A complaint was made to the Coroner by Mr. Brennan, miners' secretary, conferning the low fees paid to jurymen. He described the fees as a mere pittance. The Coroner ...
Article : 46 wordsThe committee set up by a conference of employers and employees to take evidence upon the apprenticeship question and prepare a bill for submission to Parliament recommends ...
Article : 153 wordsThe death of Mr. John George Griffin, wellknown surveyor and engineer, which occurred last night at his residence, Philinga, Carlton, removes another very old and respected ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 400 wordsAfter sittings as strenuous as any in the history of the Commonwealth, the proceedings of the Federal Parliament come to an end for the time being this afternoon. The ...
Article : 2,566 wordsDelegates to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress made a number of excursions in and around the city on Saturday. Several parties set out for the University at 9 a.m., and the single-day ...
Article : 181 wordsOn his retirement from the position of manager of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co.'s steelworks at Port Waratah Mr. David Baker said that recently the company ...
Article : 395 wordsA memorial service was held in St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon in memory of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., the first general officer ...
Article : 661 wordsProfessor MacMillan Brown, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, and a recognised authority on the islands and peoples of the Pacific, told his fascinating story of ...
Article : 618 wordsAt a public meeting the financial position of the municipal sports ground was placed before those present. Receipts showed donations, £96/6/; sports, £80/1/1/; rent, £39/1/6; ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Caledonian Society's seventeenth annual gathering was held under glorious weather conditions more than 2000 people being on the ground. The piping competitions were ...
Article : 231 wordsWireless messages were received on Saturday by the American Trading Company that the steamer Eastern Moon, of 5716 tons, which left Melbourne for Adelaide on Friday, was ...
Article : 169 wordsThe baseball contest between a metropolitan nine and a team from the Milwaukee attracted a crowd of over 5000 spectators at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday afternoon. ...
Article : 147 wordsAt the resumed inquiry regarding a petition for granting a hotel license at Griffith, Frank Brewster, chief executive officer of the Irrigation Commission, stated that the ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Communist pnrty, with the red flag flying made a demonstration in the Domain yesterday in favour of free speech. The speakers declared that, despite the action of the ...
Article : 351 wordsFire completely destroyed a four-roomed weatherboard cottage in Anzac-street, Banks-town, last night. The outbreak occurred about 7.15 o'clock, and the flames rapidly ...
Article : 73 wordsA smart piece of work has been performed by Constables Morgan and Macleay, of Grafton. At the Macean Court on Thursday the police magistrate remanded to Grafton for sentence ...
Article : 264 wordsSir,—I can quite endorse all your correspondent, "Taxpayer," says about Government muddling, and especially the stupid way in which the Customs Department is ...
Article : 341 wordsThe unveiling of an enlarged and beautifully mounted photograph in memory of the late Miss May Taylor, took place in the town hall, in the presence of a large gathering. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 346 wordsTwenty-one members of both Houses of the Federal Parliament who are interested in the formation of new States have inaugurated a Federal Parliamentary New States' League. ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. A. D. Kay, president of the Citizens' Democratic Association, speaking in the Domain yesterday afternoon, said that as things were now shaping in Europe, and ...
Article : 151 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Communist hall last night, when the demonstration was continued. After the singing of "The Red Flag," Mr. ...
Article : 148 wordsTuesday, October 9, has been fixed as Schools' Hospital Day, on which occasion school children will be afforded an opportunity of assisting in the alleviation of the ...
Article : 230 wordsA fire broke out in the basement of 41 Sussex-street, occupied by Barberie Bros., engineers, at about 12.15 o'clock last night, but was extinguished before much damage ...
Article : 83 wordsSir,—You very briefly epitomise the lecture by Fathor Eris O'Brien in the King's Hall last night on "Primacy of St. Peter and the Roman Pontiffs." By your favour I desire ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsThrough the shock she received on noticing smoke issuing from the bedroom of a man who was boarding at her house, at 133 Womerah-avenue, Darlinghurst, last night, Mrs. E. Ball ...
Article : 109 wordsThe death occurred at his residence. Yuruga, Littles-avenue, Balmain, last night of Mr. R. A. Withers, who a few months ago celebrated the golden jubilee of his connection ...
Article : 213 wordsCommunists held a meeting in Bathurst-street last night. No action was taken by the police other than taking the names of Messrs. G. Morris and W. Dunn, who ...
Article : 109 wordsIn reference to the case in which Phillip Lawrence Harris proceeded against Alfred Angel Catts, at the Central Police Court recently, before Mr. Peisley, S.M., on two ...
Article : 138 wordsCharles Taylor, aged 23, a labourer, living at 54 Willoughby-street, North Sydney, was found in an unconscious condition on the High-street jetty, Neutral Bay, shortly after ...
Article : 67 wordsOn Saturday the Chief Railway Commissoner, Mr. Fraser, said it was apparently necessary to reassure the public against further allegations of unsafely respecting the ...
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Advertising : 218 wordsA little boy, A. A. Psaras, 6½ years of age, was knocked down by a motor car at the intersection of Cleveland and Bourke streets about half-past 3 on Friday afternoon and ...
Article : 65 wordsDetails of the work of the Superannuation Fund Management Board for the period since its inception until June 30 last are contained in a report which was tabled in the House of ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. David Elder, whose death occurred at his residence, Leslie-road, Essendon, on Saturday, at the age of 74 years, had practically all his life been identified with the wool and ...
Article : 127 wordsA fire occurred in the operating room of the Crown Picture Theatre, Crown-street, about 9 o'clock on Saturday night, but was extinguished with chemicals and wet blankets ...
Article : 158 wordsDavid William Shean, a blind man, a resident of Horseshoe Bend, had a remarkable escape, while returning by train from Newcastle. The train had stopped at ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—On reading Labour's manifesto in to-day's "Herald" I thought it might be interesting to your readers to recall a passage in Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The Poet at the ...
Article : 299 wordsA service to the memory of the late Sir James Burns was held yesterday morning in St. Andrew's, Parramatta, the church which he attended. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsThe second of the series of debates between teams representing the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide took place at the Adelaide University on Saturday ...
Article : 99 wordsA destructive fire occurred at Dunkley Bros. Pty., Ltd., saw mills early yesterday morning, when the mill, plant, offoces, and timber were totally destroyed. The damage is estimated ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Bathurst branch of the Nationalist Association carried resolutions regarding prohibition to be placed on the agenda paper at the next annual conference in Sydney. The ...
Article : 74 wordsThrough a motor car he was driving colliding with a telegraph post in Forest-road, Hurstville, about 12.30 this morning, Henry M. Murray was thrown out, and sustained ...
Article : 34 wordsArchbishop Kelly laid the foundation-stone of a new school at Waitara yesterday afternoon. He said that if Christianity were not maintained in the schools they would be ...
Article : 106 wordsA cloudless sky afforded favourable conditions last night for the observance of the partial eclipse of the moon, and for the whole of its duration it was observed in the city ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Yankalilla left the coast on Saturday with the following cargo for Sydney:—2393 bags of potatoes, 1759 bags chaff, 655 bales straw. For Newcastle: 1571 bags of potatoes. For Queensland: 1097 bags of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 27 Aug 1923, Page 10
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