SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Legislative Council to-night Mr. Fitzgerald moved the second reading of the Commonwealth Powers War Bill, Sir Joseph Carruthers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 wordsAt a meeting of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday committee, to be held in the Town Hall this afternoon the balance-sheet to be submitted will show that the last collection ...
Article : 1,334 wordsLord Parker, in the House of Lords on Tuesday, directed attention to the problems which the employment of soldiers after the war and the reorganisation of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. Holman) introduced into the Legislative Assembly to-day his proposals to reimpose a surtax of 3d. in the £1 on ...
Article : 1,092 wordsThe chief attraction last night at the carnival being held at Luna Park, in aid of our wounded soldiers, was an entertainment given by members of the Savage Club. ...
Article : 225 wordsAt a dinner given to Sir George Reid, the retinng High Commissioner for Australia in London, on Tuesday night, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) announced that His ...
Article : 609 wordsThe Wide Bay election, so far as the figures are known, has shown a remarkable reversion in voting, and, in political circles, the reversion is ...
Article : 548 wordsLONDON, Nov. 4.—There are now about 8,000 Australian wounded from the Dardanelles in England. The majority are in hospitals in the London area, or in the ...
Article : 1,503 wordsSir,—A rumour has, we understand, been circulated, to the effect that the Luna Park carnival is only receiving a percentage of the gross receipts. This is absolutely ...
Article : 128 wordsMessrs. Newby, Creighton, and Co., of Collins street, have announced the flotation of the McGuinness Trench Destroyer Pty. Ltd., with a capital of £5,000 in 500 ...
Article : 137 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.—The State War Council, presided over by the Premier (Mr. Scaddan), yesterday decided to call the attention of the public to the following ...
Article : 273 wordsA combined meeting of members of the Victorian Junior Cricket Association and the Junior Umpires' Association was held at the Orient Hotel last evening to ...
Article : 435 wordsA very large attendance is expected at the Melbourne Cricket-ground on Saturday afternoon at the military sports, in which the Expeditionary Forces, Citizen Forces, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Rev. M. Colman, S.J., who accompanied some of the Australian troops from Australia to Cairo a few months ago, left Suez on the return journey on December 4. ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A transport arrived at Sydney to-day with 298 men from Rabaul, under the command of Major J. B. Fry. The men have either completed their ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—As the result of a sensational shooting affair in the Children's Court to-day, Charles Lundel, a Swedish wharf labourer, 24 years of age, and ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The debate on the Government's loan estimates, involving £7,768,850, was concluded in the Legislative Assembly this morning, and the ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. Leslie Clark, formerly of Ballarat, has returned to England from Germany, where he had been interned. He speaks well of Dr Weiler's ...
Article : 337 wordsNews has been received that Mr. Gerald McHarg, eldest son of Mr. Andrew McHarg, late of Melbourne, and now living in London, who has been fighting since the outbreak of the war with the ...
Article : 155 wordsA special meeting of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association was held yesterday evening at the Orient Hotel, to discuss "what effect will the district ...
Article : 314 wordsA private cable message has been received from Captain R. A. Lowry, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, who has been acting as quartermaster at Lemnos, stating that he has been ...
Article : 108 wordsBoys who will be 14 years of age next year and who reside within five miles of the nearest place of training are required to registered their names for universal ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. C. C. Lewis, who was instrumental in obtaining over £1,200 worth of butter for the troops in Egypt last year, is now asking for a box of butter to be sent to the ladies' committee, which ...
Article : 82 wordsThe soldier who was run over and killed by a train near the Gifford street railway gates, Williamstown, on Tuesday night, was yesterday identified as Cyril Appleton, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe committee of the Lady Mayoress Patriotic League regreta to find that such bags as lime and cement prove exceedingly dusty, and cannot be handled by their workers because of lack of ...
Article : 58 wordsThe s.s. Star of New Zealand (4,417 tons), which recently ran on the rocks at Ushant, an island off the west coast of France, has broken up and disappeared. ...
Article : 379 wordsOUYEN, Wednesday.—The boy, Lewis McLean, son of a farmer at Nuga, who was bitten by a fly on the face and suffered septic-poisoning, died in the St. ...
Article : 38 wordsAt Menzies' Hotel a cafe chantant will begin at 3 o'clock under the control of the W. M. Robins and Mrs. J. Dyer, the Purple Dandies and Mr. Julius Knight are to ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,—Will you kindly afford me the hospitalily of your columns to appeal to your readers on behalf of a young woman, who is now, and has been for about 12 months, ...
Article : 175 wordsMALDON, Wednesday.—A fatal burning accident occurred at Long Gully on Tuesday afternoon. Miss Maude Bettie, a daughter of Mrs. J. Beattie, was ...
Article : 121 wordsThe steamer Orteric (6,535 tons, owned by the Bank Line Limited, of Glasgow) has been sunk. Her crew were saved, with the exception of two. ...
Article : 29 wordsTo day, at 3 p.m., Councillor Davidson, on behalf of the juvenile section of the "Cheer-Up Brigade," will hand to the authorities at Royal Park an enamel bath and heater, which is a ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,—Brigadier-General McCay, in his rousing patriotic speech delivered last night, was well calculated to sir up enthusiasm and cheers from a sympathetic audience, ...
Article : 461 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Splendid rains have fallen throughout the State during the past 24 hours and there is promise of more. The heal lest falls were 204 points of Tumut, ...
Article : 134 wordsSir,—In n letter recently received from the trenches, the writer mentions the longing the men have to put their teeth into a good, sound, sweet, juicy apple once again. ...
Article : 155 wordsCLUNES, Wednesday.—Maitland Lloyd, aged 3 years, was drowned yesterday afternoon in the Lothair dam, close to the railway station. Deceased, with his mother, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 366 wordsSir,—The experience of a soldier's mother in regard to the non-delivery of letters in Egypt, and at the front, whilst exceptionally sad in her case, is, unfortunately, but a ...
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Advertising : 222 wordsFew Irish plays appeal more to the thratre-going public than "Molly Bawn," and the revival of this pretty melodrama at the King's Theatre last evening attracted ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Broadmeadows Mending and Soldiers' Aid Society, with which is associated the "Cheer Up Brigade," has made an appeal in "The Argus" through the president ...
Article : 174 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The bodies of a woman and a boy were found to-day on a rock in the bed of the creek near Kuringai Station, on the northern line. There was ...
Article : 81 wordsWANGNUI.—Sailed.—Dec. 15—Hazel Craig and Daniel, for Sydney. THE BLUFF (1,205 Miles).—Sailed.—Dec. 15— Wimmera, for Melbourne. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 16 Dec 1915, Page 10
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