Walking into a grocery store in Leederville yesterday afternoon, a youth produced a revolver and demanded of Mrs. Frances Smethers (about 50) the shop till. ...
Article : 390 wordsLONDON, May 18.—The wheat conference was opened quietly at Canada House to-day: Delegates were photographed, after which, the Prime Minister of Ontario ...
Article : 229 wordsSYDNEY, May 18—Detectives daring the weekend recovered practically the whole of the remainder of the diamond jewellery stolen from the King-street shop ...
Article : 461 wordsTo Lave made for oneself, during a life-time, a name as the national nerd of an historic -war epic, and to be remembered and respected for that alone, is to have ...
Article : 854 wordsWhile the establishment of a regular air mail service between Great Britain - and Australia is not likely to be accomplished at an early date, because of the lack of ...
Article : 522 wordsLONDON, May 17.-Hitherto only a summary has been published of the Pope's encyclical (issued on Friday, on the 40th anniversary of the "rerum novarum," Pope ...
Article : 296 wordsCANBERRA, May 18—The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) declined to comment on the matter to-day, but it is believed that little hope is entertained by the ...
Article : 329 wordsGENEVA, May 18—At the 63rd session of the League of Nations Council, which opened to-day, the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. A. Henderson) moved that the ...
Article : 478 wordsLONDON, May 18.—Commenting on the wheat conference "The Times" states that the fall in prices threatens the cessation of cultivation of Empire land most ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, May 17.—Emphasing that the new German cruiser Ersatz Preussen, the first pocket battleship, which is expected to be completed next year will create a ...
Article : 336 wordsADELAIDE, May 18.—Discussing the proposed informal conference of the Federal Parliament Senator Daly said on his return from Canberra to-day he ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, May 17—The "Daily Herald" states that the British Government's plans for the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa might be materially ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, May 17.—To-day prayers were offered at Liverpool Cathedral with reference to the case of William Wallace, who to death at the Liverpool ...
Article : 269 wordsMELBOURNE, May 18.—Addressing a crowded meeting of Labour supporters at the Northcote Town Hall to-night, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Brennan) ...
Article : 154 wordsBRISBANE, May, 18—Mr. Geoffrey Wikner, at the Archerfield aerodrome this afternoon, flying a Wicko sports cabin monoplane, established a new Australian ...
Article : 449 wordsReplying to representations made by Senator E. B. Johnston (W.A.), in favour of Wyndbara as the first port of call for the aerial mail service from England ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. H. E. Braine, secretary of the Wheat Pool of Western Australia, said yesterday that he understood that the Commonwealth Government had ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, May 18.—The Geneva correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that an extremely critical situation is threatening the League. "France, ...
Article : 229 wordsADELAIDE, May 18.—A sensational shooting incident, believed by the police to be the result of a fend in the underworld occurred at Unley at 6.15 p.m. ...
Article : 200 wordsCALCUTTA, May 18.—Colond H. T. Morshead, a director of the Survey of India, disappeared from the town of Maymvo in Burma yesterday. He had ...
Article : 143 wordsDARWIN, May 18.—The Quantas plane Hippomenes, which, took the first England-to-Australia air mail from here to Brisbane and which has now returned with ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, May 18.—The Presbyterian General Assembly, at its sessions on Saturday, was asked by overture from the Presbytery of Moree to define its ...
Article : 354 wordsMELBOURNE, May 18.—Labour to handle cargo to and from vessels in port to-day was picked up by shipowners representatives in accordance with the new ...
Article : 104 wordsMADRID, May 17.—A series of tragic errors to-day resulted m five deaths arid the serious injury of five other persons. The trouble began when a party of ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, May 15.—The newspapers publish, a letter which' has been, circulated from the Automobile Association, which received it from the Queensland ...
Article : 81 wordsA civic reception to Lord and Lady Baden-Powell was held at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, at the Prince of Wales Theatre (lent by Union Theatres). To two ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,509 wordsGARDONE (Italy), May 17.—Mr. Kaye Don, the British Racing motorist, who won the first heat of the contest for the D'Annunzio Trophy with the motor boat ...
