Following torrential downpours of rain floods have occurred in the north. Railway lines have hecn damaged, and trains seriously ...
Article : 447 wordsConsideration of the draft of the migration agreement providing for a loan of £34,000,000, entered into provisionally between the British and Commonwealth Governments, was ...
Article : 541 wordsA railway accident occurred on the Maitland-Cessnoek line at Abermain in the early hours of the morning. ...
Article : 238 wordsFurther evidence respecting the proposed payment of £50 to Alderman Walker and the provision of a motor car and a lorry for election purposes was given yesterday before the Royal Commission that is inquiring into the civic cartage contracts. ...
Article : 89 wordsTariff controversy has been revived by publication of a Board of Trade announcement indicating that the Government instead of introducing a safeguarding of Industries Bill ...
Article : 184 wordsDescribing the wool outlook, a leading member of the trade says:- "The position generally would not be serious if a reasonable working basis of values ...
Article : 254 wordsBuried 50ft in a limestone cliff has been found the fossil skull of a creature neither anthropo[?]d ape nor human being, but s[?]ted by scientists to be "intermediate between ...
Article : 218 wordsMr. K. W. Street (instructed by the Crown Solicitor) appeared to assist the Commissioner. Mr. W. R. Sommer was also present at the Bar table. ...
Article : 2,832 wordsA deputation representing the printing and papermaking industries urged the Postmaster-General (Sir William Mitchell Thompson) to restore penny postage, contending that its ...
Article : 201 words"Professor Dart is a very competent authority to express an opinion on such a momento[?]s question," said Sir Edgeworth David, formerly Professor of Geology at the Sydney ...
Article : 476 wordsThe secretary of State (Mr. Hughes) has advised the Senate that the agreement reached at the recent Paris conference for the payment of American claims against Germany out of ...
Article : 122 wordsThis morning representatives of the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Mackarra procured a crew for the vessel. More than the required number of men were ...
Article : 68 wordsThe District Coroner commenced an inquest into the death of Oswald Marks Phillips (27), security officer for the Bank of New South Wales, who was found dead in his bed on ...
Article : 203 wordsA section of the Press to-day reported a mysterious hitch which occurred in regard to the departure of the New Zealand steamer Manuka. The vessel was due to leave at ...
Article : 264 wordsA sensational speech was made in the French Chamber of Deputies to-day by the Socialist leader. M. Leon Blum. M. Blum declared that his party opposed ...
Article : 111 wordsAfter visiting Tussaud's this morning, the Australian cadets formed up at Australia House and marched, headed by the band of the Scots Guards to the City, where they were ...
Article : 247 wordsThe coal production in New South Wales for 1924 constitutes a record as compared with any previous year. The production ...
Article : 269 wordsNews comes from Moscow that for the purpose of winning over the peasants, whose hostility is a serious obstacle to Bolshevism, the Soviet has granted an amnesty to all the ...
Article : 80 wordsA movement, which is considered by its organisers to be the most determined step yet taken towards repeal of the Volstead Act, was started when 19 members of Congress ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Governor-General (Lord Forster), in responding to a toast at the official luncheon of the Hobart regatta, said that he had never seen keener or cleaner races than those in ...
Article : 127 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Waterside Workers' Federation was held yesterday, when the management committee placed a report before the members respecting the ...
Article : 294 wordsSir Ernest Wild, Recorder of London, charging the Grand Jury at the Old Bailey to-day, referred to the pending trial for conspiracy of W. C. Hobbs, a solicitor. ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is learned that the Allied Governments are closely watching the situation created by the expulsion of the Patriarch from Constantinople, but no serious development is ...
Article : 144 wordsTe Lord Mayor (Alderman Stokes), referring yesterday to the recent statement by Alderman Green (vice-chairman of the electricity supply committee of the City Council) that ...
Article : 255 wordsFor the first time since the war the United States, itself one of the world's great granaries, is beginning to feel the pinch of high wheat prices. ...
Article : 214 wordsAt the meeting to-day of the Federal Loan Council, composed of the Treasurers of the various States and the Commonwealth, under the presidency of the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 191 words"Very serious trouble" in the raliway world is anticipated by Mr. C. T. Cramp, general secretary to the National Union of Railwaymen, to follow the railway managers' refusal ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Lancashire County Cricket Club has decided to exercise the option of covering the pitch on the Lancashire grounds after 11 o'clock on the day preceding a match till ...
Article : 76 wordsWhen Mr. Walsh, president of the Federated Seamen's Union, was at Port Adelaide on Sunday last, he asked Mr. J. D. Jonas, secretary of the Port Adelaide Trades and ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Rev. T. B. Clayton, founder and director of "Toe H" sails for Australia on Thursday, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Leonard. A letter from the Prince of Wales says: "Toc H" ...
Article : 387 wordsMr. Hugh Dalton, Cassel Reader in Commerce, University of London, giving evidence before Lord Colwyn's committee on the national debt, said that a capital levy was ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Council of the Associated Chambers of Agriculture have passed a resol[?]tion declaring that the Government should without delay inquire into the economic and strategic ...
Article : 80 wordsAlthough the report of the Police Commission was presented to-day, it was not made available for publication. It was learned to-night, however, that the ...
Article : 92 wordsAfter having been delayed for several days in port as a result of crew trouble, the Commonwealth lighthouse steamer Kyogle will leave Fremantle to-morrow for south-west ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following have been selected to represent Victoria against England in the match commencing on Friday:- E. R. Mayne (captain). W. M. Woodfull. ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. C. C. McGarry, postal inspector, giving evidence before the New States Commission, said that Sir Sidney Kidman was buying small properties in the Bourke district for the ...
Article : 108 wordsAn unprecedented disorderly scene occurred in the Lower House of the Diet this afternoon. A member who was speaking irrelevantly and refusing to obey the Speaker was attacked ...
Article : 117 wordsThe recovery of sterling exchange will reopen the London market to Canadian finance, and the Dominion probably will try to obtain were of its money in London ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Bellbird No. 1 Tunnel, which was opened only recently, was again idle yesterday, this being the third time within a few days. ...
Article : 68 wordsMuch interest is being taken in the match between former Australian eleven players and a team comprising former soldiers, which will be played on Melbourne Cricket Ground ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 5 Feb 1925, Page 9
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