Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. RECONSTRUCTION.

    Mr. Charles Poole, a New Zealand legislator, addressing the members of the Rotary Club here on reconstruction problems. pleaded for a greater consideration of ...

    Article : 61 words
  3. SUPPLY OF TINNED MEAT.

    The Argentina meat packers are tendering for the new Government contracts, and are asking 13s. a dozen for 12oz. tins, compared with 10s. 9d. in the last ...

    Article : 122 words
  4. HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

    The conditions obtaining at the Claremont Hospital for the Insane were the subject of discussion in the Legislative Assembly last evening, when Mr. Jones ...

    Article : 1,765 words
  5. GOVERNMENTS FREEZING WORKS.

    The Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Mr. C. F. Baxter), under whose Ministerial control are the Government freezing works propositions, returned to the city ...

    Article : 889 words
  6. A NEW INDUSTRY.

    Steps have been taken by the Austrlian Electric Steel Co., Ltd., to establish electric steel works at West Guildford. Mr. J. M. Deschamps, managing director of the ...

    Article : 589 words
  7. LIQUOR AT THE SHOW.

    A special general meeting of members of the Royal Agricultural Society was held yesterday afternoon, in the Central Hall Murray-street, to consider the motions, of ...

    Article : 1,955 words
  8. GROUND GAINED.

    The following official reports have been issued:— BRITISH London, Sept. 17 (1 p.m).—"We made ...

    Article : 335 words
  9. GERMAN PURCHASES OF WOOL.

    It is reported that, in addition to Germany's purchase of 75.000.000 marks worth of the Argentina and Uruguayan wool clips of 1917, she bought this year 100,000,000 ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. FOR Y.M.C.A. WORK.

    Mr. R. O. Clack, of Adelaide, a field secretary of the Y.M.C.A., has sailed for America in order to assist on the platform in the raising of 170,000,000 dollars ...

    Article : 44 words
  11. PEACE OVERTURES.

    President Wilson's reply to the Austrian peace overtures was announced immediately after the Government of the United States received the Austrian Note. The reply ...

    Article : 277 words
  12. AMERICA.

    President Wilson has signed a proclamation prohibiting after December 1 next the use of foodstuffs, except malt and hops, in the manufacture of beer. ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. RUSSIA.

    Replying to neutral diplomatist's protests against the Bolshevik terrorism, M. Tchtcherin (The Bolshevik Minister for Foreign Affair) indigenantly resented their action, and added that he would regard ...

    Article : 49 words
  14. COUNTRY LIQUOR LICENCES.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. P. Collier) asked the Premier (Mr. H. B. Lefroy), without notice, whether he would lay upon ...

    Article : 350 words
  15. BOLSHEVIK SLAUGHTER.

    Mr. Arno Dosoh Fleurot, the special correspondent of the New York "World," telegraphed from Stockholm:—"I interviewed a prominenet neutral, who described ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. COMMONWEALTH.

    At a meeting of the Land Settlement Committee of the War Council reports dealing with the work of soldiers settlements at Beerburrum, Stanthorpe, and ...

    Article : 112 words
  17. FINLAND.

    Mr. Carlo Ignations, a representative of the Finnish Government, has returned from America, and reports that the Government of the United States has refused ...

    Article : 51 words
  18. SIBERIAN EXPEDITION.

    It is reported from Herbin (Manchuria) that the Poles in Siberia are forming a large army, which is estimated to number more than 100,000 trained men and ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    The following has been listed for return to Australia and is actually en route from abroad.— L/Cpl. J. Hinde. ...

    Article : 61 words
  20. AVIATION REPORTS.

    The following aviation reports have been made available:— London Sept 17 (11.55 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).— "There was great ...

    Article : 335 words
  21. M. CLEMENCEAU SPEAKS.

    M. Clemenceau (The Prime Minister of France) said in the Senate yesterday:—"The Government desires to honour the splendid soldiers of the Entenate by whose ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. ALEXIEFF'S OFFENCSIVE.

    A telegram received from Moscow reports that General Alexieff, with Cossacks and White Guards has begun an offensive against the Bolshevik troops on the ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. PROPRIETARY ARTICLES.

    Mr. O'Loghlen gave notice in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, of his intention to ask the Attorney-General on Tuesday next the following question:— ...

    Article : 185 words
  24. REINFORCING CITIZEN FORCES.

    Having as its object the question of reinforcing the Citizen Forces for the Period of the war, a meeting was held in the lecture hall of the Perth High School last ...

    Article : 262 words
  25. BOLSHEVIKS TAKE KAZAN.

    It is reported that German troops have joined the Bolsheviks against the CzechoSlovaks on the Volga, where the situation is dangerous. It is believed that the ...

    Article : 53 words
  26. FEDERAL TAXATION.

