The requests of the pastoral lessees for a moratorium and a reduction of their rents by half owing to the poor season will be refused, but a Board of Review will be set up to make the final decision whether their rents are ...
Article : 157 wordsA sensation was caused to-day by the arrest of John Gunn, formerly a well-known barrister and solicitor, and W. J. Beckett, one of the founders of ...
Article : 429 wordsSix Mau natives have died of wounds as a result of serious riots on Saturday. They include the High Chief Tamasese who died this morning. Twelve injured are in hospital. They include a ...
Article : 174 wordsWhen the coal case was resumed today before Mr. Justice Rich, His Honour expressed his desire to open the case each day at 9 a.m. and to ...
Article : 646 wordsThe Communist papers, Role Fahne and the Weitanabend, give a sensational account of a mutiny on the cruiser Emden. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe fire brigade at four o'clock this morning was called to O. K. Elliots' furniture factory, Annandale. The building was completely destroyed. ...
Article : 72 wordsIn a New Year's sermon broadcast from Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop, referring to trade difficulties urged each for all instead of ...
Article : 77 wordsNew Year's Eve in Canberra this year will be brighter than [?] in the past. For the first time special preparations have been made for the ...
Article : 185 wordsAlfred Law, aged 4, was burned to de[?] to-day when he was trapped in a blazing cupboard in his home at Glebe. It is believed that the child was ...
Article : 221 wordsRenewed gales along the coast extending inland, were responsible for considerable damage, tearing off roofs and uprooting large trees. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Air Ministry states that it has been proposed to hold a joint funeral with full air force ceremonial for Squadron-Leader Jones-Williams and ...
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Article : 126 wordsFurther light on British opinion regarding wool sales in May and June comes from William Hunter, former President of the British Wool ...
Article : 250 wordsThe diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" writes that representatives of the great powers are embarrassed by the renewed threat of ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Prince's visit to South Africa is expected to last until some time in April. The big game shooting expedition will be of strictly private character. ...
Article : 47 wordsA wireless from Moscow that the Soviet has ordered Chuknovsky, and other aviators who participated in the search for the Airship Italia, to assist ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German International tennis player, Holdenhauer, died from injuries received in a motor car in which he [?] travelling, when he collided with ...
Article : 46 wordsWhen the case in which Joseph Cannon, 33, was charged with having fradulently converte to his own use goods belonging to william Edward ...
Article : 156 wordsThe present is the most remarkable billiards season ever. World's records have almost ceased to have significance as they are so often broken. In ...
Article : 147 wordsWith his head covered by a coat, under which there was a gas ring, turned full on, Charles Donald, pedlar, [?]8, was found dead on the door of a ...
Article : 62 wordsA mass meeting of the miners this afternoon unanimously carried a resolution declaring that if the claims in the log served upon [?]ery owners ...
Article : 55 wordsA party of men and women were attacked by a number of youths with [?] in Newtown early this morning. One man was taken to the hospital. ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Higgins, head of the Salvation Army, has cabled postponing indefinitely his visit to Australia, as his presence in London will be necessary ...
Article : 49 wordsAlter a well earned rest. George Cook the Australian boxer, returns to the ring on January 1, when he will meet Frankle Wine, of Ba[?]ton, Ohio, in ...
Article : 40 wordsAs a reult of the new duties, the price of tobacco will be increased by one halfpenny an ounce from New [?] years' Day. The price of cigarettes ...
Article : 36 wordsEdsel Ford has announced that due to confidence in continued expansion of business, the Ford Company would spend 30,000,000 dollars in 1930 on ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 31 Dec 1929, Page 1
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