The cyclone burst over Brighton at about 4.30 p.m. with unprecedented violence, wrecking everything in its path. Trees in the streets were uprooted ...
Article : 4,022 wordsOfficial reports received in Washington state that the British forces in Palestine have launched a now offensive, advancing twenty miles north from Jerusalem and ...
Article : 60 wordsBRISBANE.—When a press representative left Mackay on Thursday there were still hundreds of tons of filth strewn all over the streets, and myriads of boxes and ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Federal Treasurer, Sir John Forrest, who recently underwent an operation, has sufficiently recovered to enable him to leave hospital and take up residence at the ...
Article : 160 wordsAt Middle Park the municipal baths suffered a great deal of damage. Roofing of the baths was removed, and, as in the other cases, the eastern side of the ...
Article : 205 wordsThe storm raged with great velocity at Oakleigh. When members of the Metropolitan Golf Club relumed to their club house at 5.15 p.m., at the conclusion of ...
Article : 150 wordsA representative of the Australian Press Association has made a tour of the principal Australian convalescent depots and hospitals in France. He witnessed the ...
Article : 293 wordsBRISBANE.—The Premier, Mr. Ryan, referring at a meeting on Sunday to the Queensland Government's difference with the Commonwealth Government on the ...
Article : 117 wordsBetween Brighton and Point Ormond much damage was done. Tiles were lifted from many roofs, and in some cases the wind, circling under a number of ...
Article : 192 wordsAmongst yachtsmen the disturbance will long be remembered as the most sensational burst of weather ever experienced in Hobson's Bay. it effectually finished the ...
Article : 428 wordsROCKHAMPTON.—Light showers felt during Friday night, but there was he approable rise in the river, and conditions generally were about the same on ...
Article : 347 wordsPeople whose property has been damaged will not recover any of the cost through their insurance policies. A leading insurance manager stated last night that there ...
Article : 121 wordsNineteen recruits were accepted in Victoria for the 24 hours ended 3 p.m. on Saturday. ...
Article : 21 wordsSALE.—Lieutenant Smith, recruiting officer, has collected £29 for the upkeep of a motor car kindly lent by a returned soldier for the purpose of touring the ...
Article : 96 wordsMaterial damage was caused at Garden Vale. Roofs were hurled off several houses, and trees were blown down. At St. James's Roman Catholic Church the cross was ...
Article : 100 wordsThe severity of the gale was responsible for throwing a large portion of the telephone service out of gear. The chief trouble was at Brighton, where some 200 ...
Article : 158 wordsWith the force of a tornado the wind swept over St. Kilda, but compared, with other districts, the damage done was not great. Here and there trees were ...
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Advertising : 114 wordsIt is announced that Mr. N. D. Baker, Secretary for War, will visit the West front on a tour of inspection. He will also confer with the Allied leaders. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe State Governor has received the following telegram from Sir Hamilton Goold Adams, Governor of Queensland:—Deeply appreciate your find telegram conveying ...
Article : 53 wordsThe rain provided a diversion at the Tivoli Theatre. As usual on hot days, the sliding roof of the building had been removed, and the only protection from the ...
Article : 177 wordsThe full force of the gale struck the "back beach" at Williamstown, and, although it did considerable damage to property, aa far as can be ascertained there ...
Article : 981 wordsSir Edward Carson, who recently resigned from the War Cabinet, was accorded a wonderful reception on his arrival at Belfast. The city was decorated, and thousands ...
Article : 285 wordsCHARLEVILLE.—Messrs. W. J. Vowle and B. H. Corser, Liberal members of the State Parliament, held the opening meeting of their election tour along the route taken ...
Article : 161 wordsSYDNEY.—Mr. Cook, Minister for the Navy, and Mr. Ball, State Minister of Works, on Sunday expressed concern at the threatened bitch in connection with ...
Article : 152 wordsThe storm broke over the foreshore at Albert Park and Middle Park at a time when thousands of people of all ages were disporting themselves on the beach, and ...
Article : 730 wordsThe 4.11 p.m. Frankston to Melbourne train reached Melbourne some minutes late through breakages and breakaways along the line, and the danger which threatened ...
Article : 235 wordsPte. W. T. BODINNAR, 22nd Bittalien, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bodinnar, of Perrins-street, Daylesford, was killed in action on 5th August. 1916 (previously reported missing.) He was 19 years ...
Article : 411 wordsThe question has again been raised as to whether the military authorities are faithfully giving effect to the Government's policy of preference to returned soldiers. ...
Article : 307 wordsThe full force of the wind was felt at Brighton Beach railway station, where a very large amount of damage was done. The fury of the storm lifted the roof of ...
Article : 802 wordsSir,—I quite agree with "M.D.G." in regard to the cruel and senseless practice of caging birds, and hope something can be done to prevent such cruelties. I have ...
Article : 107 wordsThe New York "Evening Post" states that Sir F. E. Smith, the English Attorney-General, who is on a visit to the [?]ted States, has been recalled to England ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "Times," commenting on the New South Wales loan, says:—"It in not obvious why the renewal operation should be undertaken fully six months ...
Article : 115 wordsSir,—May I write a word or two of appreciation of M.D.G.'s letter? If he paid a visit to our Zoo on a hot day he would be shocked to see the magpie and ...
Article : 101 wordsBALLARAT.—The Boy Scouts of Ballarat district, No. 1, held their first rally on the agricultural show grounds, Wendouree, on Saturday, Brigadier-General R. E. ...
Article : 124 wordsSWAN HILL.—During the past month there has been a shortage of sugar, consequent upon which complaints have been made by several jam makers, who have ...
Article : 56 wordsSir,—I am a real bird lover, and long with an intense longing to set every little prisoner free. I have often spoken to people who keep caged birds about giving ...
Article : 243 wordsBRIGHT.—A party of three fishermen, landed 70 lb. of trout, the largest weighting 7 lb., from the Kiews River, Tawonga. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir—It is gratifying to observe that one member of this league has publicly taken up a matter which apart from receiving attention of returned men should be a ...
Article : 191 wordsEleven bishops assisted in the consecration at Westminster, Abbey of Dr. Hensley Henson as Bishop of Hereford. The commerce committee of the Senate ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsADELAIDE.—Mr. Edward Lucas is about to leave for England to fill the position of Agent-General. He resigned his seat in the Legislative Council on Friday. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 4 Feb 1918, Page 8
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