At the chemistry department of Morley's, Ltd., Tweed Heads, a large bottle of sulphuric acid exploded, owing to extreme heat, and caused a wooden shelf in a corner to ignite. ...
Article : 132 wordsNotwithstanding the publicity given to the fact that December 31 was the closing date for applications by nurses for registration under the new Act, the number of late ...
Article : 201 wordsA conference of all local authorities and metropolitan organisations interested in the development of a Greater and "better" Sydney, and the appointment of various ...
Article : 747 wordsWilliam George Hudson appeared at the Court to-day charged with having, at New Farm, on December 14, attempted to kill Amelia Francis Higgins by discharging a loaded ...
Article : 332 wordsNever to have seen the sea; never even to have travelled in a railway train before they had the opportunity of making this wonderful holiday—this was true of 83 boys ...
Article : 743 wordsPitt-street—a street of weatherboard cottages, some snugly hidden behind shrubberies; a tall gum tree, and flowering creepers; a shop; a hostelry here and there; a couple ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,409 words"It does not seem to matter what the Labour Government does, it can never find an echo of approval or sympathy from the Nationalist Press," said Mr. Lang, ...
Article : 304 wordsMiss Dora Ohlfsen, the distinguished Australian sculptress, who last visited her slaters in Sydney in 1920-1921, and has since resumed her residence in Rome, designed the war memorial ...
Article : 465 wordsResidents of the Bannaby district are agitating for the construction of a road five miles long to link up the present road from Taralga with the Wombeyan Caves road. This ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Cunard liner Carinthia, which is making a world cruise, arrived at Hobart at 7 o'clock this morning with 311 American tourists, and left again at 5 o'clock for ...
Article : 307 wordsA boy, aged 9 years, the youngest son of Mrs. Macfle, met with a painful accident yesterday while playing about the railway trucking yards in company with other children. ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Lawrence Goodman, a visitor from New Zealand was robbed of a wallet containing £234 while walking through a crowd in Pittstreet, near King-street, on Tuesday. ...
Article : 124 wordsUnsettled weather is again developing over New South Wales. A tropical depression is extending southeastward from the Northern Territory. It is ...
Article : 220 wordsThe recent lecture by Professor Goddard has made a profound impression on banana-growers in all parts of the Tweed district. Mr. O. E. Hoyd, of Dungay, is convinced that the time ...
Article : 124 wordsThe death occurred suddenly this morning of Mrs. Ryall, the wife of Mr. J. C. Ryall, proprietor of the Cowra "Free Press." She was a native of the Monaro district, and had been ...
Article : 111 wordsThe celebration of the municipal jubilee of Manly will be commenced this evening. Various attractions to mark the event will be held. All the local bodies, including sporting ...
Article : 152 wordsThe death occurred at his residence, Shirleyroad, Roseville yesterday of Mr. John Dowling Brown. He belonged to one of the oldest and best known ...
Article : 219 wordsVital statistics for West Maitland for last year show that there were 203 deaths, 417 births, and 165 marriages. Compared with 1925, there was an increase of 32 in the ...
Article : 50 wordsFalling down a hatchway on the steamer William McArthur, at the coal dyke this afternoon, James Dunn, 52 years of age, married, lately residing in Williamstown, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Mayor of Auburn (Alderman Briggs) informed the Auburn Municipal Council, at its last meeting, that the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, Ltd., had, for some reason or other, ...
Article : 213 wordsMr. C. A. McInnes, Commissioner appointed by the Public Works Department, conducted an inquiry at Narrandera Shire Council Chambers to-day into a proposal of ...
Article : 99 wordsA return prepared by the Statistician's Department shows that the average retail prices of meat during December were 31½ per cent, higher than in July, 1914; other food ...
Article : 131 wordsThe general belief in union circles is that the proposed formation of one big union in the maritime industry will end in failure. Maritime leaders are of the opinion that the ...
Article : 183 wordsReferring to the increasing deficit disclosed in the Treasury returns for the first six months of the financial year, Mr. Bruntnell, M.L.A., said yesterday that previous ...
Article : 315 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Henri Tebbitt, who died at his home, Rose Bay, on Tuesday, took place yesterday at the Church of England cemetery, Rookwood. The Rev. C. T. ...
