Growing over wide areas in many parts of Australia is a plant commonly known as the "grass tree," or "yacca," or, as it is sometimes called, "blackboy," from the ...
Article : 1,332 wordsInclement weather conditions interfered materially with the annual show of the Swan Reach Agricultural and Horticultural Society on Thursday, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsMr. J. R. Campbell, South Australian representative of the Australian Comforts Fund, writing from the western front on August 22 to the Secretary of the League ...
Article : 748 wordsExcitement prevailed at North terrace on Monday night when the various fire-fighting implements of the central brigade ranged up in front of the railway station ...
Article : 355 wordsI wonder (writes a South Australian soldier on board a transport) if our dear, peerless Adelaide is thinking as much of her boys who for weeks have been ...
Article : 977 wordsTuesday, November 7, is to be observed throughout Great Britain as a Roll of Honour Day. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn 11th Light Horse Comforts Fund has been fenced in Brisbane, with the object of sending comforts to the members of that regiment at the front. As there is no time to dispatch a ...
Article : 93 wordsSerious instances of bloodpoisoning are being reported throughout Germany as the result of some toxic principle in the tinned food which is being largely consumed. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Hon. Secretary writes:—The monthly meeting of the 18th Battery Club was held on Friday, October 6, in the Stow Memorial Lecture Hall. There was a large attendance. A report was ...
Article : 292 wordsThe Kitchener Memorial Fund has now reached £341,000. It is intended, in addition to providing officers and men, likely to be bedridden for the rest of their lives, ...
Article : 98 wordsSemaphore, Tuesday, October 17.—High water, 6 a.m.; low water, noon. ARRIVED.—October 16. Wild Wave, bq., 223, L. G. Attwell, Hobert, ...
Article : 817 wordsGen. Sir Douglas Haig, in a report on Monday morning, says:—The Germans are conducting a severe bombardment south of the Ancre Brook. We repulsed with heavy ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the Mitcham Model School on Saturday afternoon, a fete and sale of gifts were held in aid of the school furnishing and Repatriation, Funds, and the function proved an undoubted ...
Article : 195 wordsShortly after noon on Monday Mr. John Ryan, aged 76, of Kapunda, stepped off a tramear which was in motion in King William street north and fell. He was ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Jean Herbritte, a French authority on international law, says the German submarine U53 violated the Monroe doctrine. He asks, "Will America permit ...
Article : 105 wordsAn accident occurred on Friday afternoon to the passenger motor charabane which daily plies between Mannum and Adelaide. It is owned by Mr. A. E. Banks, ...
Article : 81 wordsMORGAN, October 16.—While the Rev. J. Lock (Methodist), accompanied by his wife, was returning in a motor car from a religious service at Wood's Flat on ...
Article : 81 wordsThe annual general meeting of members of the above club was held at the clubhouse, Glenelg, on Thursday evening, when the Commodore (Mr. F. A. Tennant) presided over a good attendance. The ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Military Medal has been awarded to another Wallaroo boy, and it has again come to a "Mac," in the person of Pte. Isaac McLean, 19 years of age. ...
Article : 617 wordsBROKEN HILL, October 16.—A married woman, Mrs. R. Backstrom, died suddenly last night at North Broken Hill. An inquest was held to-day, when a verdict ...
Article : 56 wordsBROKEN HILL, October 16.—A, fire early this morning destroyed a two-roomed, house in Piper street, South Broken Hill, owned by Mr. W. H. Baker, and occupied ...
Article : 35 wordsThe seventh annual show of the Cleve Agricultural. Horticultural, and Floricultural Society was held on Tuesday. Ideal spring weather prevailed, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 258 wordsWilliam S. Hart, the Triangle Picture actor, has made a speciality of characterizations, of the men to be found in the far western frontier towns of America. He ...
Article : 556 wordsMELBOURNE, October 16.—In the Second Civil Court to-day. Mr. Justice Higgins (President of the Arbitration Court) gave further consideration to points raise by counsel on the minutes of ...
Article : 243 wordsLieut. Denny, M.P., wrote from the front to friends in Adelaide under date August 30:—"We are getting winter in what they call summer here. The horrors ...
Article : 228 wordsThe thirty-third annual show at Nhill was held on the Agricultural Society's showgrounds on Wednesday. The weather was perfect and the attendance large. About ...
Article : 314 wordsWAIKERIE, October 15.—A problem presenting many perplexities is facing the community in regard to the maintenance of irrigable blocks held by soldiers at the ...
Article : 353 wordsPresent—The Mayor (Mr. J. Ford, jun.), Ald. Bradley, Suell, Lowen, Twelftree, Crs. Wilson, Nitschke, Sutton, Ferguson, Crowley, Barker, Kennealy, and Buttery. The finance committee ...
Article : 103 wordsA meeting of the council of the School of Mines and Industries was held on Monday. There were present the President (Sir Langdon Bonython), the Hons. D. M. Charleston and J. H. Howe, ...
Article : 188 wordsA cable intimation has been received by Messrs. W. & T. Pone, solicitors, Pirie street, Adelaide, that Pte. Donald Kerr, Army Medical Corps, who before enlisting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 7 wordsFollowing are the names of the men who enlisted at Adelaide and went into the Exhibition Camp on Monday:— J. G. Bevan, N. Batson, W. Brown, ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. John Mitchell, of Kadina, received by the last mail letters from his son Arthur who is in Egypt. He was in the thick of the fight against the Turks early ...
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Advertising : 841 wordsWar creates its own special circumstances. Before the war thousands of young Australians may have ardently wished to see the Old Country, with very ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Betting Tax Act will be brought into operation on November 1. ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 17 Oct 1916, Page 6
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