In the House of Representatives this afternoon. In reply to Mr. Higgs (Q.), the Prime Minister stated that action will shortly be taken ...
Article : 275 wordsThe tram-driver looked tired. "So would you be," he said to the passenger who commented on the fact; "so would you be if you had been driving a tram for 12 hours a ...
Article : 1,478 wordsThe following statement was made last night by the defence committee:—"The idea that the men will not accept the recording systems that are in operation in private firms is ...
Article : 793 wordsThe transports continue to be held up. It was expected in some quarters that the coal-lumpers might resume the work of coaling them yesterday, in view of the ...
Article : 618 wordsReports relative to resolutions of confidence in the Government and offers of volunteers continue to be received from the suburbs and large numbers of country centres. ...
Article : 639 wordsAccording to an announcement last night by Mr. E. J. Kavanagh, M.L.C., in behalf of the Defence Committee, the trolly and draymen will cart foodstuffs to and from the ...
Article : 87 wordsAnother attack along the Flanders front is due, and past due, and the reports of a great bombardment in progress in Flanders, if correct, mean that the British and French armies ...
Article : 355 wordsMr. Robert Scobie, M.L.A., died suddenly as the result of a heart seizure, at his residence, [?]aleyon, Kambala-road, Bellevue Hill, yesterday morning. He was in his 69th ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 617 wordsA large meeting, principally of strike sympathisers, was held at Mudgee last night, and a resolution was carried, expressing regret at the rejection by the Government and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Railway Commissioners announced yesterday that arrangements have been made to run trains for the conveyance of soldiers from Liverpool to Sydney, at 1.30 p.m., and ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the Senate this afternoon the Railways Bill was further considered in committee. An attempt to make it an offences for employees to accept tips was negative[?] ...
Article : 85 wordsAt an early hour yesterday morning lines of vehicles, from the most graceful motor cars to the four-wheeled waggonette, paraded outside police headquarters in response to the ...
Article : 114 wordsAlthough comment—mostly from American sources—on the Pope's peace proposals generally suggests that the appeal will not lead to any immediate change in the international ...
Article : 415 wordsFourteen men responded to the appeal for recruits in Martin-place yesterday. This number, with eight men who volunteered at the Royal Naval House, made the total for ...
Article : 85 wordsThe regular time-table of suburban trains was run yesterday, and no difficulty was experienced in the working of the traffic. The following trains were run in addition:— ...
Article : 710 wordsMeetings in the Domain yesterday, held after a street procession, attracted large crowds. Mr. G. Bodkin, of the Railway Workers and ...
Article : 326 wordsMrs. J. M. Arnott, who has been engaged in Red Cross work in Egypt, gave a glowing description yesterday of the success attending the efforts of the society there. ...
Article : 546 wordsTwo members of the Strike Defence Committee waited upon the City Council at its fortnightly meeting, and asked that the City Council's power-house should stop ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Claude Thompson, a member of the Defence Committee, and also secretary to the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, has supplied the following ...
Article : 512 wordsThe death of Mr. John Haynes, ex-M.L.A., occurred at his residence, Alfred-street, North Sydney, yesterday afternoon from heart failure supervening on an attack of influenza ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the meeting of the Provincial Synod yesterday the Bishop of Goulburn (Dr. Radford) gave notice of the following motion, dealing with the strike:—"That this ...
Article : 180 wordsThe references to the German colonies, made in the House of Commons during the discussion on the Colonial Office estimates, once more direct attention to a problem that will ...
Article : 306 wordsMr. Garland, Solicitor-General, in moving the adjournment of the Legislative Council yesterday, said he would ask leave to have Friday as an extra sitting day. There was ...
Article : 653 wordsThe death occurred in a private hospital yesterday of Mr. Ernest C. V. Broughton, ex-member for king Division in the Legislative Assembly, ex-Mayor of Ashfield, and ...
Article : 291 wordsThe strike position will be considered at a mass meeting of the Federated Ironworkers' Union on Friday morning. The number of bricklayers affected by the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 wordsThe strike of the waterside workers in Victoria continued to-day, and the position was made more acute by the fact that the seamen on two vessels in the port ...
Article : 345 wordsA cablegram says that the great strikes which have caused a condition approaching a revolution in Spain have been fomented with German money. The average man may ask, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsThe Railway Commissioners announce that wages due for the fortnight ended 11th inst. will be paid to the undermentioned men who have left their employment on strike as ...
Article : 204 wordsClifford Mars Miller, examined by Mr. W. H. Palmer belore the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. F. H. Salusbury), said that he had been bankrupt once before, in 1901, in Western ...
Article : 168 wordsIn regard to the tramways, the Commissioners report that a service to a regular table is now being run, and matters are proceeding satisfactorily. Yesterday a service ...
Article : 54 wordsMerchants are awaiting developments. All carting to the railway and to the wharfs has been stopped. Orders are mounting up in the packing rooms, which are quite filled up. ...
Article : 234 wordsA number of the carters employed by one of the largest dairy produce firms in Sussex-street held an impromptu meeting yesterday morning and decided to resume work. ...
Article : 162 wordsThree children of Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson, George-street, Bulli, have been missing from here since Monday morning. The local police and others are searching for them, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsAt the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., Charles Robertson, 27, a native of Scotland, was charged that [?] Sydney, on August 11, 1917, and divers other ...
Article : 140 wordsAn official of the Federated House and Ship Painters, Paperhaugers, and Decorators' Employees' Association stated yesterday that the members of his organisation were not on ...
Article : 41 wordsPrivate O. Grovenor, of Yass, has been awarded the Military Medal. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. G. E. Flannery, chairman of the Northern Coal Board, states that the sittings of the board have been suspended till further order. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 16 Aug 1917, Page 8
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