MELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—The resolution of the House of Representatives' imposing an export duty of a ½d. a lb. on sheep-skins in the wool led to an unexpected ...
Article : 443 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—to guide those who may be in doubt about the operation of the Wheat Advances Act, the Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. Forde) issued ...
Article : 652 wordsLovers of good racing and an attractive course will be well catered for at the W.A.T.C. annual meeting which, opens at 1 o'clock to-day. The committee ...
Article : 2,234 wordsSALTA (Argentina), Dec. 24.—Thirty-five persons were killed and 70 injured in an earthquake which rocked the state of La Poma in the Province of Salta, early ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—In order to keep in touch with the affairs of the Indian Round Table Conference the Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) has abandoned his usual ...
Article : 415 wordsTo-day (Boxing Day) shops, factories, warehouses, banks, insurance offices, the public library and museum, and Government offices will be closed. The principal ...
Article : 172 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Christmas, 1930, in the United States is nothing like Christmas, 1928, or even the festival in 1929. Wall-street bonuses, which in the ...
Article : 368 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 24.—The Punjabi youth who was arrested after the attempted assassination of Sir Geofrey de Montmorency. Governor of the Punjab, ...
Article : 251 wordsThe following special weather forecast for the metropolitan area was issued last night by the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau:— ...
Article : 33 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—The Minister for Defence (Mr. Green) has received the following report from the Air Accidents Investigation Committee in ...
Article : 281 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 24.—The appearance of a number of revolutionary news sheets and newspapers containing incitement towards crime spreading untrue stories of ...
Article : 79 wordsDetails of the chief sporting events are given below:— Racing.—To-day, Derby Day, at headquatres to the West Australian Turf Club, ...
Article : 137 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 23.—An announcement by the Government on the wheat position is taken to indicate that it will stand behind the banks in preventing distress ...
Article : 95 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 25.—The play in the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and Queensland, which was begun at the Adelaide Oval to-day, was dull ...
Article : 354 wordsHOBART, Dec. 25.—The second match between Tasmania and the West Indies team was commenced at Hobart yesterday and continued to-day. Winning the toss, ...
Article : 462 wordsPARIS, Dec. 24.—A bailiff, armed with a distress warrant, visited the fine building in Paris occupied by the Soviet Commercial Mission and attempted to take ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—The annual report of the Sydney Harbour Trust, issued yesterday, stated that during the year ended June 30 last the total number of vessels ...
Article : 193 wordsThe following entertainments will be presented in Perth Theatres:— Luxor Theatre.—To-night, "Beware of Widows," Nellie Bramley Company. ...
Article : 144 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The President of the United States Farm Board (Mr. Legge) suggested to the Senate Agricultural Committee to-day that a ...
Article : 135 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 24.—The following wireless message (dated December 22) has been received from Sir Douglus Mawson, on board the Discovery:— ...
Article : 389 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—M. Vintila Bratianu, the Rumanian statesman, has died at the age of 63 years. The late M. Bratianu was the son of ...
Article : 344 wordsSevere injuries to the left leg and foot were received by Mrs. S. May, of Cargill-street, Victoria Park, on Wednesday, when a concrete washing trough fell from its ...
Article : 53 wordsSpecial train and tramway services will operate during the holidays. For details, intending travellers are advised to study time tables and handbills displayed at ...
Article : 215 wordsWhen questioned on Wednesday concerning the £32,500 which is Western Australia's share of the Federal Government's recent grant for the relief of ...
Article : 142 wordsArthur Olsen (21), of Glyd-street, Cottesloe Beach, received an injury to his right hip and abrasions when he fell from the platform on to the rails at the ...
Article : 46 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—Only 38 minutes of play took place in the Sheffield Shield match on the Melbourne ground yesterday between Victoria and New ...
Article : 221 wordsWhen he fell from some scaffolding on which he was working, at the new Commonwealth Bank building in Murray-street on Wednesday morning, Robert Hunter ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is seldom—particularly in times like the present—that a Government is able to play Father Christmas, but the State Government did so very effectually on ...
Article : 243 wordsOn the North Beach-road, late last night, a motor truck ran into a large tree at the side of the road, and William O'Neill, a young man residing at Paddington-street. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Government departments closed on Christmas Eve right over the week-end, and trill re-open on Monday. On Wednesday afternoon most of the heads of ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The oldest man in the British Isles, Patrick Flood (115), died at Killegrey (Scotland) to-day. He was twice married, but had never ridden ...
Article : 41 wordsAlan Nugent, of Bailey-street, North Fremantle, was conveyed in the St. John ambulance from the corner of High and Market streets. Fremantle, to the ...
Article : 59 wordsPARIS, Dec. 24.—The horror-stricken audience in a circus at Miramont saw a tigress attack a trainer named Waniecke. The animal ripped his face, and he fell ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The Aeronautical Committee of the Air Ministry has undertaken to carry out experiments in testing a compound wins for aeroplanes invented ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Mr. A. J. C. McGrath, of Park-road, Paddington, has returned from England after a search for documentary proof of the existence of the ...
Article : 161 wordsJohn Williams (20), of 92 Flinder-street, Mt. Hawthorn, was admitted to the Perth Hospital late on Christmas Eve, suffering from concussion. He told the police that ...
Article : 56 wordsHOBART, Dec. 25.—In the early hours of yesterday morning Robert Warne, who has a fruit shop in the city and resides at a boarding-house in Davey-street, was ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—It in generally agreed that this Christmas is one of the quietest and dullest experienced iu recent years in Great Britain. The shadow of trade ...
Article : 114 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 24.—In a statement to-day the Australian Minister for Markets (Mr. Parker Moloney) said: "During my first visit to Ottawa I explored the whole ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—The experiment of Lady Game, wife of the Governor of New South Wales, in sending her mother, Mrs. Hughes Gibb, a noted botanist, a bunch ...
Article : 66 wordsFrom the orchard of his parents at Karragullen, Johiu O'Meajrher (13½) was brought to the Perth Hospital early last night suffering from gunshot wounds in ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Evidence was concluded at the Redfern Police Court yesterday in the case in which Victor Hoare (28), taxi driver, was charged with having at ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—To-day the fog, which had hung over London and suburbs for three days, cleared after having caused trouble and delay to workers coming ...
Article : 64 wordsThe name of Arthur Green (22), of King George-street, Victoria Park, was placed provisionally on the danger hat at the Perth Hospital on Wednesday, ...
Article : 99 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—Changes in the geological survey branch of the Mines Department were announced yesterday by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Atherton). ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—Mr. Sydney Myer, the governing director of the Myer Emporium, Ltd., invited 10,000 persons to be his guests at dinner at the Exhibition ...
Article : 119 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—The Minister for Education (Mr. W. Davies) told a deputation from the annual conference of the New South Wales Public School Teachers' ...
Article : 126 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—Almost unnoticed a 'plane approached the Eagle Farm Aerodrome just before noon yesterday and ended one of the most unlucky England ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Mr. Samuel William Lawrence, an estate agent, at Bronte, was forced by two men to sit still on Tuesday night while his offices were ...
Article : 72 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 25.—The council of the South Australian Law Society has adopted the following resolution:— The council express its strongest ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—The Miners' Federation announced to-night that by a small majority districts had accepted the principle of spreading working hours over a ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 25.—Mrs. Kathleen McGinley, of East Maitland, celebrated the 111th anniversary of her birth yesterday. She was born in Ardmore (Ireland). Her ...
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