Breaking its banks near Wagga, the swollen Murrumbidgee River spread into the town late on Saturday night. The floods continued to rise until yesterday afternoon, and by that time water, several feet deep, had extended. into the main business quarter. ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Duke of Gloucester, on his return to Melbournp on Saturday night from the Federal capital, departed almost immediately by the Royal train on a private visit to the ...
Article : 1,665 wordsTwo boys were drowned in the Hawkesbury River, near Ebenezer early yesterday morning while they were attempting to struggle ashore after their launch had burst into flames. ...
Article : 431 wordsIn full view of hundreds of people at Manly yesterday evening, the speedboat Whoof burst into flames following an explosion of the petrol. ...
Article : 441 wordsMr. C. J. Melrose, the young South Australian, in his small D.H. Puss Moth, reached Darwin late this afternoon, his petrol being exhausted when he landed, after being driven off his course over the Timor Sea. He glided to the aerodrome for the last mile against the wind. ...
Article : 1,286 wordsFlight-Lieutenant Cathcart Jones and Mr. K. Waller, in the De Havitland Comet which they used in the Melbourne centenary air race, are ...
Article : 922 wordsMrs. Norman Devlin, wife of the ex stipendiary magistrate barely escaped from drowning when she fell into the flooded Murrumbidgee on Saturday night and was rapidly ...
Article : 1,413 wordsSpecial aerial pictures of the flood areas at Wagga, printed on page 12. were obtained yesterday by a "Herald" photographer, who left Mascot at 8 a.m. in a Kingsford Smith ...
Article : 298 wordsGene Sarazen the famous American golfer, lived up to his teputation as a breaket of par, when yesterday he clipped five strokes off the par of the Elanora Countiy Clubs course. It ...
Article : 380 wordsDuring the last few months a number of Richmond River district banana growers have applied for food relief Although normally the condition of the industry could not be ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Airspecd-Courier, flown by Squadtonleader D. E. Stodart and his 24-year-old cousin, Kenneth G. Stodart was the seventh 'plane to reach Darwin in the air race. Its ...
Article : 331 wordsWith only a handful of spectators, mostly New Zealanders, to greet them, Squadronleader McGregor and Mr. Walker arrived at Laverton, at 7.50 a.m. to-day. They crossed ...
Article : 352 wordsMuch interest has been created in union circles by the efforts of the Lang Labour party to remove sitting officiais of the Miners Federation in the pending annual election of ...
Article : 672 wordsThe Governments bill to amend the Metropolitan Meat Industry Act, and which will permit of the introduction of the chain system of killing at the Homebush Abattoirs. ...
Article : 372 wordsThree fishermen had a desperate fight for life at Diggers' Headland, near Wooli, this morning after their boat was swamped by a wave. It was largely due to the efforts ...
Article : 532 wordsColonel Fitzsmaurice the Irish pilot, who withdrew from the Melbourne air race, left Lympne at 6.30 this morning (4.30 p.m. Sydney time) for Melbourne, but returned to the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe circumstances of a fire which occuired to-day in an outhouse at the chapel of the Church of Christ Gordon-avenue Hamilton left no doubt that an incendiarist had been ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Royal standard which was stolen from the Duke of Gloucester's motor car while he was at Canberra, on Thursday was returned to-day through the post. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe cabin 'plane flown by Squadron-Leader Hewett, and Flying-Officer C. Kay, New Zealand, arrived at Darwin at 8.43 a.m. on Saturday, and resumed the southward journey a ...
Article : 150 wordsFlight-Lieutenant D. L. Asjes and Mr. G. J. Geysendorfer, the Dutch competitors, who withdrew from the race when their 'plane trashed while landing at Bamraull aerodrome, ...
Article : 118 wordsA golfer on the Woollahra municipal links on Saturday made an auctioneer conducting a nearby land sale think that at least, one man was trying to combine business and ...
Article : 174 wordsJoseph James Fuller, 25, a well-known district footballer, was drowned to-day, when the tractor he was driving on W. Taylor's farm capsized while it was crossing a ...
Article : 124 wordsFlight-Lteutenant Hansen and Mr. Jensen left Batavia after half an hour's stay at 10.6 a.m. (12.36 p.m. Sydney time) yesterday, and arrived at Rambang at 4.59 p.m. (7.29 p.m. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe interstate conference of the Federated Clerks' Union, which ended in Melbourne on Saturday, passed the following resolution:— "That, realising that the mechanical ...
Article : 115 wordsOwing to the exceptionally large number of telephone calls between London and Melbourne on Tuesday, after the result, ot the air race was known, the radio telephone circuit was ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 29 Oct 1934, Page 9
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