According to reports received in London the Irish rebellion is no more, also that the army which attempted to overthrow British rule and establish a republic has been ...
Article : 260 wordsCoroner E. P. Richards held an inquiry at the Courthouse on Saturday morning into the death of Mr. J. J. Harris, who died suddenly on Friday morning in the Vale of Clwydd pit. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 481 wordsThe second public concert within recent months, under the auspices of the Lithgow Orchestral Society, was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Sunday night, when there was a big ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsAbout seven o'clock on Saturday night fully 1000 people assembled at Eskbank station to welcome home Sergt. Keith Martyn, a returned wounded local soldier. Very little ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 624 wordsRear Admiral do Chair, who commanded the British blockading squadron until March stated their efforts were mainly directed to the east and north coasts of Scotland. The ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Germans on Friday evening, using flaming liquids, attacked the trenches west ward of Thiaumont Farm, in the Verdun region. They were mown down and repulsed ...
Article : 172 wordsThe disturbances reported from Ireland may be described as a flash in the pan. They are the outcome of a long and carefully prepared German scheme for fomenting rebellion ...
Article : 639 wordsThe inhabitants of Derry are proud of the distinction of having secured the renegade Casement. A farmer was working on his land, when he discovered what, he thought ...
Article : 44 wordsThe fall of Kut-el-Amara was received with keen regret in Great Britain. The garrison had been in a critical condition for some time past, and subsisted mainly on ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. Fraser, the Deputy Chief Commissioner, visited Lithgow to-day, and was met by the Mayor and a number of aldermen. The Mayor brought under his notice the insanitary ...
Article : 167 wordsThe latest information points to the conclusion that the rebellion in Dublin is on the verge of collapse. A considerable number of the rebels have been taken prisoners. ...
Article : 123 wordsOn Monday night, at the residence of his parents, "Leasingthorne," Vale-road, Pte. J. H. Roberts, who used to work in the Ironworks Tunnel, was given a send-off while in ...
Article : 226 wordsIt is officially announced that Rear-Admiral Fremantle's flagship, Russell, 14,000 tons, has been mined and sunk in the Mediterranean. One hundred and twenty-four ...
Article : 70 wordsThe State Premier and the Ministry as a whole handed in their resignations to a meeting of the Labor caucus held on Friday, as a result of the censure motion passed upon ...
Article : 207 wordsIt is officially reported that General Townshend, at Kut-el-Amara, has surrendered. The official announcement says: After a resistance of 143 days, conducted with ...
Article : 176 wordsThe exploit of the Shropshire Light Infantry in recapturing a German trench in the Ypres and Langemarek area was carried out in torrents of rain. The enemy was taken by ...
Article : 180 wordsThere was a serious bottle affray at the Commercial Hotel and in the west end of the town on Saturday night, as a result of which two returned soldiers and a police constable ...
Article : 175 wordsThere is an old maxim which we all learned at school to the effect that "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again." This is what Mr. Carl Gill, a well-known local school ...
Article : 300 wordsAmongst the soldiers welcomed back (at Melbourne yesterday) from the front was Captain G. S. Cook, son of Mr. Joseph Cook, leader of the Federal Opposition, looking ...
Article : 177 wordsPte. Arthur Gordon, the young soldier who returned home on Saturday night from the front, was seen on Monday morning at the Lithgow Supply Co.'s store, where he was ...
Article : 457 wordsDuring an air fight between a French and German machine near Mulhausen, the Frenchman finding his petrol tank was pierced with a bullet and seeing certain death for himself, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe latest casualty list states that Pte. B. Mundy, of Lithgow, is ill in hospital. A meeting of members of the Philharmonic Society will be held in Mr. Acton's office ...
Article : 892 wordsIn fulfilment of his promise Mr. H. Hoyle (Minister for Railways) arrived in Lithgow by motor this afternoon to inspect a site near Ordnance Avenue, in connection with the ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Greek national press is printing numerous articles alleging that the Entente's demands to be allowed to transport Servian troops across Greece is a cloak for unknown ...
Article : 194 wordsThe death occurred at the hospital on Friday morning, as the result of typhoid fever, of James Frederick Wells, a young man of 21 years, of age. He was taken ill while ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsA recruiting rally should have been held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Friday night, to be addressed by Senator Watson and a returned soldier. However, a wire to Mr. ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Mon 1 May 1916, Page 2
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