Mr. A. McGregor, manager in Melbourne for Mr. Teesdale Smith, who is the contractor for the construction of the new electric tram-line from Melbourne to ...
Article : 115 wordsThe War Office announced on Wednesday evening that the British hospital ship Anglia (1,862 tons, owned by the London and North-Western Railway Comapany) had ...
Article : 574 words"The battlefield of Artois was the most awful that I have seen in its grim suggestiveness of war at its worst," wrote Mr. Philip Gibbs in the "Daily Chronicle," ...
Article : 281 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The Ministry's defeat in the Roebourne election, which gives the Country and Liberal parties combined a majority of one over Labour in the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe British Foreign Office announced on Wednesday afternoon that the Prime Ministor (Mr. Asquith) the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), the ...
Article : 213 wordsCritics of the position in the Near East are becoming more outspoken. Dr. Dillon, who usually has access to exceptional sources of information, charges King Constantine of Greece with deliberately working in the interests of His Majesty's brother-in-law—the Kaiser. The Paris "Journal" Is urged ...
Article : 602 wordsOn Tuesday next the Permier (Sir Alexander Peacock) will introduce to the Legislative Assembly a bill under which it is proposed to transfer to the Commonwealth, ...
Article : 947 wordsThe general secretary of the Victorian Railways' Union (Mr. Frank Hyett) yesterday expressed the fear that a strike of the shunters and goods labourers was imminent ...
Article : 392 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The Legislative Assembly debated Mr. George's motion— "That there should be no alternation or interference with the system of dealing with the ...
Article : 412 wordsHis Majesty the King has written to the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Balfour) expressing his sorrow in the following terms:— ...
Article : 85 wordsReuter's correspondent at Copenhagen records a sensational incident which has taken place in Swedish waters. A British steamer named the Thelma was ...
Article : 176 wordsThere has been violent cannonading on both sides at Loos, Angres, and Souchez, in Northern France, states a Paris communique. It goes on to record that in the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Austrian Government, in answer to the American proteset against the sinking of the s.s. Ancona in the Mediterranean, by which act 200 lives were lost, including those ...
Article : 126 wordsLord Haldane, who held the offices of Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for War in the Asquith Cabinet, speaking at Hampstead on Wednesday, said that ...
Article : 122 wordsNo further information has been published explantory of the message from the Paris correspontent of the London "Daily Muil" that the action of Great Britain in ...
Article : 86 wordsThe adjourned conference between the Gas Employees' Federation and certain gas companies earning on business in Victoria, South Austrulia, and Tasmania, was ...
Article : 207 wordsGemran attempts to cross the Dvina at several points below Dvinsk have been frustrated by the Russians, while the enemy at Lake Sventen, to the south-west, have ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Tribuna" states that it is reported that Allied warships in the AEgean Sea have captured six enemy submarines. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 273 wordsThree Bulgarian divisions, each including 13 batteries of artillery, have gone to the Babouna and Krushevo, with the view of occupying Prilip (24 miles north-north-east ...
Article : 379 wordsThe House of Commons on Wednesday considered the Finance Bill in committee. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. McKenna) moved a new clause to meet the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsA mass meeting of the Gas Employees Association was held last evening at the Old Trades Hall. It was stated at its close by the representatives of the men that ...
Article : 247 wordsM. Denys Cochin, the French Minister of State, who, being a persona grata in Greece, has been entrusted with a special mission to Athens, has arrived at the ...
Article : 212 words"Near Gorizia, on the Isonzo front (says a Rome communique), we captured a strong Austraian entrenchment, in which were heaps of enemy bodies, and a considerable ...
Article : 34 wordsThe French 5 per cent, war loan for an indeterminate amount is to be issued at 88. ...
Article : 19 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. Earle) will move the second reading of the Referendum Withdrawal Bill on Wednesday, and the leader of the Opposition will ...
Article : 107 wordsA British naval lieutenant and five men from a patrol-boat boarded the American barque Andrew Welch off the Shetland Islands. While they were examining the ...
