The beneficial flood rains which annually enrich agricultural areas also impose some disabilities. Cairns and all the Far North are deprived of regular tra in and mail service, to an exceedingly serious degree—over a week's delay—time after time. ...
Article : 110 wordsAn inspection of two brick houses in a terrace in Howard-street, North Melbourne, which were bombed shortly before midnight last night, revealed that the occupants had remarkable escapes. One house was occupied by three Italians—Ramerro Gataeno, Cuce ...
Article : 142 wordsThe banana growers will be again heavily hit, as last week's consignment is hung up at Gladstone and to-morrow's railings will be held up if ...
Article : 93 wordsSir Berkeley Moynihan, speaking at the Authors' Club, disclosed a war secret, when he revealed that the Allies heard in 1916 that the ...
Article : 93 wordsIt was officially announced at Bognor that the King had passed a good day. A chilly East wind blew ...
Article : 67 wordsLast night was similar to the night preceding the big flood in 1927, except that the ram was not so heavy, and the wind not so strong. From subsequent ...
Article : 576 wordsThe army estimates for the coming financial year total £40,545,000. The decreases include £293,000 in army pay, £133,000 ...
Article : 330 wordsCaptain Oliver Godwin, who was acting as first mate of the Kanowna, was the chief witness to-day at the Court of Marine Inquiry. ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Harbour Master (Captain Brewster) advised yesterday that the wind recorded by the anemometer, was 32 miles per hour between 9.30 and 10.30 p.m. on ...
Article : 32 wordsThere were 844 points of rain recorded at Babinda for the 24 hours ended 9 o'clock this morning. Rain has been falling steadily nearly all day, but it ...
Article : 74 wordsGataeno was awakened by a thudding noise when the bomb was thrown through the front window and fell on the floor of the bedroom in ...
Article : 182 wordsJ. Heffernan, who lives immediately opposite the house occupied by the Italians, said that he was lying in bed when he heard what he thought ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Postmaster (Mr. W. K. Ryan), intimated yesterday that the Brisbane Metrological Bureau had telegraphed as follows:—"Cyclone has crossed ...
Article : 50 wordsThe party of Babinda residents who had been marooned on High Island, managed to get back to the mainland and returned to Babinda about 4.30 p.m. ...
Article : 55 wordsRailway traffic in the Cairns district was again disorganised yesterday, on account of the heavy rainfall. The mail train which left Townsville ...
Article : 53 wordsGusty weather with heavy showers is prevailing in Innisfail to-day. The rainfall for the past 24 hours was 5 inches 65: points, but along the ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. James MacDougall, leader of the Employers Delegations at the Industrial Peace Conference, said to-day that although the sittings of the peace ...
Article : 259 wordsThe mails train which had been delayed at Gladstone was expected to reach Townsville at 7 p.m. yesterday. It was intended to despatch this train on the ...
Article : 420 wordsTwo men were crossing, the flooded Little Mitchell River, at Machonachle's selection. 20 miles, from Mareeba at 10 a.m. to-day when an elderly man ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Forgan Smith) stated to-day that the Chief Inspector of Fruit, attached to the Victorian Department of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsAlthough there was a lull, this afternoon, rain set in again at 5 p.m. coming from seawards. It was driven through the streets by a strong south-east wind. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe British Minister, Sir Francis Humphreys and the British Legation staff at Kabul arrived by plane at Peshawur this morning. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. Forgan Smith) said to-day that the Government had decided that the Department of Agriculture should be ...
Article : 111 wordsAfter very showery weather which lasted all day; the rain appears now to have set in. The Tully railway bridge at 3 o'clock this afternoon was ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Prelude to the Budget proves disturbing. The Estimates came as a shock to those relying on drastic economies. It ...
Article : 148 wordsFor the 24 hours ended nine o'clock this morning, 645 points of rain were registered. The water is nearly live feet over the Tully railway bridge at six ...
Article : 151 wordsThe hold-up of the mail train services between Townsville and Brisbane in the Central district has now been relieved, and the service ...
Article : 157 wordsEqual facilities for the evacuation of Kabul have been extended to the German Minister, his staff and nationals. Actually the German Minister, ...
Article : 267 wordsA mob of demonstrators stormed the legation quarter at Peking late yesterday in connection with the strike of the legation, police. Native troops ...
Article : 143 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says that the shipowners are most keenly interested in the pulverised coal system which has emerged from the experimental stage, ...
Article : 146 wordsA heavy thunderstorm was experienced in Mareeba on Saturday afternoon, and rain has continued to fall ever since. On Monday at 6 p.m. the Barron River ...
Article : 108 wordsAlthough local people have an unutterable dread of the word "cyclone" there was no great anxiety up to a late hour last night, as the wind was ...
Article : 256 wordsThis afternoon, at 4.45, the mail train which, left Brisbane last Wednesday passed through Home Hill. ...
Article : 64 wordsMuch indignation is felt in Government and Consular circles at an incident which the Italian Consular agent interprets as an affront to his country. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Comptroller General pf Prisons has received instructions from the Federal authorities to release Jacob Johnson. The orders were telegraphed ...
Article : 46 wordsThere was 627 points of rain in Atherton yesterday. This is the heaviest storm recorded this year. On Monday there were 294 points. For ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Weather Bureau reported this morning that the cyclone reported yesterday as off the Tropical coast had crossed the coastline north from Cairns ...
Article : 104 wordsCommencing yesterday, good rains fell during the night, and this morning. Home Hill recorded 104, and Ayr 160. During to-day the weather ...
Article : 46 wordsThe King's first message since his illness was to telegraph to Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for the Air, congratulations on the air force Kabul ...
Article : 77 wordsThe British United Press correspondent at Berlin states that the Graf Zeppelin will leave Friederichshaven for North Africa on March 26. ...
Article : 20 wordsNine inches of rain fell at Millaa Milla[?] for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day. About th[?]ee inches fell during the day. The wind was squally during the night, ...
Article : 59 wordsNow that the flood waters over the lines in the central districts have subsided, the railway department advises [?] ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Wed 27 Feb 1929, Page 5
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