The resignation of the Attorney-General (Sir Littleton Groom) was announced to-day by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce). Accompanying the announcement was the ...
Article : 264 wordsAdverse criticism of the bookkeeping methods on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas appears in the Auditor-General's report on the State industrial undertakings, which was ...
Article : 905 wordsImmediately following the shock, hundreds of householders who had felt the tremors telephoned the suburban police stations and the headquarters of the police department. In ...
Article : 349 wordsSevere earth tremors were experienced in Sydney and inland parts of New South Wales shortly before 9 o'clock last night. Reports received last night indicated that they were probably the severest shocks ever felt in this State. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lang), it is understood, received an official communication yesterday morning from the Governor (Sir Dud[?]ey de Chair) outlining his attitude towards the ...
Article : 447 wordsCanada's new migration drive under the supervision of a new director (Mr. Bruce Walker) is made a feature in the entire Press. Some of the papers make comparisons between ...
Article : 271 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Baldwin read the text of the decision of the Council of the League of Nations concerning Iraq. He explained that the Ministry was ...
Article : 289 wordsA sudden vibration and the rattling of movable objects were the first signs that the people were experiencing the w[?]rd sensations of an earth tremor. In some parts the ...
Article : 516 wordsInterviewed last night, the Government Astronomer (Professor W. E. Cooke) stated that he had experienced the earth tremors at the Observatory, but that actual records of ...
Article : 146 wordsWhile the Rugby wireless experiments have been most successful in picking up Australia as well as other distant centres, it is not intended that newspaper messages shall ever ...
Article : 62 wordsA tremor lasting a few seconds was distinctly felt at Sydney Hospital, where a meeting of the committee to complete arrangements for the aquatic carnival in aid ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Auditor-General's report on the State industrial enterprises states that during the year just closed 47,385,915 bricks were manufactured at the State brick yards, being ...
Article : 145 wordsA mild sensation has been caused by statements attributed to Mr. Frederic Hudd, Canadian Trade Commissioner to the United Sates, in a speech before the Pan-American ...
Article : 270 wordsColonel William Mitchell (formerly holding the rank of Brigadier-General), former assistant chief of the Air Service, has been found guilty by Court-martial of having broken ...
Article : 111 words"The most probable cause of to-night's shack was a fracture of the earth's surface al Kurrajong or along the coastline," Professor L. A. Cotton, of the Department of ...
Article : 296 wordsA distinct tremor, lasting for five or six seconds, was experienced here to-night at about 8.45. At the Commercial Hotel the whole roof of the building rattled, and the ...
Article : 98 words"Nothing is more natural than that Mr. Bavin should rush to the defence of the Nominee Chamber." said Mr. Lang (Premier) yesterday. "The Upper House has been very ...
Article : 616 wordsReplying in the House of Commons to-day to a question by Sir Newton Moore, the Minister for Health (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) said that the Ministry for Health had not ...
Article : 167 wordsAt Wahroonga the tremor was proceded by a loud noise. "I can best describe it us like the noise made by an opossum jumping on to iron roof," a prominent city medical man told ...
Article : 135 wordsCaptain H. P. Upward, master of the steamer Suva, was censured by the Commonwealth Court of Marine Iquiry at the conclusion of its inquir yesterday concerning the collision ...
Article : 401 wordsThe French Senate passed a vote of confidence in the Government, after a debate on the position in Syria.—Router. M. Herriot, at a meeting of Radical ...
Article : 176 wordsTwo distinct tremors were f[?]lt at Woy Woy, where many women were frightened by the phenomenon into hyster[?]cs. People living in brick houses reported that the floors and walls ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Ulster Cabinet has directed that an ultimatum should he sent to the members of the special constabulary on strike that unless they return to duty [?]n Saturday morning they ...
Article : 145 wordsDr. Pigot, of Riverview Observatory, stated late last night that, as a result of a rather hurried examination of his s[?]smograph, he considered that there was strong evidence to ...
Article : 257 wordsMr. Walter Gale (president of the British Astronomical Association) stated last night that he had felt a distinct shock while on a visit to North Sydney; the precise [?]me then ...
Article : 228 wordsMystery surrounds the finding of Constable James Matthew Dean yesterday morning in a semi-conscious condition in Hereford-street, Glebe Point. He was suffering from a severe ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Australian Press Association understands that the Commonwealth has approved the appointment of Mr. Percy Hunter, formerly Commonwealth Director of Migration ...
Article : 57 wordsIn an interview Mr. A. E. R. Gilligan (captain of the last M.C.C. team to tour Australia) expressed complete agreement with the views of Mr. F. S. G. Calthorpe concerning ...
Article : 195 wordsA few minutes before 9 o'clock this evening Newcastle and its environs were shaken by two severe earth tremors, which were felt in all parts of the district. Thousands of ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has allowed the appeal, with costs, of L[?]nel Norton Hoysted and others, trustees of the estate of the late Charles Campbell, merchant ...
Article : 180 words"The earth tremor was the most severe I have ever experienced in Sydney," said Mr. D. J. Mares, the Divisional Meteorologist for New South Wales, when asked about the ...
Article : 343 wordsAn extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Wellington Meat Export Company passed a motion accepting the offer of Messrs. Thomas Borthwick and Company (London) to ...
Article : 142 wordsSome hundreds of candidates have been nominated for appointment to the Upper House. The eligibility of certain candidates was ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Shaw, Sav[?], and Albion Company has written to the High Commissioner denying that the captain or agents of the Otira gave either written or verbal promise to provide ...
Article : 319 wordsMembers of the Australian Seamen's Union are incensed at the attack made upon them by their assistant State secretary, Mr. Jacob Johannsen, at a meeting of the Labour ...
Article : 99 wordsThe police stations at Dubbo and Wellington in the west, and Goulburn in the south, stated that no shock had been reported in their areas. ...
Article : 74 wordsAny certain hope of complete solution of the disarmament problem lies in its consideration "in its entirety and with the cooperation of all nations," says the Council ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Manuka was again delayed by a shortage in the stokehold crew. There is every appearance of organised interference with the vessel's movements, as, since leaving ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Parliamentary Works Committee decided yesterday to reject the proposal to construct a raliway from Duri, on the main northern line, to Somerton, a distance of about 23 ...
Article : 41 wordsAt Cronulla, where the shook was felt for two or three seconds, a telephonist at the post-office, Miss R. Jennings, was injured. When the tremor passed, her chair, which ...
Article : 93 wordsBefore the Chief Justice, Sir William Irvine, in the Criminal Court to-day, the trial was concluded of Thomas Sullivan, aged 29 years, motor lorry driver, of Drummond-street, ...
Article : 79 wordsTwenty thousand people watched Princess Mary at Birkenhead try three times to break a bottle of Empire burgundy (substituted for too first time for champagne at a naval ...
Article : 89 wordsAdvice has been received by the External Affairs Department that the ketch T[?]tuao was totally wrecked at Takaofu on December 13. The crew was rescued by the Tokelau, and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe State Cabinet decided yesterday to extend to March 27 of next year the term of the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the safety of the coal mines. Mr. Justice ...
Article : 42 wordsAt Cremorne the shock interrupted a wireless party by shaking the detector and destroying the contact. In the same house, a brick one, the doors and floors shook almost ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 19 Dec 1925, Page 15
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