The following bulletin was issued from the Weather Bureau at 9 p.m. on Friday. Fine weather, with cool to moderate temperatures and southerly winds prevailed ...
Article : 258 wordsGen. Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander-in-Chief on the western front, has issued a despatch of about 16,000 words. It is dated December 23, and deals with ...
Article : 198 wordsAn order was issued by the Navy Department on Friday that all the remaining restrictions regarding the use of coal and the supply of electric and gas power for ...
Article : 162 wordsInventive genius has been unusually busy, but its productions are mostly war implements. Medleaf and surgical triumphs in military and naval ...
Article : 877 wordsOur Broken Hill correspondent telegraphed on Friday.—At the Fowler's Gap Races' on Boxing Day, after Wild Wave had passed the post in the Flying Handicap, ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. W. Herbert Phillipps, a son-in-law of Mr. R. A. Tarlton (who was at one time among the leading legislators and commercial men of South Australia), has ...
Article : 1,328 wordsThe railways authorities in New South Wales have made a 10 per cent, increase in the goods tariff on the Government lines within the State. The new rates became ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Laird Smith) has announced that it has been found necessary to change the mode of addressing mails to soldiers serving ...
Article : 211 words"During the four and a half months from July 1 to the middle of November, 360 raids were carried out, as the result of which the enemy suffered many casualties; also ...
Article : 335 wordsThe railway to Willunga, which was opened for traffic on January 20, 1915, has more than pleased, those who advocated its construction. That the railway will ...
Article : 255 wordsA special Federal Gazette was issued on Friday night giving publicity to a proclamation under the War Precautions Act bringing boots under the price-fixing ...
Article : 91 wordsDescribing the operations against Pozieres, Gen. Haig says:—"The Fourth Army on July 23 advanced on a wide front from Guillemont of Pozieres. We found the ...
Article : 263 wordsThe report mentions the stupendous preparations for the Somme battle, including the accumulation of vast stores of all kinds hear the front; the construction of new ...
Article : 104 wordsSome people may think Mr. T. E. Day, the explorer, is romancing when he talks of fruit and vegetables of great variety and abundance in the interior. But ...
Article : 259 wordsAt the Bow County Court (London) lately a man who was questioned regarding his occupation said he was a tinsmith, job-buyer, a milkman, a general dealer, ...
Article : 215 wordsGen. Haig defines the threefold objective of the battle as follows:—First, to relieve the enemy pressure upon the French at Yerdun; second, to assist the Allies in ...
Article : 334 wordsTo-day's issue of The Saturday Journal will offer features of special interest. It will contain many complete stories and excellent contributions appropriate to the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe employment of lachrymal and poison gases and of liquid flame by the enemy necessitated our devising similar instruments. Great fertility of invention was ...
Article : 160 wordsWhen the enemy's weak sailent into the allied line finally disappeared on September 9, it had become evident that our new armies were not only able to rush the ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Digest statue in the world is the Statue of Liberty at the entrance to New York Harbour, which was recently damaged by a dynamite explosion. It was ...
Article : 214 wordsAt about 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon Mrs. Leo, of 17 O'Halloran street, city, reported to the Glenelg police that her mother, Mrs. Isabel Williams, 70 years ...
Article : 199 words"Is Central Australia a desert or a paradise?" This question was put yesterday to Mr. T. E. Day, who returned recently from a long official exploration of ...
Article : 470 wordsA telegram received from Melbourne on Friday stated:—Enquiries made to-day at the Federal Attorney-General's Department with regard to the reason for having fixed ...
Article : 208 wordsIn concluding his report, Gen. Haig says:—"The responsibility of the Somme battle was entrusted to Gen. Rawlinson and Gen. Gough, who for five months have ...
Article : 287 wordsRegarding the achievement of the third objective—the effort to wear down the strength of the enemy—Gen. Haig admits that any statement he makes must depend ...
Article : 152 wordsOur Sydney correspondent telegraphed on Friday:—The State Government has endowed a chair of architecture at the University of Sydney, with a sum of £2,000 ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following statement shows in interesting comparative form Boxing Day bookings on the State railways this year and last. The figures in brackets are for ...
Article : 243 wordsThe results of the University Senior and Junior Commercial Examinations published recently show that a student of Muirden College, Grote street, occupied the highest ...
Article : 135 wordsThe test of the despatch occupies 24 bages of The London Gazette, and covers the period from May 19 to November 12. At states that all the Allies were agreed ...
Article : 441 wordsThe absence of a late tram service to the suburbs on New Year's Eve will probably damp the ardour of many of those who are accustomed to foregather in the ...
Article : 264 words"The success gained by the Fourth Army enabled me to assault Thiepval. Unfortunately, a period of unfavourable weather interfered with the advance in the ...
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Advertising : 593 wordsSoft summer night and silv'ry stars agleam, The air so still we scarce can feel its breath, And over all a strangeness as a dream, Our life upon the borderland of Death. ...
Article : 227 wordsAn extraordinary experience is related by Mr. Charles Carlin, of Allandale (writes our Mount Gambier correspondent). He states that while walking in ...
Article : 168 wordsAttention is directed to an announcement in our advertising columns, made by the Railway Department, of the ordinary rain service, which will be in operation ...
Article : 148 wordsIt was announced in The Register on Friday that His Majesty the King had approved of Sunday, December 31, being observed throughout the Empire, instead of ...
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Advertising : 550 wordsThe new Bible Christian Chapel at Maciren Vale was opened on December 23. The preachers were Messrs. Way and Burness. It cost £321, of which £113 is owing. ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Sat 30 Dec 1916, Page 9
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