About 20 square feet of the docking of the sea end of the Railway pier was damaged by fire yesterday at 5.30 p.m. The outbreak occurred under a ...
Article : 197 wordsFor some time past the Lord Mayor's Unemployment Committee has been in communication with firme in England with regard to employing Australian skilled ...
Article : 393 wordsIncreasing alarm prevails in the German colony in Constantinople in view of the gravity of the situation in the Dardanelles, where the Allies' ...
Article : 756 wordsYesterday was one of thea most unpleasant days experienced in Geelong for some time. Blowing from the north-west, the wind drove before it ...
Article : 440 wordsIt is to be hoped that at the meeting of the committee to-night authority will be given to the treasurers to cable £500 to the High Commissioner on the London ...
Article : 285 wordsThe India Office has announced that the garrison at Aswaz, at the head of the Persian Gulf, conducted a reconnaissance on Wednesday last, and found ...
Article : 260 wordsIn his report on the visit of inspection to the Newtown and Chilwell Fire Brigade, Chief Officer T. S. Marshall states that there was an excellent ...
Article : 259 wordsA communique from Paris states that the German losses in the fighting at Notre Dame de Lorette, in the Argonne, in the heavy fighting which took ...
Article : 160 wordsIt is officially reported at Petrograd that the Germans have been driven back behind Sopozkine-Lypsk front. The Russians also achieved further successes ...
Article : 67 wordsApplication was made to Mr. Justice Hood, sitting in Prize Court jurisdiction, yesterday, by the owners of the German steamer Altona, one of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 wordsThere were about 250 persons at the Geelong West Fire Brigade's social and dance at Ashby hall last night, and as a result the brigade will nett a ...
Article : 102 wordsStock dealers who have been operating at the Corporation yards, Kildare, for 40 years, cannot remember anything like yesterday morning's storm. The ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. George M'Aulay Trevelyan has returned from a tour of Serbia. H depcanresthat-the Austrians invaded north-west Serbia and murdered 2000 ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Baptist denomination's tent, erected at Manifold Heights to do service till the building of a church is possible. was hopelessly wrecked by the gale at ...
Article : 113 wordsAll companies of 69B cadets paraded at Newtown on Saturday afternoon, and marched to Queen's Park and back. A series of manoeuvres was gone through ...
Article : 173 wordsIt has now transpired that King Constantine presided at a Grand Council. The Premier, M. Venezelos, emphasised of an Austro-German descent on the ...
Article : 150 wordsThe State schools' swimming matches are to be held at the Western baths on Thursday. March 18th. The programme comprises 31 events, amongst which are ...
Article : 36 wordsSenator Pearce, Minister for Defence, returned from Adelaide mi Sunday, He said yesterday that while in the southern capital he visited two camps, ...
Article : 108 wordsA meeting in the insolvent estate of Herbert Aubrey Chapman, 180 Bellerine-street, South Geelong, was called for yesterday forenoon at the ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. C. W. Burge, stationmaster, and Mr. Cooper, roadmaster, yesterday made an inspection of the track near Corio, where the engine on Sunday went off ...
Article : 121 wordsIf one of the first cells in the city watchhouse were converted into an office it would remove the objectionable practice of people having to walk past ...
Article : 100 wordsSenator Pearce, Minister for Defence, stated yesterday that if there was a surplus of men over the numbers required for the new contingent of 10,000 men, ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. E. Gell, who has been employed at Bright and Hitchcocks for some years, has volunteered for service with the expeditionary forces, and will leave ...
Article : 97 wordsGeneva has additional particulars respecting the destruction of a Zeppelin airship in a storm at Cologne last week. The storm swept furiously over the ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. John Dillon, Nationalist member for East Mayo, in an address to a number of Nationalist volunteers at Belfast on Sunday, referred to the Home Rloe ...
Article : 129 wordsTroops at Broadmeadows are, as soldiers go, well paid and well fed, but there are no luxuries in the feeding. Tea means bread and jam and tea ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsThe discharging of an inebriate, and the adjournment of a debt case, constituted the only business transacted by Messrs. W. R. Anderson and Thos. M. ...
