Trouble arose yesterday in connection with coaling the steamship Loonga[?], which trades between Melbourne and Launceston, and the matter was mentioned ...
Article : 798 wordsA deputation from the Victorian State Recruiting Committee waited upon the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) yesterday, and discussed with him the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsMr. G. Ward Price, British press representative in the Near East, says that a Greek, who has just arrived from Constantinople, reports that food is very dear. The ...
Article : 282 wordsAny doubt that may have existed as to the extent to which Italy would participate in the Balkan campaign has been removed by the speech of her Foreign Minister. Baron S[?]nnino aroused great enthusiasm in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday when he declared that Italy ...
Article : 770 wordsDr. Lindhock, the well-known Danish philosopher, declares that there is no longer any enthusiasm or public spirit in Germany. People in the theatres even his[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—To-day 77 recruits were enrolled for the Expeditionary Forces at the three Sydney recruiting depots. ...
Article : 19 wordsIn regard to the discontented temporary clerks at the Victoria Barracks, it was ascertained yesterday that in the pay office, whence most of the dissension appears to ...
Article : 102 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—During the week the recruiting in South Australia has improved. On Monday the second State recruiting campaign will be opened. The ...
Article : 38 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The Trades Council has agreed to a motion declaring that legislation in favour of conscription is not justified by the present ...
Article : 112 wordsSir Edward Carson states that the report published by the "Daily News" (Radical) of the intended formation of a National party, with himself as leader, is entirely ...
Article : 58 wordsA week ago the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union decided to ask the Melbourne and Suburban Timber Merchants' Association for a conference to deal with ...
Article : 218 wordsDiscussing an amnesty motion submitted by Mr. Hertzog, leader of the Nationalist, or anti-Imperial party, the South African Prime Minister (General Botha) said that ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Lord Kitchener), who recently returned to London after a visit to France, Italy, and the Near East, on Thursday attended a ...
Article : 41 wordsPERTH, Friday.—The Labour Federation executive deals with conscription in its halfyearly report, and expresses the opinion that the workers of Australian would be foolish ...
Article : 79 wordsWashington reports that the American Secretary of State (Mr. R. Lansing) has refused to give passports to Mr. Henry Ford's peace party, which was to sail for ...
Article : 46 words"Fairplay" declares that Italy's seizure of German vessels which at the outbreak of war sought refuge in her ports brings the total number of vessels belonging to the ...
Article : 189 wordsAsked, whether the recruiting scheme would be discussed at the next meeting of the Federal War Committee on December 15, the Minister stated that the scheme ...
Article : 110 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The 400 porters at the Darling Harbour railway goods yard who ceased work, owing to the suspension of one of their number for alleged insubordination, ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Buch[?]arest correspondent of the "Corrier[?] Della Sera" (Milan) reports that Russian vessels are cruising day and night close to the Bessarabian shore of the ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Tristan Buesst left Melbourne by the R.M.S. Malwa for London, in order to offer his services to the Army Office. He expects to obtain a commission. His brother ...
Article : 109 wordsCaptain A. St. G. Glasson, of the Glasgow steamer Inverkip (4,353 tons), reported on arrival at Newport News, Virginia (U.S.A.), that he had accidentally sunk a ...
Article : 58 wordsGerman wounded reaching Ghent from the front in West Flanders, says a Rotterdam message, report that the guns of the Allies are not giving the Germans a ...
Article : 158 wordsColonel Cuscaden, principal medical [?] cer for Victoria, replied yesterday to correspondence which appeared in "The Argus" alleging favouritism and influence ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor), who has been on a visit of inspection to the works of the Geelong Harbour Trust, which are leased to one of the meat ...
Article : 282 wordsThe major of Caulfield (Councillor No[?]l Murray) has convened a public meeting of Caulfield citizens for Wednesday evening, at the Caulfield Town Hall, to take steps ...
Article : 37 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The strike of engineers employed at the Naval Dockyards, Cockatoo Island, over the dispute with the shipwrights regarding the demarcation of ...
Article : 65 wordsConflicting reports continue to he received of the position at Monastir. Latest Athens advices are that although the Serbians have evacuated the town, the ...
