The enrolling offices at the Victoria Barracks and the Town Hall presented animated pictures again yesterday. At the burracks were two men from Cockatoo Island, who ...
Article : 618 wordsThe cable news this morning relates for the most part to the bill introduced by the British Prime Minister, providing for compulsory military service—Mr. Asquith's and ...
Article : 252 wordsThe "Kangaroos" will complete their long march of over 300 miles this morning. The men left Bankstown yesterday morning. They were escorted to the boundaries of the ...
Article : 1,324 wordsSir George H. Reid (who retires from the position of High Commissioner of the Commnonwealth shortly) has been chosen as the Unionist candidate for Saint ...
Article : 43 wordsThe district views the present mining situation on the South Coast with grave concern. The sole topic of conversation to-day was the disappointing result of the ...
Article : 700 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) to-day announced further sales of wheat abroad. He said they had sold a cargo of wheat to South African consignoes to-day ...
Article : 109 wordsThe position in connection with the strike of woodline workers is unchanged. This afternoon a conference was held between representatives of the men and the firewood ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Victorian wheat yeild, in the opinion of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn), will be between 55,000,000 and 60,000,000 bushels, which is much in excess ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following order in connection with the granting of leave at Liverpool and Casula camps has been put in force:— (1) The maximum evening leave to be ...
Article : 343 wordsReports received from recruiting organisations between Mudgee and Tooraweenah state that preparations are being mide for the reception of the "Kookaburras", who begin their ...
Article : 51 wordsSome time ago the Victorian Ministry appointed a smill committee of medical men to inquire into the whole question of the prevalence of the red plague, and of the best ...
Article : 97 wordsPrivate H. Rose, whose death from pneumonia has already been announced, was aged 19. He served in Gallipoli, having arrived there on September 26. ...
Article : 200 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" and certain other newspapers which are strongly opposed to conscription have declared that the canvass was not a complete one, and that M[?] ...
Article : 468 wordsThe Chief Secretary and Minister for Health (Mr. Black) yesterday commented on the recent infant mortality statistics of the city. "There has been an amazing mortality," he ...
Article : 259 wordsThe first of the new munition factories in the London area to be staffed by women in accordance with the pledge given by Mr. Ll[?]yd George was set up last month. Referring to ...
Article : 238 wordsLieut.—Co[?] Heritage, of the General Staff, has issued the following amendments to the "Manual of War Precautions," which affect the general public:—[?]A (1)—After February ...
Article : 253 wordsA general meeting of the shareholders of the Bruny Island Petroleum Company was held to-night to consider Dr. Wade's adverse report on the proposal to bore for oil at ...
Article : 105 wordsWriting on November 22, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" said:— The Dardanelles operations are this morning ...
Article : 425 wordsMrs. Elizabeth Brooker, [?]5 years of age, widow of Mr. James Brooker, of Wollongong, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. M. L. Hogan, Clareville. Point Clare. The ...
Article : 190 wordsExtending its operations the Amelloration Committee will in the future attend to sick and wounded soldiers at the Randwick Military Hospital who need financial assistance. ...
Article : 121 wordsA meeting in connection with the recruiting campaign in the municipality of Paddington was held at the Town Hall, Paddington, last night, the Mayor (Alderman F. Meade) ...
Article : 166 wordsAccording to Australian reports, only portion of Czernowitz, the Bukovina capital, has been evacuated, and the Russian attact generally over the Galician-Bukovina front has ...
Article : 215 wordsA conference was held to-day between the proprietors of the East Greta Railway Company, the proprietors of the Aberdare railway line, and representatives of the employees, in ...
Article : 208 wordsThe death occurred to-day in his 77th year of Mr. E. J. Woods, one of Adelaide's best-known architects. Mr. Woods, who received his architectural training in London, prepared ...
Article : 59 wordsMajor Page, D.A.Q.M.G., stated that on Wednesday 45 pairs of field glasses were handed in to the military authorities by members of the A.[?].C., making a total up to date of ...
Article : 61 wordsAll the collieries on the Maitland field, with the exception of Whitburn, Broxburn, and Rothbury, were idle to-day. The number of men affected by the strike is between 4000 ...
