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Advertising : 50 wordsDuring the interval at the picture entertainment at the Oddfellows" Hall on Saturday night Short speeches were made by Sergt. Adams (who is touring, the western district) ...
Article : 425 wordsSo far as the western district is concerned, matters are generally adjusting themselves satisfactory in regard to the re-employmont of men; though there are some exceptions. As ...
Article : 744 words£ s. d A Amount already acknowledged .5059 4 7. Stephen Hobbs 0 10 0 Total to date . £5659 14 7 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsFigures compiled by Reuters show that the proportions of the British troops engaged in the fighting since July 31 are:--English 70 per cent.; overseas, 16; Scotch, 8; Irish, 6; ...
Article : 135 wordsA case was before the Banco Court this morning, when Robert Sefton, a sapper in the A.I.F. and formerly branch manager of Stott and Hoare, Ltd., Newcastle; claimed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsA mass meeting of the Sydney coal lumpers has declared the strike off. ...
Article : 22 wordsKeith Murdoch, writing on October 6, says heavy, fighting continues, but the British have everywhere solidified their positions. (Today our new line has been freshened, and the ...
Article : 163 wordsThe above league celebrated the wind-up of the season by a social in the Town Hall on Thursday night. Instead of the usual smoke for members and male friends, the idea of ...
Article : 591 wordsTo-day being the original Eight-hour Day, it is being observed as a public holiday at the small arms factory. As the engineers have been excluded from the eight-hour movement. ...
Article : 175 wordsAt the recent annual meeting of the Lithgrow Progress Association the secretary declared that the apathy of the townspeople in regard to public matters was "appalling." ...
Article : 503 wordsTelegraphing on Friday, Mr. C. E. W. Bean, the Commonwealth official war correspondent Says:--"It is now allowable to state that the ...
Article : 610 wordsThe rain has changed the battlefield into muddy ponds. Movement is difficult. The nights are bitterly cold, and there are increasing calls on the men's endurance. The pall ...
Article : 122 wordsThomas Cain was charged with having been found drunk in Main-street on the 4th. He pleaded guilty and was fined 10s, in default 24 hours. He was further charged with ...
Article : 99 wordsPte. Robert D. Tod, who was with the late Pte. D. L. Syme when lie was killed in action in the assault of Pozieres on July 23, 1916, the following particulars:--"Pte. ...
Article : 229 wordsEnemy sniping activity continues in the wood, but our barrages which promptly respond protect us from the usual counter-attack losses. Our artillery organisation has ...
Article : 60 wordsThursday's battle marks one of the noblest stories of the A.T.F. and British army. In many instances there was bitter hand-to-hand fighting. The fighting was considerably ...
Article : 164 wordsLithgow and district residents will be glad to hear that First-class Constable J. M. Grady, who was appointed to take charge of Oberon (from Lithgow) a few weeks ago, has been ...
Article : 661 wordsThe Minister for Mines had an interview with the representatives of the miners lodges in the Kurri Kurri district on Friday. As the outcome of the interview, the Pelaw Main ...
Article : 138 wordsInquiry at the railway superintendent's office to-day elicited the information that, commencing on the 7th instant the whole of the train service which obtained before the ...
Article : 117 wordsSpecial services in celebration or the first anniversary of Rev. A. D. Robertson as minister in charge of St. Mary's Presbyterian Church were held on Sunday, when the ...
Article : 196 wordsIt was here that bitter hand-to-hand fighting took place. Some of our battalion bayoneted the Bosche machine gunners whilst their thumbs were still pressing against their guns. ...
Article : 168 wordsA special meeting of the Returned Sailors sand Soldiers Imperial League will be held at the rooms to-morrow night. A meeting of the Eight-Hour Committee ...
Article : 444 wordsMr. Heydon, of the chief mechanical engineers office, is expected shortly to visit Eskbank depot to investigate the appeals of ex-employees who have been informed that ...
Article : 46 wordsA Wollongong report says:--"Save for a little delay caused by the non-arrival of material by rail, the work of erecting the coke brans and colliery appliances, on the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsOne or two of Messrs. Hoskins Ltd., iron and limestone quarries have recommenced, operations, but Carcoar and those at Tullewang and Havilah will br re-started almost ...
Article : 48 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Colosseum on Saturday night, when a splendid programme was shown. The star film "The Auction of Virtue" was a six-act Art Drama, and ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Anzacs are regarded as inveterate souvenir hunters, and many prisoners when brought in, offer their captors watches, badges, eye-glasses, letters, etc. One of our battalions ...
Article : 85 wordsTraffic is getting brisker on the railway and, a number who have been off work got a start during the week. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt a large meeting of the Federated Seamen's Union on Saturday the strike was declared off. The men resume work to-day. The marine stewards and pantrymen also ...
Article : 294 wordsDr. Thrower,, of Lithgow, who has been accepted by the military authorities for service abroad, was tendered a farewell evening by the Queen of the Valley Lodge, ...
Article : 253 wordsThe miners expect to start in full swing on Monday next. A number of mon were employed at the cement works to-day, getting cement away by rail. It is now understood that ...
Article : 83 wordsA Router's wireless official message from the Russian front says:--We captured a height and half the village of Vaskoutey, to tho north-east of the Sereth. We repulsed ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Douglas Haig's latest despatch states that the fresh British attack in Flanders was completely successful, "All our objectives were gained," he says, "and positions of ...
Article : 418 wordsA great number of the railway men who were recently notified that their services would no longer be required lodged formal appeals against their dismissal. Mr. Heydon, ...
Article : 91 wordsIt is understood that the Transport Workers. Federation has declared the strike off. The various unions represented in the federation are recommended to consider the ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Mon 8 Oct 1917, Page 2
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