SVALBARD (Spitzbergen), April 22.— "With good weather and good luck, and by careful, navigation," states Captain G. H. Wilkins, "we travelled 2,200 miles above ...
Article : 1,109 wordsLONDON, April 23.—Only a handful of people witnessed the departure at 5.30 this morning from the Lympne aerodrome of Wing-Conunander Manning, who is ...
Article : 326 wordsGREENLY ISLAND (Labrador), April 23.—Baron von Huenefeld and Koehl state that 20 hours will be necessary to repair the Bremen after the Ford 'plane ...
Article : 83 wordsBRISBANE, April 23.—During an inspection of the Redbank Colliery at Ipswich at 7.30 o'clock this morning three officials were killed as the result of a ...
Article : 677 wordsBRISBANE, April 23.—At Struct Oil, which is situated at the head of a big dam at Mount Morgan, and which sends water into the reservoir, the rainfall for five days ...
Article : 494 wordsPARIS, April 23.—The general elections passed off in an exemplary calm, contrasting with the violence of Saturday, when there were numerous disturbances ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, April 23.—"The Times" in a leader says:—"There is nothing to prevent the Governments seizing the opportunity which the French and American Notes ...
Article : 197 wordsOSLO April 23.—It is believed that Captain Wilkins and Lieut. Eilsen contemplate returning to America by air. Eileen has informed his father that he expects ...
Article : 57 wordsOSLO, April 22.—Captain Raold Amundsen, the Polar explorer, says he believe that flying conditions were more favourable now than they would be in ...
Article : 177 wordsSEVEN, ISLANDS (Quebec), April 22. —The Ford 'plane, which is carrying supplies and spare parts to the Atlantic fivers, arrived to-day from ...
Article : 48 wordsQUEBEC, April 22.—Bennett one of the pilots of the Ford 'plane which set out for Greenly, Island, was brought here today in an aeroplane from St. Agnes ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, April 23.—The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—"Some surprise and a great deal of disappointment is felt in British circles ...
Article : 153 wordsHARTFORD (Connecticut), April 22.— Clarence Chamberlain, with three companions, shopped off to-day for Greenly Island, via Murray Bay. ...
Article : 24 wordsBILBARIN, April 22.—On Thursday afternoon, between 4 and 5, a tornado swept over Bilbarin and Nornakin, and left a trail of devastation in its wake. So ...
Article : 547 wordsADELAIDE, April 23.—The Premier (Mr.R. Butler) said to-day that all Australians, and particularly all South Australians, would be proud of Captain ...
Article : 61 wordsLISBON, April 23.—Major Beires, who flew across the South Atlantic last year, has been injured in a crash in Spain. He was returning from Paris, where he ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, April 23.—The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says that the spring session of the "Red" Parliament, which has just closed, Unanimously passed ...
Article : 296 wordsLOS ANGELES, April 23.—The "Examiner," in a copyrighted article Published to-day says the next great flight to be undertaken by Captain, Wilkins will be a trip ...
Article : 227 wordsCANBERRA, April 23.—Evidence of the appeal which flying makes to Australian youths, and of the popularitY of the cadetships offered annually at the flying training ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON, April 23.—The Washington correspondent of "The Times" says:—"The French pact as it stands is not and could not possibly be satisfactory to the United ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE, April 23.—The Rockhampton River at Boolburra rose rapidly on Saturday, and several families became dangerously situated. A rescue party set ...
Article : 162 wordsMOSCOW, April 23.—M. Litvinoff, who represented the Soviet at Geneva rec[?] in reporting to the central Executive, Committee upon the activities of the Soviet ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, April 22.—All London's interference, notably from trams, and buses, combined for a time to shout out the 3[?] Melbourne special broadcast for picking ...
Article : 405 wordsCAIRO, April 23.—An objectionable feature of the Assemblies Bill projected by the Egyptian Government is that it not only licenses all kinds of assemblies ...
Article : 135 wordsMELBOURNE, April 23.—The first prosecutions under the Motor Omnibus Rural and Urban Act were heard in the City Court to-day. The Act was passed to give ...
Article : 212 wordsBRISBANE, April 23.—Four men employed at a sawmill at Mt. Hedlow—Messrs. B. F. Evans, G. P. Brown, J. Madden, and T. Gerard—had an unenviable ...
Article : 256 wordsIn October, 1926, Sir Hugh Denison, of Sydney, was appointed Trade Commissioner for Australia in America. He remained in that position until January last, ...
Article : 369 wordsSYDNEY, April 23.—With the holding up of the steamer Goulburn on its arrival in Sydney from Melbourne to-day, the seventh and last active unit of the ...
