One of the most spectacular fires that has occurred in Sydney for a considerable time took place this morning and gutted two buildings in ...
Article : 212 wordsThe National colliery disaster, in which 116 natives and four white men were killed, is the worst in the history of South African mining. ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Speaker's chair, the gift of the members of the Empire Parliamentary Association in the House of Lords and House of Commons, was presented to ...
Article : 472 wordsThe Railway Amending Bill occupied the attention of the State Cabinet for a whole sitting to-day. Among the important changes for ...
Article : 240 wordsThe precipitate departure from Kiu-Kiang of Sun Chuan Fang, War Lord of five provinces, including Shanghai, means an open way to ...
Article : 275 wordsRemarkably eulogistic references to Mr. Bruce, the Australian Prime Minister, are contained in the majority of the newspapers on the ...
Article : 241 wordsIt will not be known until next Thursday if the miners' district lodges approve of the latest suggestion of the Delegate Conference to ...
Article : 317 wordsWilliam Caleb Andrews, late of South Grafton, who died at Dulwich Hill, aged 70, was for 42 years a, member of the New South Wales Police Force. He ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. Theodore, in an interview yesterday, referring to his efforts to bring about peace among the Labor factions, said his intervention was a disinterested ...
Article : 146 wordsThere has been a recrudescence of lynching in the south. Over the weekend four negroes were taken from gaols and killed by masked ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. Justice Harvey, Chief Judge in Equity, to-day refused probate on a will which was drawn on a printed form and contained writing on both sides. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Delville Wood memorial to the South African soldiers is the most imposing war monument yet erected on the British battle fields in France. ...
Article : 163 wordsA dispute involving £10,000 won in a Calcutta sweep was heard before the Equity Court to-day. Plaintiffs, were John Brennan, Annie ...
Article : 129 wordsHarry B. Smith, 24, collapsed at his work on Saturday morning, and was conveyed to the Melbourne Hospital. As it was thought he was suffering from the ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Leven Municipal Council has, at the instigation of Councillor H. A. Nichols. who is also a member of the State Parliament. passed a resolution ...
Article : 97 wordsA man named John Wilson, who to-day pleaded guilty to being found in possession of five 4-ounce tins of opium in Queen's Gardens on Saturday night, was ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "New York Times," in a sports editorial, commenting on the debut of professional tennis players, says it was in the main a testimonial to the drawing ...
Article : 168 wordsMrs. Gunthorpe, widow of Frederick Gunthorpe, licensee of the Clarence and Richmond Hotel, in Victoria street, Grafton, 40 year's ago, died in Sydney last ...
Article : 31 wordsAccidental death was the coroner's verdict after an inquiry into the death of John O'Leary, 71, who was found dead in a paddodk at Wongaville. ...
Article : 147 wordsSir Alan Cobham thrilled a packed Albert Hall audience for two hours at a lecture during which he traced his flight by means of a huge map. ...
Article : 40 wordsDuring the past twelve months the expenditure at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital exceeded the receipts by £20,326 and unless the Government increases the ...
Article : 55 wordsAlbert Edward McCann, 42, clerk, was committed for trial at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having stolen £25, the property of Alexander Campbell ...
Article : 110 wordsDetectives yesterday, arrested three men and charged them with conspiring to defraud the Railway Commissioners. One of the accused is a horse incpector ...
Article : 215 wordsEqual pay for males and females was asked for in a claim by the Clerks' Union to the Board or Trade to-day, when increased wages were claimed, the rates ...
Article : 218 wordsThe appeal of Ernest E. Judd against his conviction for failure to vote at the last Federal elections came before the High Court of Australia to-day. ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the Central Police Court to-day Robert Eastbrook, 36, land salesman, Arthur Boyd, 31, agent, and Samuel Ba[?]field were, charged with conspiring ...
Article : 84 wordsAn extension of the dispute at the Dobson, Wormald Engineering Company's works occurred to-day, when the Disputes Committee of the Sydney Trades and ...
Article : 121 wordsThe German Chancellor, Dr. Marx, speaking at a mass meeting at Essen, referred to the European steel agreement or "Iron Pact," pointing out that they could ...
Article : 106 wordsWhen Robert Stark, milk carter, returned to his home at South Yarra this afternoon with the morning's takings of £30 in his hip pocket he noticed axe ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Lang, was questioned to-night concerning the finding of the Coroner in the Murulla disaster inquiry, but Mr. Lang stated that as the two men ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the memorial service at Anzae Range, Liverpool, Dr. Radford, Bishop of Goulburn, referred to the treatment being meted but to the aborigines of Australia ...
Article : 92 wordsThe north bound mail had a narrow escape from disaster near Great Ford last night. Heavy rain had softened the side of ...
Article : 103 wordsQuartermaster Webb, of the liner Naldera, was looking over the rail of the vessel, in Woolloomooloo Bay to-day, which he saw an old man jump from the wharf ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Postmaster-General's Apartment has been troubled by systematic thefts from the public telephones in the city during the last few months, and detectives ...
Article : 61 wordsA verdict, of manslaughter was recorded against Barbara Graham, at the inquest regarding the death of H. R. Richards, who died at the local hospital from ...
Article : 71 wordsThe newspaper "Le Matin" says that well-informed Germans contradict the Kaiser's contemplated return to Germany. The Prussian Government does not desire ...
Article : 53 wordsRussian passengers who arrived at Sydney to-day by the steamer Tango Maru, stated that under the Soviet system persons wishing to get married paid a fee ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Industrial Commissioner's order that the waterside workers must deposit £300 with the Registrar,, and open its membership to qualified waterside ...
Article : 59 wordsReferring to the increase in petrol Prices Mr. H. I. Johnson, secretary of the N.R.M.A. said to-day: "This is a further impost on motorists, and is absolutely ...
Article : 91 wordsDr. Cranswick, Bishop of Gippsland, Victoria, in the course of a sermon in Sydney last night, said there was, unfortunately, an immense ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Bishop of Goulburn, speaking at a memorial service in memory of riflemen who fell at the war, spoke of the proneness to forget the significance of the ...
Article : 58 wordsBesides losing his house and furniture by fire John Balshevsky is £85 the poorer. He placed the money in £5 notes under the oilcloth in his house, but when a fire ...
Article : 57 wordsLa Belle Ottoro, the famous Spanish dancer, lecturing in Paris, attempted to justify her recent memoirs, in which she narrated her world-wide courtships, ...
Article : 113 wordsGroup Captain williams in his seaplane left Thursday Island at 8.15 a.m. to-day in continuation of his long flight to the Pacific Islands. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe new trial of the five railway employees on a charge of having conspired among themselves, and with Mrs. Annie Vernon, to cheat and defraud the ...
Article : 104 wordsSuperintendent Mankey, of the Criminal Investigation branch, has received a cable from the Chief of Police at Newport, U.S.A., stating that thieves entered ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Governor-General, Lord Stonehaven, unveiled a cenotaph in St. Leonard's Park, North Sydney. Inscribed upon it are the names of about 600 men ...
Article : 69 wordsThe police have not yet located the missing Sydney solicitor, concerning whose disappearance the sum of £50,000 is mentioned. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe case of a boy named Frank Smith has provided a mystery which is puzzling local doctors. The boy was playing at his home at ...
Article : 45 wordsThe operation of the transfusion of blood into a baby 36 hours old has been performed successfully in Hobart. The nurse in attendance on the mother ...
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Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954), Tue 12 Oct 1926, Page 5
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