A series of explosions, followed by fires, on New Year's Eve caused the destruction of an important section of Norfolk, Virginia. The damage is set down at £400,000, ...
Article : 110 wordsA high military authority states:—The enemy are more or less active on the west front, with attacks and raids on a small scale, most of which have been ...
Article : 538 wordsA wireless Russian dispatch, issued this afternoon, states:—M. Trotsky has appointed Citizen Litvinoff as Provisional Russian Plenipotentiary in ...
Article : 805 wordsA wireless Italian official dispatch issued to-night, states:—The British and Ralian batteries exploded two enemy munition depots at Fontigo to the ...
Article : 189 wordsPlace names to be substituted, in accordance with the decision of Parliament, for those of German origin on the map of South Australia were approved ...
Article : 305 wordsSuggestions made by the executive of the Labor Party that certain military officer might enlist were answered on Thursday by two of the gentlemen concerned. ...
Article : 539 wordsA Washington official dispatch states:— General Sir Edmund Allenby has captured four important points to the north of Jerusalem. He drove back for seven miles ...
Article : 851 wordsThe Nationalist Party to-night passed a Resolution of confidence in Mr. Hughes. This mean that the Government will resign, probably to-morrow, and that Mr. ...
Article : 546 wordsThe negotiations between the Liberal Union and the National Party with the object of preventing contests between the parties at the elections in March next ...
Article : 386 wordsLouis Voisin and Madame Roche, whe are charged with the murder of Madame Gerard, were on Wednesday committed for trial. Voisin, speaking from the dock, ...
Article : 228 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, in a dispatch this afternoon, states:—Our artillery broke up three enemy raiding parties to the south-eastward of Lens. ...
Article : 118 wordsSo many of the country State school-masters and assistants are away at the war that it has been decided to train the women teachers to instruct the cadets in ...
Article : 73 wordsAt 1.30 p.m. to-day the fire brigade received a call from the Wheat Harvest Board at Solomontown. A prompt response was made, and it was found that ...
Article : 237 wordsIn a progress report issued to-day the Cost of Living Commission states that the price of butter could be reduced a penny a pound by the establishment of a floor, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe report of the Labor Party on the reconstruction policy after the war urges the universal enforcement of a national minimum wage with the democratic ...
Article : 66 wordsThe fact that no buyer has yet appeared for any portion of the 1917-18 wheat crop, the grain from which is already coming in freely from the farms, is ...
Article : 196 wordsOur French Allies have written a very neat appendix to their part of the story of 1917. For many weeks past the report has been industriously circulated that the ...
Article : 1,365 wordsA queue, consisting of several hundred suburban butchers, at the Smithfield market on Wednesday, awaited the release of mutton from cold storage. Few cattle ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsThe magistrates are heavily fining people who board food Mrs. Gore Langton wife of the heir-presumptive of Earl Temple, was fined £80 because she bought sufficient ...
Article : 167 wordsThe correspondent of the New York "World" at Washington states:—It is not expected that M. Sato will retain the Ambassadorship for Japan in America, and a ...
Article : 301 wordsThe Melbourne office of Woods & Gilbert, British Rail Planing and Milling Company, Limited, has been advised by cable that the second dividend at the rate ...
Article : 55 wordsAn explosion of gunpowder followed by a[?] re occurred on the premises of Mr. T. A. Case, gun expert, in Little Collins-street, shortly after noon to-day. Mr. ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Minister of Defence has been advised by the Australian administrative headquarters in London that a quantity of war trophies, including guns, &c., is being ...
Article : 50 wordsThe State Recruiting Committee writes: —The new year has commenced auspiciously so far us voluntary recruiting is concerned. The Recruiting Office doors ...
Article : 239 wordsThe State Treasurer is to attend the Conference of Treasurers on the 15to instant. Mr. MacLachlan, secretary of the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe question of the future of Samoa is exciting interest. The Germans' pretensions that the islands must revert to them in the peace arrangements are viewed as ...
Article : 137 wordsA harreane on the northern coast of Norway destroyed many vessels th[?] week. ...
Article : 20 wordsExecutive approval was to-day given to the appointment of Mr. Justice Street as Chief Justice in Equity, in succession to Mr. Justice Simpson, resigned, and to that ...
Article : 58 words"Life's Shop Window" will be displayed for the last time to-night at the Tivoli Theatre. It has played to excellent business, being crowded at each ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 233 wordsOfficial dispatches from Rome hint at an early break between Spain and Germany. The Spanish press is urging the confiscation of 57 Austrian and German ...
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Advertising : 78 wordsThe Repatriation Department is sending two blind soldiers to England to take advantage of the tuition offered by St. Dunston's Hospital for the Blind. The ...
Article : 105 wordsTotal amount received to date, £115,472 16/6. Wayville Circle, per Mrs. O. H. Stephens, £20: Mrs. E. S. Jury (Prisoners of War Found), £3; Glen Osmond Circle (Box Collection), £1; Narra ...
Article : 371 wordsThe New Zealand Educational Institute Conference to-day defeated a motion suggesting the exemption of teachers from military service. The opponents of the ...
Article : 136 wordsThere is a treat in store for playgoers to-morrow evening at the Tivoli Theatre, where the four-act gipsy drama of exceptional interest, "Gipsy Jack," will be ...
Article : 84 wordsThe official of the Y.M.C.A. declare:— Mr. Jamieson's statement at Christchurch that nothing is done for New Zealand soldiers is absolutely incorrect. They point ...
Article : 92 wordsThe disposal of the famous Segenboe stud, established with such care and great expense by Mr. William Brown, took place at Scone to-day before an audience of ...
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Advertising : 516 wordsQueensland has received the full amount of the loan money promised by the Federal Government for the calendar year 1917. The Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) stated to-day that on December 2[?] the ...
Article : 118 wordsShe—"Why is it. I wonder, that a bird sever uses the same nest two years in suc[?]ssion[?] It very frequently happens that one of last year's nests is just as good as ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Chicago visible supply of wheat [?] 23,481,000 bushels. Turpentine is quoted at 138/. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Fri 4 Jan 1918, Page 7
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