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  2. SHIPPING DISASTER.

    The Italian barque Avanti Savoia, 1,441 tons, with a cargo of nitrate from Iquique, in Chili, to the Tyne, has been wrecked at Culswick, in the Shetland ...

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  3. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN

    It is reported that a great battle has begun on the Yser River, in Belgium. The Allies are bombarding the German positions all along the front from the coast at Lomba rtzyde probably to Dixmude, but the chief effort is being made in the region of the Dunes. From a little to the east of Lombarizyde to Dixmude the country is flooded, so that if an advance is to be made it must take place along the coastal strip or to the east of the flooded ...

    Article : 258 words
  4. BLOCKADE OF GERMANY

    The German newspapers angrily comment upon the contents of the American Note to Great Britain and France protesting against the close blockade of ...

    Article : 112 words
  5. ENEMY'S PROPERTY IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. C. J. Stewart, the Public Trustee, who is the head of the department which acts as executor or trustee for testators, reports that his department is ...

    Article : 53 words
  6. PROHIBITION IMPRACTICABLE.

    It is understood that the Cabinet has considered the proposal for all-round prohibition of the sale of drink, and has come to the conclusion that it is ...

    Article : 121 words
  7. ITALY AND THE WAR

    Signor Tittoni, a former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Italy, and now Italian Ambassador to France, has arrived at Rome from Paris. It is ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. GENERAL CABLES.

    The creditors of Mr. Richard Marsh, the well-known horse trainer, are considering an offer from the King to provide £8,000 to enable Mr. Marsh to pay ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. AMERICAN OBSERVERS AND THE WAR.

    A few days ago a sensation was created in military circles in America owing to the War Department recalling the American army observers with the ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. PRESENTATION TO FRANCE.

    The American Ambassador to France has presented to M. Delcasse, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, a Note couched in similar terms to the one presented ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. RUSSIA'S TEMPERANCE MEASURES.

    A despatch from the English Ambassador at Petrograd contains a memorandum on the subject of the temperance measures adopted by Russia since the ...

    Article : 268 words
  12. PERSONAL.

    Mr. Elwood Mead, chairman of the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commissions has resigned (telegraphs our Melbourne correspondent). He ...

    Article : 760 words
  13. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

    The South African Union troops, under Colonel Yan der Vonter, who were officially reported yesterday as having occupied Warmbad, the chief town in ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. THE TURKISH WAR.

    The Vienna newspaper, "Neue Freie Presse," publishes a letter in which General Von der Goltz, the German Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. VICTORY CERTAIN.

    "I regard the situation as being very satisfactory," remarked Colonel Foster, Director of Military Studies at Sydney University, referring to the war last ...

    Article : 620 words
  16. THE ALLIES' CAMPAIGNS

    The official communique, issued in Paris this afternoon states:- Yesterday a German detachment, with machine-guns succeeded in ...

    Article : 83 words
  17. PANIC IN HUNGARY.

    The "Daily Mail" publishes the following message from its Petrograd correspondent:- "Hitherto the Russian forces in the ...

    Article : 188 words
  18. DRINK AND THE WAR.

    A memorial from merchants and manufacturers employing many thousands of hands has been presented to the Government in favour of prohibition ...

    Article : 61 words
  19. GENERAL WAR NEWS.

    A number of English women are to attend the International Peace Congress, which will open at The Hague on the 28th inst. The British ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. LABOUR AND THE WAR

    Two hundred thousand Welsh miners returned to work after the holidays with admirable loyalty, Like the workers at the shipyards and the munition ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. FRENCH MAKE IMPORTANT ADVANCE.

    The official communique issued in Paris last night states:- We made an important advance at Les Eparages on Tuesday night, and ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. FEELING IN INDIA.

    All the vernacular newspapers in Bombay and other centres of India contain leading articles praising the King for banishing alcoholic liquors from the ...

    Article : 40 words
  23. BROKEN HILL COMPANIES.

    "The Times," in an article to-day, deprecates the inactivity of the Imperial Government in failing so far to provide relief to Broken Hill mining companies ...

    Article : 68 words
  24. DEMAND OF COLLIERS.

    The members of the Coalowners' Association have refused the request of the Miners' Federation for a joint conference to discuss the demand for a 20 per ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. PROPOSED LEGISLATION.

    The Imperial Cabinet will consult the Unionist leaders with a view to introducing legislation curtailing the sale of liquor during the war. The Archbishop ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 247 words
  26. WAR IN THE AIR.

    Yesterday two German hydroplanes dropped eleven bombs against the steamer Oasel (1,284 tons, belonging to the Cork Steamship Co.), when the ...

    Article : 73 words
  27. THE ALLIES' OFFENSIVE

    The "Morning Post" publishes the following message from its special correspondent, sent from Amsterdam:- The Allies have taken up the ...

    Article : 117 words
  28. GERMAN SEAPLANE SUNK.

    After dropping bombs on the town of Libau, in the Baltic, a German seaplane fell near the port, and the aviators were captured. ...

    Article : 34 words
  29. TASMANIA.

    Senator Ready, at the request of a number of residents of Flinders Island, communicated with the Secretary of the Postal Department, asking why the ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. THE EASTERN CAMPAIGNS

    It is semi-officially stated in Vienna that the increased violence of the lighting in the Carpathians comes at the same time ...

    Article : 121 words
  31. NAVAL OPERATIONS.

    After several weeks repairing, coaling, and repainting, while the captain and sailors were being entertained and feted ashore, the German auxiliary ...

    Article : 102 words
  32. MURDER CHARGES.

    At the Criminal Court to-day Robert Bruce, otherwise known as Doctor Bruce, was arraigned for the murder of a young girl, Doris Chandler, who died ...

    Article : 275 words
  33. FAREWELL AT WOODBURY.

    On Saturday a farewell social was tendered at Woodbury to Mr. Jack Ridgers and Mr. E. V. Barwick, who have volunteered for the front, and ...

    Article : 58 words
  34. EITEL FRIEDRICH'S RAIDING CAREER.

    The San Francisco correspondent of the "Age" writing under date March 15, says. "A plain act of piracy" is the way in which the owners of the American ship ...

    Article : 1,176 words
  35. THE SAND SHOE FUND.

    Miss Ruth B. Patterson writes:- "Those interested in the Field Artillery Sandshoe Fund will be pleased to hear that the amount that has not already ...

    Article : 176 words
  36. SUBMARINE BLOCKADE.

    A fortnight ago the British Admiralty announced that it had good reason to believe that the German submarine U29 (800 tons, 18 knots on surface, ...

    Article : 119 words
  37. THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.

    The following communique was issued last night:- All the summits of the principal chain of the East Bieskid range of ...

    Article : 141 words
  38. SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS

    The State Ministry decided not to veto the by-law of the City Council not allowing picture shows to be held in registered buildings on Sundays. ...

    Article : 34 words
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