The foundation-stone of the Sydney Harbour bridge was laid yesterday, with due ceremony, in the presence of the Governor, the Premier, and leading citizens of Sydney and the State. It was stated by' Sir Hugh Bell on behalf of the contractors that ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Commonwealth loan of £5,400,000, raised to redeem States' loans falling due this year, was closed yesterday. This action was take because the full ...
Article : 454 wordsAn unexpected development occurred yesterday in the dispute respecting the Commonwealth Line's chartered vessel the Volumnin and the Eromanga. ...
Article : 472 wordsReuter's Paris correspondent states that the Fronen newspapers welcome the cordiality of Mr. Chamberlain's speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday, but regret that Great ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Marriage Amendment Bill was read a second time in the Legislative Council last night by 28 votes to 27. The bill will be dealt with in Committee this afternoon, when the Government will give consideration to a suggested amendment by Mr. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Empire Parliamentary Association has decided to offer a chair for the Speaker for the new Parliament House at Canberra. The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) ...
Article : 54 wordsThe accident to the Bordeaux-Paris express this morning near Poitiers was causod by a coupling breaking as the train reached a viaduct over the narrow and deep River Clain. ...
Article : 127 wordsGoora Black, R. J. Black, Buzacott, Boyce, Sir Joseph Carruthers, Dr. Creed, Dick, Earp, Farrar, Hordern, Hunt, Innes-Noad, Latimer, Macarthur-Onslow, Sir Alfred Meeks, Murdoch, ...
Article : 364 wordsRepresentatives of the Stan Parliament, the City Council, the municipal councils of the metropolitan area, the learned professions, the commercial and industrial organisations, ...
Article : 1,511 wordsOn rising to speak the Governor was warmly received. He said that it was with the greatest pleasure and gratification that he was able to preside at the laying of the corner stone of ...
Article : 2,133 wordsThe tenseness of the political situation has increased. It is now reported that the session of the Diet, which, in ordinary circumstances, would have concluded to-day, will ...
Article : 233 wordsThere was a stately memorial service to the late Lord Curzon at Westminster Abbey today. Every department of the national life was represented. The collin was placed on a ...
Article : 135 wordsTariff matters bulk largely in the fourteenth annual report of the Australian Association of British Manufacturers and thier representatives. The most important matter dealt with ...
Article : 281 wordsIn moving the second reading, Mr. Boyce said that when he had introduced the bill before he endeavoured to deal with it as a nonsectarian measure. He had never mentioned any ...
Article : 2,019 wordsA unique development took place in waterside circles to-day when men who, until the present shipping rush provided them with casual wharf employment, classod themselves ...
Article : 238 wordsIn the House of Commons, Captain Ian Fraser (Conservative) asked if the House would be given the opportunity of deciding the desirability of permitting the ...
Article : 110 wordsA scientific discovery of far-reaching character in the radium treatment of cancer and other diseases has been made at Middlesex Hospital. It consists of capturing ...
Article : 139 wordsSir Arthur Cocks and Lady Cocks have arrived in New York on route to London. They call on April 6. When Sir Arthur Cocks was told that it ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Oxford Union debaters—Messrs. M. C. Hollis, J. D. Woodruffe, and Malcolm MacDonald, son of Mr. Ramsay MacDonnld-have arrived from Fiji. They debated the freetrade ...
Article : 293 wordsThe House of Lords Committee of Privileges, after protracted hearings, has decided that Brigadier-General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour has established his claim to the ...
Article : 292 wordsThe position in regard to the infantile paralysis epidemic is loss reassuring. Fifty-six cases have been notified during the past three days. Splendid work has been carried ...
Article : 88 wordsField-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, in a letter to Sir Joseph Cook, replying to the latter's congratulations on his promotion, says: "It really nice to think that my old ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Full Court to-day was called upon to decode whether a marriage could be dissolved on a petition founded on the allegation that respondent had deserted petitioner without ...
Article : 286 wordsThe Royal Aero Club has awarded the Britannia trophy to Wing-Commandor S. J. Goble and Flying-Officer I. E. Mclutyro for their seaplane flight round Australia as the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Australian cadets were cordially greeted at a reception in Antwerp, where the burgomaster presented them with a flag. They were entertained at lunch, and later taken to ...
Article : 189 wordsA tropical disturbance from the west is expected to reach New South Wales by the week-end, bringing freshh rain and thunderstorms in parts of the north-eastern quarter, ...
Article : 138 wordsTenders for a coastal shipping service for the Northern Territory are being invited by the Home and Territories Department, the contract with the Boucaut Bay Shipping ...
Article : 162 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. B. B. O'Conor was appolntod Chairman of Committees for the session. Mr. Dick moved that the Sydney Meat ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, late Secretary of State for the Colonies, represen.J the colonies, protectorates, and mandated areas on the Exhibition Board. ...
Article : 292 wordsNeville Tate, aged 9 years, of 15 King-street, Randwick, sustained serious concussion at his home early yesterday morning when he fell a distance of about twenty feet. ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the King's Bench Division to-day argument opened on legal questions urislng out of the answers given by the jury to certain questions submitted by the Court in the case of ...
Article : 113 wordsAn official report of a meeting of the relief board of the T. B. Sailors and Soldiers' Association, held recently at 309 George-street, states that "there were six fresh applications ...
Article : 106 wordsGreaf indignation is felt among Bottlers along the Murrumbidgee River owing to the action of the authorities at the Burrinjuck Dam in discharging a large volume ...
Article : 89 wordsA prisoner escaped from the Paddington Police Court yesterday, but was re-arrested in the city, after a long chase. The court rose at 1 p.m., and the prisoner ...
Article : 75 wordsInformation was received by the Parramatta police last night that Jesef Kranz Winkler, aged 62 years, of Ringrose-avenue. Wentworthvile, was found dead at his home, where ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 27 Mar 1925, Page 11
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