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  2. COST OF RECRUITING.

    During the last fow days the Director. General of Recruiting, Mr. Mackinnon, M.L.A. has been carefully investigating the respective costs of obtaining recruits in the ...

    Article : 200 words
  3. MORE MEN COME BACK.

    "Let me get in the sun," was an expression heard over and over again at the Anzac Buffet on Saturday, as wounded men in big overcoats got out of the Red Cross motor ...

    Article : 1,349 words
  4. FEDERAL ELECTIONS

    Mr. Joseph Cook (Minister for the Navy) addressed a meeting at the Roseville Hall on Saturday night. Mr. W. R. Fitzsimons, president of the Kuring-gai Shire Council, occupied ...

    Article : 675 words
  5. STATE PARLIAMENT.

    The State Parliament will be opened at noon to-morrow, by Commission. When members have been sworn in an adjournment will be mnde until 4.30 p.m. the ...

    Article : 322 words
  6. RECRUITING.

    In the language of the nurseryman, said Mr. Donald Mackinnon, Director-General of Recruiting, speaking before a large gathering in the Domain-yesterday afternoon, the Sydney ...

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  7. WAR NOTES.

    The week-end cables show that the British have been exceptionally busy along the front extending from above Lens to their extreme right at St. Quentin. A dozen or more ...

    Article : 362 words
  8. GUESTS OF THE KING.

    Sir Robert Borden (Prime Minister of Canada), Mr. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister of New Zealand), Sir William Morris (Premier of Newfoundland), and General Smuts South ...

    Article : 52 words
  9. MR. GOSLING AT ENFIELD.

    Addressing the electors at Ireland's corner, Enfield, Mr. Mark Gosling, selected Labour candidate for Parkes, said that the people the Labour party had trusted and lifted to the ...

    Article : 387 words
  10. DARCY'S MATCH CANCELLED.

    The Governor of Louisiana has cancelled Darcy'a match against Jeff Smith, which was scheduled for the 23rd inst. ...

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  11. RAILWAY STRIKE.

    The strike of the men at the head of the line on the Menindie section of the Broken Hill-Condobolin railway extended yesterday, when all the employees in Broken Hill and ...

    Article : 75 words
  12. FEATURES OF THE OFFENSIVE.

    As far as it has gone at present, the allied offensive reveals some features which were not noticeable in earlier attacks made on a large scale. The front of the attack seems ...

    Article : 364 words
  13. ARCHBISHOP MANWIX.

    Addressing a gathering at South Melbourne yesterday, Archbishop Mannix said:- "I think it would help us very much it we were to call these parties now appealing ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. AMERICAN CITIZENS.

    Now that the united States has entered the war on the side of the Allies, the question has arisen as to whether American citizens may be enlisted in the A.I.F. According to ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. LIEUT. GUY K. DAVENPORT, M.C.

    Lieutenant Guy Kennedy Davenport, whose death in action in France was announced on Saturday, was the youngest son of Mr. Frank A. Davenport, and a member of the firm of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 151 words
  16. BY-ELECTIONS.

    On Saturday Mr. S. Elliot, formerly Liberal member for Geraldton, was returned for that constituency, defeating Mr. Willcock, chairman of the Geraldton Labour Federation, by ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    The third report furnished by Mr. Wilfred Blacket, K.C., sitting as a Royal Commission, to inquire into Federal capital matters, was issued to-day. It covers a variety of charges ...

    Article : 1,003 words
  18. THE PARRAMATTA CONTEST.

    Mr. A. H. Conroy, who, as an Independent, is opposing Mr. Joseph Cook for Parramatta, addressed the electors on Friday night. He said he was fighting the seat because ...

    Article : 677 words
  19. WATERSIDE WORKERS.

    As a result of a special meeting of the Waterside Workers' Union, held to-day, a definite agreement was arrived at in regard to the hours of the day and night shifts, and ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. RENTOUL-OUTHWAITE DRAWINGS.

    This afternoon Lady Cullen will open an exhibition of origina] black-and-white and water-colour drawings at Anthony Hordern and Sons' new fine art gallery, where they will ...

    Article : 473 words
  21. NORTH SYDNEY BURGLARY.

    The residence of Mr. Joseph Haggart, in Shirley-road, North Sydney, was broken into last night by burglars, who gained an entrance by climbing on to the balcony. Various ...

