The Lord Mayor (Alderman Mostyn) relinquished his interim control at the Town Hall yesterday, and the Civic Commission was installed in office. The Commissioners spoke appreciatively of the assistance they had ...
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Article : 1,227 wordsAt noon to-day the Ryan machine was taken out of the hangar, and the three officers. Captain Kight, Captain Hood, and Lieutenant Moncrieff, together with Aircraftsman F. ...
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Article : 343 wordsThe second test match between South Africa and the M.C.C. team resumed in cloudy but fine weather on an easy wicket. Freeman, the slow leg-break bowler, was in ...
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Article : 281 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Alderman Mostyn) was interviewed yesterday, just when he was in the process of ceasing to be Lord Mayor and becoming plain Mr. J. H. Mostyn, indent ...
Article : 759 wordsOpinion in France regarding the United States proposals for a pact outlawing war has not yet crystallised. The newspapers express diametrically opposed opinions, but point out ...
Article : 90 wordsAccording to the "Evening Standard," negotiations are proceeding on the Continent for the formation of an International zinc syndicate, including Britain, Germany, ...
Article : 85 wordsA report from Managua says that one United States marine was killed and five were wounded in a fight at Sandino with rebels on Sunday. They were marching to reinforce ...
Article : 207 wordsMany complaints of high port charges in Australia have been made by shipowners overseas, the latest being referred to in a cable message published in the "Herald" yesterday. ...
Article : 588 wordsAt St. Paul, Minnesota, Mr. Andrew Volstead, a former senator, and author of the "Volstead Act," declared that prohibition enforcement during 1927 had made one of the most ...
Article : 168 wordsThe members of the Commission (Mr. E. P. Fleming (chairman), Mr. J. Garlick, and Mr. H. E. Morton), were sworn in at a meeting of the Executive Council at noon ...
Article : 508 wordsMr. E. Gordon Shaw, the manager of the Waratahs, says that the Waratahs were very surprised at the ref[?] declaring the Bristol ground playable. Any Australian would be ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Australian Press Association understands that the Overseas Settlement Committee is considering co-operating in the construction of a railway from Southern, Cross ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Australian Press Association understands that succession to State Governorships, including those of South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia, is ...
Article : 116 wordsA report from Paris says that the Science Academy is seriously studying a project to use "aerial torpedoes" to speed up postal services. The [?]nventors are M. H[?]rschauer, ...
Article : 138 wordsSeveral irritating war regulations which survived under the name "Dora," generally cartooned as an interfering old woman, may be removal under recommendations of a ...
Article : 89 wordsFloods, which are reportod from all parts, of the country are regarded by the motoring associations as being as bad as the previous [?]nowdrifts. The Royal Automobile Club and ...
Article : 172 wordsThere has been serious rioting in the Prome district of Burma, a sequel to a seditious movement, urging the non-payment of taxes. Secret societies have been formed, and people ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Warsaw correspondent of the "Morning Post" says: Events are showing that Sir Austen Chamberlain was correct in describing the compromise between Poland and Lithuania ...
Article : 136 wordsCommenting to-day upon the Inauguration of the control of Sydney City Council by a commission, Mr. T. P. Howard, secretary of the United Trades and Labour Council, said ...
Article : 78 wordsThe salaries of the City Council Commissioners will be as follows:—Mr. Fleming £5000 a year, Mr. Garlick £4500, and Mr. Morton £4500. ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the Initial 3[?] holes of the Miami Beach open championship, J. Farrell, who won the Florida State championship last year, is leading, with 144. J. H. Kirkwood, with 145, is ...
Article : 48 wordsDuring 1927 new motor vehicles were registered in New South Wales at the rate of more than 735 a week, or 105 every day, including Sundays, making a total of 38,236. The ...
Article : 342 wordsThe State revenue for the portion of the present financial year ended December 31 shows that the expenditure was greater than the revenue by £3,555,179. There was a ...
Article : 127 wordsThe dispute concerning the stop-work meeting held on Wednesday last without the permission of the owners continues, the seamen refusing to man certain ships. ...
Article : 156 wordsA message from Paris says that M. C. R. Campana, who was formerly French Consul-General in Sydney, and now occupies a similar position in London, has been appointed to the ...
Article : 194 wordsNews from Berlin says that the Deutscher Tennis B[?]nd has decided to negotiate with the Australian Lawn Tennis Association for its Davis Cup representatives to visit Germany ...
Article : 41 wordsAbout 11.30 a.m. the aeroplane "Red Rose, [?] which W. N. Lancastor and Mrs. Keith Miller are flying to Australia, left for Tavoy, where it will stay to-night. It will leave for ...
Article : 274 wordsCompared with the collections in the corresponding month of 1926, Customs revenue last month showed a decrease in all States, except Western Australia, where there was ...
Article : 219 wordsNews comes from Bagdad that the atrocities of the third raid of border tribesmen are angering all Iraq. The raiders ferociously massacred all males, ...
Article : 82 wordsEarly this morning a fire occurred at the residence of Alex Fairlie in Richmond-street, Maryborough, when the building was completely destroyed. The owner, who narrowly ...
Article : 125 wordsRichard Spalding awoke at half past two o'clock yesterday morning to see a man climbing through the window of his bedroom at Buena Vista Flats, Bondi. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe crew of the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Nalpa were given notice to-day. This action was the outcome of the men ceasing work for a stop-work meeting ...
Article : 117 wordsLondon bankers report that the grand total of bills, cheques, etc., paid at the Clearing House in 1927 established a new record, having amounted to £41,550,000,000. The highest ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 4 Jan 1928, Page 13
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