An enthusiastic public meeting was held in the Council Chambers last night to complete arrangements for the local celebration of Jack's Day. The Mayor presided. It ...
Article : 412 wordsNegotiations are still proceeding between the Federal Works Department and the Lithgow Council in regard to the proposed erection of houses on the site adjoining the small ...
Article : 555 wordsReuter, Amsterdam.--Max. Harden, the well-known writer, addressing a gathering of several thousand persons in Berlin, stated that the Kaiser must shoulder, the cross of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsAt the Bathurst Circuit Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury, Joseph Gunn, a Lithgow Chinese greengrocer, pleaded not guilty to a charge of maliciously ...
Article : 310 wordsReuter.--Another big attack was commenced in Flanders to-day. It is progressing well. The British have reached the Scheldt along a five mile front to the north of Tournai. ...
Article : 246 wordsAs an extension has been granted in connection with the war loan it is expected that a fow more hundreds will-be subscribed by the 28th. Hill End has already £2000 to its ...
Article : 217 wordsA special general meeting of the Valley Lodge, G.U.O.O.F., will be held to-night. A social evening to celebrate the Second ...
Article : 740 wordsA very successful plain and fancy dress ball was held in the School of Arts Hall on Friday night. The attendance was large, and everything passed off well. Mr. J. Barkel ...
Article : 310 wordsA very entertaining debate took place at the weekly meeting of the above last night, when there was a very large attendance. The is subject was " That Payment of Members be ...
Article : 128 wordsEarly last night Mr. R. Blue received word that Lieut. Geo. L. Scotty had been killed in action. Of the three brothers who enlisted this is the second to make the supreme ...
Article : 149 wordsReuter, Vancouver.--A Paris message states that the battle in the Vouzierees region has been renewed with redoubled violence. The Germans are using enormous forces to prevent ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,--Re your reverend correspondent's reply, I acknowledge that space is a hindrance, but it also constitutes an immediate, and I regret to state, an effective camouflage for his ...
Article : 250 wordsIn the House of Representatives last week Mr. Nicholls' asked the Minister for Works and Railways, the reason for the delay in the commencement of the construction of ...
Article : 149 wordsWord has been received by Mr. S. M. Barham, of Mort-street, that his son, Pte. R. B. Barham, had been admitted to the second western general hospital, Manchester, ...
Article : 76 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states that Roubaix and Tourcoing suffered the usual treatment at the hands of the Germans. They blew up the water mains and imposed fines ...
Article : 156 wordsA rare musical treat was afforded the Rockley people on Saturday evening when a party of members of All Saints' Cathedral choir, Bathurst, gave a concert in aid of the funds of ...
Article : 146 wordsWord has been received that Trooper Fred. Robinson, soil of Mr. James Robinson, of Jerula, has been wounded. There are no details. Trooper Robinson has seen about three ...
Article : 55 wordsWriting to Mrs. Simpson, of Lithgow, from, France, Lieut. Henealey, who was the late Pte. Simpson's platoon commander, says:--"It is with the greatest feeling of sympathy that I ...
Article : 287 wordsMrs. W. Marsland, of Hermitage Flat, received word on Monday that her son, Sapper C. W. Marsland, had been admitted to hospital in France, gassed. The sapper enlisted ...
Article : 69 wordsAlthough the cool easterlies have had rather bad effects upon the general growth of things, the crops and grass are coming on well. If the blossoming of the fruit trees is any ...
Article : 139 wordsDespite the protracted period of fine-weather, the seepage at the treatment works is still increasing and last fortnight 534 million gallons of sewage (and seepage) were pumped, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsThe Franco-Serbians are rapidly drawing near to the Herzegovinian frontier. Such of the cable news on this page so headed appeared in the "Times," and is cabled ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsSeveral German newspapers are discussing the Emperor's abdication, which some declare is the only solution of the crisis. Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., advocates ...
Article : 219 wordsLast Sunday was observed by the Presbyterian Churches of N.S.W. as Young People's Day, and at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's a special children's service was held and the ...
Article : 320 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. James Padley, which took place yesterday afternoon, was essentially representative. The chief mourners were Messrs. Heber (Lithgow),Thomas, and ...
Article : 195 wordsIn the Assembly last week:-- Mr. Dooley: With reference to the question I have on several occasions put to the Secretary for Mines regarding the opening of ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Church of England Girls' Friendly Society held a social in the Town Hall on Monday night, in aid of the church carpet fund. There were between 300 and 400 present. The ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Chief Interstate Commissioner, commenced an inquiry yesterday into the question of house fonts. It was stated that fonts had gone up ...
Article : 270 wordsDavid Williams was charged with having been drunk' in Hill-street on the previous day, and was fined 20s, or seven days. Four days to pay. ...
Article : 70 words"Mercury" subscribers whose accounts to the end of last year remain unpaid will be summoned and their papers, of course, stopped, unless settlement is speedily offected. Our ...
Article : 90 wordsThe German official message to President Wilson's Note accepts the demand for the evacuation of occupied territories. It assumes that both sides will agree to an ...
Article : 513 wordsIncluded in the 436th casualty list issued yesterday are the names of 172 Now South Wales men killed and 228 wounded. ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Wed 23 Oct 1918, Page 2
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