Though the Legislative Assembly met two hours earlier than usual yesterday afternoon, and there was a large attendance of members, it was impossible, on the resumption after ...
Article : 681 wordsMr. A. F. Waters, president of the Employers' Federation, commenting yesterday on Saturday's meeting at the Communist Hall, said:— ...
Article : 558 wordsWhen the employees of the Railwy Commissioners' quarry at Bombo drew last week's pay and their bonuses on the output for the half-year ended June 30, they rcceived ...
Article : 52 wordsWarm and sultry conditions experienced inland since the week-end has culminated in one of the most pronounced rain storms experienced for many months. ...
Article : 286 wordsA SECTION OP THE ONLOOKERS AT NORTHBRIDGE YESTERDAY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsThe report, that serious trouble is again brewing among the prisoners at Bathurst Gaol, and that a slight disturbance has occurred there, is officially denied by the ...
Article : 84 wordsA leak has been discovered in Chichester pipe-line between Hexham and Warath reservoir. A gang of men is effecting repairs. The water has been diverted through Stony ...
Article : 61 wordsConvenend at the suggestion of Mr. J. M. Baddeley by the Cessnock Shire Council, a conference of municipal and shire councils, progress associations, railway leagues, and ...
Article : 307 wordsA proposal that the State should be divided into provinces, each with a small Parliament, but without seceding from the State, was put before the Royal Commission which is inquiring ...
Article : 397 wordsMrs. Mary Jane Wentworth, widow of the late Mr. Fitzwilliam Wentworth, who was the second son of William Charles Wentworth, the distinguished statesman, died suddenly on ...
Article : 229 wordsFor educational purposes, Mrs. Chapman Glanfield commenced, on May 14, the task of walking from Sydney to Brisbane, and within 14 weeks she completed the trip, after having ...
Article : 253 wordsAnother large audience at Her Majesty's Theatre last night responded to the tragic spell of Umberto Glordano's "Andrea Chenier." Nino Piccaluga, as the hero poet, again ...
Article : 445 wordsRivers throughout Victoria are in flood, following the heavy rains of Monday and today. The Yarra has been rising a foot an hour to-day, and broke its banks. People ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. O. A. Edwards, Royal Commissioner appointed to deal with the question of the redistribution of the wards of the city of Sydney, took preliminary evidence yesterday at ...
Article : 263 wordsMr. Thos Conlon, 74, one of the oldest identities in the district, died yesterday. He was one of the pioneer farmers, who came from the South Coast and settled at Cullinga. He ...
Article : 63 wordsThe second annual meeting of the Australian Nurses' Christian Movement (New South Wales branch) was held at St. Stephen's Church yesterday. The movement, which was launched ...
Article : 268 wordsThere was an attendance of over 1000 people at the Mater Misericordiae ball, held at the Palais Royal last night. The dancers wore coloured jazz caps, and a prize of two seats ...
Article : 481 wordsSpeaking at the annual meeting of the Molong Pastoral and Agricultural Association, the president (Mr. W. R. Glasson) drew attention to the fact that a number of ...
Article : 156 wordsThe death occurred on Saturday of Mr. William Bruce, who for many years was in business in Sydney. The late Mr. Bruce died at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. B. ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Oakes) tabled in the Legislative Assembly last night the report of Mr. H. A. Smith (Registrar of Friendly Societies and Trade Unions) for the year ...
Article : 303 wordsDonald Duggan pleaded guilty at Maitland Court, and was fined £5 and costs, for fast motor driving. Constable Pryor stated that defendant gave a lot of trouble over the matter. ...
Article : 77 wordsIn an address at the Royal Colonial Institute yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. A. Holman, K.C., omphasised the danger of Australia drifting away from her sentiment toward the ...
Article : 348 wordsMr. Cecil Aubrey Coghlan, M.L.C., a member of the legal firm of Messrs. C. A. Coghlan and Co., died at his home at Darling Point last night, after an illness which lasted about ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 152 wordsWhilst a train with sheep trucks was coming from Griffith three trucks became derailed, one overturning at Quandary. Three sheep were killed, and 27 were badly knocked about. A ...
