At Gosford quarries yesterday Herbert Wells aged 50 years, met with a severe accident when a large stone, weighing about half a ton became dislodged and struck him on the head ...
Article : 74 wordsPreliminary examination of the 14 members of the Blood Brotherhood who were responsible for the deaths of Mr. J. Inouye and Baron Dan in February and March ...
Article : 91 wordsThe English team with score of 376 won on the first innings by 166 runs against the Queensland Country team to-day. Queensland's country batsmen were far ...
Article : 1,055 wordsHeavy rain has fallen in the north and north-west portions of the State. Ten inches was recorded at Tully, four inches at Innisfail and seven and a half inches at Macknade. ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the Cricket Ground during the next few days Sydney cricket enthusiasts will have an opportunity of seeing the play of B. J. Tobin, the South Australian fast bowler who ...
Article : 354 wordsProfessor John Le Gay Brereton. Professor of English Literature at the University of Sydney, died suddenly near Tamworth yesterday morning while on a caravan tour He had ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,114 wordsCommissioner William McKenzie the newly appointed leader of the Salvation Army in New South Wales and Queensland, will reach Sydney by the Manunda this morning. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 85 wordsWhen the Royal Commission which is investigating the construction of the pressure tunnel and other matters, met yesterday, the Chairman, Mr. H. J. Swain, made the ...
Article : 1,181 wordsEswell Fetcher, 14, of Lithgow-road, Wallerawang, was admitted to Lithgow District Hospital suffering from a wound by a pearifle bullet in the upper part of a thigh ...
Article : 57 wordsAfter the president, Mr. J. J. Booth, had supported Lord Hawke's criticism of J. B. Hobbs, the Yorkshire Cricket Federation, representing 600 clubs, carried a resolution ...
Article : 85 wordsProtesting that the new regulation's necessitating new and altered reticulations throughout the town before the new current from the Nymboida scheme can be connected are ...
Article : 98 wordsRepresentatives of life assurance companies waited on the Assistant Treasurer (Mr. Cooper) to-day and pointed out that the stamp duty payable on an ordinary policy was 1/ per cent. ...
Article : 193 wordsCases of crime in the southern district showed a decrease of 202 in 1932 compared with those of 1931. Drunkenness cases fell from 253 in 1931 to 233. Other notable ...
Article : 84 wordsThe price of gold to-day was £6/1/3½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/1/2½ yesterday PAYMENT IN STERLING. ...
Article : 179 wordsCabled information from London contains the news that Dr. David Rae, a popular Wauchope doctor, died suddenly on board the Largs Bay shortly before the arrival of that ...
Article : 90 wordsWild animals add an interest to the life of planters in the wilder parts of Ceylon, according to Mr. Geoffrey Pickthall, manager for the Galphele Rubber and Tea Estates ...
Article : 261 wordsThe funeral of Mr. William Thomas Missingham, M.L.A., took place from his home at Brighton-street, Croydon, to the Methodist portion of the Northern Suburbs Cemetery ...
Article : 733 wordsSeekers after mushrooms in a paddock at Narrabri found one which measured 9 inches in diameter and 28 inches in circumference, and weighed lloz. It was 4 inches high, with ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Act passed last session providing for a reduction in widows' pensions came into force on Wednesday. Widows' pensions have been reduced from £1 to 17/6, and payments ...
Article : 78 wordsThe balance-sheet presented at the halfyearly meeting of the Young Fruitgrowers' Association showed that the association had experienced the best year since its inception in ...
Article : 110 wordsThe influence of clean sport was referred to by the Railway Commissioner (Mr. T. J. Hartigan) in a luncheon speech at the annual Railways versus Tramways cricket match, ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. W. B. McInnes, the Melbourne portrait painter, has been commissioned by the trustees of the Castlemaine Art Gallery to paint a portrait of the Duke of York. Mr. McInnes ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Bathurst Quarter Sessions before Judge Barton, Jack Symonds was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and stealing ...
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Article : 379 wordsMessrs. H. W. Pickering and C. Judd, of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation, Ltd., who recently returned from a three months' business tour of the Far East, both stated ...
Article : 66 wordsOn a bigamy charge, Llewellyn McPherson Dale appeared at the Coff's Harbour Police Court and was remanded to February 15. He is charged that in March, 1910, at Brentford, ...
Article : 93 wordsDetails of to-day's call-up for employment are published on page 16, column 6. The call for general labourers refers to specified married men and single men with ...