Article : 507 wordsLord Burnham, principal proprietor of the "Daily Telegraph," is seriously ill. ...
Article : 17 wordsReferring to complaints which are made from time to time that the contents of some of the parcels posted to the Australian troops in Egypt arrive in a damaged state, the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe estate of the late Mr. Keir Hardie, M. P., has been valued at £426. ...
Article : 22 wordsWord was received in Sydney recently from Private L. Keyser, V.C., of the 1st Battalion, by his brother, who is in business in this city. The V.C. states that he has been in hospital ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsIt was officially stated yesterday that all mail matter intended for the 300th and 301st Motor Transport, A.S.C. Units, 17th Divisional Supply Column, is to be addressed direct to the ...
Article : 125 wordsBugler Bronson Hanslow, of D Company, 19th Battalion, in a letter to his father, F. G. C. Hanslow, of Mosman, writes:—"It is impossible to tell you how good and kind ...
Article : 383 wordsWe can well understand the painful impression caused in the House of Commons by Mr. Tennant's announcement that the casualties at Loos amounted to 2378 officers and ...
Article : 422 wordsThe defence authorities announced to night that the wives and families of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the expeditionary force engaged for service in the ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. E. H. Fountain, secretary of the Hunter River Agricultural Association, received a telegram to-day from the military authorities intimating that the Defence Department had ...
Article : 52 wordsA gratifying response has been made to the recuest for help for the soldiers tea gardens in the Domain. The plans for the kiosk, etc., were placed before the council of workers ...
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Advertising : 174 wordsJohn Thomas, the last survivor of the forty men who first discovered gold in Victoria in August, 1851—at Buninyong—died yesterday, aged 84 years. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir Edmund and Lady Barton were passengers hy R.M.S. Karmala, which reached Fremantle on Wednesday, en route for the eastern States. Sir Edmund left Australia in ...
Article : 59 wordsThe A.M.A. has carried a resolution endorsing the action of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council in regard to the recruiting cards sent out by the war committee of the Federal ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Wallabies" left West Wallsend this morning, and arrived at Wallsend at the end of their day's march. They reached Salty Creek about midday, enjoyed a swim there; and ...
Article : 132 wordsThe steering gear of the Watson's Bay ferry steamer Greycliffe became unworkable shortly after the vessel left the Watson's Bay wharf at 10 p.m. yesterday. The steamer immediately ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,—We are in want of 50,000 men volunteers to queil the Prussian flag and uphold the Union Jack, and so far the response has been good, as far as daily figures that are ...
Article : 231 wordsA telegram received last night from Perth stated that another hospital ship, with about 200 sick and wounded aboard, arrived at Fremantle yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsRobert Doran, accountant of the National Mutual Life Association was drowned while [?]urf bathing at Tweed Heads this morning. He and a friend (John George, head teacher ...
Article : 75 wordsSingle men in the service of the Bendigo City Council are to be notified that unless they give some satisfactory reason for not enlisting their services will be dispensed with ...
Article : 144 wordsP. O. Fysh and Company's boot factory, in Elizabeth-street, was to-day partially gutted by fire, and damage to the stock and machinery done to the extent of over £800. ...
Article : 33 words"Whoever are responsible for dealing out the war census papers." said a Randwick resident yesterday, "seen to have a queer idea of the proper proportion of things. I ...
Article : 120 wordsA representative gathering was held in the School of Arts last night, to entertain and bid farewell to the Delegate contingent of the route march men from the Snowy River. Mr. ...
Article : 292 wordsAlfred James Ball, who was employed as a gardener in Federal Government House gardons, did not return to his home at Balaclava last evening, and on a search being made by ...
Article : 83 wordsRupara, s, 1368 tons, Captain Sundercombe, from Melbourne. G. S.Yuill and Co., Ltd., agents. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Minister for Works and party arrived here yesterday, and Inspected the harbour works. Subsequently Mr. Cann received a number of local deputations. The party ...
Article : 43 wordsManuk[?], s, for Wellington. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 7 Jan 1916, Page 10
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