Article : 50 wordsThe flags on the steamers of the Sydney Ferries, Ltd., were yesterday flown at halfmast out of respect of the late Mr. J. Tysoe, master of one of the vehicle ferries plying ...
Article : 64 wordsFrederick George Davis, owner of East Billabong Station, which he purchased from the late James Ewan in 1907, died at his own residence during the week-end. He was ...
Article : 111 wordsLast night was "Italian night" at the Cellini-Zacharewitsch concert in the Town Hall. The programme was a well-balanced one, and included many compositions of great beauty. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsA sensational accident was witnessed in Wardell-street, Petersham, yesterday morning. A waggonette overturned with its two occupants, and the horse bolted along the ...
Article : 253 wordsMr. Ley (Minister for Justice) stated yesterday that for some time past the Petty Sessions works at Leeton and Griffith had been attended to by a Clerk of Petty Sessions, ...
Article : 142 wordsThe will of the late Mr. Harry Woodcock has been lodged for probate. The gross estate is sworn not to exceed £110,000. The net residue of the estate, after certain life ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 250 wordsA motor car owned by Mr. C. Craig, of Lalalty, was destroyed by fire in accidental circumstances. It appears that the owner was out driving at night, when he struck a ...
Article : 68 wordsAbout 500 men employed in the electrification of the Illawarra railway yesterday attended a stop-work meeting at Hurstville to protest against the action of the Railway ...
Article : 103 wordsSir,—Mr. W. J. Burnett says that the modern songs are superior to the old ones, can that gentleman go back to thirty years ago and gradually come back to say, 1910, he ...
Article : 185 wordsThere was a goood attendance at the eightysixth annual meeting of the London Missionary Society, held in the Pitt-street Congregational Church last night. Mr. Justice Street, ...
Article : 313 wordsMost Wor. Bro. J. Goulston, Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of New South Wales, made his first official visit to this district last week. He visited Kurri Kurri on ...
Article : 161 wordsAn application was recently made by the Commonwealth Telephone Officers' Association for a variation of its award in the matter of allowance for the performance of ...
Article : 394 wordsReferring to his leprosy survey in the northwest, Dr. C. E. Cook, who studied the subject of leprosy at the Tropical Diseases Institute, London, and who is now temporarily ...
Article : 124 wordsThe work of constructing the bridge over Middle Harbour at the Spit is making rapid progress. The whole of the piles have been placed in position, and portion of the ...
Article : 173 wordsMiss Madge Elliott, than whom there is no greater dancing favourite in Australia, is leaving for America on a world tour on Thursday, by the Niagara, and J. C. Williamson, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsRobert Clark, aged 17, who injured his spine through striking a submerged rock when diving 17 months ago, died in the district hospital on Saturday morning. ...
Article : 60 wordsSir,—The adherents of the "old" songs are cold to the charms of to-day's, but their familiarity with the former and lack of acquaintance with the latter have a great deal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 304 wordsMr. Jack Cains, of Newcastle, a traveller for Toohey's, was injured on the East Maitland-road. A horse took fright at a tram, and drove the shaft of a van through the ...
Article : 55 wordsA deputation from the Rockdale Municipal Council waited on the Minister for Works (Mr. Ball) yesterday afternoon, and requested that a portion of the tramline in Russell-avenue, ...
Article : 189 wordsThrough the representations [?] dent and clerk of the Byron Shire the C.M.A. Life Company has offered the shire £16,000 on 25 years' loan to finance the proposed ...
Article : 84 wordsADELAIDE.—Arr: Aug. 26, Aagtekerk, a, from Rotterdam; Moira, s, from Edithburgh. Dep: Aug.20. Barunga, s, for Newcastle; Moira, s. for eastern States; Port Macquarie, s, for Fremantle. ...
Article : 101 wordsDetectives are inquiring into the loss of £155 from the locker of James Ramsay Millen, patient at Claremont Asylum for the Insane. A remarkable feature is that ...
Article : 86 wordsOn Saturday morning R. Smith was [?] at the ironworks, when he slipped off the plank nd fell head first [?]ft. The ambulance conveyed him to hospital, where he was ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 27 Aug 1924, Page 14
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