A dastardly outrage was committed at Queestown this evening, when four Free State soldiers opened fire with a machine gun upon a party of unarmed British ...
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Article : 355 words3.30 to 5.30 p.m. -- Admiral's At Home on board H.M.S. Hood. Evening. 8 p.m. -- By arrangement with the ...
Article : 179 wordsTwo man riding motor cycles along Elizabeth-street, city, at 11 a.m. yesterday, were attem[?]ting to turn into Queensberry-street when the machines collided. ...
Article : 149 wordsWhen the special service squadron departs from Melbourne to-morrow the Hood will be the first ship to move. She will leave Prince Pier about 6 a.m. Two ...
Article : 201 wordsEvery available seat was occupied at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday, when the massed bands of the British fleet gave a recital. The visitors will ...
Article : 388 wordsBROKEN HILL. -- George Ford, a cyclist, who was run down by a motor car driven by William Albert Knight, died on Thursday night. Ford was 38 ...
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Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY. -- Alexander Geoffrey, 16, of Station-street, Newtown, jumped off the wrong sale of a Newtown train on Saturday and was knocked down by a passing ...
Article : 122 wordsAfter being closed to public inspection throughout Saturday, the units of the special service squadron were again open to the public on Sunday. The weather was ...
Article : 277 wordsThe financial crisis in the Provincial Council led to the defeat of the Administration for the first time in the history of the Council. A proposal to go into ...
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Article : 682 wordsThe case in which Timothy Playford, an actor, claimed damages for personal injuries from a grain merchant named Rose, was concluded to-day. Playford was ...
Article : 237 wordsLeading Signalman G. H. Storr, of [?].M.S. Repulse, is anxious for the return of a film and camera which disappeared from the signal cabin on the vessel ...
Article : 53 wordsGEELONG. -- For having driven a motor has down Pakington-street in a manner dangerous to the public, Murdoch M'Donald was at the Geelong West ...
Article : 66 wordsSt. Kilda has entertained the visiting naval men right royally. The special gala week arranged in their honor has been a notable success. Several thousands of ...
Article : 541 wordsSeveral small articles of jewellery and clothing were found on board the Repulse after the dance on Saturday. Mrs. Hall Thompson, wife of Admiral Thompson. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe party of 50 petty officers and men of the British Squadron who accepted the invitation of the Lockwood Progress Association for dinner and afternoon tea. ...
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Article : 132 wordsAt midnight on Friday members of the Ballarat Cycle Club rode on cycles a distance of 150 miles for the week end for the purpose of seeing the British fleet. ...
Article : 55 wordsDuring Friday night thieves entered the premises of the Alma Bowling Club, in Wilks-street, Caulfield, and stole £25 and a quantity of tobacco. ...
Article : 134 wordsSpeaking on Friday night, Mr. P. Duncan, Minister of the Interior, said they had to face the question whether South Africa was going to have unitary States ...
Article : 78 wordsA sailor falling off the Hood and dropping into the water between the side of the vessel and the wharf about 3 p.m. yesterday caused great excitement among ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Foreign Office has despatched a memorandum to M. Karahan, the Russian delegate, replying to his Note of 19th March, and pointing out, that there was ...
Article : 231 wordsMr. H. C. Armstrong, of the Australian Cotton Growing Association, who recently arrived in London from America, has informed the Australian Press Association ...
Article : 118 wordsDANDENONG. -- The men of the British Special Service Squadron who motored to Dandenong on Saturday afternoon received a hearty welcome from townspeople, ...
Article : 352 wordsMrs. Sarajini Naidu, a Hindu poetess, is visiting South Africa, and is everywhere being received with extraordinary enthusiasm by the Indian community. In ...
Article : 185 wordsSYDNEY. -- The policy of the State Government towards Roman Catholic institutions was criticised again yesterday by Archbishop Kelly at a reunion in ...
Article : 139 wordsAs evening functions were being held on the Hood and Repulse on Saturday the ships were closed to the general public to allow for necessary preparations. Several ...
Article : 822 words[?] hope of rescuing the crew of submarine No. 43 which was sunk during man[?]euvres off Sascho, has been abandoned. An official inquiry into the disaster ...
Article : 127 wordsAt an inquest at Essex into the death of Mrs. Jarrard, it was shown that her son, aged 9 years, snatched a revolver from his cousin's hands. It went off and ...
Article : 81 wordsA telephone line to connect the eastern portion of Carwarp district with Carwarp exchange has been started. Brigadier-General Sir Charles Smythe, ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Greek Republic will be proclaimed on Tuesday next. A plebiscite will be held in April to obtain the sanction of the people to the abolition of the dynasty. -- ...
Article : 57 wordsLights, laughter and ladies all sparkled brightly on Saturday night at Wattle Path, St. Kilda Esplanade; on the occasion of a nautical night in honor of the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 24 Mar 1924, Page 9
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