The third heaviest shock since the big earthquake occurred at Napier and Hastings at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. It was a fairly violent shock, and woke everybody up. ...
Article : 302 wordsAt the police court, two coloured boxers, Alfred Patrick Riley and Daniel Riley, were charged with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Samuel Brown, but the charge was ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the end of the second day's play in the last Sheffield Shield match of the season, Victoria had made 152 for three wickets in reply to South Australia's score of 439. ...
Article : 779 wordsA fight between rival "pushes" in Ivy-street, Darlington, on Saturday night was prevented from taking place only by determined action on the part of a police constable, who was ...
Article : 279 wordsThe leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (Mr. Latham) will be campaigning in the East Sydney electorate this week in support of the candidature of Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsTwo thieves boarded a tram at Bondi late last night, and after battering the tram conductor into insensibility, robbed him of his bag, and left him lying unconscious on the ...
Article : 354 wordsThe West Indies team gave an attractive display of enterprising batting in the return match against New South Wales, begun at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday. They ...
Article : 1,149 wordsA considerable quantity of type was destroyed in a fire at the "Free Press" office. The damage is estimated at £300. ...
Article : 31 wordsWind lined the roof off J. Rodder's home at Bedgerebong during a storm, and carried it 600 yards. No one was injured. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lang) will make his first appearance in the East Sydney campaign to-night when he will address the electors in the Paddington Town Hall. ...
Article : 57 wordsAt 3 o'clock this morning thieves broke plateglass windows at Minns' jewellery shop in Main-street, and extracted two trays of watches. Mr. Minn, who sleeps above the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following meetings have been arranged for to-night:- Macabbean Hall, Darlinghurst road Darlinghurst —Mr. J. G. Latham, K. C., M.P., leader of the ...
Article : 428 wordsRepresentatives of the Colo and Blue Mountains Shires met to consider what steps should be taken to have a road constructed linking up Richmond. Windsor, and Hawkesbury districts ...
Article : 73 wordsImportant statements regarding the Government's proposals to reduce unemployment were made by the Assistant Minister for Labour (Mr. Ely) at the Granville Show luncheon on ...
Article : 216 wordsGreat satisfaction is expressed by exhibitors at the British Industries Fair at the extent of the business done with home and foreign buyers who have visited the fair. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe body of William Francis Tough, 35, an employee of Cottrel Bros., Mountain Creek, was found on the road near Carley Bros'. gate at Mountain Creek. His sulky was found ...
Article : 91 wordsEight or nine New Zealanders and four Australian families are expected to set out shortly for Sunday Island, in the Pacific, where they hope to establish a colony. ...
Article : 183 wordsMembers of a picnic party who were returning to Sydney from Windsor last night by motor lorry had narrow escapes from death when the vehicle overturned at Rouse Hill, ...
Article : 619 wordsa Gipsy Moth aeroplane was severely damaged here yesterday afternoon. Shortly after 4 o'clock the pilot (Mr. Reg. Robinson) and Mr. O. H. Jolly landed in the face of an ...
Article : 77 wordsThe disquieting report that the councils concerned in the south-western tablelands water supply scheme would, if necessary, be forced by legislation to accept the water ...
Article : 101 wordsAnxiety is expressed in northern circles over a large Soviet troop concentration on the Manchurian border. The intention of the Soviet is unknown, but observers believe that ...
Article : 140 wordsAfter 12 hours' spent in a boisterous sea, the three men, whose launch became disabled off Stanwell Park on Friday afternoon, were rescued this morning. ...
Article : 162 wordsThe police court was crowded when a wellknown grazier, Arthur Frederick Carr, of Chatsbury, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. He pleaded not guilty, and was ...
Article : 172 wordsAfter fighting a strenuous five-round preliminary, in which he drew with T. Burgess, at Newcastle Stadium last night, J. Paull, a coalfields boxer, collapsed in his ...
Article : 65 wordsLate on Saturday night, Mrs. Mary Starr, of Mary-street, Grafton, was admitted to Grafton District Hospital suffering from a wound in a thigh. It is stated that following ...
