ThE supply of electricity to the Cairns Harbour Board, and the Board's proposal to install their own generating plant, were discussed by the City Council last night. The mayor (Ald. W.A.Collins) was supported by the whole council in his ...
Article : 69 wordsTwelve persons were killed and 20 injured in an express smash. The engine, after cutting through the end of a goods train,continned a distance of 100 yards and somersaulted tnrough the gates of a level crossing into the street. ...
Article : 150 wordsDr. Duhig (Archbishop of Brisbane), in opening the first Catholic church at Monto to-day, said that the only tinge of regret in ...
Article : 192 wordsManoeuvres are at present being carried out by the Australian Fleet in Jervis Bay. Last night a battle was fought between the ...
Article : 228 wordsSo many volunteers have applied for work in the timber yards and mills in the city and suburbs, that many merchants state they have ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Mayor said he had noticed that the Harbour Board had discussed a proposal to generate their own electricity and had decided to investigate ...
Article : 631 wordsThe British Embassy has handed a note to the French Foreign Office, urging a consultation between the two Governments before the vaccination, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe English cricketers arrived in splendid health. Tate apparently is still suffering mentally from the [?] tests. He ...
Article : 169 wordsLying beneath a hawthorn hedge in a lane in East Colac, the body of Andrew James Christensen, 55, single, a laborer, was found late last night. ...
Article : 112 wordsTwo air-fprce machines are making Alice Springs their base in the search for Anderson and Hitchcock flew for five and a half hours to-day along the ...
Article : 352 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, the Foreign Secretary (Sir Austen Chamberlain), announced that the French Government had decided to ...
Article : 220 wordsCholera epidemics are raging in reveral districts of Bengal, and at Allahabad. At the latter place the infection was spread by hawkers selling ...
Article : 64 wordsAt the meeting of the Reparations Experts, Her Schact presented a memorandum. The figures are secret, but it is believed that the Germans suggest that ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Scuthern Cross landed Derby at 4.16 p.m. ...
Article : 11 wordsAn Official Marylebone Club statement says that there will be no cgange in welcoming arrangements for the English cricketers returning ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Southern Cross landed at Derby at 4.45. All was well with the crew and the plane was in fine trim, flying splendidly, despite the fact that the plane had ...
Article : 143 wordsA fire occurred in Cordelia-street, South Brisbane this afternoon. One house was totally destroyed and two others very badly damaged. ...
Article : 136 wordsIt is reported from Kabul that heavy, fighting occurred between the forces of Bacchsakau, the rebel king. and the Wardk tribe who ...
Article : 88 wordsAt present staying at the Strand Hotel is Mr. F. Lotherington, Queensland manager of Cinema Art Films Ltd., who is visiting the North, with the intention ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Soviet disarmament proposals provide for a reduction of all essential elements in the existing armaments, complete abolition of tanks and heavy ...
Article : 264 wordsIn a message to the Sydney representative of the air liner Canberra (Mr. F. Eager), the pilot (Captain Holden) said he was setting out again ...
Article : 174 wordsOne of the boldest daylight hold-ups in the Police Department's memory, occurred to-day, when five bandits armed with revolvers and sawn-off shotguns, ...
Article : 90 words"The books were false, and in view of this fact, the case was regarded by the Commissioner as very serious and could only be construed by him as one ...
Article : 259 wordsWhen the Southern Cross landed on the mudbank, there were 7 to 9 gallons of petrol in the tank which would haye lasted 20 to 27 miles. ...
Article : 29 wordsA disastrous fire marked the conclusion of the Toowoomba Show this evening, the principal building, the Industrial Pavilion, with all its ...
Article : 70 wordsKnown far and wide as the "Father of Canberra the world's oldest journalist,world's oldest coroner, and the world's ...
Article : 178 wordsHundreds of Londoners to-day obtained a glimpse of the air taxi seaplane, Master Sempill, with Dowager Lady Swaythlipg as passenger, which landed ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Defence Department advised to-day that two air force machines which were operating at Alice Springs conducted another long search to-day, ...
Article : 240 wordsOne of the resolutions on the agenda paper for discussion at the 25th Congress of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia, commencing ...
Article : 161 wordsOver £30,000 was provided under the will of the late Thomas Baker for distribution among the employees of Kodak Australia Ltd. in branches ...
Article : 73 wordsThe death occurred at his residence, Wattle Tree Road, this evening of Mr. Anthony James Jcseph St. Ledger, who represented Queensland in the Senate ...
Article : 138 wordsIt was annouced to-day that the following were among the candidates successful in the local government clerks' examination on February 27 and 28 ...
Article : 91 wordsA bargo carrying a 250,000 dollars cargo of whale oil from the Antarctic whale.Sir James Clark Ross, sank in New York harbour during a storm which ...
Article : 47 wordsAdvice,has been received in Tully that the Cane Prices Board will sit in Tully on April 30 and May 1. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn response to a request by the Defence Department, the Q.A.N.T.A.S. plane, Atalanta, in charge of Pilot Brain, leaves at daylight to-morrow ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Fri 19 Apr 1929, Page 5
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