On Wednesday, before the Minister for Defence left Lithgow, a deputation representing the 120 men recently put off at the Lithgow and Hermitage collieries, waited upon ...
Article : 222 wordsSir,--The following are extracts from Senator Grant's, speech on the second reading of the Land Tax Bill in the Senate :-- " Sonic years age at the instigation of the ...
Article : 766 wordsIn a letter addressed to this paper, "Major" Duncan, of the Australian Expeditionary Force says:--"While on our way to Cairo we saw the old fashioned wooden plough ...
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Advertising : 459 wordsThese notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. AV. G. Ashford, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the ...
Article : 100 wordsHow effective summer cultivation is may be illustrated by one or two facts that we, have previously placed before what growers, but that may be new to orchardists. ...
Article : 243 wordsThe suggestion that in anticipation of high prices for the next year, or two, the of 1915 should witness an extension of the area devoted to wheat, has. led the chemist of ...
Article : 96 wordsMrs. W. Maxwell, whose husband is a corporal in the Australian Expeditionary Force in Egypt, writes that she has received interesting letters from Egypt. She says that her ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the "Fortnightly Review" for December there appears a striking article by Mr. Sidney Whitman on "The Blight of Prussian Autocracy." ...
Article : 455 wordsThe assumption that a rainfall of ten inches during the growing period is necessary to profitable wheat production is accepted [?] of calculation, and the portions fo ...
Article : 298 wordsIn districts where the honey flow is still good beekeepers should miss no opportunity of continuing to renew very old, weak or croked combs for both brood chamber or ...
Article : 142 wordsAt a meeting of the "Mercury" staff on Tuesday evening several matters affecting members welfare were considered. Mr. M. J. Stollery, forman, occupied the chair, and ...
Article : 189 wordsIn other districts, however, where the honey flow is slackening and there is every indication of its casing until autumn, no attempt at getting combs built on sheets of ...
Article : 202 wordsIn the Central Summons Court Wednesday, Frederick Erhard and Lionel Montagu Moss, members of the firm of H. H. Groth, and Co., oil and color merchants, George ...
Article : 136 wordsThe average yield per acre for the ten years 1904-5 to 1913-14, was 11.61 bushels in New South Wales, 11.55 in Victoria, 10.19 in South Australia, and 10.77 bushels in West ...
Article : 193 wordsWhere the honey flow is diminishing and extracting is not yet finished supers of honey should be removed from the hives at once the position is already risky, and later, when ...
Article : 136 wordsWomen and girls in large numbers are trying, to outer the Russian, army in 'various disguises, and several women have already succeeded in deceiving, the military authorities. ...
Article : 231 wordsSir,--It is high tune -some movement was made to recognise, the townspeople's appreciation of the services rendered our town and country,, by those patriotic young men who ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Commissioners of the Government Savings Bank wish to bring under notice that the Savings Bank Amending Act passed in 1913. altered the close of the Bank's financial year ...
Article : 183 wordsStartling as the figures appear, a little consideration will show that they are not likely to be an over-estimate. In the first place, it is assumed that land outside the area of 10-inch ...
Article : 285 wordsA letter (dated November 3) from a German lady, who left Colchester (England) only a few days before the war, has been received by a Colchester lady in whose house she ...
Article : 532 wordsThe bitterness felt in Germany over the loss of Kiao-chau may lie gauged by some of the opinions expressed in the newspapers after the fall of Tsingitau. The "Kreuxz ...
Article : 409 wordsA Russian surgeon named Zeldler reports thirty-one patients who recovered from stall wounds of the heart in the hospital at Obuchow: .Prompt and rapid operation is the ...
Article : 169 words" The Times'" publishes a letter, expressing an interesting opinion of the war, written to a, friend in Scotland by a distinguished Harvard professor, who, though an American. ...
Article : 404 wordsIf the copious rains that fell in the last few days of 1914 are not to be lost, the progressive orchardist will already bo making use of every hour that can bo spared to cultivate the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe 'movement of moisture in the soil is just the same as that of oil in a lamp; by what is called capillary action the oil soaks up the wick until it reaches the burner.. In ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Fri 22 Jan 1915, Page 6
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