A timely change in the wind from the southeast to the south-west served to rescue the drifting steamer Wonganella from an unenviable plight yesterday, and the vessel ...
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Article : 729 wordsThe factional fight continues between the Sydney branch of the Australian Seamen's Union and its Federal officials concerning the finances of the Melbourne branch and the ...
Article : 416 wordsCaptain Amundsen arrived at Nome at 5 a.m. on Sunday aboard a launch, having left the Norge at Teller, where a forced landing was made on the ice amidst snow ...
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Article : 142 wordsGeneral Hertzog, in an important pronouncement regarding dominion status made at the Stellenbosch University last night, maintained that the dominions had never received ...
Article : 300 wordsA meeting of the Gas Emergency Board was held yesterday to consider the position arising out of the dislocation of the coal trade in couscquence of the enginedrivers' strike. ...
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Article : 233 wordsWhide running across Oxford-street, Paddington, near William-street, past the front of a stationary tram, on Sunday night, Frederick Edward Woodfield, aged 27 years, was ...
Article : 140 wordsThe operation of a cyclone off the southern coast of Queensland has been responsible for extreme conditions at sea, and for heavy rains along coastal ports of Queensland and New ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. Justice Powers, president of the Arbitration Court, took leave of the Court to-day as far as Victoria was concerned. He was farewelled by representatives or the ...
Article : 358 wordsThe special correspondent of the Australian Press Association says that the Australian team was delighted at dismissing the M.C.C. team for 199 runs in the first innings of their ...
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Article : 210 wordsMarshal Pilsudski has temporarily assumed the Presidency of the Republic of Poland. A Government of experts, mostly officials, will be formed until the National Assembly ...
Article : 218 wordsAlderman Walder repeated his charge yesterday that the Lord Mayor had sanctioned the transfer of City Council land to Mr. P. J. Minahan, M.L.A., for at least £500 a foot ...
Article : 278 wordsNegotiations between the Port of London Authority and the dockers resulted in an agreement which states that labour will be re-engaged on the terms of the ...
Article : 258 wordsRain of a general nature fell during the week-end east from a line joining Mackay and Thargomindah, ano at one or two isolated stations in the North Coast division the falls ...
Article : 171 wordsAt the Hobart Turf Club's meeting at Elwick on Saturday J. Ashwood, rider of Isabella in the trotting plate, was brought before the stipendiary steward. ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Court of Marine Inquiry to-day delivered its finding concerning the cause of the foundering of the Dorrigo. The Court mentioned that 50 tons of ballast had been ...
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Article : 72 wordsThe Civil Aviation Department has received advice that Mr. Alan Cobham, who, it is expected, will leave London on his flight to Australia at the end of the month or early ...
Article : 169 wordsDr. Marx, a former German Chancellor (says Reuter), is forming a Cabinet at Berlin. Its policy aud personnel will be identical with the Luther Cabinet, except that ...
Article : 126 wordsIn Cheltenham-street. Rozelle, on Sunday evening, Gladys Irene Dowsett, who lived at that address with her husbund and five young children, contracted pneumonia and died ...
Article : 106 wordsThe French Minister for Finance (M. Peret) has arrived in London, accompanied by financial experts. He will endeavour to find a solution of the exchange problem. The rise ...
Article : 180 wordsWhile crossing the Clarence Heads between 10 and 11 o'clock this morning, the North Coast steamer Pulganbar had a narrow escape. A heavy sea was on the bar, and ...
Article : 74 wordsOf all the appointments that have to be made soon, that of the High Commissioner for Australia in Great Britain continues to excite the most interest. While the Cabinet has ...
Article : 191 wordsConfirmation of the sale of the Oceanic line to the Matson Navigation Company was given in Sydney yesterday by Mr. V. A. Sproul, managing agent of the Oceanic Steamship ...
Article : 230 wordsA deputation from the Australian Workers' Union waited on the Minister for Labour and industry (Mr. Baddeley) yesterday to protest against "the continued influx of immigrants to ...
Article : 139 wordsThe City Coroner (Dr. Ramsay Smith), delivered his finding to-day regarding the sensational railway crossing accident at Cheltenham on the night of April 30. when five ...
Article : 87 wordsThere are 216 entries for the British amateur golf championship, to be played at Mairfield, from May 24 to May 29, including 27 Americans, also representatives of Canada. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe further hearing of the rose in which a conspiracy to defraud the Railway Commissioners of large quantities of parcels between January 1, 1925, and March 10 last is alleged ...
Article : 99 wordsTwo painters were badly gassed by fumes aboard the steamer Port Hardy at Dunedin. The vessel had been fumigated, and the men were removing the batches, when they were ...
Article : 51 wordsA barber's strike in Paris caused a rush for safety razors, shaving brushes, and soaps. The employees issued a manifesto stating that they would shave regular ...
Article : 53 wordsAfer hearing argument which extended over a week, the Full Bench of the High Court today reserved Judgment in the case in which the Imperial Oil Company is appealing against ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 18 May 1926, Page 9
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