To-night the New Year will be ushered in by watch-night services in city and suburbs; by scenes in the streets; by cordial toasts in the wine of good-fellowship ...
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Article : 692 wordsThe conditions on the Stock Exchange as the year draws to a close are far move satisfactory than appeared likely a fortnight ago. The stagnation then existing ...
Article : 442 wordsA meeting of the preliminary commission on disarmament, the first for two years, will be held in Geneva on 15th April. ...
Article : 768 wordsDECEPTION ISLAND, 29th December. The suspension of our more arduous duties has enabled the cataloguing of our discoveries and the outlining with ...
Article : 445 wordsKORUMBURRA, Sunday.--The most serious fire in the history of Korumburra occurred about 1.30 a.m. to-day, when four shops in Commercial-street were ...
Article : 487 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--A shocking tragedy occurred at 4 p.m. to-day when a party of bathers at Avoca beach, near Gosford, was carried out in an undertow and two ...
Article : 172 wordsOne man was killed and four other persons injured on Saturday evening when two motor cars collided at the intersection of Centre Dandenong-road and ...
Article : 261 wordsPERTH, Sunday.--David Hughes and his two brothers were camping alongside Bibra Lake, and early this morning David went on the lake in a flat-bottomed boat, ...
Article : 58 wordsSEYMOUR, Saturday.--The body of Henry Davey, wood worker, of Geake-street, Coburg, who was drowned through the overturning of a flat-bottomed boat, ...
Article : 82 wordsWhile on special patrol duty at Healesville on Saturday to cheek motor offences. Constables Rudolph Claude Buckley. 34 years, of Amicus-street, Hampton. and ...
Article : 146 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday.--Charles Bound, a resident of Spreyton, on the north-west coast, collapsed and died after he had left the water when bathing at ...
Article : 35 wordsBEECHWORTH, Sunday.--Last Thursday Miss Annie Bowran, of Beechworth, received from a brother at Yackandandah a leg of lamb. As it exceeded her ...
Article : 100 wordsSeveral persons were injured in a collision between two motor cars near Dromana shortly before six o'clock yesterday. A car driven by Mr. George Stainland ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Poincare Minister is again in peril. M. Poincare opposed the motion for raising the salaries of deputies and Senators, and left the Senate before the debate ...
Article : 195 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Lying in the General Hospital in Brisbane in a serious condition is William Browne, a hurdle jockey from New South Wales, who, with ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Phases of the moon for the month are:-- Last quarter, 3rd; new moon,11th; first quarter, 19th; full moon, 25th. Mercury is in the western sky in the ...
Article : 616 wordsThe shipping "war" between Great Britain and the United States for South American trade took a more serious turn to-day, when the Cunard line published ...
Article : 330 wordsTo-morrow will see the railway station at Footscray closely picketed by news agents who have decided to resort to that action in an endeavor to force the ...
Article : 412 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Sunday.--A car driven by Mr. J. Webber, of Lewisham-road, prahran, overturned on the Princes Highway on the Bainisdale-Lakes Entrance road on ...
Article : 93 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.--Two persons were slightly injured in a collision between two cars at the intersection of Myrtle and Hargreaves streets on Saturday afternoon ...
Article : 85 wordsA report, based on the evidence of leading English and American scientists was recently issued by the New Health Society, of which Sir Arbuthnot Lane is ...
Article : 131 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--After eating a chocolate last night at Newcastle, Hilda Johnson, fifteen years, collapsed and died. Prior to her death she informed her ...
Article : 259 wordsBritishers are perturbed at the prospect of German interests being preferentially placed not only in respect of the preliminary work connected with the ...
Article : 171 wordsHAMILTON, Saturday.--About 11.15 a.m. to-day a collision occurred between a motor lorry driven by Frederick R. Falkenberg and a buggy. The lorry was turning ...
Article : 105 wordsMarquis de San Miguel, a well-known racing magnate, had a half share in the first prize of the Spanish national Christmas lottery, winning £250,000. Owing to ...
Article : 125 wordsINNISFAIL, Sunday.--A strong denunciation of the removal of the coat of arms from the Italian vice-consulate is voiced by Mr. C. Luciano, the Italian ...
Article : 173 wordsA woman named Marion Alexander, who applied to Stratford police court to-day for a maintenance order against her husband, Arthur Russell Alexander, said she was ...
Article : 201 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday.--Pneumonia having supervened, the condition of William Robert Adams, aged 47 years, storeman, of Adelaide, now an inmate of Ballarat ...
Article : 79 wordsThe movement for the unification of China under one government was advanced a further step yesterday, when reports were received from Manchuria ...
Article : 129 wordsECHUCA, Saturday.--Mr. and Mrs. J. Flemming, of Deniliquin, when motoring near the Campaspe-bridge, had trouble with their car, which got out of control, ...
Article : 74 wordsWhat is believed to be the largest aeroplane shed in the world will be opened at Croydon on 1st January for the housing of air liners used on the cross-Channel ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is reported from Paris that the reparations commission will meet on 5th January to nominate the new committee of experts. ...
Article : 223 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--When the ferry Kanangra was approaching McMahon's Point at 8 a.m. to-day a man leaped overboard. He at first ignored the lifebelts ...
Article : 60 wordsS[?]yer and Dan, leaders of the workers' organisation known as the Fascist Association, who were arrested prior to Christmas on a charge of collecting money ...
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Article : 92 wordsMr. Brennan, M.P., referring at the dinner tendered the I.N.F. inter-State cricketers on Saturday night, to the [?] fail incident, said he desired to state ...
Article : 95 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.--Ebenezer Dann, laborer, at Colonel Light Gardens, was found in an unconscious state on a roadway at Henley bench early yesterday ...
Article : 59 wordsPundit Motilal Nehru, the Indian Nationalist leader, in opening the National Congress at Calcutta, said the amenities introduced by the British Government ...
Article : 56 words"Commander" Evangeline Booth, "General" Booth's sister, arrived from Now York to-day to attend the session of the high council of the Salvation Army at ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Viceroy of India (Baron Irwin) yesterday opened King George's Dock at Calcutta, which has taken seven years to construct, and cost £6,375,000. The dock ...
Article : 57 wordsPERTH, Sunday.--Last night William James, 74 years, of Bassendean, was crossing a street near his home when a car struck him, the radiator cutting open the ...
Article : 39 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Sunday.--While competing in the novice underhand wood chop at Nowa, Nowa sports on Saturday Thomas Woodfield badly gashed his leg. He was ...
Article : 46 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Shipping men and engineers will shortly have a chance to inspect the first Diesel electrically propelled oil tanker to reach Australian ...
Article : 112 wordsBetween 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday a housebreaker entered the home of Mr. H. Keig, retired grazier, formerly of Balranald, but now living in Coppins-grove, ...
Article : 70 wordsAUCKLAND, Sunday.--Two Macries were killed and three injured in a motor car smash near Gisborne. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Arthur H, Lloyd of Waverley-avenue, Ivanhoe, has reported to the police that when he returned home on Saturday night he found that a side window ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 31 Dec 1928, Page 8
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