The treacherous currents and the coral reefs which have trapped many a vessel on the Queensland coast have claimed another victim. The well-known passenger steamer Cooma ...
Article : 237 wordsMr. Casey, of the firm of Messrs. D. V. Casey and Burgoyne, Melbourne, in giving a very graphic and full account of the grounding of the vessel until the ...
Article : 1,111 wordsThe Federal Treasurer delivered his Budget Speech in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Government proposes to abolish the per capita payments immediately, but to postpone for a year its evacuation of portion of the field of ...
Article : 5,409 wordsMr. Alan Cobham cannot resume the flight to Australia far at least three weeks. The De Haviland Company is sending out Mr. Moore, a ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Yorkshire miners solidly, declined to resume on the coal owners' terms. The Yorkshire coal owners, whose action ...
Article : 145 words"At dawn I joined the flight of the air force machines to find the spot from which the fatal bullet was fired. We located the place within a mile Drastic ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Secretary to the Mines Department (Colonel Lane-Fox), replying to Mr. George Hall (Labour) in the House of Commons to-day, said that the ...
Article : 324 wordsThe funeral of Mr. A. B. Elliott was attended by many members of the Royal Air Force and civilians and a few people of Iraq, Mr. Cobham was a pathetic ...
Article : 72 wordsPassengers on the ill-fated steamer Cooma, which stranded on the North Reef, under the nose of the lighthouse, about 6.15 o'clock last night, were transhipped ...
Article : 734 words"No mother cared for her baby with greater solicitude than Mr. Elliott watched the engine," says the aviation correspondent of the "Evening Standard." "He went ...
Article : 193 wordsThere is very rarely a story that has not a "Ford" touch about it, and the Cooma mishap has brought out a new one. A prominent member of the Ford ...
Article : 555 wordsCaptain W. Wedgwood Benn, Sir Henry Slesser, and other Opposition members complained in the House of Commons to day of the publication of the "British ...
Article : 147 wordsMrs. Elliott says she did not like the idea of her son partaking in long flights, but he was not afraid of anything. "He was one of the best sons any mother ever ...
Article : 106 wordsThe National Union of Railwaymen's conference passed a resolution protesting against victimisation by railway companies. The President (Mr. C. T. Cramp) ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that Mr. Cobham and the late Mr. Elliott were known at Stag Lane as the "heavenly twins." ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Daily Herald" finds in Mr. Elliott's death a subject for a leaderette "Why did the wandering Arab in Mesopotamia shoot at Mr. Cobham's aeroplane[?]" it asks. ...
Article : 138 wordsProvision is made in the Federal Estimates of expenditure, out of loan, for the following works by the Postmaster General's Department in Queensland:— ...
Article : 102 wordsCaptain R. F. Hassall, the master of the Howard Smith's Company's steamer Burwah, who several times has been the captain of the Cooma, said that the ...
Article : 471 wordsThe Minister for the Air (Sir Samuel Hoare) has sent the following message to Mr. Cobham:—"I am deeply grieved at the interruption to your flight." He also ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Cooma, which is valued at about £150,000 a portion of which is covered by insurance, is considered to be one of the unluckiest ships on the coast. ...
Article : 178 wordsFollowing a luncheon to prominent Australians by Sir Arthur Rickard, at the Hotel Cecil, a cablegram was despatched to Mr. Cobham, as follows:—" A large ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 9 Jul 1926, Page 7
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