Heavy rain, accompanied by lightning and loud thunder, deluged Melbourne and suburbs for 13 minutes last night. The storm did widespread damage, flooding houses, shops, and streets and disorganising suburban electric train and tram services. ...
Article : 357 words"Mr. Justice Angas Parsons in the Criminal Court this morning sentenced three accused persons to imprisonment. Charles John Harlow, allowance ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. L. T. Bennett, of Bennett and Rogers, will leave Adelaide on a business trip to Sydney by train on Sunday night. At the weekly Rotary Club luncheon ...
Article : 332 wordsWhen the hook of a crane carrying a girder weighing 12½ tons broke at the Chullora railway workshops today the girder fell 25 ft. injured three men. They ...
Article : 97 wordsShortly after 6 o'clock this morning one of the large poles near Portland carrying the transmission line of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company, Limited, caught fire. ...
Article : 120 wordsFour shots were fired by Detective Strangway about 12.30 o'clock this morning at a young man who was seen to leave the doorway of a shop ...
Article : 220 wordsMr. George Augustine Taylor, aged 56 years, a well-known Sydney business man, was accidentally drowned in his bath at his residence, 20 Loftus street, city, this ...
Article : 86 wordsWhile driving a two-horse van to the East-End Market early this morning Mr. M. J. Walsh, a greengrocer, of Torrens street, College Park, was thrown to the ...
Article : 74 words"The waterside workers are not givers the privileges of human beings. All their time is, occupied in attending to the wants of employers. They have no home ...
Article : 163 wordsToday the new labor-saving system will be brought into operation in a section of the refinery of the Broken Hill Associated Smelters Proprietary Limited, and the ...
Article : 154 wordsFlight-Lieuts. D. Ross and A. C. Bray who landed at Rose Bay, New South Wales, by the seaplane Seagull. Later the machine left for Melboune. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsOn Sunday night vandals were busy at Prospect. Three young trees at the oval Mere broken, one in Kintore avenue was damaged, and two windows of the district ...
Article : 145 wordsThe annual picnic of the Waterside Workers' Federation will be held at Gawler on Tuesday, February 14. The Hon. M. McIntosh (Minister of ...
Article : 56 words"The Daily Mail" says that Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., will receive a fee of £53,000 and a "refresher" of £200 a day from the Indian ...
Article : 59 wordsArising from the death of Herbert Reginald Osborne, jockey, of Glenelg, Herbest Thomas Osborne, stable hand, of Albury (New South Wales), father of ...
Article : 380 wordsAn assertion that the Federal Government was not going to be dictated to by the Seamens' Union in the dispute over the Lady Loch, the lighthouse supply ...
Article : 131 wordsWeather systems have undergone little change since yesterday. Indications point to cool weather over the ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. E. L. Jones (united pesident of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Australia) addressed members of the South Australian body, at a luncheon at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsThe rain that fell yesterday did not amount to more than 13 points, and at Stephen's Creek there was a fall of only nine points. There were patchy and ...
Article : 204 wordsUp to six and a half inches of rain has fallen in parts of the State in the last 24 hours, and flood warnings have been issued in the south-west districts. ...
Article : 103 wordsSince the promotion of Capt. C. D. Matheson, of the Federal Navigation Department, to a post in Sydney toward the end of last year, Port Adelaide has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsFor having stolen a motor car which was left unattended in the City on January 12, Jeff Watmuff, a young man, was sentenced in the City Court today to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsMembers of the Victorian Railways Union today protested to Mr. T. Tunnecliffe (Minister of Railways) against dismissals from the service. Delegates of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsF. Oliver (South Australian Amateur Swimming Club) and D. Boucher (Gilberton) were selected last night as the State representatives to contest the national ...
Article : 46 wordsMaisic Fairbairn, 10 years of age, walked in her sleep and fell from a hotel window to the ground 20 ft. below this morning. She received only abrasions ...
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The News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), Fri 20 Jan 1928, Page 1
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