The French repulsed an enemy attack between Corny and Craonne with heavy German losses. Two enemy surprise attacks at Bois de Caurieres and ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law announced that Britain United States, France and Italy had decided not to grant permission to delegates to ...
Article : 87 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the Grafton Volunteer Water Brigade was held in the club shed last night. Mr. C. McGowen, vice-captain, presided over a ...
Article : 109 wordsThe sky was overcast yesterday, and several slight drizzles fell during the day. Rain is also threatening along the coast and on the tableland. ...
Article : 45 wordsAt Carr's Creek on Saturday last a farmer captured sufficient mice to fill a kerosene tin. ...
Article : 20 wordsIn the Small Debts Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P. M., T. Morrissey secured a verdict against W. Murphy for £6 10s, with £1 4s costs. Mr. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe whole line in Flanders is wrapped in smoke from British and German shells. The communiques give the vaguest impression of the awful ceaseless contest. ...
Article : 76 wordsPassengers per Kyogle:--Messrs. J. Barker, H. Br[?]ggy, Diamond, Ogilvie, Lawton, M. Harris, Barton, Weager Borland, Mulcahy; Mesdames Barry and ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. G. N. Small, secretary of the C.P. and A. Society, has been informed by the president, Mr. S. See, that his casting vote had been given to Mr. J. T. ...
Article : 48 wordsA meeting of the Grafton and South Grafton Water Board was held yesterday. Present: The chairman (Ald. McFarlane) and Ald. Bawden, Law and ...
Article : 224 wordsAt the extraordinary special meeting on Monday night, Mr. Dix presided over a representative meeting. Mr. Baker, the district delegate, explained what had been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 words"The Times" Amsterdam correspondent states that the British fire was most intense during the week-end. The windows rattled day and night in South ...
Article : 95 wordsAt the Court of Quarter Sessions at Lismore on Monday, Walter William Higgins, who was found guilty of a serious offence upon a young girl, was sentenced ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsMr. Gompers, the president of the American Federation of Labor, declares that the Federation will not be represented at the Stockholm Conference ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsMr. Barnes has been appointed to the War Cabinet. LONDON, Tuesday. Prior to the announcement of Mr. Barnes' ...
Article : 55 wordsField-Marshal Haig reports increased hostile artillerying southward of Arras on the Cambrai road, and also in the Nieuport sector. Our acroplanes ...
Article : 54 wordsThe North Coast Company advertises in this issue that the [?].s. Kyogle left Sydney yesterday at 2 p.m., and is expected to cross into the Clarence River ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 385 wordsMr. Henderson's speech is regarded as finally disposing of the implication that the Labor pro-Stockholm vote was of a pacifist nature. It was the outcome ...
Article : 311 wordsA French communique states:--The artillery duel continued in the liveliest manner. The Germans between Corny and Craonne re-attempted to eject us from the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Admiralty reports that hostile aeroplanes were destroyed during their return to the Belgian coast. A hostile seaplane was also destroyed off the Flanders ...
Article : 70 wordsThe general impression in the public mind in Sydney, endorsed by statements made by a few prominent unionists and Labor members of Parliament, is that ...
Article : 367 wordsStriking evidences of the changes wrought by war conditions is a Government advertisement appearing in Brisbane papers inviting tenders for the supply ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Wilson, optimistically reports that the morale is improving. There is general cessation of the wholesale retreat. The Zbrucz line is naturally a strong on[?] ...
Article : 112 wordsWhen the Government gave the railway and tramway strikers to Friday, 10th inst., to return to work, or take the consequences, the act was ...
Article : 1,079 wordsThe annual meeting of the parishioners of the Christ Church Cathedral parish was held in the Parish Hall on Monday night, Archdeacon Seymour presiding over a ...
Article : 163 wordsA number of Southend bombs which did not explode emitted a yellow vapor. These are now surrounded with barricades, and placarded "poison." ...
Article : 253 wordsM. Hutin, French correspondent, says that 14 new German, nine Austro Hungarian, and four Turco-Bulgarian divisions have reinforced Mackensen, who ...
Article : 40 wordsAs previously announced, Mr. G. T. Milne, British Trade Commissioner is about to make a visit to the Northern Rivers. Mr. Milne, who has been in ...
Article : 173 wordsA Russian official message says:--We supported the Roumanians and drove back the enemy in the Conagro Zechti region, and captured a series of heights. ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. John Thomson, M.H.R., has received the following communication from the Deputy Postmaster-General Sydney, dated August 8, 1917:-- ...
Article : 451 wordsIn the House of Commons, the Government moved an adjournment in order to enable a full debate on Mr. Henderson's resignation. ...
Article : 608 wordsMr. Bourchier, correspondent, instancing the chaotic conditions, says that 1000 prisoners, who escaped from Kieff gaol, [?]ot revolvers and ammunition and ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Clarence, happily, is free from many of the infestations of other districts which are such a drag on the resources and energies of the man on the ...
Article : 373 wordsAfter many tries, the courts are beginning to find out what the law recognises as garbage. The latest "Local Government Law Reports" gives a full ...
Article : 175 wordsTwenty were killed at Southend with in a hundred yards. A London mother was returning home. She left her two children in a ...
Article : 156 wordsThe "Daily Express" learns that M. Kerensky, addressing a gathering of personal friends at Petrograd, stated: "I am suffering from a hereditary disease. I ...
Article : 79 wordsA German official message states: We repulsed strong French attacks northward of Laon-Soissons road and south westward of Ailles. Our aviators ...
Article : 99 wordsArchdeacon Seymour presided over a meeting of the Grafton P. and C.A. held last night. The chairman brought up the matter of the public baths, which he ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Press Bureau states: Pilot reports show that yesterday's raiders were making towards London, and turned abruptly on sighting a large number of ...
Article : 52 wordsA large Gotha, armed with machine guns, landed at Zeeland on Sunday night. The two airmen were interned. ...
Article : 27 wordsMrs. C. Penn, 39 Queen-street, Grafton received the news by wire yesterday that her son, Private Joseph Henry Penn, was killed in action on November ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. Roberts stated that 3828 passengers and 5920 officers and seamen had lost their lives on British merchant vessels owing to enemy ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Wed 15 Aug 1917, Page 2
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