Remarkable evidence was heard in a charge of blackmail, which came before Mr. Justice McArthur in the Criminal Court to-day. William Thompson, 44, an accountant, of Albury, ...
Article : 187 wordsNotwithstanding the claim of the vice-president, Mr. J. Bailey, that he knew the name of the member responsible for the allegations that the new Federal Labour party ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Drummond, founders of the far west children's health scheme, were in Moree last week-end making arrangements for an extensive search for ...
Article : 108 wordsAn accountant's investigation of the resumption of Canally holding formed the principal evidence yesterday at the sitting of the Royal Commission which is inquiriny into the ...
Article : 642 wordsTwo cash bags, containing about £44 in cheques and over £2 in cash, mysteriously disappeared from a train which arrived at Rockhampton yesterday from Emerald. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Jackson (centre), visited the Children's Welfare League of Australia's branch at Collins-street yesterday and saw the children at their midday meal. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsApplication was made to-day in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Macrossan, that the case in which Michael Nell O'Sullivan, solicitor, is proceeding against Michael ...
Article : 541 wordsAndrew Murray, 42, was sentenced to three months' hard labour in Hay Gaol for being in possession of a carcase of a sheep, reasonably suspected of having been stolen. The ...
Article : 62 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Ephraim Battle, aged 62 years, of Commandant Hill, an old and respected resident. He leaves a family of ten, and also 35 grandchildren. He was ...
Article : 60 wordsOperations have been resumed at the Cooerwull woollen mills, which were closed down more than a year ago. Messrs. Howard J. Sparkes and F.W. Sparkes, trading as Howard ...
Article : 105 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsA motion will be discussed at the next general meeting of the Clerks' Union to withdraw its affiliation with the State Labour party. The principal ground on which members will ...
Article : 254 wordsThe decision of the wheatgrowers of New South Wales to reject the proposal for a compulsory wheat pool caused considerable surprise in Federal political circles, and will, ...
Article : 250 wordsIn a letter dated June 10, from No. 40 well, 400 miles north of Wiluna, Mr. A. W. Canning, who has been reconditioning the stock route between Wiluna and Hall's Creek, said:—"We ...
Article : 118 wordsWhen Parliament enacted legislation establishing the Racecourse Betting Control Board and thus permitted the introduction of the totalisator form of betting to English ...
Article : 839 wordsFor several years reports have persisted of the existence of a tiger in the Tantawanglo Mountains. Mr. Erie Britten, a resident of Tantawanglo, ...
Article : 124 wordsThieves broke into the tobacconist shop of Mr. Jeffrey Ryan and stole about £ 20 worth of tobacco, cigarettes, and cigars. They gained access by breaking two windows at the back ...
Article : 39 wordsEarly on Sunday morning Poulton's skin store was broken into by thieves, who picked the lock. A valuable bulldog, which slept on the premises, was poisoned. A quantity of fox ...
Article : 58 wordsA bale of 540 opossum skins valued at £ 150, which was stolen from Green and Co.'s bulk stores last week, was discovered to-day in scrub on the eastern side of the town by ...
Article : 43 wordsWith the object of distributing work among all the unemployed, the Painters' Union has appealed to employees in Government departments to resign at the end of each month ...
Article : 163 wordsAnother attempt by an incendiarist to burn a building has been reported to the police. On Saturday evening a double-fronted weatherboard house in Major-road, Fawkner, ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day Norman George Steele, about 30, a motor engineer, pleaded guilty to having been in possession of a mould for counterfeiting a florin, and ...
Article : 72 wordsWithin a few minutes of the finish of a football match between Wyangarie and Doubtful Creek at the week-end two players of the latter team suffered serious injuries in a ...
Article : 72 wordsAt a late hour last night the pumps were still at work on the freighter Sun Kong (formerly the Adelaide Company's Urilla), which sprang a leak yesterday morning, whilst ...
Article : 99 wordsA meeting of members of the Monaro-South Coast movement appointed an executive for the Cooma centre, consisting of Messrs. H. A. Dulhunty, O. C. Devereux, F. F. Mitchell, W. ...
Article : 57 wordsEdward Seaman, who wandered from his home on June 23, was missing for 27 days. His body was discovered by Norman Haley yesterday, in Cudgegong River, in six feet of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Pastoral Workers' Onion, which is described as a breakaway rank and file organisation from the Australian Workers' Union, has decided to make a determined effort to ...
Article : 237 wordsMr. J. A. Mollison, who intends to make a second attempt to break the record by air from Australia to England, had his new 'plane successfully tested at Mascot aerodrome ...
Article : 48 wordsAt Mr. Laurence Godfrey Smith's concert at the Conservatorium Hall last night the works of three of the greatest French modernists were presented with a polished and ...
