The trans-Pacific flight of the Southern Gross was completed this morning. The plane made a perfect landing at Eagle Farm aerodrome, Brisbane, nearly two hours after the expected hour of arrival. Captain Kingsford Smith and his crew, as they alighted from the Fokker, received a wonderful reception from the huge crowd, which had commenced to assemble in the dark and frosty hours of ...
Article : 560 wordsGeneral Feng Yu Hslang, the so-called "Christian" general and the acknowledged agent of Moscow, has broken the Southern Allies agreement ...
Article : 191 wordsA largely attended meeting of Maree branch, Country and Progressive National Party, was held on Thursday evening at East Brisbane, when the ...
Article : 652 wordsOne of the amazing features of the flight of the Southern Cross has been that thousands have listened in to the running story as ...
Article : 306 wordsListeners in to 4QG had an experience last night that few will ever forget. Earphones and loud-speakers ...
Article : 272 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day: VALARISATION OF RUBBER. Mr. L. S. Amery (Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies) was ...
Article : 713 wordsIt is a Taselnation of wireless that sitting in a room at home one can listen to the world gossiping in the queer dot-dash language of Morse. ...
Article : 92 wordsUntil-about 7 p.m. (Brisbane time) the messages received dealt mainly with the formal giving of positions: but after that hour a sequence of brief ...
Article : 508 wordsWhen a party was returning from a dance at Belgrave the bus in which they were travelling ran into an electric light post, and was badly damaged, ...
Article : 123 wordsThe State president of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (Mr. H. Frazer East) has received the following telegram from ...
Article : 93 wordsArrangements are being made for the landing of the Southern Cross in Melbourne on Wednesday next. It is suggested that this shall be at the ...
Article : 127 wordsA saving of 50 per cent is expected to result from the decision of the Finance Committee of the Brisbane City Council to make officers an ...
Article : 428 wordsThe Southern Cross hopped on from Naselai Sands at 2.52 p.m. The Government yacht Ploneer reports that the plane took off in 1,040 yards ...
Article : 334 wordsIt is stated that Smith and Ulm awoke at midnight on Tuesday, and decided to see if the plane was all right in Albert Park, about 200 yards ...
Article : 77 wordsA motor lorry, fully laden with passengers, chiefly young people, capsized outside Mudgee. The occupants were thrown out, but they escaped with ...
Article : 64 wordsThe General Manager of the Tramways Department of the Brisbane City Council advises that in the absence of information as to the date and time. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Christchurch "Sun" says that Captain Kingsford Smith intends to fly across the Tasman Sea after his flight to Brisbane, landing at Christchurch. ...
Article : 113 wordsCaptain Kingsford Smith on the left of the machine, and Mr. C. T. P. Ulm on the right. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsA sensational collision occurred at Bendigo between a motor car, driven by Edward Lowrie, a farmer, of Pine Grove, and a tram driven by J. O'Brien. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe wireless installation in the members' room in Parliament House worked continuously all the evening, and except when divisions were in ...
Article : 89 wordsAt 6.40 (Brisbane time) Mr. Stevens, working at 4SP; Wilston, picked up the Southern Cross faintly. The break in contact was due, it was assumed, to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe pearling Jugger Enid. which left Derby about the middle of February for Fremantle, with a crew consisting of a half-caste, Willie ...
Article : 58 wordsThe International Wheat Conference closed to-day without adopting the expected resolution for world organisation, with a single board to direct the ...
Article : 198 wordsMembers of the State Ministry are greatly perturbed at the reports of various experts concerning the future of the floating dock, which is being ...
Article : 183 wordsA most generous wellwisher of the University is anxious to see the appeal fund top the £100,000 mark before the appeal has completed its twelfth ...
Article : 60 wordsThe committee of the Victoria National War Memorial has accepted the tender of Vaughan and Lodge Bros., Melbourne, for the erection of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following retail prices index numbers based on the cost of food and groceries in certain Queensland towns have been made available by ...
Article : 304 wordsComplaining that the proposed new sub-station in Cairns Street, Kangaroo Point, would be an eyesore, a deputation from that ward yesterday ...
Article : 115 wordsArthur Taylor (56), a prisoner at Long Bay Pe]tiary, died as a result of injuries received. When undergoing exercise with a number of other ...
Article : 98 wordsH.M.A.S. Australia has began its training cruise, which will until June 20. The headquarters will be at Portland, and afterwards at ...
Article : 47 wordsThe special business for which the session of the State Parliament was opened concluded last night, and Parliament adjourned until July 31. ...
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The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Sat 9 Jun 1928, Page 9
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