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  2. A WEST INDIES TEST.

    PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Jan. 26. The English batsmen collapsed yesterday in their first innings of the second test match against the West Indies, but stubborn batting ...

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  3. EXPLOSION.

    An attempt was made shortly before midnight to blow up a bridge leading to Aberfield Colliery, two miles south of Swansea, Lake Macquarie. ...

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  4. SHIELD CRICKET.

    Hopes of New South Wales recording an outright victory against Victoria in the Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and so keeping in doubt the ultimate ...

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  5. LIBRARIES

    The report on Australian libraies by Mr. Ralph Munn, of Pittsburgh and Mr. E. R. Pitt, of Melbourne, commissioners of the Carnegie Corporation, discusses remedies for conditions ...

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  6. DON BRADMAN.

    When Don Bradman and his wife arrived at the Outer Harbour on the Otranto on Saturday, he looked healthier than when he left with the team 10 months ago. He ...

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  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Sevcie heat is being experienced in the Albury district. The grass is knee high, and anxiety is felt regarding outbreaks of bushfires. ...

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  8. 'GALLANT RESCUES AT CURL CURL.

    From left: Mrs. Ruby Evans, Billy Evans, Miss Lucy Pettigrew, and Miss Norah Willis, who manned the life-reel, John Pettigrew, who held Harold O'Neill until exhausted and then assisted in the rescue of Robert Edwards and Archibald Swaine: and Raymond Eckersley, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. TRANSFERS OF PRIESTS.

    The Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst (Dr. Norton) has announced the following appointments and transfers of priests in the diocese:—Father R. Barrow, from assistant at ...

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  10. BRIDGES AND ROADS GRANTS.

    Advice has been received that £4000 is to be made available to the Turon Shire Council for tin construction of bridges over the Winburndale and Cheshire Creeks on the Eglinton ...

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  11. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    Six members of a picnic party were injured yesterday morning when the motor lorry on which they were riding ran over the edge of a 12ft embankment and overturned ...

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  12. YOUTH'S PRETENCE.

    An ingenious youth, who apparently preferred to remain anonymous, gave the police valuable assistance when they were making an arrest in a shop in Darling-street. ...

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  13. MAN FOUND DEAD.

    James Andrews, 48, was found dead the morning in the back yard of P. Frounfelder's shop. Death is believed to have been due to heart failure. ...

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  14. SENTENCED FOR THEFT.

    Reginald Aithur Dawson 29 was sentenced at the Finley Police Court to six months imprisonment for having stolen a motor cycle valued at £95 the property of Donald Albert ...

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  15. GRAFTON AERODROME PROPOSAL

    When correspondence about the proposed aerodrome at Junction Hill was before theGrafton City. Council the Deputy Mayor (Alderman D. W. Macpherson), said that South ...

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  16. ENGLISH CRICKETER.

    The English cricketer, V. W. C. Jupp, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment on a manslaughter charge, and was disqualified from driving a car for two years. Tne Judge ...

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  17. KNEE GASHED BV AXE.

    John Supple had a knee badly gashed when his axe glanced off a piece of green timber His father carried him home and then rushed him to the Macleay District Hospital in a car ...

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  18. LORD BADEEN-POWELL.

    The World Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell), accompanied by Lady Baden-Powell, arrived in Sydney from Melbourne on Saturday. He will receive a welcome from Boy Scouts ...

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  19. NEW "BLUEBIRD."

    Though resembling, in its new shape, a whale or a legendary dolphin rather than a bird, Sir Malcolm Campbells famous "Bluebird ' car has speed wiltten all over it." It ...

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  20. LORRY OUT OF CONTROL.

    Edsar James Wcaire, Angus Campbell and the latter's younger brother, while travelling from Henty to Queensland had a narrow escape from death. They were in a heavily ...

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  21. HEROINE OF FIRE.

    Dr. Stella B. Symes, 38, who suffered severeburns to her face and hands when she tried to rescue her mother, Mrs. Agnes Taylor Symes, 60, from a file that destroyed their ...

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  22. SUPPOSED INJUSTICE.

    In a fit of insane revenge for alleged injustice received from an unemployment relief bureau in Chicago, Henry Arden, 24, a university graduate, and his mother, aged 54 ...

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  23. THIEVES UNSUCCESSFUL.

    Thieves opened the ticket office window at Canowindra railway station last night, but obtained nothing. They rould not open the iron safe. An attempt was also made by ...

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  24. MONEY FOR IMPROVEMENTS.

    A grant of £500 lias been allocated to the Woy Woy Sbiie Council by the Local Government Department to widen and reallgn the Woy Woy-Pearl Beach road al Mount ...

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  25. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 words
  26. DELUSION OF POVERTY.

    After an inquiry into the death of Thomas Ormiston Murray, who was described as the son of an "Australian wool king," a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. ...