    Article : 40 words
  22. A TURKISH MISTAKE.

    If the fighting northward of Bagdad, described in the official message from Mesopotamia this morning, represents the Turkish offensive spoken of in an earlier message, ...

    Article : 354 words
  23. LATE SHIPPING.

    WILSON'S PROMONTORY (126m).—Passed inward: April 15, Alabama, s, 1.30 p.m. Outward: Komura, s, 3 a.m.; Corio, s, 3.15 a.m.; Hobart, s. 3.50 a.m.; Indarra, s, 6 a.m.; Junce, s, 7 a.m.; Goulburn, s, 7.5 ...

    Article : 48 words
  24. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 words
  25. MILITARY CROSS.

    News has been received that the Rev. T. P Bethune, an Anglican clergyman, who is now a lieutenant in command of a machine gun section on the Western Front, has been ...

    Article : 40 words
  26. TWO NAVVIES BURNED.

    COOTAMUNDRA.—At midnight on Thursday, at the navvies' camp between tho cemetery and Sharpe's railway gates, a tent caught fire, and the two occupants were burnt to death. ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 words
  28. SPORTSMEN'S UNIT.

    Lieutenant Seaborn states that the Sportsmen's Unit, which he and Lieutenant Diamond are organising, is filling up well, but there is still room for more sportsmen to ...

    Article : 106 words
  29. PLAGUE OF MICE.

    Mice are now invading the houses in great numbers in some of the mallee districts. Poison is being used to keep them down, and round Wycheproof, for instance, it is nothing ...

    Article : 83 words
  30. HOME FOR RETURNED SOLDIER.

    Mrs. E. A. M. Merewether opened a home at Merewether yesterday for a returned soldier named Teesdale. The house, was built by the Voluntary Workers' Association of ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. RUSSIA AND ROUMANIA.

    In the light of after-events, one is inclined at first glance to accept the story credited to General Illescu in the cabled message from Paris published this morning. The startling ...

    Article : 420 words
  32. FIRES.

    A fire occurred on Saturday night in a grocer's shop at the corner of Eveleigh and Vine streets, Redfern. The fiames were extinguished by the Redfern Fire Brigade. The ...

    Article : 100 words
  33. TO-DAY'S MEETINGS.

    Martin-place, 1 p.m.: Mr. Donald MacKinnon, Director-General of Recruiting, F. G. Tudor, Col. Onslow, Capt. Laurence, D.S.O. Rozelle: Boll and Frasor's timber yard, ...

    Article : 239 words
  34. MR. PRATTEN AT BURWOOD.

    "During the world's greatest war Australia has put up two unique records. In the first place, she is the only country of the British Empire which has found it necessary to hold a ...

    Article : 665 words
  35. POLITICS AND RECRUITING.

    When Mr. Hughes addressed a meeting in the Exhibition Hall last Tuesday evening permission was sought, and at once granted, for a returned soldier to make a recruiting ...

    Article : 230 words
  36. THE RETURNED.

    The following officers and men from the front wounded and sick returned on Saturday.- OFFICERS. Lieut. A. L. K. Adam, Capt. J. Arnold, Lieut. ...

    Article : 1,267 words
  37. TO-DAY.

    Her Majesty's: "House that Jack Built," 1.45 and 7.45. Criterion Theatre: "Daddy Long Legs," 8.10. Palace Theatre: "Very Good Eddie," 8. ...

    Article : 249 words
  38. THE WOMEN PAINTERS.

    The Society of Women Painters kept their flag flying for five weeks at their exhibition at the Education Department's gallories this year, disposed of a considerable number of ...

    Article : 102 words
  39. TRIBAL DISTURBANCES.

    Advices from Noumea, New Caledonia, state that the authorities have been notified of disturbances amongst the natives at several places over tribal matters in connection with ...

    Article : 95 words
  40. WAH CHEST CARNIVAL.

    The Waverley-Bondi War Chest carnival, which was held throughout last week, and will be continued all this work, provided a sports programme on Bondi Beach on ...

    Article : 77 words
  41. CASUALTIES.

    Thelma Fisher Spence (12), who resided with her parents in Charles-street, Newtown, died in Prince Alfred Hospital on Saturday, as the result of burns. The child was placing ...

    Article : 46 words
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