Tumut

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Newspapers 1910 - 1919

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1910

• Referendum on financial relations between Commonwealth and States.
  

• Penny postage introduced.
  

• First vessels of Royal Australian Navy arrive.
  

• Admiral Sir R. Henderson visits Australia to advise on naval defence.
  

• First federal bank-notes issued.
  

• Visit of Scottish agricultural commissioners.
  

• First Yass Hospital Committee, 1849 html 13 January 1910 (89 words)
  

• Historical Tumut No. 5 read 25 January 1910 (1,109 words)
  

• Death of Mrs Mary Carrigg read 28 January (398 words)
  

• Motor Car from Tumut to Cootamundra read 15 April 1910 (81 words)
  

• Motor Car, Driven by Steam read 20 May 1910 (81 words)
  

• Beautiful Tumut (By O.H.) html 11 June 1910 (1,471 words)
  

• Death of Mr. William Mingis French html 19 July 1910 (612 word)
  

• Slow Gundagai-Tumut Train read 23 August 1910 (357 words)
  

• Mount Horeb, Batlow, Tumbarumba Railway read 23 August 1910 (310 words)
  

• Lack of Artificial Dairying Foods read 23 August 1910 (246 words)
  

• Mingay for sale read 4 October 1910 (295 words)
  

• 'Brungal Tommy' Brest Plate read 19 October 1910 (203 words)
  

• Obituary - Mr. George Frederick Grill read 10 December 1910 (208 words)
  

• The Late Mr Geo F. Grill read 10 December 1912 (1,193 words)
  

1911

• Imperial conference in London.
  

• Temporary committee of Imperial defence formed.
  

• Admiral Henderson's naval report.
  

• Commonwealth takes over Northern Territory from South Australia.
  

• First federal census.
  

• University of Western Australia founded.
  

• Compulsory military training established.
  

• Cutting Off the Pigtails read 3 February 1911 (191 words)
  

• Obituary - Mrs Kiley html 23 February 1911 (438 words)
  

• Native Names html 7 March 1911 (186 words)
  

• Andrew Hamilton Hume Died html 15 March 1911 (73 words)
  

• Death of William Henry Hilton html 12 July 1911 (86 words)
  

• Captain Moonlight's Victim - Bushranging Tragedy Revived html 29 July 1911 (419 words)
  

• Harmony Has Ceased. Tumut Mayor Resigns html 23 November 1911 (63 words)
  

• Ald. J. E. Madigan Chosen Mayor Unopposed html 28 November 1911 (385 words)
  

• Death of Mr. Thomas Halloran at Wagga read 8 December 1911 (224 words)
  

• The Late Mrs. J. Reardon read 22 December 1911 (237 words)
  

1912

• Commonwealth Bank established.
  

• Brisbane Tramway 'badge' strike.
  

• Sydney University Amending Act.
  

• Tumut Plains Crops read 12 January 1912 (257 words)
  

• An Old Relic of the 1852 Gundagai Flood read 27 March 1912 (515 words)
  

• Top of Form - Gibson, Battle and CO., LTD. read 12 April 1912 (416 words)
  

• Bungonia, Hume Centenary html 30 August 1912 (147 words)
  

• Hamilton Hume's Discoveries html 3 September 1912 (254 words)
  

• Death of Mrs E. Perkins, Sr. read 10 September 1912 (785 words)
  

• Death of Edward Brennan read 13 September 1912 (127 words)
  

• Obituary of Mr. Edward Brennan read 13 September 1912 (554 words)
  

• The death of Mr. Edward Brennan read 26 September 1912 (150 words)
  

• Hamilton's Rocks html 7 October 1912  (180 words)
  

1913

• H.M.A.S. Australia arrives.
  

• Federal capital city founded and named Canberra.
  

• The Conquest of the Mountains html 28 May 1913 (646 words)
  

• Lake Bonney html 10 July 1913  (94 words)
  

• Tumut’s New School read 7 November 1913 (382 words)
  

1914

• General Sir Ian Hamilton reports on Australian military defence.
  

• Visit of British Association for the Advancement of Science.
  

• European war.
  

• Australian expeditionary force occupies German New Guinea.
  

• H.M.A.S. Sydney destroys German warship Emden.
  

