A spring fair was opened in the West Maitland Infants' School on 14th inst. The function was organised by the West Maitland ...
Article : 337 wordsThe Hastings district escaped by the narrowest margin a repetition of the disastrous floods of February last. The upper river and ...
Article : 222 wordsAt a late hour on 13th inst. Calille Nolan, who with his son was employed at Eatons' timber yard, North Sydney, informed the police that ...
Article : 147 wordsWilliam John Tory, 21, of Glebe, a postal assistant, was held up at the Ryde Post Office by two masked and armed men on 13th inst., and robbed ...
Article : 276 wordsJames Edward Devine, 37, labourer, appeared at the Centra Criminal Court to answer charge of having mur[?]red Georg[?] ...
Article : 139 wordsA great disaster has been wrought among sheep in the Northern district as a result of the cyclonic storm. Reported losses run into thousands. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe annual report of the Walsh Island dockyard shows that during the year ended June 30 last more than. £1,000,000 worth of work was ...
Article : 279 wordsGraziers and farmers in the Aberdeen district are heavy losers as the result of the heavy rain and cold during the week. Messrs. Logan Bros. ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. F. E. Fry presided at a meeting of the local Land Board, for the Land District of Maitland, held at East Maitland on 13th inst. There ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Blue Funnel Line steamer Nestor which leaves Melbourne on Saturday, will take to South Africa members of the Mawson Antarctic ...
Article : 203 wordsConsiderable argument look place at Cessnock Municipal Council on the question as to whether the Mayor, Ald. Hunter, should ...
Article : 183 wordsAt Wybong the cold killed shorn sheep in thousands. Mr. A. Gillett, Spring Creek, lost 300. Many similar losses are reported. ...
Article : 23 wordsTremendous losses of sheep are reported in the Scone district following the torrential rains and the cola change. ...
Article : 64 wordsWalking boldly into a small grocer's shop in Ferry-road. Glebe, about 8.45 p.m. a masked man pointed a pistol at the proprietor, Mr. Gisheen. ...
Article : 139 wordsState Ministers, at a meeting gave further consideration to bills to be brought down at the forthcoming session of the State Parliament. ...
Article : 173 wordsMr. S. A. Maddocks, who returned to Sydney on 14th inst after inquiry into traffic problems abroad on behalf of the New South Wales Government ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Bavin, staled that a special meeting of the State Cabinet would be held next week to further consider the position of the ...
Article : 230 wordsArthur V. Burns was charged before Mr. Geike, P.M., with having had 11 opossum skins in his possession on August 14. ...
Article : 104 wordsAt a meeting of the Purlewaugh branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, the ringing-in of wheal exhibits at shows and in other ...
Article : 170 wordsA masked bandit hailed up a grocer in his shop at Rozelle with a pistol, and robbed the till of more than £20. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe decision of the Full Court of N.S.W., in holding that payment for treatment of injured colliery employees under the Workmen's ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Commonwealth Meteorologist, Mr. Hunt, said to-day that the rain which fell in the wheat areas of New South Wales early in August ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the inquiry into the death of a young woman, whose body was found at Langwarrin (Vic). on August 18, the coroner said the stories told to the ...
Article : 192 wordsAn unenviable experience betel a Party of girl hockey players, who, late on 11th inst., left by car for Glen Innes. ...
Article : 169 wordsAs the war was drawing swiftly to its close, with Germany meeting terrific disaster on land, the Kaiser looked to those of the sea for a ...
Article : 419 wordsMembers of the Weston Homing Society, gave five of their pigeons [?] test recently by sending them t[?] Mungindi, 200 miles air line fro[?] ...
Article : 145 wordsThe annual meeting of the Gresford Agricultural Bureau was hold in the School of Arts. Mr. H. G. Crew occupied the chair, and there ...
Article : 161 wordsWhat is called "The Table of the Marshals." a remarkable work of art of Napoleonic days, has been sold for 400,000 francs (£3200) at the ...
Article : 326 wordsMr. Henry Woolfe a member of a well-known butchering firm, who has returned from a visit to the United States, said the finest meat. ...
Article : 69 wordsWhen his motor cycle collided with a motor car driven by Edward Basil Bozier, at Rockdale on December 20, last year, William Arthur Henry ...
Article : 109 wordsIn moving that no further "White City" be allowed to operate in Cessnock. Aid. Sneddon, at the municipal council declared that they ...
Article : 79 words"It is absurd for a son to bring an action against his own mother, merely because he is deprived of a little jazz music, said Judge ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the report of the annual meeting of the show, the names of the guarantors, Messrs. W. Jupp. D. Smith L. S. Lee, A. L. Richardson ...
Article : 73 words"I know some people think they could sit down and in ten minutes write a very much better sermon than any parson, or even archangel has ever ...
Article : 160 wordsWhile crossing the main road in Hobart, Sylvia Lawson, 22 years, was knocked down by a motor car, driven by George Collis. She received ...
Article : 53 wordsHerbert King, 27, labourer, has his leg terribly crushed and almost severed when three tons of iron [?] on it at Chullora workshops. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe committee has appointed Mr. W. E. Dark to assist the secretary in the organising work of the function. Arrangements are progressing ...
Article : 93 wordsA Berlin news agency reports that there is in East Prussia a horse 43 years old, which for 40 years has been the only horse used for the ...
Article : 98 wordsThree Grenfell men, C. Berry, R. Jeffries, and J. Jeffries, having delivered sheep near Forbes, were returning home by motor car when it ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. E. Newton, of "Woodlands" Denman, is an inmate of Denman Private Hospital suffering from penumonia. His condition is causing ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 21 Sep 1929, Page 9
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