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  2. THREE LONG-LIVED SISTERS.

    There are three sisters living at Norwood whose ages total about 272 years. They are Mesdames C. Amey (93 or 94), W. Langley (91), and R. Lucas (87), and they ...

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  3. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    It is confidently expected by the Education Department that a marked impetus in technical teaching will follow the appointment of Mr. Charles Fen. r, MSc., the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 728 words
  4. "VICTORY" LOANS.

    The "victory" Joan has received an excellent start. It is estimated that the first £100,000,000 will be received in a few hours. Lombard street was early crowded ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. Labour and the War

    The Yorkshire engineers have passed a solution protesting against the number of untrained men who are being admitted to he British, munition works, and are ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. NATIONAL FEDERATION.

    Judging by the numerous letters, and enquiries which are being received daily by the General Secretary of the National Federation regarding the formation of ...

    Article : 1,470 words
  7. NORTHERN RUSSIANS HOLDING.

    News from the western front indicates that British and French are alike harassing the foe all along the line in Prance and Flanders. The success of the Russian northern armies is being continued. In the south the reports are not so favourable. Two other, villages or other small towns have ...

    Article : 160 words
  8. TEACHING THE TEACHERS.

    It is a fine thing to see more than 100 teachers unselfishingly devoting a substantial portion of their much-needed vacation to their own instruction. This is ...

    Article : 659 words
  9. CONTROL URGED IN FRANCE.

    Deputy Violette, reporting to the French Government on the necessity of Parliamentary control of labour, cites the position that existed in February, 1915, and says ...

    Article : 117 words
  10. VICTORIAN LABOUR SENATORS.

    Some time ago the central executive of the Victorian Political Labour Council considered that a double dissolution of the Federal Parliament was inevitable, and it ...

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  11. MONEY POURING IN.

    Subscriptions of new money to the great war loan are pouring in Although the banks closed at the usual hour, the Bank of England's loan office was open on Thursday i :n J1 :r:u: :_„._!.___n J__ ...

    Article : 374 words
  12. ENEMY ENTERPRISE.

    The Neues Pester Journal, one of the leading dailies of Budapest, reports that capitalists of Germany, Austria, and Hun­gary are negotiating for a gigantic banking ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. WESTERN FRONT.

    Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in his Sunday night report, announces that the British drove off a raid north-west of Gueudecourt, and carried out successful ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. EASTERN FRONTS.

    The Petrograd correspondent of The Morning Post says that Gen. Russky, who commanding the "Russians on the Baltic front, has warmly thanked Gen. ...

    Article : 45 words
  15. Incidents of the War.

    At the instance of the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr.Massey), the British. Government Las remitted duty on the jam and sugar rations for the New Zealand ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. A TOWN ABANDONED.

    A Russian official report announces:—A German dense attack on the Riga front south of Babit Lake was repulsed. In Moldavia the enemy attacked from ...

    Article : 48 words
  17. Belgian Slaves.

    Many of the Belgians who were deported by Germany to work in the Fatherland have been sent back in an emaciated or dying condition. They were, unable to ...

    Article : 53 words
  18. A Father's Indiscretion.

    At the Port Melbourne Court to-day Mr. Moore, P.M., was just about to give his decision in a case, in which Michael O'Shannessy was charged by the Navy ...

    Article : 192 words
  19. RUSSIAN HAUL OF BOOTY.

    A Petrograd message indicates that the booty captured by the Russians on the Riga front includes:—Fifty machine guns, 10 field guns, 335,000 marks (normal value ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. LABOUR MEN'S VIEWS.

    Mr. C. W. Bowerman (Labour member of the House of Commons for Deptford), in an interview after a visit to the front, said:—France has done everything she can ...

    Article : 233 words
  21. Exciting Trip in a Tug.

    An extraordinary exploit is recounted concerning 103 inhabitants of Liege. They included the vigilance of the Germans at the old Belgian fortress town, and in a ...

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  22. The Kaiser and God.

    The Nord Deutscne Aligemeine Zeitung published at Berlin, says:—The Kaiser letter to the German Imperial Chancellor (Dr. Bethmann Hollweg), on October 31 ...

    Article : 167 words
  23. The Recruiting Campaign.

    There was a busy scene at the office of the recruiting committee on Monday. Officers just appointed rubbed shoulders with numerous citizens, all enthusiastic ...