    It is understood that approximately £6,000,000 in excess of last year's ordinary revenue will be required this year to meet the ordinary expenditure of the ...

    Article : 251 words
  27. PROMPT REPLIES.

    The British and the French newspapers welcome the speedy replies made by M. Clemenceau and President Wilson to the Austrian peace overtures. They ...

    Article : 48 words
  28. GENERAL ITEMS.

    Mr. G. Ward Price, the British official correspondent at the Italian front, reports:—"On either side of a precipitous gorge at the Brenta River, where it leaves the ...

    Article : 194 words
  29. MOORA FLOODS.

    The recurrence of the flood water troubles at Moora and the telegram of indignation from certain residents of the township were brought under the notice of the Premier ...

    Article : 167 words
  30. NEW YORK PRESS COMMENTS.

    In commenting on President Wilson's reply to the Austrian peace offensive. the New York "Tribune" says:—"This German thing which we have resolved to destroy ...

    Article : 117 words
  31. OLD CURIOSITIES.

    Those periodical tidying-up campaigns conducted by every good housewife—"Spring cleanings" most folk call them no matter what the season in which they take ...

    Article : 706 words
  32. A GERMAN REPORT.

    The British Admiralty on Tuesday intercepted the following German wireless official message:—"We recaptured the eastern fringe of the heights east of Vauxaillon. In ...

    Article : 58 words
  33. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Attention is called to a public meeting to be held in the Perth Town Hall tonight, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of forming a branch of the Soldiers and ...

    Article : 113 words
  34. MEAT PRICES.

    The preparations of the new meat schedules are not yet complete. The Minister for Price Fixing (Mr. Massy Greene) explained to-day that the variation would ...

    Article : 373 words
  35. FEELING IN PARIS.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that while the Austrian proposals were received with amused disdain, Germany's proposals with regard to ...

    Article : 159 words
  36. AMERICAN TROOPS.

    The Press Bureau states that the number of American troops embarked for Europe during August was 313,000. of whom 30,000 were carried in British ships. ...

    Article : 35 words
  37. A COOLGARDIE ANNIVERSARY.

    Last evening the twenty-sixth anniversary of the discovery of gold in Collgardie was celebrated by a smoke social in the Royal Hotelm Coolgradie. The Mayor ...

    Article : 116 words
  38. AUSTRIANS IN BELGIUM.

    Thirty thousand Austrian troops are employed on garrison duty in Belgium. Sevcral bloody encounters have taken place between the Austrians and the Germans 1. ...

    Article : 46 words
  39. THE BALKANS.

    A Serbian official despatch issued on Monday evening said:—"The offensive continues to be completely successful. The front pierced is over 20 kilometres in ...

    Article : 230 words
  40. WAR CASUALTIES.

    Mrs. Ethel Jones, of 233 William street, Perth, has received word that her husband, Frederick Robert Jones, has been wounded (second occasion). ...

    Article : 543 words
  41. VALUE OF INFANTRY.

    Colonel Repington, military correspondent of the "Morning Post." who is visiting the British front warns the War Cabinet against relying too much upon artillery, ...

    Article : 161 words
  42. BRITISH NEWS.

    The Inter-Allied Labour Conference, called by Mr. Samuel Gompers (the president of the American Federation of Labour), war opened yesterday in the ...

    Article : 293 words
  43. TRENCH COMFORTS FUND.

    "At the time of writing I find there are only 76 branches of this fund working in the State, and there are many centres yet unrepresented. Much has been done in ...

    Article : 360 words
  44. HUNS BURNING VILLAGES.

    [?] from the American front state [?]the Germans are burning villages along the river Moselle and preparing for a further retreat. ...

    Article : 34 words
  45. ALSACE-LORRAINE.

    The Government is setting up an administrative organisation for Alsace and Lerraine. and Mr. Jules Carobon (formerly the French Ambassador to Germany) is ...

    Article : 41 words
  46. THE FRENCH MISSION.

    The French mission visited Newcastle to-day. The greater part of the day The greater part of the day was spent in inspecting the broken Hill Proprietary steel works at Port ...

    Article : 98 words
  47. "FAT BERTHA" IN BEING FOUR YEARS AGO.

    The Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" wrote on June 9:—The long-range guns now bombarding Paris are not, it seems a very new invention. They ...

    Article : 356 words
  48. THE RESULT OF THE WAR.

    Mr. W. F. Massey (the Prime Minister of New Zealand), who was interviewed here, said that he hoped that the time would not be long in coming when the ...

    Article : 113 words
  49. FILMS GENSORSHIP.

    The headquarters of the censorship films will be moved to Sydney on Monday next, as 85 per cent. of all imported films are landed in Sydney. ...

    Article : 32 words
  50. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 33 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$