Four divisions of 90,000 Canadian troops now at the front have been moved from the Ypres salient to take their places alongside the Anzaes on the Somme. For more than ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Referee's" tips, for Saturday are:-- Hurdle: Corrie or Inverara. Maiden: Thrace or Ukuwela. Auburn: Nombi or Wallace Isinglass. Highweight: Sydian or Galen. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe American naval programme, which involves the expenditure of 315,000,000 dollars, was passed by a vote of six to one. It provides for the construction of 157 warships ...
Article : 78 wordsOfficial reports of recent aerial doings show the wonderful co-operation with our artillery. Thrilling fights take place almost daily against German Fokkers. Many airships have ...
Article : 87 wordsAt St. Andrew's Anglican Church to-night, Dr. Le Fanu, Coadjutor-Bishop of Brisbane, confirmed about 50 candidates from Lismore, Nimbin and Alstonville. ...
Article : 29 wordsDuring the progress of the day baking dispute at Melbourne nearly two hundred members of the Bread Carters' Union refused to go on strike. These were hauled before the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Chief Justice condemned part of a cargo, of the mail steamer Moldavia, which arrived here in May of last year, on the ground that the goods had been received ...
Article : 43 wordsTwo Turks who fought against the British at Salonika were arrested on board a steamer at Newcastle, on which they had signed as members of the crew. ...
Article : 38 wordsReuter's representative at New York, states that since the war started foreign Governments have raised £270,000,000 in the United States, of which £200,000,000 were for ...
Article : 69 wordsAt an early hour this morning; detectives visited a house at Maroubra and arrested two men one on a charge of forgery and the other with forging and uttering. ...
Article : 43 words"The Times" correspondent at Amsterdam says: Flushing reports an engagement this morning at 3.30, between British and German warships near Zeebrugge. The action was ...
Article : 33 wordsThe New Zealand Grand National Hurdles was won by Art, with Master Regal second, and Sir Solo third. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for the Navy says that six vessels were re-offered to his department, but the offer was rejected on account of the amount asked for them. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe King and the Kaiser visited the Somme front simultaneously. Hysterical accounts are published in Germany of the Kaiser conducting parades, at which he iron-crossed and ...
Article : 63 wordsWestern Australia is threatened with a serious shortage of sugar through the waterside workers refusing to load. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 355 wordsThere is a strong inclination amongst the miners at Kalgoorlie and Boulder to take drastic action in restricting the employment of enemy subjects. The employers claim that ...
Article : 58 wordsThe New South Wales loan is much less satisfactory than the Commonwealth loan, as 80 per cent, has gone to the underwriters. However, in view of the frequency of the New ...
Article : 82 wordsForty troop trains arc reported to have passed Cologne, going Somme-wards. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn response to a number of questions in Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition. Mr. Wade, the Minister for Works laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly a ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Will Thorne, special Democrat, asked: Will the Kaiser be charged with wilful murder? (Cheers.) Mr. .squith did not reply. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" points out the importance of the British advance west of Pozieres; and says that Moquet farm is the last vantage point overlooking the British lines. ...
Article : 51 wordsAn inmate of a charitable home at Masterton, New Zealand, has established his claim to £62,000 lying in Chancery. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe city editor of "The Times" says the British Government has agreed to purchase 100,000 tons of concentrates annually during the war and for ten years after. The total ...
Article : 84 wordsGeneral Haig, in a communique, states: Between the Ancre and the Somme the situation is unchanged. Minor infantry engagements have taken place in the vicinity of ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Hughes has cabled General Bird wood congratulating the Anzacs on their success at Pozieres and in Egypt. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Kaiser and a number of high officers visited Cologne Cathedral amidst dense cheering by masses of people in the streets. The Kaiser, standing on the platform of his ...
Article : 65 wordsAn Italian communique says: We captured trenches on Mount Pecinka, in the Carso region, and east of Gorizia, taking 350 prisoners. Enemy attacks on the remainder of the ...
Article : 127 wordsA Paris communique states: A lively bombardment is proceeding at Thiaumont, Fleury, Yaux arid Chapitre. Enemy aeroplanes bombed Belfort, but there were no victims. ...
Article : 29 wordsAs a result of investigations in connection with the recent circulation of counterfeit Commonwealth five-pound notes, the police arrested two young men named Henry ...
Article : 343 wordsIn the Victorian Legislative Council Mr. McWhae in moving for an investigation into Australian patriotic funds, made a serious allegation concerning the treatment of ...
Article : 39 wordsA Paris communique says the French resumed the offensive on the Somme this afternoon, after an intense cannonade, making important gains. They captured, north of the ...
Article : 167 wordsParis newspapers regard the appointment of Count Andrassy as Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs as being a pointer towards the unification of the control of the ...
Article : 68 wordsSeventeen thousand signatures opposed on the first day the Breslau Socialist petition for a speedy peace, with no conquests. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe prices of meat last month in Sydney were 70.6 per cent, higher than in July, 1914; other food and groceries 20.7 per cent, higher; and prices for the two combined; 33.6 per ...
