The following circular was issued to- day by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to the various recruiting organisations in Australia:— ...
Article : 474 wordsEvery Australian and New Zealander in Great Britain spent Christmas merrily. The Anglo-Australasians have been d[?]gently preparing for months to ensure ...
Article : 158 wordsA communique says that, the enemy early on Thursday morning attacked our positions west of Gorizia, but our artillery, assisted by prompt reinior[?]ments, ...
Article : 47 wordsReplying to suggestions made in the House of commons that the Government should control shipping, Mr. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty) said that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 272 wordsSir George Reid sends a greeting to Australia, saying, "We are looking after your boys, whether wounded, sick, or well. Do not believe any lying reports ...
Article : 36 wordsThe children at Harefield, not to be outdone, had a surprise in store for their Australian hosts. They had been industriously learning the tune of ...
Article : 65 wordsM. Sazonoff, Russian Minister for War, when interviewed, reaffirmed the Government's unshakable determination to carry the war to a successful issue. ...
Article : 35 wordsCommercial circles oppose the Danish agreement, considering it gives Great Britain too much control. ...
Article : 24 wordsOn Christmas afternoon Master Errol Macleod Archer, youngest son of Mr. Ludlow Archer, a bright young lad of 10 summers, passed away at "Northbury," ...
Article : 103 wordsA sensation was caused at Hamburg wing to the rumour that the allied air leet was arriving. The public fright vas so great that a general order was ...
Article : 124 wordsThe question of the supply of liquor to soldiers having been revived, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said to-day that the whole matter had been referred ...
Article : 49 wordsIn describing the British industrial mobilisation the "Debats" says:—lf you pile the Creusot works upon those at Essen, and multiply them ten, twenty. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Hotel Cecil the Australian dinner was a splendid success. Sir George Reid, Lady Reid and Lady Birdwood welcomed and shook hands with 600 men, ...
Article : 524 wordsRumours were freely circulated early in tile week that some soldiers intended when on leave from Enoggera camp to wreck a certain establishment. However, ...
Article : 314 wordsThe "Telegraaf" reports that 400 people, mostly soldiers' wires and children, were killed by the explosion which occurred in the powder factory at Muenster, in ...
Article : 34 wordsA festival which always commands the interest of Methodists took place here on the appointed Sunday, when their Sabbath school held their anniversary ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Runciman President of the Board of Trade, replying to questions regarding the trade relations after the war, said that any of the investigations which were ...
Article : 260 wordsTwo aeroplanes, one a German, bombed Seutari on Thursday, killing five civilians and injuring 16 women and children. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe aggregate of the British casualties in all theatres to December 9 is 119,923 killed, 338,758 wounded, 69,540 missing.—Official. ...
Article : 75 wordsA communique reports:—We dislodged the rebels at Arbarik, north-westward of Hamadan, and occupied Assabadad Pass, southward of Hamadan, and stormed the ...
Article : 74 wordsOur Perth correspondent writes:—Yesterday afternoon we had a very pleasant change, a fine shower of rain falling for about an hour. There were also a ...
Article : 54 wordsThe monthly stock sale was held at Pingarooma on Wednesday by Herd and Co. There was a good yarding of cattle, and the attendance was large. Mr. R. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe German Humanity League in a Christmas manifesto appeals to Germans to end the war. It adds—"To-day the German name is a scorn to civilisation ...
Article : 115 wordsSir Ernest Cassel has handed a Christmas gift of £25,000 sterling war stock to the Red Cross fund. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe returns of the Bank of England, for the week are as follow, the figures for the previous week, ending the 9th inst., being given in parentheses:—Issue ...
Article : 89 wordsA fitting welcome was given to a draft of returned wounded and sick soldiers who were landed at Sydney on Christmas morning. They numbered 212. Of these, ...
