To-day Sir Arthur Cocks will retire from the position of State Treasurer, and from State politics generally. On Monday his appointment as Agent-General will be ...
Article : 398 wordsA meeting of justices of the peace was [?]d at the courthouse to receive [?] report of the inquiry respecting the collection and compilation of the local jury list for 1[?] ...
Article : 334 wordsThe ceremony of turning the first sod in the construction of a tramway to the Harbord beach was performed yesterday by the Minister for Railways (Mr. Ball). The ...
Article : 622 wordsTHE MINISTER FOR WORKS TURNING THE FIRST SOD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsBeautifully-fine weather and a good wicket favoured the fourth test. There was great applause when Gilligan at last won the toss, and took advantage of the good conditions. ...
Article : 1,617 wordsThe Twood Shire Council, at its meeting on Wednesday, decided to defer the question of the retention of the services of the Valuer-General's Department until the appeals to be ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. Bruntnell) yesterday afternoon set the foundationstone of the new school building at Mosman, which is to be erected on land acquired by the ...
Article : 417 words"While we are enjoying a most bountiful season," said the Premier (Sir George Fuller), speaking at the Shoalhaven Agricultural Show luncheon to-day, "with a record wheat ...
Article : 109 wordsA dispute occurred yesterday among officials associated with the counting of the A.L.P. ballot for the selection of five candidates for the next Senate elections. ...
Article : 503 wordsLively scenes marked the meeting of the A.L.P. executive, hold at the Trades Hall last night. Several contentious questions on which there ...
Article : 148 wordsThe central executive of the A.L.P. has dispensed with a selection ballot in the Byron electorate, and the electorate council has been asked to select three candidates for ...
Article : 66 wordsAt Mr. Arthur J. Gi[?]ford's Strathnoon orchard, a six-roomed weatherboard cottage and a detached workshop, valued at £750, were destroyed by fire this morning, during the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe finding of the body of a male infant in a parcel on the railway premises here on Wednesday afternoon, after the arrival of the Sydney to Tamworth train, resulted in ...
Article : 99 wordsRuby Rogers, aged 25 years, of Consett-street, Bondi, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital in a very serious condition yesterday, suffering from a fractured polvis and ...
Article : 103 wordsA sensational incident occurred at South Grafton yesterday, when shortly after 5 o'clock, a stranger, closely followed by a constable, rushed into Coonan's hairdressing ...
Article : 342 wordsA deputation from the Hastings Shire asked the Minister for Education (Mr. Bruntnell) for a Government grant of £4000 for a road across Comboyne for the Hastings shire ...
Article : 121 wordsExpecting a cyclone last night, many people stayed their houses with guy ropes. Especially was this precaution taken in the case of bungalows in exposed positions. The ...
Article : 88 wordsADELAIDE.—Arr: Atlantique, from Dunkirk, Kazembe, Katoomba, Kulpara, and Mallina, from Melbourne; Kooringa, from Newcastle. Sailed.—Dilkera, s, for Newcastle, via Whyalla; Yarra, s, for eastern ...
Article : 32 wordsExcitement was caused at the office of the Union Steam Ship Company, William-street, to-day, when 34 men, the members of the steamer M[?]raki, who were discharged ...
Article : 295 wordsTo-day's sales included:—Commonwealth bonds, 4½ per cent. due 1925, £98/17/6; 5 per cent., due 1927, £97; 5 per cent., due 1948, £97/10/; 6 per cent., due 1930, £99/11/3, £99/12/6, £99/15/; Commercial ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is estimated that a low level bridge across the Goulburn River at Martindale would cost £5500, of which the residents concerned are prepared to raise £1000, spread ...
Article : 181 wordsWhile the steamer Boorara was proceeding down the harbour, commencing her voyage to Brisbane, yesterday, a member of the crew, William Jenkins, aged 23 years, a trimmer, of ...
Article : 72 wordsTo-day's sales included:—Broken Hill Proprietary, b 26/4½, s 26/6; Block 14, pref., s 7/; Block 14, ord., 2/11, 2/10, s 2/11; Junction North, 8/1, b 8/2; North B.H., 98/6, 98/ (50), 97/9, b 97/6, s 98/3; South ...
Article : 107 wordsLyle Samuel Withers appeared at the police court on a charge of feloniously slaying Kathleen Lilian Withers, his wife. In a statement, the defendant said that ...
