With four minutes to go and nine wickets down, South Australia snatched victory over the West Indies in the game concluded on Adelaide Oval to-day. The win was due ...
Article : 538 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Tully) stated in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that a Melbourne pastoral company had offered £1,000,000 for the lease of a "stretch" of ...
Article : 1,692 wordsBefore his Honor Judge Coyle, Thomas Alton Murray pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found at Boorowa on January 25 with an implement in his possession ...
Article : 63 wordsWest of Queen Mary Land the conditions this season are normal, and the weather has been as favourable as can be expected. Consequently we have advanced rapidly to the ...
Article : 505 wordsThe affairs of the J. C. Williamson Tivoli Vaudeville Pty., Ltd., was again before the Court to-day, when matters which were exhaustively dealt with in Court proceedings ...
Article : 276 wordsEighty years ago to-day, E. H. Hargraves discovered payable gold in Australia. Within three years £50,000,000 worth of gold was obtained. The above portrait is reproduced from the frontispiece of his book, "Australia and Its Gold Fields," published four years after his discovery. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsMrs. Greenall, the wife of Captain Charles Edward Greenall, 53, who shot his 12-yearold son dead and afterwards committed suicide on a farm near Southern Cross (Western ...
Article : 262 wordsAt the Grafton Police Court, before Mr. Carr Boyd, P.M., Gow Wing, 56, a Chinese gardener, was fined £4 for having cruelly ill-treated a dog. Constable Paterson said ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the Council it was agreed on the motion of Mr. J. A. Browne that the Manly Gas Co., Ltd. (Amendment) Bill should be referred to a Select Committee consisting of Messrs. ...
Article : 752 wordsThe Bishop of Goulburn (Dr. Radford) has appointed the Rev. S. J. West, rector ofol Wagga, as Archdeacon of Wagga, in succession to the late Ven. Benjamin Dore Byrant. ...
Article : 51 wordsAt a meeting of the Tamworth hospital board a motion was carried that it be recommended to the Hospital Association of New South Wales:—(a) That 3d be taken out of the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe East Sydney Electorate Council last night decided to take no action with regard to the selection of a Labour candidate for the East Sydney by-election until Friday night, ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Lords Viscount Astor directed attention to the necessity for developing a demand for British milk. Lord Moynihan said he would agree if pure ...
Article : 172 wordsA survey of the canyon at Dog Face Rock was made by Mr. W. H. Cranney, a local surveyor, and Mr. A. Manning, photographer, who discovered that the gap is 30 feet wide and ...
Article : 71 wordsA hire-car driver named William Payne picked up a man and woman at Caboolture to-day with instructions to drive them to Brisbane. When passing Deception Bay, about ...
Article : 124 wordsAt a meeting of the Bathurst Chamber of Commerce, Mr. H. Bedwell said that the recent visit of the Parliamentary party, including the Acting Premier (Mr. Baddeley) and the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Narrandera Public Hospital is suffering from the effects of the depression. The directors last night decided to reduce the salaries of the whole of the staff by 25 per cent. ...
Article : 137 wordsUnder the auspices of the Kodak Company, an interesting exhibition of pictures by Royal photographers is being held at David Jones's auditorium. It was opened yesterday by the ...
Article : 507 wordsMr. Sidney Reginald Innes-Noad, M.L.C., C.M.G., who gave yeoman service to the National party and to the State, died at his home, Doone, Malton-road, Beecroft, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 148 wordsA burly, good-tempered auctioneer, with a decided turn of humour, ready to assume looks of delight, dismay, rapture, despondency, sorrow, and surprise, as occasion might demand, ...
Article : 733 wordsA tourist coach, on its way to Moruya, collided with a motor car on Prince's Highway this afternoon. The wheels of the coach locked, and the ...
Article : 63 wordsA fire occurred last night at Messrs. Fogg and Curry's paddock, between the irrigation canal and the Murrumbidgee River, and extended to Mr. W. J. Weir's paddock, about ...
Article : 96 wordsNew South Wales selectors, Messrs. R. C. M. Boyce, E. A. Dwyer, and Dr. L. O. S. Poidevin, yesterday announced the following team to meet the West Indies at the Sydney ...
