LONDON, Jan. 21.—Professor Leonard Woolley, leader of the British Museum Expedition that is excavating the royal tombs at Ur of the Chaldees, states, in an ...
Article : 260 wordsLONDON, Jan. 22.—The first bulletin since Saturday night was issued at noon to-day, and stated:— "That King had a quiet night. His ...
Article : 174 wordsMINGENEW, Jan. 22.—Franz Bettinger (24), who was shot in the groin in a second-class compartment of the Geraldton- Perth train as it was nearing ...
Article : 434 wordsROME, Jan. 21.—The old Parliament has been dissolved, and the elections to the Chamber of Deputies, (under the new system) have been fixed for March 24. ...
Article : 445 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 22.—The attitude of the Labour Party towards the question of increased shipping freights from Britain to Australia is criticised vigorously in the ...
Article : 642 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 22.—The Miners' Federation and allied unions to-day definitely rejected the plans of the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Bavin) to stimulate the ...
Article : 440 wordsPARIS, Jan. 22.—Commissioner Peyron, head of the Salvation Army in France, who voted for General Booth's deposition from the leadership during the proceedings of ...
Article : 163 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 22.—Bound from Sydney to Newcastle with general cargo, the coastal steamer Allyn River sprung a leak near Broken Bay early this morning, ...
Article : 315 wordsBELGRADE, Jan. 22.—The Yugo-Slavian Government which was set up by King Alexander, when he dissolved the Skupshtina and suspended the constitution on ...
Article : 127 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 22.—According to reports received by the Commissioner of Railways (Mr. Davidson), weather conditions on the north coast and in the Burnett ...
Article : 450 wordsLONDON, Jan. 21.—The decision to issue no bulletin to-night was unexpected and there will have been an interval of 60 hours between bulletins when the next ...
Article : 118 wordsParasites, which are to be used in assisting to eradicate fruit and crops pests, are being taken to Sydney by Mr. W. B. Gurney, Government entomologist of New ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, Jan. 21.—Mr. Justice Avory refused an application to-day by Mrs. Kate Meyrick that the case against her of having bribed a police-sergeant should be ...
Article : 380 wordsWilliam Leslie (23), labourer, who is under remand in the Roe-street lock-up on a charge of having shot at Bettinger with intent to kill, was charted last night with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 268 wordsNEWCASTLE, Jan. 22.—Representatives of interests controlling many vessels which frequently visit Newcastle Harbour have received instructions from Sydney ...
Article : 180 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Alarmed at the continued delay in the consideration by the Senate of the Cruiser Construction Bill (providing for the laying down of 15 10,000 ...
Article : 244 wordsBAGDAD, Jan. 21.—Refusing to yield to Britain's point of view that Iraq is not yet fit to undertake the defence of its territory, the Cabinet has resigned, and at ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Jan. 21—It is reported that Sir Alan Anderson, manager of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, will be one of the shipowners' representatives at the ...
Article : 40 wordsBASRA, Jan, 21.—A hundred Wahhabis who were hidden in the desert scrub, ambushed two motor cars in which Mr. Charles Crane formerly ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 22.—The serious consequences of the decision of the unions in rejecting the Ministry's plan was emphasised to-night by a statement made by ...
Article : 410 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 22.—Interviewed before his departure for Canberra to-day, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) said that permission had been given to ...
Article : 96 wordsPARIS, Jan. 22.—Political circles here disturbed at the reports from Washington suggesting that the expert committee appointed by the allied and German ...
Article : 255 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 22.—Members of the Victorian branch of the Musicians' Union, at its quarterly meeting held in the Temperance Hall to-day, discussed the ...
Article : 322 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 22.—In parts of the Riverina. the drought conditions are causing anxiety. In some townships, water for household purposes has become ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Jan. 22.—The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, chairman of directors of the Midland Bank, and an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, reviewed the outlook ...
Article : 177 wordsIn keeping with the Imperial General Staff's policy of arranging for its officers to obtain first-hand knowledge about military matters in the Dominions so as to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 221 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 22.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has communicated with the Government of the States concerned asking for the services to be made ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 22.—The difficulties of installing wireless transmission at all lighthouses was stressed to-day by the Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. ...
Article : 240 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 22.—Power alcohol, manufactured in Queensland from molasses, is to be marketed in this State on February 4. For some time its production ...
Article : 282 wordsCANBERRA—Jan 22.—In preparation for the pre-sessional meetings of the Federal Cabinet the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) and the Treasurer (Dr. Page) returned to ...
Article : 257 wordsLONDON, Jan. 21.—It is understood that plans are being developed for an early visit by the Prince of Wales to South Wales and other coalfields, including those ...
Article : 133 wordsOTTAWA, Jan. 21.—Official instructions have been forwarded to the Canadian Trade Commissioner at Melbourne (Mr. Ross) to discuss, in a friendly way, with ...
Article : 83 wordsMOSCOW, Jan. 21.—Advices from Herat state that Amanullah has rescinded his abdication and assumed the supreme power now that Inayatullah has been ...
Article : 83 wordsSUVA, Jan. 22.—For the last two days there has been a cyclonic disturbance in the Pacific, and yesterday the cyclone was approaching Fiji from the New Hebrides. ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 22—Robert Somerville and Leslie Milgate, the pilot and mechanic of the Moth aeroplane which crashed and killed Albert Charles Smith, a farmer, at ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON Jan. 21,—Sir William Bull, chairman of the Channel Tunnel Parliamentary Committee, has approached all British Chambers of Commerce to find out ...
Article : 109 wordsOne family in every four in England possesses a wireless set, one in every seven in Scotland and Wales, and one in every eleven in Ulster. In December 50,000 new ...
Article : 182 wordsHOBART, Jan. 22.—The comparative statement of the receipts and expenditure of Tasmania's consolidated revenue for the half years ended, respectively, on ...
Article : 208 wordsThe dead body of a man, which was found in a crevice in the rocks on the shore near Point King, at Albany, on January 11, has not yet been identified. ...
Article : 258 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 22,—Detectives are still investigating the shooting in Nicholson- street, Carlton, last night of Mona Ryan (22). of Richmond, who is on the ...
Article : 187 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 22—In the opinion of representatives of leading insurance companies, there would be many difficulties in the way of adopting a system for ...
Article : 182 wordsADELAIDE, Jan. 22.—Jan Rosing, managing director, of Adelaide, Thomas Bell, of Glenelg, and Lawrence Edwin Lovegrove, of Fullarton, appeared to-day ...
Article : 94 wordsMADRID, Jan. 21—General Primo de Rivera, the Spanish Premier, who is visiting Barcelona, did not take long to end the strike of 2,000 workers at the ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Jan. 21—It is announced that a section of the cotton trade is on the eve of launching an important scheme of amalgamation, in which the Bank of England ...
Article : 58 wordsAUCKLAND, Jan. 22.—V. Subritzky, who recently picked up a piece of ambergris on a bench pear Kaipara Heads, has found another piece in the same locality ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 23 Jan 1929, Page 15
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