The strains of Irish melodies breathed through the city, on Saturday the significance of the day's celebrations. Relieving splashes of green on dress and in ...
Article : 1,660 wordsThere were 43 volunteers examined at the Currie-street Recruiting Office on Saturday, of whom 40 were enlisted, nine unfit, and four deferred. ...
Article : 77 wordsViscount Bryce, formerly Ambassador to America, presided at the reception given by the Pilgrim's Club on Friday to the Prime Minister of tho Commonwealth (Mr. ...
Article : 2,376 wordsFrom D. N. Johns, Wollongong, New South Wales:—Having for six years been engaged as land commissioner for the Western Transvaal in settling soldiers with war service on Crown or ...
Article : 568 wordsNews of Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic region is expected during the next few days. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Andrew Eversen, a cook on the tug Wato, fell off the gangway into the Por[?] Adelaide River at Queen's Wharf, where the steamer was lying on Saturday night. ...
Article : 60 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce council on Friday Mr. L. A. Jessop submitted the following motion for consideration at the annual gathering of the ...
Article : 284 wordsAn inquest will be held to-day in connection with the death of Mr. J. Clark, a fisherman, from Kulnine station. Clark had been to the races, and was discussing ...
Article : 66 wordsAn accident occurred near Dartmoor on Thursday afternoon, which resulted in the death of Leslie Martin Olsen, the eighteen-year-old son of Mr. ...
Article : 142 wordsFrom "Colonial" Highbury:—"Women and girls in England to release men and enable them to go to the front. are making munitions and doing other work. Why not give the women and ...
Article : 56 wordsMartha, Hilda Voigt, daughter of Mr. Voigt, of Pungonda, aged 5 years, met her death in a tragic manner on Thursday last. It was the custom to boil rabbits for the ...
Article : 72 wordsA cablegram has been received from Lieutenant A. E. C. Gepp, who went away with the 32nd Battalion, notifying his transfer to the 28th Battalion, 7th ...
Article : 126 wordsArrivals.—At London—Palma (steamer), Australian ports, Melbourne, January 13; Corinthis (steamer). New Zealand ports, Wellington, January 27. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 words[Correspondents sending letters of such a character is to require their submission to the censor should furnish two typewritten copies. This is necesaary in ...
Article : 508 wordsA fire which broke out in the third floor of Dymock's Buildings, 68 and 70, Elizabeth-street, city, last night, caused damage to the extent of about £2,000. The second ...
Article : 93 wordsYesterday, in the last event at the Mount Prospect races, horses ridden by Dennis Walsh, of Daylesford, and W. Smith, late of Pewley Hill, collided and ...
Article : 66 wordsAfter having served in the trenches at Gallipoli for six weeks, Private J. H. Atkinson, who was well known in baseball circles, contracted pneumonia and pleurisy, ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. William Henry Lewis (65) was stagering along Elizabeth-street, Sydney, on Saturday night in an intoxicated condition. He bumped into a married couple, and the ...
Article : 103 wordsA memorial service was held at the Grote-street Church of Christ on Sunday afternoon. There was a full attendance, and the Hon. W. Morrow, M.I.C., presided. Chaplin-Captain E. W. ...
Article : 384 wordsThe Cabinet have authorised the Minister of Education (Mr. Griffith) to open up communication with the Public Service Board with a view to offering £906 ...
Article : 148 wordsMrs. Agnes McLelland (50), who lived at Gordon-road, Roseville, New South Wales, fell whilst attempting to jump from a train as it was moving from the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe body of George White, aged 10, was found yesterday floating in the Yarra at the rear of the Abbotsford Brewery. The lad, who lived with his parents at 7, ...
Article : 70 wordsSir—It is the intention of the council to appeal on March 25, through the ballot-box, for permission to raise a loan ot £12,000 for the purpose of making up roads on the western side of the river ...
Article : 1,174 wordsWriting from the Australian Base Depot at Weymouth, England, Mr. W. J. Harvey, a former member of "The Advertiser" literary staff, and now attached to ...
Article : 383 wordsThe members of the Municipal Employes' Union, who were unable to secure increased wages from the town council for certain work, placed their case in the hands of ...
Article : 148 wordsCaptain Bibbing, of the steamer Mataram, which arrived from Singapore yesterday, reports that when approaching Batavia on the outward voyage he picked up the ...
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Advertising : 197 wordsIn the evening a national concert was given in the Exhibition Building, and the programme was all that could be desired. Miss M. Perdrix sang "Come back to ...
Article : 153 wordsSubscriptions may be sent to Mr. J. A. Riley, 23, Waymouth-street, Adelaide. Total subscriptions............ £90,942 11 10 FLAGS FOR REINFORCEMENTS. ...
Article : 76 wordsAt St. Paul, Minnesota, on St. Patrick's night, Jeff Smith defeated Mike Gibbons in every round of a fight extending to 10 rounds. ...
Article : 35 wordsWork was resumed on the Gwalia woodline a few days ago, the men agreeing to accept 5/5½ per ton for cutting wood. in lengths, from 4 ft. 6 in. to 6 ...
Article : 148 wordsThe State Wheat Market Committee notifies that the average price paid by millers for contract wheat acquired from the pool is about 5/3½ a bushel. The Minister of ...
Article : 104 wordsTwo passengers were injured in an accident yesterday morning on the 8.7 train from Sandringham to Flinders-street station. The names officially supplied are:— ...
Article : 122 wordsThe annual sports in connection with the St. Patrick's Day celebrations was held yesterday at the Agricultural Ground. There was a large attendance. The massed tablean that usually ...
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Advertising : 249 wordsThe compulsory conference of representatives of the fruitgrowers and their employes summoned by Mr. Justice Higgins was held at the Law Courts yesterday. The dispute ...
Article : 175 wordsThe second series of London wool sales closed on Friday with quotations firm at top prices. The wider competition this week hardened the prices considerably. As compared with the January ...
Article : 406 wordsThe plebiscite to select a Labor candidate to contest the seat at Fortitude Valley rendered vacant by Mr. Bowman's death resulted in the selection of Alderman ...
Article : 47 wordsA parcel of 49 tons from the New Boddington mine yielded 487 oz. over the plates. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 20 Mar 1916, Page 8
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