ANZAC, Aug. 8.—Some people find themselves in railway accidents, others in mine disasters, fires, earthquakes, floods, or shipwrecks. It has been my fate to stumble ...
Article : 2,864 wordsAt a meeting of the Essendon Council last night a letter from Councillor W. J. Mountain, who left for Japan a few days ago, was received. It brought under notice a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsThere has been such a demand for seats to witness the copyright performance of the new Australian comedy "Before the Dawn," which takes place in the St. Kilda Town ...
Article : 90 wordsA meeting of the State War Council was held last night. The private employment committee reported having agreed upon the terms of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 317 wordsThe enlistment returns from the various Victorian depots (with the exception of Geelong, which were not available) yesterday were as follow:— ...
Article : 54 wordsAn enjoyable entertainment was given by the Bendigo Patriotic Pierrots, in the Hawthorn Town Hall last night, before a large and appreciative audience. The ...
Article : 112 wordsIt has been decided by the military authorities to conduct a series of camps of musketry instruction at Port Melbourne for the training of members of the A.I.F. ...
Article : 81 wordsAttention was directed at the City Council meeting on Monday to complaints made that drainage being run into Lake Wendouree. It was, after discussion, decided to instruct the health ...
Article : 443 wordsA reception to 60 returned sick and wounded soldiers will be given at Mrs. T. W. H. Holmes's private residence, "Brookland," 254 Glenferrie road, ...
Article : 73 wordsTo supplement the arrangements already made for giving musketry instruction to members of the A.I.F., the services of additional members of rifle clubs are being ...
Article : 48 wordsSir,—On behalf of the Ballarat soldiers' billy committee, I have this day forwarded to the Alexandra Club cases containing 1,200 failed billies for the boys at the front. ...
Article : 152 wordsA fortnight ago the members of the Operative Bakers' Society took a ballot of its members throughout Victoria on the question of making another attempt to ...
Article : 224 wordsTwo members of the Dental Corps Reserve took up duty yesterday at the Broad meadows and Seymour camps in pursuance of the decision of the authorities to have ...
Article : 149 wordsA military carnival will be held at Toorak Park on Saturday afternoon and evening, October 2, in aid of the Australian Wounded Soldiers' Fund. A procession of 1,000 of the military will march ...
Article : 42 wordsThe pendant donated to the Australian Wounded Soldiers' Fund will be drawn on September 30. The tickets, which are 1/ each, may be had at Webb's, and at Newman and Sons, Elizabeth ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsHer Excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson will open the Red Cross Rest Room, at the Base Hospital, to-day, at 3 p.m. All members of the home hospital committee are invited to be ...
Article : 157 wordsSir,—In view of Mr. Fisher's "irrevocable opposition" to conscription, what does his pledge of Australia's last man and last shilling amount to? Did he mean to convey ...
Article : 206 wordsAt a meeting of the citizens' camp committee on Monday a commumunication was read from Mr. Hampsan, M.H.R., stating that the Defence department had informed him that it had been ...
Article : 132 wordsSir,—Under the above heading in "The Argus" this morning there appears a letter from Lieut-Commander R. G. Boven, R.A.N. in reply to the assertion by a ...
Article : 191 wordsSir,—I would appeal strongly to those motorists who have not as yet joined the Motor Transport and Recreation for Wounded Soldiers' League to do so at once. ...
Article : 470 wordsALEXANDRA, Monday.—A double fatality occurred on Saturday afternoon near a spot known as the "Devil's Elbow," on the tram line near the Rubicon Falls, when Mr. ...
Article : 587 wordsMr. V. V. Lorimer, Geelong manager far S[?]ttons music warehousemen, and conductor of the Yarra street Methodist choir, after leaving church on Sunday, was running across a piece of asphalt ...
Article : 139 wordsSir,—One has feelings of disgust on reading in to-day's issue the remarks of Mr. Mathews, M.H.R. In answer to Lieutenant Greig, he is reported to have said that "the ...
Article : 264 wordsSince the opening of the Returned Soldiers' Employment Bureau on Monday, Septmber 20, there have been 47 applications for employment through the bureau. Of ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A deputation from the Master Butchers Association which waited to-day on the Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Tudor), congratulated the ...
