LONDON, Jan. 16.—Thomas Hardy, the creator of "Tees of the d'Urbervilles," joined the immortals in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, amid a demonstration ...
Article : 381 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 17.—Cecil Norman Crouch, an imbecile, aged 38 years, was strangled at the Rydalmere Mental Hospital, near Parramatta, early on Monday ...
Article : 449 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 16.—A message from Flint (Michigan) states that an elderly man has confessed to having killed Dorothy Schneider, a five-year-old girl, the ...
Article : 80 wordsHOBART, Jan. 17.—The nineteenth congress of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science was continued today in weather that was again hot and ...
Article : 1,866 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 17.—Sir. C. B. Popkin, postmaster at Tyalgum and formerly a sergeant in the 24th machine gun company, claims that it was he who shot down ...
Article : 357 wordsThe Premier (Mr. P. Collier) stated yesterday that the State Government viewed with growing seriousness the position that had been created by the continued influx ...
Article : 554 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 17.—The tenth day of the inquest upon the Greycliffe-Tahiti collision in Sydney Harbour on November 3 was entered upon this morning before the City ...
Article : 242 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 17.—A spirited, plea for afforestation was made by the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Marr) in an address to-day at a luncheon ...
Article : 483 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Admiral Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, informed the House of Representatives and the Naval Affairs Committee that the five ...
Article : 242 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—The wireless and cables conference was opened today. The chairman (Sir John Gilmour) welcomed the delegates and announced the terms of ...
Article : 95 wordsTwenty years ago the sphere of operations of the Perth City Council was very limited. To-day, with a population in the metropolitan area, of 184,000, the City ...
Article : 652 wordsLONDON, Jan. 17—Mr. Arnold Bennett, in a letter to the "Daily Express," condemns the arrangement by which the distribution of admission tickets to the Poet's ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—The Moscow correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" has again succeeded in forwarding a message giving interesting details with regard to ...
Article : 262 wordsMiss Chave Collison, M.A., the advance agent for Miss Maude Royden, addressed members of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia, and representatives of ...
Article : 665 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 17.—Riotous scenes occurred at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery, near Weston, this morning, when employees assembled to commence work. The ...
Article : 423 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 17.—The report of the Development and Migration Commission dealing with the dried fruit industry was considered by the Federal Cabinet, ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, Jan. 17.—At the service in Westminster Abbey, Lord Herschell represented the King; Sir Walter Peacock, the Prince of Wales: and Mr. P. K. Hodgson ...
Article : 33 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 7.—While the only salesman in the shop was serving a woman some yards away, a thief opened a glass door in the shop of W. Roberts. Pty., Ltd., ...
Article : 378 wordsPARIS, Jan. 16.—The International Union of Aviators has awarded Colonel Lindbergh, the trans-Atlantic airman, the men's international trophy for 1927. with ...
Article : 88 wordsPARIS, Jan. 16.—The Moscow correspondent of the "Paris Matin" states that the 4,000 "Red" officers recently dismissed by the Commissioner of War (M. ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Jan. 17.—The Warsaw correspondent of the Central News Agency states that it is reported from Moscow that the Soviet Government has purchased ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—The Attorney General, prosecuting at the Old Bailey at the trial of James Macartney and Jan Hansen, a German, who were presented on ...
Article : 428 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—"Substantial reductions in the Admiralty Staff can be made without impairing the Navy's efficiency," declares the Select Committee on Naval ...
Article : 125 wordsWASHINGTON,. Jan. 16.—The Treasury officials have indicated, in connection with the lifting of the embargo against the flotation of French securities in ...
Article : 73 wordsAllegations that a witness was forced to sign a statement by a policeman's threat that if he did not he would be "put on the hill," were made yesterday in the ...
Article : 469 wordsAubrey Fergus (15), of 8 Hooper-street, West Perth, was run over by a spring cart in Murray-street yesterday afternoon, and received treatment at the Perth Hospital ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Jan. 17.—It is announced that, at the request of his Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa, the King has been pleased to approve of the ...
Article : 131 wordsBRUSSELS, Jan. 16.—Fifty delegates attended the opening of the International Red Cross Conference to discuss the protection of civilians in the event of chemical ...
Article : 69 wordsPARIS, Jan. 17.—At the reception today to the executive of the International ex-Service. Men's Federation, the uresident of the German section representing ...
Article : 57 wordsA. J. Wroth (about 50) was knocked down at the corner of Hay and Clivestreets, Subiaco, yesterday morning by a motor cycle. He was taken to the Perth ...
Article : 50 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 16.—A Berlin blast furnace at the Voelklingen works exploded, and the molten metal caught a number of workmen. cutting off their escape ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. Everitt Atkinson) has submitted to the Minister for Health (Mr. S. W. Munsie) a preliminary report on his visit to ...
Article : 212 wordsCAPETOWN, Jan. 16.—A serious subsidence occurred at the Witwatersrand gold mine in the Connor shaft this morning. when three stations at that shaft fell ...
Article : 68 wordsWhile, walking across Victorian-avenue, North Fremantle, last night to enter a taxi cab, Mrs. Bessie Feldt was knocked flown by a motor cycle driven by ...
Article : 51 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The United States Senate carried a motion favouring a reduction of the existing Republican tariff schedules. It adonted Senator ...
Article : 101 wordsPARIS, Jan. 16.—The inventor of the delicacy Peche Melba, the doyen of French chefs, M. Escoftier, has been promoted to the rank of an officer of the ...
Article : 37 wordsShortly after 11 o'clock last night the Central Fire Brigade was called to the Commonwealth Postal Stores in Lord street, where portion of the stack of ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—During an application to the Board of Trade for the compulsory marking of imported enamelled zinc sheets under the Safeguarding of ...
Article : 61 wordsHARVEY, Jan. 16.—On Friday evening last, as Mr. A. B. Black was driving a sulky into Harvey, he turned off the road about fifty yards above the lower weir, in ...
Article : 83 wordsPARIS, Jan. 17.—Two bareheaded and cassocked figures, wearing odd boots, snowing up in the glare of a police officer's motor car on a lonely country road, ...
Article : 82 wordsPARIS, Jan. 17.—According to the "Paris Matin," the conversations of the Agent-General for Reparations (Mr. Parker Gilbert) relative to the calling down of ...
Article : 74 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. l6.—The secretary for Commerce (Mr. H. C. Hoover) has declared that his department does not intend interfering in the reported dispute ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—Several wireless amateurs in Johannesburg picked up Melbourne (3LO) clearly last night. Loud speakers were used successfully with ...
Article : 30 wordsJohn Harrison Hanna (28), contractor, was arrested at Subiaco by Constable Pight last night, and charged with having driven a motor car recklessly in Rokeby-road ...
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