The De Havelland 86 air liner Lepena, owned by Holyman's Airways Proprietary, Limited, crashed on Hunters Island, in Bass Strait, to-day, while flying from Tasmania to Melbourne. There were two pilots and eight passengers on the 'plane, ...
Article : 203 wordsIntimation was received by cablegram yesterday that his Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the conferment of a Barony of the ...
Article : 693 wordsBoth the British Empire and the United States of America are opposed to Japan's proposal to discard the old system of naval ratios and to recognise equality of national defence for each country. A united Empire case in opposition to the Japanese ...
Article : 109 wordsThe British passenger mail service between Australia and San Francisco is to be withdrawn. This announcement has been made ...
Article : 574 wordsSievers, Barnett, and O'Brien have been omitted from the Australian team for the first test match against South Africa, commencing at Durban on Saturday. The South ...
Article : 311 wordsA deadlock has been reached in the shipping strike. During the day an application was made to Mr. Justice Evatt in the High ...
Article : 343 wordsA united Empire case in opposition to Japan's proposal to discard the old ratio system and recognise equality of national defence for each country was submitted, it is ...
Article : 452 wordsThe South African team for the first test at Durban to-day includes only three members of the team which toured Australia in 1931-2. They are Mitchell, Viljoen, and Dalton. Many ...
Article : 688 wordsThis is the fourth occasion in fourteen months in which DH 86 Machines in Australia have been involved in serious mishaps. On the other three occasions, there has been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 306 wordsAlthough the Egyptian Cabinet has decided not to resign and the Prime Minister (Nessim Pasha) will continue in office, it is unlikely that he will survive the election, which, he ...
Article : 352 wordsSherry parties are commended by the British Medical Association journal, "Lancet." In a recent issue the journal states:— "They happen at a time when people are ...
Article : 163 wordsThe steamers Kini and Mareeba, manned by licensed seamen, sailed from Sydney yesterday for Tasmanian ports and Brisbane respectively. The total number of vessels from all ...
Article : 250 wordsQantas Empire Airways has five D.H.86 machines, of which one is now in Brisbane, one in Darwin, one in Singapore, and two on the way from Darwin to Singapore, with the ...
Article : 243 wordsThe trial of Lord De Clifford on a charge of manslaughter, which resulted in his acquittal, began with picturesque ceremonial in the magnificent surroundings of the Royal Gallery of ...
Article : 167 wordsAfter shooting dead the associate dean of the dental faculty at Columbia University and also an associate professor, and wounding another associate professor of dentistry, ...
Article : 137 wordsDetective-sergeant Wiley, of the Criminal Investigation Branch, was detailed yesterday to investigate the amazing story of an alleged kidnapping and robbery of a solicitor's clerk. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe following vessels have already been manned by non-union seamen at the various ports, or have crews signed up and ready to sail:—Niagara, Carlisle, Cardross, Craigend, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Lepena mishap represents the third occasion on which a Holyman Bass Strait air liner has crashed. Ten passengers and two pilots were killed when ...
Article : 250 wordsThe steamers Allara and Echunga were involved in the strike here to-day. The central organising committee of the Miners' Federation will not begin until Tuesday, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe military clauses of the 1930 draft Anglo-Egyptian treaty, which leaders of the Egyptian party coalition have now agreed to accept, are clearly inapplicable in view of the ...
Article : 434 wordsThe pilot of the Lepena, Mr Biyne, is one of the most experienced of the pilots in the service of Holyman's Airways Pty., Ltd. The Lepena carried eight passengers. Five ...
Article : 84 wordsThe chairman of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Mr. Harold G. Brown), in his annual report to the meeting of shareholders, urged the abolition of the ...
Article : 144 wordsSam Maudel, a notorious liquor runnel, was ambushed by gangsters at the apartment of his sweetheart to-day, and although the woman signalled a warning Maudel was ...
Article : 175 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court yesterday, the jury, after a retirement of four hours, found John Patrick Strong, wharf labourer, not guilty on a charge of having, on June 11, ...
Article : 452 wordsThere was no hint of trouble when the licensing system for seamen was applied at Port Adelaide to-day. A total number of 17 men, none of whom was a member of the ...
Article : 73 wordsWhen news of the mishap was received in Melbourne, Holymans Airways Pty., Ltd., arranged for a Moth machine to leave Launceston for Hunter Island, and a launch was sent ...
Article : 292 wordsIn an official statement the De Havilland Company states:— "The suspension of the airworthiness certificates of D.H.86 'planes is incredible. The ...
Article : 88 wordsAn inquiry into the disappearance of Phyllis Elbon, aged 19, a stowaway, from the liner Monterey on the voyage from Melbourne to Sydney was held by the Deputy Director ...
Article : 380 wordsJapan's position in commercial matters in the mandated territories was defined by the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin), in reply to questions in the House of Commons to-day. ...
Article : 132 wordsA mass meeting of Brisbane seamen to-day unanimously agreed that they would continue to refuse to apply for licences. The Queensland branch of the Waterside ...
Article : 122 wordsA railway engine crashed through a deadend at Parramatta late last night, and plunged about 30 feet into Park-street. The fireman, Harold Fuge, 45, of Park-road, ...
Article : 201 wordsThe trial of Bernard Joseph Brown, 53, cattle dealer, Samuel Brown, 39, labourer, Thomas Cecil Brown, 21, labourer, and Albert Augustus Smith, 47, baker, was concluded at ...
Article : 179 wordsAt question time in the House of Commons to-day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) was asked whether the money required for the reorganisation of the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe interstate freighter Koomilya was tied up at Fremantle this afternoon when the seamen refused an order of the captain to take the vessel into the achorage grounds ...
Article : 74 wordsBy 76 votes to 57, the Dall Eireann carried Mr. De Valera's motion for the abolition of the Senate. The change, which automatically becomes law, is a re-affirmation of the motion ...
Article : 143 wordsThe silver market was again in a chaotic condition, and sellers had to be rationed—each seller being informed that only 18 per cent. of his requirements would be disposed of. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe memory of the late Earl Jellicoe was honoured in both Houses of Parliament to-day, when motions were approved for the erection of a monument at public charge as ...
Article : 57 wordsMrs. H. B. Bonney intends to fly to Brisbane to-day in the Klemm monoplane which she purchased during the week from Mr. Littlejohn. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Dec 1935, Page 17
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