At 12.30 this morning the [?]ood reached its highest point, 16ft. 9in. above summer level, and thus exceeds the great flood of 50 years ago, the highest on record. ...
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Article : 89 wordsReports from the Dvina front state that German prisoners admit that there was a mutinous movement in the army at the prospect of a winter campaign. ...
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Article : 307 wordsCaptain Campbell Carmichael (former Minister for Education) secured permission to vacate a comfortable staff position in London. He rejoined his battalion, and led ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 918 wordsThe "Evening News" learns authoritatively that twelve Zeppelins headed for England on Friday. The mists and gales dispersed them, and one drifted silently to London on a ...
Article : 106 wordsReuter's correspondent at Zurich states that questions in the Austrian Reichsrath have revealed the fact that a great explosion occurred in August in the munition works ...
Article : 67 wordsBob Fitzsimmons, the one-time champion boxer of the world, is dead. The story of the pugilistic career of Bob Fitzsimmons is a remarkable one. He ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe office of the Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union, at the corner of Sussex-street and Sussex-lane, was entered this morning by thieves, and £70 stolen from the safe, which ...
Article : 292 wordsWhile Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, is away in the backblocks of New South Wales, seeking renewed health, Mr. Cook, Minister for the Navy, will act as Prime Minister. ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Balfour (Foreign Minister) stated in the House of Commons to-day that there did not seem to be any reason at present to add anything to the British acknowledgment of ...
Article : 73 wordsAt a meeting of the Parliamentary National Party this afternoon it was decided that the Government would give Mr. Bruntnell, M.L.A., an opportunity next session to ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the Central Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. Macfarlane, C.S.M., Bruce Ernest Everard Bridekirk, 27, agent, was charged as follows:--At Sydney, on ...
Article : 464 words"The Times" correspondent at Christiania states that the newspapers are filled with terrible details of the destruction of the convoy, with the total loss of 14 ships and ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Admiralty announces:-- Our ships bombarded the naval works at Ostend on Sunday. Photographs show that the results were satisfactory. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. A. J. Hampson (49), of Elwood, enlisted to-day, and was selected as second corporal for the reinforcements of the Railway Unit. He will go into camp on Monday. ...
Article : 81 wordsCount von Reventlow writes in the "Deutsche Tageszeitung" stating that the Kaiser visited Constantinople to guarantee complete Turkish integrity, including Egypt ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsClifford Mars Miller was brought before Judge Backhouse at the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court to-day for sentence. Miller had been convicted of false pretences and ...
Article : 201 words"A private firm will offer to the Government sufficient money for the construction of this line," said a member of a deputation to the Acting-Premier to-day, which pressed ...
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Article : 139 wordsSir Joseph Carruthers, addressing the Local Government Association's Conference in King's' Hall, this afternoon, contended, in regard to the proposal in the ...
Article : 266 wordsThe "Daily News" states that the whole of the American navy is working in conjunction with the British navy. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsA message from Washington states that Government officers have discovered 'enormous quantities of raw materials which were secretly stored by Germany in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsExcitement was caused this morning among members of a deputation that waited upon one of the State Ministers by the appearance near them of an elderly man who had a ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is understood that the rentals of the principal fruit shops attached to the Circular Quay wharves, which are controlled by the Sydney Harbor Trust Commissioners ...
Article : 82 wordsThe passenger steamer Cooma, which has been hold up at Brisbane owing to the strike, is again in commission, and is expected at Sydney about midday to-morrow. She will ...
Article : 59 wordsThe steamer Sydney, which for many years has carried the Melbourne Steamship Company's flag in the trade between Sydney, Melbourne, and Tasmania, has been sold to ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Tue 23 Oct 1917, Page 5
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