Nine oversea vessels which had been lying idle at Sydney are listed to leave Sydney to-day. By Tuesday next practically all of the oversea tonnage affected by the strike will ...
Article : 645 wordsIt was asserted at the last meeting of the Lidcombe Municipal Council that the owner of a mob of sheep, which graze on vacant land near North Lidcombe, kills the animals ...
Article : 153 wordsAnother tropical disturbance has extended over New South Wales and excellent rains have occurred at a number of places in the north and north-west. More heavy falls are ...
Article : 323 wordsA four-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by J. T. Robertson, and its contents were destroyed by fire. Owing to a strong wind, there was no hope of saving ...
Article : 84 wordsThe final sitting of the State Parliament for the present session took place yesterday. The most important legislation dealt with was the Gaming and Betting (Night Betting) ...
Article : 969 wordsA petition hy John Roscoe Nield, protesting against the return of Walter James Butler, as member of the Legislative Assembly for Hurstville, was heard by the Elections and ...
Article : 400 wordsThe days when Victoria Barracks were situated at Wynyard-square, when there was a toll-bar on the present New South Headroad where travellers entering Sydney had ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 122 wordsIn the Legislative Council, the House agreed, on the motion of the Attorney-General (Mr. Boyce) to signify approval to the site of the proposed Anzac Memorial Building. ...
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Article : 254 wordsThe death has occurred of Mr. Samuel Hillam, who was one of this district's oldest pioneers. He was responsible for many improvements in Yathella and district. He was a councillor ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. W. J. Scully, M.L.A., has been informed by the Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) that plans and specifications have been prepared with the view to inviting ...
Article : 7 wordsRupert Owen was severely burned, and his motor cycle was destroyed, when a lamp set fire to petrol, which had splashed out of an imperfectly emptied petrol pump pipe. ...
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Article : 387 wordsDr. E. Sydney Morris, acting Director-General of Public Health, in his evidence before the Federal Royal Commission on Child Endowment, yesterday said that he considered ...
Article : 201 wordsThe newly-formed district council of the Boy Scouts organised an afternoon's competitions at Bowral for members of the various troops in the district. About 100 scouts ...
Article : 36 wordsMembers of the State branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association met at Parliament House yesterday. Sir Joseph Carruthers said that there were ...
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Article : 60 wordsMr. Norman Weekes has been engaged to supervise the coustruction of the White Memorial Baths, which will cost between £5000 and £5500. Subscriptions to the fund amount ...
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Article : 107 wordsMr. William Houston, C.M.G., who has been a trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground with only one brief interval since August, 1897, has tendered his resignation. At the time of his ...
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Article : 129 wordsAn outstanding feature of the weather reports this morning was the registration of 90 points of rain at Kynuna, in the drought belt of the north-west. During the 24 hours ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Fred Cox, a well-known polo player, fell 20ft from a window on the second floor of the King's Own Hotel at The Rock yesterday. He was taken to hospital, suffering ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsSpeeches expressing fervent Empire loyalty were delivered at the annual dinner of the Ulster Association last night. There were about 300 members present, the distinguished ...
Article : 247 wordsMr. Marwood H. Cleeve, police magistrate of the Maitland district, died last night after a brief illness. He fell ill at a friend's place last Friday, and it was found impossible to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 230 wordsLance Rose, of Gully Line, New Lambten, was severely injured to-day when a taxi-cab which he was driving on the Newcastle-road overturned. He was taken to the Maitland ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Northern Territory presents a problem in communications not easy of solution. Tremendous tides rush like torrents through narrow passages, making it impossible to utilise ...
Article : 165 wordsThe counting of votes for the by-election in South Gippsland, to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Assembly caused by the death of Mr. H. G. Bodman (Ind.), was completed ...
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Article : 162 wordsWallace Ross Ferguson, aged 25 years, was fined £40, in default three months' imprisonment with hard labour, when he pleaded guilty at the Central Police Court ...
Article : 106 wordsA letter was read at the Labour Council last night from the Red Internationale, in which the wharf labourers, the Australi[?] Railways Union, the Amalgamated ...
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Article : 42 wordsWilliam Henry Grant, a habitual criminal who escaped from the Auckland goal yesterday by sealing a wall, has been recaptured. His ankle was injured when he jumped from ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 9 Dec 1927, Page 14
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