THE third Test match at Old Trafford, Manchester, may be abandoned without a ball being bowled. Torrential rain at 11 a.m. today made a start impossible, and three of the four days set down for the match already have been lost. ...
Article : 337 wordsA SOFT, CHILL CARPET WINDING TO THE SUMMIT. Mt. Wellington's Pinnacle Rd., under snow at the week-end, guided the steps of skiers, hikers, and lovers of natural beauty. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsMr. Howard Hughes, business magnate and film producer, took off from New York at 5.20 p.m. yesterday on a non-stop flight to Paris, ...
Article : 649 wordsA message from President Roosevelt. approving the main outline of the proposed international commission in London, consisting, of representatives of ...
Article : 564 wordsNo Australian organisation is to be recosnised as an approved society under the national insurance scheme until September 1, and contracts of ...
Article : 543 wordsTHE rain at Manchester has caused heavy financial loss. By preventing play on Friday, and Saturday, it cost ...
Article : 85 wordsDr. A. Robertson, the chairman of the Australian Board of Cricket Control, refused, when approached today, to offer comment on the steps being ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" relates a story of an assault upon Manfred von Brauchitsch, a motoring ace and ...
Article : 245 wordsAdditional tests to ascertain the nature of the sea-bed between King Island and Tasmania, will be undertaken this week by the Postmaster-General's ...
Article : 224 wordsA four-year-old underworld feud between Parisian gangsters of Corsican birth caused three deaths last night. lt already had ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Australian team's programme for the next five weeks is: Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday, v. Warwickshire, at Birmingham. ...
Article : 127 wordsA new decree orders the dismissal without compensation ot Jews employed as watchmen, financial advisers, estate agents, matrimonial advisers, and ...
Article : 31 wordsJapan has requested the withdrawal of foreign nationals from Hankow, Sinyung, Kluklang, Kuling, Narichang, Chanensha, Chauchow, and Yochow, in ...
Article : 246 wordsIF play in the Test match at Manchester is possible to-day it will be under the rules of cricket dealing with ...
Article : 83 wordsMRS. D. BRADMAN adjusting the tie of her father, Mr. J. Menzies, in a Sydney photographer's studio as he was about to have his portrait taken. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 29 wordsDIVORCE judge's at Nancy are pondering a novel petition by the wife of one of twin brothers, proprietors of a shop ...
Article : 171 wordsCommenting today on the statement by the Premier of South Australia (Mr..Butler) that an excise and, bounty scheme for the wheat industry probably ...
Article : 224 wordsA 100,000-dollar (nom. £20,000) "confidence racket," involving the names of Mr. Louis B. Mayer, vicepresident in charge of production of ...
Article : 164 wordsIN order to end the flight from the land, the Air Minister (Marshal Goering) has decreed that marriage loans for rural ...
Article : 125 wordsAccording to the "Manchester Guardian" the seaplane carrier Albatross, which is being transferred to the Royal Navy in part exchange for the cruiser ...
Article : 71 wordsActing on orders from Germany, the Hamburg-Amerika. Line steamer Launa will leave Port Adelaide on Saturday for Europe, via Cape Horn, ...
Article : 135 wordsAn apparently innocent man, later identified as Woody Hockaday, a harmless eccentric, who tried to get a better view of President Roosevelt's ...
Article : 93 wordsEric Campbell. Herbert William Lloyd, and Richard Arthur Duesbury in the Central Police Court today were committed for trial on a charge of ...
Article : 96 wordsThree Rover Scouts, who hope to reach Scotland in time to be present at the World Jamboree there next year, sailed out of Rose Bay at 3 p.m. ...
Article : 107 wordsDetectives have not found any clue to assist them in their efforts to find the armed bandit who robbed Mr. R. Langrell, manager of the Rivoli ...
Article : 68 wordsThe biennial conference of railways commissioners, the object of which is to enable the Commissioners from various States to compare ...
Article : 127 wordsAfter having received a full-dress farewell by the, crews of other ships of the Australian Navy in port, the aircraft carrier, Albatross lett Sydney ...
Article : 123 wordsNewspapers resent a semi-official statement published in Rome, alleging that the French Government at the end of June informed the British Prime ...
Article : 61 wordsAIR VIEW of the crumpled and partly submerged cari of the Olympian, the crack pastenger train of the Milwaukee Rd., which plunged ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 53 wordsLetters in 13 mailbags were burnt or ruined by water when a mail van was destroyed by fire as it was standing outside, a post office today in Gresham ...
Article : 83 wordsCount von Luckn[?] arrived at Adelaide by aeroplane, today on a three-day visit, accompanied by Countess von Luckner and Mr. R. S. ...
Article : 182 wordsIN the presence of the President of France (M. Lebrun), the Prince of Monaco and Cardinals, including ...
Article : 119 wordsWilliam C. Beresford (50), who held extensive grazing and wheat-growing properties in the Binnaway and Bugaldie districts, was killed yesterday ...
Article : 92 wordsA £10 wager that he could push another man 45 miles over mountainous roads in an ordinary baby carriage was made in Alexandra tonight by Mr. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe third parcel of gold bullion within a month was sent from Kalgoorlie to the Electrolytic Smelting and Refining Co. of Sydney by the air liner Bungana ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 12 Jul 1938, Page 9
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