The City of Ching-tu, the capital of Szechwan, has assumed independence without a formal declaration. ...
Article : 22 wordsAustralians and New Zealanders have arrived at the western front and taken over a portion of the front line. (The above announcement is official.) ...
Article : 43 wordsWashington, May 8.—It is understood that President Wilson will accept Germany's reply. The President will frankly test Germany's good faith in carrying out the undertaking. ...
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Advertising : 451 wordsA general meeting was held at the Soldiers' Club, on Monday night, Mr. A. E. Sendall presiding. A letter was read from the Education Department giving permission to remove several ...
Article : 464 wordsThe members of the Loyal Coronation Lodge, M.U.I.O.O.F., gathered ill the lodgeroom on Friday evening to bid farewell to Bro. S. J. Taylor, V.G., prior to his departure with the A.I.F. ...
Article : 80 wordsHarold Simon, aged 15½, who resided with his parents in West Brunswick, Victoria, arrived in Sydney by train on Sunday night with eighteen pence in his pocket, with the intention ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsLondon, May 8.—The Central News Agency's correspondent at Washington says that Mr. J. W. Gerard (American Ambassador to Berlin) has informed the State Department that there ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the conclusion of the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Royal Bank of Queensland Ltd., on April 27, Mr. J. W. Wassell unveiled an honour board, presented by the ...
Article : 193 wordsSpeaking at the opening of the Shires' Conference, Mr. Trethowan said that the shires had made a considerable effort to secure good results for recruiting. These results had been ...
Article : 146 wordsA communique states: Fierce fighting occurred last night on the left bank of the Meuse. Furious enemy attempts to capture Hill 304, a few miles south-west of Mort Homme, were ...
Article : 113 wordsDr. Arthur's scheme for assisting the wounded by the utilisation of voluntary labor is spreading with great rapidity. The idea was originally started at French's Forest, where 200 acres of ...
Article : 190 wordsAmsterdam, May 7.—There are serious riots in Berlin. Butchers concealed meat and refused to sell it A search made by officials revealed large quantities, which were forthwith ...
Article : 65 wordsLondon, May 8.—Signor Marconi, in an interview, said that his aeroplane signal receiving apparatus had been so strengthened as to be able to receive wireless messages. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe first annual general meeting of the Goulburn Rugby Football League was held in the Empire Theatre on Monday night. Mr. J. Cooper (president) was in the chair, and there ...
Article : 861 wordsThe dispute between tile master bakers and the Operative Bakers' Society having been practically settled, the proceedings instituted in the Industrial Court by the employers have been ...
Article : 101 wordsAt about 9 o'clock this morning the Goulburn police received a telephone message from Bungoina stating that a woman named Elizabeth Render had died on the previous evening at her ...
Article : 57 wordsLondon, May 9.—Two hundred rebel prisoners have left Galway. Another batch has been brought in for court-martial at Dublin. The death sentence passed on Countess Markieviez ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. Aspuith, speaking in the House of Commons, stated that he was taking steps to ascertain what Government officials were implicated in the Irish outbreak. The Government ...
Article : 212 wordsThe death occurred on Monday at his home, Ivy Hall, Exeter, of Mr. John Alexander Badgery the eldest of twelve brothers whose names are indelibly associated with the development of ...
Article : 394 wordsA good programme was screened at the Empire Theatre on Monday evening. Those who expected something well worth seeing in "The Cat's Paw," founded on William Hamilton ...
Article : 188 wordsA wire reached Yass on Monday conveying the sad intelligence that Bugler Fred Beeten had been shot dead at the front. The "Daily Chronicle" states that the ...
Article : 369 wordsAn inquest was held at the Goulburn Court. house this (Tuesday) morning before Mr. H. O'Brien (Coroner) concerning the death of Robert Abrahams, a labourer formerly ...
Article : 399 wordsLondon, May 8.—A German communique says: We brought down an enemy aeroplane making an air flight on the coast of Flanders, one of our torpedo boats assisting. The approach ...
Article : 109 wordsThe naval attache to the British Embassy at Washington is investigating a report concerning two German raiders being at large in the Atlantic off the Azores. The crew of the Fabre ...
