The House of Bishops met at Lambeth Palace to-day to consider the Prayer Book crisis. The conference will continue on Tuesday when it is ...
Article : 417 wordsThere was some excitement in George-street West to-day when two horses ran amok. The horses were attached to a lorry and during the temporary ...
Article : 187 wordsCapt. Kingsford Smith, the Australian, and Lieut. Pond had been in the air for 40 hours, according to the last report, in their attempt to break ...
Article : 260 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) announced to-day that compulsory dipping is to be commenced immediately in the Tweed area and ...
Article : 527 wordsAs the result of the collapse of New South Wales, South Australia requires only 189 runs in the second innings to win the Sheffield Shield ...
Article : 845 wordsReading more like fiction than fact is the story of how Ganger Ryan saved the Kempsey mail from certain disaster yesterday. ...
Article : 190 wordsThere are indications that England's present snow and frostbound condition will establish a record for many years. Heavy falls are ...
Article : 314 wordsA 14-year-old crime was recalled to-day by the arrest of a man on a charge of the murder of a man named Stratton at La Perouse on July 14, 1913. Stratton was found dead ...
Article : 332 wordsGeorge Edward Devine (20) a railway employee, was sentenced to two years' hard labour for manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court to-day. Devine was charged ...
Article : 92 wordsSmith and Pond as they approached the 40th hour of their endurance flight were forced to a higher altitude on account of air currents, requiring greater gas consumption. ...
Article : 86 wordsA Bathurst message states that a gang of garotters is operating at Tottenham, where several serious assaults and robberies have occurred. Additional police ...
Article : 111 wordsThe secretary of the Returned Soldiers' League has sent a letter to Capt. Kingsford Smith at San Francisco asking for particulars of his Pacific flight. The letter states ...
Article : 88 wordsAmong the proposals discussed at the annual conference of the Queensland Teachers' Federation to-day was one that children should be compelled to attend ...
Article : 139 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) told a questioner that the Government had signed the new treaty with Iraq and there would be an ...
Article : 324 wordsSix members of the submarine crew were still alive on Monday noon. Rescue operations are delayed on account of a heavy gale. Navy ward officials announced this ...
Article : 249 wordsAt Darlinghurst Sessions to-day John Neighbour and Athol Blake Ricketson, formerly officers of the Commonwealth Bank, were charged with having conspired to cheat ...
Article : 137 wordsA man whom the police interviewed a couple of weeks ago in connection with the death of the money lender, Daniel Condon, has convinced them that he was many miles ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Crown to-day appealed to the Full Court of Criminal Appeal against the sentence of two years' imprisonment passed on Brian Travers (18) for the brutal assault ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. Lockhart) to-day refused a certificate of discharge to Charles William Greaves and Thomas Arthur Greaves, who voluntarily, ...
Article : 105 wordsTwo women had a narrow escape when fire destroyed a.shop occupied by Mrs. Mullins at Albert Park early to-day. Mrs. Mullins was awakened by smoke and she ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. Mance) to-day issued a statement setting out statistics relating to the mining industry during 1927. Mr. Mance states that ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry to-day found that Capt. Charles Sproule, master of the steamer St. Albans, which collided with the ...
Article : 93 wordsWhen Mr. A. D. Kay was removed from the Metropolitan Meat Board early in the month the Government appointed Mr. Simpson, manager of the by-products department ...
Article : 92 wordsIn pursuance of the policy of the Loan Council to reduce the loan expenditure the Federal Capital Commission's estimates for the second half of the current financial year ...
Article : 151 wordsThe railway administration has accepted German tenders for the supply of 90 locomotives costing £560,213. Tenders were received from Great Britain, America, ...
Article : 78 wordsColonel Duncan, president of the Scottish Rugby Union, in a speech at a dinner tendered to the Waratahs said it would be a long time before they saw a better match ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) stated yesterday that as substantial sums were still being subscribed to the war conversion loan the Government proposed to allow the loan ...
Article : 75 wordsTwo men armed and masked entered the station master's office at Hughesdale railway station late last night, covered the station master with a revolver, and ordered ...
Article : 96 wordsQueensland is fighting desperately to avert an outright defeat in their match against Victoria. When play ceased tonight the score was 338 for seven wickets ...
Article : 247 wordsDuring the session of Parliament which closed on December 8 there were 52 divisions in the Legislative Assembly, and 28 in committee. The honour of participating ...
Article : 68 wordsAlthough the public, is apathetic towards the return world championship sculling race on Monday at one o'clock, the oarsmen are practising hard, despite the snow. Goodsell ...
Article : 63 wordsA deputation waited on the assistant Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) to-day and told him that the scheme at present proposed by the city railway construction authorities at ...
Article : 78 wordsSidney Wade was found dead in bed in a room at the C.B. residential chambers, Pitt-street, last night. It is believed that death was due to natural causes. There was ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Bavin) announced yesterday that he had communicated with the Premiers of other States asking them to attend a conference he proposed to call early ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the Federal Arbitration Court to-day the Liquor Trades Union sought a variation of their agreement with the Brewers' Association of New South Wales to terminate it on ...
Article : 66 wordsSenator Robinson, the Democratic leader, informed Senate to-day that evidence with regard to the so-called Mexican "slush" fund disclosed conclusively that the four Senators ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce and hosiery manufacturers in the Midlands fear serious losses as the result of the new Australian tariff. The ...
Article : 64 wordsA man who was found in Crown-street, Surry Hills, last night bleeding profusely from a deep gash in the left arm stated that he had been attacked by five men and ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Federal Treasurer stated to-day that £20,000,000 for the provision of 20,000 homes under the Federal housing scheme would be made available when arrangements were ...
Article : 70 wordsIn view of the unusual number of murders perpetrated in Sydney in recent weeks the Premier (Mr. Bavin) was asked to-day whether the Government intended to follow ...
Article : 76 words"King Ben" Purnell, loader of the House of David cult, died on December 16 from tuberculosis. No announcement of his death was made before due to the belief of loyal ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Pratten announced to-day that the deferred duties on hosiery would take effect from January 1. Though Parliament favoured an earlier imposition than the date ...
Article : 136 wordsSix out of a tow of seven cottages in Patonga-street, Woy Woy, were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The buildings were of weatherboard and a strong westerly wind ...
Article : 53 wordsSpeaking at the Australian Manufacturers' Exhibition at the Showground today the Premier of Queensland (Mr. McCormack) said that one of the greatest, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe annual conference of the Teachers' Federation carried a motion: "That the far North Coast be declared an unfavourable living area, and that six weeks' vacation ...
Article : 51 words"Australia shares with England the difficulty of choosing her test team selectors, but when the team is chosen the Australian newspapers immediately write up the selected ...
Article : 174 wordsThe steamer Roseric, which had been quarantined at Townsville, arrived at Brisbane this morning, and after being fumigated was allowed to proceed to discharge ...
Article : 39 wordsSafebreakers yesterday morning removed to a vacant block and exploded a safe from the Gas Works Hotel, and abstracted £205 from it. The landlord and his wife were ...
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Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Wed 21 Dec 1927, Page 5
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