Article : 287 wordsWhile Joyce Neilson was going to her home at Mudgee South last night she was attacked by a man, who caught her round the body and threw her to the ground, A struggle ensued ...
Article : 65 wordsLATE MR. DAVID REID, former general manager in Australia for the Orient S.N. Co., who died on Saturday. The remains were privately cremated at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 29 wordsMr. George Charles Davis, whose death occurred at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. A. Hoffman, of Calero-street. Lithgow, was in his 104th year ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 182 wordsAt the Parramatta Quarter Sessions yesterday, Harold Hooker, 20, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on a charge of having broken into the Burnside Homes at ...
Article : 66 wordsThompson's Store and the adjoining building, occupied by Mrs. Reinhard, were destroyed by fire early this morning. The fire started in the store, but its origin is a mystery. The ...
Article : 72 wordsEllen Walsh, an elderly woman, was sitting alone in front of a fire at her home about midnight on Saturday when her clothes caught fire. She struggled to divest herself of her ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) states that the whole of the tidal waters of Middle Harbour above Roseville Bridge, are closed against the use of fishing nets until further ...
Article : 33 wordsThe result of ballots on the amendment of the rules of the Federated Mining Mechanies' Association was made available to-day. By 495 votes to 67, members decided in favour of ...
Article : 170 wordsAt a special meeting of the executive of the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation to-day, disapproval was express [?] of the judgment of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court ...
Article : 60 wordsThree good conduct prisoners escaped from the State prison farm at Pardalup early yesterday morning. They were Allan Bernard Cleverley, 23; Robert Alfred Hobson, 25; and ...
Article : 124 wordsReginald Peter Bourke, 20, of Victor-road, Deewhy, was killed when his motor cycle collided head-on last night with a motor car on the Pittwater-road, near Deewhy. ...
Article : 196 wordsA formal Chamber application by the Crown for leave to serve a subpoena outside jurisdiction in regard to the Mungana case was taken before the Chief Justice (Sir James Blair) ...
Article : 43 wordsTrapped in a bathroom of the Courthouse Hotel, late on Saturday night, a man, for whom the police were searching, jumped from a window to the footpath, a distance of 20ft. ...
Article : 170 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsThe necessity for sex education in schools was stressed by several speakers at the annual meeting of the Racial Hygiene Association, held last night at the Allora Cafe, Pitt-street, when ...
Article : 200 wordsApplications for tickets were received over the counter at the State Lottery office yesterday. The office in the Government Savings Bank building opened at noon. Many people ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Coroner (Mr. P. H. C. Flett) held an inquiry into the first which occurred on May 22 at Mambo Island, near Coopernook, resulting in the destruction of a dwelling house ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Government has decided to pass legislation which will permit ratepayers to register their votes at local government elections despite the fact that they have not paid their ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Maitland District Area Committee of Unemployed decided to inform the Government that the promise to increase the dole by 25 per cent. had not been fulfilled. It also ...
Article : 201 wordsRaymond Watts, of Victoria-parade, East Melbourne, has informed the police that shortly before midnight of Sunday two young men, one of whom was armed with a revolver, called at ...
Article : 115 wordsMotor transport on the Northern Highway has taken practically all the fruit trade from the small steamers plying between the Hawesbury River and Sydney. ...
Article : 86 wordsFour ounces of osmiridium, worth £60, have been stolen from cases of minerals in the art gallery of the Tasmanian Museum. This is the second robbery which has ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) said today that he hoped to be able to introduce in the House of Representatives to-morrow the bills to amend the Sales Tax Assessment ...
Article : 73 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 wordsThieves stole clothing, boots, and shoes, valued at more than £100, from Elsie Burcher's shop in Forest-road, Hurstville on Sunday evening. ...
Article : 166 wordsRiotous conduct by members of a militant organisation of unemployed men, who had objected to the departure of a woman and her children from a house from which they ...
Article : 83 wordsAs the Birregurra to Geelong mixed train was leaving the Marshall station this evening, the guard, W. J. E. Smith, who had given the signal, attempted to step on to the train while ...
Article : 95 wordsA couple of weeks ago Alderman G. Gallop resigned from the Woollahra Council. He had been a member of the council—Double Bay ward—for nine years. ...
Article : 81 wordsMany housewives in the Leichhardt, Haber-field, Ashfield, and nearby districts will welcome the news that detectives have recovered a large quantity of clothing, lingerie, and ...
Article : 78 wordsA specimen submitted to the Mines Department by Mr. Alf. Barnes, a resident of the Upper Manning district, was found to contain osmiridium. The specimen was taken from ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 21 Jul 1931, Page 8
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