Extraordinary scenes were witnessed by thousands of spectators at Kew Bridge, London, yesterday afternoon, when two cowboys tried to swim the swollen River Thames ...
Article : 216 wordsM. Francois-Marsal has virtually completed his "stop gap" Cabinet, including M.Lefebre Duprey (Minister of Foreign Affairs), and M. Andre Maginot (Minister of War), ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Australian Commissioner in the United States, Mr. D. Mackinnon, and his secretary, Mr. Black, have returned from an extensive tour of the Middle West, ...
Article : 185 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The New South Wales Rugby League team succeeded in turning the tables on the English team in the return match at the ...
Article : 1,381 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Lieut.-Colonel Bruxner, leader of the Progressive party, referring to the statement that the Cabinet is considering the withdrawal of the New ...
Article : 147 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Wing-Command, er Goble states that the Air Force generally is pleased that the Federal Public Works Committee has recommended to Parliament ...
Article : 292 wordsMARYBOROUGH (Q.), Monday.—A parcel post clerk at the Maryborough railway station in accepting a dress basket over the counter on Saturday night little suspected ...
Article : 213 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—At the invitation of the directors of the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, Ltd., a large number of guests were present at the Chamber of ...
Article : 360 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A fire broke out at Hadcock's news agency shop, Redfern, at 3 o'clock this morning, and the place was gutted. ...
Article : 106 wordsThis afternoon at the Acyama cemetery a public memorial service was held in honour of Ryuntro Hoskizaki, who drowned himself in a well as a protest against the American ...
Article : 190 wordsAn aerial wire attach by an amateur wireless enthusiast to an electric light standard caused the death of two firemen at Upper Montclair. ...
Article : 166 wordsSpeakhig at the International, Cement Congress at Olympia, Col. H. Vaughan Kent, consulting engineer, who was assistant director of fortifications at the War Office ...
Article : 233 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A tram conductor, Harry Howes, was brutally assaulted and kicked from a moving tram car by a gang of hooligans at Erskincville last night. ...
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Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Six schools for the education of backward children three for boys and three for girls, are to be con' structed shortly at Macqunrie Fields. ...
Article : 106 wordsLieutenant Lowell H. Smith, commanding the American aviators who are attempting a flight around the world, was engaged today in changing one of the pontoons on his ...
Article : 118 wordsStrange and almost incredible is the tale of how a man named Liebeck caused the death of a boy who has since been identified as Hans Beyer. ...
Article : 128 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—It is believed that the farmers' Federal organisation will endorse the Bruce-Page election agreement. The future of the composite Ministry ...
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Article : 66 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—At the Central Police Court to-day William O'Keefe and Charles Evans were remanded on a charge of having attempted to choke Charles Devet ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Duke of York inspected 3C00 members of the British Legion at the Horse Guards Parade, who afterwards, headed by bands, marched to the Cenotaph, where the legion's ...
Article : 122 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Parliamentary party which has been touring the prickly pear infested country in the north-west of the State returned to Sydney yesterday. ...
Article : 97 wordsAccording to the "Daily Express" leading Ministers have decided that the Government should go to the country in the autumn, immediately after the mid-summer ...
Article : 96 wordsA forester has found the body of a man called Jonas, formerly a member of the Communist party, in the depth of the forest near Fritzin, in Meeklenburg. Four bullet ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—At a meeting of the Industrial Christian Fellowship in the Domain a resolution was carried protesting against the continuance of the system of ...
Article : 61 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Archbishop Lees, owing to other business, vacated the chair at the Communion breakfast of the Church of England Men's Society at the Cathedral ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—George O'Sullivan, an elderly man, appeared at the City Police Court to-day charged with having broken and entered the premises of Messrs. ...
Article : 58 wordsCRABBE'S CREEK, Monday.—A young man named Robert Sanderson, who was working on a banana plantation at Grabbe's Creek, was found shot in the chest. ...
Article : 63 wordsAn extraordinary fatality occurred at Saint Die as a result of a debate between two electricians as to the lethal power of electric currents. ...
Article : 115 wordsA large party of visitors entered the famous Congo caves, but as time went on and they did not come out, an old guide was sent in to investigate. ...
Article : 103 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—In political and official circles it is considered that certain regulations, made at the instance of the Food Standard Committee and requiring the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe underground railway strike continues and the situation is serious, but the services were maintained throughout Sunday and the situation this evening was better rather than ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—It is understood that the New South Wales Government intends to bring about another Premiers' Conference at an early date for the purpose of ...
Article : 61 wordsM. Drouhin, a French air pilot, has established a record in transferring a pony from Lebouruet to Rotterdam in three hours. The pony, which was consigned to a Dutch ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the annual meeting of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers in Edinburgh a resolution was adopted drawing attention to the serious financial position ...
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Article : 53 wordsSpeaking, at Belfast on Sunday Lord Carson said: "I do not forget what our relations were in the old days, and old as I am, if it becomes necessary I will not ...
Article : 85 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Having made an appointment to meet her father, Charles Ranford, on Semaphore road, Miss Ra[?]ford returned to the house to inquire why the ...
Article : 51 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The Federal Government has refused the request of the Returned Soldiers' League that the Public Service Act be amended in the direction of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe revolutionaries are masters of the situation in Albania, and are concentrating against the Government stronghold at Elbasan. where 8C00 loyalists are entrenched. ...
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Article : 31 wordsThree men are believed to have been drowned as the result of a boat being swamped by the wash of a crowded pleasure steamer on the River Usk at ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Government has given permission to the ex-Crown Prince of Germany and his family to make their home in Italy. The application was made by Prince ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe death is announced from Pretoria of Sir Arthur Mason, a judge of the Pretorian Supreme Court, as a result of blood poisoning. Sir Arthur Mason was born in the year 1860 ...
Article : 57 wordsSixty of the prisoners interned at the Curragh military camp have been released. ...
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Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Tue 10 Jun 1924, Page 5
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