Article : 55 wordsMessages will be accepted from the public in Australia for Australian soldiers in Gibraltar without prepayment of a reply that may be desired. Reply R.T.P. must, ...
Article : 81 wordsOwing to cable interruptions, the Western Union Cable Company have notified the Pacific Cable Board the the acceptance of "week-end" rate messages must temporarily ...
Article : 196 wordsLord Milner, in an address delivered on Wednesday evening at King's College, London, said the he was painfully conscious that the Empire question had hitherto not ...
Article : 154 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—To-day 130 volunteers were accepted at the Sydney recruiting depots for the Expeditionary Forces. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsArrivals.—At London—Moldavia, R.M.S., from Melbourne October 5. At Buenos Ayres—Echunga, s.s., from Port Kembla May 12. At Tal Tal—Navarino, s.s., from ...
Article : 30 wordsThe referendum has been irrevocably withdrawn from the electors. A proclamation was issued in the "Commonwealth Gazette" yesterday, in accordance with the ...
Article : 63 wordsSir,—Irreparable damage was done by the gale yesterday to our large tent institute for the soldiers at the Show-grounds military camp. One of the huge 6in. centre poles ...
Article : 204 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Thursday.—With reference to allegations by the Rural Workers' Union that farmers in Riverina were not paying log rates, and that if this ...
Article : 235 wordsRecently the chairman of the metropolitan committee of the Australian Natives' Association (Mr. A. E. Haughton) complained that, though the late Attorney-General (Mr. ...
Article : 423 wordsAt a meeting of the West Burnswick branch of the Political Labour Council on Wednesday evening, the action of the Federal Labour party in abandoning the ...
Article : 117 wordsImportant news has been received from Bucharest. A Royal decree has been issued in the Roumanian capital resquisitioning all ...
Article : 53 wordsUsing the recurrence of air-raids over Belgium as a protext, and alleging that information is being supplied to the enemy locally, the German authorities have ...
Article : 85 wordsDr. E. J. Dillon, the special foreign correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," at present in Rome, has telegraphed a long message to that journal, expressing his ...
Article : 337 wordsA 15 months' old infant, the son of Alice Ryan, of Young street, Fitzroy, died in peculiar circumstances at the Children's Hospital on Sunday. The child became ...
Article : 149 wordsDealing with complaints about the delay in reporting casualties, the Imperial officer who controls the (Mediterranean Expeditionary, Force reports as follows:— ...
Article : 386 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Railways Commissioners have received from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers a peremptory demand that the men employed at ...
Article : 91 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—The Ministry does not consider it necessary to introduce bills to authorise the transfer of State powers this session, in accordance with the ...
Article : 53 words"Religious barriers grow less amid the honors of the battlefield—Roman Catholic priests succouring Jews, while Mussulmans expire in the arms of Protestant ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. B. E. Peto (Unionist) has given notice in the House of Commons of his intention to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Bonar Law) whether it ...
Article : 73 wordsThe State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Mr. F. Clarke, M.L.C., and Messrs. Mackinnon and J. W. Billson, M.L.A.'s), met again yesterday with a view to making ...
Article : 148 wordsWhile walking to his work at 7 o'clock on Thursday morning. Duncan McDiarmid, aged 53 years, of 63 St. David street, Fitzroy, a gripman on the trams, collapsed in ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Replying to Mr. Wade, leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, to-day, the Attorney-General (Mr. Hall) said that at the ...
Article : 126 wordsIt was announced by the Defence anthorities yesterday that militia training would be resumed in January. The training of citizen forces was suspended from October 1 ...
Article : 89 wordsNo new cases of cerebro-spinal mening it is occurred in the metropolitan area yesterday, and only one death from this dissease was reported. The name of the victim, who ...
Article : 85 wordsFollowing a suggestion from the Defence department, a meeting, presided over by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Sir David Hennessy), was held in the Town Hall ...
Article : 199 wordsCULCAIRN, Thursday.—Some children of Mr. W. J. Bullard, of the Railway department, became suddenly ill. A doctor was called in, and it was found that they ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 19 Nov 1915, Page 7
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