For yet another day abnormally nigh temperatures were experienced in the metropolitan area yesterday. With a maximum of 112.2 degrees, registered at the Observatory at 1.10 p.m., Perth exceeded its previous record high temperature of 111.7 degrees on ...
Article : 1,836 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight-Lieutenant G. E. Nicholetts have succeeded in breaking the non-stop flight record of 4,984 miles ...
Article : 228 wordsBATAVIA, Feb. 8.—The battleship De Zeven Provincien (5,644 tons), which sailed from Oleleh (Sumatra) on Saturday night in control of the native crew, who had ...
Article : 182 wordsPARIS, Feb. 8.—A curious feature of the new Ministry's Budget plans is that no pretence is made to deal with the deficit, which was estimated by the last ...
Article : 178 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 8.—The chairman of the Australian Board of Control (Dr. A. Robertson) to-night made available the message which the secretary to the ...
Article : 329 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 8.—Members of both the Australian and English Test teams practised at the nets at the Brisbane cricket ground this morning in ...
Article : 183 wordsDAKAR (Senegal), Feb. 8.—Mr. J. A. Mollison arrived at Villa de Cisneros (Northern Africa) at 3.15 p.m. to-day, and is now at Thies (Senegal). From there he ...
Article : 120 wordsThe route of Mr. J. A. Mollison's flight from Lympne aerodrome, England, to Port Natal, Brazil, on which he hopes to break the record of 4½ days recently established by Frenchmen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 71 wordsRecently I reviewed the performances of those Australian players who have taken part in a number of teats, and I now present the figures of the leading ...
Article : 645 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 7.—Although Germany outwardly is normal, excitement & growing among the workers owing to the increasing number of deaths from political ...
Article : 267 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—Behind the Royal Air Force long-distance flight, which has cost the Air Ministry much time and money, lies a possibility of Britain's lead ...
Article : 137 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 8.—When the Australian Board of Control's reply to the M.C.C. was referred to the captain of the English team (D. R. Jardine) to-night, he ...
Article : 66 wordsThe success of the two Royal Air Force pilots, Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight-Lieut. G. E. Nicholetts in their attempt to capture for Britain the record ...
Article : 498 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 8.—There was hostile criticism of body-line bowling tactics at a delegates' meeting of the Victorian Sub-district Cricket Association to-night. ...
Article : 228 wordsGENEVA, Feb. 7.—Efforts by the League of Nations to effect a conciliation in the Sino-Japanese dispute over Manchnria, which have so far been abortive. ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The projected Anglo-American discussions in Washington in March on March on Britain's war debt and world economic problems were further ...
Article : 222 wordsBATAVIA, Feb. 8.—Thousands of European, native and Chinese citizens gathered to-night before the palace of the Governor- General, shouting "God save the Queen" ...
Article : 125 wordsA chart showing the unusual weather system responsible for the present heat wave. The low pressure area moving down from the tropics to meet a low pressure area moving from southern latitudes has Joined with the latter in the Indian Ocean, instead of Inland, as it was normally expected to have ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 216 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—Four persons were killed to-day when a Royal Air Force 'plane exercising at Salisbury met a heavy ground mist and struck a tree, whereupon ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 322 wordsTHE HAGUE, Feb. 8.—The Minister of Defence spoke to-day in justification of the Government's action in preventing the circulation of Labour and Socialist ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The Prince of Wales, in the uniform of a colonel of the Irish Guards, was present at the Victoria station this afternoon to welcome on behalf ...
Article : 200 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—The Admiralty has distributed £7,000,000 worth of naval contracts, having ordered a cruiser each from Greenock, the Tyne, and Devonport, a ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—In the House of Commons to-night, Mr. Hore-Belisha, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, moved the second reading of the Austrian Loan ...
Article : 233 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Widespread interest is being shown iu London despatches describing a prospective British war debt settlement plan on a lump-sum ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—The naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that instead of replying to the new and powerful French battle cruiser Dunkerque ...
Article : 94 wordsFor the sixth successive day Perth was the hottest capital city in Australia yesterday, and, at its coolest hour, was 17 degrees hotter than Melbourne or Hobart ...
Article : 172 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The Secretary for India (Sir Samuel Hoare) stated to-day that the Government intended to lay a White Paper before the Parliament ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—In the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) said that as a result of the good offices of Dr. Benes (Czechoslovakia) ...
Article : 158 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 8.—Recent riots, followed by increasing lawlessness, has led the Bombay Government to introduce a Bill to the provincial legislature under ...
Article : 53 wordsFollowing are the averages of the Australian Test players against the visiting English team:— Batting. ...
Article : 258 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—A special committee of the International Chamber of Commerce issued a report to-day, which will be distributed to the 45 member ...
Article : 159 wordsORAN (Algeria), Feb. 8.—Mr. Victor Smith, the voting South African airman who left England yesterday morning in an attempt to break Mrs. Mollison's ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The nameplate of the German cruiser Emden, which the Australian Government is returning to Germany as a token of goodwill, will be ...
Article : 57 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 8.—An Indian who was recently discharged from the 2nd-5th Mahrattas as unfit for service, attacked Lieutenant-Colonel G. N. Ford, the officer ...
Article : 66 wordsAll centres in the State again reported exceptionally high temperatures yesterday. Moora, with 116deg., reported the highest reading in the State. Record high ...
Article : 662 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 8.—It is believed to be likely at Canberra that if certain oil interests decline to give evidence at the public inquiry into the petrol industry ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The Minister of Transport (Mr. P. J. Pybus) announced to-day that, following careful consideration of the report of the Commission on ...
Article : 68 wordsCALCUTTA. Feb. 8.—Five Bengal youths have been arrested at a village near Burdwan (Bengal), following the discovery of five bombs bearing labels ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—Mr. E. W. C. Kearney, engineer and managing director of the Kearney High-Speed Tube Railway Co., Ltd., and the Kearney Railway ...
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