In perfect weather the six Universities of the Commonwealth held their annual races on the Yarra on Saturday The great interest taken in the events was evidenced by the large number of ...
Article : 329 wordsTwo men of disreputable appearance, one of them armed with a revolver, visited an office of the Sydney Consumers' Milk and Ice Company at Dale-street, Chippendale, on ...
Article : 193 wordsFollowing the decision of the Timber Merchants' Association to make a call for volunteer labour to reopen the idle timber mills on Tuesday, it is expected that ample skilled ...
Article : 359 wordsSeveral assaults one attributed by the victim to the "Basher gang." and another accompanied by robbery, were reported to the police on Saturday night. A brutal attack ...
Article : 562 wordsInterviewed in Sydney yesterday the Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) referred to criticisms of the Government's suggested abandoning of the field of arbitration. ...
Article : 432 wordsFrom the Customs revenue figures for the 11 months of the Commonwealth's financial year ended May 31 it appears inevitable that the Treasurer (Dr. Page) will have to ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,—In view of the Federal Government's contemplated action regarding the Arbitration Act, the following extract from Henry Maine, on "Popular Government," p. 64 ...
Article : 164 wordsAccording to a telegram received on Saturday by the Home Affairs Department the motor truck party which left Adelaide about ten days ago in order to recover and bring ...
Article : 247 wordsSir,—In a report issued by Mr. John Rae, Commissioner for Railways, dated September 30, 1865, entitled "Report of the Origin and Progress of the Railways of New South ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 182 wordsProceeding along Macquarie-street, Liverpool, early yesterday morning, a car driven by William Johnson, of 129 Clyde-street, Granville, skidded on the wet roadway, and crashed ...
Article : 460 wordsMr. Daniel Stewart, a well-known contractor and builder, died on Friday last, aged 69 years. Mr. Stewart was born in Melbourne, but subsequently came to Sydney with his ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 306 wordsSir,—May I ask for a short space in your valuable paper to refer to Sir Joseph Carruthers's words, when speaking at the National Club luncheon yesterday, held to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 wordsTo-day's important game of football at the Fremantle Oval was marred by many fights, which culminated in an ugly incident in the third quarter. Right from the start play was ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Mcphee), who returned to Sydney on Saturday from Canberra, said that the Federal Arbitration Court, combined with the Navigation Act, ...
Article : 354 wordsA new measure, to be known as the Tenants' Rights Bill, is to be brought down in the next session of the State Parliament. The main object of the measure is to give ...
Article : 168 wordsSir,—It is a satire on law that there is such a multitude of tunes played on the theme "costs," There is one scale for probate, one for equity, several for the District ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsMembers of the Hurstville sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League of Australia, after many years of effort to secure a memorial hall in the district, saw ...
Article : 413 wordsThe concert given by Mr. Raimund Pechotsch (violinist) at the King's Hall on Saturday evening, was notable for the performance of a Concerto by Richard Strauss, played by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 604 wordsDrastic decisions were made yesterday by the northern miners' committee of management, after the position of former employees of the closed mines who have accepted work ...
Article : 185 wordsSir,—I read with great interest the article in the "Herald" of Saturday, 18th Inst., on "Broadcast English." In it the name Aorangi appears. Now, it is quite impossible for ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. Julian R. Ashton made a surprisingly large audience at the National Art Gallery on Saturday afternoon feel as if it were gathered around a huge fire in an immense ...
Article : 666 wordsThe funeral of Mr. G. W. Whatmore, managing director of Queensland Motors, Ltd., Whatmore McIntosh Motors, Ltd., and Austin Cars, Ltd., who died in Brisbane on ...
Article : 216 wordsThe probability of good rain commencing about Wednesday or Thursday, and continuing for several days in western parts of the State was mentioned last night by the ...
Article : 207 wordsSir,—No mention has yet been made in the suggested amendments of the liquor law for the closing of the liquor bars on Saturday afternoon. This most urgently needed ...
Article : 166 words"As a 'bus conductor, you should have known better," stated Mr. Camphin, S.M., at the Central Police Court on Saturday when he fined Leonard Nixon, aged 25, £20, in ...
Article : 163 wordsAfter a week of dull trading, a glut of green vegetables was evidenced at the municipal vegetable market on Saturday morning. Peas and beans sold at almost ridiculous ...
Article : 197 wordsAn address on "The Lesson of the Frontier" was given by Brig.-General Lloyd, M.P., at the Lyceum yesterday afternoon In reminiscent manner Brig.-General Lloyd ...
Article : 246 wordsAs the mails were being unloaded from the steamer Taiping at No 1 wharf, Circular Quay, yesterday afternoon, one bag which had been dropped on to the lorry rebounded into the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 338 wordsSir,—In a letter from Mr. A. R. Penfold, Curator of the Technological Museum, published in your issue of the 9th May, exception was taken to a statement that investigations ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Red Cross Society has bought St. Anne's," Birrell-street, Bondi, for the purpose of a hostel for sick and disabled soldiers, and will shortly transfer the headquarters of the ...
Article : 189 wordsRiotous behaviour by memeber of the crews who had taken part in the race for the Oxford and Cambridge Cup in the afternoon resulted in the arrest of a member of ...
Article : 364 wordsThe fine new girls' public school at Five-dock was opened by the Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) on Saturday afternoon. There was a large attendance of parents and pupils. ...
Article : 121 wordsAs a result of a fall which fractured his skull Joseph Donovan, aged 51 years, a dealer, of Cooper-street, Waterloo, died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital early yesterday ...
Article : 34 wordsTheodore Edward Russell, 60, of Nicholson-street, Wollstonecraft, was found on the back verandah of his home early on Friday morning with a bullet wound in his temple. A pea ...
Article : 51 wordsDiscussing in a letter to the Editor of the "Herald" the origin of the name Baulkham Hills, "J.M.P." contends that it probably traces back to Macdougall, the Scot who was in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 wordsSir,—You publish a letter in last Thursday's "S. M. Herald" over the signature of J. K. Heydon. This is an excellent letter, and I think it may awaken some sense of the duty ...
Article : 209 wordsThe first section was opened to-day of the electric lighting scheme under which the Railway Department is supplying current for districts from Newcastle to Wyong and ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Returned Soldiers' League desires contributions from the public to its fund for the supply of cigarettes and tobacco to the returned soldier patients in the repatriation ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. McCormack, ex-Premier of Queensland. interviewed on his arrival in Sydney on Saturday en route from Brisbane to Melbourne, declined to discuss his defeat or comment on ...
Article : 74 wordsThe seven months ended May 31 is the driest period on record, only 335 points of rain falling. The average for the period is 912 points. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe prompt action ot Constable King yesterday afternoon was the means of saving the life of a middle-aged man, who had fallen into the water at Elizabeth Bay. ...
Article : 115 wordsA message from Thursday Island says that subterranean explosions, followed by a slight rumbling, were experienced late on Friday night. ...
Article : 24 wordsElectricians must be licensed under the new Electrical Contractors Act on and after July [?] next, when the new law will become operative. An examination of those seeking a license will ...
Article : 39 wordsA weatherboard collage in Wellington-street Mascot, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Mascot and Botany fire brigades attended, but were too late to save the building. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 3 Jun 1929, Page 6
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