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  2. CLOUDBURST.

    A man was drowned as a result of a cloudburst to-day, low-lying streets were flooded, and gardens damaged. Adrian Quist, the tennis player, had a ...

    Article : 356 words
  3. BYRD EXPEDITION.

    The work of sorting and loading cargo on the Byrd expedition ship, the Jacob Ruppert, which has been proceeding feverishly since Wednesday last, was practically completed ...

    Article : 108 words
  4. BREAD INDUSTRY.

    The State. Cabinet, it was officially announced yesterday, would not appoint a board to control the baking trade or to fix the price of bread. ...

    Article : 375 words
  5. THE PREMIERS.

    Seven Ministers will represent the Commonwealth Government at the Premiers' Conference, which will meet in Hobart early next year, primarily to discuss the operation ...

    Article : 408 words
  6. IN FAR NORTH

    We have flown over Groote Eylandt, covering about 140 miles of ocean to get there and back. It was impossible to land the Percival Gull on the tiny aerodrome at the Island, so ...

    Article : 1,468 words
  7. FINANCES.

    In the first five months of the financial year there was a Commonwealth surplus of £3,575,000. The monthly statement issued to-day by the Commonwealth Treasury showed ...

    Article : 530 words
  8. STABILISATION.

    The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says: "It was learned to-night that a dollar-pound stabilisation scheme had been proposed to the British fiscal authorities ...

    Article : 429 words
  9. SPAIN.

    The anarchist rebellion in Spain during the week-end was one of the fiercest in the country's history, and it is feared in Madrid that worse is yet to come. ...

    Article : 920 words
  10. MR. LANG.

    To mark the 20th anniversary of his entry into the State Parliament, the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lang) was accorded an enthusiastlc reception in the Auburn Town Hall ...

    Article : 1,080 words
  11. TWO WOMEN IN CAR.

    Two young women, smartly dressed in black, sat with bowed heads in the dock in general sessions to-day, while a charge of manslaughter was read against them. They were ...

    Article : 433 words
  12. MARRIAGE BINDING.

    Mr. Justice K. W. Street, in the Divorce Court yesterday refused to grant the petition for nullity by Marie Ellen Watson, of View-street, Annandale, who told the Court, ...

    Article : 553 words
  13. GERMANY.

    "Germany has to thank Herr Erzberger (a former Minister for Finance) for the loss of her colonies," declared Herr Kube, the Nazi Governor of Berlin, at a huge demonstration ...

    Article : 272 words
  14. MINER KILLED.

    Clarence William Body, 45, was killed yesterday morning near Mt. Werong, 40 miles from Oberon, when he slipped and fell more than 400 feet down a mountain gorge. ...

    Article : 355 words
  15. STATE FIGURES.

    The excess of expenditure over revenue of the State during the five months was £2,367,603, compared with an excess of £2,373,873 at the close of the corresponding ...

    Article : 203 words
  16. FASCIST STATE.

    The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "Sitting from 10 p.m. on Saturday until 3.30 a.m. on Sunday, the Fascist Grand Council approved a sheaf of 15 laws ...

    Article : 156 words
  17. RAILWAY OFFICER

    Cecil Herman Cavanough night officer at the Queanbeyan railway station, was charged to-day, and convicted of stealing a primus burner, valued at 6/, the property of the ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. STATE LOTTERY.

    The major prizes in the 171st State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday by Mr. L. A. Robb, State president of the R.S.S.I.L.A. ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. MELBA'S WILL.

    An origination summons has been taken out by the trustees of the will of the late Dame Nellie Melba, asking for directions from the Supreme Court regarding her bequest of £8000 ...

    Article : 233 words
  20. DESTROYER FLOTILLA.

    The destroyer Stuart, one of the five British destroyers now on the last stage of their voyage to Sydney, developed trouble with its port condenser. It will endeavour to reach ...

    Article : 416 words
  21. MR. COSGRAVE.

    Shots were fired at the car occupied by the leader of the Irish Free State Opposition (Mr. Cosgrave) as he was motoring in Donegal. Mr. Cosgrave's escort returned the fire. ...

    Article : 101 words
  22. ONUS OF PROOF.

    A majority of the Pull Court of the Supreme Court held yesterday that the onus of proving that "breathlessness and/or other injury of the lungs caused by inhalation of dust" was ...

    Article : 151 words
  23. BUILDING TRADES.

    For some months the building trades unions and the Master Builders' Association have been negotiating for a standard award. The negotiations, it is understood now concern a ...

    Article : 137 words
  24. LORD MAYORALTY.

    The Lord Mayor (Alderman Hagon) said yesterday that he closed the meeting abruptly after the election of Alderman Parker as Lord Mayor for 1934 to avert unpleasantness "I ...

    Article : 154 words
  25. FUKIEN REBELS.

    A last desperate effort is being made to find a peaceful solution of the Fukien quarrel in the hope of averting civil war. which appears inevitable. ...

    Article : 162 words
  26. GERMAN PRINCESS.

    The wife of Prince Bernard Saxe-Meiningen escaped from her castle at Klagenfurt (Austria), where she had been under open arrest since the Prince's sentence to imprisonment. ...

    Article : 102 words
  27. TEA PRICES.

    An increase of /2 a lb in the retail price of all grades of tea was announced by the Robur Tea Company, Ltd to-day. It was stated that the reason for the increase was ...

    Article : 107 words
  28. BLAZE IN BASEMENT.

    Firemen had to wear smoke helmets to subdue a fire which broke out in a sub-basement at Coles, Ltd., in Liverpool-street, city yesterday afternoon. ...

    Article : 89 words
  29. TELEPHONE SERVICE.

    The Postmaster-General's Department is making a special effort to secure new telephone subscribers. Special officers are engaged on door-to-door canvassing, and the ...

    Article : 193 words
  30. ENGLISH BEEF.

    The "News Chronicle" says: "Oxford colleges are calling for measures to force the public to buy English beef, pointing out that they will be forced to buy it in the absence of ...

    Article : 132 words
  31. TEST CRICKETER.

    The international cricketer, S. J. McCabe, who is now in the country, is to visit Sydney this week to undergo an operation for appendicitis. He will probably not take any ...

    Article : 135 words
  32. FRENCH BUDGET.

    The French Chamber of Deputies adopted the complete Budget proposals of the Premier (M. Chautemps) by 280 votes to 175. M.Chautemps previously announced that ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. CATERPILLARS

    Crops and pastures in many districts in Victoria are being attacked and destroyed by hordes of caterpillars. A report from Moe. Gippsland, states that at intervals of about ...

    Article : 82 words
  34. OVERLAND TELEGRAPH CUT

    David Nightingale was charged in ' e police court with cutting the wire of the telegraph line near Powell Creel- and interrupting all telegraph communication between Adelaide ...

    Article : 74 words
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