The Tweed Shire Council yesterday conducted an inquiry into the running of Chinderah ferry. A report was tabled by the engineer (Mr. C. Christie). Evidence was ...
Article : 110 wordsThe decision of the A.L P. executive to hold a special conference early next month to deal with proposals for the alteration of the rules of the party has caused much dissatisfaction ...
Article : 284 wordsGood progress is being made with the construction at the Taronga Park Zoo of the new aquarium, and it is hoped to have it completed and open to the public about Christmas time. ...
Article : 138 wordsTo-day the Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator (Mr. A. Hunt) overruled objections to the extension of certain benefits to non-unionists in the Public Service. The ...
Article : 164 wordsSeveral manufacturers gave evidence if the Arbitration Court to-day regarding the probable effect of a 14-hour week upon their industries. ...
Article : 586 wordsThe whole time of the Parliamentary Labour party at its meeting yesterday was occupied with discussing bills that are to be brought forward during the present session. ...
Article : 423 wordsCompetitors in the ten days' reliability touring contest, promoted by the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, have now completed the last stage but one of their 1330 milos ...
Article : 1,706 wordsThe Reform aldermen, at the City Council meeting on Tuesday night, will move that no action be taken in regard to leasing the Queen Victoiia Building until the ...
Article : 471 wordsThe premises of Wright, Heaton, and Co., Ltd., and the Inverell Butter Company were broken into last night. At the former the drawers in the manager's office were forced ...
Article : 124 wordsYesterday's activities arising out of the annual session of the Congregational Union embodied a meeting of the Congregational Women's Association in the Pitt-street school ...
Article : 135 wordsA severe thunderstorm, with unusually severe lightning, passed over Murwillumbah yesterday. Three persons in Murwillumbah sustained shocks, and were dazed for some ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Mr. Lougblin) paid a brief visit to Cowra on his way to Young, and in an interview referred to the coming Labour party conference. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Aberdeen line steamer Herminius arrived in Sydney early yesterday morning. The vessel brought about 600 migrants to Australia, which included 252 nominees and ...
Article : 82 wordsA horse attached to a baker's cart containing a load of bread, plunged into the Queanbeyan River this morning, and was drowned. The driver jumped clear when the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe executive committee of the Blue Mountains District Anzac Memorial Hospital met on Wednesday afternoon, roprcscnlathei from all the principal mountain centres being ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Redistribution Commission expects to have the whole of the maps of the new electoral boundaries under the single seats system completed early next week. The new boundaries ...
Article : 110 wordsAlexa, b[?]ne, Lever Bros. wharf; Arendskerk, s, No. 4 wharf, Pyrmont; Australia, s, Athol Bight; Ayrshire, s, No. 8 wharf, Pyrmont; Benalla, s, Neutral Bay; Bolivia, s, Athol Right; Carins, s, stores wharf, ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Communist party received considerable abuse at the meeting of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council last night. The matter arose out of a request by the Communist party that ...
Article : 185 wordsF. P. EYRE (LONG REEF), winner of the "Sun"-"Herald" (Melbourne) £500 tournament. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 14 wordsThis morning a little girl, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Wright, of Wingham fell down a well near the house. Mr. Wright had the top off the well and was watering ...
Article : 86 wordsBrisbane.—(Letters), 9 a.m. (Tasman). Macassar, Java, Timor, Singapore.—(Letters), 9 a.m. (Tasman). Richmond River.—(Letters), 9.30 a.m. (Bonalbo). ...
Article : 372 wordsThe stovemakers' conciliation committee met yesterday morning to consider further claims for a new award covering stovemakers Mr. D. M. McDonald, assistant secretary of ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Main Roads Board has advised the Tweed Shire Council that the prospects of an early visit by it to the shire are remote, and could not be arranged within the next six ...
Article : 108 wordsThe superintendent of aerodromes for the Civil Aviation Department (Captain 13. Johnston) reached Melbourne this evening after a flight from Longreach (Queensland) of 10 ...
Article : 114 wordsUpon returning from a holiday on Monday last Mr. James Greig, secretary of the Govornment Railways Transport Staff Association, discovered that his home in Carlisle-street, ...
Article : 131 wordsJoan Keary, aged 2½ years, was drowned late yesterday afternoon in a dam at Yenda. Mrs, Keary had gone to the township shopping, leaving the child in the charge of its father, ...
Article : 122 wordsA combined meeting of Pelaw Main and Richmond Main miners' lodges was held at Kurri Kurri to-day to consider an order made by Mr. Hibble that work should be ...
Article : 144 wordsThe State conference of the New South Wales Prohibition Alliance, yesterday decided that steps be taken to raise a fighting fund of £20,000. The conference also approved of ...
Article : 243 wordsThe delegation from the Empire Parliamentary Association was accorded a civic reception at the Town Hall this morning. The Marquess of Salisbury, in reply, said ...
Article : 87 wordsHotel burglars are operating in Waggs in a manner similar to methods adopted in other country towns. Auger holes are bored into the front door, making an opening large ...
Article : 73 wordsErnest Turner and David Thomas Davies, driver and guard respectively of the goods train from which a number of trucks broke away and collided with the North-West mail ...
