New South Wales won the Sheffield Shield match to-day against Queensland by 685 runs. The Queensland debacle continued ...
Article : 261 wordsA terrific cyclone reaching at times 85 miles an hour struck the steamer Kallatina last Saturday afternoon while on its way from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Cairns. The vessel sheltered at Cape Flattery throughout the night. ...
Article : 95 wordsFollowing a terrible air tragedy in which Flight Lieutenant F. A. Briggs, 32, Captain Hugh Grosvenor, 34, aide do camp to the Governor of South ...
Article : 204 wordsThe combined Mining Unions Committee met to-day to consider recommendations by the northern miners for a general hold-up of the industry throughout the Commonwealth. The committee adjourned until ...
Article : 80 wordsWith the opening of the stock sale-yards at Canberra early in February the difficulty has already arisen of satisfactory [?]ridge connections across ...
Article : 173 wordsDon Bradman received over 150 tflegnams this morning, congratulating him on his record breaking achievement. ...
Article : 20 wordsFlood waters have now covered the rails and bridges in parts of the district. The waters are0 slowly subsiding, however. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Senate by 35 votes to 29 has increased the duty on wool yarns worth a dollar to a dollar and a half per lb., from 40 per cent, to 45 per ...
Article : 86 wordsThe local branch of the Engine Drivers' Federation received instructions from their executive to-day that they must remain on duty if ...
Article : 40 wordsHerbert Ruggett, of Sydney, and described as a member of the Communist Party, who was arrested in Cessnock, was to-day fined £3 for ...
Article : 88 wordsExcitement increases as the Royal wedding day approaches. All the great nations of the world will be represented at the ceremony. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe "Daily Express" in an editorial entitled "A Gallant Youth," says of Captain Hugh Grosvenor, A.D.C., of the Governor of South Australia, "It is ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Metropolitan A.L.P. Conference, which will sit in Sydney next month, will have a lengthy business paper to consider. ...
Article : 127 wordsVolunteer workers at Myall Mine have been replaced by Federation men and to-morrow the colliery will resume work after having been idle since the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Butler) and the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Cowan) to-day conferred with Senator Daly, who represented the Prime Minister ...
Article : 83 wordsThe new service ships of high flying speed were introduced to-day into the Royal Air Force. They are the direct result of experiences gained in the ...
Article : 202 wordsThe State Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) said to-day that the State Government, in common with Governments of other States, has been forced to issue ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following team has been chosen to represent New South Wales against South Australia in the Sheffield Shield match, which commences in Sydney on ...
Article : 79 wordsGroup Captain Goble and the Director of Civil Aviation (Colonel Brinsmead) paid a high tribute to the ability of the dead airmen to-day. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe British Exhibitors and Films, Ltd., were fined £75 with 25 guineas costs for failing to produce an[?] acquire 7½ per cent. of British films. The ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the leader of the Australian Party, will proceed to Melbourne towards the end of the week to complete the organisation campaign ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Nanking, announces that the effect of the extra-territoriality mandate on the powers generally has been sympathetic ...
Article : 191 wordsThe well-known financier, Mr. W. Baillien, who returned from abroad to-day, said in an interview that hard work and organisation of production ...
Article : 139 wordsIn the kitchen at her home in Paddington on Boxing Day, Mrs. Eva Doyle found the following note written by her husband on the back of a ...
Article : 119 wordsPlum Warner in the "Morning Post" says that Bradman and Jackson are the most talked of cricketers in Australia. ...
Article : 82 wordsWorkmen demolishing an old building in Old Kent Road discovered a rusty unexploded German aeroplane bomb embedded in a large box ...
Article : 59 wordsIn furtherance of the campaign against well-to-do peasants coupled with the failure of the present harvest, the Soviet has decreed that all grain ...
Article : 77 wordsThe State Premier (Mr. Bavin), returned to-day from Khancoban, on the Murray River, where he has been spending a fishing holiday. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Daily Express[?] understands that T. P. O'Conno[?]'s will reveaied a total personality of only £300. The will is notable for be [?]sts of small ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Liquor Amendment Bill which will be submitted to Parliament next session has now been drafted and will be considered by Cabinet in the near ...
Article : 62 wordsBradman's record prompts Trevor in the "Daily Telegraph" to say that he sees no limit to individual or side scores in Australia. No doubt ...
Article : 123 wordsAs a result of the completion of the first section of the Bunnerong Power House works, the services of 300 men will be dispensed with on Friday. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Teachers' Conference to-day carried a motion condemning "slang amounting to obscenity, the atrocious grammar and frightful English of the ...
Article : 47 wordsFlying-officer Leo Joseph Ryan, who was injured when an aeroplane crashed at Laverton on Saturday, died today. ...
Article : 65 wordsJack Weston, 20, a wharf labourer, of Drummoyne, was killed, and Walter Johnson, 37, a wharf labourer, of Strathfield, injured when they fell from ...
Article : 49 wordsA delegation to be sent to the Empire Mining Congress in South Africa in March, by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, will ...
Article : 55 wordsDuring shunting operations at the Sandgate Railway Station thin morning Charles Bold, a railway guard, slipped under a carriage and was killed ...
Article : 33 wordsHot weather prevailed practically throughout the State yesterday. Several centres recorded 105 desgrees. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 8 Jan 1930, Page 1
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