It is reported in Amsterdam that heavy firing is being heard in the direction of Ypres, which, however, the Germans have found impossible to capture. ...
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Advertising : 123 wordsTo-day's market quotations: -- Chaff £6 10s to £7 10s, derrick straw £4 10s, oaten hay nominal, lucerne £2 10s to £5, barley nominal, maize 4s to 5s, oats 4s to 4s 6d, potatoes [?] ...
Article : 67 wordsThe usual fortnightly meeting of the Lithgow Council was held on Monday night at the Council Chambers. There were present: -- The Mayor (Ald. R. Pillans), and Aldermen ...
Article : 2,680 wordsSenator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, accompanied by Mrs. Pearce and Messrs. Sharpe and Carr, Ms.P., arrived in Lithgow yesterday afternoon by the passenger train. ...
Article : 298 wordsIn the Sydney summons court to-day Fredrick Erhard and Lionel Moss, members of the firm of H. H. Groth and Co., oil and color merchants, Sydney, and Erwin Muller, a clerk ...
Article : 117 wordsThere is a reign of terror at Constantinople. Anyone mentioning the defeat of the Turks in the Caucasus is summarily dealt with. The condition of the Turkish fleet is very ...
Article : 88 wordsJohn Percy Smith, aged 22, who resided in York-stret, Centennial Park, divert to his death the outside the bogey-hole at Bondi baths early this morning. Smith dived off the outer ...
Article : 74 wordsWitch the town clerk had finished reading the sanitary inspector's report at the Council meeting on Monday evening, Ald. Bracey rose land moved that the inspector be instructed ...
Article : 401 wordsSenator Pearce addressed the men at 2 o'clock this afternoon and said he had taken everything into consideration, and in view of the fact that output was the most necessary ...
Article : 58 wordsBishop Long's stirring and patriotic address has already stimulated the flow of subscriptions. But there should be no slackening in the good work. The debt which we owe ...
Article : 276 wordsRussian troops in Galicia opened the trapdoor of a chateau cellar, despite the warning that by so doing they would release poisonous cases. They then discovered 200 ...
Article : 58 wordsA race meeting will be held at Portland on February 20, under the auspices of the Portland Jockey Club. The annual general meeting of contributors ...
Article : 676 wordsIn the course of an interview on Monday, Mr. G. D. Delprat, general manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary, Ltd., spoke of the company's intentions in regard to iron and ...
Article : 257 wordsCount Von Bertehold, ex-Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, was always anti-Servian. In an interview the Austrian Emperor reproached Bertchold for withholding the ...
Article : 46 wordsDr. Mackinnon, head of the Anglo-American mission at the front, who has been taken prisoner by the German's, says that he was brutally treated and was put with 17 other ...
Article : 89 wordsAmong the willing workers for the cause are the little Red Cross flower sellers. Every Friday night they are to be seen in the street with flowing baskets of lovely flowers. The ...
Article : 81 wordsThis morning local and district residents were greeted with unusual climatic conditions (for Lithgow) in the shape of what may be called a back country dust storm. The town ...
Article : 143 wordsThe "Times" explains that the British success at La Bassee (15 miles south-west of Lille) is unconfirmed. The mud is rendering the trenches a quagmire. A heavy ...
Article : 118 wordsA small fire occurred early this morning in Mr. F. R. Eather's butcher's shop in Main-street. The alarm was given at 1.30 by Messrs. Nicolle and Skeldon. Capt. Bruton ...
Article : 105 wordsSome annoyance was caused in Lithgow last night by the ringing of a " bell" similar in tone to the fire bell. Numbers of persons came into the town about nine o'clock, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsThe local Baptists held an excellent concert in the Town Hall on Tuesday night, the proceeds going towards the Church Building Fund. Rev. T. Kelly occupied the chair and ...
Article : 527 wordsWounded French soldiers relate stirring narratives regarding the battle at Soissons. They state that 10,000 Frenchmen were engaged fighting 40,000 Germans. The bridges at ...
Article : 151 wordsWord has been received from Sydney to the effect that Mr. Chas. J. Williams, aged 85, how living at Marrickville, but for many years a resident of Lithgow, and district, was ...
Article : 124 wordsA meeting of the Shop Assistants' Union was held on Monday night to decide whether the annual picnic should be held, or the money should be devoted to the Belgian Fund. Mr. ...
Article : 129 wordsA Petrograd communique states: The pursuit of the Turks from Karaugan continues. After two days a battle at Jenikos ended in the defeat of a Turkish division, which lost ...
Article : 132 wordsAccording to refugees at Cairo, the Turkish army that is to invade Egypt is likely to display bravery, but incapacity. Many of the troops are said to be starving, owing to bad ...
Article : 175 wordsJust before knock-off time on Saturday the staffs of the various departments of Messrs. J. G. Conen and Company assembled for the purpose of making a presentation to an old ...
Article : 221 words" A Stolen Identity" was the star film at the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday, and combined sympathy and sentiment. Another drama was "The Toilers of the Sea," which ...
Article : 166 wordsOn Saturday aftern[?]on a pleasing little function took place in the dining hall of the small arms factory, when a presentation was made to the Misses Piggott by the members of the ...
Article : 179 wordsThe French "Eye-Witness" states that since January 5 the Allies have consolidated their successes beyond the Yser. They have constructed a strong bridge over the Yser to ...
Article : 261 wordsLieutenaut-Colonel Luscombe and Major Page have had their attention drawn to the statement that there an inadequate supply of food at Liverpool camp. Whilst they ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Wed 20 Jan 1915, Page 2
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