A Gipsy Moth aeroplane piloted by G. L. Menzies crashed when taking off from the golf links this morning. The machine struck a bump and ...
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Article : 408 wordsEverything was quiot on the coalfields yesterday. Many miners and families went to the senaside. None of the mines has been ...
Article : 33 wordsWilliam Oakley, 17, of Rozelle, was attacked and practically torn to pieces by a shark while bathing in the waters of the Sydney Harbour at Balmain this morning. Hundreds of people were bathing in the vicinity of ...
Article : 554 wordsThe English Channel was swept with sudden and heavy gales on Christmas Day, forcing many vessels to seek port. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe General Secretary of the Engine Drivers' Federation (Mr. Alkins) has sent a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) stating that the ...
Article : 100 wordsSydney swellered in sticky humidity last night, and the Weather man stat[?]d it was the hottest since February 16, 1928. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe police removed 39 persons to hospital from the streets to-day sufferiny from poisoned Christmas liquor. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe western part of the State ex[?]ced hot weather yesterday. The [?]st temperature recorded was 109 [?]te Cliffs. ...
Article : 25 wordsAlthough she was told that the river was dangerous to bathers who could not swim, Gladys Ware, 24, went in for a swim in the Wollondilly ...
Article : 61 wordsWhen the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia resumed to-day, the home team set out with a will to overtake Queensland's ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Soviet Government despatched an aeroplane to search for the missing airmen. Ben Eilson and Bireland, off the Siberian coast and has ordered ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsFiremen with gas masks had to be called in to stop a leak in an ammonia cylinder in Hillier's sun[?]ao shop, George Street, to-day. The shop ...
Article : 66 wordsSensational stories in certain organs of the French Nationalist press to the effect that the French Ambassador. M. Herbette at Moscow. has broken ...
Article : 225 wordsPresident Hoover watched a fire on Christmas Eve which seriously damaged the executive offices. The fire, which was p[?]sumably due ...
Article : 140 wordsFrank Usher, a member of a picnic party, was drowned while trying to swim across the Narrabeen Lakes to-day. Arthur and Thomas Watts, two ...
Article : 65 wordsThieves carried a heavy safe from the office of Thomas Miles, timber merchant, during the holidays. The safe contained about £450 in ...
Article : 43 wordsHunslet defeated the Australian Rugby League team by 18 points to three, when the Australians lost the eighth match of their tour. ...
Article : 305 wordsMore than half an inch of rain fell between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday, the greater portion neing recorded during the two torrential downpours ...
Article : 103 wordsRonald Lorn, aged seven, was drowned while bathing in the Hunter River to-day. The child stepped into a big hole and disappeared before ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Hoover family gathered at their private Christmas tree on the second floor of the White House early to-day, declining to permit Christmas ...
Article : 75 wordsA man with a long gash in the throat was found by the police at a pie stall early yesterday morning, but when approached made off, and was caught. ...
Article : 78 wordsA man and a girl narrowly escaped drowning when they were carried 300 yards out to sea in the surf at Manly to-day. They were rescued in the ...
Article : 42 wordsFew golfers were left in Canberra to contest the two competitions held by the Canberra Golf Club yesterday, the fields numbering less than 20 both ...
Article : 90 wordsWhile acting as Father Christmas at a children's Christmas Eve party, Goroke James Concett was seriously burned when his cotton wool heard ...
Article : 65 wordsSaying that he was "Jack the Ripper," a man held up a taxi driver with a revolver at Thornton on Christmas Eve. ...
Article : 84 wordsApproximately 500 tourists passed through Canberra yesterday and saw the places of interest, including Parliament House, where the attendants ...
Article : 68 wordsR. Dickson, 56, who disappeared from his daughter's home at Belmore on Christmas Eve, was found wandering in the bush near Bankstown this ...
Article : 60 wordsThe re-construction of Crawford-st. Queanbeyan, was completed on Christmas Eve, and the road was opened to traffic to the entire relief of the local ...
Article : 166 wordsPercy Mervyn Coates, bookmaker, Ernest Conolan, bookmaker's clerk and William Brown, jockey, appeared before the Broken Hill Registration ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Asland was sunk off Bayone. Twenty were drowned. By special arrangement Reuter's ...
Article : 59 wordsRobert McCowan, a solicitor, who was arrested on Stradbroke Island yesterday after he had failed to answer bail on a charge of stealing £700, appeared ...
Article : 71 wordsA special sitting of the court was held on Christmas Day to hear a charge against Reginald Morton, of having carried a weapon of offence. ...
Article : 72 wordsMiss Helen Wills, the well-known international tennis player, and Mr. Moody departed southward from San pedro Harbour at noon to-day, aloard ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Australian team to meet Hull is:—Upton, Shankland, Gorman, Laws, Spencer, Weissell, Buseh, Stelnohrt, Bishop, B[?]ogan, Kingston, ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Fri 27 Dec 1929, Page 1
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