Albert John Wilkinson, 12, of Walker-street, Mungindi, received severe wounds in the left hand and left thigh from a shotgun, accidentally fired by Bobby Mather, on Sunday ...
Article : 83 wordsA heated debate developed in the Legislative Assembly yesterday on the Government Savings Bank (Housing) Amendment Bill. The Premier (Mr. Bavin) intimated that ...
Article : 2,273 wordsAt the completion of evidence in the appeal of Jacob Johnson (general secretary of the Australian Seamen's Union), in the District Court yesterday, Judge Co[?]en announced that ...
Article : 492 wordsThe English cricketers held their first practice in Australia this morning. In addition to his other qualifications as captain, Chapman seems to be something of ...
Article : 1,017 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) moved the second reading of the Fair Rents (Amendment) Bill. ...
Article : 1,112 wordswho has been elected Grand Master of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 19 wordsThe Royal Commission on Transport will begin its sittings on Thursday. It is expected to take at least two years to complete its labours, and to provide the basis of ...
Article : 167 wordsThe fire which destroyed the Cumberland Paper Mills, Lane Cove, on October 7, formed the subject of a special report by the chief officer of the fire brigade (Mr. F. Jackson), ...
Article : 514 wordsWhile driving an eight-horse waggon, carrying a load of wool weighing five tons, across the bridge to Wahgunyah, William Conrick, of Buraja, slipped, and fell in front of the ...
Article : 63 wordsHenry George Rutland, 73, was found dead in a residence on the Coo[?]amundra-road, two miles from Temora, yesterday. It is thought that death occurred a week previously. There ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Fire Commissioners (Messrs. E. E. Collins, E. N. Haythorpe, N. Brantwaite Clarke, and J. F. Besarck) visited Leeton yesterday in regard to the establishing of a fire ...
Article : 222 wordsIn the King's Bench division to-day Lord Alfred Douglas sued Harrods, Limited, for possessing and offering for sale a book entitled "Oscar Wilde's Life and Letters," which ...
Article : 175 wordsA plausible fellow-passenger and too deep a trust in human nature resulted in a recent arrival from New Zealand being poorer yesterday by £18. ...
Article : 160 wordsFollowing are the office-bearers for Lodge Federal, 193, U.G.L., Murrumburrah, for the ensuing year:—W.M., Bro. G. Booth; 1 P.M., Bro. G. D. Penhall: S.W., Bro. N. McKinnon; ...
Article : 116 wordsSir Leonard Dunning, Inspector of Constabulary at the Home Office, giving evidence before the Police Commission, said that he favoured more extensive use of women police, by whom ...
Article : 72 wordsJudgment for plaintiffs was given by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert McMillan) in the Supreme Court in the case in which Brown and Dureau, Limited, sued Robert Henry ...
Article : 239 wordsThe net loss reported by the directors of the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia, Ltd., for last year is £30,452. The directors, in summing up the position, ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Southern Districts group conference of the Country Women's Association was held in the Town Hall yesterday. Mrs. C. A. Lamont, the president of the Wagga branch, presided. ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Wingecarribee Shire Council has been advised by the Department of Local Government that it has received another petition from certain ratepayers within the ...
Article : 162 wordsAt the anuual conference of the National Union of Seamen to-morrow, Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, M.P., will announce thnt he has re-considered his decision to resign from the ...
Article : 104 wordsA poll o[?] Exeter ratepayers is to be taken to decide whether they approve of the proposed special loan of £2100 to be raised to establish an electricity works undertaking for ...
Article : 42 wordsAn application under section 63 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act was made on behalf of Matthew Biggar before the State Registrar (Mr. N. C. Lockhart) yesterday for his release ...
Article : 586 wordsThe Duke of York, who is to attend the funeral of the ex-Empress Marie of Russia, left London to-night for Copenhagen, travelling via Harwich and the Hook of Holland. ...
Article : 376 wordsFrances Caroline Irwin, 24, the wife of Lewis Osborne Irwin, committed suicide [?] the road gang camp on Cassilis-road, fi[?] miles from Coolah, yesterday. After her ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the expiration of the term of commission control it will be necessary to elect a City Council, and plans in that connection are already being discussed. ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Cecil Keating, in a letter to the Editor, referring to the Bateman's Bay tragedy, says it is surprising that such a death-trap as the punt crossing should be permitted on the ...
Article : 115 wordsBefore Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, at the Supreme Court, Robert Morton, a young man, and Bridgetta Morton, his grandmother, were charged with having stolen at Armidale a tin ...
Article : 162 wordsThe loss of a painting reputed to be a Gainsborough has been reported to the Sydney police by the Brisbane police, who intimated that they feared that the painting might be ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the conference of the Western District Cricket Association to discuss the personnel of the team to meet the English Eleven [?]t Bathurst in February, recommendations of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsThe concert of the Conservatorium Choir last night, with Mr. Livingstone Mote as conductor, was notable for the Dist performance in Sydney of a new work by Vaughan ...
Article : 551 wordsCriticism of the immigration laws of the Commonwealth was made by Count Hearn, of the United States, who accompanied the Papal Legate, Cardinal Cerretti, on a private visit ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Kiama Hospital committee decided last night to ask the Health Department for some definite information regarding the calling of tenders for the new hospital. The committee's ...
Article : 296 wordsWho has retired from the secretaryship of the N.S.W. Country Press Association, after 24 years' service, and who has been elected unanimously as chairman of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsA despondent man was saved from death at the Gap, Watson's Bay, last night by the timely intervention of signalmen from the South Head signal station. ...
Article : 140 wordsOn the motion of Mr. J. A. Browne the report of the Select Committee regarding the hill dealing with the Beneficiary Fund of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, ...
Article : 394 wordsIt was stated at a meeting of the City Commission yesterday that the destructor at Moore Park had almost reached the end of its usefulness, and that new means would have ...
Article : 97 wordsWhen the Country Press Association resumed its annual conference yesterday, Mr. S. R. Musgrave reported certain developments regarding the establishment and purchase of ...
Article : 267 wordsThe 22nd annual conference of the Federated Master Bakers' Association of Australia and New Zealand was opened by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. H. Millington). ...
Article : 241 wordsDonald Kenneth Buchanan, who was charged with the murder of Robert Nicholls, a half-caste aboriginal, at Angledool Station, and who was found guilty of manslaughter, was to-day ...
Article : 48 wordsWith a view to broadening the scope of the Manchester Unity Patriotic Fund, which stands in credit of £38,[?] the State conference of the order, now sitting at Albury, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsThe rate of tax on companies under the bill brought down in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday by the Assistant Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) may be fixed either as regards the ...
Article : 201 wordsA muster parade of ex-members of the 1st Light Horse will be held at the Cenotaph. Martin-place, at 6.45 p.m. to-morrow, the anniversary of the sailing of the corps in ...
Article : 57 wordsReffering to the [?]ding at the eastern end of Circular Quay. "Of Prohibition beware, place your X in the bottom square." Mr. C. D. Websdale, in a letter to the Editor, states: ...
Article : 93 wordsMrs. Harley, widow of Frederick Harley, the finding of whose dead body in the bush near Maroubra Speedway was reported in Monday's issue of the "Herald," said yeterday ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 18 Oct 1928, Page 12
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