At a special meeting of Singleton Municipal Council it was decided that the Minister for Local Government should be asked to extend the boundaries of the municipality of ...
Article : 102 wordsSeveral hundred delegates, representing all the States of the Commonwealth, participated in the first national Sunday school convention, which was opened in the Chapter House ...
Article : 398 wordsMore than 1200 persons "booked" for the Barnardo ball at the Wentworth [?]st night. One of the largest committees that has yet been formed for such a purpose organised the ...
Article : 1,577 wordsThe song was specially composed for the day by Messrs. E. Webster (Cleveland-street Intermediate High School) and F. Treharne (superintendent of music). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsThe crowds which lined the routes of the Royal procession yesterday were disappointed when they found that the Duchess of York was not accompanying the Duke on his tours of ...
Article : 585 wordsA message from Perenjori states that a man named Whearn, whose camp was 18 miles from Wunarra Station, was washed away by flood. Whearn has been found drowned. ...
Article : 68 wordsThere has been an outbreak of dip[?]ria in the town and district. At a meeting of Singleton Parents und Citizens' Association the matter was discussed following a letter from Dr. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe refusal of the management of the State mine at Wonthaggi to re-employ a certain miner in preference to other men as demanded by the union has resulted in serious trouble. ...
Article : 125 wordsAfter serving as pilot in charge of the signal station here for 14 years, Mr. Charles Knott has been promoted to Newcastle, At a farewell social tendered to Mr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 95 wordsMiss Karlie McDonald, aged 26 years, senior mistress at the Kerang Girls' High School, was drowned in the River Loddon this afternoon. ...
Article : 165 wordsTwelve tons of hay and articles valued at £300 were destroyed by a fire which broke out in a shed on a farm about two and a half miles from Tamworth at midnight last night. The ...
Article : 125 wordsThe City Coroner (Mr. Fletcher yesterday found that a fire which took place on March 21 in a lock-up shop at 16 King-street, Sydney. had been maliciously caused by Anthony ...
Article : 327 wordsNew Zealand wheat growers are pressing for an embargo on Australian flour. At a meeting at Timaru to-day of South Canterbury and North Otago wheat growers, ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Minister for Local Government, Mr Fitzgerald, last night addressed a meeting of presidents and secretaries of Labour leagues and unions, which was held at the ...
Article : 405 wordsQuarter Sessions were held here yesterday before Judge Coyle. Ernest Alfred Teale pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the Matong Post-office on December ...
Article : 140 wordsMrs. Elizabeth Ann Lassetter, who died on Tuesday night, was the daughter of the late Mr. John Macquarie Antill, of Jarvisfield, Picton, and was 56 years of age. ...
Article : 98 wordsBy prising apart iron bars guarding a window a man escaped from the Bourke-street watchhouse to-day. and is still at large. He was Thomas Askew, aged 22 years, a ...
Article : 87 wordsFires having been breaking out mysteriously in the back yards of business premises in Goulburn during the last couple of weeks, the police formed the theory that an incendiary ...
Article : 76 wordsThe death occurred yesterday of Dr. J. M. Petrie, Bosch Fellow in Cancer Research at the University of Sydney. Dr. Petrie devoted his whole life to medical research, and in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 167 wordsIt was shown on his own admission at the Forbes Police Court yesterday that Elward Ireland Cade had been in gaol 50 times Not withstanding his record Cade, who was ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Duke lost little time in putting on flannels after lunch yesterday. Shortly after 2 o'clock he was one of a party of four who spent a couple of hours on the private lawn ...
Article : 324 wordsThe application of the Crown Crystal Glass Company for Incrensed duties on imported glassware was continued before the Tariff Board to-day. Increases of 20 per cent. and ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. T. J. Ford, manager of the North Coast and Tablelands District Exhibit at the Royal Show has left for Sydney, to supervise the arrangements for the display. A fine ...
Article : 61 wordsNinety Federal officials are coming from Melbourne on Tuesday by special train to Orbost, thence by the Cann Valley-road to Bombala by cars. Afterwards they proceed ...
