While crossing the flooded Johnstone River at about 1 o'clock yesterday morning, the mall train from Townsville to Innisfail came to a standstill in the middle of the bridge. ...
Article : 400 wordsThe by-election for the Wollondilly seat in the Legislative Assembly, made vacant by the appointment of Sir George Fuller as Agent-General, took place on Saturday. ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Government proposes at an early date to appoint a State Electricity Commission to develop and co-ordinate existing and possible sources of supply of electricity. ...
Article : 593 wordsThere is so much competition amongst different organisations for the honour of entertaining Hinkler during his short stay in Sydney that it has been found necessary to ...
Article : 437 words"Earl Haig's services to his country after the war were even greater than during the war," said the Prince of Wales, in inaugurating the Haig Memorial Fund at the Mansion ...
Article : 277 wordsOutbreaks of rapine and massacre by Chinese Communists are spreading from the south to the north in the interior districts, producing a wave of unprecedented horrors, ...
Article : 145 words"This is the last time I shall speak on this matter. Next time I shall make acts speak," said Slgnor Mussolini in the course of an impassioned address to the Chamber on ...
Article : 766 wordsSenator Borah etpects the Sonate to take action in his resolution calling for a recodification of international law governing the conduct of billigerents in war at sea. The ...
Article : 199 wordsThrough counsel, Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, bas sent a message to Congress, where several hills are pending to extend him public honours, expressing the hope ...
Article : 110 wordsReports from Paris that Great Britain had sent a Note to France seeking a special naval conference haB boen greeted with scepticism here. Mr. F. Kellogg (the Secretary of State) ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Deputy Leader of the Parli[?] Nationalist party (Mr. Ball) said last night that he regarded the result of the by-election as very satisfactory. ...
Article : 172 wordsDr. Sirovich, a physician, who is a member of the House of Representatives, stirred both prohibitionists and anti-prohibitionists in the House to a white heat with a speech ...
Article : 102 wordsAn R.A.F. Fairey bomber nose-dived from a height of 1500 feet in Kent, killing the pilot and two aircraftsmen instantaneously. The machine had been looping the loop ...
Article : 97 wordsA cyclist was killed, and two persons were injured in a collision which occurred between the pollco wireless patrol car, under Inspector Robson, and a motor cycle, in Liverpool-road. ...
Article : 151 wordsAlluding to the appointment of Air Marshal Sir John Salmond to insnect the Australian Air Force, and to the arrival of the R.A.F. flying boats at Singapore, the "Observer" ...
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Article : 501 wordsThe following telegram was despatched to Mrs. Hinkler at Bundaberg on Saturday by tho Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce):—"The Government has invited your son to Canberra ...
Article : 216 wordsAt Berlin Heinrich Langkopp, aged 61, a German Bast African farmer, who served as a captain in the war and lost his property, tired of official dllatoriness, entered the room of the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe announcement of a Commonwealth loan of £8,000,000 came as a great surprise to the Stock Exchange, but it Was not altogether unwelcome, as it is generally assumed that ...
Article : 258 wordsThe night motor cycle racing at the Speedway Royal, always thrilling, was even more so than usual on Saturday evening, and as a result of accidents, Spencer Stratton, of ...
Article : 231 wordsAccompanied by their governess, Miss Malcolm, and maid, Mrs. Cuss, the four children of Dr. S. M. Stephens, of Roso Bay, who have been staying at Llndflold, visited the ...
Article : 190 words"Hinkler was dominated by one great purpose, which, as it were, arrested all ordinary physical feelings of fatigue, hunger, etc.," said Sir Joseph Cook, addressing the meeting ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Gregory case, the Zinovieff letter, and the allegation of manipulation of its publication, are featured in the Sunday papers. Viscount Castleroese, writing in the "Sunday ...
Article : 726 wordsA young French student, Francois Rochet, has made a statement that George Caryl Owens, reputedly an Australian, whose dead body was found on a canal ...
Article : 118 wordsIt has been arranged that Hinkler shall land on the Ascot Racecourse on Tuesday. After being welcomed by the Governor (Sir John Goodwin), he will proceed to the City Hall, ...
