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Detailed lists, results, guides : 295 wordsMr. Holman stated in the Assembly on Wednesday that it was intended to go on with the second reading of the Wheat Bill the following day, and t[?] ask the House to ...
Article : 187 wordsIt is reported from Flanders that the impression exists among the officers and men now holding the trenches that the German attacks have spent themselves and that ...
Article : 152 wordsLatest market quotations.--Wheat 4s 2d chaff £6 10s, flour £9 17s 6d, derrick straw £4, oaten hay £6 10s, lucerne £1 10s to £4 10s, barley 3s 9d to 4s, maize 3s 9d to 4s, oats ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Germans have completed concrete trenches on the battlefield of Waterloo, which can be defended indefinitely should the enemy fall back on them. ...
Article : 97 wordsWork has proceeded continuously in all departments of the ironworks during the week. The 18in. mill has been working day and night, while the rail, muck, and ...
Article : 72 wordsThe First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill) announced to-day that the total British naval losses are: Killed: 222 officers 3455 men. Wounded: 37 officers, 428 ...
Article : 64 wordsThe "Mercury" subscription accounts for this year have now been issued. Subscribers who pay before December 31 will have the benefit of the advance rate of 13s for the ...
Article : 207 wordsIt is understood that the Necessary Commodities Control Commission has recommended to the Government that the price of flour be advanced to £11 15s or £12 per ton, and ...
Article : 60 wordsA communique states that the Russian fleet cannonaded the fort and barracks at Trebizond, on the Black Sea. It is officially announced that the Russians ...
Article : 55 wordsCorrespondents arc reminded that all ordinary news received on publication days has invariably to be held over until the following issue. Of the total space in each issue only a ...
Article : 170 wordsThousands of Germans have been buried at Namur, and many of the bodies are only partially covered. The protruding limbs present a ghastly spectacle. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. J. Colley, Commercial Bank, has been authorised by the above committee (Sydney) to receive donations for the purpose of purchasing and making into vests short-woolled ...
Article : 290 wordsBerlin newspapers state that the German Emperor has telegraphed to the Crown Prince that the Sheik-ul-Islam has proclaimed a holy war for the whole of the Islamic world. ...
Article : 40 wordsFighting has been resumed between Dixmude and Nieuport. The operations around Tracey have terminated in favor of the Allies, who inflicted. ...
Article : 102 wordsA German spy who was about to be executed at Arras offered information if he were spared. This was promised on condition that the information proved correct. The spy then ...
Article : 64 wordsThere was a packed house at the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday night, when an excellent picture show was held in aid of the improvements to the Convent school. In ...
Article : 195 wordsThe smashing of the Prussian Guards at Zonnabeke was beautifully timed. The Germans shelled our trenches with lyddite and shrapnel for eight hours, and it was ...
Article : 197 wordsCorporal Cecil Hart has forwarded interesting letters and "curios" to his relatives from what was previously German New Guinea. Mr. Hart has collected some of the stamps. ...
Article : 258 wordsCockerton's for Xmas Presents.--0 The Lithgow Town Band will render a programme in the park on Sunday afternoon. Special services will be conducted by Rev. ...
Article : 1,582 wordsThe Germans estimate that between 40,000 and 50,000 Russian casualties were experienced in the battle in which General Hindenbery is said to have been victorious. ...
Article : 81 wordsAt a meeting of the Patriotic Committee on Tuesday night it was decided to forward an other hundred guineas to the Lord Mayor's Fund. Up to the present about £340 has been ...
Article : 104 wordsAn interesting case came before Judge Scholes, in the District Court, when Edward Gregory Lynch, rabbit inspector, of the Bathurst P.P. Board, claimed £400 from ...
Article : 264 wordsThe British war loan has been offered at a premium of half-a-crown. The "Financial News" says it was over-subscribed yesterday. The German Parliament is asking for a ...
Article : 37 wordsOfficial lists give the German casualties as 549,247. This is exclusive of the losses of the Bavarian, Saxon, and Wurtemberg armies, which are estimated at over 400,000. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following candidates have passed the first-aid examination held towards the end of the month: Mesdames Tartakover, Burns, Rue; Misses Bracey, Basser, Bousfield, ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the House of Lords, Lord Londonderry said that he had grounds for belief that signalling was taking place on the North-east coast of Britain. He intended to instruct ...
Article : 48 wordsAn official statement from Venice states that the Austrians have occupied Veljevo (47 miles south-west by south of Belgrade). The Servians have retired six miles in the ...
Article : 60 wordsConsideration of the year's estimates, covering an expenditure of over eighteen millions, constituted the main business in the Assembly on Wednesday. Various small votes ...
Article : 533 wordsThe action of Japan in proffering the Caroline Islands to Australia is regarded as striking evidence of her good faith. The action is regarded as honorable as it is heroic. ...
Article : 39 wordsPatrick Kane was charged with having been drunk in Bank-street the previous night and was fined 5s or six hours. Fine paid. Arrested by Constable Sattler. ...
Article : 52 words"Punch's" cartoon, entitled, "A Chip of the Old Block," depicts Australia as a young lion carrying the Emden as a fox in its teeth to the old lion, who is looking on. ...
Article : 44 wordsAlthough it was raining, enormous crowds lined the thoroughfare to St. Paul's Cathedral on the occasion of the funeral of Earl Roberts. Thousands of Territorials and Indian ...
Article : 72 wordsReuter's correspondent at Pretoria states that General De Wet has been wounded in the neck. He is short of ammunition, and is losing influence with his followers. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsPatrick Willis was charged with having been drunk on Eskbank railway station the previous night. He was fined 10s or seven days. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe shooting of a white kid at Kitty's Bluff, near Hill End, on June 7, 1914, and the theft of the skin, was the subject of a case at Bathurst Quarter Sessions on Tuesday ...
Article : 128 wordsA semi-official army message remarks that decisive events are impending between the Vistula and the Warta which will prove a long step towards the successful conclusion ...
Article : 105 wordsThe cruiser Glasgow's account of the naval engagement off the Chilian coast shows that when the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were seen the Good Hope sent a ...
Article : 207 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the local branch of the Blacksmiths' Society at the Trades Hall on Tuesday night, an opportunity was taken to acknowledge in tangible form, ...
Article : 234 wordsThe three months' suspension of labor conditions granted the Caloola Gold Mining Company last September will terminate to-day (Tuesday). The owners (a Sydney syndicate) ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. J. W. B. Gribble, late reader of Church of England, O'Connell, has definitely joined the expeditionary forces. Mr. Gribble leaves O'Connell this week. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Germans claim a great victory for General von Hindenberg over the Russians advancing on Thorn. The streets of Berlin were decorated, and the Emperor ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Turkish forts in Smyrna fired upon the United States cruiser Tennessee. President Wilson is determined, despite all statements to the contrary, to avoid war with Turkey. ...
Article : 151 wordsMaximilian Harden, editor of the weekly paper "Die Zukunft,," in an article says:--"Let us drop miserable attempts to excuse Germany's action. Not against our will, nor ...
Article : 165 wordsThe market only wanted good wools on Wednesday, which were steady in price, and Japanese buyers helped to support them. But inferior lots were unsaleable. The top figure ...
Article : 113 wordsA communique states that two German cruisers and ten destroyers bombarded Libau, on the Baltic, causing several fires. In the bombardment five persons were killed, ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Fri 20 Nov 1914, Page 4
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