Violent thunder-storms, accompanied in many cases by very heavy rain, swept the city and most country areas of the State on Saturday. Storms in New South Wales caused the loss of five lives. Four persons were drowned and a woman ...
Article : 185 wordsStrong easterly gales and rough seas around the coast of Victoria and New South Wales and in Bass Strait disorganised coastal and overseas shipping in the ...
Article : 610 wordsTreasury officials, including the Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau), have expressed themselves as being satisfied with the effect in Wall street of ...
Article : 208 wordsA guard of honour carrying the new flag of the National Guard—a Saint Patrick's cross on a blue ground—met the leader of the United Ireland party ...
Article : 307 wordsThe British Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) arrived in London to-day after having discussed the European situation with the Italian Prime Minister (Signor ...
Article : 424 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—In about five feet of water and within view of thousands of surfers Colin Grant, aged 22 years, of Chalmers street, city, was attacked by a ...
Article : 384 words"Undoubtedly the Labour party will have to overcome opposition from Buckingham Palace and other places when it comes into power," said Sir Stafford ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Wall street bond market recovered to-day from the shock of the President's Budget message. It is generally felt that the Government is well able to float the ...
Article : 72 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Five persons lost their lives in storms which occurred throughout New South Wales in the weekend. Mrs. J. Noonan, of Hampton, near ...
Article : 656 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Dr. Cecil Hugh Norton, aged 35 years, and Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, aged 22 years, a nurse, were found on Saturday morning almost ...
Article : 325 wordsGeneral O'Duffy has demanded compensation for his "illegal arrest and imprisonment." It is understood that he will take legal action if his claim is not ...
Article : 35 wordsAmong the contributions received toward the purchase of the 4th century Greek manuscript of the Bible known as the Codex Sinaiticus, which has been ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Crawford Greene, M.P., who recently flew to Australia in company with Lord Apsley, returned on an Imperial Ariways liner from India to-day. ...
Article : 171 wordsThe St. Kilda Dinghy Club's event, postponed from Saturday, provided thrills for the crews and not a little excitement for spectators yesterday. Only two of ...
Article : 1,723 wordsORBOST, Sunday.—Rain set in at Orbost late on Friday night, and it has been raining practically ever since. The latest reading was 362 points. Falls at ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Observer" says that although the French memorandum has been in the hands of the German Chancellor (Herr Hitler) for six ...
Article : 158 wordsMiss Evelyn Frost, an American airwoman, was burned to death when her aeroplane, piloted by Mr. Geoffrey Ruddle, an Englishman, struck a high tension wire ...
Article : 165 wordsIt is learned that France, while proposing in her memorandum to Germany a reduction of the French Air Force by 50 per cent, as a guarantee of her sincerity ...
Article : 85 wordsThe financial editor of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the steady improvement in the Australian outlook should enable the Commonwealth Government to crown ...
Article : 65 wordsAt 7 p.m. yesterday people on the beach at Middle Park noticed a 20ft. launch drifting about half a mile from the shore. Apparently signals for assistance were ...
Article : 160 wordsNinety-two Russians, including five women and a child, are aboard the Soviet ice-breaker Cheluskin, which went to Wrangel Island to pick up a party of ...
Article : 131 wordsRemarkable frankness is displayed in a report accompanying the Italian Naval Estimates for 1934-5, that has been presented to the Chamber of Deputies. The ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Premier of Prussia (General Goering) has appealed to officials and employers not to treat persons who have been released from concentration camps as ...
Article : 131 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says that drastic action is likely to be demanded, in view of the unparalleled series of accidents lately, due to aeroplanes striking pylons, aerial ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—About 40 sailingboats of many sizes capsized yesterday afternoon when a south-easterly gale suddenly began to blow on the harbour. ...
Article : 75 wordsTHOONA, Sunday.—A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning and torrential rain, lasted from 3 p.m. on Saturday until noon to-day. Six inches of ...
Article : 117 wordsFRANKSTON, Sunday.—Six fishermen who left Mornington before midday on Saturday in a small boat to return to their homes at Aspendale had an alarming ...
Article : 239 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—A story told by two New Norfolk anglers of an encounter with a large creature in the River Derwent, near New Norfolk, was confirmed ...
Article : 171 wordsThe new Cabinet took the oath of alleglance before King Carol to-day. The Prime Minister (M. Tatarescu) later announced that he would also be Foreign ...
Article : 85 wordsMajor S. G. Hodges, station superintendent of the Imperial Airways at Broken Hill (Rhodesia), died on board the Imperial Airways liner Amalthea, while he ...
Article : 52 wordsBENALLA, Sunday.—Thunder-storms were numerous yesterday and last night, and late yesterday afternoon a cloudburst in the Glenrowan district yielded about ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Bishop of Liverpool (Dr. David), in refusing to take action, as requested by Lord Hugh Cecil, against the Dean of Liverpool (the Very Rev. F. W. Dwelly), ...
Article : 172 wordsThe French flying-boat Southern Cross, which made the westward flight across the Atlantic two days ago, left on the return flight to Senegal, Africa, to-day. It ...
Article : 43 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—An aborigine, William Richardson, aged 40 years, employed as a drover, was drowned yesterday in Grass Tree Creek, seven miles from ...
Article : 101 wordsArising out of allegations of bribery affecting police and other officials. it is announced that a former army chaplain, two officials of the Ministry for Justice, ...
Article : 93 wordsA special correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that Marie, Dowager Queen of Roumania, received him at her villa at Moedling (Austria). She said that M. ...
Article : 169 wordsAn autogiro has made the first nonstop flight from London to Paris. It covered the 215 miles in 150 minutes. ...
Article : 31 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.—The following wireless message has been received from the Jacob Ruppert on which the Byrd expedition travelled to South ...
Article : 184 wordsLORNE, Sunday.—A strong southeasterly wind gradually increased to gale force towards sunset on Saturday. A heavy sea was running, and about ...
Article : 113 wordsA venerable Maori custom was revived before the departure of the Port Chalmers on her maiden voyage to Australia and New Zealand, when, in the presence of a ...
Article : 274 wordsWANGARATTA, Sunday.—Unprecedented rains fell from 5 p.m. yesterday to midday to-day. The damage to telephone lines has prevented some outlying ...
Article : 415 wordsThe full implications of the revision by France of her import quotas are being carefully studied in responsible quarters in London, and opinion is much disturbed. ...
Article : 70 wordsMrs. Thalia Massie, the wife of a lieutenant in the United States Navy who figured in the sensational Honolulu murder trial in April, 1932, announced ...
Article : 151 wordsSWAN HILL, Sunday.—Lightning destroyed 40 acres of standing crop at Mr. J. Bailie's farm at Nine Mile Plain, and eight acres of crop on the adjoining farm ...
Article : 133 wordsWilliam T. Tilden has ranked Henri Cochet (France) and Norman E. Brookes (Austraia) all time No. 1 and No. 2 tennis players, based upon his own competitive ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Arthur Grant. a veterinary surgeon, says that while he was riding a motor-cycle alongside Loch Ness in the moonlight last night, he saw what he ...
Article : 121 wordsA meeting of Manchester cotton exporters urged the Government to take a strong line in protecting British interests against the reduction of the French quota. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers announces that an agreement between steelmakers in Great Britain and in Germany, France, Belgium, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe International Labour Office reports that 20 countries, including Great Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, Germany, Japan, and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 8 Jan 1934, Page 7
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