LONDON, July 17.—The Duke of York has sent an encouraging message to the cancer conference, at which Sir John Bland-Sutton is presiding. The programme ...
Article : 217 wordsLONDON, July 17.—When the Jervis Bay docked at Southampton to-day, passengers' stories about the trouble with stowaways were largely a recapitulation of ...
Article : 530 wordsLONDON, July 18.—Great Britain has notified the American Embassy of her acceptance of the Kellogg Peace Pact. In the House of commons this ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, July 18.—The British, Italian and Spanish Ambassadors in Paris and the Secretary-General of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, accompanied ...
Article : 319 wordsReports yesterday showed further general rain in this State, the heaviest falls, again being between the Avon Valley and the coast. Rising rivers at country centres ...
Article : 670 wordsSYDNEY, July 18.—Sir James Fairfax, a director of John Fairfax and Sons, Ltd., proprietors of the "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Sydney Mail," collapsed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 590 wordsMEXICO CITY, July 17.—General Obregon, the President-elect, was assassinated this afternoon while at a, banquet in a restaurant at San Angel, near Mexico City. ...
Article : 250 wordsNumerous breakdowns in the country telegraphic services brought about by Tuesday's storms seriously hampered traffic throughout the State yesterday ...
Article : 294 wordsBRUSSELS, July 17.—The Belgian Government has sent a note to the United States accepting the Kellogg Pact and expressing Belgium's appreciation of the ...
Article : 48 wordsCANBERRA, July 18.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) was advised this afternoon that the Australian reply to the latest American statement on the proposal ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE, July 18.—"The Times" believes that world-wide interest is likely to be focussed on the work of Dr. Murphy and Dr. Leitch at the research institute of ...
Article : 129 wordsBUNBURY, July 18.—The motor ship King Egbert, which ran ashore on the Bunbury breakwater and was holed when entering the port during the gate on ...
Article : 321 wordsMEXICO CITY, July 17.—General Obregon was dining at a small restaurant in the town of San Angel near the capital, when an army captain approached and ...
Article : 137 wordsThe water in the Mundaring reservoir began to flow over the weir yesterday afternoon and soon attained considerable volume. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsMELBOURNE, July 18.—Exception was taken by the acting general secretary of the Australian Labour Party (Mr. J. Kean) to-day to a statement made in ...
Article : 333 wordsThe havoc done to the metropolitan and country telephone services on Tuesday was attended to promptly by linesmen, and the metropolitan network and a number ...
Article : 102 wordsAs a result of the mail boat, Mongolia, being held up in Gage Roads on Tuesday overseas mails were delayed 24 hours. They were delivered, at the G.P.O., Perth, ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, JULY 17.—The Jervis Bay narrowly escaped a collision off Portugal in a fog on Sunday morning. It is understood that the Board of Trade will ...
Article : 84 wordsHARVEY, July 18.—One of the worst storms experienced for many years passed over Harvey on Monday night, followed in the early hours Tuesday morning by ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, JUly 18.—Amazing scenes were witnessed to-day at the conference of the Miners' Federation, held in the Town Hall at Llandudno (Wales) Mr. ...
Article : 298 wordsOSLO, July 17.—A party of fisherman have told the Admiralty that they discovered two wheel tracks on a plateau at Bear Island leading 80 feet through the snow ...
Article : 118 wordsBROOME, July 18.—M. Umeda, of the Nichigo Kogyo Kablishiki Kaisha, of Tokio, Captain Ohya and Mr. Okada returned last night from all inspection of ...
Article : 249 wordsLAKE GRACE, July 18.—The weather during the last 48 hours has been rough and boisterous, 110 points of rain falling. Owing to washaways to lines there have ...
Article : 57 wordsMEXICO CITY, July 17.—A censorship was established in Mexico to-night. There is an unconfirmed report that infuriated followers of General Obregon have shot ...
