BRISBANE, Jan. 11.—A sensational shooting affray occurred in the Chinese quarter at Innisfail last night, as a result of which two Maltese are now in hospital ...
Article : 513 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—The Bishops to-day at Lambeth Palace will resume consideration of the position created by the rejection of the Prayer Book by the House ...
Article : 299 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.—There was an extension of the shipping strike to-day when the seamen refused to man the Adelaide Company's motor ship Mundalla, which ...
Article : 237 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 10.-On the eve of the departure of the retiring Australian Trade Commissioner (Sir Hugh Denison) for England en route to Australia, the ...
Article : 676 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—The airship R100 is to be sold to a company which Commander C. D. Burney, M.P., is organising to conduct experimental trans-Atlantic ...
Article : 327 wordsNo news has been received regarding the fate of Captain Hood and Lieutenant Moncrieff, who set out for New Zealand from the Richmond Aerodrome, New South Wales, on Tuesday morning. Judging by the messages published yesterday it appeared that the airmen had made a landing, but the latest reports indicate that they have met with disaster. ...
Article : 239 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 11.—Feelings of profound regret, at what appears now to be the tragic ending to the New Zealand flight, were uppermost in the mind of Sir ...
Article : 516 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.—Commenting to-day on the shipping strike, Mr. J. Johnson (general secretary of the Australian Seamen's Union) outlined the case for ...
Article : 264 wordsMELBOUENE, Jan. 11.-The meteorological observations which the Federal Ministry undertook to make in connection with the establishment of aerial services ...
Article : 197 wordsROME, Jan. 10.—A Papal encyclical issued to-day disapproving of the panChristian movement is specially of interest to English Catholics. ...
Article : 161 wordsWELLINGTON; Jan. 11.—Rescue measures, based on the supposition that the airmen were forced down at sea off the west coast, were discussed to-day by ...
Article : 177 wordsVANCOUVER, Jan, 10—The Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. L. S. Amery), speaking here to-day, said that Vancouver had a strategic trade advantage ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON. Jan. 10-Mr. H. P. Brown, Commonwealth Director of Postal Services, is unofficially visiting Cardington at the week end to inspect the airship R101. ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press Association, says that Soviet, circles confirm the reports that 52 Oppositionists, ...
Article : 183 wordsWELLINGTON, Jan. 11.—Bad weather has delayed at Blenheim the Government, aeroplane deputed to make a search for the missing airmen. There is believed to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 170 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. ll.—Owing to the refusal of seamen to man them, the steamer Dilga and sugar lighters Goondi, Herbert, Caroo, and Worthanna, have been ...
Article : 97 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—The supervisors of the Mills Field air port have ordered the board runway to be lengthened to 750 feet, in preparation for Captain ...
Article : 71 words"Obviously the flight was useless from the start, and it is a great pity that the lives of men of this type should be thrown away," said Major N. Brearley, managing ...
Article : 263 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 11.—The following statement was issued to-day by the Commonwealth Steamship Owners Federation with a view to informing the public of ...
Article : 571 wordsLONDON, Jan. 11.—Details are published of a new torpedo-carrying plane able to ascend with equal facility from land, sea, or the deck or an aircraft-carrier ...
Article : 206 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 10.-Commenting on the appointment of a Canadian Minister to France tHe Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) stated on Tuesday that the ...
Article : 102 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 11.—It has been explained by the Commonwealth Statistician. (Mr. Wickens) that, until the Surplus Revenue Act is amended, it "will be ...
Article : 284 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11—A cable from Wellington at 5.40 p.m. said there was absolutely no news regarding the fate of the brave airmen who attempted to cross the ...
Article : 554 wordsCAPETOWN. Jan. 10.—Three severe earth tremors this morning caused a fissure nine miles long in the Lake Baringo area, Nairobi (British East Africa). ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON. Jan. 10—The Colonial Office to-day was unable to confirm Press reports that Britain is appointing Ministers to Canada and other Dominions. ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Jan. 11.—The Rev. Dr. F. W. Norwood, an Australian, who has been minister of the City Temple since 1919, has refused the pastorate of the American ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON. Jan. 10.—It has been officially stated that Sir William Plender, on behalf of the Eastern Telegraph Company, and Sir Gilbert Garnsey, on behalf of the ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.—"If the Ryan monoplane has been forced to land in the sea it should float for not less than two or three hours," said Major De Havilland, ...
Article : 238 wordsLONDON, Jan. 11.—The Coroner for the Westminster District of London to-day opened the inquest on the bodies of ten persons who lost their lives in Westminster ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.-The Australian discussion regarding the credit for the bringing down of Captain Baron von Richthofen, the German war "ace," has been ...
Article : 252 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Addressing the Colonial Institute, Lord Clinton, chairman of the Forestry Commission, stated that the estimated quantity of timber used and ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10—The "Daily Express" says that the official statement of negotiations between the Eastern Telegraph and' Marconi companies was only ...
Article : 89 wordsSYDNEY,- Jan. 11.-While the State Cabinet to-day decided to renew the existing licences for mechanical have coursing the Question of betting on this form ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY. Jan. 11.—After expressing his concern at the disappearance of Captain Hood and Lieutenant Moncrieff, Dr. I. Haden Guest, formerly a member of the ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Jan- 11.—The statement was published to-day that the British Government has notified the Secretariat of the League of Nations of its ...
Article : 157 wordsROME, Jan. 10.—The Mafia-the notorious Sicilians Secret society at last has been brought to judgment. The jury has returned its verdict after a trial ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Jan. 11.—After a two months' visit to the United States and Canada studying systems of testing milk. Mr. R, E, Herron. manager of the Wellington ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Captain Robert Cant, who was sent to take charge of the New Zealand Government Motorship Manipomare, has been missing since ...
Article : 55 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 10.—A message from Cologne states that the Customs authorities have confiscated 250 tons of rifles and munitions, contained in 16 trucks of a ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.—From papers on tho dead body of a man found in the band-stand on Bondi Beach to-night, it is thought to be that of James Kind (22), who ...
Article : 174 wordsMONTREAL Jan. lO.-The Governor of New Jersey (Mr. A. Harry Moore), in his annual message to the State Legislature, recommended the repeal of the State ...
Article : 52 wordsLEIPZIG, Jan. 10.—The trial has begun of Johann Schreck, who is charged with the betrayal of German military secrets to foreign Powers, presumably Poland and ...
Article : 69 wordsSYDNEY. Jan. 11.-Mr. W. R. Blow, the New Zealand Government Agent in Sydney, stated to-day that it would be possible for the men to land away from ...
Article : 116 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Japan has refused the Western Union Telegraph Co. permission to lay a cable to Manila through Japan. ...
Article : 27 wordsPARIS. Jan". 11.-The Ministry of the Interior says that the Eiffel Tower must be pulled down within a few years or it will fall down and demolish part of the richest ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Jan. 11.—"I have been in London 25 years, and only on the rarest occasions has there been a meeting with the other Agents-General," said Mr. John ...
Article : 81 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 11.—Mr. Geofferey Hughes, president of the New South Wales section of the Australian Aero Club, to-night paid a glowing tribute to the ...
Article : 519 wordsROME, Jan. 11.—On the suggestion of Signor Mussolini, the Government of Italy has presented an armoured car to the visiting King of Afghanistan (Ama[?]ullah ...
Article : 44 wordsPARIS, Jan. 10.—The law of 1916, forbidding the export of capital, has been suspended, at the request of the Banque de France. ...
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