Article : 522 wordsAll of the junior and second-rate football teams will be weakened this season, owing to the departure of players for service in the war. Towards the end of ...
Article : 103 wordsIt is stated at Amsterdam that every church in the Dixmude district, where execptionally heavy fighting has, and is, taking place, has been damaged, and 40 ...
Article : 62 wordsMessrs. J. J. Burns and Co.: 1 cow for Mr. W. Stott, Melbourne road, at £5,1[?]—[?] This cow was donated by the owner to the Belgian Relief Fund. One cow for Mr. J. ...
Article : 185 wordsRumors are current in Madrid, at Badajoz, of impeading civil war in Portugal. Many fugitives have crossed the frontier. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe secretary of the Belmont branch of the Red Cross workers, wishes it to be mentioned that the many kind gifts of clothing and material that were ...
Article : 107 wordsThe following cablegram was received yesterday from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:—London, 6th March.—The French ...
Article : 106 wordsPort Moresby, Monday.—It has been reported that a white settler named Harry Ballot was murdered by natives in a district 35 miles behind Port Moresby. The ...
Article : 92 wordsUnited States Customs officials on Saturday inspected tho Hamburg-Amerika liner Vaterland (54,282 tons), and the Norddeutscher-Llovd steamer ...
Article : 65 wordsThis year there are contests for the two rice-presidentships, and eight members of committee of the Geelong Cricket, and Football Club, three having ...
Article : 85 wordsIn charge of our Empire's great fleet, finds time a[?] his multitudinous and trying dutie[?] [?] the North Sea to remember both his men afloat and those ...
Article : 200 wordsSydney, Monday.—This month has so fat proved the [?]o[?]est March experienced in Sydney. To-day the thermometer mounted to 100.7 degrees in the city. In the ...
Article : 119 wordsSir,—I have pleasure in remitting ch[?] for £60/15/6 in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund. made up as follows, [?]iz.:—Messrs. D. and W. M'Intyre, £5'5/-: Mr A. G. White, ...
Article : 120 wordsAlthough no strikes have occurred in London there is widespread discontent owing to the dearness of food. Senator Pearee, Minister for Defence, ...
Article : 116 wordsA semi-official message received in Amsterdam from Berlin admits that the Norwegian steamer Thordis rammed a submarine, but the latter was not ...
Article : 34 wordsIf was notified to the Council of the Geelong Church of England Grammar School by the architects yesterday, that the first section of the school chapel ...
Article : 77 wordsA German submarine chased the China steamer Ning-Chau near the Lands End for 20 minutes. The steamer was hound from Ymuiden in Holland, ...
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Advertising : 200 wordsOn behalf of the employes of Collins Bros., Pty., Ltd., I have pleasure in advising that after a meeting of our [?]ident Fund Society it was decided that the regular ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Holland-America Company's steamer Noorderdijk, which an earlier cable announced was returning to Rotterdam in a badly-damaged condition, ...
Article : 44 wordsA slight subsidence of the roadway in Mercer-street, close to the sewerage excavations crossing Gheringhap-street, occurred yesterday, and the spot was ...
Article : 59 wordsIt was stated on Saturday at the birthday meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society. held in London, that 300.000 copies of the German ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Price of Goods Board met in private yesterday to consider the [?]bility of a further rise in the price of [?]ad consequent, upon the advanced [?] of flour. At ...
Article : 93 wordsThe use of bath tubs in the British trenches at the front, has led to the opening of public subscriptions in Great Britain. Portion of the money ...
Article : 47 wordsPersistent rumors are in circulation at Santiago do Chile, that the German cruiser Dresden, is in hiding at southern Chili. German steamers which are ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. J. Plunkett. the president, was in the chair at a meeting of the Geelong branch of the Wharf Laborers' Union at the Trades Hall last night. ...
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Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929), Tue 9 Mar 1915, Page 3
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