Article : 34 wordsThere is every possibility that the industrial trouble at the Electrolytic Zinc Co"s works at Zeehan will be settled by to-morrow. A message received from Zeehan to-night ...
Article : 89 wordsIn the local police court, before Mr. J. McCulloch, P.M., Benjamin George Dawson was proceeded against by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for failing to reply to a ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "blowing-out" of a fuse-box on a tramcar, which was travelling along Harris-street, Ultimo, late yesterday afternoon, caused the tram to catch fire. Two persons jumped to ...
Article : 146 wordsThe proceeds of the historic pageant and barbecue, which is to commence at the Royal Agricultural Society's showgrounds to-morrow evening, will be shared equally by the Sydney ...
Article : 189 wordsWhile working upon the new railway line at the Newtown Raliway Station, shortly before 8 o'clock last night, Robert Duffy, aged 23, of 64 Elis-street, Newtown, was struck ...
Article : 71 wordsAdditional figures in connection with Saturday's Legislative Assembly elections were received to-day, but the position of the parties remains unaltered. Labour has 24 seats ...
Article : 472 wordsThe Bowral School of Arts was crowded on the occasion of the annual Presentation of prizes to pupils of the Bowral Intel mediate High School. Mr. A. L. Harris, president of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsIn last night's final concert of the Beethoven Commemoration series at the Conservatorium, the memory of the great composer was further honoured by ...
Article : 423 wordsAt the Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day, before his Honor Judge White, Albert Andrew Thompson was charged with having, at Cessnock, fraudulently omitted to account to ...
Article : 84 wordsMargaret Bryan, aged about 40, of Yarrastreet. Maroubra Junction. set alight to her clothes while striking a match at her home yesterday morning. She was severely burnt ...
Article : 75 wordsAn official committee under the chairmanship of Mr. E. B. Harkness (Under-Secretary, Chief Secretary's Department), and having for its members representatives of Government ...
Article : 381 wordsThe North Sydney Council, on Tuesday evening, received from the Manly Council, a copy of a letter from the Public Works Department, stating that investigation was being ...
Article : 179 wordsThe old-established business of Gerard and Co., Clarence River Stores, Grafton, of which Messrs. E. O. Hanigan and F. Cummins became proprieters some three years ago, has ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. F. Louat, in his address at the rooms of the Henry George Club on Monday night, said that the aim of Nationalists was to legislate in the interests of the people as a ...
Article : 81 wordsWater trains are being availed of by some of the southern districts for water supplies. But for this service, some towns and villages would be in a bad plight. Five water ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 245 wordsSir,—In your columns this morning appears what purports to be a brief report of an address which I delivered to the members of the Henry George Club on Monday night ...
Article : 293 wordsYesterday afternoon, a deputation consisting of Messrs, P. Cronin (president), H. Col[?] (vice-president), and L. Ward (secretary), of the Lithgow Ironworkers' Association, waited ...
Article : 378 wordsMr. J. McDonald, organiser of the A.W.U., said at Burnie that the docisi a of the Arbitration Court not to accept evidence because of the strike at Zeehan must break down ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of York were so impressed with the schoolchildren's display on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday that they have made a special request that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsOn her voyage from Port Said to the eastern States the steamer Fozara called at Fremantle to-day for fuel-oil supplies. A case of sickness on board was diagnosed by the Federal ...
Article : 104 wordsKnocked down by a railway engine as be walked across the lines at Ashfield station yesterday morning, Charles Hogbin, aged 21 years, suffered fractures of the skull, left ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Council of the Institute of Journalists entertained the visiting journalists on the Renown yesterday at lunch at Farmer's. The toast of the guests was proposed by the ...
Article : 97 wordsA curious position in connection with the building trade strike at Canberra arose to-day, when, despite the fact that nearly all members of the Carpenters', Joiners. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsThe Stanley Gibbs Testimonial Fund has reached a total of £273/6/6, Including a donation of £3[?]15/9 from the Palmer Recreation Club. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 31 Mar 1927, Page 12
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