The people of the United States spent a temperate Christmas. Half of the country was buried in snow drifts to-day, when a terrific blizzard blew, ...
Article : 168 wordsWith scoops. brooms, shovels, and horse-drawn sweepers. a squad of municipal employees descended yesterday on the area of Macaulay and Flemington ...
Article : 907 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.— The following message has been received by wireless from Rear-Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition:— ...
Article : 227 wordsThe full horror of the railway disaster at Lagny, near Paris, is being realised as the papers reappear after the Christmas vacation containing vivid reports by ...
Article : 1,165 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Leonard Wells, aged 18 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wells, of Warialda, was drowned in the Gwydir River, near Gravesend, yesterday ...
Article : 94 wordsFourteen subjects have been suggested by the Federal Government for the consideration of the Premiers' Conference which will meet in Melbourne on ...
Article : 925 wordsSWAN HILL, Wednesday.—Evidence that a man who said that he was wanted on a charge of murder had jumped into the Murray River on October 10 was ...
Article : 339 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Rival film exhibiting companies have announced their intention of building three elaborate theatres in Sydney and others in other ...
Article : 767 wordsSlipping from a path at the edge of the River Yarra at Studley Park yesterday morning, Alexander Green, aged 11 years, Vere street. Collingwood, fell into deep ...
Article : 305 wordsWhile celebrating mass at Monterfalco, a village in the province of Perugia, during the Christmas season, the parish priest. Don Stanislao Boni, drank a ...
Article : 96 wordsTragedy occurred at Pyawbwe, Burma, on Christmas Day, when a gang of robbers broke into the house of Mr. Bentinck, a European railway official, aged 50 years. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe seventh Pan-American Conference closed to-day. The final session took the important action of formally turning over the Gran Chaco peace negotiations to the ...
Article : 208 wordsSenior-detective Sickerdick arrived from Melbourne to-day and made inquiries with the object of discovering whether the man who was drowned was the murderer ...
Article : 255 wordsFiance is seeking to weld her Allies in a solid disarmament bloc. The Belgian Foreign Minister (M. Hymans) and the Greek Foreign Minister (M.Maximos) ...
Article : 72 wordsHaving been seized with cramp as he was swimming about 30 yards from the beach at Sandringham yesterday afternoon, Bruce Gates, aged 23 years, of ...
Article : 67 wordsMILDURA, Wednesday.—Within view of a large number of visitors to a camp at Iraak, on the Murray River, near Red Cliffs, Ian Stanley Watson, aged l8 years. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Commonwealth and Dominion line has placed an order with John Blown & Co. Ltd., of Clydebank for the construction of a twin-screw motor-ship of 8,800 ...
Article : 153 wordsSALE, Wednesday.—Two reports were received to-day regarding the strange animal which was seen at Briagolong some weeks ago. The animal has again been ...
Article : 215 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Later identified as that of William George Sutton, aged 54 years, a body was seen floating in the Torrens River this morning by the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Tallinn, a "rum-runner," carrying 150,000 gallons of liquor, disregarded an order to stop given by an Estonian Customs guardship. Consequently the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Senate Investigation Committee, reporting on the technical default by the Central Republican Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago on a loan from the ...
Article : 259 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that the German press is in a Quandary in commenting on the outcome of the Reichstag fire trial. On ...
Article : 250 wordsIt is officially announced that his Royal Highness Prince George will leave England on January 19 in the Union Castle liner Carnarvon Castle, arriving at Cape ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—In their investigations into the finding of the body of an unknown man in the Murrumbidgee River, near Wagga, the police have a ...
Article : 212 wordsA pea-rifle carried by Wesley Graham, aged l8 years, of Raglan street, South Melbourne, was discharged as he edged farther into a hunting group about to be ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is announced officially that a total of 525,000 ounces of domestic gold has been bought in pursuance of President Roosevelt's policy of buying gold at a price ...
Article : 65 wordsWALHALLA, Wednesdas.—The railway service between Moe and Walhalla is now restored. Worst Storm at Creswick ...
Article : 231 wordsLord Apsley's flight to Australia and back ended in dramatic fashion to-day when his aeroplane Faithful City, piloted by Mr. Lynch Blosse, landed in a fog on ...
Article : 162 wordsWith the Government's gold price again unchanged, and the foreign securities markets closed for the Christmas holidays, the dollar fell slightly to-day, in ...
Article : 114 words"The Times." in a leading article entitled "An Upright Verdict." says:—"No message could be more seasonable to lovers of justice than the acquittal of the ...
Article : 111 wordsGEELONG, Wednesday.—The Corio Shire Council decided to-day to take out a public risk insurance policy for £1,000. The council's object is to protect itself ...
Article : 53 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—While targetshooting near Hindmarsh Island yesterday, Alan Potter, of Norwood, was accidentally shot in the back of the head by ...
Article : 75 wordsMamol Naval Base, on the Fukien coast, which bears the same strategic relation to Foochow, the headquarters of the rebels, as Woosung bears to Shanghai, fell into ...
Article : 116 wordsThe operation of the compulsory agricultural labour scheme under which the existing volunteer labour army of 246,000 will be supplanted by a conscripted ...
Article : 101 wordsThe recent decision by the commonwealth Government to convert to electricity one of the oldest lighthouses under its control marks another stage in the ...
Article : 247 wordsSir,—During a night run to Bendigo recently, in the township of Durham Ox. I narrowly averted a serious accident through collision with a herd of cows ...
Article : 75 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Further reports of the storm of yesterday show that north-east of Caltowie farmers sustained considerable losses, wheat and ...
Article : 89 wordsCanon City, Colorado, instituted a lethal gas chamber to supplant hanging as the method of executing death sentences, but the first victim, a youth, who had been ...
Article : 93 wordsAn air race over a gruelling circuit of 900 miles of desert was won by Mr. Lindsay Everard, who is a member of the House of Commons. He fiew a Dragon Moth ...
Article : 56 wordsPresident Lebrun and members of the Government attended the funeral service of the victims of the Lagny disaster at the Gare de [?]Est to-day in the ...
Article : 117 wordsWhile watch was being kept at half of the aerodromes of Europe for Mohan Sing, the Indian aviator, who had been reported missing after having left ...
Article : 68 wordsDAYLESFORD, Wednesday.—A proposal to reconstruct Clunes Underwear Mill Pty. Ltd., which lost year suffered a loss of £2,265/18/, was submitted to the ...
Article : 83 wordsSir.—I was on the scene from 10 o'clock on Christmas Night to 4 a.m. on Boxing Day, and there are some persons whose services should be recognised. The first ...
Article : 203 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6/6/5 an ounce, compared with £6/6/4, the price quoted on December 23. The price is equal to £7/16/[?] an ...
Article : 70 wordsThe death of the comedian Sammy Shields, who was formerly well known on Australian vaudeville circuits, is reported from London. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe German Church agreed to a Christmas truce. No reference was made from pulpits to the recent disputes even Bishop Mueller contented himself by ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Men from Leeton, Yanco, and Darlington Point have joined residents of Wnitton, who are searching for Jack Wlllchans, aged 20 ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Cabinet of Catalonia visited to-day the remains of the first President (Colonel Francisco Macia), which are lying in state, following his death after an operation. ...
Article : 79 wordsFrance has more express trains timed at 60 miles an hour and more for long distances than any other country. Maximum speeds, however, are limited rigidly ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 28 Dec 1933, Page 7
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