Boxing day is a great day for sporting enthusiasts, and for that reason there is always considerable anxiety regarding the weather. Fortunately the weather ...
Article : 433 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.-- The Christimas festivities were marred by a series of tragedies and motoring accidents in which several persons lost their ...
Article : 124 wordsFRANKSTON, Wednesday,-- Tents springing up like snowy mushrooms; the din of an army of bush carpenters as busy as ants on a disturbed hill; the rasp ...
Article : 1,660 wordsChess, the oldest known game of skill, was described in cloquent terms by Judge Beeby at a luncheon given in the Victoria Palace yesterday to inter-State and other ...
Article : 1,300 wordsThe Papal Legate, Cardinal MacRory. will leave by the express for Sydney this afternoon. He will remain in Sydney till 3rd January, when he will leave aboard ...
Article : 350 wordsLondon to-day must have been the world's most silent capital, for Christmas was celebrated in the city and throughcut England mainly within the homes. ...
Article : 671 wordsFRANKSTON, Wednesday.--At the camp of the Church of England Boys' Society in Overton-road, Frankston, where more than 80 senior boys, ...
Article : 118 wordsMORNINGTON, Wednesday.--Cool conditions prevailed here for the Boxing day holiday, which attracted the largest number of motorists seen at this ...
Article : 179 wordsCommencing at 7.5 a.m. and terminating at 11.30 p.m., 28 ordinary trains and 18 specials will carry 8854 scouts to Frankston to-day. There will be three ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--While sightseeing at Clovelly to-day, Hector Darcy, 20 years, a member of the Victorian water polo learn now in Sydney, fell 20 ...
Article : 131 wordsLatin America spent its Christmas in more than usually interesting ways. Cub had its bomb outrage, six persons, including three children, being ...
Article : 176 wordsLord and Lady Baden-Powell, accompanied by their two daughters, will arrive in Melbourne about 8 a.m. to-day by the steamer Marella. After being ...
Article : 123 wordsORANBOURNE, Wednesday.--Dorothy Savage, 12 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Savage, Cranbourne, was knocked down and killed by a motor ...
Article : 123 wordsThe cool weather drew a great crowd, estimated at 70,000, to Mordialloc yesterday, and the majority of the visitors took the opportunity of viewing ...
Article : 64 wordsOn her arrival in the Marella at Victoria Dock this morning, the world chief guide, Lady Baden Powell, will be greeted by the State Commissioner (Lady ...
Article : 124 wordsThe first vessel in Australia to be fitted with an automatic distress signal wireless transmitter is the steamer Birchgrove park, a small steamer trading ...
Article : 733 wordsGEELONG. Wednesday.--The Christmas seaside camp of delegates of the Australian Labor party, which is being held at Indented Head, is proving most ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Emperor formally opened the Japanese Diet to-day. It will adjourn to-morrow till 20th January. It is likely to be a stormy session owing to ...
Article : 108 wordsBoxing day weather in earlier years was generally hot. But in recent times the seasons have shown a strong tendency towards shiftiness. Last year ...
Article : 703 wordsAlready the telephone lines to the jamboree camp are buzzing persistently, but of all calls which have been so far received the one which came through ...
Article : 113 wordsWith a crowd of fellow picnickers, Phyllis Miller, 18 years, of Glenniferavenue, Moorabbin, was travelling in a motor van between Moorabbin and ...
Article : 89 wordsHEALESVILLE, Wednesday,--The district has been well patronised by holiday makers tills Christmas. though their numbers have not constituted a record ...
Article : 128 wordsALBURY, Wednesday.--There was a series of serious accidents in the district on Christmas day. A collision occurred between it motor car and motor cycle at ...
Article : 93 wordsDescribing the spirit of the boy scout movement as "the salvation of India," the leader of the Indian contingent (Commissioner H. W. Hogg) told an ...
Article : 677 wordsSignor Glaneltt, head of the Fascist Workers' Federation, says the 40-hour week is so successful that it is likely to be permanently adopted in Italy. ...
Article : 56 wordsBENALLA. Wednesday.--Holiday traffic through Benalla during the last few days has been extremely heavy, The camping ground which is situated near ...
Article : 63 wordsThe importation of diamonds into Italy is forbidden. ...
Article : 16 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.--Mr. j. Armstrong, of Ballarat, was driving near Doctor's Creek when an accident happened. The car was found in the creek, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe sudden and unexpected death of Mr. Henry J. Mills, Commonwealth Government butter Inspector, yesterday whilst engaged in his duties in a cooling ...
Article : 281 wordsThe yachts Te Rapunga and Ngataki; the only competitors in the Centenary Tasman Cup race from Auckland to Melbourne, which started on 8th December, ...
Article : 268 wordsSuffering from serious spinal injuries at the neck, Roderick Lindsay, 15 years, of Serrell-street, East Malvern, was admitted to Alfred Hospital yesterday ...
Article : 68 wordsLong-distance telephones with the major European capitals showed all quiet on the western and eastern fronts. "I suppose I am really international ...
Article : 613 wordsSEAFORD, Wednesday.--When swimming with companions in the Bay at Seaford at 5.15 p.m. yesterday, Allan Meyers. Stanhope-street, Malvern, who is ...
Article : 110 wordsWhen crossing Hawthorn-road, near Balaclava Junction, yesterday morning, Mrs. Sarah Chittick 63 years, of Seaburn-avenue, Caulfield, was struck by an ...
Article : 50 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.--The race for the Manawatu Cup at Pahnerston North to-day had a sensational ending. The rider of Red Sun, who finished ...
Article : 150 wordsGrasshoppers succeeded in stopping a goods train weighing 386 tons, and drawn by an A2 engine, at Elphinstone, near Castlemaine, on Tuesday evening. The ...
Article : 189 wordsOrganised by Brighton band to raise funds to defray the cost of uniforms, and also to help Prince Henry's Hospital, a beach carnival was opened last ...
Article : 90 wordsWELLINGTON, Wednesday.--According to private advice received from Dunedin. Lincoin Ellsworth and Bernt Balchen, the American airmen, have ...
Article : 58 wordsCRANBOURNE. Wednesday.-- When Mr. F. Owen and his daughter Ethel, 10 years, were travelling in a motor cycle with side car attached, along ...
Article : 66 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wednesday,--To the accompa[?] of cheers from a large crowd on the wharf at Devonport, four Yachts slipped out to see at 3 p.m. to-day and headed for ...
Article : 137 wordsDONALD, Wednesday.--A collision occurred last night between cars driven by R. W. Pierey, of Wood-street, Donald, and P. Mulcahy, of New South Wales. ...
Article : 49 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Portion at the Dalby district to-day resembled an inland sea following the heavy rains of Tuesday night, when up to 6 inches was ...
Article : 94 wordsFRANKSTON, Wednesday.--The motor camp, with its community kitchens, recreation hall and modern facilities, established by the sub-foreshore trust on Long ...
Article : 183 wordsBRISBANE. Wednesday.--At Townsville court to-day May Isabella Foster was charged with on 25th December having wilfully murdered Thomas ...
Article : 45 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wednesday.--The Miss Launceston arrived at Western Junction about noon after a fast trip from Melbourne. Her radio set was out of action ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 27 Dec 1934, Page 7
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