Mr. James R. Henderson, manufacturer, of Clarence-street, Sydney, has a good opinion of Katoomba residents. His wife left a bag containing a large sum of money on a seat in ...
Article : 79 wordsLeo J. Cummins, 32, of Bondi-road, Bellevue Hill, an installation inspector of the City Council, was fatally injured on Saturday afternoon when a motor car in which he was ...
Article : 497 wordsThe conference on the bridging of the Northern Highway at Gosford to-night was opened by Dr. Earle Page, and presided over by Councillor A. L. Taylor, President of ...
Article : 418 wordsWALTER LINDRUM OF AUSTRALIA who made the world's record break of 3262, eclipsing Willie Smith's previous record of 2743. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsMrs. Birnie, wife of Mr. Alalster Birnie, of Rose Bay, died yesterday afternoon in the Royal South Sydney Hospital as the result of injuries received in an aeroplane accident ...
Article : 462 wordsThe chief feature of the aggregate meeting of mining unionists from the West Wallsend and Cardiff districts, held under a blazing sun at Brush Creek yesterday, was the definite ...
Article : 379 wordsNative districts surrounding Shanghai are in a state of turmoil in consequence of large numbers of local troops having joined the anti-Government revolt, which has now ...
Article : 281 wordsThe judges of the Empire wines exhibits at the Brewers' Exhibition report that in sweet red and white full-strength wines, they found a large variety of good, useful ...
Article : 184 wordsUnemployment is rife in the Tumut, Adelong, and Batlow districts. The Shire Council has already reduced the number of roads workmen, and further dismissals are contemplated ...
Article : 118 wordsA message from Paris states that dense and curious crowds surrounded Aix-les-Bains Town Hall to witness the wedding of the Aga Khan and Mademoiselle Carron. The ...
Article : 145 wordsErnest Sharkey, senior, a well-known farmer and grazier, last night fell from the back verandah of the Carrington Hotel on to the concrete pavement below, and was found lying ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the series of six clinics for crippled children arranged by the Rotary Club of Sydney, 453 patients have been examined and registered at Sydney Hospital. Of these, fully ...
Article : 127 wordsA temporarily unoccupied wooden shop and bakery of brick, the property of Mr. Theodore Johnston, Inland-street, was discovered on fire at 2 o'clock this morning. The wooden ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Sydney Trades and Labour Council disputes committee has had an unfortunate week-end at South Maitland. Attempts to interest most of the miners in the council's ...
Article : 201 wordsMr. A. Robb, of the Aerial Services, Ltd., and the Murray Valley Aerial Services, Ltd., has informed the local council that his company intends to run a regular air mail and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe 2000-ton steamer Haichlng was attacked by pirates between Swatow and Hongkong, early this morning. The British officers resisted, and it is believed that they shot dead ...
Article : 120 wordsRemarkable facts concerning cancer distribution are contained in the preliminary report of the Westmoreland Commission on Cancer Research, whose investigations show ...
Article : 84 wordsBrilliant sunshine lured a large proportion of Sydney's population to the beaches yesterday. The maximum temperature recorded was only 76.7 degrees, but the relative humidity ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 wordsAt the District Court yesterday, Judge Coyle made feeling reference to the tragic death of Mr. C. F. Eyers, chief gas examiner. He expressed his deepest sympathy with the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe 150 employees of the Clyde Engineering Company, Ltd., who received notice last week that their services were to be dispensed with worked their last shift on Friday. Their ...
Article : 247 wordsStrong exception is taken by the southern miners to any interference in the northern coal dispute by officials of the Trades Hall in Sydney. Messrs. Lowden and Sweeney, ...
Article : 148 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says: Development unparalleled in the history of marine insurance since Lloyd's policy was confirmed in 1779 will come into operation on January 1, when ...
Article : 178 wordsIn the House of Lords, the House of Commons' disagreement with the House of Lords' amendment to the Widows, Orphans, and Old-age Contributory Bill limiting the widows' ...
Article : 103 wordsTwo boys, John Read and Neville McMahon, found the body of a man on the outer fringe of the Forbes racecourse. It is not the body of any locally-known man, and is ...
Article : 142 wordsWilliam Bracklebank, labourer, made a desperate attempt to gain his liberty when he was detained on Sunday morning by the Imperial Service Club authorities, who suspected ...
Article : 130 wordsTwo young men were arrested on the Southern-road, near Liverpool, late on Saturday night, and were subsequently charged with being in possession of a motor lorry ...
Article : 35 wordsMembers of the A.L.P. executive, at a special meeting yesterday afternoon, rejected a proposal to support the Labour Council's scheme for a general stoppage in the coal industry. ...
Article : 68 wordsWhen Sir Esmond Ovey leaves London to-day to take his post as British Ambassador in Moscow, he will be accompanied by Messrs. Ashton Gwatwin and Mark ...
Article : 86 wordsGeorge William David Bell was committed for trial from the police court to the Quarter Sessions on March 17, on two charges of obtaining money by false pretences, the basis ...
Article : 67 wordsThe final result of the poll in the Mornington electorate was a victory for Mr. Herbert Downward, the Country party candidate, who defeated Mr. A. J. Kirton (Nationalist) by 286 ...
Article : 96 wordsA man was arrested by Constables Wardrop and Monaghan, of Redfern Police, last evening, following an attack on Leslie William Stephens, 30, labourer, at the corner of ...
Article : 139 wordsThe fourteenth annual festival of Toc H. was crowded. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Baldwin, and Lord Forster gave speeches and took part in the ceremony of carrying ...
Article : 342 wordsA cheque for £342 has been handed to Grafton District Hospital as a result of an appeal made by the local branch of the Police Association for the installation of an X-ray ...
