The worst earthquake in the history or New Zealand shook the North Island yesterday morning. Appalling loss of life and immense damage to property was caused. Though it was impossible at Wellington early this morning to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,752 wordsAlthough the engine crews and two passengers had narrow escapes, no injury attended a head-on collision between two trains at Pinjarra early yesterday ...
Article : 981 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Speaking in the Senate to-day, Senator Caraway (Democrat, Arkansas) asserted that 1,000 persons a day were dying of starvation ...
Article : 366 wordsLONDON, Feb. 2.—In the House of Commons to-day, the Home Secretary (Mr. J. R. Clynes) moved the second reading of the Representation of the People Bill for ...
Article : 345 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 3.—If the plans of the Left Wing in the Federal Parliamenatry Labour Party materialise, Tasmania will be left without representation in the ...
Article : 139 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 2.—Fierce rioting occurred at Bewal, a Hindu Sikh village 40 miles from Rawal Pindi, this morning, as a result of a Moslem school-teacher's ...
Article : 107 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 3.—Regret that he was relinquishing the portfolio of Minister for Defence and pleasure at his prospective association with the Postal Department ...
Article : 130 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 2.—Dinesh Gupta, a young Bengali, was sentenced to death by a special tribunal this afternoon for the murder of Lieutenant-Colonel ...
Article : 110 wordsDAYTONA BEACH (Florida), Feb. 2.—In a practice run in his special car Blue-bird to-day, Captain Malcolm Campbell, the British racing motorist, attained an ...
Article : 258 wordsNapier, the capita] of Hawke's Bay Province, in the North Island of New Zealand, was constituted a borough iu 1874. Its population was estimated on ...
Article : 554 wordsHazy atmospheric conditions and clouds of smoke rising on the face of the Darling Ranges have supplied Perth residents with evidence of extensive bush fires during ...
Article : 806 wordsLONDON, Feb. 2.—Luck and skill combined to avert disaster to-day, when an Avro biplane piloted by Richard Bush, of Merton Park, with Stanley Rodwell, of ...
Article : 352 wordsLONDON, Feb. 3.—The "Morning Post's" city editor writes: "The extent of British interest in Australia at present was shown by the anxiety with which the ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Feb. 2.—Answering questions in the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary for India (Mr. Wedgwood Benn) said that it was ...
Article : 171 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 3.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) beard of the earthquake to-night while listening to wireless broadcasting. "It in an appalling disaster," he ...
Article : 67 wordsBOGOTA (Colombia), Feb. 2.—At least 27 persons were killed and 21 wounded on Sunday last during the Colombia Congress elections. According to unconfirmed ...
Article : 57 wordsThe violence of the earthquake is shown at Perth Observatory, where the boom of the seismograph instrument made the widest and most prolonged maximum ...
Article : 119 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 3.—It was stated in Ministerial circles to-day that because of the increase in the rate of overseas exchange, the State's interest bill on loans ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 3.—On June 17, 1929, there was an earthquake in New Zealand which was the most severe and prolonged of any experienced during the ...
Article : 984 wordsLONDON, Feb. 3.—The newspapers in their financial columns discuss and explain the effects of Australian bank dividends being paid to British shareholders at the ...
Article : 139 wordsLONODN, Feb. 2.—In the House of Commons, to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) announced that the Royal Commission on unemployment Insurance ...
Article : 176 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 2.—Over 300 rebels were killed, 130 wounded and 1,250 captured in the rising in Burma, Sir Joseph Crerar, Home member in the Legislative ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, Feb. 2.—A slight fire occurred on Sunday morning in the No. 7 lower hold of the orlop of the Maloja, which contains a cargo of wheat, wool. ...
Article : 91 wordsUnusual interest has been exhibited by University people in the forthcoming elections for four vacancies in the University Senate. No fewer than 11 candidates have ...
Article : 201 wordsLONDON, Feb. 2.—Sir Charles Wakefield field has decided to enter the speed boat Miss England II for the International Trophy which will be contested at Detroit ...
Article : 163 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 3.—The seismograph at the Riverview (Sydney) Observatory recorded the New Zealand earthquake. The first vibrations showed at 8.51 o'clock this ...
Article : 40 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 2.—A motion submitted by the Nazis National Socialists) that Germany should withdraw from the Learns of Nations two years hence was defeated ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following cablegram was despatched yesterday to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Forbes) by the honorary director of the Young Australia League ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 4 Feb 1931, Page 9
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