An attempt to injury the Attorney-General (Mr. Bavin) was made by a number of ruffians yesterday morning. It is believed that they were either ...
Article : 248 wordsShowery weather prevailed for the opening day of the cricket match English Eleven versus Victoria. Several times play was ...
Article : 832 wordsPassing from the scenes of vanished glories of the gold-mining days, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) visited to-day the industrial centres of Portland and Lithgow, ...
Article : 1,465 wordsMr. Justice Powers to-day ordered the members of the Waterside Workers' Union and the Seamen's Union to return to work on Monday ...
Article : 299 wordsA writ has been issued against the State Government by one of the unsuccessful tenderers for the Sydney Harbour bridge. ...
Article : 206 wordsUsing only a small experimental beam plant, wireless communications were received in Britain this week from Australia. Signals were first detected at 6 o'clock on Tuesday ...
Article : 174 wordsA nation-wide drought that is now approaching the fortieth consecutive rainless day is causing tremendous damage. ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Parliamentary election for the Scottish Combined Universities (three seats) resulted in the return on the first count of Sir Henry Craik (Conservative) and Mr. D. M. Cowan ...
Article : 158 wordsLatest advices from Tientsin state that the Chihli Assembly has decided to invite General Ll Ching-lin, a prominent supporter of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, to assume the ...
Article : 264 wordsA message from Rome says that the country has again been thrown in a state of turbulence by the murder of a Fascist leader, Signor Cosenz, who, during a quarrel, was shot in a ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Thos. F. Smidmore, chairman of the motor section of the Australian Association of British Manufacturers and Their Representatives, in a statement yesterday in reference ...
Article : 321 wordsThe inquiry, authorised by the A.L.P. Federal conference, into the expulsions of Messrs. J. Bailey, M.L.A., A. W. Buckley, G. Sutherland, and R. D. Bramston, was ...
Article : 507 wordsCharges of illicit listening-in, which have been preferred against twenty users of wireless receiving sets in New South Wales, will be investigated at the Central Police Court ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Warsaw correspondent of the "Morning Post" says:—Reports from Moscow state that the Zinovieff letter was taken to England by a former head of the Soviet ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Clydeside rent strike has taken a complicated turn. A sheriff made a surprise raid in the absence of the tenants' scouts on Wednesday, and carried out seven ...
Article : 115 wordsProbate has been granted in respect to two huge estates belonging to members of the Sassoon family. The late Mr. Hector Sassoon, a director of E. D. Sassoon and Co., ...
Article : 99 wordsA representative meeting of electors of the Macquarie ward, held on Thursday night, unanimously endorsed Alderman Hagon as their representative for that ward at the ...
Article : 370 wordsInterest has been aroused in a statement made by Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson that in the case of public grants to generals and others, the Government ...
Article : 164 wordsFive persons were injured in a collision between a steam tram and a motor car at a street corner at Kogarah shortly before 7 o'clock ...
Article : 501 wordsThe Jerusalem correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that four Germans who served in Palestine with the Turks during the war returned to dig for 100,000 gold Turkish ...
Article : 63 wordsSpeaking at the Soroptimist Club to-day Sir Joseph Cook warmly contradicted mis-statements which he said were being spread in regard to so-called unemployment in ...
Article : 144 wordsThe tournaments committee of the Lawn Tennis Association and members of the Referees' Association, held a conference and discussed disciplinary measures against certain ...
Article : 101 wordsAlthough disappointed at the abandenment of the French team's tour of Australia, the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia is determined to secure the presence this ...
Article : 153 wordsLeave to appeal to the Privy Council was refused in the case Dixon v the South Australian Railway Commissioners. [This was an action brought in the South ...
Article : 220 wordsThe rain area in New South Wales had contracted very considerably yesterday morning, and falls during the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. were restricted to the coast from Soal Rocks ...
Article : 150 wordsAt Newlands Mr. Sol Joel's cricket team played a match against a local 15. The latter were dismissed for 34 runs. Parker took six wickets for one run. The ...
Article : 66 wordsA new organisation styled "British Empire Goods" has been formed for the purpose of educating the public to buy British in preference to foreign goods. ...
Article : 84 wordsAfter many years of agitation for a new post-office, the Enfield Council has been informed through Mr. Marr, M.P., that approval has been given for the erection of a new ...
Article : 86 wordsFurther evidence was heard at Fremantle Police Court this morning in connection with with the case in which Thomas Houghton, secretary of the Fremantle branch of the ...
Article : 142 wordsA telegram from Stockholm says that the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to the Polish poet Vladistad Raymonts, for his epic on peasants. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn order to help balance the French budget, the postage on foreign letters from France has again been increased. The postage is now 75 centimes. ...
Article : 419 wordsLord Strathspey, who was the guest of the Australian Natives' Association at a luncheon, expressed the opinion that the Australian was the best pavilion at ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,—The trustees of the National Art Gallery were amazed when they discovered that their additional purchasing vote of £1000 was, without consultation with them, struck out by ...
Article : 378 wordsThe principal race at the Derby November meeting, the Derby Cup, resulted:—Spindrift, 1; Highbrow, 2; Cloudbank, 3.—Reuter. ...
Article : 24 wordsWhilst endeavouring to move horses out of flood waters yesterday afternoon, Walter Viney was drowned, the body being recovered an hour afterwards in ten feet of water, ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. F. Stuart Whyte has arrived in Sydney from America to organise a motion picture producing plant on behalf of Australasian Films, Ltd., and Union Theatres, Ltd. ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Warrego River is one foot over the town bridge, and is still rising The Augathella waters have not yet come down. This will cause the river to rise very high. The ...
Article : 56 wordsThe South African amateur athlete, Mr. Arthur Newton, aged 41, to-day ran from London to Brighton, a little over 52 miles, in 5 hours 53 minutes 43 seconds, breaking all ...
Article : 109 wordsThe New States Commission continued the hearing of evidence in Sydney yesterday. Mr. James Fraser, Chief Commissioner of Railways, explained to the Commission the ...
Article : 209 wordsSix pits, employing 2000 men, were idle on the northern coalfield yesterday, as a consequence of the Newcastle coal trimmer) overtime strike. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Parliamentary Works Committee yesterday approved of the construction of a railway line from Rand to Bull Plain, near the Victorian border. ...
Article : 45 wordsMrs. Mlchie, formerly the widow of Mr. George McCulloch, one of the original shareholders in the Broken Hill mines, has, through Sir William Sowden, made further ...
Article : 143 wordsA two days' pigeon match to benefit the funds of the Orange Hospital attracted shooters from many parts of the State. At the conclusion of the match this ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Justice Schutt, in the Practice Court to-day, made an order directing that the action by Oscar Asche, actor and manager, against J. C. Williamson, Ltd., of ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Jack Davis, of Fisher-avenue, Vancluse, son of Mr. J. R. Davis, manager of the De Luxe Motor Service, was successful last night, at 20 minutes past 8 o'clock, ...
Article : 69 wordsLate last night the dead body of a new-born baby was found in a lane off Sophia-street, Surry Hills. Another infant, aged about one month, was ...
Article : 37 wordsCommencing on Monday, and until further notice, the Watson's Bay ferry service will be run from No. 3 berth, east side of Circular Quay. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 15 Nov 1924, Page 17
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