A meeting of the Central Council of the Australian Red Cross Society was held at Federal Government House yesterday, Her excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 658 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—The thirtyninth grand champion sheep show of the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society was opened this morning. The day was ...
Article : 2,209 wordsThe encampment at Broadmeadows is a camp of concentration in reality as well as in name. Over in Sydney the New South Wales quota of the A.I.F. is distributed ...
Article : 426 wordsOwing to the existing unsettled state of affairs resulting from the war and the drought, a larger proportion of the members of the Meat Trade Employees' Union are ...
Article : 245 wordsEmployment will be provided for a considerable number of men when the work of laying the high-tension transmission cables in connection with the electrification ...
Article : 425 wordsThe comptroller-general of Customs has advised the Melbourne Chamber of Commorce as follows:"The Governor of Ceylon has notified by ...
Article : 62 wordsThe consul-general for Belgium, through the kindness of Ball and Welch Ppy. Ltd., is able to announce that parcels will be received by the committee at the buildings ...
Article : 98 wordsThe acting under-seeretaru tp the Chief Secretary's department (Mr. H. E. Macdowell) has forwarded to the public service commissioner (Mr. G. C. Morrison) a file ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce has been in communication with the Pacific Cable Board and the Eastern Extension Company with regard to a reduction in the rates during the ...
Article : 205 wordsThe hospital committee has decided to call for tenders for erecting an infectious diseases ward at the institution. It is estimated that £5,000 will cover the cost, which ...
Article : 260 wordsDr. Rosenhain's lecture, "The Making of a Big Gun," will be given this evening, in the Town Hall, Melbourne, at 8 o'clock, in the presence of Their Excellencies the ...
Article : 119 wordsNearly 300 men are engaged at present at the shipbuilding yards. A powerful tug being built for the Melbourne Harbour Trust is neaily completed, and under ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the course of an interview last night the Minister for Defence (Mr. E. D. Millen) said that some little misapprehension appears to exist as to the number of ...
Article : 477 wordsThe statement published in "The Argus" of Wednesday from our Sydney correspondent that Germans and Austrians are being rigorously excluded from New ...
Article : 89 words"SYDNEY, Thursday.—Further evidence bearing upon operations connected with wheat and flour was given before the Necessary Commondities Commission to-day by Mr. ...
Article : 490 wordsA meeting is to be held to-day in Christ Church Schoolroom, at half-past 3 o'clock, to form a branch of the Red Cross Society in West Hawthorn. Dr. Arthur Sherwin ...
Article : 811 wordsIn connection with the scheme of works decided upon with a view of relieving unemployment, 300 men, and possibly 350 men, will be engaged within the next few ...
Article : 102 wordsTALLANGATTA, Thursday.—The daily article in "The Argus" by "A Military Expert" is highly appreciated. here. The accuracy of his work, his avoidance of ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. John Bain, one of the pioneers of the district, died at his residence, Hopper street, on Thursday. Mr. Bain, who was in his 92nd year, had been bed-ridden for over ...
Article : 65 wordsA conversazione to those members of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force who have been teachers or officers under the Education department was last night ...
Article : 279 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Up to the present the enrolments at Sydney for the second Australian Expeditionary Force number about 1,000. ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Rev. H. Stanley Hollow, vicar of Christ Church. is to be nominated to the canonry of St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, vacant through the elevation of Canon ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsBANNOCKBURN, Thursday.—A claim by the Bannockburn Shire Council on the Country Roads Board of £75, in connection with the use by the board of the council's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 236 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—That the effect of the war is keenly felt in the East, especially at Manilla, was proved by a passenger on the steamer Changaba, which ...
Article : 355 wordsA farewell communion by the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational churches was held last evening in the Y.M.C.A. tent, at the encampment at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 391 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Thursday.—The Great Poseidon mine, Newbridge, was the scene of a serious accident early this morning. ...
Article : 455 wordsThe form of the order under which the German steamship Wildenfels, seized, and now lying in Port Phillip, is to be allowed to proceed to Sydney and Newcastle to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsAltogether 550 cases of goods have been packed, and are being despatched to Condon. Packing cases and empty petrol cases are required, and may be sent to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsMiss Harvie, of 53 Elizabeth street, reports having received the following contributions to the fund for providing bandages for horses:— ...
Article : 259 wordsSir,—Would you allow as to draw attention to the Church of England tent which has been creted for the use of the troops at at Broadmeadows. The tent, which will ...
Article : 183 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The sum of over £170,000 is now in hand in various Sydney funds in connection with the war. This includes £85,000 contributed to the Lord ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday. — Farmers have responded so generously to the appeal for fodder for the horses of the Expeditionary Force that the whole of the ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—After an interval of six weeks an attempt was made to resume the hide sales to-day, when catalogues containing about 3,000 hides were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsSir, —Last Sunday, at my suggestion the scholars of my school (All Saints' ProCathedral) decided unanimously to forego their annual picnic, so that the money ...
Article : 102 wordsSir,—I have received an anonymous letter this morning, covering a donation of £5 from a Malvern lady. I am asked to state, per favour of "The Argus," whether books ...
Article : 256 wordsTransport preparations are being pushed ahead at the Barracks. Over two dozen motor-lorries have been purchased, and requisites to every variety are arriving hourly. ...
Article : 211 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Thursday. — The Premier (Mr. Seaddan), who has received the intimation from the Commonwealth Government that the export of meat, flour, ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,—We are in need of a Mascot, bulldog or a fox terrier, for the Pioneer division of the 6th Battalion. If persons desirous of presenting one would please ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Department of Agriculture yesterday received the following cable message:- "Wheat market dull, with easier tendency." ...
Article : 35 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Arthur Deery, a well-known city solicitor, was to-night arrested on a warrant alleging misapropriation of a large sum of money. ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association of Victoria has received a cable message from the Institute of London Underwriters that the war rate to and from the United ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 11 Sep 1914, Page 8
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