Considerable interest attaches to the pending arrival of the transport Ballarat, due to the fuet that she is conveying to Australina 634 soldiers, inost of whom have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsIt was expected that yesterday would have yielded good results at the recruiting centres, but such hopes were not realised. The figures in fact fell short of those of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Before Sydney people were out of bed this morning they were visited by eager Australia Day collectors, and [?]ill late at night old and yound ...
Article : 451 wordsA feature of the day's proceedings in the city was the popularity of golliwogs, of which Miss Maloney, who had charge of a section of Elizabeth street, sold no fewer ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley) was the guest of the Commercial Travellers' Association at luncheon. Mr. A. A. Mendoza, the president, who occupied the chair, ...
Article : 600 wordsThere are a number of boxes not yet returned, and collectors are asked to return them immediately to the city treasurer's office at the Town Hall. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe splendid efforts of the railway office staff were of valuable assistance to the collectors at the western end of the city throughout the day. A suite of rooms in ...
Article : 267 wordsBENDIGO, Friday.—The celebrations were inaugurated to-day in ideal weather, and seldom has the city presented a gayer appearance. Special trains brought crowds ...
Article : 323 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The Ballarat put in to Albany this afternoon to coal, on its way to the eastern States, with wounded soldiers from the Dardanelles. Colon[?]l ...
Article : 262 wordsParticulars made available yesterday of the Commonwealth note issue by the Federal Treasury show that on July 28 notes had been issued to a vaiue of £34,344,[?]29/10/, ...
Article : 126 wordsThe New Zealand Government has advised the Commonwealth Defence department that Private James Lyndhurst, of the Canterbury Battalion, was killed in ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Minister for Defence has given permission for troops at Seymour to assist in the performance at the Melbourne Cricket-ground to-morrow afternoon in aid of Lady Stanley's Fund for Wounded ...
Article : 120 wordsSince the removal of the military training camp from Broadmeadows to Seymour, married men residing in Melbourne who have volunteered for active service have on ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—I have noticed many times in the letters from our boys at Gallipoli references to the difficulty of obtaining paper and envelopes, one soldier the other day being ...
Article : 118 wordsThe five sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wales, of Dundas street, Preston, have enlisted, and four of them—John, Bert, William, and Fred—are in camp. One of these ...
Article : 112 wordsAttention is directed to the list announced In this issue of the 50 pieture theatres at which pieture entertainments are to be given to-morrow (Sunday) might in aid of the Australia Day Fund. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe joint annual meeting of the Pres[?]yterian Church social and philanthropic agencies was held in the Assemboy Hall last. night. The Governor-General (Sir Ronals ...
Article : 379 wordsSir,—At a meeting held at the Trades hall last night one of the members said that we were out to crush Germany because of the perfection of their organisation ...
Article : 201 wordsThe names of the honorary medical staff selected for duty at the base hospital in St. Kilda road were announced yesterday. It is claimed that the hospital will now be ...
Article : 261 wordsThe central rooms of the Australian Women's National League, at 34[?] Collins street, presented a unique appearance yesterday, as the gifts for Australian ...
Article : 324 wordsFollowing the threat on Thursday that the women and girls employed in making uniforms for the Australian soldiers at the Commonwealth clothing factory would cease ...
Article : 326 wordsAt the inquest concerning the Shipping disaster, wherein 1,336 lives were lost owing to the exeursion steamer Eastland overturning in the Chicago River on July 24, a ...
Article : 117 wordsThe promoters were highly delighted with the effort, £2,030 being raised. BEAUFORT.—In behalf of wounded Australians, huttonholes were sold at the annual Catholic ball ...
Article : 919 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Fine weather prevailed for Australia Day, which proved a brilliant success. People were early astir, and the main streets were thronged with ...
Article : 273 wordsSir,—May we be permitted through the columns of "The Argus" to direct the attention of the women of Melbourne to a series of meetings in connection with the ...
Article : 270 wordsThe entertainment provided by the com[?]ined thentrical managements and profession in aid of the great cause served to fill Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday afternoon ...
Article : 352 wordsLong-drawn-out litigation in connection with the compulsory acquirement of seven estates in Galway belonging to Lord Clanricarde was brought to a conclusion on ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced yesterday that at a recent meeting of the residents of Wentworth (N.S.W.) sufficient money had been raised ...
Article : 162 wordsMessrs. Stewart and Wood report that, acting under instructions from the Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association, they submitted by public auction yesterday, in the estate of the late ...
Article : 72 wordsOver 70,000 buttons were issued to the various suburbs. Several of them concentrated entirely on the sale of buttons, as they found these the best means of ...
