CAPETOWN, Jan. 25.—The engine of a passenger train jumped the rails at Fishhoek, a small marine suburb near Capetown. Two third-class coaches, the ...
Article : 57 wordsA sensation occurred at Corrigin on Tuesday night, when Alice May Rossiter (20), a girl employed at the Corrigin Hostel, was shot in the body with a revolver, the ...
Article : 291 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—Mr. A. D. Kay, who explained to a small audience of pressmen that he was the first citizen of the British Empire to appeal in this way, presented ...
Article : 379 wordsHOBART, Jan. 25.—Professor R. C. Mills replied to-day to comments by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) on an address delivered by Professor Mills to the ...
Article : 507 wordsHOBART, Jan. 25.—The radio message received from Flinders Island last Friday by Superintendent Gunner at Launceston, to the effect that on the morning of ...
Article : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—The Glen Innes district has experienced a series of thunderstorms during the last 36 hours which have produced torrential rains in many ...
Article : 271 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The Associated Press states that during a regular interview with journalists, in which Admiral Plunkett's speech regarding the navy ...
Article : 233 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Acting Secretary of State for Home Affairs, has refused to grant a reprieve for John Rowlands, Edward ...
Article : 213 wordsWINNIPEG, Jan. 24.—Lieutenant B. Belchen has disclosed his intention to undertake a flight around the globe against time this year, in addition to the Antarctic ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states that a preliminary survey of the German Air Company shows that 100,000 passengers ...
Article : 56 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 25.—The attitude of the Federal Ministry towards aeroplane flights oversea was made clear to-day in a statement issued at Canberra on behalf of ...
Article : 237 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., describes the decision as a scandal and a crime. "I have heard the news with surprise and ...
Article : 117 wordsCAPETOWN, Jan. 24.—Americans resident in South Africa have cabled to Washington protesting against Admiral Plunkett's statement that war between America ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The "Daily Express" disagrees with the view that the proposed tour of the Chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee (Lord Lovat) ...
Article : 253 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—In order to replace a number of Avro machines, which have performed long service for the Royal Australian Air Force, the Defence ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The General Council of the Trades Union Congress has decided to continue the discussion with a representative group of employers through ...
Article : 63 wordsBUSSELTON, Jan. 25.—An inquest into the death of John James Eddison, a group settler of Karridale, who was found dead near the Karridale Hospital, on December ...
Article : 199 wordsHOBART, Jan. 25.—In his presidential address to-day before the 42nd annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union in Hobart. Senator John Barnes ...
Article : 529 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Trade Union Congress is issuing authentic reports of events in order to prevent unauthorised and inaccurate versions. A counter-charge ...
Article : 71 wordsCALCUTTA, Jan. 25.—The Eastern oil war is developing into a three-cornered contest. The Texas Oil Company, which is understood to be associated with the Texas ...
Article : 135 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 25—The "New York World" says:—"The super-navy enthusiasts have been running wild for weeks, but they won't get away with it. Senator Borah's ...
Article : 67 wordsSir,—In your issue of to-day appears an interview with Senator Pearce in which he refers to the advantages of the Financial Agreement to this State. He ...
Article : 420 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 25.—Advice of the death at Norfolk Island of the Administrator of the island, Major-General V. C. Sellheim, was received to-day by the ...
Article : 248 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—To a salute of 19 minute guns, every flag was half-masted when the remains of Admiral Sir John de Robeck were impressively buried at ...
Article : 141 wordsADELAIDE, Jan. 25.—Senator Sir Henry Barwell gave evidence concerning the disabilities suffered by South Australia as the result of Federation, before ...
Article : 627 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—The latest development in the fight between Messrs. Walsh and Johnston for control of the Australian Seamen's Union is an exchange of letters ...
Article : 183 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—The Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) said to-day that action would probably be taken by his department shortly to bring about ...