• Grill Estate Mill read 7 August 1914 (208 words)
  

• Poland's Tragic History read 13 October 1914 (98 words)
  

1915

• Australian troops landed on Gallipoli (25 April).
  

• Broken Hill Proprietary Co.'s steelworks at Newcastle opened.
  

• Obituary of Mr. Patrick Harlow read 16 March 1915 (614 words)
  

• The Drought of 1850-1851 read 20 April 1915 (843 words)
  

• Breaking of The '50-'51 Drought read 23 April 1915 (1,089 words)
  

• After The '50-'51 Drought read 30 April 1915 (1,474 words)
  

• The 1852 Flood Gundagai Washed Away read 25 May 1915 (917 words)
  

• Darling River, Historic Tree html 8 June 1915  (380 words)
  

• The '52 Flood read 15 June 1915 (1,633 words)
  

• Tumut River Water Should Be Conserved read 2 July 1915 (249 words)
  

• The Late Albert Cheetham, Body Found In The River html 5 September 1913 (1,128 words)
  

• A Curious Monument to Kosciuszko read 11 November 1915 (163 words)
  

1916

• Australian troops in France.
  

• First conscription referendum held.
  

• Low Level Bridge over the Murrumbigee at Mundarlo read 28 March 1916 (128 words)
  

• Death of Mrs. C. J. Ratliff read 23 November 1916 (230 words)
  

• Death of Julia Henrietta Ratliff read 2 December 1916 (40 words)
  

• Wollongawah House for Lease read 14 December 1916 (31 words) 
  

1917

• First Imperial war cabinet formed.
  

• Federal national ministry formed.
  

• Second conscription referendum held.
  

• General strike in New South Wales.
  

• Trans-Australian (east-west) railway completed.
  

• Tumut to Cooma Railway html 12 January 1917 (595 words)
  

• Mr. Bourke At Tumut for Election read 1 March 1917 (1,120 words)
  

• Death of Mr. Samuel Gordon read 10 July 1917 (424 words)
  

• Mr. James Gormley, M.L.C. Eighty Today read 30 July 1916 (1,010 words)
  

• Early pays in this District No. 4. (By Hon. James Gormly, M.L.A.) read 30 July 1917 (1,313 words)
  

• Memory of Kosciuszko Wednesday read 17 October 1917 (83 words)
  

• Deadly Pea Rifle html 6 November 1917 (103 words)
  

• The Early Days at Gundagai read 26 November 1917 (901 words)
  

• Mrs Gormly Turns 78 read 1 December 1916 (99 words)
  

1918

• Australia House, London, opened.
  

• The Life of Mr. J. Gormly M.L.C. read 1 February 1918 (1,896 words)
  

• The Pioneers of the Illawarra read 8 March 1918 (381 words)
  

• Echoes of the Past (By George Clout) No. 1 read 9 May 1918 (1,155 words)
  

• Mrs Bond & Dr. Bond of Adelong read 21 June 1918 (108 words)
  

• Passed Away - Patrick Eurell read 5 December 1918 (201 words)
  

• "Kangaroo" V.C. Private John Ryan read  30 December 1918 (237 words)
  

1919

• Australia admitted to League of Nations.
  

• Seamen's strike and Broken Hill strike.
  

• Commonwealth competition aerial flight, England to Australia, won by Ross and Keith Smith.
  

• Letters, Discovery of Lake George html 6 March 1919 (3,036 words)
  

• The Dangerous Pea-rifle html 28 July 1919 (152 words)
  

• Special Honor for Tumut's only V.C., Private Jack Ryan read 29 August 1919
  

• Ryan Public meeting read 5 September 1919 (115 words)
  

• Arrival of Pte. J. Ryan V.C. read 28 October 1919 (391 words)
  

• A 'Kangaroo' From The Front Tumut's VC Arrives. read 31 October 1919 (698 words)
  

• The Ryan Banquet read 31 October 1919 (1,213 words)
  

• Blowering Reception Committee. read 28 November 1919 (149 words)
  

Items in black below are not newspaper articles.

These items are a reprint of the

"The Australian Encyclodaedia"

Vol. 1, pages 257 - 261

Edited by Arthur Wilberforce Jose and Herbert James Carter

in collaboration with T.G. Tucker C.B.G, Litt.D. (camb.)

Originally printed by Angus & Robertson Limited in1927.