Italy was credited with the world's speed record as a result of the flights of Major Bernhardi last year, but his figures were actually exceeded by Flight-Lieutenant D'Arcy ...
Article : 210 wordsThere have been large numbers of influenza cases in the Casino district, and the accommodation at the local hospital has been taxed to the utmost. It was feared that, with the ...
Article : 92 wordsWilliam Moore, a timber worker, 25 years of age, who was said to have been a pugilist— and who was described by the police as a member of the "Basher Gang," was sentenced ...
Article : 323 wordsThe council of the Town-Planning Association of New South Wales began its monthly meeting amicably, but long before the close several sharp differences of opinion led to ...
Article : 523 wordsSeveral eye-witnesses of the volcanic eruptions which partially destroyed Ambrym Island, in the New Hebrides, arrived in Sydney by the Makambo yesterday. They were ...
Article : 359 wordsThe Minseito Cabinet was formed on July 2, immediately after the fall of the Tanaka Ministry. Left to right: Mr. M. Koizumi (Minister for Communications), Mr. M. Tawara (Minister for Commerce and Industry), Mr. C. Machida (Minister for Agriculture and Forestry), Mr. I. Kobashi (Minister for Education), Baron K. Shidehara (Minister for Foreign Affairs), Admiral H. Takarabe (Minister for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 124 wordsMr. P. Buckley, of Ewingsdale, one of the oldest residents of the district, died yesterday, at the age of 85 years. He was a native of Ireland and came to the district 40 years ago, ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the inquest at the Camden Courthouse on Leonard George Parmenter, who died from injuries received when his motor cycle collided with a motor car on the Hume ...
Article : 102 wordsAfter the submission of remarkable evidence at the inquiry into the death of Leonard Macgregor yesterday, the City Coroner (Mr. May) adjourncd the case. ...
Article : 435 wordsMr. George Knight Brown died early this morning at his residence, Brooklands, Blackheath. He was 84 years of age. Mr. Brown had a varied career. He was Mayor of ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Rev. A. Penry Evans, a leading London Congregational minister, who was the principal speaker last night at the annual meeting of the London Missionary Society, ...
Article : 336 wordsAn unusual case, in which David Ewen Cameron McLeod, 38, medical practitioner, was charged with having uttered a false document purporting to be an information ...
Article : 167 wordsThe arterial stop system for city traffic, advocated by Mr. A. R. Tewksbury, a director of the Yellow Cab Company, in an interview which appeared in yesterday's "Herald," has ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Gulgong Town Council f[?] itself in a dilemma with regard to the [?]w convent school building, which has been partly erected without the plans being approved. ...
Article : 100 wordsDiver C. P. Lambert carried out salvage work of a dangerous nature yesterday at Cronulla in recovering the engine, stern frame, and rudder of the launch Bobby from a submerged ledge ...
Article : 449 wordsGraham Rice, 19, was brought straight from hospital to the Court to-day to answer three charges arising out of a bank robbery on the morning of Sunday, July 28, when John ...
Article : 404 wordsMr. R. B. Avery, postmaster at Goulburn[?] is entering on long service leave at the end of the month prior to retirement. He was presented by the Holy Name Society, of which ...
Article : 63 wordsSevere penalties are provided under clauses of a bill to restrict newspaper reports of judicial proceedings, which reached the second reading stage in the Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 194 wordsThe appeal of Leslie George McKay against a conviction and sentence of three months' imprisonment for having a quantity of rabbitskins in his possession suspected of being ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. V. R. Webb, B.E., the young engineering graduate of Sydney University, who stroked the winning Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club crew to victory in the race for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 139 words"Australia has a vast potential market in the East, but if the opportunity is not[?] seized now the demand will be filled by other countries and the local factories," said ...
Article : 398 wordsThe death has occurred, at the age of 7[?] years, of Mother Mary Dominic O'Carroll, who founded the Dominican Convent here and was a golden jubilarisn of the order. ...
