BEACONSFIELD, Sunday.—Yesterday afternoon an extensive fire, which at one time threatened Tumue Valley, broke out again and swept towards Upper ...
Article : 554 wordsSimultaneously with the arrival of the steamer Niagara with 15,000 cases of the first Australian treaty butter and 5000 cases of New Zealand butter, top grade ...
Article : 668 wordsIn the House of Commons the Labor amendment on the Address in Reply declaring that the Government's legislative programme was not calculated to reduce ...
Article : 841 wordsAdmiral Coontz's confidential report on the condition of the United States battle fleet has been published. It recommends the consruction of many vessels and the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Governor and the Countess of s[?]radbroke, attended by Mr. R.M. S. Bircham, A.D.C., were present at the Wiliiamstown race meeting on Saturday ...
Article : 945 wordsThe first of the six Amphibian flying boats that are being built in England for the Australian air service was launched from the Supermarine Aviation Works at ...
Article : 578 wordsMelbourne sweltered in oppressive heat during the week end, and as there were fires raging in the hills the beaches were the rendezvous for more than the usual ...
Article : 292 wordsELMORE, Saturday.—Great indignation has been expressed amongst farmers along the main irrigation channels during the past few days, owing to the water being ...
Article : 483 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The township of Woodside narrowly escaped complete destruction this morning by the rapid spreading of a bush fire which broke out ...
Article : 301 wordsA remarkable story was related at the trial at Chester Assizes of the Chinese dealer. Lock Tam, who was charged with murdering his English wife and two ...
Article : 604 wordsKOROIT, Saturday.—Owing to the serious bush fires in many parts of the State quail have sought refuge in this district, and very numerous around ...
Article : 31 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—The heat to-day was the most severe for this summer, a maximum of 106 deg. being registered at 3 p.m. The atmosphere during the day ...
Article : 72 wordsADELAIDE, Later.—Much alarm is felt in the vicinity of Woodside and Tweedvale. Although the fire previously appeared to be under control, a strong ...
Article : 269 wordsST. ARNAUD, Sunday.—Hot southerly winds blew during the greater part of the day. The Heat registered 105 degrees in the shade—a record for the season. ...
Article : 31 wordsMILDURA, Sunday.—To-day's temperature was 113 deg., the highest reading for three years. Hot, northerly winds prevailed all day. In many houses the ...
Article : 54 wordsSORRENTO, Sunday.—A thick smoke haze is hanging over the whole of the southern peninsula from the smouldering bush fires. The weather is close and ...
Article : 60 wordsROCHESTER, Sunday.—The maximum shade temperature to-day was 108 deg., the hottest since 24th February. 1923. The water shortage is causing anxiety. ...
Article : 49 wordsWAGGA, Sunday.—A destructive fire occurred at Wambidgee Station, owned by Mr. A. T. Creswick, of Melbourne. It appears the station hands ...
Article : 394 wordsROCHESTER, Saturday.—At the fortnightly meeting of the directors of the Rochester Co-op. Butter and Ice Co., the manager reported that the output of ...
Article : 55 wordsOwing to smoke from fierce bush fires near the coast, conditions akin to a dense winter fog were experienced by shipping entering the port of Melbourne on ...
Article : 291 wordsMURCHISON, Saturday.—Fears are entertained of the Waranga Basin storage supply giving out. Irrigation is be curtailed, and lucerne growers are ...
Article : 89 wordsMOUNT GAMBIER, Sunday.—Only 10 points of rain have been recorded in the Mount Gambier district since the beginning of the year. Conditions are ...
Article : 91 wordsThe American steamer President Roosevelt, which rescued the crew of the derelict British freighter Antinoe during a storm in the mid-Atlantic, will proceed ...
Article : 217 wordsSome parts of the metropolitan area are on the verge of a water crisis as the result of the washaway of portion of the O'Shanassy aqueduct. There are only ...
Article : 335 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Smoke from bush fires hung like a pall over Hobart to-day. So thick was the atmosphere that the view for any distance was wholly obscured. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—In re starting a fund to pay the willing workers who have done so much this week to stop the bush fires. As a week-ender, I am convinced that the ...
Article : 231 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A severe hail and rain storm struck Tyringham, a small settlement on the Grafton-Armidale road, on Saturday. Some school children who were ...
Article : 87 wordsA Soviet courier, while travelling on a train from Moscow to Riga, was killed in Latvian territory by three men, who gained access to his compartment and ...
Article : 486 wordsALBURY, Sunday.—The stretch of heat being one of the most severe ever experienced, and there being no immediate prospects of rain, the anxiety of the ...
Article : 313 wordsInterviewed on his return from Ceylon. Mr.Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor party, said his visit convinced him more than ever that he was ...
Article : 115 wordsAn entirely new feature is being introduced into Spanish social life on Sunday by the opening of adult Sunday schools in the smaller towns and villages. ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A heavily loaded wheat and timber train broke in two near Gambool, outside Orange, on Sunday morning, and 23 trucks were derailed. The ...
Article : 121 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—As a result of a fire which occurred at Newbridge on Saturday at midnight, the homestead of a returned soldier settler, J. C. Simpson, ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill ratifying the Anglo-Italian debt settlement by 224 votes to one. Signor Volpi, who conducted the ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—One of the biggest two-up raids ever made in Sydney was carried out last night, when an elaborate "school," occupying the top floor of a ...
Article : 319 wordsSir Basil Thomson, a former assistant commissioner of the metropolitan police, was at the Marlborough-street police court early in January fined £5, with £5 ...
Article : 172 wordsHenry Holland Dumaresq, late of Wooodglen, formerly called Woodlands, near Lindenow, grazier, who died on 18th December, left by will dated 23rd September, 1915, real estate valued at ...
Article : 83 wordsNaval contingents of 500 strong from H.M.S. Durban, Concord, Tit[?]ia and Ambrose, headed by two bands, paraded the city this morning. Volunteers ...
Article : 50 wordsSome importers of Australian apples are insuring with Lloyd's, and underwriting against condemnation or prohibition of import on the ground that apples ...
Article : 121 wordsOn Friday evening a lad, fourteen years, who lives at Webb-street, Fitzroy, exchanged a meccano set for an air rifle and purchased some shot at a city ...
Article : 240 wordsThe hope expressed in the Canadian Parliament for an amicable settlement of Canada's dispute with the Pacific cable board is echoed here. It is understood ...
Article : 52 wordsThe recent anti-Italian demonstrations in Bavaria, on account of the Italian attitude to Austrian inhabitants in Trentino, found an echo in the speech of the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club desires to acknowledge the following donations:—A.E.S. and Dr. A.W.D. Robertson, £2 2/ ...
Article : 56 wordsWAGGA, Sunday.—Whilst motoring from Tarcutta to Canberra, Mrs. Michael Egan and her daughter had an exciting and dangerous experience. They were ...
Article : 154 wordsThe commonwealth Dominion Line has ordered two twin screw motor vessels from Swan, Hunter and Wigham-Richardson Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsThe association of retail distributors has decided that all large stores in Great Britain in co-operation with their members in Australia, South Africa and ...
Article : 86 wordsMURCHISON, Saturday.—Noticing a disturbance in his yard, Mr. Hill, of the Orange Grove, Dhurringile, proceeded to investigate. He found a turkey hen, which ...
Article : 70 wordsINGLEWOOD, Saturday.—A lad named McNamara, residing at Serpentine, was thrown from a bicycle against a barbed—wire fence on Friday, and sustained very ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 8 Feb 1926, Page 10
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