Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, the Labour M.P., has presented a. "peace let[?]" to the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) setting out: "We hereby solemnly ...
Article : 155 wordsBlizzards extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes, with freczing temperatures in California, Louisiana and Georgia and the threat ...
Article : 146 wordsSir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, told Sir Frederick Hall in the House of Commons to-day that he had seen press reports to the effect ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 144 wordsWhen the trial of the Higgs brothers was resumed to-day. Dorothy Higgs, wife of William Higgs, snid that her husband left the house at Rose Bay on the Tuesday morning, ...
Article : 1,646 wordsThe Lismore swimmer, Jack Barratt, carried everything before him at the 13th annual combined high schools' championship swimming carnial which was held ...
Article : 237 wordsConversations were, proceeding between the British and Egyptian Governments regarding the settlement of questions outstanding between them, including that, of the defence of ...
Article : 764 wordsIt has been estimated that the immediate loss to oversea and interstate shipowners as the result of the hold-up of shipping was at least ...
Article : 194 wordsA claim for £ 20,000 for alleged libel was brought by the deputy general manager of the electricity department of the City Council, Silas Young Maling, against the ...
Article : 401 wordsA remarkable case was heard at Seine Assizes to-day. An accountant named Marius Joly, who lost an eye at the war and who was charged with murdering his wife, said ...
Article : 89 wordsSir William McBeath, when interviewed by a representative of the Australian Press Association, on the eve of his departure, for home, said that the outstanding impression ...
Article : 319 wordsThe shipping hold-up prevented the Geelong wool sales from taking place last week, and 18,500 hales listed for Geelong were auctioneer at Melbourne to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsWilliam Ronald Ray and Robert Foy, seamen, on remand, appeared at the Police Court to-day charged that on December 3 they set fire to a heap of newspapers and ...
Article : 294 wordsA man who has not yet boon identified was killed and a woman terribly injured when a motor cycle which they were riding collided with a car in Marine Parade, St. ...
Article : 147 wordsCapt. Kingsford Smith and Lieut. Pond took off from Mills, Field, at 7.56 a.m. today on their third attempt to break the world's flight endurance record. A radio ...
Article : 107 wordsFollowing the usual custom Grace Holman (19), a clerk employed by the Sumner Slipper Coy, at Fitzroy, went to the Union Bank to-day to draw money to pay the employees' ...
Article : 147 wordsThe joint council of the Labour movement passed a resolution emphasising the importance of the Soviet proposals for,general and simultaneous disarmament, and calling on the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe success of the Holland to Java wireless telephony test, coupled with the Commonwealth Postmaster-General's statement at Canberra that they were nearing the time ...
Article : 67 wordsSpeaking on the Appropriation Bill, which passed all stages in Parliament to-day, the Premier admitted that Queensland was passing through difficult times, but as long as ...
Article : 142 wordsHenry Ford in an interview to-day said that the production of his new motor car had cost 100,000,000 dollars. He stated that the time was approaching when each member of a ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. Clapp, Chief Commissioner of Victorian Railways, gave ovidence before the Royal Commission on the Commonwealth Constitution to-day. He said lie believed ...
Article : 170 wordsIt is probable that the Premier will announce on Monday the names of members of the commission which will govern the city of Sydney for the next two years. An ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that gifts of cash and stock to the Exchequer since the outbreak of the war ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the Supreme Court yesterday Harry Young was found guilty of having unlawfully attempted to kill Robert William Breckenridge at South Brisbane on ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. John M'Keown, a prominent business man, stated to-day that the anti-British campaign conducted by Mayor Thompson had lost Chicago, manufacturers orders totalling ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Agricultural Department forecasts a cotton crop of 12,789,000 bales of 500lbs. gross for 1927, as compared with 17,977,000 bales in 1926. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the Senate to-day the Income Tax Assessment Bill debate on the second reading was resumed. Senator O'gden (Tasmania) said that the Commonwealth should be the sole ...
Article : 113 wordsA conference of various bodies interested in cancer research and treatment is to be convened. When making this announcement the Mayor ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the Criminal Court the jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty" against Leslie Alexander Molloy, who was charged with having unlawfully shot at Joseph Rice, a wharf ...
Article : 123 wordsAt the fifty-first annual meeting of the T. and G. Mutual Life Society held yesterday, Friday, 9th December, 1927, the chairman, Mr. J. T. Thompson, said that record ...
Article : 331 wordsWith a revolver clutched in his hand, a man so far unidentified was discovered dead on a woman's grave in a disused cemetery at East Perth. It was clearly a case of ...
Article : 39 wordsAs a director of Amalgamated Wireless (Aust.) Co., Ltd., Mr. W. M. Hushes, M.H.R., issued a statement to-day dealing with the new agreement entered into with the ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Victorian Legislative Council passed the Bill to prevent betting at mechanical hare meetings without amendment. The Country Investments Proprietary Ltd. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) stated, in the House of Commons to-day, that he had no further statement to offer on the subject of safeguarding the iron and steel trade. ...
Article : 103 wordsDr. O'Connor, Roman Catholic Bishop of Armidale, yesterday made an appeal to young men for more chivalrous treatment of the aged and more respectful conduct ...
Article : 95 wordsAlexander Cowie (58), an engineer residing at Balmain, jumped suddenly from the table while having dinner with his brother and ran into the backyard. His brother ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Japanese press are generally featuring disappointment in President Coolidge's advocating peace movements whilst agreeing to a naval expansion programme. ...
Article : 37 wordsSir Dudley de Chair speaking at the annual el inner of the Ulster Association said that he could not claim the honour of being an Ulsterman but he had always ...
Article : 94 wordsTwo fishermen, Fred. Sunberg and a Maori named Hoora, were attacked by a monster shark while in a 13 feet boat in the Bay of Plenty. Hoora was so frightened that he ...
Article : 78 wordsColonel Lindbergh has accepted the invitation of President Calles, of Mexico, to fly from Washington to Mexico City. By special arrangement Renter's world ...
Article : 75 wordsGeorge Watts, employed in the Woodville works of Holden's, motor body builders, was passing another boy in the factory when he jabbed his elbow in his ribs. The other ...
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