Article : 65 wordsA lorry, driven by Charles Poole, of Robertson-street, Sutherland, and containing a party of cricketers, en route for Helensburgh, skidded and overturned near Engadine, on Satur ...
Article : 129 words"It would have been of immense assistance to Earl Grey's pence efforts before the war if there had been quarterly meetings giving him the opportunity of discussing ...
Article : 140 wordsOver 100,000 buyers and 30,000 of the public visited the British Industries Fair, at the Whit[?] City. Oversea buyers were largely increased, representing 60 countries, beating ...
Article : 66 wordsThere was great enthusiasm at the Stadium on Saturday evening, when it was announced that Hinkler would be present on the following Saturday. ...
Article : 28 wordsKeith Best, aged 13 years, was drowned la the city baths yesterday. It is not known at what time of the day or how he was drowned. A woman reported to ...
Article : 72 wordsA message from Apia states that Sir Goorge Richardson, Administrator of Western Samoa, spoke to the 400 Mau prisoners on Friday, and received a good hearing. ...
Article : 117 wordsComplete reorganisation of the Australian aerial defence forces is expected to result from the visit in June ot Air Marshal Sir John Salmond, at the invitation of the Federal ...
Article : 235 wordsPhillip Pennington, agod 19 years, of Myrtlestreet, Chippendale, was riding a motor cycle in Shepherd-street yestordny morning, when his machine collided, head-on with a ...
Article : 70 wordsThe animosity between Mr. W. G. McAdoo and Mr. Al. Smith which turned the Democratic Convention of 1924 into a political farce, has broken out in a new direction, Mr. ...
Article : 181 wordsAlfred Harris, aged 10 years, son of Mr. Charles Harris, of Tenfoot Hill, Castlemaine, was drowned this morning while bathing in the Norwood Hill swimming pool. The body ...
Article : 145 wordsCalled to the steamer Vardulla, lying at No. 5 wharf. Woolloomooloo Bay, on Saturday afternoon, Sergeant Slaney and Constable Roberts, of the Water Police, experienced ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. Amory, Secretary of State for the Dominions, waa the guest at a luncheon given by the Oversea League. In ten minutes Mr. Amery sketched his tour ...
Article : 132 wordsOwing to a fault in the steering gear, a motor truck in which 18 persons, members of a cricket club and their friends, were travelling to Werribee to take part in a match, ...
Article : 169 wordsHuddart, Parker, and Co., Ltd., paid off the crew of the steamer Ulimaroa on Saturday morning, and the vessel will be laid up indefinitely. ...
Article : 160 wordsThree boys wore drowned this evening in a deep hole in the Cole River, between Colobrook and Richmond, in an isloated locality, many miles from Hobart. Their names are:— ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Express" says:—Sarwat Pasha has informed Lord Lloyd of the Ministry's decision, and stated that no agreement to accept the ...
Article : 86 wordsAn adventurous voyage has been undertaken by two yachtsmen, Messrs. Kelghtley and Lindemuth, who, in the small 16-ton auxiliary yacht Lime Juicer H., left Newcastle ...
Article : 162 wordsA message from New York says that the annual report of the American TelcphoneTelegraph Company places it abead of all industrial concerns in the United States with ...
Article : 52 wordsCaptain Neale nttempted to take off in the Bower Bird aeroplane yesterday morning on a non-stop flight to Melbourne, but the machine becamo bogged in a swampy patch of ground ...
Article : 71 wordsWilliam Percy Williams, aged 14 years, an unregistered Jockey, of Kooreh, was exercising a racehorse when it stumbled. Williams lost control of the reins, and the horse ...
Article : 75 wordsA message from Lima, Peru, states that "La Prensa," the official newspaper of the Peruvian Government, prints a report from Caracas, Venezuela, assorting that many ...
Article : 84 wordsAbout noon yesterday, a car driven by Mr. Arthur Dean, aged 30 years, a dentist, of Yass, ran off the Great Southern-road, about five miles north of Mittagong, and overturned ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the final match of the tour, played today, the Waratahs defeated Vancouver by 17 points to nil. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 5 Mar 1928, Page 11
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