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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsOf the 252 men who offered themselves for active service in Victoria on Saturday, 119 were accepted. The following are the totals from the various recruiting offices in the ...
Article : 121 wordsIn Christ Church, St. Kilda, yesterday, the Dean of Melbourne dedicated and unveiled a memorial tablet erected by the parishioners of the late Rev. J. Stanley ...
Article : 1,235 wordsPrince Argutinski has supplied the Russian War Ministry with a report as to the condition of Trebizond (the Turkish Black Sea port) after its capture by the Russians. ...
Article : 188 wordsOn Saturday morning a deputation of representatives of firms engaged in the export of butter waited on the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hagelthorn), and directed ...
Article : 814 wordsAdvices from Athens which reached New York on Saturday, declare that Greece is bankrupt. The Greek army has not been paid for two months, the soldiers and their ...
Article : 152 wordsA remarkable robbery was committed at the New street railway station, in Birmingham, on Friday, when jewellery valued at £8,000 was stolen. ...
Article : 71 wordsSpeaking in response to the toast of the Federal and State Parliaments, proposed at the annual smoke social held by the Irish National Foresters Benefit Society in the ...
Article : 504 wordsThe Government of China has declared a moratorium, which will apply to banks throughout the Republic. [This action by the Government evidently ...
Article : 79 wordsNo further developments occurred in the manufacturing grocery trade dispute on Saturday. Five firms and between 500 and 600 employees are now affected, and unless ...
Article : 193 wordsJudging from questions occasionally asked, a false impression exists in some quarters regarding the position of a woman who has been allotted a portion of a soldier's pay. ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Hoghes is spending a quiet weekend by visiting Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire. He expects to have several opportunities ...
Article : 729 wordsThe Privy Council has reserved judgment in the appeal case Bull and others v. the Attorney General of New South Wales. [This was a case from New South Wales ...
Article : 70 wordsMany members of the Anti-Peace Society on Saturday endeavoured to prevent a number of anti-conscriptionists entering a secretly convened meeting held in the in ...
Article : 185 wordsFew Australian boxers have attained such a height of popularity as Hughie Mehegan, formerly light-weight champion of Australia. In Sydney and Melbourne—even in ...
Article : 955 wordsDr. Gilbert White, Bishop of Willochra (the new northern diocese of South Australia), and formerly Bishop of Carpentaria, preached at St. Paul's Cathedral last night. ...
Article : 454 wordsThe return of 210 soldiers, wounded, ill, and convalescent, by the Karoola on Friday, was followed by that of 405 yesterday morning. This was the largest shipload to ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,—It appears to me that the only thing to touch men who will not voluntarily enlist is to let them know what will take place and how they will personally be ...
Article : 201 wordsA strong feeling prevails among directors of Anglo-Australian companies that the excess of profits tax of Australia should be based on the same standard as the English ...
Article : 238 wordsSir,—The following clipping, taken from the "British Weekly" just to hand[?] and dated March 9, is an indication of the interpretation that one of the most ...
Article : 99 wordsHOBART (Tas.), Sunday.—Captain H. E. Greenstreet, of R.M.S. Remuera, which arrived at Hobart on Saturday from London, via Capetown, had an exciting story ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Assistant Minister for Railways (Mr. Hoyle) states that he will attend the Premiers' Conference, which opens next week in Adelaide, to urge ...
Article : 315 wordsSir,—While out this week I was disgusted to see so many young girls and women signing conscription papers which they know nothing about. Surely, if the A.N.A. want ...
Article : 72 wordsLord Derby, whose work as director of recruiting is regarded by many as having entitled him to a place in the Coalition Cabinet, dealt briefly with the political ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Mr. Catts, M.H.R., is reported in your issue of the 11th inst., to have stated that there were 400,000 or 500,000 men in Australia, apart from those in training, who ...
Article : 96 wordsThe overturning of a canoe on the River Yarra at Kew yesterday afternoon resulted in two girls being drowned, and the lives of two young men being endangered. ...
Article : 247 wordsSir,—Are the loyal and decent people of Australia going to put up with all this anticonscription business any longer? Cannot something be done to put an end to all ...
Article : 224 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" publishes the following flamboyant report of the German naval raid on Lowestoft on April 25— "Our fleet arrived off the cast coast at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Captain Robert Purdie, of the State-owned schooner J. M. Weatherwax, which recently arived at Sydney with a cargo of lumber for the New South ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 313 wordsSir,—Now that it is proposed to liberalise soldiers' pensions, I wish to suggest that more generous and honourable provision be made for their dependants other than ...
Article : 307 wordsThere was a patriotic demonstration at Brunswick Park on Saturday, the proceeds of which were devoted to the fund for Returned Wounded Soldiers. The ...
Article : 236 wordsSir,—Yesterday I chanced to become possessed of a copy of the "Australasian Typographical Journal" of February 14, which contained the following paragraph from the ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Associated Press of America has published the semi-official British reply to the American complaint that Great Britain is intercepting medical supplies for Germany. ...
Article : 113 wordsWELINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.—In the New Zealand House of Representatives on Friday the War Pensions Amendment Bill was introduced by the Government. ...
Article : 164 wordsMany interested spectators watched the dummy of a car being shunted on Prince's Bridge early on Saturday afternoon, while the car previously attached to it was pushed ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 15 May 1916, Page 8
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