Feeling is running pretty high among the local miners as a result of award clauses being suspended. The matter was freely discussed among them on Friday night, after it ...
Article : 356 wordsReuter's correspondent reports that there has been an engagement of considerable importance in the North Sea between portions of the British and German fleets. The German ...
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Article : 683 wordsTo-day's market quotations. -- Chaff £6 10s to £7 10s, derrick straw £4 10s, lucerne £2 10s to £5, maize 4s to 5s 2d, oats 4s to 4s 6d, potatoes £2 to £5 10s, onions £9 to £11, butter 120s ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Justice Heydon, in the Industrial Court this morning, referring to the industrial outlook, said, so far, the war had not brought the lack of employment on anything like the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Niewe Rotterdamsche Courant" has news of a prompt reply by the Allies' airmen to the German raid on England. The newspaper states that on Wednesday ...
Article : 71 wordsRev. Father Birch, speaking at St. Francis' R.C. Church yesterday morning, referred to the number of men and women who remained standing or sitting at even the most solemn ...
Article : 93 wordsBritish airmen dropped 27 bombs on Zeebrugge, and, it is believed, damaged a German submarine. Thirteen German aeroplanes bombed Dunkirk. A British airman brought ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Oddfellows' Hall management; in conjunction with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Brown, will hold their great Belgian picture benefit in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday night. ...
Article : 316 wordsPeople who have sons and brothers and relations serving with the Expeditionary Forces in Egypt will probably wonder what kind of an impression "our boys" are making in the ...
Article : 443 wordsPte. E. Fraser, a local lad who served with the First Expeditionary Force in Rabaul, is at present at home, having returned with the contingent which landed last week. ...
Article : 97 wordsGermany declares that the bombs dropped at Ghent and Zeebrugge by the Allied airmen did no damage whatever. A Paris message is to the effect that the ...
Article : 78 words"Contempt". -- Please give full name and address as guarantee of good faith. Mr. J. Dooley's name has been mentioned in connection with the vacant portfolio of ...
Article : 721 wordsOn Thursday evening a pleasing little function took place at the school, when Mr. Bellamy invited a number of friends to a social. Excellent music was supplied by Messrs. C. ...
Article : 161 wordsA British cruiser is threatening the railway at Alexandretta in Asiatic Turkey. The Turks imprisoned all the British residents and forced them to sign a telegram to the captain of ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that General von Falkenhayn has resigned the portfolio of Minister of War, and that he has been succeeded by Major-General von ...
Article : 49 wordsSir, -- For some time past a small band of local physical culture enthusiasts have been endeavoring to improve their muscles, and those of other young men who lacked good ...
Article : 335 wordsAt the Eight-Hour Committee meeting held on Wednesday night, Mr. Dixon moved, and Mr. Summons seconded, and it was unanimously carried, that the sum of £2 2s be donated to ...
Article : 139 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. John Caugherty, a well known identity of Wattle Flat, at the age of 76 years. The deceased had been a most active worker in the Methodist ...
Article : 59 wordsWriting to his parents from Cairo, on the 21st. December, Private Albert Kirkwood, of Lithgow, suggests that they had already beard about the Turkish flag having been ...
Article : 289 wordsThe feeling in Berlin against the United States is becoming very bitter, owing to the criticism of the recent German air raid. The United States is also charged with wholesale ...
Article : 51 wordsThere was a full attendance of buyers at the London wool auction sales on Thursday. The selection was mainly Australian. Merinos had brisk demand on English account, while ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is reported that the Premier of Austria has resigned. Up to date Germany has already paid to Luxemburg £100,000 war indemnity for ...
Article : 78 wordsSir -- Re the adverse vote passed on myself last week by the Eight-Hour Committee, I ask the public to suspend judgement till I publish a circular in a few days giving the whole ...
Article : 180 wordsA most successful social was held at the Protestant Hall on Saturday night, under the auspices of the local L.O.L. About 80 persons were present and took part in various ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the Capertee Valley grass was never so plentiful for a great number of years, and the orchards have a record yield. The Silver Stream Orchard Co. expect over 12,000 cases. ...
Article : 98 wordsAn official summary of the present situation states : -- "Since the battle of Ypres, which resulted in a complete stop of the great German ...
Article : 164 wordsMeetings of the Oberon Land Board will take place in the Courthouse, Oberon, on February 3 and 4, when the following cases will be considered : -- ...
Article : 409 wordsTo-Night and To-Morrow (Tuesday) Night. -- Pictures at Oddfellows' Hall. To-Morrow (Tuesday.) Night, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. -- Events at the ...
Article : 416 wordsThe application of G. Webb, Oberon, for mineral lease of 2 acres in the parish of Thurat, has been refused. The application of W. Diamond, Trunkey. ...
Article : 480 wordsAlbert Victor Dearing was charged with having used indecent language in New-road on Friday night. Constable Warburton, who arrested accused, said the language was ...
Article : 65 wordsThe various picture shows on Saturday nighty were again crowded, and the programmes presented were exceptionally good. At the Oddfellows' Hall four stars were ...
Article : 426 wordsSir, -- I see by the "Mercury" in a note at the bottom of my last letter, that Mr. Owen doubts, my statement concerning the man emptying the pans near our house. He said ...
Article : 344 wordsGermany is already settling the affairs of the world. She has selected a new King of Belgium Prince Otto von Windisch-Graetz, who is related to the Belgian Royal Family. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Australia on January 6 captured a German liner, which was acting as a supply ship to German cruisers, and sank her. The Australia has the officers and crew as ...
Article : 77 wordsA ballot in connection with the local Starr-Bowl[?]ett Building Society was held at Stafford's rooms on Friday night. Mr. W. Slattery president, occupied the chair, and the ...
Article : 152 wordsIt was stated that several Zeppelins, the exact number unknown, passed Cromer, a watering place in Norfolk, at 10.30 on Friday night, proceeding inland. The Zeppelins were ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Mon 25 Jan 1915, Page 2
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