After over two years in the thick of the fighting on the Western front Corporal E. C. Robertson, of the 30th battalion, son of the Rev. A. Dunnett and Mrs. Robertson, of ...
Article : 227 wordsThe quarterly meeting of delegates from unions holding shares in the Trades Hall was held on Friday night, Ald. G. W. Delahunty presiding over a good attendance, in the ...
Article : 508 wordsThis morning about 50 were re-engaged at the small arms factory, the wood room having been re-started to-day. Every possible effort is being made, we are informed, to give the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsSir Douglas Haig reports:--We improved our line and captured several prisoners in the neighborhood of Bailie and eastward of Sebuterne. We repulsed an attack on a new ...
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Advertising : 87 wordsThe State Government is taking stops for the restoration of registration of de-registered unions. This is being done in accordance with the undertakings given at the recent ...
Article : 97 wordsThe secretary of the Lithgow district committee of the A.S.E. (Mr. E. Eltoft) has received a letter from the Defence Department, dated April 25, stating that the Minister had ...
Article : 161 wordsA Reuter Washington message says:--The British war mission, which is urging the need for Allied reserves, states that owing to the severity of the fighting the entire combatant ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Cecil Francis, a carter in the employ of Messrs. Bulkeley and Co. here, met with a serious accident, this (Thursday) morning. He was on his way to Dark Corner with a ...
Article : 290 wordsWho died of wounds received in France in March. He was a native of Scotland, but enlisted from Lithgow shortly after war was declared. He was a brother of Mrs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsThe 16 days' mission at St. Patrick's Church, a feature of which has been the eloquence of the missioners, Revs. Father Smith and Forrest, of the Sacred Heart Order, was ...
Article : 420 wordsMeetings of the local Land Board at Lithgow and Oberon are advertised in this issue. A meeting of the shop assistants and warehouse employees is advertised for ...
Article : 983 wordsAccording to a Reuter despatch, the French authorities declare that the Allied reserves now exceed the Teutons. ...
Article : 23 wordsReuter's correspondent at the Hague states that the Dutch Foreign Minister has announced to the Chamber that the German Dutch crisis has ended. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Garvin, editor of the London "Observer," says that owing to the late winter the Austrian offensive against Italy is impracticable, until the end of May.--United ...
Article : 35 wordsThe press secretary of the A.L.P. Debuting Club writes:--Success may now be written large in connection with the debating classes. Quite a ...
Article : 826 wordsThis afternoon (Thursday), about 4 o'clock an exciting scone was witnessed in Katoomba and Gang Gang streets, when the horses in a carriage took fright and bolted. Whilst ...
Article : 178 wordsThe "Times" Paris correspondent states that M. Clemenceau, the French Premier, informed the Foreign Affairs Committee that at no time had real peace possibilities existed. ...
Article : 39 wordsMrs. Conran, of Lithgow-street, has received a cable notifying that her two sous, Pte. Gus and Len Conran, have been gassed and admitted to hospital in France. The cable ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Times'" says Petrograd has been placed into a position of defence, owing to the possibilities of a Finnish invasion. The "Times" Stockholm correspondent says ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsOn Monday last Mr. Geo. Rosewavne received word that his son, Pte. Ern Rosewarne, has been wounded. The report did not state whether his wounds are serious, but all his ...
Article : 105 wordsA pretty wedding was celebrated at St. Patrick's Church, Lithgow, on Wednesday, the contracting parties being Margaret Magdalene, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. ...
Article : 356 wordsThe rainfall for April totalled 236 points, or 32 points above the average. The total rainfall from the 1st January was 1268 points, and the average for the same period 906 ...
Article : 164 wordsA United Service message says that Mr. Lloyd George has attacked the Home Rule difficulties. He conferred, with the Government in committee. The bill is nearly ...
Article : 119 wordsAmong the names submitted for selection to contest Cobar State seat in Labor's interest is that of Mr. H. J. Frost, secretary of the Lithgow Trades Hall. Mr. Frost, whose [?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsThe Lithgow Red Cross Society, through Mr. Padley, receiver and despatcher, sent away last Thursday three cases of books and magazines for soldiers and sailors, on active ...
Article : 234 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent confirms that a French battery destroyed one f the German long range guns bombarding Paris. ...
Article : 25 wordsAllan Sailes, who was convicted at Lithgow police court on April 2 on a charge of having assaulted Erie Parker, a returned soldier, appealed at Bathurst Quarter Sessions ...
Article : 196 wordsVancouver advices report that a big battle has begun on the Italian front. Violent fighting, is taking place on the whole front from Giudicaria Valley to the Adriatic. ...
Article : 284 wordsRouter's Amsterdam correspondent says that a fire destroyed the largest Austrian grain mill at Sysotcham. The damage is estimated at a million kronen. ...
Article : 31 wordsSo long as our daily and weekly newspapers continue to be published without appreciable reduction in size the general public will regard the serious shortage and great cost ...
Article : 251 wordsThe "Times" Pekin correspondent says internal situation of China is deplorable. Although the northern troops are generally victorious over the southern, there is little hope ...
Article : 106 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Blaxland Shire Council on Friday a lengthy letter was read from the secretary of the Lithgow Repatriation Committee, suggesting that the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe military authorities have begun to register the names of volunteers under the new home defence scheme. The applicants must be between 21 and 50 years of age, and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Victoria Gross has been awarded Sergt. S. R. McDougall, a member of an Australian infantry battalion. He charged the enemy's second wave single-handed with rifle and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsThe 395th and 396th Australian casually lists, containing the names of many killed and wounded, have been issued. ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Mon 6 May 1918, Page 2
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