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  2. FRENCH PEASANTS. Refusal to Pay Taxes.

    There is anxiety in Prance about the disaffection among the peasantry owing to their economic conditions. Peasants throughout the country complain ...

    Article : 220 words
  3. UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS BOARD.

    MR. KEVIN W. ELLIS. Mr. Ellis has been co-opted by the Sydney University Appointments Board as a representative on the board of recent ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 62 words
  4. CITY COUNCIL.

    Arrangements for the transfer of the electricity department from the City Council to the County Council at the end of this year were discussed by the finance committee of ...

    Article : 550 words
  5. GERMAN ARMY.

    For the first time since Versailles, the German Army has this week shown itself in large formations, equipped with all the arms of modern warfare, instead of wooden guns ...

    Article : 734 words
  6. MANSLAUGHTER.

    Clifford Earl Smiles, 31, motor mechanic, of Footscray, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in the Criminal Court to-night. Smiles, who was charged with the murder ...

    Article : 287 words
  7. EXPLORER OF ARABIA.

    DR. BERTRAM THOMAS. Dr. Thomas, who is one of the greatest living authorities on Arabia, reached Sydney yesterday by the Tanda to give a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  8. STEAMER MINDEROO.

    The steamer Minderoo, which went aground while berthing at Port Hedland on Saturday, is still in port. Most of the leaks have been stopped and the ship's pumps are ...

    Article : 144 words
  9. COUNTRY NEWS. PROSPECTOR FOUND DEAD.

    The body of Patrick Cahill, a prospector, aged about 50, was found by R. Adams the Klandra mail driver, near Provid[?]ce, this morning. Cahill was a returned soldier, and ...

    Article : 50 words
  10. RATEPAYERS PROTEST AGAINST LOAN.

    A resolution of protest against the proPosal by Tintenbar Shire to raise a loan of £10,000 was passed at a meeting of the Lennox Head Ratepayers Association last night. ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. CULTURAL IMPORTS.

    Protests were made against "unfair competition of literary, artistic, and other cultural material from overseas" at a meeting of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, held ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. THEFT OF COAL.

    When John Cameron, 24, was charged at Bathurst Police Court with stealing 2/ worth of coal, the property of the Railway Commissioners, Detective Wells stated that about ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. STRUCK BY TREE LIMB.

    While assisting to fell timber near Comara, Upper Macleay, George Davis, 22, of Taree, was struck on the head by a falling limb. His companions carried him to the road, where ...

    Article : 71 words
  14. CHINA'S FINANCES.

    The Tokyo correspondent or "The Times" says that the Emperor gave an audience to Sir Frederick Leith Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government, who will ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. MINISTER'S PROTEST.

    After several exchanges, during which the Minister for Education (Dr. Harris) accused Mr. Eager of being "continually insulting" in his remarks, Dr. Harris walked out of the ...

    Article : 245 words
  16. TEST OF NEWNES PETROL.

    The Newnes investigating committee yesterday began a series of road tests of petrol obtained from Newnes shale. The petrol was obtained from a sample of ...

    Article : 247 words
  17. MACQUARIE-STREET.

    While the Deputy Lord Mayor (Alderman A. McElhone) yesterday said that the Macquarie-street Replanning Committee's proposals were extravagant, and the proposed ...

    Article : 1,139 words
  18. FATAL SEIZURE.

    When Esdras Giddy, 75, a timber and sleeper cutter, failed to return to the camp at Upper Collombatti, his companions began a search and found his body lying alongside a log ...

    Article : 59 words
  19. PROTEST BY PRIEST.

    The Rev. Father Doherty, during a sermon in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, said clean, invigorating sport was harmless in the community, but in Glen Innes, as well as in ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. STATE LOTTERY CONDEMNED.

    Lismore District Ministers' Fraternal resolved to urge the Government to abolish the State lottery. The opinion was expressed that the Government should substitute direct taxation, ...

    Article : 78 words
  21. WATER SUPPLY.

