President Roosevelt to-day issued an executive order providing for the nationalisation of silver at 50.01 cents an ounce, according to the provisions of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934. The declaration appears to have been hastened by the steady ...
Article : 298 words"Every care should be taken that business will not be interfered with, but I cannot see that I am called upon to consider the propriety of any ...
Article : 363 wordsA conference of the representatives of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the National Council of Woolselling ...
Article : 273 wordsHeavy overnight rain and further falls this morning prevented play in the Australians' match against Warwickshire before lunch. ...
Article : 41 wordsTwo bodies have been recovered from the sunken ferry steamer, Bluebell, which sank following a head-on collision with the coastal steamer Warraneen. late last night. The police believe that three other persons are missing, and ...
Article : 735 wordsAfter tea McCabe was much brighter and reached his 50 in ninety minutes. Brown, however, showed no disposition to hurry. Mayer clean-bowled ...
Article : 266 wordsSir Malcolm Campbell said to-day that he intends early in 1935 to attempt to beat his own land speed record of 252 miles an hour. ...
Article : 46 wordsFollowing a precedent at the inauguration of former Presidents, Adolf Hitler proclaimed an amnesty for many men and women serving ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Foreign Office spokesman reiterated that the Government was considering making representations regarding increased duties on ...
Article : 104 words"The Daily Telegraph" says that Larwood will not play with Nottingham County against the Australians at Trent Bridge Oval on Saturday, ...
Article : 95 wordsActing under power granted by the Ordinance gazetted two days ago, the Attorney-General's Department has appointed the chief accountant of the ...
Article : 94 wordsOn arrival at Auckland to-day en route for the Antarctic with his aeroplane, the famous pilot, Bernt Balchen, expressed the opinion that ...
Article : 55 wordsThe first woman to be executed in the State of New York since January, 1928, Anna Antonio, 29, a mother of three children, with two ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Austrian Nazi headquarters have been closed down and the Legion dissolved. Many state that they are ready to ...
Article : 36 wordsA totally changed situation will be presented at the Wheat Advisory Committee when it resumes on Tuesday next. ...
Article : 106 wordsHammond, playing for Gloucester, made 302 not out, batting against Glamorgan to-day. This is the highest score he has ever made in ...
Article : 66 wordsCommenting on reported expressions of concern in Lancashire at the increase in the Australian tariff on cotton goods, the Controller-General ...
Article : 101 wordsIn Chambers to-day, Justice Maxwell granted an application to withdraw the notice of motion for leave to swear to the death of Robert ...
Article : 133 wordsA proposal is afoot for an air service between Sydney, Canberra and Tumut. Last week, the company's ...
Article : 225 wordsLindrum took the lead at this afternoon's session of his billiards match with Davis, but the latter made a break of 1137 to-night. At ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo British airmen, Captain James Ayling and Captain Leonard Reid, who left Wasaga Beach, Ontario, at 6 o'clock yesterday morning in a ...
Article : 161 wordsThe King's yacht, Britannia, won the chief race at Cowes to-day. She finished three minutes ahead over a 42 miles course, and, having an ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Premier of Queensland (Mr. Forgan Smith), who arrived in Sydney yesterday after a visit to the United Kingdom, said that in his ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Canberra Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Australia met in Sydney and finally fixed September 22, as the date of the opening and ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Pope has nominated Cardinal McRory as the Papal Legate to Melbourne for the Eucharistie Congress. ...
Article : 29 wordsRelatives and friends of Mrs. Gregory, who was reported in the Canberra and Sydney Press to have passed away on Tuesday, will be ...
Article : 83 wordsHeavy black clouds which collected over the city this afternoon made it almost as dark as night. Then simultaneously there was a ...
Article : 87 wordsResults in the bowling section of the Empire Games to-day were as follow:- Singles: Sport (Scotland) beat Keys ...
Article : 74 words"To-day the right hand is on the sword, Patriotism has lost its reason throughout the world," declared Mr. Lloyd George, in an address. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Sat 11 Aug 1934, Page 1
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