Article : 239 wordsMr. John Barr, general manager of the Queensland State stations, as chairman of the Queensland Royal Commission which is inquiring into the cause of bruising of cattle ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 168 wordsWhile stooping to pick up a flat tin which was lying near a water tank under which was a young tiger snake. Stanley Williams, of Weemelah, was bitten on the finger. ...
Article : 45 wordsDetectives are inquiring into an incident at Albany, when a coloured man, Is[?]ah Riley, lost his life. Frederick Morgan, interrogated, stated that he had lett a loaded ...
Article : 141 wordsOn Monday the London Missionary's Society's vessel John Williams—sixth of the name—will again clear Sydney Heads, Island bound, and yesterday a valedictory service was held on ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the local police court, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, stipendiary magistrate, Frank Arnold, Walter Jorgensen, Herbert Brown, and George Scoble were each sentenced to three ...
Article : 115 wordsConsiderable interest attaches to the proposal of the Queensland Government to set apart, in the interest of science, the strange deposits of cube-shaped stone which occurs ...
Article : 99 wordsYesterday the eight-months-old son of Mr. John Joseph Carroll, a farmer, near Ganmain, was burned to death. The mother was washing in the washhouse, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 wordsA serious shortage of railway trucks exists in the western districts. It is particularly bad in the Kandos district. The Kandos and Charbon mines were idle ...
Article : 46 wordsSir,—By and bye, of course, there are going to be many houses by the sea—there never could be too many—where children from city or country can have the best sort of holiday. ...
Article : 372 wordsShipments of salt from Port Pirie and other Gulf ports of South Australia have been [?]r[?]ously affected by the recent shipping strike, and one salt factor in Sydney states that ...
Article : 89 wordsThe 14th, 15th, 16th companies, Australian Garrison Artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Warren, V.D., and the 33rd Fortress (electric light) Company, under Captain M'Callion, ...
Article : 50 wordsAn anti-Communistic rally will be held in the Domain on Sunday, when addresses will be delivered by Mr. A. D. Kay, president of the Citizens' Democratic Association, ...
Article : 85 wordsA census of barmaids throughout the Dominion, taken by the Police Department, shows that the employment of women in bars has been enormously reduced since 1911, when the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. Bruntnell) opened a new school at Comboyne yesterday. A deputation asked for a school at Duck Ridge, and stated that children there had to ...
Article : 47 wordsAt W. Burton's carrying yards, Port-road, Beverley, Robert Tr[?]norden, a man past middle age, of Mile End, received fatal bullet wounds. As a result of a statement made ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Federal Cabinet to-day decided upon the nomination of its representatives on the Dried Fruits Board, and the Minister for Migration (Senator Wilson) is to communicate ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Court of Quarter Sessions was held at Tamworth yesterday, Judge Mocatta presiding. Mrs. R. J. Browning, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. ...
Article : 182 wordsA rally of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides will be held at the Agricultural Society's Grounds to-day, in honour of the president of the Boy Scouts' Association (Sir William Cullen). ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the factory of Jones and Co. to-day, following the refusal of the management to accede to a request by the apricot-splitters for increase in rates for piecework, 200 men ...
Article : 83 wordsSir,—The Social Service Committee of the Church of England Men's Society has been making a magnificent contribution to the success of the Far-West holiday scheme, ...
Article : 282 wordsLAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE LARGEST PRIMARY SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsSir,—Nothing is further from my mind than to enter into a controversy with the chief electeral officer on the unsatisfactory condition of the Sydney electoral roll. Im am ...
Article : 210 wordsCriterion: "The Green Goddess, 2, 8. Theatre Royal: "The Outsider," 2, 8. Grand Opera House: "Rosie O'Reilly," 2.15, 8. Her Majesty's: "Wallflower," 2, 8. ...
Article : 157 wordsFred[?] Armstrong had a narrow escape from drowning when driving into [?]own from Wilson's Cr[?]k. Torrential rain during the night had made the cr[?]k rise considerably, ...
Article : 107 wordsViolet Salmon, aged 42, the wh[?]e of S[?]dney Salmon, who conducts a boarding-house at the weir construction works, 10 miles south-west of Narrandera, died to-day thorugh ...
Article : 110 wordsSir,—All kinds of vague statements and innu[?]ndo[?]s are in public circulation in regard to the City Co[?]nell's coal contracts. Mr. E. S. Lamb, K.C., is now sitting as a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Feb 1925, Page 18
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