Although England's opening stand was brief, the side was in a commanding position when stamps were dawn yesterday after the first day's play in the second Test match against Australia at Sydney. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 3,120 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 18.—England have laid a patient foundation from which to force home victory not only in this match but in the rubber. The wicket behaved ...
Article : 1,539 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Newspapers publish photographs of the Duke of Windsor in plus fours, pullover and muffler, smoking a pipe and golfing with Baroness ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The date of King George VI's coronation, May 12 next, will be proclaimed on Saturday afternoon with heraldic pageantry at St. James's ...
Article : 161 wordsFollowing several days of high temperatures and intense humidity, storms occurred over a widespread area of the State on Thursday. Thunderstorms were ...
Article : 427 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The "bad manners" of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. C. G. Lang) in criticising adversely ex-King Edward and his friends in a ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—For Queen Mary the journey of the Royal Family to Sandringham for Christmas, early next week, will be a sad one, for when she ...
Article : 136 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 18.—His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) has transmitted to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of ...
Article : 164 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Paying a tribute to ex-King Edward in a leading article, the "Newsletter," the organ of the National Labour Party, says: "It is to the enduring ...
Article : 201 wordsDaigety and Co., Ltd., and Elder, Smith and Co. Ltd., have received reports of rain in the pastoral areas. The following reports were dated December 17:— ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the country the rain has in a number of cases delayed harvesting operations and some crops have been damaged by hail Between Cue and Mt. Magnet ...
Article : 1,860 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. F. C. L. Smith) said yesterday that the Railway Department had benefited from Thursday's rains in places where water ...
Article : 175 wordsMELOURNE, Dec. 18.—After a retirement of nearly six hours, the jury tonight found Geoffrey Davies (32). cook, of Perry-street; Collingwood, one of the ...
Article : 176 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 17.—In a leading article the New York "Times" compares the Duke of Windsor's request that the newspapers permit him to live as a private ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Deputy-Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. S.R. Roberts) said yesterday that the thunderstorms in the north of the State had caused considerable ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—After a break of five years, due to slavery and inhumanity in the territory, Britain yesterday resumed diplomatic relations with the negro ...
Article : 135 wordsA proposal that the Perth Road Board, as the second largest contributor to the new infectious diseases hospital scheme, should demand representation on the ...
Article : 242 wordsPARIS, Dec. 18.—After an all-night sitting the Chamber of Deputies. passed the Budget, which provides for a deficit of £45,000,000 sterling. ...
Article : 125 wordsBELGRADE, Dec. 17.—While giving evidence today at an inquest on his daughter, Mila Dimitriyevitch, who shot herself because she had been Jilted, the ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY. Dec. 18.—Spectators at the Sydney cricket ground today noticed that a large screen of hessian had been erected near the Paddington end of the ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON. Dec. 17.—The Legislative Council of the Falkland Island is to be invited to assent to a proposal that the royal research ship Discovery, which is ...
Article : 146 wordsROME, Dec. 18.—Itallans have occupied the British Customs House at Gambela (in Abyssinia, near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border), which controls ...
Article : 34 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 18.—An altercation in a city hotel on the night of Saturday, December 5, had a sequel in the Police Court today, when Alice Elizabeth Fien ...
Article : 145 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 18.—In the City Police Court today Dorothy Belmont Tyler (36), domestic, was charged with having on December 10 at Bald Hills ...
Article : 278 wordsAn interim report on the progress of the proposed agreement between the Minister for Health, the metropolitan local authorities, and the Perth Hospital for ...
Article : 374 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—In the event of an air raid on London the tube tunnels will not be available as refuges for the public, the Home Office has announced. All ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The comments of the newspapers on the first day's play in the second Test are couched in the most confident tone. Hammond is the ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—With still more gales predicted for the next few days, the deathroll from shipwreck, flood and storm accidents in the violent weather which ...
Article : 56 wordsCHICAGO, Dec. 17.—In a revival of the gang methods of the prohibition era three young gunmen separated Thomas Scaduto (25) from a crowd of 15 men in ...
Article : 85 wordsNANKING, Dec. 18.—The Central Government is continuing its preparations for the dispatch of a punitive expedition against the troops in North-West ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 18.—Appeals by Thomas Michael Ryan and Denis Martin Ryan, brothers, who were convicted in November of the murder of Robert Alexander ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 18.—Harry Watson (40), a resident of Berry, who escaped from the Berry Hospital on Wednesday, was found drowned this morning in a small creek ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The recommendation of the Ministry of Labour for a ten per cent increase in the wages of wool operatives was adopted at a joint ...
Article : 63 wordsWELLINGTON, Dec. 18.—Four suspected cases of infantile paralysis were admitted to the Dunedin Hospital today, making the total number of patients ...
Article : 48 wordsGENEVA, Dec. 18.—Mr. Wang Chingwel, former Prime Minister of China, left for China today. It is reported that he has been asked to become Prime Minister ...
Article : 32 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 18.—It is feared that 150 Indians have perished as are suit of an explosion in the Bhopudih colliery in Bengal. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 19 Dec 1936, Page 20
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