NEW YORK, Nov.18—There are estimates here that Americans permanently residing in England, mainly heiresses who have found husbands there, will contribute ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsResolutions were recently passed by various Labour organisations condemning the Federal Government's action in regard to the recruiting scheme, and asking the unions ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) was entertained at luncheon in the Union Rooms of the University of Melbourne yesterday by the council of the University and of the ...
Article : 2,265 wordsSALONIKA, Oct. 18.—All Greece is in arms. Every village is crowded with soldiers, and khaki uniforms give to the streets in the cities a colour sameness that ...
Article : 2,062 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday—The difficulty which has recently beset the New South Wales War Council as the result of a conflict of directions is regarded so seriously ...
Article : 141 wordsBishop Armstrong (according to our Tallangatta correspondent) has earned something of a reputation as a snake-killer in his diocese of Wangaratta. Recently, while ...
Article : 1,059 wordsAttention has been directed by the secretary to the Postal department (Mr. Oxenham) to the want of care in addressing letters to soldiers on active service, ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Government has accepted Mr. H. H. Denison's offer of his Eumarella Estate at Gulgong, for providing returned soldiers with land. Terms ...
Article : 53 wordsThe carnival being held at Luna Park in aid of our wounded soldiers has been a great success. To-night an Irish festival will be held and the carnival will close to-morrow ...
Article : 98 wordsThe secretary of the South Melbourne Australian Natives' Association has received the following acknowledgment from Dr. J. W. Springthorpe, now in Cairo:— ...
Article : 152 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday Mr. Austin asked Mr. Baillieu whether, as the Trades Hall was built upon land granted by the Crown, was it the intention of the ...
Article : 78 wordsA meeting of the Commonwealth Button Fund committee has held in the Town Hall on Monday. The Lord Mayor presided. Reference was ...
Article : 131 wordsThe letter from the Prime Minister on recruiting was read by the town clerk (Mr. A. V. Heath) at the meeting of the Port Melbourne Town Council on Tuesday night. ...
Article : 185 wordsAPSLEY, Tuesday.—A motion was agree to at the meeting of the Kowree Shire Council yesterday in favour of conscription, if the Prime Minister and the Cabinet should decide that it is ...
Article : 522 wordsReferring to statements made at the meeting of the central council of the Red Cross Society on Tuesday, to the effect that the Defence department had called ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsThough Mr. Cheney, secretary of the Carters and Drivers' Association, asserted that he posted, on Tuesday evening, a second demand for a conference to discuss ...
Article : 266 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—To-day 103 men were accepted for the Expeditionary Forces at the Sydney recruiting depots. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee has received advice from over 60 centres of the formation of local recruiting committees, which will assist in ...
Article : 84 wordsNews has been received from Mr. J. H. Snowball (eldest son of the late Dr. William Snowball), who left here with the 9th Light Horse in February, and who was invalided to England in ...
Article : 143 wordsHer Excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson has received a cable-message from the High Commissioner, London, stating that the Christmas gifts sent by the Australian ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the Preston Council meeting on Monday evening the Prime Minister's circular regarding the recruiting campaign was read. ...
Article : 142 wordsMrs. A Creighton, 70 Anderson street, Bendigo, writes to say that she cannot get any forther information about her husband, Number 1928, Private A. Creighton, 5th Reinforcements, 7th ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Jensen) stated yesterday that information had been received by cable that Able Seamen Arthur Harry Snape and Hope Masterton Waddell, ...
Article : 37 wordsIn response to the Y.M.C.A. national appeal for £25,000 for work among Australian troops abroad (recently published in our columns). His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to ...
Article : 117 wordsPrivate A. T. Harrison, of the "A" Divison, 5th Battalion, who hs recently returned from the front, after having lost his sight in the Lonesome Pine engagement, paid a visit to the Royal ...
Article : 146 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday—The strike of coke workers on the south coast continues, and there is little chance of the dispute being settled this side of Christmas. The ...
Article : 70 wordsSouvenir tickets and buttons were sold in the city yesterday in connection with the cricketers' tribute to the wounded soldiers. The total collection was £309. The prize ...
Article : 262 wordsAt the Albert Park State School the roll of honour of "old boys" serving with the various naval and military expeditionary forces has now 372 names recorded in it. It is believed that this ...
Article : 101 wordsKYABRAM, Tuesday—At the meeting of the Deakin Shire Council yesterday the recruiting question was discussed. Councillor Allan said that if the Federal ...
Article : 119 wordsCaptain W. A. Whitbourn, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Whitbourn, of Tyrone, Hoddle street, Elsternwick, who was for nearly seven months in Gallipoli in the trenches, and who was ...
Article : 57 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—As the result of a mutual agreement, seamen's wages have been increased 25/ a month all round and the overtime rate is to be 1/8, ...
Article : 49 wordsMRS. Byron Morres appeals for gifts of papers for the Soldiers' Newspaper Depot. Supplies of games and pipes will also be appreciated. More helpers are urgently needed at the depot, 380 ...
Article : 37 wordsThe gross proceeds fo the earnival held at the Melba Hall (University Conservatorium) on October 23, in aid of Lady Stanley's Fund for Australian Wounded Soldiers, were £525/4/3, the expenditure ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Yarraville Citizens' Club, James Cuming Institute, has decided to extend a hearty invitation to soldiers of the Expeditionary Forces, and sailors of the Royal Navy, to make use of the ...
Article : 92 wordsLYTTELTON (1,500 miles).—Sailed.—ec.-22— Ashburton, for Melbourne. Returned Soldiers at a Picnic Outing at the Parramatta River, Sydney. See illustrations in ...
Article : 73 wordsAfter to-day, the allowances to soldiers' dependants from the Lord Mayor's Australian Patriotic Fund will be paid through the various suburban branches of the State ...
Article : 72 wordsA report was received at the meeting of the South Yarra branch of the Australian Natives' Association that the Prahran City Council, acting under some retrenchment scheme, had dismissed several ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. B. G. Cooke, one of the directors of S. Cooke Proprietary Limited, printers' furnishers, Queen street, has joined the colours, and goes into camp with the artillery detachment on the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 23 Dec 1915, Page 10
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