Article : 341 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Tokio correspondent of "The Times" states that in view of the increasing anti-Japanese legislation in Western Canada which is ...
Article : 86 wordsVENICE, Jan. 24.—The Lloyd Sabaudo Company, iu conjunction with the Navigazione Generate Italiana, is arranging a new schedule for a regular shipping service ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—In a letter to "The Times" the Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. A. C. Headlam) writes:—"Any discipline imposed on the Anglican clergy by ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 25.—A radio message received to-day by the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Marr) conveyed the intelligence that an exploring expedition in ...
Article : 173 wordsGERADLTON, Jan. 25.—In view of the big demand that exists for houses in Geraldton, and of the fact that there has been very little building done recently ...
Article : 321 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—It is understood that the Compagnie Des Messageries Maritimes intends, within the next four years, to replace all the passenger steamers now ...
Article : 194 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 25.—Mr. A. Coldham, executive officer of the United Graziers' Association of Queensland, in the course of an interview to-day, stated that the ...
Article : 263 wordsOSLO, Jan. 24.—Against the advice of the late Premier (M. Lykke) the King has invited the Labour Party, which is the strongest party in the Storthing, to form ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—A pathetic story was unfolded to the Daceyville police this afternoon following the discovery that two men were attempting to bury the body ...
Article : 217 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—Mr. Alfred G. Milson, chairman of the Anniversary Day Regatta committee, died suddenly this morning at the rooms of the Royal Sydney ...
Article : 297 wordsPromptly at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, Dr. Alan Mackay and Mr. Barney Wood set out from the Fremantle post office in an attempt to break the overland ...
Article : 150 wordsDETROIT, Jan. 24.—Twenty-one prisoners confined in a single cell in the county prison dug their way to freedom through a brick wall by means of tools fashioned ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Overseas Settlement Committee has enlisted the cooperation of the Ministry for Labour and Admiral Earl Beatty for the promotion of ...
Article : 178 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The Smithsonian Institute has completed instruments for the observatory at Canberra. One measures the sun's heat at the earth's ...
Article : 38 wordsKALGOORLIE, Jan. 25.—At the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day, Benno Theodore Hoepner was convicted on a charge of having in his possession on his gold ...
Article : 149 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—The Sydney to Melbourne motoring record has again been broken. Early this month Messrs. E. J. Buckley and L. Bartlett covered ...
Article : 144 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—Passengers on the steamer Nairana experienced an exceptionally rough trip from Launceston to Melbourne last night. Several suffered ...
Article : 144 wordsGERALDTON, Jan. 25.—So far nothing has been heard of John Gibson, club steward, who has been missing for about three weeks. A few days after he left ...
Article : 71 words"Since January 10," the Government Astronomer (Mr. H. B. Curlewis) stated yesterday, "the Brookton district has been subjected to occasional bombardments of ...
Article : 245 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 25.—Mr. L. McGregor, Director of Marketing, in a statement to-day on the prospects of the maize industry, said the crop now growing ...
Article : 149 wordsCANBERRA, Jau. 25.—Further details that have come to hand show that the population of the Federal Capital Territory as revealed at the census taken on ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25.—The Duke and Duchess of York will attend the costers' fancy-dress ball, and 301 coster girls are wondering whether the Duke will join in ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25.—In an article in "The Times" on London traffic problems, Lord Montagu says that motor 'buses are replacing trams, and convey more ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Subject to the Maltese Parliament's approval. Sir James Connolly has accepted Lord Strickland's special invitation to ina[?]ate the Maltese ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—Thomas Joseph Hurley (51), a solicitor, appeared to-day at the Central Police Court charged with having at Sydney during December, 1927, ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Lisbon correspondent of "The Times" reports that the Portugues army is being reorganised and re-armed with modern weapons, which as ...
Article : 45 wordsCAPETOWN, Jan. 25.—It is understood that the £170,000 contract for 50 coaches for the Government railways has been given to the Metropolitan Carriage Works, ...
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