Article : 309 wordsA roll of honour, on which are the names of 30 members of the church, who have been accepted for active service, was unveiled at Christ Church on Sunday morning by the vicar, the Rev. E. ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the council of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the president (Mr. W. T. Appleton) reported that as a member of the State War Council ...
Article : 87 wordsOMEO, Monday.—Acting on the complaint of Thomas Roberts, a grazier, of Upper livingstone, who stated that he had lost a couple ot head it cuttle, and believed that they had been stolen, ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,—Trades unionists are either very inconsistent or very magnanimous. They miss no opportunity of asserting that they are sending the bulk of the men to the war, ...
Article : 270 wordsSir,—Can anyone of the returned wounded give me information as to the whereabouts of Lance-Corporal H. Hart, No. 1,354, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 7th ...
Article : 72 wordsSHEPPARTON, Monday.—Mr. W. Law, of Shepparton, landed near the Toolamba railway bridge on Friday a Murray cod weighing 74lb. It was purchased by one of the hotelkeepers. ...
Article : 30 wordsNATHALIA, Monday.—The weather continues extremely favourable for all kinds of growth. Ninety per cent, of the wheat trops will be much higher than the fences, and the weekly showers are ...
Article : 850 wordsSir,—May we once more, through your columns, appeal for donations of flowers to help welcome the wounded arriving on Thursday, 30th inst. Ladies will be in ...
Article : 261 wordsSir,—Can it any longer be doubted, after reading the recent portentous atterances of Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Kitchener, and other British statebmen, that we are on ...
Article : 211 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—In the course of evidence to day before the Necessary Commodities Commission Mr. G. D. Ross, of the Department of Agriculture, said that the ...
Article : 151 wordsAt Half-past 10.—McNeil v. Whitton (collector of Customs). COMMONWEALTH COURT OF CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. ...
Article : 285 wordsSir,—In to-day's issue I note several appointments from the Senior Cadets to the A.I.F. At present in the various camps are many men who gave up commissions ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. T. Lonsdale, J. P., held an inquiry yesterday into the death of Edward Albert Longstaff, 37 years of age, miner, of Maldon, who succumbed to fracture of the skull on ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—I have just returned from a [?]our through part of the Western district, and, upon inquiry, have been amazed at the enormous quintity of land and wealth ...
Article : 379 wordsSir,—With a view to supplementing the funds of the Hawthorn branch Red Cross Society, it has been decided to organise a house to house collection on Wednesday, ...
Article : 132 wordsSUNDAY, Monday.—Miss Pankburst and Miss John addressed a large gathering at an open-air meeting here on Saturday night on "Price Conscription, and ...
Article : 61 wordsThree new cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred in the metropolis yesterday. No deaths were reported. At the Melbourne Hospital the following ...
Article : 66 wordsHashan Dcen, of Young strert Fitzroy, dealer. Causes of insolvency:—Want of employment, Iosses in business, adverse judgment, and pressure of creditors. ...
Article : 36 wordsNATHALIA, Monday.—Mr. John Stanger, a well known fanner of Yalca, after returning from Nathalia where he had been on a visit to his aged father, who is in a ...
Article : 61 wordsIt has been arranged to hold the inquiry into the charges made by Dr. Maloney in the House of Representatives, alleging ill-treatment of Gunner Perry, at the City ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—"It seems to be dying out here," said Dr. Paton, president of the Board of Health, when asked this evening as to the meningitis outbreak. A ...
Article : 52 wordsFollowing are to-day's auction sales:—E. J. Dixon and Sons, at Murray street, Prahran, household furniture; Beauchamp Brothers and J. C. Adams (in conjunction), at Burke road, Camberwell house. ...
Article : 173 wordsPICOLA, Monday.—On Saturday evening Mr. R. Crawford, farmer, was returning home from the town in his gig, when the wheel dropped into a rut, and he was ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY (575 Miles).—Arrived.—Sept. 27—Tarcoola, from Queensland ports: Narani and Moorabool, from Melbourne; Wodonga, from Cairns; Karitane, from Devonport: Sydney from ...
Article : 78 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Monday.—About a fortnight ago a little girl 10 years of age, named Irene Chappel, was admitted to the hospital suffering from influenza, and on Tuesday last ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 28 Sep 1915, Page 8
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