    Article : 373 words
  24. THE LABOUR CRISIS.

    Although the delegates to the council of the Labour Party recently disapproved of the paragraph in the executive's report which intimated that a special conference ...

    Article : 419 words
  25. Russia and Australia.

    The Russo-British Chamber of Commerce intends to send delegates to Australia for the purpose of establishing closer commercial rcktions between Russia and the ...

    Article : 24 words
  26. GREEK SITUATION.

    Telegrams from newspaper correspondents in various parts of Greece indicate that the Athens Government's implied acceptance of the allied ultimatum has ...

    Article : 130 words
  27. PEACE NOTES.

    The official Press Bureau has issued the reply of Belgium to President Wilson's peace Note. The text includes the following statements:—"President Wilson ...

    Article : 255 words
  28. German Food Problem Acute.

    A summary of all the available news from Berlin (says The New York Times in its issue this morning) shows that the prospects of the German people being ...

    Article : 143 words
  29. "FOR THE BOTTOM DOG"

    Mr. Pervical Brookfield, the selected P.L.L candidate for the Start seat in the Slate Legislative Assembly delivered his policy speech yesterday. He said in ...

    Article : 258 words
  30. AMERICAN SENSATIONS.

    The United States cruiser Milwaukee (9,700 tons, completed in 1900), which Tan ashore yesterday on the Californian coast at Eureka, while attempting to salve a ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. Operations in Macedonia.

    A German communique claims that attacks by the Allies between the Vardar and Lake Doiran were unsuccessful. ...

    Article : 24 words
  32. VICTORIAN LICENSING COURT.

    The first sitting of the newly constituted Licensing Court was held to-day. The Court announced that transfers would rot be treated as "so many formal ...

    Article : 142 words
  33. Two Austrian Submarines Captured.

    An Italian naval communique says:—Two Austrian submarines have been captured, and one of them has been incorporated m the Italian Navy. Italian and French ...

    Article : 73 words
  34. EMPIRE CONFERENCE.

    The decision that the Imperial Conference shall meet in London at the end of next February "has riven satisfaction in colonial circles. There is reason to believe ...

    Article : 60 words
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  36. DUPONT WORKS EXPLOSION.

    Three men have been arrested on suspicion of having been concerned in the origin of the fire and triple explosion which destroyed 200 tons of powder at the ...

    Article : 95 words
  37. Allies' Reply Stung the Enemy.

    The Cologne Volkszeitung contends that the peace terms of the Allies amount to a fresh declaration of war. It adds:—"We are again summoned to fight ...

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  38. More Steamers Sunk.

    The Danish steamer Tuborg (2,056 tone) has been sunk. The members of her crew were rescued. The Norwegian steamer Vestfold (1,883 ...

    Article : 32 words
  39. Specialist Aids to Cabinet.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George, is rapidly improving his Clearing House for Cabinet business, which has absorbed the former War Committee and the Committee ...

    Article : 122 words
  40. NEW ZEALAND'S POPULATION.

    The census figures just issued show that the Dominion's population, excluding the Maoris in the Samoan, Cook, and other islands and troops abroad, totals 1,098,295, ...

    Article : 47 words
  41. SUNNY CORNER DISCOVERY.

    Mining speculators and others from Lithgow, Bathurst, Sydney, and Orange have visited the new gold discovery near Sunny Garner, where obliging prospectors have ...

    Article : 91 words
  42. Danish Steamer Captured.

    The Altenbladet states that a German destroyer captured the Danish steamer Thyra in Swedish waters. A German submarine stopped the Swedish ...

    Article : 52 words
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  44. NEW SOUTH WALES GROPS.

    In his estimate of the wheat yield for 1916, the Government Statistician puts the total production from 4,500,480 acres, of which 3,755,695 acres were cut for grain ...

    Article : 77 words
  45. Blind Leader of Blind.

    Herr [?] who was the German Consul-General at Sydney prior to the outbreak of the has delivered a remarkable lecture at Munich, the capital of Bavaria. ...

    Article : 207 words
  46. BROKEN HILL RAILWAY RETURN.

    During 1916 a total of 20,575 passengers arrived in Broken HiE by train, and 21,527 departed. ...

    Article : 24 words
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