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  2. THE WAR.

    From somewhere in Gallipoli:—"The Colonel had scarcely, put his whistle to his lips to order the charge when the drat of our lot sprang over the parapet. He was ...

    Article : 96 words
  3. FITZ FACING BOTH WAYS.

    Was Fitzgerald, of the Holman Government, expounding to the Legislative Council the new ethic of Labor when, in reference to the early closing of pubs., he ...

    Article : 120 words
  4. The Cumberland Argus AND Fruitgrowers' Advocate, WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Cumberland Mercury, River Times Weekly Advance, Cumberland Free Press and Ryde Electorate Press PARRAMATTA, DECEMBER 8, 1915.

    MR. HOLMAN has been again on trial before the Caucus, and again, in the of of Party solidarity, he has received a vote of confidence. According ...

    Article : 300 words
  5. [?] OLD DATE.

    An effort was made in committees, by some of the Parramatta aldermen to Get the Parramatta municipal rates lowered by a half-penny; but the majority of the ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. LIFE ON A TRANSPORT.

    Private R. C. Coogan, of the Army Service Corps, who, prior to enlisting, was one of Central Cumberland's crack bowlers writing to his sister, Mrs. Ellison, of ...

    Article : 160 words
  7. HE COULD HOT FIND OUT.

    Alderman DeLow, at Parramatta Council meeting on Monday, lamented that he could not obtain any definite information as to what part of the town was supplied ...

    Article : 70 words
  8. TENDERS.

    Tenders have been accepted for the following school works:—Rydalmere, repairs, A. Cayzer, Waverley, £60; Fairfield, improvements, H. A. Baglee, Canley Vale, ...

    Article : 34 words
  9. A MUSICAL TREAT.

    Lovers of good music should not fall to attend the "Messiah" festival. In the Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta, to-night (Wednesday). The Methodist choir will ...

    Article : 89 words
  10. A [?] SPECTACLE.

    "The Bulletin," on the Australian Labor Governments:—"In the meantime their own reckless extravagance is an outrageous offence against the nation, and ...

    Article : 101 words
  11. NEW BUILDINGS.

    At the Parramatta Council meeting this week the plans and specifications for different new building Jobs, of a relatively trifling diameter, were approved. They ...

    Article : 72 words
  12. DRUNKS TO BE CARTED OFF.

    zAs we suggested in "The Argus" the other day—following on the unnecessary expense the State was put to at a prolonged inquest, as much to prove that a ...

    Article : 179 words
  13. "ASSISTING THE MURDER OF YOUR COMRADES."

    The "Loco Record," the organ of the New Zealand engine-drivers, says in an editorial:—"It would be impossible for this union to take part in any conference ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. PRAISE FOR PARRAMATTA.

    Mayor Graham has received the following letter from the joint hon. sees, of the Australia Day Fund in Sydney:—"In forwarding you the official receipt for ...

    Article : 169 words
  15. PROPERTY SALES.

    On Saturday, at the Orchard Eatate, Eastwood, Richardson and Wronch sold 27 blocks of land ranging in mice from £30 to £120 per block. The total value of ...

    Article : 108 words
  16. THE ELECTRIC GLOW.

    Alderman Champion, at Parramatta Council meeting on Monday, asked the Mayor if it had been found possible to obtain better quotations from the local ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. THERE WAS A TIME.

    Answering a question risked in N.S.W. Assembly by T. Waddell, Minister for Labor [?] made this humiliating confession without any thing in the way of ...

    Article : 135 words
  18. A FLAPPER FLABBERGASTED.

    On a recent Saturday afternoon one os a band of flappers who have been carrying on the white-feather foolishness in a seaside suburb saw a sturdy-looking young ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. ST. JOHN'S SALE OF WORK.

    The sale of work at St. John's Parish Hall, Parramatta, on Thursday and Friday may be considered to have been fairly, successful considering the times, about ...

    Article : 102 words
  20. HOW THE STATE IS BLED.

    Mr. Cohen turned a searchlight on to the ways of Works Committees the other night in the Assembly. It appears each time the committee sits the chairman ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. A SPORTIVE BUNG.

    A sportive, bung played a base joke on a gentleman in the milk-O profession during the week, says a western exchange. Mr. Separator was just starting out on his ...

    Article : 194 words
  22. THE CASUAL STRIKER.

    The demarcation trouble at Cockatoo Dockyard has been adjusted, and the engineers returned to work—quite casually. Also the carpenters at Garden Island ...

    Article : 118 words
  23. LIES ABOUT THE COOEES.

    Persistent rumours have been current in Katoomba, and no doubt in many parts of the West, that the recent Coo-ees' march had proved a failure, and that men who ...

    Article : 221 words
  24. THE BELL OF FATE.

    Robert Blatchford:—"We must not shut our eyes to the facts. The danger should , have been averted. It ought not to have been allowed to steal on us unawares. ...

    Article : 301 words
  25. PARRAMATTA MUNICIPAL FINANCES.

    Financial statement for the fortnight ended 2nd December, as submitted at the council meeting on Monday:—General fund: Receipts, £519 13s 1d; er. balance, ...

    Article : 141 words
  26. OUR SLANGUAGE.

