The third test match of the 1928-29 series was concluded on the Melbourne Cricket ground on Saturday, England winning by three wickets. Having won the rubber, England retain possession of the mythical Ashes of international cricket. ...
Article : 4,498 wordsThe council of the Royal Agricultural Society Of Western Australia has granted £1,000 for a district display to be held, at the Centenary Royal Show. This ...
Article : 1,201 wordsLONDON, Jan. 5.—The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" states that the outcry against the report of Mr. Parker Gilbert (Agent-General for Reparation payments) ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Jan. 5.—"The Government has planted many seeds," said the Prime Minister (Mr. S. Baldwin) in a speech at Worcester to-day, "of which the fruits will ...
Article : 213 wordsKATANNING, Jan. 6.—One of the worst fires in the history of district occurred between Tunney Town and Tambellup on Friday, when no less than six ...
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Advertising : 483 wordsADELAIDE, Jan. 6.—The Federal board inquiring into the killing of blacks in Central Australia, after a 170-mile car ride over scorching red sands, took ...
Article : 265 wordsMELBOURNe, Jan. 5.—The attendance yesterday was again very satisfactory, 18,106 people passing through the turnstiles, while the takings were £1,094/11/. ...
Article : 242 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6.—Most of the danger from bush fires which threatened in different parts of the State at the end of the week has passed. Cooler conditions ...
Article : 614 wordsFew people are likely to envy Mr. Parker Gilbert or to covet this position as Agent-General for Reparation Payments. It is one of Mr. Gilbert's duties ...
Article : 1,534 wordsLONDON, Jan. 5.—Mr. S. Baldwin, the Prime Minister, has cabled to Chapman "Hearty congratulations on your victory after a most gallant fight of which both ...
Article : 34 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 6.—Arrangements are proceeding for an investigation into the suspension of the Secretary to the Department of Defence (Mr. Sheppard), and ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, Jan. 5.—"Our Ashes" was the pithiest res poster confronting the eye this morning. Everywhere talk centred less on the obvious triumph than the ...
Article : 533 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6.—Members of the Victorian branch of the Timber Worker's Union have agreed to await the completion of the new award by Judge Lukin on ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6.—Tenders will be invited this month, closing on March 20, for the lease of the Cockatoo Dockyard. The term of the tenure will be 20 years with ...
Article : 138 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6.—In addition to the items which the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has set down for discussion at the conference pf Premiers to be begun in ...
Article : 290 wordsLONDON, Jan. 6.—Lady Houston in a New Year's message to the miners says:—"It seems Clear that your present plight is due to mischievous men who pretended ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, January 4.—The advisory Country cricket committee has adopted a motion governing the duration of tests, but is keening it a secret till the next ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6.—The Australian Board of Control for International Cricket to-day issued the following resolution which it had passed:— ...
Article : 212 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 4.—The Posr Office Department issued an order to-day withdrawing from three Cunard ships all United States mail matter except that specifically ...
Article : 181 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6.—William McDonald, a prisoner at Long Bay Penitentiary, escaped yesterday afternoon, and had not been recaptured up till a late hour to-day. ...
Article : 180 wordsADELAIDE, Jan. 6.—A miner named Sellen, who reached Alice Springs from Arltunga on Saturday, told a story of the attempted murder by natives of a black ...
Article : 71 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6.—At the conclusion of the match both teams were entertained by the Victorian Cricket Association in its room in the ...
Article : 575 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6.—A passage of two and a half days from Adelaide was reported by the New Swedish motor ship Parrakoola, which reached Sydney this ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6.—Andrew Charlton, swimming for Manly in the senior alarm reel belt race at the Queenscliff surf car, nival yesterday was defeated by R. ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 6.—Chapman, Tate, Larwood, and Freeman have been omitted from the English team that will play at Geelong to-morrow. The team, ...
Article : 73 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Mr. Irving Glover, second assistant Postmaster-General has announced that the order limiting the amount of mail to be carried by the ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Jan. 5.—The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" states that Shanghai's industrial community is indignant because M. Albert Thomas, director ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Jan. 6.—"I am glad that the British Empire is being broken up and internationalised," said Mr. G. H. Oliver, M.P., an ex-member of the Labour ...
Article : 95 wordsROME, Jan. 5.—The Minister for Finance (Senator Volpi) presented a Budget to-day estimating the revenue for 1929-30 at £205,992,502 and the expenditure ...
Article : 29 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 6.—Two young men, who were in a canoe on Duck Creek, near Auburn, to-day, found the body of Mollie Newman (3), of Asquith-street, Auburn, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 7 Jan 1929, Page 16
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