The attendance at the opening of the A.J.C. Summer Meeting at Randwick on Saturday was below the average, and was reflected in the decreased amount invested in the ...
Article : 325 wordsThe new President of the Legislative Council, in succession to the late Mr. Fred Flowers will probably be Professor J. B. Peden, M.L.C. ...
Article : 262 wordsA crowded passenger train bound for the Blue Mountains collided with another passenger train standing at the Seven Hills railway station on Saturday afternoon. The ...
Article : 556 wordsIt was learnt from the pilot at Urunga (Bellinger Hends) last night that the position of the steamer Nambucca. which ground ed at the entrance on Thursday. was ...
Article : 187 wordsIn a wireless message despatched from De ception Island Sir Hubert Wilkins says:- "Our Hight of 1200 miles over hitherto unknown territory resulted in the discovery of ...
Article : 1,509 wordsThe special critic of the "Observer" writes: —in crirket, as elsewhere, we reap what we sow For many years it seemed to us in Engiand that the last person considered in ...
Article : 272 wordsIt is stated authoritatively that on Friday night his Majesty's medical advisers were so satished with developments that if these continued for another two or three ...
Article : 613 wordsSir Francis Humphrys. British Minister at Kabul, has arranged with the Afghan authorities for British Royal Air Force 'planes to land at Kabul to day and evacuate the ...
Article : 249 wordsA Citizen Force trainee was killed, and four others were wounded as the result of a 303 service rifle being accidentally discharged among a group of trainees who were ...
Article : 289 wordsThe "Sunday Express" gives prominence to a report by its special lobbyist that the Labour party, at the general election. will make a spectacular bid for power, making the ...
Article : 184 wordsIf the decision of the Sydney Labour Council not to recognise the industrial peace conference is approved by the other States, all the trade union representatives will be ...
Article : 212 wordsLord Melchett has announced the terms of the £120,000,000 merger of the Mond Nickel Company, of which he is the largest shareholder, with the international Nickel Company ...
Article : 182 wordsIt is not often that the Australian Jockey Club caters for maiden horses of all ages at Randwick, but the inclusion of the Maiden Hurdle Race in the Summer programme was ...
Article : 395 wordsDorman, Long, and Company have obtained the Contract for the new Lambeth bridge in London for £500,000. It will have five spans, averaging 150 feet. The piers will ...
Article : 93 wordsThe "New York World" states that the United States Shipping Board has declared open war on the attempt of the Cunard Line to cut into the hitherto unbroken American monopoly ...
Article : 141 wordsThe State Cabinet decided at a special meeting on Saturday to commute the sentence of death passed on Martin Jacobsen to imprisonment for eighteen months. ...
Article : 120 wordsMrs. C. Chevally, of Stanley-street, Randwick, has had an unenviable experience with burglars, her residence having been broken into six times during tha past eight years. ...
Article : 263 wordsThree men were severely burned when the motor yacht Eu-na-Mara caught fire in Parsley Bay on Saturday afternoon. They were: John Burch, 17, Morgan-street, Artarmon, ...
Article : 202 wordsGeneral Count Luigt Cadorna, who was commander-In-Chief of the Italian land forces in the European War until the disaster of Caporetto, In Novomber, 1917, led to his ...
Article : 85 wordsAlthough the result of the December Nursery Handicap was expensive to backers, it was, nevertheless, a triumph for B. R. Payten. The Randwick trainer saddled up ...
Article : 351 words"It is prosperons enterprise in Australia that calls for settlers, not depression in England that drives men overseas," said Sir Alan Anderson, presiding at a meeting of the Orient ...
Article : 211 wordsThe police at Regent-street station are endeavouring to solve the mystery surrounding the shooting on Saturday night of Frank Fletcher, 29. a demolisher. in his home in ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Fire Brigade estimates that 2400 feet of roadway and 20 buildings were damaged by the explosion on High Holborn, while 1.680.000 feet, or three tons of celluloid film, were ...
Article : 121 wordsA treacherous surf prevailed at the beaches on Saturday and Sunday, and there were many rescues. At Bronte on Saturday afternoon a man ...
Article : 125 wordsFollowing a collision between two trams in Cowper-street, near the Waverley Police Station, early yesterday morning, the driver of one of the cars was arrested by the ...
Article : 85 wordsA Russo-German agreement, covering sixty pages, to facilitate trade has been signed at Moscow. It gives the Germans improved travel and passport facilities to send shipping ...
Article : 46 wordsGaining admission to the Paris flat of M. Fachot, a Judge of the Supreme Court, a young mun drew a revolver and fired three shots, then bowed to Madame Fachat, who had ...
Article : 134 wordsWilliam Woodbury, a deputy employed in the Lithgow Valley colliery, was killed this morning by a fail of stone. With his brother Woodbury entered the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe tender of Thornycroft, Limited, of Southampton, England, has been accepted for the construction of two destroyers for Canada. replacing the obsolete vessels Patriot and ...
Article : 70 wordsRunning to the front with consummate case a furlong from the winning post Reonul then came on to victory in the Villiers Stakes He did not experience the slightest opposition ...
Article : 632 wordsMembers of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia carried a resolution, expressing deep regret at the King's illness, and requesting the Governer-General to cable to ...
Article : 42 wordsAlexander McIver, aged 26 years labourer, of Station-street, Port Melbourne one of the five men committed for trial on charges arising out of the bomb outrages was released ...
Article : 179 wordsThomas Raymond Hall, aged 34 years, was found dead on the floor of a bedroom at his residence in Henson-street, Merrylands, an Saturday, having been electrocuted while ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is officially announcec that the Governments concer[?]ed in the appointment of a reparations experts' committee have reached the following agreement: ...
Article : 260 wordsThe "New York Times." after stating that Commander Evangeline Booth sailed secretly for London to-day aboard the Olympic, recounts the Salvation Army's "most serious ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Diet is convened for December 24, and the formal opening will take plate two days later. Aftor electing committees and officers Parliament will adjourn over the ...
Article : 142 wordsJealousy is said to be the motive for a shooting affray in the city on Saturday night, when a young Russian, Joseph Amital (27). is alleged to have shot Caroline Marks, aged ...
Article : 218 wordsApproval has been given by the Federal Ministry to the first Australian pilgrimage to the battlefields aud war cemeteries of Gallipoli and France, which is being arranged ...
Article : 214 wordsInquiries are being made by the police into what is believed to have been a razor-slashing affray that occuned on the north-west mail just before its arrival at West Maitland ...
Article : 160 wordsPresident Coolldge has signed the Boulder Dam Bill thus ending years of Congressional argument ever the greatest Governmental engineering project The measure calls for an ...
Article : 158 wordsA message received by the "Herald" from Mr. N. F. Davies, Acting Treasurer of Papua, who is on board the stranded steamer Morinda, states that the weather is perfect. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Lismore district was swept by a severe storm this afternoon. Several trees were blown across the main Lismore-Bullina road. Light to moderate rain fell in some parts ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 24 Dec 1928, Page 9
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