AUSTRALIAN NEWS
RESULTS OF EARLY CLOSING, By Teleßraoli-Preßs Association-Copyright Sydney, December 26. The report of the police, on the operations of the year states that the early closing of hotels had a marked result. There was a reduced number of offences, but early closing was responsible for an increase in sly grogselling. INTERCESSION SERVICES. FIXED FOR JANUARY 7. Sydney, December 26. ' Archbishop Wright (Anglican) has authorised special intercession services on behalf of the Empire on January 7. RECRUITING. A DISCLAIMER.. Sydney, December 26. The Recruiting Committee disclaims a repetition of the Derby scheme resorted to in Britain. SYDNEY BUILDINC TRADE. Sydney, December 26. The building trade in 1916 was dull. There were erected 5553 new buildings, costing six and a- half millions. STORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES, FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. (Rcc. Decomber 26, 8.40 p.m.) Sydney, December 26. This is tho wettest season recorded, and in the Orange district the climax was reached in.a terrific storm devastating orchards and crops. Five livris were lost. Mrs. Campbell and three children, William James, a prominent settler, and his nephew, Wa'ter Oaks, while crossing the viver, wore swept away in the flood, and all were drowned, -
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2961, 27 December 1916, Page 5
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193AUSTRALIAN NEWS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2961, 27 December 1916, Page 5
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