The death occurred on Thursday night of Mrs. Mary Millane, aged 91 years, who had been a resident of New South Wales for 86 years. She came to the State with her parents when ...
Article : 222 wordsMore than 5000 people attended the AllAustralian manufacturers' exhibition at the Showground on Saturday afternoon. It was the largest attendance recorded at a day ...
Article : 407 wordsMollie Kent, aged 13 years, of Kemp-street, Granville, was drowned in the Parramatta River, within the Parramatta Park, yesterday afternoon, ...
Article : 248 wordsA mutilated telegram message received by A. Kippax, captain of the visiting New South Wales cricket team, just before the resumption of play in the Sheffield Shield cricket ...
Article : 404 wordsThe new Buckland Memorial Home for Boys, built in connection with the Church of England Homes at Carlingford, was opened by the donor, Mr. Thomas Buckland (chairman of ...
Article : 344 wordsThe death of Captain Andrew Shewan, aged 78, who commanded the clipper Lammermuir, is announced. His death leaves Captain Woodget, the skipper of the famous Cutty ...
Article : 318 wordsFurther evidence was heard by the Acting City Coroner (Mr. Flynn, S.M.), on Saturday, concerning the death on November 21 of Janet Urquhart, whose husband, Robert Norman ...
Article : 354 wordsMr. Newton has been appointed Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of New South Wales Independent Order of Oddfellows. He will take up his ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsWilliam McDonald, a student at the Goulburn High School, having been told that the way to learn to swim was to jump into deep water and struggle to get ashore, went to the ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Dickson, headmaster of the Corowa District School claims that the school is entitled to be ranked as an Intermediate High school, by virtue of the fact that for the past two ...
Article : 148 wordsDetails are trickling in from devastated Canton of vengeance taken against the Soviet following the retaking of the city, and of the punishment meted out to Russians who ...
Article : 330 wordsBetty Baker, 3½ years of age, residing with her parents in Mackny-stveet, was killed in Little Riley-street on Saturday afternoon. The child was standing between a wall and a ...
Article : 76 wordsThe recently-constructed bridge over Cook's River was officially opened on Saturday. The ceremony was performed by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Ball), who was the Minister ...
Article : 221 wordsVictoria has set the Queenslander an impossible task in the Sheffield Shield match. When stumps were drawn yesterday the local players had made the huge score of 793 W. H. ...
Article : 367 wordsCloudy and unsettled conditions prevailed over most of the State during the week-end. Beneficial falls of rain were reported at several isolated places in the far west up to 9 ...
Article : 118 wordsMalcolm Murdoch, who was employerd by Browning Bros, farmers, of Lockhart, was killed instantly while working a harvester yesterday afternoon. It is surmised that he ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the seventh annual report on the operations of the A.I.F. Canteens Funds Trust, reference is made to the Sir Samuel McCaughey bequest for the technical education of the ...
Article : 285 wordsReports were received in the city late tonight of the splendid north and north-east rains. Peterborough received 125 points in half an hour, and Marree is reported to have ...
Article : 87 wordsSix people were injured on Saturday afternoon when two motor cars collided head-on in Beamish-street, Canterbury. Among the injured was Shirley Wiles, 3, of Burwood, ...
Article : 347 wordsAt the Grafton Quarter Sessions, Judge Mocatta upheld the appeals against orders made by the Licensing Reduction Board for the installation of septic tank systems at ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Deputy-director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. J. W. Kitto) notifies that a new telephone pay station is being opened to-day on the Pitt-street side of the G.P.O. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe 10-months-old child of Mr. F. Woods, of Lawrence, pulied a saucepan of boiling water over Itself, and was badly scalded. It died at Maclean the following day. ...
Article : 33 wordsDuring the past five years not one member of the Colo Shire Council has been absent from any meetings of the council. This record wns disclosed at the last ...
Article : 78 wordsThe annual picnic and sports of the Sydney Industrial Blind Institution, William-street, was held at Clifton Gardens on Saturday, when nearly 300 blind workers and their friends ...
Article : 174 wordsAt a meeting of councils interested in the proposed water supply for Maclean municipality and Harwood and Orara shires it was decided to ask the Public Works Department ...
Article : 61 wordsJ. S. Irwin and two youths under l8 years were charged at the Gulgong Police Court with having stolen a quantity of goods the property of Mr. O'Mara, of Guntawang Station. ...
Article : 50 wordsAn accident that might have proved very serious marred the Trial Purse at Mentone on Saturday. Approaching the home turn two horses fell, and in quick succession three ...
Article : 190 wordsMr. Vincent, Massey, Canadian Minister at Washington, speaking at a dinner given, in his honour by the English-speaking Union of the United States, said that standardisation ...
Article : 165 wordsAn interstate trial flight by Captain E. W. Percival in the Avro Avian 'plaue, which he recently imported from England has fully demonstrated the airworthiness, reliability, ...
Article : 154 wordsThe report submitted at the annual meeting of the Lismore pranch of the Country Women's Association stated that steady work was done throughout the year. The meeting elected the ...
Article : 93 wordsAt the conference of the Northern Rivers Federated Chambers of Commerce, Mr. Missingham, M.L.A., brought up the question of motor car taxation. Under the present Act ...
Article : 143 wordsAs a motor cycle driven by W. King, 20, of Wollongong, was proceeding along the Great Southern-road, near the Cross Roads Hotel, on Saturday afternoon, the cycle was ...
