An encounter between some soldiers and the military police occurred in the city last evening. About three hundred men were granted leave at the Maribyrnong camp ...
Article : 499 wordsROCHESTER, Wednesday. — Leaving Kerang at 8 o'clock this morning the members of the Closer Settlement Commission made an inspection of the settlements in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 189 wordsIt was complained at the last meeting of the United Grocers' Union that the employers' representatives on the wages board now sitting desired to bring into operation ...
Article : 807 wordsCOLAC, Wednesday. — The death occurred this afternoon of Dean Nelan, who has had charge of the Roman Catholic parish of Colac for 52 years. He was the ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) has received a despatch from the Imperial authorities, stating that atrangements have been made to give official ...
Article : 1,831 wordsThe apple harvest is 5,000,000 cases. Only 1,050,000 cases can be exported. The rest must be eaten in Australia, or go to waste. ...
Article : 1,114 wordsRecruiting in Victoria has fallen away to such an extent that the number of men now being enrolled is just sufficient to cover our quota of reinforcements. As stated by ...
Article : 1,259 wordsA consignment of clothing sent from Melbourne for soldiers in the Ballarat camp was tampered with on the journey, goods to the value of £[?] 19/6 being stolen. It was noticed that some of the ...
Article : 1,873 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Although, according to the annual report of the inspectorgeneral of police, which was laid on the table in the Legislative Assembly to-night, there ...
Article : 210 wordsDisappointing results have been experienced by sugar-beet growers at Maffra this year. Owing to climatic conditions, the production of sugar per ton of beet will be, in ...
Article : 175 wordsThree sudden deaths occurred yesterday. An old-age pensioner named Wragg was discovered ill in Post-office place, and died on the way to the Melbourne Hospital in a ...
Article : 432 wordsAn inspiriting sight may be witnessed on any night but Sunday in the workshop conducted by the men's section of the Prahran Red Cross Society at the rear of the ...
Article : 481 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—In the opinion of the Government expert in sheep and wool (Mr. W. G. Brown) the keeping of sheep on the Queensland coast has now ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Agent-General for New South Wales (Mr. B. R. Wise) is retaining, his London offices in Cannon street for the present, owing to the impossibility of getting ...
Article : 63 wordsSpecial courses of training for Sunday school teachers, under the direction of the Rev. Roscoe Wilson, in preparation for the Anglican annual examinations in July, are ...
Article : 186 wordsIn the return showing the receipts obtained by the proprietary racecourses which the Chief Secretary (Mr. McLeod) submitted to the Cabinet last week, the gross ...
Article : 259 wordsThe question of persons of alien enemy birth sitting as councillors was again discussed at the meeting of the Hawthorn Council last night. Councillor Schwerin, ...
Article : 251 wordsIn the Fitzroy Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. S. J. Goldsmith, P.M., and T. McMahon and T. Griffen, J.P.'s, Frank Wallner was charged that he, being a naturalised subject of enemy ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is evident that the Australian Red Cross Commissioners in Fgypt are anticipating busy days ahead. In addition to their large requisitions for hospital ...
Article : 459 wordsThree candidates have been nominated for a selection ballot for a nominee to contest the forthcoming vacancy in the Melbourne North Province of the Legislative Council ...
Article : 183 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—The Old Corduroy Bridge Hotel, at Clarendon, portion of which was utilised for post-office purposes, was burnt to the ground on Wednesday morning. The building was ...
Article : 102 wordsOne of the cardinal rules of amateur sport is that betting should be prohibited. In order to enforce this, the Victoria Amateur Athletic Association some time ago succeeded ...
Article : 196 wordsAt a meeting of the Collingwood Council on Tuesday evening a deputation from the combined State schools' committees made a request that the vote of £15 in connection with Empire Day ...
Article : 115 wordsA dispersal sale of shorthorn cattle was held on April 12, on account of the executors of the late James Holmes, at Bathurst, N.S.W. There was a large and representative attendance of breeders and ...
Article : 204 wordsSir,—To be on the Footseray platform when the 7.30 a.m. train draws in going to Melbourne is to witness a sort of fierce Rugby "scrimmage" to obtain—not seats— ...
Article : 299 wordsA large number of ladies met in the Fitzroy Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon at an American tea organised to assist the central branch of the Australian Women's National League Birthday Fund. ...
Article : 272 wordsInquiries made at the Health department yesterday do not bear out the contention put forward by Canon Hughes at a meeting of the Melbourne Hospital Committee on ...
Article : 226 wordsBENALLA (April 5).— Campbell and Sons, of Kirk's Bazaar, Melbourne, in conjunction with M. Q. McNamara and Co., of Benalla, report:— [?]ghts. There were a number of buyers for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsJames Percival O'Mara, a man 49 years of age, appeared before Messrs. P. C[?] P.M., W. Johns, and J. Gaban, J.P.'s. in the Collingwood Court on Wednesday, to answer a charge of street-betting. ...
Article : 125 wordsFor the final three nights of the Melbourne season "Britain Prepared," the official war films, will be transferred to the Melbourne Town Hall, commencing this evening, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 13 Apr 1916, Page 8
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