MELBOURNE, Wed. —Sir Isaac Isaacs, first Australian-born Governor-General, died in his sleep at his home in Marne St., South Yarra, at 3 am today, aged 92. He will be accorded a State funeral on Friday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 462 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed. — At the meeting of the Australian Transport Advisory Council which began in Melbourne to-day, the Tasmanian Minister for Transport (Mr Howroyd) pressed strongly for additional Commonwealth assistance to ...
Article : 410 wordsSYDNEY, Wed.—A yacht which looked like Rangi was seen from the air today about 25 miles south-east of ...
Article : 182 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed.— A threat of serious congestion of shipping in the port of Melbourne has been removed by a ...
Article : 97 wordsPERTH, Wed. — Police have recaptured five of six mental patients, some of them violent, who escaped from Claremont ...
Article : 97 wordsNEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).— Thomas Lamont, financier, who died on February 2, willed 10,000,000 dol. to educational and charitable ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Government is to place in operation a scheme to hire bulldozers and other machinery to farmers for the clearing of land, ...
Article : 144 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed.—The existence of a constitutional power to make laws regarding banking could not be taken as permitting the making of laws for the purchase or acquisition of shares in another bank, Mr Borwick, K.C., argued in the High Court today when the banking case was continued. ...
Article : 621 wordsADELAIDE, Wed.—Roy Selway (33), was charged in Adelaide Police Court today with the murder of his daughter, Sandra Selway (2), at ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed.—More than 5,000 tons of food parcels will be carried to Britain by the 24,000-ton liner Orion, which leaves Melbourne ...
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Advertising : 28 wordsJERUSALEM, Wed.—The city's biggest series of ArabJew clashes flared up this morning and continued for some hours. FIGHTING began when snipers ...
Article : 242 wordsUSING flounder spears, pitchforks, and pieces of iron and wood, about 40 people on Saturday night standing in a few inches of water at Howrah threw up to 12 barracouta each on the beach. ...
Article : 205 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed. — Many Victorian mental hospitals are still too much like gaols, according to the report of the Mental Hospitals ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Wed. —Battered after an eight-day Atlantic storm in which giant waves swept the chief officer and a ...
Article : 226 wordsTHE bush fire hazard in Tasmania is moderate to high, and increasing, said a warning issued by the Hobart Weather ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 12 Feb 1948, Page 2
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