Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent telegraphs from Constantinople that the Roumanian Minister left for Bucharest (Roumania), in consequence of the death of his ...
Article : 136 wordsAn effort is being made to consolidate every association of public servants in New South Wales under one State Service Federation. ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Commons Mr. Lloyd George stated that our losses on the Somme were relatively low. We had secured the upper hand, and are pressing back the enemy, as were the ...
Article : 321 wordsOctober 27th is to be known as Repatriation Day. This announcement was made to-day, when Mr. Hughes was initiated into the Chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the ...
Article : 273 wordsGeneral Leitchesky's troops in the Carpathians are gradually creeping round the enemy's Galician hank. The Russians are within four to ten miles of the crest of the ...
Article : 52 wordsEngineers on coastal colliers have given the owners 24 hours notice. As a result there is possibility of a fleet of nearly 30 steamers being affected. Two colliers have already ...
Article : 72 wordsReuter's Petrograd correspondent says the Government is being urged to prosecute the Extreme Right leader, Bulatzel, who, regarding Mr. Asquith's declaration of punishment ...
Article : 143 wordsRev. C. E. Schaefer, addressing the Chief Secretary of South Australia as a member of a deputation which urged the reduction of racing, delivered a violent attack on ...
Article : 107 wordsThe "Times" correspondent, Mr. Calvert, who has joined the Servian headquarters, cables that the Servians on Sunday drove out the Bulgars from Lurzi, ten miles ...
Article : 79 wordsA telegram from Vienna states that the Emperor has received the Opposition leaders and Counts Andrassy, Appenys, and Rakovsky. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Hughes delivered another striking speech to-day to the members of the Australian Metal Exchange. He said the crisis with, which we were confronted did not alone ...
Article : 315 wordsAt the hearing of telegraphists claims for higher wages, and improved working conditions, evidence submitted showed that the cost in increase of pay claimed would ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Prize Court awarded £1885 to the Australian cruiser Sydney for sinking the Emden; also £12,160 to the officers and men of the British warships which sank the ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Exchange Bureau correspondent at Athens says transports disembarked further Russian contingents on Monday from Marseilles. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons, said: We must do our utmost to equip Russia and enable her to develop her maximum strength and smash the ...
Article : 225 wordsRoumania's attitude is still in the realm of rumors. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says that the Roumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs has directed couriers to traverse ...
Article : 71 wordsGeneral Birdwood, in a cable to Mr. Hughes, says: "No words of mine can express my feelings for the Australians, who have shown magnificent courage." ...
Article : 49 wordsThe net profit of the Union Bank of Australia for the past six months was £140,845. A dividend was declared equal to 14 per cent, per annum. ...
Article : 41 wordsA fire destroyed the Royal Hotel, Melbourne. William McDonald, a boarder, failed to hear the alarm, and was burned to death in his bed. The charred remains were ...
Article : 61 wordsA "Tunes" leader urges the Food Committee to report speedily, and a popular agitation against encouraging enemy wine firms. A writer in the "Times" says German wines ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Bucharest (Roumania) correspondent of the ''Berliner Tageblatt" says everything indicates war. He thinks M. Bratianu, Minister for War, is playing with Russia. Von ...
Article : 55 wordsGreek troops at Serres fought the Bulgarians through Sunday and Monday, the commandant calling up the reservists, who are bitterly opposed to the Bulgarian advance. ...
Article : 47 wordsEdward Knight, mining contractor, and John Burton; shift boss at the North Lyell mine (Tasmania), were set upon by unknown men and severely beaten and battered. They ...
Article : 85 wordsThe citizens banquet to Mr. Hughes in the Town Hall was attended by about 800 leading public men. Mr. Hughes, who met with a tremendous reception, said: "We have to ...
Article : 146 wordsRussia has ordered two million yards or Yorkshire cloth, to be delivered in the spring. ...
Article : 33 wordsRussian and Italian forces have been landed at Salonika. Reuter's correspondent there says that both the Italians and Russians looked hardy and fit for hard ...
Article : 241 wordsA Paris communique says: Continued artillery activity on a large portion of the front, north of the Somme. We took two more field guns in the wood captured by us south of ...
Article : 180 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. A. A. W. A. Ponsonby asked, in the event of peace negotiations during the recess, will Parliament be immediately summoned for deliberation there ...
Article : 53 wordsThe decision of the West Australian Miners Union not to work with enemy subjects was given effect to on the Associated Mine, Kalgoorlie, to-day, when the men ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Thomas drew attention to the rise in food prices, and said the railwaymen's agitation for an increase of 10s weekly was due to the Government's ...
Article : 91 wordsUnions connected with the Anti-Conscription League, according to an official of that body, have been discussing the question of a general strike should conscription be ...
Article : 36 words"The Times" publishes an official message that the German warship Nassau, 18,600 tons, of first High Seas Squadron, was submarined by us, and believed to have sunk ...
Article : 372 wordsThe hospital continental proved an unqualified success. Mrs. K. I. Allan and Mrs. Walker were indefatigable secretaries. Privates C. Lewis, Arthur Lean, Joe Gale ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsA meeting of the Federal Labor Caucus will be held at Melbourne to-morrow, when it is understood the whole question of conscription will be discussed. It is unlikely ...
Article : 60 wordsBasil Hallam has been killed at the front. The sinking is reported of the Italian steamer Erix and two Norwegian vessels. One of the latter was bound for Sunderland, and ...
Article : 75 wordsA Paris communique says: Artillery duels on both banks of the Somme region and the Fleury and Verdun region. A French surprise attack north of Maurepas captured ...
Article : 70 wordsA big meeting, convened by the Women's War Workers League to commend conscription, was held at Perth last night. A motion was carried to the effect that it was ...
Article : 152 wordsEntries received this year for the continuous butter judging competition at the next Sydney Royal Show are the largest yet received, there being 31 factories represented, ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Jeffries, "Daily Mail" correspondent in the Balkans, says the Servians are still holding out around Ostrova, twenty miles due east of Florina. It is unknown ...
Article : 78 wordsA Berlin communique describes the most bitter fighting from Thiepval to Guillemont, stating that the British temporarily penetrated Guillemont. ...
Article : 32 wordsNews reached Sydney yesterday that Captain Scobie, son of Mr. Scobie, M.L.A., and Captain Leslie Henley, son of Mr. Henley, M.L.A, had lost their lives while fighting ...
Article : 43 wordsButter continued scarce at Sussex-street yesterday. Retailers again complained of supplies being shipped to other States. It was alleged that a heavy consignment had ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the Commons, Mr. J. L. Baird, representing the Air Board, mentioned that seven Zeppelins were reported officially to be destroyed and five others are believed to be ...
Article : 50 wordsA "Times" leader says the Macedonia landing must create the deepest impression upon the Balkan people's Governments and rulers. The new campaign strikingly ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Minister for Defence again draws attention to the fact that the use of the word "Anzac" is illegal, excepting for military purposes. The user is liable to prosecution ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsThe Minister for Customs stated to-day that butter of higher grades was now coming forward in satisfactory quantities, and the production was almost equal to the ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Thu 24 Aug 1916, Page 5
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