Article : 117 wordsHarold Moore, aged 15, received such severe injuries to his face through broken glass from the windscreen of a motor car in which he was riding, that his left eye had to be ...
Article : 106 wordsA "push" of six men attacked Francis Thomas Woodlock, of the men's shelter, Nicholson-street, East Sydney, late on Monday night, and robbed him of a wallet containing ...
Article : 55 wordsA stop-work meeting of all employees at the State mine will be held to-morrow, to consider the attitude to be adopted regarding the men who were dismissed at the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Victorian Railway Commissioners were informed to-day by the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales that the accumulation of Victorian fodder for New South ...
Article : 145 wordsA luncheon was tendered to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Godhard at the Hotel Australia yesterday—the eve of their departure for London— in recognition of their achievement in ...
Article : 254 wordsThe vital statistics for the metropolis fo[?] December show that there were 1787 births. The rate 20.63 per 1000 of population per annum, was 9 per cent, below the average of ...
Article : 105 wordsTemora has made rapid progress during the year just closed. About £50,000 was spent on new dwellings. ...
Article : 21 wordsPolice smashed open the door of a bedroom at the Kentish Hotel, Parramatta-road, Glebe, late last evening, and found Herbert Gilbert, aged 20 years, a postal official, dead on the ...
Article : 52 wordsThis morning Isabella Cox, aged 11, while playing near a chaffcutter at the home of her aunt, Mrs. E. Butt, of Ivor, was caught in the machinery. She was taken to the Junee ...
Article : 83 wordsAn ordeal entailing considerable hardship [?]onfronted a party of residents of Bright (Victoria) on Monday, when the horses on which they had ridden into rugged country on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsThe summer convention of the University Student Christian Movement, which was formally opened at Ballarat to-day, is attended by 280 students, representing universities, ...
Article : 157 wordsAt the Forbes Police Court yesterday, Sylvanius Stanford and Thomas Ernest Stanford were charged with having stolen a cow and a calf, the property of unknown owners. ...
Article : 176 wordsSir,—May I, with your permission, make a few comments on the interestiug article by Professor D. A. Welsh which appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of 29th ...
Article : 518 wordsThe funeral of Mervyn John Allum, who died from injuries received through having been attacked by a shark at Port Hacking on Monday, took place yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Japanese swimmers, Katsuo Takalshi and Takahiro Saitoh, will make their first appearance at the Domain Baths this evening, when they will compete in the heats of ...
Article : 82 wordsA man named de Lancourt, with one companion and three donkeys to carry their swags, who left Sydney nearly three years ago, intending to walk around Australia, arrived at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsAn extraordinary position has been revealed regarding negotiations between the Wagga Municipality and Public Works Department regarding the letting of a contract ...
Article : 298 wordsStudents' work in art is always interesting, and even experts can occasionally learn something from it. There is at present on view at the Education Department gallery an ...
Article : 207 wordsWhen the steamer Taransay arrived at Fremantle from Ocean Island with a full cargo of phosphates, lumpers refused to work the vessel unless paid 5/ an hour. ...
Article : 84 wordsA wireless message from Wave Hill states that Leslie Parker, aged 12, was drowned in Victoria River on December 31. All the rivers are flooded. The Katherine ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsThere are now four definite cases of typhoid fever in the district hospital from the Goulburn Gaol. Every effort is being made to locate the ...
Article : 56 wordsHenry James, aged 35 years, of Northcotestreet. Glebe, was found drowned in the Domain Free Baths, Woolloomooloo Bay, early yesterday. ...
Article : 122 wordsErnest Alder, aged 63 years, of Albertstreet. West Marrickville, was carried out by the undertow at Harbord Beach on Tuesday afternoon, when attempting the rescue of a ...
Article : 95 wordsA camp meeting and conference of the Australasian division of the Reorganised Latter Day Saints are being held near Forster. The scene of the services is their ...
Article : 87 wordsThe annual swimming classes conducted by Mr. O. H. Swanson, Public Instruction Department, on the river beaches, are attractions much attention. Although the classes are not ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. J. J. Davoren has been retained for the defence of James Hughes, who is charged with the murder of Joan Smith at Poolamacca Station on August 24. Mr. Davoren ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 6 Jan 1927, Page 10
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