Article : 96 wordsA letter from Mrs. M. Gaudry, poundkeeper at Gulgong, asking the council to liquidate a debt of £4/17/ incurred in maintaining three impounded horses which had ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Commonwealth Government, through Captain Kimber, has formally handed to the Police Department the well-known racehorse and sire Had I Wist. The Police ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. John Young was driving a horse team through a gate at Glencoe when the leaders slewed and he was jammed against the ga[?] post. His leg was broken, but despite the ...
Article : 67 wordsHorace Wyld, 16, of South Terrace, West Thebarton, was killed instantly to-day when a chaff cutter, near which he was working, smashed into pieces. A piece of the wheel ...
Article : 38 wordsSENATOR KINGSMILL (W.A.), who was yesterday elected Piesldent of the Senate without opposition. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 words"The union is now a veritable cesspool of union smashers, disruptionists, and intriguers," said Mr. F. A. Armstrong (trustee and a member of the executive of the Federated Clerks' ...
Article : 195 wordsAlfred Rope who has been missing sinc[?] Friday last from Lue, has not yet been found. A large party headed by Sergeant Buckley, with a black tracker, is still searching for ...
Article : 51 wordsThe close proximity of an embankment down which the caniages might easily have overturned added considerably to the danger when two rear carriages of the 12.54 electric ...
Article : 247 wordsCommendation of the efficiency of the staff of the Water Board was voiced by the pre[?]ident (Mr. Cooper) at the meeting yesterday. Reports were submitted by the examiner ...
Article : 226 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 200 wordsA daring theft was committed on Sunday night, when two handbags, which hid been placed in a bedroom at Mr. R. Whalan's residence were stolen a few minutes afterwards, ...
Article : 457 wordsAn exciting chase in the early hours of this morning lead to the airest of two young men who, it is alleged, were caught in the act of attempting to break into Whitaker's ...
Article : 77 wordsRecently the Bankstown Municipal Council asked the Main Roads Board to declare Boronia-road, which links up the Hume Highway with Punchbowl-road, a main road. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Western Electric Company (Australia), Ltd., is considering the possibility of manufacturing a good deal of the apparatus it uses within the Commonwealth. The managing ...
Article : 102 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 189 wordsThe finding of a loaded pistol in a room at the People's Palace on Tuesday resulted in the appearance of Victor Charles Ritchie, 23, shopkeeper, of Concord, Sydney, in the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe motion by Mr. E. Anthony, member for Sturt, to abolish pillion riding on motor cycles, was lost on the voices in the House of Assembly to-day. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Government Analyst has informed the police that there were definite evidences of poison in the stomach of Alec Bunfield. The examination of the organs of the dead man ...
Article : 159 wordsFollowing a conference to-day between the Victorian executive of the Seamen's Union and the general secretary (Mr. H. Brennan)[?] who had been sent to Melbourne from Sydney ...
Article : 183 wordsMembers of the Melbourne team which lost to Sydney yesterday. Left to right: Miss A. Christie, G. Plant, and Miss J. Ridland. Sydney won by seven rubbers to five. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsA largely-attended meeting of retail grocers and produce vendors decided unanimously last night to refuse to pay the separate charges made for butter-boxes, after October ...
Article : 160 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsTwo men were alighting on the wrong side of a tram on Newtown Bridge yesterday, when they were struck by a motor car, which came from behind to pass the tram. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe central and north-coastal sections were the only parts of New South Wales that were not cloud-covered yesterday. In the afternoon rain was falling at Wee Waa, Carcoar, ...
Article : 123 wordsFollowing the action of the Labour party in declaring the plebiscite for the selection of a Legislative Council candidate null and void, on account of alleged irregularities, ...
Article : 87 wordsA tram ran off the lines at the dead-end at the terminus o[?] the Glebe Point line yesterday. One or two passengers aboard the tram at the time [?] alarmed at the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe City Commissioners, having decided to replace horse traction by motor lorries and tractors it was agreed yesterday that the remaining 25 horses in the City Council ...
Article : 44 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 15 Aug 1929, Page 12
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: