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  2. COOMA'S FATE.

    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 words
  3. BEST TRADITIONS.

    Mr. 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 words
  4. FEDERAL BUDGET.

    The 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 words
  5. TO CARRY ON.

    Mr. 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 words
  6. MINERS ADAMANT.

    The Yorkshire miners solidly, declined to resume on the coal owners' terms. The Yorkshire coal owners, whose action ...

    Article : 145 words
  7. SEARCH FOR CULPRIT.

    "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 words
  8. TO BUY COAL.

    The 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 words
  9. A PATHETIC SIGHT.

    The 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 words
  10. STORY OF BRITISH COOLNESS.

    Passengers 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
  11. HIGH PRAISE.

    "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 words
  12. LIGHTER SIDE.

    There 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 words
  13. THE "GAZETTE."

    Captain 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 words
  14. " ONE OF THE BEST."

    Mrs. 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 words
  15. MR. THOMAS WINS AGAIN.

    The National Union of Railwaymen's conference passed a resolution protesting against victimisation by railway companies. The President (Mr. C. T. Cramp) ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. HEAVENLY TWINS.

    The Australian Press Association learns that Mr. Cobham and the late Mr. Elliott were known at Stag Lane as the "heavenly twins." ...

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  17. MOTIVE FOR STRAY SHOT.

    The "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 words
  18. POSTAL WORKS.

    Provision 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 words
  19. "LIKE A PICNIC."

    Captain 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 words
  20. AIR MINISTER'S MESSAGES.

    The 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 words
  21. AN UNLUCKY STEAMER.

    The 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 words
  22. AUSTRALIANS' SYMPATHY.

    Following a luncheon to prominent Australians by Sir Arthur Rickard, at the Hotel Cecil, a cablegram was despatched to Mr. Cobham, as follows:—" A large ...

    Article : 62 words
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