Article : 132 wordsPERTH, Friday.—To-day a grand organised appeal, taking great variety of forms, was made in all parts of the State. The effort in the city was a very ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Kew football team has disbanded owing to the heavy enlistment which has occurred among the playing members. The club has lost 20 since the first call was ...
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Advertising : 679 wordsAlready over 100 men have been taken in hand by this fund, and arrangements made for having their teeth. attended to by dentists. This means that 100 men ...
Article : 131 wordsSir,—The reputation of the firm, and the length of its connection with the Defence department, should, we would have thought, rendered impossible such ...
Article : 288 wordsIn connection with the anniversary o[?] the declaration of war on Wednesday next August 4, it has been arranged for public meetings to be held throughout the Empire ...
Article : 179 wordsIn the report of the finance committee of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, which will be submitted to a meeting of the board on Tuesday, a ...
Article : 63 wordsSixty billa having received Royal assent, the British Parliament has adjourned until September 14. ...
Article : 24 wordsAmong the many entertainments in the city was a successful "cafe chantant," held in the winter gardens at Menzies' Hotel. The management provided all that went to ...
Article : 308 wordsThe council of the Laymen's Missionary Movement of Victoria have issued a manifesto, addressed to all Christian people in Victoria, appealing for the organising of a ...
Article : 124 wordsAt the rooms of the Bookmakers' Association of Victoria a successful auction sale was held in aid of the Australia Day Fund, Articles such as fruit, fish, and flowers, were ...
Article : 91 wordsHOBART, Friday.- The collections in tho city of Hobart will amount to over £5,000. ...
Article : 16 wordsSome concern is being shown by members of the Victorian Railways Employees' Union, owing to a statement that the services of about half of the painters ...
Article : 168 wordsThe orchestral concert in aid of the Australian Wounded Soldiers' Fund is to take place in the Town Hall this afternoon, in the presence of His Excellency the ...
Article : 177 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — At its meeting to-day the Water and Sewerage Board bad before it a letter from the Premier's department, btating:— ...
Article : 81 wordsAt a meeting of all branches of the State Parliamentary service held yesterday, with Mr. H. H. Newton in the chair, the sum of £100 was, on the motion of Mr. ...
Article : 83 wordsIn view of the vital and urgent necessity of organising the medical profession of Victoria on a war footing for both military and civilian purposes, the council of the ...
Article : 576 wordsSir,—In "The Argus" of yesterday appeared a report of certain questions that were asked in the House of Representatives by Mr. Cook and Mr. Greene, suggesting ...
Article : 411 wordsAdamson, Strettle, and Company [?]py. Ltd. sold a Jersey cow presented by Mr. Frank J. Vincent, of Mer[?]ands, Preston, on beha[?] of Lady Stanley's patriotic Fund. The cow was sold and ...
Article : 134 wordsWELLINGTON, Friday.—Colonel R.S. H. Henderson, the newly appointed director of medical service in New Zealand, will receive £1,500 a year. The engagement is ...
Article : 41 wordsThieves explored many hip pockets during the crush. Three men who reported losses of money to the police suffered in this way. Mr. John Ramsay, a carpenter, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. Donald Mackinnon) has frequently occasion to investigate complaints with regard to railway management, which are made by letter to ...
Article : 120 wordsFrom a musical standpoint the patriotic concert to be given by Miss Amy Castles at the Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday evening, August 11, in aid of the Wounded ...
Article : 183 wordsMiss Rita Nicholson, 6th floor, Equitable Buildings, wishes to acknowledge the generous response made to her appeal through these columns for pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, &c., for wounded and ...
Article : 44 wordsMURCHISON, Friday.—At the Pranjip Park sale to-day the attendance was poor, including a fair sprinkling of city owners and trainers. Bidding lacked spirit, and stock went at low figures. ...
Article : 305 wordsBALLARAT, Friday. — Australia Day was celebrated with the utmost enthusiasm at Ballarat, the presence of some 700 soldiers from camp adding to the interest in ...
Article : 293 wordsPractically the whole day at the Stock Exchange was devoted to various services to the funds by members. In recognition of the importance of the occasion it had ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Amaigamated Socieity of Carpenters has agreed to the following motion:— "That in the opinion of the committee of management the members of the society would ...
Article : 147 wordsThe body of a man in a badly mangled condition was found last evening on the railway line near the Friendly Societies' grounds, Richmond. The body, which is ...
Article : 53 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Irish blight was discovered to-day in a large consignment of potatoes from Victoria. Inspectors of the Depurtment of Agriculture at once gave ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—I know I ask a great deal when I beg. through your kind courtesy, my Australian friends to take tickets for my concert, to be held in the Melbourne Town Hall ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 31 Jul 1915, Page 18
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