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  27. "FISHING" FOR SNAKE.

    For several weeks a black snake, five feet long, has been under a house at Moorland, occupied by the Misses M. and C. McLaughlin, causing them much anxiety. Ultimately ...

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  28. BURNS ANNIVERSARY.

    Burns Day celebrations in Canberra were chiefly notable this year for the unveiling of the first statue to be erected in the Federal capital. It was a fine likeness of Robert Burns ...

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  29. TRIAL OF HAUPTMANN.

    Bernard Richard Hauptmann, who is charged with the murder of the baby son of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, again gave evidence at his trial yesterday. He made a supreme effort to ...

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  30. PROSPECTOR'S CLAIM.

    Mr. Jack Thompson, a prospector, who formerly worked on the Melrose field (a "rush" that took place nearly 50 years ago). asserts that, he has again found the reef, and that ...

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  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Lord Chamberlain (Earl Cromer) has banned the play, "A Knight in Vienna," by a young Australian named Archie Menzies. It was privately presented last Sunday, and ...

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  32. WHEEL CRASHES INTO WINDOW.

    While Mr. Frank Higgens was driving his motor truck in town a back wheel came off stopping the truck immediately. The wheel rolled along the street for about 40 yard. ...

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  33. HUMAN PROBLEMS.

    Is it wrong for a divorced person to marry again? was one of many questions answered by the Rev. T. E. Ruth last night at a question box conducted at the Pitt-street ...

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  34. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 words
  35. SYDNEY FUNCTION.

    The 176th commemoration of the birth of Robert Burns was carried out on Saturday afternoon at the Burns statue in the Domain Mr. W. M. Jack, chief of the 22 societies ...

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  36. TROUT FISHERMEN'S HAUL.

    A record in rainbow trout for the Upper Murray is claimed by Mr. P. Bell, of the Club Hotel, Albury, who, with his father (Mr. G. Bell) and Mr. D. Nolan, have returned from ...

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  37. CASUALTIES.

    John Jarrett, 14, of King-street, Newtown, suffered excruciating agony yesterday when one of his legs became jambed between the bottom ot a boat and some rocks near the ...

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  38. MONSIGNOR PEOPLES.

    Special references were made to the death of Monslgnor Robert Peoples at St. Canice's, Elizabeth Bay, St. Columbkille's, Woolloomooloo. St. Anthony's, Clovelly, and St. Mary's ...

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  39. ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE.

    In the Wagga Police Court, William McGlasson, salesman of Melbourne, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for having assaulted Constable Norrell at Wagga on ...

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  40. NOTTS COMMITTEE.

    Mr. H. A. Brown, secretary of the Notts Cricket Club, in a letter to Councillor Whitby and Mr. Woolley, representing the conveners of the club meeting, said that, owing to the ...

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  41. MISSION VESSEL

    Engine trouble, which developed a few miles north of the Heads, caused the auxiliary mission ketch Lightbearer to return to Sydney on Saturday morning. ...

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  42. TO-DAY.

    Tivoli Theatre: "Tannhauser." s, Cilterion: "Nice Goings On," s. Theatre Royal: ''Viktoria and Her Hussar," 8. Mayfair Theatre: "Bitter Bweet," "Trouble," 11. ...

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  43. THE CHURCHES.

    Special services were held yesterday at St. Stephen's Church of England, Kurrajong, and St Philip's, North Richmond. There were thanksgivings at the former church for the ...

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  44. NEW CHRISTIAN BROTHERS' COLLEGE.

    The new Christian Brothers' College in Carlisle-street, on the heights of Rose Bay was blessed and opened yesterday by Archbishop Sheehan in the presence of a large ...

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  45. SHARK ATTACK RECALLED.

    James Schofield, who went to the assistance of Beryl Morrin when she was attacked by a shark in George's River, received two cheques, each for more than £ 100, from Tom Lurich, ...

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  46. AGAINST WAR.

    During a debate in the Lower House, the Foreign Minister (Mr. Hirota) declared: "Japan will not get into a war as long as I am Foreign Minister." He advocated the ...

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  47. AUSTRALIAN'S SUCCESS.

    At an examination held in England for the rank of Surgeon-Commander, Surgeon-Lieutenant-Commander Adrian Pritchard, of the Royal Australian Navy, obtained the highest marks ...

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  48. CITY FIRE.

    A fire broke out in a three-story building occupied by Inglis, Ltd., in Hutchinson-street, Darlinghurst, on Saturday night. City brigades, under the direction of Chief Officer ...

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  49. THEFT OF JEWELLERY.

    Jewellery valued at more than £399 was stolen from the home of Mr. R. Sayer, of Coolong-road, Vaucluse, during the week-end. The robbery was not discovered until shortly ...

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