3rd Edition. Miner Office, 6.30 p.m. the War. the Latest. (Reuter's Messages.) Enemy Trade. a Board of Trade Inquiry. London
Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 February 1916 · page 4
Mr. W. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, has issued a report of the commercial intelligence committee of the Board of Trade (Mr. Algernon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Australia. Killed in Action
Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 4
Private A. Morrow, East Wagin, December 10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Australia. the War Census. a Proposed Proclamation PENALTlES FOR NONCOMPLlANCE
Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 2
Non-compliance with a proclamation which is shortly to be issued, calling upon all who have not done so to fill in the war census forms, will be visited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. (Reuter's Messages.) Enemy Trade. a Board of Trade Inquiry. London
Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 1
THE FOLLOWING APPEARED IN Yesterday's THIRD EDITION…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Returning Soldiers. Expected Arrivals To-morrow. Melbourne,Friday
Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 2
The next batch of returning invalided soldiers, comprising 167 Victorians, 40 South Australians, and 26 Tasmanians will reach Melbourne on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Settlers. Sydney
Barrier Miner · Friday 4 February 1916 · page 2
The Minister of Agriculture (Mr W. C. Grahame) has notified the State War Council that he is prepared to accommodate 12 soldiers at the Wollongbar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War. General Items
Western Grazier · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 4
There are violent art[?]lery duels in the Afgonne. King Nicholas, interviewed at Lyone, said he had undoubted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War. General Items
Western Grazier · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 2
A Berlin message says the raids on the fortified city of Paris were repri[?]ales for the French bombing of the open town of Freiburg. The raids, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Joffre. "War Will End in the West."
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 5
Senor Joaquin Salvatell[?], a wellknown Catalan, Deputy (says the special Paris correspondent of the "Daily News"), was recently received by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Australia. the War Loan. States' Contributions. Melbourne
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 4
Mr. W. G. Higgs, the Federal Treasurer, stated yesterday that the contributions to the second war loan were:- New South Wales, £9,988,000;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Items. Turkey May Evacuate Constantinople. Adventures of German Submarines
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 4
The following war items have been transmitted by the Independent Cable service:- Petrograd, Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier's Letter
Western Grazier · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 2
Private A. Downs, in a letter to his home, from somewhere in the Indian Ocean, says:— 21st Dec.,—I suppose by the time thus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Soldiers Letters From the Front. Bombardier W. H. L. Arthur
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 6
Writing to Mr. W. J. Winterford, of the corner of Gossan and Beryl streets on December 13, from Cairo, Bombadier W. H. L. ("Tibby")…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Veteran at the Front. Enlisted As 47, But Married 54 Years Ago
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 6
The distinction of being the oldest British soldier in the firing line is claimed for William Hall, who has a son of 49 also at the front. An interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Grandfather Enlists
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 5
Mr. George Clark, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clark, of Casino (New South Wales) has enlisted. He is 44 years of age, and a grandfather,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers and Intoxicants. Tasmanian Act Upheld. Melbourne
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 5
The Acting-Federal Attorney General (Mr. H. Mahon) has upheld the Tasmanian act which makes it illegal for hotelkeepers to supply intoxicating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Balkans. Montenegrin General Killed. Allegedly by Own Soldiers. Copenhagen
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 4
Advices from Berlin state that a Montenegrin general named Decir, who signed the deed of capitulation, has been murdered by his own soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bombs for Soldiers' Widows
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 7
A scheme to enable every soldier's widow to become the owner of a house by paying a small weekly amount in lieu of rent is being worked out by Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Educational Preference to Soldiers' Children. Sydney
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 5
The Minister of Education (Mr. A. Griffiths) has authorised the framing of a regulation granting preference in admission to high schools of the children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Supplying Drink to Soldiers
Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 February 1916 · page 5
George Brett was sentenced to three months imprisonment in Brisbane on Thursday (says the "Express") for illegally supplying liquor to soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →