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  2. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  3. BELGIUM'S NEED

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  4. COMMODITIES

    A meeting of the Prices of Goods Board was held yesterday, and the question of the prices of butter and jam was under consideration. The board was informed ...

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  5. NATIONAL FUNDS.

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  6. MEN FOR THE ARMY

    Although the special effort of the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee terminated on Saturday, the number of men offering themselves for active service was ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. FOR THE WOUNDED.

    A large meeting of ladies interested in the collecting work on Australia Day (Friday) was held in the Town Hall yesterday for the purpose of considenng questions of ...

    Article : 452 words
  8. MOTOR AMBUIANCE.

    In the presence of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Stanley, Sir John and Lady Madden, the Lord Major and Lady Hennessy, Madame Melba, the major and mayoress of St. Kilda, &.c., a series ...

    Article : 112 words
  9. CITY COUNCIL VACANCIES.

    In connection with the vacancies in the virions clerical departments in the City Council caused by the enlistment of officers and employees for active service, the ...

    Article : 362 words
  10. DONATION BY ST. KILDA FIRM.

    At the St. Kilda Town Hall on Saturday night it was announced by the mayor (Councillor J. H. Hewison) that Messrs. Love, Royle, and Thurgood, timber merchants, had provided 150 collecting ...

    Article : 80 words
  11. VARIOUS EFFORTS.

    The mayoress of Collingwood (Mrs. E. J. Brown) is appealing to the citizens for donations of goods for disposal on Australia Day. Ladies willing to assist by collecting an that day are asked to meet ...

    Article : 595 words
  12. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Gross profits made by the Ballant Banking Company for the half-year, including the balance brought forward, amounted to £13,497. It is proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 8 per ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. CASUALTIES AND FATALITIES.

    The body of a young man, clad partially in military clothes and overcoat, was found floating in the River Yarra, near the Australian Wharf, on Monday morning. The ...

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  14. SUGAR AND KEROSENE PRICES.

    The secretary of the Grocers' Association of Victoria (Mr. J. W. Williams) stated yesterday than an increase in the price of kerosene from 4/3 to 4/9 is necessary to ...

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  15. LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL.

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  16. COUNTRY DEPOTS.

    BENDIGO, Monday.—The recruiting movement received a fresh impetus to-day, when out of 70 volunteers who were examined at the Pall Mall depot, 55 were ...

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  17. BENDIGO AND DISTRICT.

    At the Licensing Court on Monday, Mr. E. N. Moore, P. M., granted the transfer of the license of the Town Hall Hotel, Eaglehawk, from James McConnell to his wife, Emily McConnell. The ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. SEAMAN KILLED.

    Shocking injuries were received by John Barron, a seaman on the steamer Kyarra, yesterday Barron was engaged with others loading coal, when the iron door of a ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. SUGAR INDUSTRY.

    BRISBANE, Monday.—A conference took place this morning between the Treasurer (Mr. Theodore), the under secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Fowles), the controller ...

    Article : 131 words
  20. GEELONG AND DISTRICT.

    The balance sheet to be presented to the annual meeting of subscribers of the Geelong Hospital on Thursday shows an increase in the cost of provisions of £560 on that of last year. In fresh ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. INSTITUTE OPENED.

    The Soldiers' and Sailors' Institute, which has been erected on the site, at St. Paul's Cathedral, formerly occupied by the well-known soldiers' recreation tent, ...

    Article : 430 words
  22. SOLDIER'S BODY FOUND.

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—The body of a soldier, wearing the uniform of the Army Medical Corps, was found by the police early this morning on the doorstop of a ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. BADGES FOR REJECTS.

    The suggestion that rejected volunteers should be given a badge to wear has not met with the approval of the Defence department. At the meeting of the ...

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  24. SERBIAN RELIEF FUND.

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  25. CASTLEMAINE,

    A largely attended meeting of business people and [?]luicers was held on Saturady night to protest against the cost of water for [?]luicing purposes, it having been increased 200 per cent, ...

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  26. CONSERVATORIUM CONCERT.

    The half yearly concert of the Albert Sheet Conservatorium of Music was given in the Town Hall last night. It proved more than ordinarily attractive. Apart ...

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  27. SCHOOL HOLIDAY.

    Sir,—It would doubtless add to the success of Australia Day if the private schools gave a holiday as many people would go into the city if the children were free to ...

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  28. BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY

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  29. NEW ZEALAND BUTTER.

    WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.—The supplies of new season's butter are already beginning to come forward. There is every prospect that an ample quantity will be ...

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  30. AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.

    TUNGAMAH, Monday.—The mild weather of late his caused the grass to grow luxuriantly und in a few weeks there will be abundance of stock feed. The crops are coming on splendidly, and a ...

    Article : 438 words
  31. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S FUND

    The Education department's war relief fund now amounts to £31,078, of which £21,400 has already been distributed. At a meeting of the central executive ...

    Article : 99 words
  32. ST. KILDA APPEAL.

    Sir,—May I make two further requests to our generous and sympathetic citizens' Tirst, on behalf of the mayoress, that all willing to assist in service, money, or kind ...

    Article : 219 words
  33. TRADING WITH ENEMY.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—At the Central Police Court to-day Richard Hahn, a commission agent, lately carrying on business in Castlereagh street, Sydney, was ...

    Article : 370 words
  34. MUSKETRY PRACTICE FOR RECRUITS.

    Sir,—I am quite in accord with other writers as to the necessity of our soldiers undergoing a thorough training in rifleshooting before going to the front. Our ...

    Article : 146 words
  35. VARIOUS EFFORTS.

    The mayoress of Camberwell (Mrs. Renwick) states that the local Red Cross committee have arranged an "old linen day," and numerous depots for the receipt of old linen are open all this week ...