Article : 128 wordsA map of Anzac, by Col. Gerald R. Campbell, Commonwealth Military Forces, based on the Turkish Staff war maps taken from enemy prisoners, has been published by Mr. H. E. C. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsWith the Sires kept well supplied, an excellent light, and good operating, the Majestic programme on Monday night was seen under enjoyable conditions. The Broadway feature, "The ...
Article : 206 wordsTrawlers report that nine Zeppelins participated in Tuesday's raid. The squadron hovered over and followed a fleet of 30 or 40 trawlers towards England for some hours, but did ...
Article : 38 wordsAs was expected, "The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell" packed the Lyric on Monday evening; indeed, the sale of tickets had to be stopped at a quarter to eight o'clock. The picture was a ...
Article : 203 wordsParis, May 8.—A communique states: After two days' bombardment a strong German force attacked between Hill 304 and Mort Homme (west of the Meuse). After repeated efforts they ...
Article : 189 wordsA few months ago the Dodge Brothers Motor Car was almost unknown in the Australian markets. To-day the name is becoming a house hold word among those who use flat form of ...
Article : 429 wordsIn the recent political crisis Mr. Griffith acted as the intermediary between the Government, or the Caucus—for in all fundamentals they are the same—and the Conference. In addressing ...
Article : 857 wordsAnother Note is to be sent to Germany informing her that if the instructions to submarine commanders are observed diplomatic relations will remain unbroken, but pointing out ...
Article : 54 wordsFollowing on " The Plunderer," that so gripped the audiences at the Majestic last week, the management announce the second local appearance of the famous Fox photoplays supreme. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsReuter's Agency reports from London that the White Star liner Cymric is reported to be sinking. She carried no passengers. (The Cymric is of 13,370 tons, and was built ...
Article : 41 wordsAndrew Banks McIntyre, 32, a soldier, was charged at the Central. Police Court, Sydney, on Saturday morning with maliciously damaging a glass panel of a door at the Crystal Palace ...
Article : 140 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports:—Artillery activity on both sides was manifest on Saturday and Sunday about Maricourt, Thiepval, Arras, Loos, St. Eloi, and Ypres. ...
Article : 25 wordsA submarine sank the French sailing ship Maliemolinos. The crew were given 15 minutes to take to the boats and were picked up 18 hours later. ...
Article : 31 wordsPetrograd, May 8.—A communique says: We are gradually advancing on Baghdad and capturing Turkish stores. When we occupied Trebizond we captured 30 ...
Article : 328 wordsFor some time those interested in the boys and young men of the Gordon Club were at their wits' end to know how to find a channel for the surplus energy of the junior Gordon until such ...
Article : 279 wordsIt is reported that a German submarine has been mined and sunk at Varna on the Black Sea. Manly of the crow were saved by a destroyer. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir.—I have read with a certain amount of interest and amusement the wise sayings which have appeared in your paper under the above heading; but I think it is just as well ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. Marcus Gatwood Abrahams, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Abrahams, of Goulburn, was in the Union-street Methodist Church on April 24 married to Miss Constance Morgan, daughter ...
Article : 184 wordsA Constantinoople message reports that General Townshend, four Generals, and their staffs have been taken to Baghdad, whither other captured troops will be gradually transferred. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Charles Roberts, ex-Unler-Secretary for India, speaking in the House of Commons, paid the Government of India was permitting the private export of wheat under certain ...
Article : 39 wordsAthens reports state that the British and French are violating the Geneva flag by transporting Serbians on hospital ships. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe annual social of the above was held on Friday evening, and was well attended. The Rev. Canon Carver presided. Prizes won during the cycling season were presented as ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. L. A. McDougall, a man who was charged with being drunk was remanded for seven days for medical treatment. ...
Article : 55 wordsTaree, Monday.—Robert Hatchwell, 58, of Hannon Vale, while out shooting with his son art Sunday afternon, was walking along about eight yards in front, when the gun which the lad ...
Article : 70 wordsThe P.L.L. Conference on Monday night discussed the question of conscription. A resolution against it was moved. Throughout the debate there was a good deal of noise and inter. ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Justice Bailhache is chairman of the coommittee appointed to inquire into the administration of the flying corps. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Harold Tennant, Under-Secretary of State for War, in reply to a question in the House, said that Germany wan no longer differentiating in favour of Irish prisoners of war. ...
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