Article : 126 wordsAt Sheffield harvesting operations lave commenced. On several farms the cutting of Algerian oats for hay is in progress. The return is satisfactory, and ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Robert Cecil (Under Foreign Secretary), replying to the criticisms that the Foreign Office diplomacy had failed, said the suggestion by a Greek statesman ...
Article : 280 wordsWilfred Abbey, aged 35, a stud groom, this morning terrified his father and mother, who reside at Oakley, by appearing in the house with a rifle, with ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Telegraaf" says the recent demonstrations in Germany were more serious than was revealed. Several thousand. mostly women, marched to Dr. ...
Article : 68 wordsA Christmas tree, organised by the Young Ladies' Guild in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds, was held at the Ulverstone Town Hall on Christmas Eve. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Bank of England discount rate is 5 per cent., to which it was reduced on August 7, 1914. The open market rate of discount for three months' fine bills ...
Article : 66 wordsTwo members of the 12th Battalon returned to Devonport on Saturday night, viz., Sergeant George Barker and Private Vernon Gardam, both of whom took ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following probates lave been granted:—Robert Gardner to Frank Percy Hart., Wm. Martin, and Alex. T. Cruikshank, £90,460; Robert Studley ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is understood the Russian banks have negotiated a 60,000,000-dollar (£12,000,000) 5 per cent. loan in New York, on condition that the money is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsReferring to the embargo recently placed upon the Remington Typewriter Company, the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated to-day that he had been ...
Article : 173 wordsSir Newton Moore and Lady Moore supervised the arrangements at Weymouth, where the men dined in huts, and were entertained at a concert in ...
Article : 167 wordsIt is reported that Mr. Ford has entered a sanatorium to avoid a nervous breakdown, and the rest of the mission has arrived at Stockholm, greatly ...
Article : 139 wordsThe decision of the bench at Thursday's police court in granting Burnie hotelkeepers a night license for December 31, has been held to 'be illegal. The license ...
Article : 212 wordsThe following story is told of a young lady's resource at a recent baaar. Business was in full swing when a young man strolled around the various stalls with ...
Article : 116 wordsIn concluding his statement, Lord Robert Cecil declared that that disgraceful state of things ought to be stamped upon. A few months ago Sir Edward ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant (Under War Secretary) stated that General Sir Ian Hamilton had convinced him of the great difficulties preventing a speedy presentation ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Midland Hotel 250 New Zealanders dined. The High Commissioner (Sir T. Mackenzio, who presided, declared he was proud of the New Zealand heroes. ...
Article : 242 wordsAccording to the "Weekly Despatch's" Stockholm correspondent, Mr. Ford's expedition was a German plot, of which Mr. Ford was the victim. The plan was ...
Article : 86 wordsSome straight talk was indulged in by the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn) to-day, when he was waited upon by a deputation representing the butter ...
Article : 177 wordsA committee meeting was held at Latrobe on Wednesday night, when the Warden presided over a good attendance. The following executive committee was ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Tennant said the total casualties in the Dardanelles to the 11th inst. were 1609 officers and 23,670 men killed, 2969 officers and 72,222 men wounded, 337 ...
Article : 78 wordsA fatal motor accident occurred at horse Shoo Bend, three miles from Avoca, on Christmas morning. The car contained four persons, one of whom, Mr. J. W. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe following notifications have been posted at Lloyd's:—Arrivals.—From Australian ports—Hurunui. Turakina, St. Lucia, and ...
Article : 47 wordsIn time of war we have to put up with a great deal of inconvenience for the purpose of securing greater safety.—Sir John Simon ...
Article : 27 wordsIn connection with the first figures under Lord Derby's scheme, it has been stated that Mr. Asquith will have to redeem his pledge to married men that they ...
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Advertising : 87 wordsI never use a postcard, and hate to receive one. Indeed I would rather pay [?]wopence than he pursued by postcards which disclose to outsiders my own ...
Article : 42 wordsThe ship Inverness, bound from New York to Brisbane, has put in at Barbadoes, her cargo having shifted. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Mon 27 Dec 1915, Page 6
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