Article : 64 wordsPlaying at Johannesburg against Transvaal, the M.C.C. team was dismissed for 129 (Sutcliffe 59, Vincent four for 16, Nupen five for 68). The Transvaal team in its first innings ...
Article : 72 wordsA little boy, named Fitzpatrick, 8 years of age, residing at Kearsloy, was cut to pieces late on Friday afternoon by a passing coal train while playing near the Kearsley level ...
Article : 69 wordsThe annual concert given by the pupils of the Ursuline Convent School, Guyra, attracted a very large attendance. Bishop O'Connor delivered a speech. He advised the young folk ...
Article : 57 wordsNorman Backer, aged 20 years, of Lawsonroad, Fairflold, was fatally injured early last night, when the motor cycle which he was riding came into head-on Collision with a ...
Article : 155 wordsAt about a quarter past 11 o'clock on Saturday night the police wireless patrol was summoned to Carrington-road, Waverley, where several men and a woman were alleged to be ...
Article : 148 wordsWith the object ot Investigating the system of tendering for the transport service to the Jenolan Caves the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) is spending the week-end at Caves ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Guyra Ursuline Convent School presen ted 11 pupils for the Armidale dlocess bursary and certificate examination. Only one failed. Six secured "A" passes—Moyah ...
Article : 60 wordsNewcastle (62m): Arr.: Dec l8, Hunter, Lady Isobel, s, from Sydney, Dep.: Dec, l8, Trediunick, s, for South. Eremantle, Dec. 17: Dep.: Sumarinda, for Eastern ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Commons to-dsy, the Undersecretary for India (Earl Winterton) moved the second reading of the Indian Church Bill, which dissolves its legal union with the ...
Article : 206 wordsA "tea-garden" for motor tourists, erected on the Western-road at Wentworthville, by the residents of Wentworthville and Pendle Hill, was handed over to Mrs. Waldron, of ...
Article : 120 wordsLast night a message was received at Barmedman that the son, aged 2 years and [?] months, ot Mr. and Mrs. F. Jameson was missing from his home. A large number of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsThe annual Christmas tea given by Miss Charles-Fairfax to the Petersham troops of Boy Scouts was held in All Saints' Parish Hall on Saturday night. About 250 Scouts ...
Article : 265 wordsRecently the police raided shop premises [?] Auburn-street, and as a result severnl persons were fined for playing an illegal game. namely, "tabletelle." The premises are portion of the ...
Article : 91 wordsNight after night detectives have been keeping a watch for thieves at the sheds of the fertiliser works of Cumming, Smith, and Co., at Yarraville, from which new jute bags to the ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. W. E. Wilson writes to advance the claims of the father and son welfare movement for inclusion in the list of Christmas benefactions. ...
Article : 143 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Returned Soldiers' League, Alderman W. Fyfa Henderson called attention to the reported dismissal of 400 postal workers, the bulk of ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Federation of British Industries has issued a statement protesting against an allegation by Mr. W. M. Hughes, as reported in the Press, that British manufacturers are ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the last meeting of the Goulburn District Hospital Ladles' Auxiliary it was reported that Hospital Day had resulted in £240 being raised for the institution. The ...
Article : 79 wordsExcerpts from Handel's "Messiah," part 1, were sung by the choir of the Pitt-street Congregational Church at last night's service. The solo parts, were sung by Miss Dorothy ...
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Advertising : 219 wordsThe funeral of tne Rev. Robert Hope Waugh, who was for many years minister of the Presbyterian Church at Neutral Bay, took place on Saturday afternoon in the Gore Hill ...
Article : 276 wordsDuring a thunderstorm nine telephone posts were totally destroyed by lightning, the posts being split through the centre. The electric current run over the telephone wire into the ...
Article : 87 wordsOn the recommendation of Mr. L Bernard Hall, the Felton Bequest committee has authorised the purchase for the National Gallery of 15 dry-points and etcbinga by Mr. ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is stated that the total cost of preparations and works and services for the Royal visit (of which a detailed account is given) was £46,881. Included in the total ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that it was stated at the White House to-day that the Budget Bureau had asked the President whether the ...
Article : 148 wordsA heavy thunderstorm shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon prevented the exhibition games by Messrs. J. M. Crawford and H. Hopman and Misses Cox and Dingle, all of ...
Article : 136 wordsWhile engaged in loading piles on to the Uralla yesterday a seaman named McKinn[?]. had one of his fingers taken off. It was crushed by s pile. ...
Article : 189 wordsThe annual smoke concert of the New South Wales Lancers' Association was held in the Cocoa Tree Hall. Those present included:— The president (Lieutenant-Colonel H. V. ...
Article : 126 wordsFrancis Murphy, of West Maitland, has attended the Primary and High schools of the Marist Brothers in West Maitland every Hay for the past seven years. George Stanton ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 wordsLeonard Smyth, aged 1 year and 11 montns. fell into a large tub of boiling water at a house at Broadford on Saturday afternoon. With his pnrents, the child was on a visit ...
Article : 84 wordsJacob Frederick Paulsen, who had booked his pasenge from Sydney to Brisbane by the steamer Canberra, which sailed on Saturday, collapsed on the deck of the steamer a short ...
Article : 70 wordsWhile working in his vegetable garden in Cecil-streot, Gordon, on Saturday, a Chlnese gardener, Ah Tong, wns attacked by a dog, which inflicted severe lacerations to his leg. ...
Article : 46 wordsEric Jenson, 83, who fell down in Crown-street on December 7. died in Sydney Hospital yesterday. The police have been unable to locate any of Jenson's relatives or friends. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 19 Dec 1927, Page 12
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