In the drenching rain the Australian and New Zealand troops clung throughout a night and day to their poor lines of shell- holes. The Australians had retired at dusk ...
Article : 1,442 wordsAn attempt to wreck the Sydney to Albury first division express was made on Thursday night. The driver (Leslie Hopkins) said to-day ...
Article : 98 wordsAs a result of what will rank as one of the stormiest union meetings over held in Melbourne, Victorian seamen, by their discussion yesterday, have put an end to the hopes ...
Article : 188 wordsMr. Watt, the Minister for Railways and Works, said this afternoon that the two ends of the transcontinental railway would meet tomorrow, or at latest on Thursday. ...
Article : 87 wordsAfter to-day the Lord Mayor's Distress Relief Fund will only distribute aid to these who live within the city boundary. These who live in the suburbs will have to apply ...
Article : 429 wordsThe claim for £1000 arising out of an alleged assault, in which Frederick Mortimer Lockyer, plumber, of North Sydney, was the plaintiff, and Dr. Cyrus Rotallack, of North ...
Article : 2,236 wordsIn pursuance of action by the Federal Government, the crews of all vessels engaged on the Australian coast are being carefully overhauled with a view to removing what is ...
Article : 304 wordsField-Marshal Haig reported this afternoon:--Yesterday's prisoners at Monchy le Preux numbered 64. ...
Article : 85 wordsWhen the Chief Inter-State Commissioner (Mr. Piddington, K.C.) continued the inquiry at the Customs House this morning into the cause of the increased prices of meat ...
Article : 254 wordsFollowing are the Melbourne "Herald" tips for to-morrow's events:--Emo Hurdlles.--Lady Sunderland, 1; Affinitus, 2; Cordelia, 3. ...
Article : 104 wordsThere are still many vacancies for wharf laborers on the inter-State and coastal wharves. The operations of the bureau at the Phoenix Wharf have not been so ...
Article : 190 wordsThis afternoon's French communique reports:--On the Aisne front reciprocal artillery fire has continued to be most lively in the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Sydney-ownod two-year-old Aries has been leniently treated by the handicapper for the Mona Nursery, to he run to- morrow. She was second in the Debutant Stakes at ...
Article : 114 wordsInter-State and coastal shipping companies have been instructed by the Navy Department that they must exorcise great care when engaging men to man ships. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Alderman Meagher) said to-day:--"I observe in this morning's paper that a small tribute I paid at a Town Hall meeting ...
Article : 410 wordsMr. W. H. Grey, senior clerk in the Labor Department, has been appointed to inquire into the grievances of the volunteer workers employed for the Victorian Government in ...
Article : 56 wordsParliament is to reassemble to-morrow. It is expected that the early business will include a request by the Government for an extension of the life of Parliament for six ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsProfessor Macintyre, chairman of the New South Wales Recruiting Committee, had a conference to-day with Senator Pearce (Minister for Defence). He said ...
Article : 110 wordsThe report of the Parliamentary Committee on the cost of living, which recommended, among other things, the appointment of a food controller with plenary powers, the ...
Article : 122 wordsA British official message, dealing with the Salonica front, states that Scottish troops successfully raided Homodos, to the south-westward of Seres, taking 143 ...
Article : 59 wordsSapper Laurence Sydney M'Coonell (Engineers) has been sentenced to detention for 30 days for being absent without leave. Collapsed and Died ...
Article : 472 wordsChiefly in consequence of the shipping trouble the market is almost bare of onions. A small consignment was sold by auction at Wellington to-day, and realised the record ...
Article : 51 wordsA telegram from Amsterdam is to the effect that an early settlement of the gravel controversy is anticipated on the lines indicated in Holland's reply, as it is understood ...
Article : 67 wordsAdvice was received yesterday that Mr. Chester Foy, son of Mr. Francis Foy, was wounded on September 27 in the battle of Polygon Wood. ...
Article : 485 wordsA number of women of the Lord Mayor's Relief Fund Committee will have a sporting stall outside Tattersall's Club, and hope for the practical patronage of all Sydney's sports. ...
Article : 115 wordsA number of volunteer workers have been seriously assaulted, and three of them robbed, in the vicinity of Richmond Main, Richmond Vale, and Pelaw Main Collieries, on ...
Article : 176 wordsThe doors of the Town Hall Relief Fund were opened before half-past 6 this morning, and over a thousand applicants were passed through by 10 o'clock. Most of the women ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Lord Mayor is in receipt of a cheque for £100 from John Bridge and Co., Ltd. A covering letter intimated that the firm deeply Sympathised with the efforts now being made ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Lord Mayor is also in receipt of a cheque for £50 as a donation to the Distress Relief Fund coming from Mr. Leslie Bridge, Mr. Hugh D. M'Intosh, M.L.C., and Mr. H. ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. Warton, secretary of the Tramway Union, stated this afternoon that since the strike a new executive had been appointed to manage the business affairs of the union. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. M. A. Leefson, managing director of Hale and Co., furniture importers, of O'Connell-street, who has taken a deep interest in the Distress Fund, has sent the following ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Henry Fielding Dickens, K.C., the sixth son of the famous novelist, who has been Recorder at Maidstone since 1892, has been offered a common sergeant-judgeship. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe annual report of the Royal Agricultural Society submitted this afternoon showed a profit on tho recent show of £6132, as against £7432 in 1913, which was a record ...
Article : 38 wordsChicago has won the world's baseball series. ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Tue 16 Oct 1917, Page 5
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