Sixty outbreaks of fire yesterday in Sydney and suburbs, following on the almost equally numerous conflagrations of the previous day, made the 48 hours one ...
Article : 472 wordsMotion picture films valued at £50,000 went up in frames to night in premises in Adelaide street occupiod by the Fox Film Corporation of Australasia, Limited. ...
Article : 300 wordsA hive of industry is on apt description of the Royal Showgrounds at the present time. Steel, bricks, concrete, timber, and asphalt are being handled in enormous quantities by ...
Article : 979 wordsNews comes from Paris that Herr Heintz, president of the Separatist Government in the Bavarian Palatinate, was assassinated yesterday while dining in a ...
Article : 141 wordsAlthough several experts have been engaged in endeavouring to trace the source of infection of the outbreak of rinderpost in Western Australia, they have so far been unsuccessful ...
Article : 497 wordsJust as the sun was rising this morning the three visiting Japanese warships—Asama. Yakumo, and Twate—steamed through the Rip into Port Phillip Bay, to the accompantment ...
Article : 1,241 wordsAustralia's challenge for the Davis Cup has been received by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. The message requests a longer interval ...
Article : 92 wordsWhen the Speaker (Mr. J. H. Whitley) took the chair in the Commons to day in readiness to summon members to attend the. House of lords to hear the Royal assent to his ...
Article : 511 wordsA remarkable blizzard has swept Southern England with the worst snowstorms since 1919. In some places the snow fell for 12 hours ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Board of Trade figures for 1923 show that Britain's imports for the twelve months amounted to £1,098,000,000, compared with £1,003,000,000 in 1922. ...
Article : 49 wordsArne Borg, the Swedish swimming champion, who will be a competitor in the State championships, which commence at the Domain Baths on Saturday, and whose meeting ...
Article : 195 wordsRouter's correspondent in Paris onys that although the Seine is falling slowly, the outlook is not reassuring, for damper weather has returned. ...
Article : 119 wordsThirty-two employees of a Bradford mill were buried by debris when the roof of a building in which they were working collapsed. So far, 20 of them, injured, have been extricated. ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Dental Association of New South Wales, held in the Royal Society's headquarters last night, the re[?] president (Mr. R. Falknor Mathews) installed ...
Article : 496 wordsThe death is announced of the Very Rev. Dr. Wace, Dean of Canterbury, in hie 88th year. ...
Article : 25 wordsOn his arrive, from South East Africa to-day Mr. Johnson ("Pussyfoot") greeted the Pressmen who met him with the declaration that "I am not going to die until the whole ...
Article : 144 wordsThe five weeks' deadlock in the Sentate respecting the election of a chairman of the important interstate commerce committee was broken to-day, when Senator smith, a ...
Article : 166 wordsRoutor's correspondent at Brussels says that the importation of Australian frozen meat has been prohibited on account of rinderpest. ...
Article : 24 wordsThat the White Australia policy cannot fall to retard immigration, and the subsequent progress and development of the Commonwealth, is the opinion of Viscount Leverhulme, ...
Article : 575 wordsJohn William Edward Shimmmon, aged 24, of the Commercial Bank, Ballina and Robert Alfred Harris, aged 25, of the Union Bank, Ballina, were drowned while bathing off the ...
Article : 433 wordsThe official division list of votes recorded by members of the Legislative Assembly during the last session has been completed by the Parliamentary staff, and was made ...
Article : 895 wordsA message from Rome says that Sergeant Perin, an air-pilot, was found exhausted in Venice, after drifting at sea for four days in a wrecked machine. He will be ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Ottawa correspondent of the Montreal "Star" says:—After long negotiations, the Minister for Emigration has secured a 20 per cent. preference rate in the Atlantic ...
Article : 104 wordsSpeaking at a banquet held to inaugurate arrangements for the meeting of the International Advertising Convention (which 6000 delegates attended in July), Sir Phillp ...
Article : 80 wordsA special correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle" says: The Oversea Settlement Delegation to Australia and New Zealand is preparing its report. It will ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Imperial War Graves Commission has estimated its expenditure for the coming year at £1,600,000, of which Australia la to contribute £95,000. The figures show a slight ...
Article : 100 wordsA disastrous fire occurrod at Nimbin township, 20 miles north-east of Lismore, last evening. It started in Ireland produce store, and, spreading quickly, affected Egan's ...
Article : 141 wordsThe State Theasurer (Sir Arthur Cocks) yesterday made an official inspection of the offices in which the combined Federal and State taxation activities are now being carried on. ...
Article : 268 wordsThe council of the British Empire Producers' Association has passed a resolution urging the there political parties to agree upon those recommendations of the Imperial ...
Article : 61 wordsThe strike of German seamen at Hull to enforce the Maritine. Board rate of wages, has extended to London. The National Seamen and Firemen's Union, which is ...
Article : 130 wordsBy a fairly substantial majority, a proposal that the betting tax of 6d a ticket should be passed on to "punters" was rejected at a largely attended meeting of bookmakers at ...
Article : 252 wordsThe stipendiary magistrate's residence at the corner of Kaolin und Morgan streets, has not been occupied since the departure of Mr. A. R. Purry, 12 months ago. The department ...
Article : 195 wordsEndeavouring to break the record for the ride from York to London, in four and a half days, performed by Tyrwhitt Drake in July, on the Arab horse Sheik, George ...
Article : 339 wordsFor the first time in history, Wellington reached the £1,000,000 mark in building operations last year, the value of 1408 buildings, for which permits were issued between ...
Article : 66 wordsNews comes from Manila that religious fanatics in the island of Buchas killed 19 Filipino constabulatory and soldiers, including two officers. The Government immediately ordered ...
Article : 94 wordsNellson's stores were destroyed by fire, which started at 9 o'clock last night, and spread to other buildings, including the Club Hotel, several tenoments, and Mellita's ...
Article : 55 wordsA strike occurred yesterday at the Neath Colliery because the management was forced to curtail the issue of explosives to the men till Janunry in. The cast section of Richmond ...
Article : 100 wordsA serious fire occurred at Woolaton tannerios in Christchurch, causing damage in the suedo department, engine house, and store. The loss is estimated at more than £33,000. ...
Article : 45 wordsIncluded amongst the passengers who arrived yesterday by the Japanese mail steamer Tango Muru were 72 Jnpanese officers and seamen. They were sent from Japan to man ...
Article : 105 wordsDissatisfaction among the inhabitants of the united States' insular possessions took concrete form to-day, when a Filipino mission presented Congress with formal charges ...
Article : 134 wordsAn honorary consul in Australia for Austria has been appointed. In the "Commonwealth Gazette" the announcement was made that his Excellency the Governor-General had directed ...
Article : 68 wordsThe return of the Germnn, Johnn Cattermann, to this district and the expulsion of the tennnt by him, as previously reported, are causing great excitement is this part of the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe difficulty at the South Greta colliery was settled at a conference between the colliery owners and officials of the Miners' Federation. Work was resumed yesterday ...
Article : 60 wordsIt was stated yesterday that the Federal secretary (Mr. Hahn) and the New South Wales branch secretary (Mr. P. G. Halliday) were in conference with both the union ...
Article : 63 wordsA step-work meeting of employees engaged in metal manufactures at Port Kembla docided to give 14 days' notice of antentien to coase work, unless a conference is agreed to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 11 Jan 1924, Page 9
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