    The work is rapidly progressing of laying the pipe-line to connect West Wyalong and Barmedman with the Burrinjuck water supply. It is possible that reticulation work in the ...

    Article : 46 words
  22. FIREWALKER.

    Asserting his ability to perform a fire-walking ceremony by the strength of his faith, Kuda Bux, a Kashmiri Mohammedan, 30, and weighing 8½ stone, in a London garden to-day ...

    Article : 317 words
  23. JACARANDA AVENUE.

    The famous jacaranda avenue in Poundstreet is to be connected with one more recently planted in Doble-street, by the planting of 76 trees in Turf-street, between Pound ...

    Article : 36 words
  24. MR. SCULLIN'S ILL-HEALTH.

    The leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament (Mr. Scullin), who suffered a relapse after an attack of influenza, has been advised by his doctor not to travel to ...

    Article : 123 words
  25. BONDI AMUSEMENT PARK.

    Alderman Dovey, at the last meeting of the Waverley Council, said that the noises created by some of the contraptions at the Bondi Amusement Park, near Bondi beach, and the ...

    Article : 134 words
  26. CONTRIBUTION FUND.

    At June 30 last, the effective membership of the Metropolitan Hospitals Contribution Fund of New South Wales was estimated at 156,230 contributors. The number of groups ...

    Article : 155 words
  27. GENERAL STORE ROBBED.

    The premises of Thomson's, Ltd., storekeepers, were robbed of £7 in money and stamps. Gelignite and a detonator had been applied to a safe, and 20 bags of flour had ...

    Article : 56 words
  28. MEDICAL RESEARCH.

    At a dinner held to-night at Adelaide University to mark the close of the jubilee celebrations of the medical school, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (Dr. De Crespigny) ...

    Article : 187 words
  29. MAN POISONED.

    Michael McNamara was brought into Goulburn by the district ambulance. He was admitted to hospital where doctors discovered symptoms consistent with poisoning, McNamara ...

    Article : 41 words
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  31. BAN ON ANGLE PARKING.

    After five years and a half the police have discovered that angle parking, as in operation in Goulburn, is contrary to the regulations, and a short peremptory note was sent to the ...

    Article : 71 words
  32. THE SUBURBS.

    The Warringah Shire Council decided to borrow £4600 for a new surf pavilion at Palm Beach and general beach improvements. An inquiry concerning the loan will be held ...

    Article : 589 words
  33. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 words
  34. NATIONAL ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS.

    BRO. E. E. MURRAY. Brother Murray has been elected grand master of the National Independent Order of Oddfellows. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  35. RESEARCH WORK.

    Representatives of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales interviewed the vice-Chancellor of Sydney University (Dr. Wallace) on Tuesday, and suggested that a ...

    Article : 129 words
  36. MERGER OF COUNCILS.

    Although Blayney Municipal Council recently decided as a protest against the forthcoming amalgamation with Lyndhurst Shire, not to submit names for representation on the ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. COLLIERY DISPUTE.

    The Invincible Colliery, Cullen Bullen, was idle to-day owing to a dispute regarding water money and other matters. The secretary of the Western Miners' Federation (Mr. T. ...

    Article : 44 words
  38. GERMAN 'PLANES.

    Mr. D. S. Wylie, a directer of Australian Transcontinental Airways, Ltd., at a luncheon at Usher's Hotel yesterday, said that, although the company's decision to use German Junkers ...

    Article : 285 words
  39. KINGSFORD SMITH.

    Sir Charles Kingsford Smith flew his Lockheed plane, the Lady Southern Cross, from Chicago to-day. He announced that he will sail for England soon, and start on his flight ...

    Article : 106 words
  40. RAILWAY FACILITIES.

    The Deputy Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside) visited Maitland to-day. At West Maitland a deputation sought the establishment of refreshment rooms. Mr. Garside ...

    Article : 80 words
  41. BUSINESS HABITS.

    The vice-president of the Sydney Teachers' College (Dr. P. R. Cole), under the auspices of Blennerhassett's Commercial Educational Society of Australasia, delivered a lecture on ...

