An application has been made for the release of B. Thomas, who, with a man named Williamson, is serving a life sentence in Western Australia for a murder ...
Article : 802 wordsA crowded meeting, to sympathise with the miners' strike at Broken Hill, was held last evening in the Bijou Theatre. Mr. Robert Ross was in the chair, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsRecruiting was exceptionally brisk at the Town Hall depot on Saturday. The rush of volunteers commenced shortly after 2 o'clock, and from thence onward until 9 ...
Article : 1,081 wordsThe public of Victoria have given generously to all funds for the returned soldiers, but there is still need for more. Nothing which can be done for the men ...
Article : 1,386 wordsSince farmers have been sending their wheat into the Government pool complaints have been received daily of delays in the issue of certificates for such produce. Many ...
Article : 1,029 wordsIn dealing with the claims of the Carters and Drivers' Federation the Federal council of that organisation decided that all constitutional means of bringing the matter before ...
Article : 367 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—In order to bring the urgent need for recruits strongly before the many hundreds of eligible young men who nightly attend picture shows in the city ...
Article : 459 wordsThe delegates of the Victorian Football League have been seriously considering what course they will adopt when the League meets on Friday to discuss the ...
Article : 434 wordsAnother advance will be made in the wholesale price of butter to-day. The inincrease will be 12/ per cwt., which will raise the wholesale quotation for superfine ...
Article : 219 wordsInclement weather did not prevent a large number of people from gathering at the Williamstown Picture Theatre on Saturday evening to hear the Minister for ...
Article : 550 wordsWith the threat of a strike confronting them, employers in the pottery trade met last week and decided to grant members of the pottery section of the Brick, Tile, and ...
Article : 114 wordsTALLANGATTA, Sunday.—A splendid recruiting meeting was held here on Friday evening, Mr. James Grant presiding. Mr. Parker Moloney, M.H.R., said that ...
Article : 630 wordsThe final effort by the executive committee of the V.C.A. in connection with the cricketers' tribute will be made to-day. By permission of the Lord Mayor (Sir David ...
Article : 347 wordsA return issued by the secretary of the Postmaster-General's department (Mr. J. Oxenham) shows that exclusive of the radiotelegraphic branch, 1,692 officers of the ...
Article : 699 wordsGEELONG, Sunday.—The refusal of the Geelong coal lumpers to work after 5 o'clock of an evening had the effect on Saturday of scriously inconveniencing the ...
Article : 592 wordsThe supply of returned soldiers eligible to act as recruiting sergeants, which a week or so ago was so inadequate that the appointment of civilians had to be considered, now ...
Article : 813 wordsKing George has approved of the presentation of the silver model of a Maori war canoe by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the captain and officers of the ...
Article : 740 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—The financial returns for the State of Western Australia for the month of January disclose another addition to the State deficit, which now aggregates ...
Article : 119 wordsThrough the alleged neglect of the driver to ascertain whether the line was clear for him to proceed, a goods train on Friday evening ran into the buffer-stops of a siding ...
Article : 159 wordsCRESWICK, Sunday.—At Kingston a recruiting meeting was held last night. Councillor Yates, president of the Creswick shire, who occupied the chair, said that there were ...
Article : 802 wordsSir, — I sent receipts for about 2,500 bushels of wheat to the Wheat Commission some weeks ago, and have heard no more about them. Possibly the certificates ...
Article : 316 wordsAt a time like the present, when the great isues of the war are being more than ever pressed upon the people of Australia, it is exceedingly interesting to be shown some ...
Article : 270 wordsBROKEN HILL Sunday.—The strike continues without any excitement or entausiasm. Pickets are engaged and meetings are held, but no apparent move has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsA police raid was made on Saturday night by Sub-inspector Britt and about a dozen constables, and the following persons were lodged in the Fitzroy lockup on a charge of having sold liquer ...
Article : 310 words"You're a liar," interjected a clean-shaven man, somewhat above middle age, to a preacher on the Yarra Bank yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works has intimated to the Broadmendow. Shire Council that the estimated cost of fixing mains in connection with the Broadmeadows water ...
Article : 122 wordsThe s.s. Awaroa is running specially cheap excursions to Queenscliff, Portsea, and Sorren[?]o, leaving Little Doek, at the foot of Spencer street, at 9.30 a.m. ...
Article : 29 wordsPORT PIRIE (663 Miles).—Salled.—Jan. 30— Odland, for Newcastle; Emerald Wings, for Newcastle. ...
Article : 21 wordsMALDON, Friday.—A house owned by Mr. C. Haesler, and occupied by Mr. J. Doidge and family, situated at Long Gully, together with the whole of the contents, was destroyed by fire on ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 31 Jan 1916, Page 8
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