In a climate as capricious as Sydney's the winter meeting of the A.J.C. often belles its name, and takes place amid weather that in reminiscent of balmy spring. So it happened ...
Article : 249 wordsValuable vestments were used by thieves to deaden the sound of an attempt to blow open the safe in the sacristy of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, in Grote-street, city, late ...
Article : 184 wordsTo-day the shipowners will complete the first part of their campaign against the marine cooks, by paying off the steamer Ormiston in Melbourne. The whole passenger ...
Article : 302 wordsThe State Cabinet will be exceptionally busy during the next two months completing the details of the important policy measures for next session, which will commence towards ...
Article : 373 wordsIn the event of the Southern Cross having to descend a radio appeal for help should be picked up by a number of steamers that are believed to be along the line of flight between ...
Article : 183 wordsMarshal Chang Tso-[?]in, the Northern Generalissimo, left Pekin for Manchuria early this morning, accompanied by his staff and most of his Cabinet. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Southern Cross, which in continuation of its flight across the Pacific from Oakland (California), to Australia, left Barking Sands for Suva at 5.20 a.m. Sunday—1.30 a.m. Monday, Sydney time—has reported steady progress by ...
Article : 171 wordsIf it is decided that a vessel of the Australian navy is to go to sea to safeguard the fiera on the last stage of their flight from Suva to Brisbane, it is probable that the ...
Article : 150 wordsChang Tso-lin's special train, while en route to Mukden from Pekin, was bombed early this morning when approaching its destination. Several carriages were destroyed, four being ...
Article : 376 wordsLatest returns for the House of Assembly elections show that the Government has already lost two seats. The count has been completed in three ...
Article : 211 wordsAlthough the day was scarcely cold enough every woman who possessed a fur coat or a piece of fur wore it at Randwick yesterday. Exquisite full-lengt[?] coats of the most ...
Article : 705 wordsWireless signals from tne Southern Cross were received in Melbourne by amateur stations for the first two hours of the flight this morning. The signals appeared as soon ...
Article : 55 wordsThe strike has caused losses in wages to the crews of the vessels laid up amounting to £33,560. This loss, which has been proceeding at the rate of £1200 a day, will be ...
Article : 111 wordsAlthough during the flight from San Francisco to Honolulu and from Honolulu towards Suva the aviators had the advantage of steering by radio direction, that assistance will ...
Article : 226 wordsThe following radio messages have been received in Sydney through Amalgamated Wireless:- Southern Cross, 3 a.m. (11.10 p.m., Monday, ...
Article : 135 wordsMessages from the Southern Cross began at 1 a.m. (3.10 a.m. Monday, Sydney time), as follows: Average speed made good at 82. We are all in good spirits, except the generator[?] ...
Article : 671 wordsThe Cabinet will this week, on the recommendation of the Attorney-General (Mr. Boyce) make a new appointment to the Supreme Court bench in succession to Mr. ...
Article : 97 wordsBefore the British supermarines left here for Port Headland, Commander Cave Brown-Cave stated that none of the four machines had given the slightest trouble since they had ...
Article : 127 wordsTo provide additional travelling facilities between Melbourne and Perth to replace the Interstate shipping services abandoned on account of the strike, arrangements have been ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Matson liner Sonoma, en route from San Francisco to Sydney, has reported sighting the Southern Cross overhead at 3 o'clock (Pacific Coast time, 18 hours behind ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 132 wordsThe "Evening Standard" states that R. H. Bettington, the Oxford University and Middlesex cricketor, is returning to Australia in August, and remarks that on the season's form ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. P. Susman, of Tallerman and Co., Sydney, who is returning by the Taiping, said that conditions in the East were not good. In Shanghai wealthy merchants were forced ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the Trades Hall Council a resolution was passed deprecating the action of the secretary of the Marine Cooks' Union (Mr. Tudehope) in ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Melbourne Wharf Labourers' Union intends to put into operation to-morrow a new system whereby members will refrain from returning to work for half nights after having ...
Article : 111 wordsIn a level crossing accident on the Dandenong-road, near Frankston to-day, a woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured. ...
Article : 196 wordsTwo men, residents of Adelaide, who paid a visit to the French passenger steamer Ville de Strasbourg, are alleged to have attempted to smuggle dutiable goods ashore. The vessel ...
Article : 94 wordsAt Friday night's meeting of the Brisbane branch of the Marine Cooks' Union a letter from the general secretary (Mr. Tudehope) was read, intimating that one of the ...
Article : 421 wordsA monoplane, mads in his backyard at Bioxall-street, Granville, by Reg. Cairnie, a young mechanic, was exhibited at the Granville sports yesterday, and attracted much ...
Article : 210 wordsIn consequence of the disappointment experienced by wireless listeners last week when an attempt to broadcast a concert given by Dame Nellie Melba at Lilydale failed, ...
Article : 84 wordsVigorous riding by J. Toohey brought about good results in the Novice Handicap, the first race of the day, and the Ellesmere Handicap, which concluded the afternoon's sport. In ...
Article : 599 wordsVictor Bann, 23, a cripple, whose anchor rope broke when he was fishing from a dingby at Louth Bay, Port Lincoln, on Friday afternoon, reached the rock-bound coast near Cape ...
Article : 104 wordsA valuable flag which was painted by one of London's leading artists, was unfuried and dedicated yesterday morning at the Llandilo Public School, near St, Marys, in the ...
Article : 131 wordsDetectives attached to the Criminal Investigation Branch at police headquarters have had a busy time during the past month or so, on the trail of "cracksmen," who have ...
Article : 337 words"All, or at least the overwhelming majority, of our members are keenly disappointed at the State Government's attitude to the local government franchise," paid the president of ...
Article : 163 wordsPreparations are complete for the arrival of the Southern Cross to-morrow afternoon. Trees have been cut down from Albert Park and Victoria-parade, and electric telegraph ...
Article : 116 wordsOn Friday a coroner's inquest was held by Mr. H. Richardson Clark into the circumstances attending the death of John McAuliffe, aged 15 years, who was found hanged by a ...
Article : 93 wordsA message received here at 10.43 p.m. (6.53 p.m. Monday, Sydney time) stated that the Southern Cross had crossed the equator and was within 200 miles of Canton Island ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Orvieto, which arrived from London this afternoon, encountered heavy gales in the Bight, and the vess[?]l, at times was struck by mountainous seas. It was stated ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Adelaide tramway employees have begun a regulation strike owing to dissatisfaction with the roster. The men complain that previously they signed off when their work ...
Article : 92 wordsA later radio message from the Southern Cross, received at 1 a.m. (9.10 p.m. Monday, Sydney time), is as follows:—"We are over Phoenix Island; position, latitude 3 degrees ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. D. McDonald, a well-known resident of Goulburn, who has large pastoral interests in the north-west of Western Australia, was knocked down by a motor car last night. The ...
Article : 112 wordsNo flight, with the possible exception of Lindbergh's to Paris, has created so much interest as that of the Southern Cross. The departure for Suva called for ...
Article : 126 wordsOwing to players complaining of the unsuitablllty of the typ[?] o[?] trophies awarded to tournament winners by the Tennis Association, the officials have decided in future to ...
Article : 67 wordsThe police have arrested the driver of a bicycle, which, after knocking down two women, one of whom died from her injuries, in Northcote, failed to stop to give assistance. ...
Article : 60 wordsJohn Frederick Boyd, aged 80, of Taylor-street, Annandale, was knocked down and killed by a motor car on Western-road, between Blackheath and Mount Victoria on ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 5 Jun 1928, Page 11
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