Article : 231 wordsNEW YORK, April 22.—The motor speed record of 206,95 miles an hour established in February last by Captain Malcolm Campbell, of Britain, was broken ...
Article : 89 wordsHOBART, April 23.—A shooting accident occurred yesterday afternoon as the result of which Harry Rolfe (9), of South Queenstown, died in the Queenstown ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, April 23.—The remarkable allegation of a young girl that a man attempted to murder her with a razor has caused a sensation in the Robertson ...
Article : 137 wordsSHANGHAI, April 23.-Illustrating the extraordinary growth of piracy in Chinese waters, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada (22,000 tons), employed in the ...
Article : 153 wordsBRISBANE, April 23.—Along the southern and central coastal area of Queensland, the weather bureau reported this morning that a tropical disturbance was still ...
Article : 107 wordsHOBART, April 23.—Gladys May Hadley (15), of Longford, fell from an iron railway bridge into the South Est River on Sunday night and Was drowned. She was ...
Article : 90 wordsCOPENHAGEN, April 22.—When Captain Wilkins was compelled to land at the island of Dauholmen he had little food, but fortunately some whalefishers sighted the ...
Article : 188 wordsMELBOURNE, April 23.—The Federal president of the Marine Stewards' Union (Mr. G. E. Moate), referring to-day to the decision of the Maritime Transport Group ...
Article : 138 wordsMELBOURNE, April 23.—The Commonwealth Arbitration Court was criticised today by Mr. W. T. Appleton, chairman of directors of Huddart, Parker, Ltd., in a ...
Article : 429 wordsSYDNEY, April 23.—One of the Solomon Islanders detained in Tulagai Gaol arising out of the murder of District Officer Bell and Cadet Lilies, on Malaita ...
Article : 186 wordsLONDON, April 23.—The Paris correspondent of "The Times" says that female cooks are replacing men in the French army. Each is cooking for 400 men and is ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE, April 23.—The death occurred in the hospital to-day of Archibald Ralph Rae, who was injured in a motor cycle accident near Wallace yesterday ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, April 22.—Lord Forster, Presiding at the Toc H annual council meeting, raised the question of the Unitarian Ministers' protest against a council ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, April 23.—The trial was commenced at the Old Bailey to-day of William Kennedy (40) and Frederick Browne (46) who are charged with the murder of ...
Article : 90 wordsWELLINGTON, April 23.—Francis O'Brien (68) and his sister. Freda O'Brien (59) were burned to death to-day when their home at Waituna, Canterbury, was ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, April 23.—The prospectus of the West Australian loan was published to-day. The "Financial Times" remarked that ...
Article : 51 wordsOSLO, April 22.—Dr. Nansen, in an interview, said he greatly admired Wilkins's achievement which seemed to have been magnificently ...
Article : 57 wordsBUNBURY, April 23.—At 6.40 this morning S. W. A. Kilpatrick, a farmer of Boyanup, found his employee, George James Hill (24) in a room with a rifle ...
Article : 88 wordsWONGAN HILLS, April 21.—As Mr. White of Konnongorring, was returning from Wongan Hills the other night, in his Ford car, with Mr. Ernest Williams, ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the Midland Junction Courthouse yesterday John William Bassett was charged with having, on Sunday, April 8, at Toodyay-road, Middle Swan, unlawfully ...
Article : 190 wordsSYDNEY, April 23.—Several matters of importance to the Labour movement will be discussed at the special session of the All-Australian Council of Trade Unions, ...
Article : 164 wordsReferring to the West Australian loan for £3,000,000, issued at £98, bearing 5 per cent. interest, which has been underwritten in London and which was ...
Article : 59 wordsPiston Trequean's Flirt, a Guernsey cow owned by Mr. A. W. Padbury, of Koojan, which distinguished itself recently by a nine months milking record, has ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, April 22.—A message from Tromso (Norway) states that the actual spot where Captain Wilkins lauded is Dead Man's Beach, 30 miles north of Green ...
Article : 155 wordsCANBERRA, April 23.—The Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) returned to Canberra to-day after having travelled more than 2,500 miles in little more than a week ...
Article : 108 wordsADELAIDE, April 23.—Awakened by the sound of strange men's voices early on Sunday morning, Mrs. Kathleen Malone (84), living at Walkerville, called in ...
Article : 74 wordsWilliam Hunter (19) a jockey employed by Thomas Tighe, was riding a racehorse front a city saleyard to Tighe's stables at Belmont yesterday afternoon when near ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 24 Apr 1928, Page 9
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