Article : 997 wordsDavid Jones, one of the deputies who was seriously injured in an explosion in the State coalmine at Wonthaggi on Friday, died in the Wonthaggi Hospital yesterday morning. Claude ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Senate, despite President Hoover's opposition, passed by 72 votes to 12 the Veterans' Loan Relief Bill for raising the loan value of adjusted compensation certificates ...
Article : 140 wordsA mass meeting of residents, mostly representatives of the farming and grazing communities, on Saturday passed resolutions demanding action to relieve primary producers ...
Article : 621 wordsBrigadier-General Alexander Baird. D.S.O., was killed in a motor collision on the London-Southampton road. He was a brother of Lord Stonehaven, late Governor-General of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Government has decided to approach the Federal Arbitration Court to have the recent 10 per cent. reduction applied to awards to which the State is party. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe weather was fine and the track fast for the Wellington athletic championship meeting to-day. A strong northerly wind slowed up the big sprints between the champions, James ...
Article : 371 wordsA report from Winnipeg says that the total liability of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba on guarantees of bank advances to the wheat pool is approximately ...
Article : 104 wordsLieutenant-Commander Roland Bourke, V.C., a hero of Zeebrugge, advises the Canadian Legion that he is going blind, and requests assistance. ...
Article : 50 wordsGeorge Frederick Thorp, 68, was found dead in a house in Malua-street, Dolls Point, yesterday evening. He had a bullet wound in his forehead, and a pea-rifle was lying alongside ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 wordsThirty-one miners were killed by an explosion of fire damp in a reserve pit at Nothberg, near Eschweiler, in Germany. Fourteen were injured, four seriously. Forty pit ponies ...
Article : 44 wordsNews comes from Victoria that the agricultural committee of the Provincial Legislature on Friday approved a resolution calling for protection for British Columbia farmers against ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is suggested that the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa, for which statistical investigations are well advanced, should be held in August. It is understood that Mr. F. L. ...
Article : 430 wordsWhile arresting Joseph McFarlane, 38 years, a trapper, at his camp at Whitfield to-day, Constable Hutchinson was shot in the left thigh. ...
Article : 180 wordsA report from Oslo says that the Norwegian Antarctic survey ship Norvegia sent a wireless message that a seaplane traced the coastline of new land about 500 miles south-west of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsPlay in the fifth test match between the M.C.C. and South Africa, which commenced at Durban to-day, was curtailed to 80 minutes owing to rain. Chapman won the toss and ...
Article : 300 wordsCaptain F. R. Matthews, the English airman, interviewed on the Marella on Saturday morning as he was carefully watching the unloading of his damaged 'plane, in which he crashed ...
Article : 108 wordsAn avalanche sweeping down the valley [?] Vi[?]l Quaaten, Eastern Tyrol, from a height of 7000 feet, overwhelmed three mills and a house. A peasant and his seven children were ...
Article : 89 wordsPrices of motor lubricating oil will probably be advanced by a penny a pint (eightpence a gallon), at garages and service stations as from to-day. It is announced that the ...
Article : 89 wordsHer Majesty's: "Lilac Time," 8. Criterion Theatre: "On the Spot," 8.15. St. James Theatre" "Topsy Turvy," 2.15, 8. Grand Opera House: "Silver Clouds," 8. ...
Article : 129 wordsA message from the Buenos Aires correspondent of the "La Nacion" at Posadas, Argentina, repotted on Friday that revolutionists had captured the Paraguayan town of Villa en ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following horses have been re-handicapped for the Newmarket Handicap and the Australian Cup, to be run at the V.R.C. Autumn meeting:—Newmarket Handicap: First Arrow, ...
Article : 87 wordsSix separate fires were discovered in a grocer's shop in Kellett-street when the Darlinghurst fire brigade arrived on the scene early on Saturday morning. The damage was ...
Article : 77 wordsA meeting of representatives of local bodies at Charters Towers unanimously adopted a scheme to form a limited company with 5000 shares of £2 each, to prospect with a ...
Article : 42 wordsWhile the Union Company's motor-ship Hauraki was berthing at New Plymouth the bottom of the vessel bumped heavily. Brown oil, which appeared on the surface ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 23 Feb 1931, Page 10
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