Article : 216 wordsExcellent reports have been received of the work of graduates of the Royal Military College with the A.I.F. at the front, and they are supported by reports of ...
Article : 151 wordsSir,—In perusing the accounts of the different strikes which are continually taking place, I cannot refrain from contrasting the action of these strikers with that of the ...
Article : 131 wordsThere is a newspaper out[?]ry against the admission of the Under Secretary of State for War (Mr. Tennant), in the House of Commons, that a Mrs. Savile, who is of ...
Article : 133 wordsFor many months past the shipping companies have been greatly inconvenienced [?] account of there being insufficient unionist coal-lumpers to attend to the ...
Article : 277 wordsA Petrograd communique, issued at midday on Thursday, states:—"Our artillery surprised an enemy bi[?]ouac between Friedrichstadt and Jacobstadt (between ...
Article : 57 wordsSir,—We have had the pleasure of organising camp concerts for the boys at the Royal Park encampment ever since its opening, and it is our intention to arrange a Christmas concert and ...
Article : 168 wordsSir,—I have read with regret (since my return to Australia) of strikes and other evidences of dissatisfaction in munition factories and other places. It seems almost ...
Article : 253 wordsItalian artillery has destroyed several villages behind the Austrian front, in the Tohnino basin of the Upper Isonzo. The Vienna communique which gives this ...
Article : 39 wordsA request has been made to the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) by Mr. R. Crowe, superintendent of exports, for a permit to export butter from the ...
Article : 76 wordsOne of the results of modern warfare is that many of those who have escaped with then lives from the fiery ordeal of battle have returned with their nervous systems ...
Article : 428 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—A shocking tragedy occurred to-night, when a halfcaste Maori, George Cordon, murdered a single woman, Martha[?] McKee, with whom ...
Article : 157 wordsDr. Schott, director of the Hamburg Observatory, who is visiting Zurich (Switzerland), describes the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus as the joint or bridgehead in the ...
Article : 94 wordsA message from Tokio states that the Mikado personally opened the Japanese Diet on Thursday, and in his Speech from the Throne emphasised the fact that the ...
Article : 49 wordsNo new cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis occurred in the metropolitan area yesterday, and no deaths from this discase were reported. ...
Article : 25 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Another increase has been made in the proclaimed price of butter. Prices from Monday will be:— First grade, 156/ per [?]wt.; second grade, ...
Article : 31 wordsThe hearing of the arguments on the claims for variations of the award in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court in the waterside workers' case was continued ...
Article : 474 wordsBEECHWORTH, Friday. — Robert Thomas Brown, a single man, 31 years of age, died in the Ovens District Hospital to-day from meningitis. Deceased was ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,—The strike mania certainly needs assistance, both morally and financially[?] We have had Belgium Day, Button Day, Allies' Day, &c., and the flow of money is ...
Article : 175 wordsRepresentatives of the State Munitions Committee and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers met in conference last night for the purpose of considering what steps ...
Article : 224 wordsIn connection with the scurrilous leaflets sent to various people through the post concerning a police officer, Detective Commons for some days has been endeavouring to ...
Article : 274 wordsA number of Australian women have arranged to send a souvenir to each of the invalided Australian soldiers in England, Malta, and Egypt, conveying to them ...
Article : 175 wordsMr. F. W. Jowett (Labour) referred in the House of Commons on Thursday to the episode at the Memorial Hall, when a number of soldiers from the dominio[?]s and ...
Article : 121 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The Ministry has definitely decided to enter upon the hotel business. It is proposed to take over an hotel now in course of erection at Mount ...
Article : 55 wordsGREENDALE, Friday.—Ashley Baker, 16 years of age, was sent to the Ballarat Hospital by Dr. A. Blaubaum, of Bailan, suffering from meningitis. He is reported to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—Speaking at a meeting of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand, Mr. Beauchamp (chairman) said that for the year ended ...
Article : 200 wordsSir,—The thanks of the community are due to you for your very able and pointed article published in yesterday's issue. It is high time that the Government took some ...
Article : 236 wordsArrivals.—At London—Kumara, s.s., from Auckland October 1[?]. Departures. — For Sydney — John A. Campbell, Forest Home, Atna, Janna. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 4 Dec 1915, Page 19
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