Sir Alexander Peacock, referring in the Legislative Assembly yesterday to the resolution in the Legislative Council to the effect that Parliament should not be asked ...
Article : 81 wordsInteresting returns have been complled by the military authorities, showing the extent to which medical services have been organised in Australia for the War. ...
Article : 113 wordsPage. Amusements.... 16 Births, Marriages, and Deaths... 1 ...
Article : 143 wordsWidespread interest was excited yesterday over the action of the State Government in seizing a consignment of meat which was being exported by W. Anglis[?] ...
Article : 3,024 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General, attended by Captain Fane, A.D.C., paid an official call upon Rear-Admiral Chizaka, commanding H.I.J.M. Training Squadron, ...
Article : 407 wordsSir,—The statement of the Minister for Defence that Australia has sent more men to the front in proportion to our population that Canada has will not hear inquiring ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Parliament was opened to-day by the Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland). In his address, the Governor referred ...
Article : 862 wordsMr. Hagelthorn, by leave, explained that he knew very little about the matter, as it was one controlled by Mr. Hutchinson. He did know, however, that none of the ...
Article : 214 wordsSir,—After Mr. Reid's letter to-day I quite admit there is an impassable gulf between us. He is evidently hard pressed to begin thus early to impute sinister motives ...
Article : 888 wordsSir,—At a meeting of our Girls Friendly Society last night an address on "Women and War" was given, dealing with the many ways in which women can help at this ...
Article : 159 wordsAt the meeting of the Footscray City Council on Monday evening Councillor A. McDonald moved— "That this council is of opinion that it would ...
Article : 187 wordsSir,—A movement is on foot at the Melbourne University, the object of which is to accelerate the present course of fourth year (fifth year, too) medical students in order ...
Article : 376 wordsOnly 67 cattle were penned at the Ballarat Corporation Saleyards on Tuesday, and extreme rates ruled, with keen competition. Extra heavyweights sold to £33/12/6, useful bullocks ...
Article : 264 wordsSir,—A correspondent has directed attention to the large body of able-bodied men employed in clerical work at the Victoria Barracks. I should says there are hundrends ...
Article : 169 wordsOn the motion for the adjournment of the Legislative Council, Mr Frank Clarke said that the statement made by Mr. Hutchinson and that made by Mr. Angliss were ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,—The attitude of the Prime Minister of Australia in contemptuously dismissing the suggestion that politics of a party nature should be dropped, until our ...
Article : 385 wordsSir,—On Friday Arthur J. Day, of South Yarra, wrote to "The Argus" offering to give his services, and yesterday Mr. Young, of Flemington, wrote to the same effect. We ...
Article : 134 wordsA profit of £45/10/ resulted from a concert and sale of gifts recently organised by Nursse Mil[?]s The proceeds are to be equally distributed between the Belgian Relief Fund and the Bendigo ...
Article : 366 wordsThe Prices of Goods Board is making an inquiry into the meat question with the object of ascertaining the stocks of meat held and the prices being charged for meat. ...
Article : 63 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—The suggestion has been made that retiring councillors should be re-elected without opposition at the municipal elections in August, and that ...
Article : 40 wordsOfficial and private intimations to relatives of soldiers killed or wounded in action may henceforth be communicated by such relatives to the press for publication before ...
Article : 691 wordsSir,—Referring to the statement by the Minister for Defence published to-day, nonreceipt of plans from abroad is the official reason given for the continuate of the ...
Article : 297 wordsAttention has been directed by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to a paragraph in the War Precautions Regulations, relating to the prohibition against ...
Article : 83 words"We cannot be blind to the fact that, owing to the serve drought we have just passed through, the question as to how we are going to build up our stock is a matter ...
Article : 800 wordsSir,—The Lady Mayoress desires me to ask if you will mention that she and her committee are still very hard at work collecting comforts for our own soldiers. ...
Article : 238 wordsIt is estimated that district supplies of cha[?] will be exhausted by the end of June. On Tuesday hay in small quantities sold at £12 per ton, and chaff was bought by fodder merchants at ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Minister for Public Works (Mr. Hagelthorn), who has been representing Victoria on the Panama Exposition Commission, has resigned from the commission. ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—In a letter to "The Argus" of the 14th inst., Dr. Leeper expressed a desire to know the number of troops sent from New Zealand on active service. In the "Weekly ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Mayor (Councillor Harnett), at the meeting of the Northcote Council on Monday evening, said that he had received a petition with 728 signatures, asking him to ...
Article : 154 wordsROCHESTER, Tuesday.—Mr. Hams, a Restdown settler, living about four miles from Rochester, left about 20 head of cattle in his paddock on the bank of the Campaspe on Sunday, and on his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsSir,—Will you please allow me to correct a part of the report in your paper last Friday with reference to the late Private Albert Young? The paragraph says that this poor ...
Article : 283 wordsSir,—One might be agreeable to allow Dr. Leeper a little license, but he might try to keep somewhere near the mark. Here are his recruiting figures, which are wrong. ...
Article : 177 wordsOne of the most striking of the many war photographs in the country edition of "The Australasian," published this morning, shows the noble response made by the ...
Article : 563 wordsSHEPPARTON, Tuesday.—The crupping in this district is nearly completed, and the land could not be in much better order for finishing. The plants are putting forth a strong, vigorous, and healthy ...
Article : 868 wordsBENALLA, Tuesday.—With a view to organising the liquor trade in regard to the campaign in 1917, a meeting was held here to-day of hotelkeepers, representing the ...
Article : 203 wordsSir,—Mr. Saverne's estimate of the population of Australia is far below the mark. The Federal statistician will tell him that, even at the end of 1914 it was all but ...
Article : 276 wordsSir,—I enclose cover of a letter posted by me to my son on 10th March last, and which, together with contents, has been returned to me to-day, stamped "Not known ...
Article : 117 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.—A meeting held in the Alfred Hall to-night to stimulate interest in the no-license campaign was largely attended. Councillor J. J. Brokenshire ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,—From the general increase in the mumber of women helping us in Hawthorn I believe the seriousness of the task in front of the Empire is being more recognised. ...
Article : 392 wordsSir,—On Sunday night a person stood in front of St. Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church. Brighton, and handed copies of the enclosed production to people entering the ...
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Advertising : 305 wordsAt the meeting of the Heidelberg council on Tuesday evening a resolution passed at a public meeting, that the council take steps to obtain expert engineer's advice on the matter of direct ...
Article : 79 wordsHEALESVILLE, Thursday.—With respect to their contracts under the Country Roads Board on the Healesville-Alexandra road at Buxton, Messrs. J. and M. McGuinness have claimed £38[?] ...
Article : 113 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—At a crowded public meeting to-night a stirring temperance address was given by the Rev. H. Worrall, of Melbourne, and the following motion ...
Article : 104 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the above society, held in the Austral Salon on Thursday evening, the address on "Cultivation of Soil," by Mr. G. Cooper, jun., of the Alexandra Gardens, was ...
Article : 178 wordsUnder the auspices of the Prahran branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, a public meeting was held last night in the Prahran Town Hall, when ...
Article : 125 wordsTERANG, Monday.—There was an attendance of about 70 officers, delegates, and visitors at the halfyearly meeting of the Warrnam[?]ool district M.U.I.O.O.F., which was held at Terang. The ...
Article : 129 wordsSir,—My object in replying to Mr. Hugh A. Brown to-day is to help him out of a dilemna. If he is really bent on commandeering the nineteen shillings in the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 16 Jun 1915, Page 10
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