Article : 53 wordsTwo valuable headlamps, four complete motor car wheels, a quantity of women's wearing apparel, including frocks and underclothing, have been taken by the police to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe management committee of the W.I.U., at a recent meeting, carried a resolution condemning the Federal Government's handling of the coal situation as "the greatest ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Education Departments of several German States have approved the German Colonial Society's proposal that former German colonies should be distinguished in school ...
Article : 359 wordsIn pointing out that telephone rates have been on an unprofitable basis, Mr. Lyons, Postmaster-General, in a statement issued on Saturday, says that revision had become ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 wordsRobert Bradley and Texas Stewart, two miners, were injured by a fall of stone at Scarborough Tunnel colliery. Bradley was admitted to Coledale Hospital ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. J. Kellock, chairman of Pelaw Main miners' lodge, announced this evening that the committee of delegates from the various lodges appointed by resolution at the aggregate ...
Article : 104 wordsAn unknown woman, about 50 years of age, was found lying in Belmore Park at 5 p.m. yesterday, and was removed to the Sydney Hospital by the Central District Ambulance, ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. James Chapman Toose, a retired grazier, died at his home, 2 Mistral-avenue, Mosman, last evening, in his 85th year. Born in Somersetshire, Mr. Toose came to ...
Article : 150 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Country Women's Association, Mrs. T. O. Rowston was re-elected president, Mesdames A. E. Thomas, W. G. Hutchinson, town vice-presidents, W. ...
Article : 459 wordsTwo young men were arrested by Plainclothes Constables Duffy and Doak, of North Sydney Police, on Saturday, after they had pawned articles which are alleged to have been ...
Article : 42 wordsCraft unions are swinging definitely toward acceptance of the compromise. The deputies have decided to accept the terms, and it is believed that the colliery ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 wordsThe water police launch gave assistance to two 16ft skiffs which were overturned near Middle Head yesterday afternoon. The crew of the first skiff reported in difficulties was ...
Article : 65 wordsAt least twice in the last ten days, graves have been wantonly despoiled in the Presbyterian section of Melbourne Cemetery. The damage amounts to more than £150. ...
Article : 83 wordsAlexander Belford, 35, chef, of 45 Elizabeth-street, city, was found in an unconscious condition on Saturday night in a backyard of a Regent-street dwelling, a short distance ...
Article : 239 wordsCharles Higgs, 19, an immigrant, was killed at Corrigin yesterday when the horses attached to a waggon he was driving bolted. Higgs was thrown out, and the wheels passed ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) declined to make any comment upon the coal situation on Saturday beyond saying that "although some centres had rejected the terms of ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Hyde) has issued his annual report, in which it is stated that although the present season's wheat crop is considerably smaller than that ...
Article : 183 wordsHarold Murphy, of Goodsir-street, Balmain, was admitted to Balmain Hospital on Saturday night following a brawl in a house in Mort-street. It was thought that his skull ...
Article : 43 wordsWilliam Beecham, the 4½-years-old son of Mr. William Beecham, of Corrimal, was found drowned this afternoon in Towrodgi Creek. When last seen the child was paddling in ...
Article : 61 wordsEdward Francis Stafford, 64, who was reported missing from the Railway Hotel at Windsor, where he was engaged cutting timber, returned on Saturday night in a weak ...
Article : 136 wordsThe State Government will take no action in regard to the coal dispute until it has been officially notified of the decision of the aggregate meetings of the miners. This is ...
Article : 76 wordsTerence John Lewis, steward on the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's Arakoon, disappeared when the vessel was between Coff's Harbour and Newcastle, on her way to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 wordsAfter a long search police found the body of Neville Menzies, aged 5 years, in the Mentone baths early this morning. The child was a son of the Crown Solicitor (Mr. F. G. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe extreme measures advocated in the coal crisis by a section of Labour in New South Wales were described by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Brennan) at a Labour ...
Article : 230 wordsThieves who broke into Messrs. Montgomery's store in Miller-street, North Sydney, early on Saturday morning took £80 worth of goods and about £9 in cash. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe leader of the Federal National party (Mr. Latham) will give a lunch-hour address at the National Club to-day on "The Political Outlook." ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the conclusion of the evidence relating to the original 11 charges in the Hatry case, Mr. Roome, prosecuting, announced a further four charges against the Hatry group for obtaining ...
Article : 50 wordsConstable James, of Darlington, was viciously attacked in Cleveland-street on Saturday, when he endeavoured to arrest two men who were using violent language. One of the ...
Article : 122 wordsThieves entered the Coogee Service Station, at 117 Belmore-road, Coogee, at about 3.15 a.m. on Sunday. Entrance was gained by breaking the glass in a door, and ...
Article : 39 wordsDetectives were busy at Coogee and Bondi yesterday, when a number of men were questioned in hotels and compelled to leave the premises. Six men were detained, and later ...
Article : 122 wordsThe body of Irene May King, eight, of Pitt-water-road, Brookvale, was found in the Curl Curl Lagoon yesterday afternoon about an hour after she had wandered away from the party ...
Article : 108 wordsWith a bullet wound in the head, and an automatic pistol near the feet, the body of an unknown man was found in some scrub near the Field of Mars Cemetery yesterday ...
Article : 126 wordsThe home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Boardman, in Vaucluse-avenue, Vaucluse, was entered by a thief on Saturday afternoon, and goods valued at £160, including wedding ...
Article : 75 wordsAt a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour party, after Mr. Snowden had pointed out the adverse effect upon the Exchequer if the malcontents' amendments for liberalising ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 9 Dec 1929, Page 12
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