Article : 74 wordsA cyclone swept over Southern Jamaica. It is believed the northern portion escaped. The capital, Kingstown, was cut off from communication. There were a number of deaths. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt was impossible to raise Murwillumbah at a late hour last night to get the results of the races, and no message had got through to Lismore with results at that hour. ...
Article : 44 wordsColonel Repington, the "Times" military correspondent and critic, says there is no doubt that three Austrian armies are shattered. General Bothmer, while escaping disaster, ...
Article : 270 wordsA British airman, patrolling on the Somme front at a height of 4000ft., sighted eight Germans at 9000ft. He climbed to this height, five British battleplanes joining him. One ...
Article : 60 wordsSome weeks ago ten members or the New South Wales Ministry issued writs against the Australian Pictorial Newspaper Co. Ltd., publishers of the "Mirror," for alleged libel, ...
Article : 59 words"The Times" correspondent says: There is an increasing number of prisoners of the 1917 class, and also proofs that the 1918 class is partially incorporated. ...
Article : 37 wordsWe have been informed that Nojah has been sold to Mr. S. Gay, and may go to Brisgane to race. Maharajah is reported to have gone amiss. ...
Article : 667 words"The Times" correspondent at headquarters says the enemy losses during the desperate efforts to regain ground round Pozieres were extremely heavy. On the nights of the ...
Article : 300 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Asquith declared that some of the Allies had suffered grosser and more extended brutalities than ourselves at the hands of the Germans. We ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. MeAlpin, the "Daily Mail" correspondent on the West front, says that the French War Office has decreed three days' leave to every soldier whose wife presents ...
Article : 43 wordsThe New Zealand Government announces that information has been received that one of New Zealand's soldiers deserted to the enemy. The man's name, which has been ...
Article : 65 wordsCount De Salis has been appointed Special Envoy to the Vatican, in succession to Sir Henry Howard. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Asquith said that the Government had determined not to tolerate diplomatic intercourse with. Germany after the war, until reparation had ...
Article : 49 wordsAn exhaustive report on the financial position of the Grafton Hospital, made by a departmental examiner of accounts, was read to the Grafton Hospital committee at their ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Cabinet decided on the immediate introduction of five additional bills, including the Libel Bill, Franchise Bill, Costs of Resumptions Bill, Water Supply Bill, and ...
Article : 67 wordsThe King has presented the Queen of the Belgians with the First-class Order of the Red Cross. ...
Article : 31 wordsA plot has been unearthed to poison horses consigned to Britain, from Iowa, and a wide- . spread attempt by German agents to kill livestock to the Entente Allies from the United ...
Article : 52 wordsDuring the debate in the House of Commons on the second reading of the Special Register Bill, Sir Edward Carson urged that arrangements should be made for soldiers polling in ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the inquest concerning the death of Ernest Vautin, the evidence given showed that deceased, who was Chief Draftsman in the Lands Department, suffered from nerves ...
Article : 79 words"The Times"' correspondent officially states: Brusiloff's generals. between the 4th and the 12th of August captured 7757 officers, 350,845 men, 405 cannon, 1326 machine ...
Article : 48 wordsHerr Lohmann, director of the new line of German submarines, has informed Budapest that seven craft are being constructed which wil take six months to build. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Times" correspondent says on the King's visit West he went everywhere and saw the every-day lire o- the troops. The Ring, President Poincare, and Generals Joffre ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 wordsThe French have captured Lieutenant Von Hissing, son of the tyrant of Belgium, who is believed to be identical with the Melbourne Savage Club spy. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe total applications to date in connection with the third war loan number 81,728, amounting to £22,276,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsA Petrograd official message says: South of Braezany we occupied the west bank of the River Zlota Lipa, but a counter-attack checked us. We are advancing, despite desperate ...
Article : 62 wordsA Reuter official message, says that in Mesopotamia the situation is quite unchanged. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Government's insistence upon including in the Arbitration Amendment Bill provisions giving civilian unionists preference over ex-soldier non-unionists, and the ...
Article : 181 wordsIt is reported from Vienna that Austria has decided to confer self-government on Poland, and to release a large number of interned Poles. ...
Article : 44 wordsA coursing meeting will be held in Grafton on Saturday, August 26th A sufficiency of well trained hares have been secured for the occasion. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Russky is appointed Commander in-Chief of the northern armies, in succession to General Kuropatkin. ...
Article : 25 wordsIndignation is shown in Winnipeg regarding American reports of the damaged Manitoba wheat crop, which is confined to the south. The yield of the province will be ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Warner Allen. British press representative on the West front, and now with the French on the Somme, says that two-thirds of the Germans who held the theory that ...
Article : 72 wordsCharles Beeby and Charles Reeve were fined £2 each, or in default one month's imprisonment, for behaving riotously in the Domain on Sunday. ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Fri 18 Aug 1916, Page 3
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