A man was drowned as a result of a cloudburst to-day, low-lying streets were flooded, and gardens damaged. Adrian Quist, the tennis player, had a ...
Article : 356 wordsThe work of sorting and loading cargo on the Byrd expedition ship, the Jacob Ruppert, which has been proceeding feverishly since Wednesday last, was practically completed ...
Article : 108 wordsThe State. Cabinet, it was officially announced yesterday, would not appoint a board to control the baking trade or to fix the price of bread. ...
Article : 375 wordsSeven Ministers will represent the Commonwealth Government at the Premiers' Conference, which will meet in Hobart early next year, primarily to discuss the operation ...
Article : 408 wordsWe have flown over Groote Eylandt, covering about 140 miles of ocean to get there and back. It was impossible to land the Percival Gull on the tiny aerodrome at the Island, so ...
Article : 1,468 wordsIn the first five months of the financial year there was a Commonwealth surplus of £3,575,000. The monthly statement issued to-day by the Commonwealth Treasury showed ...
Article : 530 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says: "It was learned to-night that a dollar-pound stabilisation scheme had been proposed to the British fiscal authorities ...
Article : 429 wordsThe anarchist rebellion in Spain during the week-end was one of the fiercest in the country's history, and it is feared in Madrid that worse is yet to come. ...
Article : 920 wordsTo mark the 20th anniversary of his entry into the State Parliament, the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lang) was accorded an enthusiastlc reception in the Auburn Town Hall ...
Article : 1,080 wordsTwo young women, smartly dressed in black, sat with bowed heads in the dock in general sessions to-day, while a charge of manslaughter was read against them. They were ...
Article : 433 wordsMr. Justice K. W. Street, in the Divorce Court yesterday refused to grant the petition for nullity by Marie Ellen Watson, of View-street, Annandale, who told the Court, ...
Article : 553 words"Germany has to thank Herr Erzberger (a former Minister for Finance) for the loss of her colonies," declared Herr Kube, the Nazi Governor of Berlin, at a huge demonstration ...
Article : 272 wordsClarence William Body, 45, was killed yesterday morning near Mt. Werong, 40 miles from Oberon, when he slipped and fell more than 400 feet down a mountain gorge. ...
Article : 355 wordsThe excess of expenditure over revenue of the State during the five months was £2,367,603, compared with an excess of £2,373,873 at the close of the corresponding ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "Sitting from 10 p.m. on Saturday until 3.30 a.m. on Sunday, the Fascist Grand Council approved a sheaf of 15 laws ...
Article : 156 wordsCecil Herman Cavanough night officer at the Queanbeyan railway station, was charged to-day, and convicted of stealing a primus burner, valued at 6/, the property of the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe major prizes in the 171st State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday by Mr. L. A. Robb, State president of the R.S.S.I.L.A. ...
Article : 107 wordsAn origination summons has been taken out by the trustees of the will of the late Dame Nellie Melba, asking for directions from the Supreme Court regarding her bequest of £8000 ...
Article : 233 wordsThe destroyer Stuart, one of the five British destroyers now on the last stage of their voyage to Sydney, developed trouble with its port condenser. It will endeavour to reach ...
Article : 416 wordsShots were fired at the car occupied by the leader of the Irish Free State Opposition (Mr. Cosgrave) as he was motoring in Donegal. Mr. Cosgrave's escort returned the fire. ...
Article : 101 wordsA majority of the Pull Court of the Supreme Court held yesterday that the onus of proving that "breathlessness and/or other injury of the lungs caused by inhalation of dust" was ...
Article : 151 wordsFor some months the building trades unions and the Master Builders' Association have been negotiating for a standard award. The negotiations, it is understood now concern a ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Alderman Hagon) said yesterday that he closed the meeting abruptly after the election of Alderman Parker as Lord Mayor for 1934 to avert unpleasantness "I ...
Article : 154 wordsA last desperate effort is being made to find a peaceful solution of the Fukien quarrel in the hope of averting civil war. which appears inevitable. ...
Article : 162 wordsThe wife of Prince Bernard Saxe-Meiningen escaped from her castle at Klagenfurt (Austria), where she had been under open arrest since the Prince's sentence to imprisonment. ...
Article : 102 wordsAn increase of /2 a lb in the retail price of all grades of tea was announced by the Robur Tea Company, Ltd to-day. It was stated that the reason for the increase was ...
Article : 107 wordsFiremen had to wear smoke helmets to subdue a fire which broke out in a sub-basement at Coles, Ltd., in Liverpool-street, city yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Postmaster-General's Department is making a special effort to secure new telephone subscribers. Special officers are engaged on door-to-door canvassing, and the ...
Article : 193 wordsThe "News Chronicle" says: "Oxford colleges are calling for measures to force the public to buy English beef, pointing out that they will be forced to buy it in the absence of ...
Article : 132 wordsThe international cricketer, S. J. McCabe, who is now in the country, is to visit Sydney this week to undergo an operation for appendicitis. He will probably not take any ...
Article : 135 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies adopted the complete Budget proposals of the Premier (M. Chautemps) by 280 votes to 175. M.Chautemps previously announced that ...
Article : 90 wordsCrops and pastures in many districts in Victoria are being attacked and destroyed by hordes of caterpillars. A report from Moe. Gippsland, states that at intervals of about ...
Article : 82 wordsDavid Nightingale was charged in ' e police court with cutting the wire of the telegraph line near Powell Creel- and interrupting all telegraph communication between Adelaide ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 12 Dec 1933, Page 9
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