    Article : 131 words
  42. Advertising

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  43. GWYDIR HIGHWAY.

    Advice has been received from the Main Roads Department, in connection with the portion of the Gwydir Highway, between Moree and Warialda, that the contractor has ...

    Article : 89 words
  44. WOMAN FOUND DYING.

    Miss Mary Turner, 49, a dressmaker, collapsed in the bathroom of residential premises in College-street, city, early yesterday morping and died soon afterwards. Residents ...

    Article : 84 words
  45. CASUALTIES.

    Arthur Cook, 30, of Windsor, whose skull was fractured on Tuesday when he fell 30 feet to a tiled basement while cleaning windows of a house in Macleay-street, Potts Point, died ...

    Article : 305 words
  46. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/11 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/9½ yesterday FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...

    Article : 374 words
  47. BUTCHER INJURED.

    William Schofield, a butcher, was boning a round of beef when the knife slipped, striking him in the groin and severing the femoral artery and vein. He was rushed by ...

    Article : 48 words
  48. TRACTOR DRIVER.

    Arthur Oke, 54, of Lismore, a tractor driver employed by the Gundurimba Shire Council, was found dead at 5 p.m. to-day alongside a roller at Pelican Creek. He had been dead ...

    Article : 107 words
  49. SAFE BLOWN OPEN.

    Early on Monday morning the office of the Shell Oil Company's depot at Tugun, two miles from Coolangatta, was broken into, and the safe blown open. The Coolangatta Council ...

    Article : 68 words
  50. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 328 words
  51. CHINA'S FAMINE AREAS.

    Major L. Stranks, of the Salvation Army, who reached Sydney by the Tanda yesterday, is returning to Melbourne for his second furlough in 14 years' service in China. ...

    Article : 185 words
  52. CHILD TOE-DANCERS.

    At the Lismore Festival to-day, the adjudicator of dancing, when giving a decision on a toe-dance for children aged less than six years, said that children less than eight years ...

    Article : 57 words
  53. RABBIT PEST.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. White), received to-day a letter from an Austrian woman, who stated that she had heard that the Australian Government was offering a ...

    Article : 91 words
  54. PROTECTED SKINS.

    In the Police Court, before Mr. C. G. CarrBoyd, P.M., Albert Clive Hogbin pleaded guilty to having had in his possession the skins of five swamp wallabies, such animals being ...

    Article : 47 words
  55. AIR MAIL.

    Mr. D. E. Stodart arrived in Darwin at 11.30 a.m. to-day in his Airspeed Courier machine, with the Adelaide-Darwin air mail, under charter to Australian Transcontinental ...

    Article : 145 words
  56. GAS ATTACKS.

    The Surgeon-in-Chief or St. John Ambulance Brigade, London (Colonel C. I. Ellis) addressing nursing sisters and nurses from 20 metropolitan divisions of the Brigade Overseas ...

    Article : 135 words
  57. NEWCASTLE HARBOUR CONTROL.

    Discussion here to-day concerning the Maritime Services Bill, now before the Legislative Assembly, revealed general disappointment that the Government was not prepared to ...

    Article : 82 words
  58. MOVE FOR LABOUR UNITY.

    The annual State Labour conference decided to-night that South Australia would be represented at a meeting of State branches in favour of unity, to be held a few days before ...

    Article : 48 words
  59. LAUNCH ADRIFT.

    Shortly after leaving Patonga for Brooklyn yesterday afternoon with a full load of passengers, the launch Gloria broke down when opposite Patonga Point. All efforts to restart ...

    Article : 71 words
  60. DON BRADMAN

    D. G. Bradman, [?]. E. Dolling, and H. Bridgeman to-night were appointed State selectors. The Cricket Association also decided that the new [?].b.w. rule in use in ...

    Article : 48 words
  61. TROUT FRY.

    The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) said yesterday that more than 1,000,000 trout fry would be liberated in the inland waters. The majority were of the rainbow species. ...

    Article : 29 words
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