Replying to an all-party deputation of members of the House of Commons, which called attention to the increase in dog racing, and especially to the ...
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Article : 329 wordsJohn Charles Stewart, aged 23 years, was arrested at Unders, near Kyabram, at half-past 1 o'clock this morning on a charge of having escaped from legal custody at the Yatala Labour Prison, Northfield, South Australia, where he was serving a life sentence for murder. ...
Article : 260 wordsStewart escaped from Yatala Labour Prison on October 20. He had been at work with other men in the prison reserve, and was last seen shortly before ...
Article : 422 wordsWhen meeting a taxicab on the first bend below the summit of Mount Lofty shortly after 1 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, a motor car descending the hill ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Daily Express says:—"We understand that the Church leaders dealing with the Prayer Book revision have been engaged in unofficial secret ...
Article : 186 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, replying to a question by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby (Labour, Brightside) as to whether there was any hope of a resumption of ...
Article : 96 wordsAn important group of Conservative members of the House of Commons has been conducting a long correspondence with the Government on the subject of ...
Article : 114 wordsReports were received at railway headquarters to-day, that further rains in the central west had caused washouts on the Longreach-Winton line. Capella ...
Article : 204 wordsThe first prosecution in Victoria for betting on mechanical coursing was heard to-day at the Footscray Police Court. Arthur Thomas (38) a labourer, was fined ...
Article : 60 wordsFollowing police investigations into his story of a sensational encounter with a burglar in Arundel street. Glebe, early on Wednesday morning. Joseph Wirz has ...
Article : 183 wordsJohn Neighbour (35), salesman, and Athol Blake Ricketson (32), manager, who were convicted at Quarter Sessions, of having conspired to defraud the ...
Article : 359 wordsThe Commonwealth High Commissioner (Sir. Granville Eyrie), in an address at a luncheon of the Food Canning Council, appealed to Empire canners to co-operate ...
Article : 181 wordsInterference with the machinery controlling the mechanical hare at the Mascot Greyhound Racing Meeting to-night caused an hour's delay in the start ...
Article : 103 wordsRobert Edward Bradley (75), who for 60 years was engaged in one of the legal departments in England and was consulted by the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in ...
Article : 323 wordsA collision between a motor bus and a motor lorry occurred on the Western road, Dear Wentworthville, early to-night. Five persons, who were riding on the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Headlam), in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, said that until further details were ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is expected that about 20,000 men employed in the metal trades industry will be dismissed tomorrow and Saturday in accordance, with the recent decision of ...
Article : 190 wordsThe King's Speech, delivered on the prorogation of Parliament, dwells with satisfaction on the enthusiastic reception accorded to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ...
Article : 305 wordsFurther evidence was heard at the Central Police Court to-day in the case in which Vincenzo Scarchelli was charged with being a prohibited immigrant in that ...
Article : 224 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Charles Courtice Pounds, a well-known actor and vocalist, who in 1895 made a tour of Australia. In England his played in many ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Embassy Film Company's picture, "Gallipoli," which is to be released in the Australian capitals on Anzac Day (April 25) next, was to-day privately shown at ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Soviet Government's antireligious organization has issued a detailed programme for the Christmas holidays. It instructs workers how to spend the ...
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Article : 93 wordsThe Australian Trade Commissioner (Sir Hugh Denison), addressing the British Empire Chamber of Commerce, said he was returning to Australia to confer with ...
Article : 155 wordsWintry conditions, exceeding all records within living memory, are being experienced throughout Great Britain and the west of Europe. The remarkable weather freak has resulted in London alone in 2,000 people having to be treated in hospitals for injuries, and the French capital ...
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Article : 97 wordsThe second incendiary fire this year in the Pasay Nipa district resulted in the death of three children, made 2,500 residents of the Philippines capital homeless ...
Article : 78 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree issued by the Italian Cabinet, under which the gold standard of currency will become effective on Thursday. ...
Article : 34 wordsUnique scenes occurred to-day in Paris, similar to those reported from London. Four hundred people were sent to hospital, some with serious fractures. Four or five ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 23 Dec 1927, Page 9
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