War correspondents on the Italian front hint that a victory on a sensational sc[?]e is imminent. The capture of Monte Santo (2238 feet) terminates the Austrian ...
Article : 941 wordsThe correspondent of the Paris "Journal" at Verdun states that the French had more artillery, than infantry in the firing line in the recent successful attacks. This ...
Article : 621 wordsNearly 2000 delegates are attending the great Russian conference which is being hold at Moscow. They include moderates, and even conservative elements which ...
Article : 745 wordsThe most significant of yesterday's happenings in connection with the strike was the fact that in Sydney, where the issue for the whole Commonwealth is to be ...
Article : 538 wordsAt the weekly meeting of the executive council of the A.W.N. League yesterday the following resolutions were carried:— That the executive of the Australian Women's ...
Article : 119 wordsThe greater part of the meeting of the State Cabinet yesterday was devoted to strike matters. Ministers discussed at length proposals to induce miners who are ...
Article : 415 wordsThe council of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce yesterday unanimously resolved:— That the Chamber of Commerce notifies the ...
Article : 78 wordsOn Monday night the Acting Premier said as far as the railway service is concerned the strike is practically over, a total of 3500 strikers having resumed since the ...
Article : 1,185 wordsCharles Frater, 65, a voluntary laborer, while assisting to load wool at Birt's wharf, Darling Harbor, suddenly collapsed and died on Monday afternoon. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, held last evening, the following resolution was carried:— ...
Article : 53 wordsALBURY.—From the point of view of the strikers the position was anything but satisfactory on Monday. Nine former traffic employes and one loco, man deserted. ...
Article : 142 wordsMr. D. Stephen, general manager of the Northcote municipal tramways, stated last night that the members of the Tramway Employes' Association in the employ of the ...
Article : 98 wordsFor the purpose of forming a definite policy in regard to the present industrial trouble, members of the Merchant Service Guild from various ships in port held a ...
Article : 153 wordsA proposal of the Metropolitan Gas Company, to economise in the use of gas in the Richmond district led to considerable discussion at last night's meeting of the local ...
Article : 166 wordsWAGGA.—Owing to the short supply of coal at the municipal gas works all gas has been cut off from picture shows, gas cookers, street lamps and from lamps ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Triple Minister, referring last night to the action of the Queensland Railway Union, declaring goods carried on the New. South Wales railways "black," stated that ...
Article : 112 wordsAs a result of the restrictions put into operation by a number of employes in respect of "black" goods, fifteen of the largest timber units in Melbourne closed ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Minister of Mines, Mr. Livingston, who, with a number of departmental officers, visited Maxwell last week to see how far the output of brown coal could be ...
Article : 126 wordsSir,—I would be glad if you would afford me a little space to express my feeling upon the above subject, and if in doing so I use bitter words I trust you will understand ...
Article : 969 wordsBROKEN HILL.—A special meeting of the city council was held on Monday to consider the refusal of the sanitary service employes to render service to the police ...
Article : 397 wordsThe Minister of Public Works, whose department controls the State Ship Yards at Williamstown, remarked yesterday on the fact that it was only a few weeks ago ...
Article : 149 wordsContrary to expectations, the resolution passed at the carters and drivers' meeting on Sunday evening to the effect that "black" goods be not handled was not ...
Article : 149 wordsThe State Cabinet yesterday approved of a recommendation by the Railways Commissioners to curtail railway services on passenger and mixed services on country ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn), representing the State National Committee, yesterday met the Federal Minister of works and Railways (Mr. Watt) ...
Article : 152 wordsFrom Copenhagen it is reported that the chief committee of the Reichstag has formed a new Parliamentary commission of fourteen members, half of whom are ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Trades Hall presented a busy appearance yesterday owing to the fact that some hundreds of the men on strike congregated there for the purpose of ...
Article : 138 wordsWhen the food production campaign was launched in England and Wales it was officially estimated that there would be a decrease in cultivation of 250,000 acres. ...
Article : 76 wordsThrough the apprehension last night of two youths in connection with a small larceny, certain admissions were made by one lad, who was subsequently arrested for ...
Article : 157 wordsFurther additions were made yesterday to the steadily increasing army of national service volunteers employed along the water front. About 953 men were distributed ...
Article : 67 wordsADELAIDE.—The Government advertised for 50 able bodied, men as special constables, and received a large number of applications, including many returned ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsThere is still hope in waterside circles that the wharf lumpers will return to work in time to avoid the threatened destruction of the union by the deletion of the ...
Article : 206 words"We have made further progress on the Caucasian front," a Russian communique says. ...
Article : 17 wordsYesterday was a record day for the National Service Bureau. Altogether 750 men registered, and 209 were engaged. Twenty-three firemen and seamen were secured ...
Article : 141 wordsPERTH.—The latest issue of the Western Australian "Railway Gazette" says:— "It would be prevarication to maintain that railway men have no reason to be ...
Article : 100 wordsColonel R. M. Downes, a well-known Melbourne medical practitioner, who left for the front in command of the Third Light Horse Brigade Field Ambulance, has ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Minister for the Navy stated last night that dealers in coal and coke appeared to be under a misapprehension as to the disposal of stocks in their ...
Article : 247 wordsBecause two elderly respectable looking men, Edward Mulholland, mariner, and John Shirley, waterside worker, refused to purchase wattle from two street bullies in ...
Article : 187 wordsAn a[?]ated debate in the Greek Chamber of Deputies upon the possibility of establishing a republic revealed the fact that the majority of the deputies favored ...
Article : 75 wordsLAUNCESTON.—At a meeting on Monday of representatives of the mercantile interests it was decided to send a telegram to the Acting Premier of New South Wales ...
Article : 157 wordsA meeting of the Victorian branch of the Seamen's Federation was held in the wharf laborers' building last evening, and was largely attended. A feature of the ...
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Advertising : 200 wordsSome inconvenience has been caused to shipping companies by an interruption of telephone communication between the city offices and the water front below the ...
Article : 70 wordsSir.—Women of all classes, both the laboring and capitalistic, have made heart-rending sacrifice during the past three years, and have readily co-operated in Red ...
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Advertising : 109 words"[?] northward of Monastir favored us," a German communique says. ...
Article : 13 wordsBALLARAT.—Consequent on the shortage of coal, following on the Commons wealth Government commandeering the general supplies, the [?] of the ...
Article : 125 wordsAt the meeting of the Victorian branch of the Builders Laborers' Federation last evening it was decided to strike a levy of 3/ per member per week to assist the wives. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 28 Aug 1917, Page 5
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