Article : 62 wordsADELAIDE, July 18.—Mr. J. J. Daly, solicitor, of Adelaide, said to-day that he objected to Mr. Mahony using his declaration for a purpose other than for ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Railway Department reported last night that breakdown gangs engaged in restoring the damage caused by Tuesday's serious washaway on the Wagin-Lake ...
Article : 147 wordsMOSCOW, July 18.—Lieutenant Vigliero, interviewed to-day, said the present conditions off ice and fog made it impossible for the Russian ice-breker Krassin ...
Article : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, July 18.—The refusal of the waterside workers at Innisfail, Queensland, to work the Adelaide Steamship Co'.s motor ship Katoora is regarded by ...
Article : 235 wordsCOPENHAGEN, July 17.—General Nobile has telegraphed a message of sympathy to Malmgren's mother stating: "He was an eminent genius and one of the best ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, July 17.—The underwriters have been left with 87 per cent of the Commonwealth loan of £7,000,000 (at 5 per cent., issued at £98) on their hands. ...
Article : 82 wordsEarly Yesterday morning water commenced flowing over the wall at Mundaring Weir. and by 4 p.m. the overflow was one foot in height. An indication of the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe forecast for to-day is:— Continued unsettled conditions, with showers and squally south-west to south winds over west and south-west ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, July 18.—The cruiser York, one of the three large ships authorised in the Navy Estimates for 1926-27, was launched this afternoon at ...
Article : 266 wordsCANBERRA, July 18.—Mr. Justice Scholes's report as a Royal Commission on allegations concerning the manner in which Mr. Theodore was provided with a seat ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, July 17.—England's wooden walled Victory, looking respondent after reconditioning, presented a strange contrast this morning to the Australia and ...
Article : 263 wordsCANBERRA, July 18.—Deep regret was expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) when he heard at Canberra to-night of the death of Sir James Fairfax. ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Swan and Helena Rivers continued to rise at Guildford yesterday, and to spread further over the adjoining flats the rise being more noticeable in the Swan ...
Article : 162 words"The abundant rainfall that has just been experienced throughout the agricultural areas is most heartening to the farming community and to the people of ...
Article : 79 wordsCANBERRA, July 18.—Official returns compiled by the Federal Treasury show that there has been a steady increase in the weekly number of subscriptions to the ...
Article : 210 wordsLONDON, July 17.—A Coroner's jury has returned a verdict that the railway smash at Darlington on June 28, when an excursion train from Scarborough ...
Article : 59 wordsThe following are the rainfall figures in this State for the 24 hours ended at 8 a.m. yesterday. South-West Division:—Kalamunda, 80 Points ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, July 18.—The Secretary for Mines (Commodore H. D. King) stated in the House of Commons to-day that pulverised coal was being used on land on ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, July 17.—In connection with the bi-cententary of the birth of Captain Cook, the circumnavigator, parties of mothers from the Yorkshire villages at ...
Article : 84 wordsSwollen by heavy rains in its catchment area, and its flow impeded by strong head winds, the Canning River reached flood level during Monday night end on ...
Article : 428 wordsSHANGHAI. July 18.—In order to check the spread of crime the local Chinese authorities have reintroduced the strangulation method of capital ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, July 17.—British car manufacturers are attaching significance to a speech made by Mr. L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, at Luton. ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, July 18.—The Premier (Mr. Bavin) said to-night that Sir James Fairfax would be missed by a wide circle of friends and by the whole community. ...
Article : 91 wordsCAPETOWN, July 17.—The Prime Minister (General Hertzog), in an interview, declared that he had nothing to do with the Labour Party split, and would ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, July 18.—More than 50 persons were drowned in the lakes and rivers of Poland during the heat Wave. A temperature of 125.5deg, was reached. The ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, July 18.—No objection will be raised by the Federal Ministry to the proposed flight by Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith to New Zealand and back ...
Article : 97 wordsA considerable portion of the pictorial supplement of "The Western Mail" next Week Will be devoted to a photographic record of the effect of the gales and ...
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