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  36. OFFER TO LOOK AFTER CHILDREN.

    Sir,—With the object of furthering the recruiting movement in Victoria, the committee of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum (Protestant) is prepared to admit into the ...

    Article : 114 words
  37. TRAVELLERS' CONCERT.

    BENDIGO, Monday.—A concert, in aid of the Australia Day Fund, was given in the Royal Princess's Theatre to night by the Commercial travellers Choral Party. The ...

    Article : 85 words
  38. NEW AUSTRALIAN DIVISION.

    It is not yet knpwn what the composition of the new Australian Division will be. It may be decided to form a purely infantry division, in which case fewer troops ...

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  39. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL'S SOCIETY

    The annual meeting of the conferences of St. Vincent do Paul's Society was held at the Cathedral Hall Fitzroy, on Sunday afternoon. The president, Mr. Dan Slattery ...

    Article : 298 words
  40. OUR RETURNED WOUNDED.

    Sir,—It seems to me that a street parade of our returned wounded soldiers on Friday next (Australia Day) would serve two good purposes. It would help to make up, in ...

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  41. HOYT'S THEATRE.

    At Hoyt's De Luxe Bourke street, a special programme of moving pictures will be shown on Australian Day from 11 a.m. to 11 p m., and at the Olympia from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., every penny of ...

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  42. DENTAL RELIEF FUND.

    The treatment of recruits rejected solely on account of bad teeth was initiated at the Victoria Barracks yesterday morning when Mr. George lugg and Mr. A. Mason Cox, ...

    Article : 77 words
  43. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

    Sir,—Many people have written to your paper expressuig wonderment and disgust that the returned wounded soldiers should not have been cheered. Is it not that the ...

    Article : 136 words
  44. CAULFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

    Yesterday afternoon at the hour for closing the boys of Caulfield Grammar School assembled in the main hall of the school to witness the unveiling of a large sheet, ...

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  45. TREATMENT OF RECRUITS.

    HAMILTON, Monday. — At the last meeting of the borough council the treatment of Hamilton volunteers on their arrival in Melbourne was strongly criticised. ...

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  46. RESPONSE IN THE COUNTRY.

    BEAUFORT.—Up to dat the sum of £200 and several cases of goods have been sent to headquarters by the Middle Creck branch of the Red Cross Society. A recent concert held by the ...

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  47. GERMAN REARRESTED.

    BALLARAT, Monday.—Upon being discharged from the Ballarat Gaol on Monday Emil Schneider, a German, was arrested by Plain clothes Constable Craig and Constable ...

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  48. POLICE NEWS.

    At the Malvern Court on Monday before Messrs. Patterson (chairman), Hattan, McMillan and Wharington, J.P.'s, May Malony proceeded against John May for leaving his illegitimate child Mary ...

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  49. SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS.

    The accommodation for the public in the Fitzroy municipal chamber was inadequate on Monday evening for all those who at tended to enter a protest against the ...

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  50. REMOUNT DEPOT.

    A visit was made to the Commonwealth Remount Depot it Maribyrnong yesterday by two parties. One consisted of General Broome (director-general of remounts for ...

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  51. BENDIGO MINERS' WEIGHTS.

    BENDIGO, Monday.—Acting on the advice of the Chamber of Mines, the Williams United Company, Eaglehawk, at its meeting to-day, agreed to meet representatives ...

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  52. NEW ZEALAND LOSSES.

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  53. CRICKET MATCHES SUSPENDED.

    BALLARAT, Monday—The Cricket Assocuation to night decided to suspend pennant matches indefinitely. Out of 266 financial members in the associated cricket clubs ...

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  54. "THE ARGUS" LIST.

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  55. FIRES IN THE COUNTRY.

    BENALIA, Monday.—At about 10 o'clock on Sunday night a fire broke out in an right roomed house in Arundel street, Benalla West, and completelt destroted the building. The place was ...

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  56. MISSING BUGLER.

    Sir,—Mr. R. H. Campbell, in "The Argus" of to-daY, writes that Captain Ronald T. A. McDonald reports Bugler Ashton to be, with him, a prisoner of war ...

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  57. CHEQUE FRAUD.

    At the Essendon Court on Monday Thomas E. Thornhill was charged with imposing, by means of a valueless cheque, on Athelstan Caffin, to the extent of £[?]/15/. The accused pleaded guilty. ...

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  58. AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS.

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  59. WORK FOR CARPENTERS.

    The council of the Australian Patriots' league has been requested by the Defence department to provide small tables chairs trays, bread platters garden seats tarden ...

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  60. GIFTS TO SOLDIERS.

    A report received from Colonel Sellheim, Base Depot. Egypt, is taken by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) as indicating that there is no truth in statements ...

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  61. LATE SHIPPING NEWS.

    NEWCASTLE (637 Miles).—Arrived.—July 26— Glaucus, Monaro, and Dilkera, from Melbourne Sailed.—July 26—Cyrenn, for Singapore. NEW ZEALAND. ...

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  62. FOOTBALL ASSOCIATOIN.

    At last night's meeting of the Victorian Football Association it was decided to request the Victorian Football League to allow the team having the bye on the ...

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  63. RETURNED WOUNDED.

    Sir,—Who is responsible for the proper application of the money which is being raised for our wounded soldiers, and why do they not take steps to see that these ...

    Article : 91 words
  64. EMPLOYEES GIVE DAY'S PAY.

    The employees of Hicks, AtkmBon, and Sons Proprietary Limited have shown their sympathy with the Victorian Red Cross Fund for Sick and Wounded Soldiers in ...

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  68. "THE ARGUS" LIST.

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