Five deaths occurred during the terrific storms which swept the central and south-eastern parts of the State during the week-end. A woman was struck by lightning; near Lithgow, a boy was drowned at Undercliffe, and another at Goulburn, and a woman and a girl were drowned ...
Article : 116 wordsFinancial arrangements have been completed for a tour of New Zealand by an Australian cricket team. The team will be chosen by the Australian selectors, probably ...
Article : 218 wordsWilliam McCarthy, the 13-year-old son of Mr. T. McCarthy, a well-known grazier, sacrificed his life in an effort to rescue two persons who had been sucked into a whirlpool ...
Article : 693 wordsIn about five feet of water and within the view of thousands of people on Queenscliff Beach, a shark attacked a bather, Colin Grant, 22, of Chalmers-street, city, yesterday afternoon, and inflicted dreadful injuries. Grant's left leg was stripped of flesh. ...
Article : 238 wordsAlthough the cricket tests are still a long way off, all England shares the interest of Australians in the likely selection of the visiting team. There is also some speculation ...
Article : 421 wordsRemarkable frankness is displayed in a report accompanying the Italian naval estimates for 1934-5, which were presented to the Chamber of Deputies. ...
Article : 634 wordsOn Saturday afternoon, Mrs. J. Noonan, 25, of Hampton, near Lithgow, was struck by a terrific flash of lightning. She was hurled to the ground, suffering so severely from shock ...
Article : 1,572 wordsMore than 40 open boats were capsized in a fierce squall on Sydney Harbour on Saturday afternoon and nearly 300 men were thrown into the water. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe attack was so sudden and unexpected that many eyewitnesses were completely unnerved, and several women fainted. In his desperate efforts to swim to the shore ...
Article : 989 wordsDr. Cecil Hugh Norton, 35, and Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, 22, a nurse, were found on Saturday morning almost unconscious in a flat occupied by Miss Fitzpatrick in Chandos-street, ...
Article : 392 wordsIndia lost opportunities on the second day of the second test match with the M.C.C. team, which began on Friday. The visitors on the first day scored 257 runs for the ...
Article : 440 wordsA shark was sighted during the carnival of the North Bondi Surf Club on Saturday, and the programme was ended abruptly. The canoe race was in progress and heavy ...
Article : 106 wordsBecause of the storm of indignation throughout France, which the denial by members of the Cabinet of responsibility for the collapse of the Banque de Credit Municipal ...
Article : 440 wordsDrafts of a number of important policy bills to be brought down at the forthcoming session of the State Parliament will be considered at a special meeting of the Cabinet ...
Article : 605 wordsA severe storm passed over the township of Esk on Saturday at 9.30 p.m. A fireball struck J. G. Hobbs's cafe in the main street, and started a fire in the ceiling. An eyewitness ...
Article : 87 words"Undoubtedly the Labour party will have to overcome opposition from Buckingham Palace and other places when it comes into power," Sir Staffoid Cripps, M.P., told the annual ...
Article : 283 wordsThe "Morning Post" announces that negotiations, which have proceeded intermittently for some years, for co-operation between the French and British air transport companies on ...
Article : 292 wordsStrong easterly gales and rough seas round the coast of Victoria and New South Wales and in Bass Strait disorganised coastal and oversea shipping during the week-end. The ...
Article : 272 wordsDetectives investigating the death of Percy Smith, whose body was found in a sack in the Murrumbidgee River, expect to charge a man with muraer within the next 24 hours. ...
Article : 357 wordsA guard of honour canying the new Blue Shirt flag—a St. Patrick's cross in a blue ground—met General O'Duffy and Mr. Cosgrave when they arrived, escorted by a column ...
Article : 330 wordsAn attempt to burn down the dwelling of Mr. J. Chung Leong, herbalist, at Ballarat, on Saturday, was made early this morning, apparently by the person who has been ...
Article : 216 wordsNoel Ryan, the Manly swimmer, on Saturday won two New South Wales championships, and in one of them—the 110 yards— established the fastest time recorded for the ...
Article : 286 wordsA veterinary surgeon, Dr. Arthur Grant, states that, while riding a motor cycle alongside Loch Ness in the moonlight, he saw what he believes to be the monster whose reported ...
Article : 109 wordsA Maori custom was revived at a function on board the new Commonwealth and Dominion motorship Port Chalmers, which is to sail on her maiden voyage to New Zealand ...
Article : 246 wordsW. T. Tilden to-day ranked Henri Cochet (France) and Norman E. Brookes (Australia) as the first and second tennis players of all time. He based his conclusions on his own ...
Article : 173 wordsMiss Joyce Cooper, the visiting English swimming champion, was a passenger in a car which came into collision with a motor cycle at the corner of Military-road and Hampden-avenue. ...
Article : 148 words"I am happy to go to Australia, a country in which the spirit of defeatism, at present the greatest danger to the Empire, is entirely absent," said Mr. Alexander Shaw, chairman ...
Article : 126 wordsArising from allegations of bribery affecting the Belgian police and other officials, it is announced in Brussels that a former army chaplain, two officials of the Ministry of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 8 Jan 1934, Page 9
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