Article : 291 wordsA public meeting will be held in the hall at Killara to-night to launch, under the auspices of the All for Australia League, a body to work for unity of purpose among citizens and ...
Article : 92 wordsEarly on Wednesday morning thieves broke open the doors of the stationmaster's office at the local railway station, and endeavoured to carry away the deposit safe. It was too ...
Article : 53 words"Never have I seen so many sharks at one time. They were all round and under the raft, walting for one man to die and be thrown overboard," declared an officer of the Danish ...
Article : 123 wordsWilliam Henry Wheeler aged 16, appeared before his Honor Judge Mocatta at Narrabri Quarter Sessions on a serious charge concerning his sister, aged 13 years The accused ...
Article : 563 wordsSeveral important works schemes were submitted to the finance and works committees at the last meeting of the Randwick Council. ...
Article : 117 wordsApproximately 150 men will be affected by [?]he closing down of New Lambton Colliery. The decision was notified to the officers of the Miners' Federation by the secretary of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe mayoralty campaign of the principal candidates, the Mayor (Mr. William Thompson) and Judge Lyle, has reached the libel suit stage. Mr. Thompson enlivened the scene ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the Geelong wool sales to-day, there was fairly general competition at prices from 5 to 10 per cent, better than last month. ...
Article : 28 wordsWhen the Royal Commission inquiring into the disabilities of British settlers sat to-day, Mr. G. U. Nathan (for the British settlers) continued his indictment of the authorities ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsThe Chinese vessel Hsin Nlngtal was daringly robbed by pirates a few miles from Shanghai, while she was en route from Halmen. ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Debenham graduated B.A. at Sydney University in 1906, and B.Sc. four years later. He joined the Scott Antarctic Expedition, and later went to Cambridge to work up the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 99 wordsThe full weight of the most important group of miners' lodges on the northern coalfields has been thrown behind proposals for a Commonwealth-wide general strike. ...
Article : 177 wordsThe King and Queen returned to London to-day from Sandringham, and one of their first acts was to visit Princess Beatrice at Kensington Palace. The Princess had a very ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 246 wordsIn Sydney Harbour, awaiting favourable weather conditions, is the tiny 13-ton auxiliary ketch Sealark, in which Dr. A. C. Windham, the owner, and Captain Dalziel, with a crew ...
Article : 119 wordsThree Communists charged with being on in enclosed verandah without reasonable excuse, appeared at the Police Court to-day. They were remanded until Friday. Ball was ...
Article : 89 wordsA fire, which started in Mr. Sydney Kensit's property, Kingaloola, spread to a number of other properties and eventually covered a front of seven miles. Four hundred men ...
Article : 124 wordsFive police patrolmen and two civilians were injured, two seriously, when a police wireless patrol car collided with a sedan motor car at the intersection of Bay and New streets, ...
Article : 186 wordsCustoms officers who made a search of the Australian-Oriental liner Taiping a few hours before her departure for Melbourne on Tuesday found a large quantity of alleged ...
Article : 89 wordsDamage estimated at about £5000 was done by a fire which destroyed both the hardware shop and living premises of Mr. A. Froome, in Nelson-street, Wallsend, early this morning, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsHer Majesty's: "Lilac Time," 8. Criterion Theatre: "On the Spot," 8.15. St. James Theatre: "Topsy Turvy," 2.15. 8. Grand Opera House: "Showers of Fun," 8. ...
Article : 132 wordsShearers from the south passed through Charleville on their way to Auburnvale station to-day, under police escort. A dispirited demonstration occurred at the ...
Article : 72 wordsA daring theft was perpetrated in the heart of the city to-night, when a man entered the jewellery shop of Wallace Bishop and Co., in Adelaide-street, and stole watches valued ...
Article : 44 wordsThe interstate band contests concluded last night, Bondi, with 186 points, winning the A grade competition from the Perth R.S.L. band, with 175 points. The R.S.L. band won the ...
Article : 45 wordsHarry William Duggan, 26, died at Hobart Public Hospital yesterday morning as a result of severe head injuries received in an accident at Moonah Speedway on Saturday night. ...
Article : 53 wordsAfter several weeks spent in experimenting, officials of the Postmaster-General's Department succeeded yesterday in holding telephonic communication between Perth and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 12 Feb 1931, Page 10
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