Article : 93 wordsCaledonian Collieries, Limited, made complaint before the Mining Warden Mr. A. N. Graham) that Albert Andrew Holland had not fulfilled the labour conditions attaching ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. G. S. Adams, chairman of directors of the Albury Gas Company, referring to the reported utterances of Mr. Goodin, M.L.A., in the Legislative Assembly regarding an increse ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 185 wordsAbout 1 o'clock yesterday morning two prisoners were taken from a cell a Regent-street Police Station and conveyed to Sydney Hospital, where they were treated for wounds on ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Australian-made Preference League intends to hold an Australian-made shopping week in Sydney early in next month. The event will, synchronise with the Sydney and ...
Article : 140 wordsMr. Willkum Dodd Newton died recently at his residence, Braeside, Hampden-road, Pennant Hills. He was connected with the Royal Mint for 56 years. His futher, Mr. Joseph ...
Article : 115 wordsThe death has ocuuired of James McDarra, at the age of 73 years. He was horn at Belfast, Ireland, and has been a resident Wagga for 52 years. He was recognised ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the Sofala Police Court to-day Albert Heury Hodges, a well-known butcher, Wattle Flat, was charged with having maliclously damaged 50 hives of bees, valued ...
Article : 505 wordsMaterials and clothing, worth £300 were stolon from William Terry's tailoring establishment. Gosford, between 9.30 on Thursday and 7.30 a.m. yesterday, according to a ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Board of Trade, in a judgment yesterday, refused to grant any increase in wages to clerks except to provide that switchboard attendants should receive the same wages ...
Article : 51 wordsThe funeral of Mrs. Griffith, wife of Mr. Arthur Griffith, formerly Minister for Education, took place yesterday in the Church of England portion of the Manly Cemotery. The ...
Article : 98 wordsTwo men who were fishing not far from the entrance to the harbour on Thursday were considerably startled at the sudden appearance of a whole not 20 yards away from their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 wordsIn the Legislative Council last night the various provisions of the Traffic Act Amendment Bill were considered. Several amendment a were made, including one reducing the ...
Article : 84 wordsMrs. Grumby, aged 24 years, was severely burnt about the body and limbs when her bedclothes caught slight at the residence of her mother. Mrs. Gorman Deary, in ...
Article : 127 wordsA private cable message received in Sydney on Thursday announced the denth of Mr. T. W. Assoniull, one of- the proprietors of Messrs. Wassiamull. Assomull, and Company, ...
Article : 74 wordsSuperintendent Monkey, Chief of the Detective Branch, has supplied for publication a report from the Commissioner of Police, Melbourne that three brothers, who are alleged ...
Article : 162 wordsShortly before half past 6 o'clock this evening the scaffolding on the northern corner of St Paul's Cathedral caught fire. The flames were soon extinguished. The damage is not ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Frank Wigens, a pupil of Mr. Harry Thomas, gave an elocutionary recital at the King's Hull last night, and proved himself a sincere artist, of clear diction, though rather ...
Article : 192 wordsTo commemorate the 12th anniversary of the 2nd Battation's departure for the Great War, a leature was given by Captain C. E. W. Bean at the War Museum last night. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Commissioner of Police recently received a letter from a young woman in Kent, Bugland, stating that she desired a husband, 6 feet tall, quiet, good-tempered, non-drinker, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Forgan Smith) has informed cottongrowers that it is not the function of the State Government to give a bounty. If, he said, the growers ...
Article : 65 wordsHer Majesty's Theatre: "Rose Marie." 2, 7.50. Theatre Royal: "Abie's Irish Rose," 2.15, 8. Criterion: "The Fake." 8. 10 St. James Theatre: "Merccnary Mary." 2.15, 8. ...
Article : 148 wordsA week-end paner publishes an alleged statement by Treffeue that he accidentally shot Detective-sergeant Pitman in the hand, that Coulter brought Inspector Walsh down ...
Article : 102 wordsYardea Station, comprising 1487 square miles west of Port Angusta, was offered at auction for A. J. and P. A. McBride yesterday in five lots. Four were sold and realised £98,834 ...
Article : 52 wordsThe police report that a boy whom Mrs. Harwood found lurking in her house in Archihold-road and Baneroft-avenue. Roseville, at 1.30 p.m. yesterday, escaped by threatening ...
Article : 115 wordsIn his reply to the deputation respecting the Cook's River Improvement League, the Minister for Works (Mr. Flannery) said that he realised the urgency of the situation from a ...
Article : 116 wordsThe fourth anniversary of "The March on Rome," by Mussolini and his Fascist cohotts was celebrated by the Italian Fascisti of Sydney and members of the Italian colony last ...
Article : 100 wordsDobson, Wormald, Ltd., Waterloo, have forwarded a letter, to the officials of the Moulders' Union pointing out that if the strike at the works continues a large proportion of the ...
Article : 53 wordsProbate has been granted of the will of the late Mr. William Ashley Hunter, of Killara retired draper, who died on July 31 last, leaving an estate of the net value of £33,506, the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 Oct 1926, Page 16
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