Serious bush fires are raging in the centre of the North Island in the vicinity of Raetihi and Ohakune, in a thickly-wooded area. Owing to the interruptions to telegraph ...
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Article : 155 wordsThe case where Jacob Fienberg was charged with being the receiver of certain articles of jewellery, valued at £3000, was continud in the Central Criminal Court this ...
Article : 629 words"In theory the Federal war profits tax is right: in practice it is absolutely wrong and against the best interests of the country." said Mr. C. H. Reading, of Sydney, at the ...
Article : 314 wordsDefects of the military pension and pay systems sometimes cause hardship. A case in point is that of Mrs. Houlahan, 315 King-street, Newtown. Her two sons ...
Article : 376 words"The Lord Mayor of Melbourne remarked the other day that he was not going to count his chickens before they were hatched. Councillor Stapley was referring to the war loan ...
Article : 176 wordsThe feature of the work at Randwick this morning was Desert Gold's six furlongs in 1min. 17sec. The nearest time to this attained by any ...
Article : 1,322 wordsBishop Radford, in a sermon on Sunday evening, criticised the gala held in aid of the Lord Mayor's Fund. He deplored the necessity for turning the city into a scene of mad ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Prime Minister's letter on the matter is:-- "After consideration by the Government, it has been decided that the Commonwealth ...
Article : 283 wordsIt is reported that Auckland was severely buffetted by the cyclonic storm last night. No details have been received, as the district is isolated on account of telegraphic ...
Article : 49 wordsDealing in his speech at the opening of the Australian Natives' Association's annual conference at Bendigo to-day with the dispute between the lodges and the doctors, Mr. ...
Article : 178 wordsIn warning the Rev. W. O. Lewis, of Kurri Kurri, at a welcome tendered to him at the Congregational Church, of what he would have to contend with in his new ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Minister for Defence to-day stated that for some time past the question of providing adequate and more suitable storage accommodation for military stores in New South ...
Article : 254 wordsAfter a long discussion the Associated Chambers of Commerce, at its conference this morning, decided not to commit itself to any particular scheme for helping returned ...
Article : 183 wordsMr. J. Duggan, president of the State Shipbuilding Conference, addressed a meeting of the Shipbuilding Federation at the Trades Hall last night. He had, he said, met the ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Barnett Glass, a pioneer of the rubber industry in Australia, died yesterday in Melbourne at the age of 79 years. The Federal Commissioner of Taxation, Mr. ...
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Article : 164 wordsSenator Millen, Minister for Repatriation, admitted to-day that there had been undue delay in answering Mr. Holman's letter to the Prime Minister asking what the Federal ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Chief Secretary, Mr. Fuller, has received a report from the fisheries branch of his department, which shows that during the past nine months a great deal of ...
Article : 263 wordsIn connection with the orange and green on St. Patrick's Day, Sergeant-Major Levy, of the Western Red Cross Home, has written a full apology to the local newspapers, in ...
Article : 165 wordsThis afternoon, in Moore Park, the Governor-General, addressing the A.I.F. troops, said that the present position demanded that every fit man should go to the war. At ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Watt, Acting Commonwealth Treasurer, left Melbourne this afternoon for Sydney. He will look into war loan and other matters. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the Martin Place recruiting stand yesterday, Mr. W. Edwards, of Keiran-street, Waverley, offered £5 each to the first 10 recruits who passed the final medical test ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 wordsFurther evidence was heard to-day in the Divorce Court, before Mr. Justice Harvey, in the contested suit for restitution of conjugal rights in which Agnes (also called Agatha ...
Article : 197 wordsFrederick Luttrell, blacksmith and laborer, claimed £2000 compensation from the Bull[?] Colliery and Coke Works, Ltd., in the Banco Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Pring and ...
Article : 151 wordsA country storekeeper has among his cherished curios the following letter from a customer:-- Dick ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsMr. Walter Lucas, of Messrs. Burns, Philp, Ltd., was this afternoon advised by the Red Cross Society that information had been received from its London office to the effect ...
Article : 68 wordsA party of officials from Sydney travelled in a special train over the new railway line from Stockinbingal to Forbes yesterday. The line will probably be taken over by the ...
Article : 47 wordsWOLLONGONG (44 miles).--Arr. March 19: Dunmore, from Sydney, 6 a.m. NEWCASTLE (62 miles).--Arr., March 19: Archer, 3.35 a.m.; Meelnderry, 5.25 a.m.; ...
Article : 248 wordsAfter being under a tram for about 10 minutes in Central Square this morning, Charles John Thompson, aged 75, who lives in Abercromble-street, city, was released by ...
Article : 165 wordsCaptain Carmichael, referring to-day to the report that he intended to contest the Mosman seat if Mr. Colquohoun resigned, stated that this was the first that he had heard of ...
Article : 51 wordsThe twentieth annual report of the New South Wales Baseball Association shows that, despite the war, the efforts of the parent body have been of a sufficiently successful ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsElsie Grant, 19, a visitor from Victoria staying in Crown-street, Darlinghurst, was seriously injured this afternoon owing to the shaft of a cart entering her side. She was ...
Article : 66 wordsSmokers here are being charged a penny an ounce more for their tobacco than they were yesterday. This is being charged on all imported tobacco, and also on tobacco made ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Tue 19 Mar 1918, Page 5
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