Driven by the hurricane--still raging at 50 miles an hour-- flames devoured a furniture factory and many cottages in and around the metropolitan area to-day. Bushfires, too, are sweeping across the Blue Mountains, in an almost-unbroken ...
Article : 1,010 wordsBlown from its moorings to-day, Mr. J. Icher's yacht, Alice, was swept across Rose Bay and pounded to pieces on the rocks below Steel Point. Two men clambered aboard in an attempt to save it. They managed to scramble ashore as the vessel broke up. When the hurricane struck Cremorne, roofs of houses were dislodged, gardens ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsMore than 75 per cent. of Sydney's telephone and telegraph communications to the rept of the continent ...
Article : 269 wordsMountain bushfires extend in an almost unbroken line for 25 miles from Emu Plains to Katoomba. ...
Article : 385 wordsLashed by a 60-miles-an-hour gale, which razed a brick building, blew in the sides of a 2000-ton steel oil tank, ...
Article : 342 wordsTime stood still at Balmain to-day. At the height of the gale, with the top of the clock tower ...
Article : 85 wordsThe fiercest westerly gale for years brought destruction in Newcastle district to-day. It unroofed houses, blew down ...
Article : 106 wordsBakers who defy the proclamation issued yesterday by the Government fixing the maximum price of bread in industrial suburbs at 5¼ d a loaf, are liable to a £500 ...
Article : 597 wordsWhile to-day's, hurricane was at its height, a sparrow look refuge in the Premier's room, and was there when ...
Article : 53 wordsOnly two air liners, the Kyilla, for Brisbane, and Loongana, for Melbourne, left Sydney to-day on service flights. ...
Article : 91 wordsAll railway traffic across the Harbor Bridge was suspended for three hours today after two spans of ...
Article : 263 wordsHeavy seas pounded on South Australian beaches during a south-westerly gale early to-day and much lowlying ground was flooded. ...
Article : 80 wordsBy what one of the company officials described as "an incredible piece of luck," no flying-boats were moored in Rose Bay to-day. ...
Article : 71 wordsA serious bushfire is raging along Ocean Beach-road, Ocean Beach, fanned by the 60-miles-an-hour gale. Two brigades were forced to ...
Article : 141 wordsTrying to berth in a gale at Victoria Dock this morning, the liner Maunganui, arriving from New Zealand, dragged three powerful tugs around the basin--and in the end, had to be made fast at another berth. ...
Article : 350 wordsCounsel for Selwyn Wallace, 23, traveller, who, with Herbert Jenner, 22, laborer, was sentenced to death for the murder of Frederick ...
Article : 169 wordsErnest Corbert, 29, cafe manager discovered by a fellow-employee lying face downward on the floor of the Monterey Cafe, Queen ...
Article : 52 wordsDue here at 2.45 p.m. from Melbourne, the passenger steamer, Naroona, had not been sighted from Low Head at 2 p.m. She should ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsGales and dust storms forced the National Airways liner Lepena, bound from Melbourne to Sydney, to remain grounded at Canberra to-day. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe general rale in Ryde is likely to be increased next year. In a report the Town Clerk (Mr. Taylor said that if the existing rate ...
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The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), Sat 10 Dec 1938, Page 3
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