    Two English privates were sitting in a restaurant tother evening conversing loudly in French. A couple of Australians at an adjoining table decided that they ...

    Article : 159 words
  27. CURRENT NEWS.

    William James Anderson, who appeared in the dock in the uniform and stripes of a sergeant in the Australian Expeditionary Force, was charged with a serious offence ...

    Article : 67 words
  28. FOR THE SAKE OF £15.

    It is entirely false, surely, to say that the Government of N.S.W. is not studying economy. For getting on for two years now the causeway in Parramatta Park, at ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. THE LOAVES AND THE FISHERS.

    The Commonwealth is paying G. Reid £60 a week to be High Commissioner in London and Andy Fisher is getting £60 a week while he is staying in Australia, and ...

    Article : 256 words
  30. EXPERTS AND ESTIMATES.

    Now South Wales Works Department made another champion under-estimate in reckoning that the cost of the Lithgow sewerage system would be £26,000. When ...

    Article : 89 words
  31. THAT NEWLANDS FOOT-BRIDGE.

    At the Parramatta Council meeting this week a letter from the Water and Sewerage Board stated that they had approved of the plans of the proposed foot-bridge, ...

    Article : 163 words
  32. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 8 words
  33. A NEW MONEY-MAKING HOBBY.

    The breeding of pigeons as a table delicacy and an item of invalid diet is the coming industry in Australia, declares W. A. Somerset in an illustrated article in the December issue o£ "Life," entitled, "Is There Money in Pigeons?" Mr. Leslie Gaze, thB-well known'actor, who breeds pigeons ...

    Article : 179 words
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    Two little Fairfield girls, Dorothy and Winifred Watson, of Liverpool-road, are holding a children's bazaar for comforts for the 17th Battalion. ...

    Article : 241 words
  35. PARRAMATTA'S APPREHENSIONS.

    It was feared last week that the mob riot night spread to Parramatta; and some of our business men whose stock is particularly Valuable, and who had heard ...

    Article : 175 words
  36. SCANTY TRIUMPHS.

    In one of the matches W. G. Grace played against the great Universities, he happened to fall badly in each innings. In the evening he was the guest of one of the ...

    Article : 104 words
  37. "JUST ANGELS."

    Harry Didcote, of Wetherill Park, writes to, Mr. A. C. Bell from the hospital at Heliopoils:—"You will have seen in the papers that I had a little bit of an accident; ...

    Article : 317 words
  38. QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE.

    At the meeting of the Parramatta Municipal Council on Monday, Alderman DeLow asked if the Mayor was aware that the Boy Scouts used the Parramatta Baths a ...

    Article : 231 words
  39. MR. HOLMAN'S HUMILITY.

    Mr. Haynes, in the Assembly: I desire to ask the Premier, when then was a demonstration of soldiers against alfens in the city, is he aware that the outbreak is ...

    Article : 163 words
  40. A DEMORALISED PARLIAMENT.

    The "D.T.," scornfully, on the degradation of the N.S.W. Parliament:—"There was not a man in the House to voice a protest that would have rung through, the ...

    Article : 276 words
  41. "NOT OUT."

    When the Rev E. F. Waddy's team toured ceylon two years ago they had several funny experience. In the second match against the Ceylonese XI., Aremath ...

    Article : 212 words
  42. THE PLAGUEY POLITICIANS.

    Hero is a slim little figure in widow's woods. All hats off to her, for she gave her husband to the Empire. He Was a Private. Before he enlisted he had a snug ...

    Article : 263 words
  43. Gallipoli Bill, Author.

    He is still writing, the bloke outback in Gallipoll, still winning his literary laurels. A correspondent forwards some examples of Bill's capacity for graphic expression, ...

    Article : 429 words
  44. WHEN ALL ARE FOR THE PARTY.

    There are people in New South Wales who are not doing themselves quite as well as the politicians: £2733 9s 2d was spent at the third rail tost at Tocumwal, ...

    Article : 448 words
  45. "OUR GENERAL BLOWN TO BITS."

    A lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on service in France, writing to a relative at Thornlegh, says: "We did some good work about a week ago when the Huns ...

    Article : 388 words
  46. THE "PARSON'S ORANGERY."

    The Rev. Richard Johnson, Sydney's first chaplain, who is credited, and rightly too, with the introduction of orange cultivation into New South Wales, ...

    Article : 350 words
  47. THE VOTE SNATCHERS.

    ThE serious outbreaks of disorder—commencing at Manly last week, and now taking place in the trains, at Liverpool Camp, and at Liverpool itself, require ...

    Article : 103 words
  48. JOBS AND JOBBERS.

    When turning down the offer of a job as N.S.W. Commissioner for Irrigation in order to get into khaki, ex-Minister for Education Carmichael said:—"I do not ...

    Article : 291 words
  49. A NOBLE WORK.

    We have received a copy of the 54th annual report of the N.S.W. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. Special attention is invited to the report of ...

    Article : 258 words
  50. STOP THE DRINKING.

    "There are only, two tilings to be done," said a man of experience, talking on Tuesday about the rows, at Liverpool and elsewhere. "Stop the ...

    Article : 185 words
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