Article : 208 wordsADELAIDE, May 18.—The employment of members of the Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Association at Port Adelaide was restricted to-day to returned ...
Article : 78 wordsHONG KONG, May 15.—A force of 5,000 troops from Canton (whose inhabitants have threatened to form a Government in Southern China independent of ...
Article : 114 wordsMELBOURNE, May. 18.—Although officers of the Council for Scientific and In duttrial Research were disinclined to-day to discuss the decision of the Federal Mm ...
Article : 244 wordsOMAHA (Nebraska), May 17.—A noted aviator, Mr. Charles ("Speed") Holman, was killed at local air races when his 'plane. flying upside-down at nearly 300 ...
Article : 62 wordsMELBOURNE, May 18.—Bets alleged to have been made by a solicitor were referred to to-day in the Practice Court before Mr. Justice McArthur, when ...
Article : 343 wordsSYDNEY, May 18.-Should suitable weather prevail, Mr. C. W. A. Scott will reave Sydney on Wednesday morning for Wyndham. on the return flight to London. ...
Article : 109 wordsMADRID, May 17.—As the Monarchists were planning demonstrations to-day to celebrate ex-King Alfonso's birthday, the notice Police Prohibited all public gatherings. ...
Article : 54 wordsCAIRO, May 17.—The death-roll in further election riots during the week-end was nine. At Mit Ghamr troops fired on the rioters, killing six and wounding 23. ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, May 18.—A man who is now in the reception house inflicted a serious wound with a razor on a neighbour, William Conrad (43) in a bouse in Park-road, ...
Article : 130 wordsBERLIN, May 18.—A shunting engine caught by an outgoing goods train near a bridgehead at Essen was thrown over the ratlines and dropped upon a child playing ...
Article : 47 wordsMADRID, May 18.—Because he had embroiled himself in politics to such an extent as to be a menace to the "spiritual and material peace of the Basque country," ...
Article : 79 wordsCOLLIE. Mar 18.—Running into a bog on landing, a three (Mater Spartan aeroplane, owned by Wings, Ltd., overturned and was damaged about 3 p.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, May 15.—Constant report that Madame Lupescu, the mistreat of Kins Carol of Rumania, is at present at Bucharest, in the Royal palace, induced ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, May 17.—The salvage vessel Reclaimer left Sunderland to-day under sealed orders with a picked crew. Her owners refused to divulge her ...
Article : 80 wordsPRAGUE, May 17.—A marriage certificate will be an important part of the paraphernalia of Bohemian hikers in future, since the Governor of the province has ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, May 17.—Brynar James Owen (35); engineer, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for baring obtained large sums of money by fraud. ...
Article : 152 wordsMADRID, May 18.—It is reported from the frontier that 11 persons were injured in bomb outrages in Lisbon on the occasion of the official ceremony and homage ...
Article : 69 wordsPARIS, May 18.—Mdlle, Lebouer (17), whose ambition it was to become the world's most famous woman parachutist, has been killed at an aviation meeting at ...
Article : 62 wordsHOBART, May 18.—Mr. Ben Watkins former Deputy Leader of the labour Party, who resigned just before the recent State election and stood successfully aa an ...
Article : 95 wordsSYDNEY, May 18.—At Point Piper yesterday. Freda Dukerton, of Marrickville, was walking along Wunulla-road when a man leapt from the darkness of a ...
Article : 133 wordsCANBERRA, May 18.—The counting of the ballot papers in the election for the Canberra Advisory Council was completed late to-night, and resulted as follows:— ...
Article : 65 wordsPARTS, May 17—Textile workers in Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing have declared a strike against recent ware reductions. Four hundred factories and 100,000 ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, May 16.—The body of Mr. J. A. Cuffe, a Worcestershire cricketer, formerly of New South Wales, has been recovered from the River Trent. ...
Article : 94 wordsPARIS, May 15.—The Foreign Minister (M. Briand), who was unsuccessful in the recent Presidential elections, has informed the Central News Agency that his ...
Article : 53 wordsDUBLIN, May 17.—The prize fund of the Irish sweepstake on the Derby amounts to £900,000. ...
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