box Hill Wattle Club who had enlisted for active service, was unveiled on Saturday night ...
Article : 167 wordsMembers of the New South Wales Public Works Committee and the South Australian Railways Standing Committee will meet to-day at Federal Parliament House ...
Article : 236 wordsIn connection with the trouble which has arisen at Mackay, Q., concerning the handling of sugar, the following announcement was made on Saturday by the ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY.—Early on Saturday morning the residence of Mr. Hugh Ward, the well-known theatrical manager, at Potts' Point, was entered by burglars. About £60 ...
Article : 79 wordsNARANDERA.—At a meeting of residents it was decided bo inaugurate a movement to raise funds throughout the Riverina for the purpose of presenting the ...
Article : 42 wordsHenry Green, late of Nullawil, farmer, who died on 24th July last, left by will dated 20th August, 1910, personalty valued at £4[?]12 to life widow and children: ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—In your issue of to-day a report appears under the above heading of the annual meeting of the Austral Ha[?] Mills. The chairman (Mr. Kozminski) is reported ...
Article : 600 wordsParticulars given in "The Age" a few days ago with regard to a soldier's letter which had been enclosed, apparently by the censor, in the wrong envelope, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsAddressing an assemblage of parishioners of St. Joseph's, Northcote, at the laying of the foundation stone of the new church in Westbourne-grove yesterday ...
Article : 382 wordsSir,—The comments by the Minister of Public Works (Mr. Adamson), published in your columns on the 11th inst., in regard to the failure of municipal councils ...
Article : 459 wordsAt Prahran town hall on Saturday afternoon Sir Arthur Stanley, on behalf of the local branch of the Red Cross Society, presented the Defence department with a motor ambulance for home ...
Article : 368 wordsSir,—My husband enlisted over nineteen months back, and has been away sixteen months. He was invalided from Gallipoli to Egypt shortly after landing at the former ...
Article : 203 wordsADELAIDE.—"We were playing soldiers," said John William Mallinson, who had a revolver in his possession while playing with another boy, Allen James Strang, ...
Article : 117 wordsSir,—I see in to-day's issue where a great many complaints are still being made by soldiers and their relatives re the non-delivery of letters. On the 12th April my ...
Article : 155 wordsBENDIGO.—A well-attended meeting of railway employes was bold at the Trades Hall on Sunday to discuss what action should be taken to compel the Government ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 wordsSixteen £1 notes were stolen from a box in the bedroom of Miss Mollie Claydon, 71 Nicholson-street, Carlton, on Friday last. The thief entered by forcing a gate and a ...
Article : 96 wordsBALLARAT.—Private W. L. Boneham, 32, of Ballarat training camp, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday night suffering from meningitis. He enlisted at Rainbow. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsThe recent military sports carnival at Seymour, under the auspices of the military authorities and local residents, realised £50 for the funds of the local camp stadium, which provides all recreative ...
Article : 41 wordsGEELONG.-A married woman who resided in Geelong West, died in Geelong Hospital on Sunday from meningitis. ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsA further gift of golfing material for the use of invalided soldiers has been received by the Defence department from Mr. C. W. Chapman on behalf of the Metropolitan Golf Club. ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsThe Defence department de[?] the next of kin of the late No. 275, Private J. T. Walsh, 22[?]d Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, to [?] municate with the officer in charge, base records. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 21 Aug 1916, Page 8
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