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Article : 510 wordsAn unsuccessful attempt to murder the Governor of Bengal (Sir John Anderson) was made by terrorists this afternoon at Lehong. near Darjeeling. ...
Article : 368 wordsIn an address to prefectural governors, the Minister for the Navy (Admiral Osuml) said that a complicated situation would arise at the Naval Conference next year. The way ...
Article : 145 wordsPounded by heavy seas for two nights and a day, the 415-ton wooden coastal steamer Nambucca, which became stranded on a sandspit near the entrance to the Nambucca ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Herald-Tribune" understands that the "token payment method of meeting war debts has gone into the discard as the result of the ...
Article : 254 wordsThe State Government takes a serious view of what it regards as the defiant attitude adopted by the Water Board towards a tender for the supply of pipes for the Prospect pipe-head main, one of the most important links in the metropolitan water supply. ...
Article : 205 words"There are those who would set city against country. That policy spells tragedy for Australia," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) in a speech at the dinner given by the South ...
Article : 204 wordsReports about the fighting between the Wahabls and the Yemenis in Arabia are flatly contradictory. The Yemenis claim a series of successes ...
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Article : 246 wordsWhile the Federal Government is warening with the closest interest the trade difficulties which have arisen between Britain and Japan, it is not likely that there will be any ...
Article : 680 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons about the Anglo-Danish trade agreement which came into operation last June the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas ...
Article : 203 wordsEvidence which purpoited to trace the movements of Percy Smith and his waggonette up till December 18 was given when the trial of Edward Henry Morey, who is charged with ...
Article : 1,096 wordsMr. A. E. Heath, official representative in London of the New South Wales Government, before leaving for Washington, where he has arranged, through the British Embassy, to ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Water Board had before it at a special meeting yesterday a motion that the chief water engineer (Mr. Farnsworth) should be relieved of his duties pending an inquiry into ...
Article : 121 wordsA grim struggle for possession of a sharp butcher's knife took place between two men on a crowded tram travelling along Burwood-road, Concord, about 6 o'clock last night. One ...
Article : 248 wordsThe bill to abolish University representation in the Irish Free State was read the second time in the Dail Eireann, the voting being 58 to 34. ...
Article : 133 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day the Marquis of Salisbury moved the second reading of the private bill which he introduced on December 19 for the reform of the House of Lords by ...
Article : 198 wordsAllegations that the Shell Oil Company had inflated its invoice prices by more than 100 per cent, and had inserted charges to increase the cost of working, were made by Mr. Alfred ...
Article : 632 wordsA proposal to eliminate tiading by the electricity department in competition with private electrical firms was agreed to at a meeting of the elecliicity committee of the City ...
Article : 418 wordsA great fire is raging in the historic town of Campu-Lung, and the famous monastery and 100 houses have already been destroyed. There were distressing scenes at the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe M.C.C. team to play the Australians at Lord's on Saturday will be:—A. P. F. Chapman (Kent), captain, J. C. White (Somerset), R. E. S. Wyatt (Warwickshire), M. J. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) is contemplating important amendments of the Landlord and Tenant Act, which now incorporates the old rent reduction and evictions ...
Article : 485 wordsThe International Rubber Regulation Committee, at its first meeting, decided, in order to ensure the gradual reduction of exports, that each territory might export 100 per cent, of ...
Article : 87 wordsMISS Jean Batten who is making an attempt to fly from England to Australia, arrived in Rome yesterday, after a short stay at Marseilles. She left Rome at 6.46 o'clock this ...
Article : 359 wordsThe M.C.C. team will provide Woodfull and his men with a thorough trial. The team includes three members of the side which toured Australia in 1932-33—Wyatt, Brown, and ...
Article : 448 wordsThe price of gold to day was £6/15/11½ an ounce fine compared with £6/16/1½ yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...
Article : 356 wordsA starving cat was lassoed and dragged to safety from a ledge 80 feet above Phillip-street yesterday. The cat had been left in the warehouse of ...
Article : 155 wordsRonald Hunter, 18, of Newtown, was shot in the right shoulder yesterday following a quarrel on a rubbish tip at Mudgee. His collarbone was shattered by the bullet. His ...
Article : 231 wordsThomas Langham captain of the small steamer Yelrah, was fined £2 at the police court to-day for putting to sea with passengers without having a certificate as provided by the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 10 May 1934, Page 9
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