Article : 104 wordsOne of three lads who were playing in North-street, Tamworth, applied a match to some explosive substance. Two are now in the Tamworth District Hospital, William ...
Article : 64 wordsDaniel Fay, 9 years, was knocked 30 feet to the ground when he touched an electric street cable carrying a high voltage. He climbed an iron sewer vent pipe to a point ...
Article : 113 wordsThe large oil refining companies announced to-day that the wholesale price of both first and second grade petrol had been reduced by 1d a gallon. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Queensland side to meet the M.C.C. team on Saturday will not be chosen until a few hours before the match commences. The team will be selected from the following 13 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 261 wordsMrs. E. Charlton, who died at her residence, Rothesay, Minna-street, Burwood, on Tuesday, aged 75 years, was a native of Ayr, Scotland, and arrived in New South Wales with her ...
Article : 355 wordsWhile William Fletcher, a timber-getter, wa[?] attending to a load of logs on a waggon a log slipped from the waggon, and the end struck Fletcher across the abdomen, inflicting ...
Article : 48 wordsExcursion tickets to Brisbane will be issued from Sydney and intermediate stations on the main northern line (via Wallangarra) and North Coast (via Kyogle) lines, on Wednesday ...
Article : 72 wordsB. J. TOBIN, the South Australian player, who has been selected for the test in Brisbane, will appear for his State in the Sheffield ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsRepresentatives of the five councils in this district which obtain electric current in bulk from Port Kembla, and which have been unsuccessfully endeavouring to arrange cheaper ...
Article : 146 wordsA report of the work of the police in the metropolitan area during last year has been prepared by the Criminal Investigation Branch and presented to the Commissioner of Police ...
Article : 131 wordsTwo cases of alleged assault reported to the police last night possessed unusual features. One man walked into Sydney Hospital several hours after he had had a quarrel with a ...
Article : 371 wordsIt is expected that the executive council of the Australian Workers' Union which continued its sittings in Sydney yesteiday will complete its arrangements to-day for the ...
Article : 156 wordsAt Stuart Town to-day, John Stewart, 60. was killed instantly when he was struck by the buffer of the engine of the local passenger train. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Dunstan) to-night announced the names of the three fulltime members of the Closer Settlement Commission which will re-organise land ...
Article : 107 wordsA daring theft was committed last nigni a[?] the Fitzroy Hotel, Coff's Harbour, when a man and his wife and son lost a coat and about £35 in cash. The party booked at ...
Article : 114 wordsAlderman George Edward Fortescue, an old member of the Rockdale Municipal Council, and a former Mayor, died at his nome at Rockdale last night. He was 64 years of age. He was ...
Article : 111 wordsMrs. Loretta Dodd, of Davis-street, Blacktown, had a nerve-wracking experience when a horse attached to a sulky in which she was riding bolted seven miles before she could pull ...
Article : 173 wordsAs a result of the recent cyclonic disturbance the telephone cable connecting Gabo Island with the mainland has been dislocated. Five hundred yards of the cable are reported ...
Article : 103 wordsA conference of district councils proces[?] against a proposal for the formation of a Hunter River flood mitigation board, to cover the areas of the Bolwarra, Kearsley. Port ...
Article : 215 wordsThe director of the Walter Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Resear[?], Dr. C. H Kelleway will leave for London to-morrow. He will spend the first port of his eleven months ...
Article : 99 words"Gangsters appear to be gaining a stronger hold on the United States," said Mr. Thomas Rice, of the "New York Star." who arrived in Sydney yesterday by the steamer Ballarat ...
Article : 177 wordsBooks to the value of nearly £200 are lost from the City Municipal Library each year Library officials have suggested that to prevent "unauthorised borrowers' from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsIt having been represented to the Minister for Defence (S[?] George Pearce) that there a[?] hundreds of unmarked graves of ex-members of the A.I.F., the Minister has decided ...
Article : 105 wordsThe central executive of the Federal A.L.P. at its meeting last night decided to hold the annual State conference on April 22 and subsequent days. The Federal leader. Mr. ...
Article : 95 wordsAnthony Gilding, 17, a metal-work apprentice, of Station-street, Kogarah, was carrying a bottle of sulphuric acid yesterday, when he was knocked down by a car at the corner of ...
Article : 68 wordsCecil Bailey, about 32, tram conductor, lately resident at the Garden Suburb, Cardiff, suffered fatal injuries when he fell from the footboard of the tram on which he was ...
Article : 58 wordsProgrammes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Section on page [?] each day. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 3 Feb 1933, Page 10
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