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  2. £6500 DAMAGE.

    A fire at Burringbar early this morning destroyed the Burringbar Hotel, owned by Mr. Reginald Thomas Allen, sen., of Bowen, and occupied by Mr. Gordon Riley, a baker's shop, ...

    Article : 142 words
  3. NAVIGATION ACT

    A statement was issued to-day by the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation, after a conference, in reply to recent attacks which have been made on the coastal clauses of the ...

    Article : 380 words
  4. DEFENCE POLICY.

    The Minister for Defence (Sir George Pearce) said to-night that a system of compulsory military training would cost no more than the present voluntary system, but there ...

    Article : 160 words
  5. CONGREGATIONALISTS.

    Yesterday was women's day at the annual assembly of the Congregational Union. Mrs. J. H. King, the retiring president of the Women's Association, occupied the chair ...

    Article : 593 words
  6. OBITUARY. REV. G. N. MACDONNELL.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 words
  7. STATE SESSION.

    During the debate on the Budget in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. G. Wilkins made a strong plea on behalf of returned soldiers. 15,000 of whom, he declared, were ...

    Article : 1,226 words
  8. LONDON TOPICS.

    Mr. Cermak, the radiant Mayor of Chicago, came to London, a week or so ago, to tell us that Chicago had been "cleaned up" and was at last a haven of peace and virtue. No longer ...

    Article : 1,678 words
  9. CANBERRA NEWS.

    The Minister for the interior (Mr. Perkins) announced to-day that, as the result of negotiations with the superintendent of the Technical College, Sydney, a course of instruction ...

    Article : 280 words
  10. MR. W. BARNETT SMITH.

    Mr. William Barnett Smith, who was town clerk of North Sydney for 35 years, died at his home at Bond-street, Mosman, yesterday, aged 80 years Mr. Smith was born at ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. RAILWAY AWARDS.

    Adopting a suggestion made recently by the Full Court of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, the Victorian Railway Commissioners and the Transport Commissioners of New ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. VISITING JUDGE.

    CHIEF JUDGE WANLISS, of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea, who arrived in Sydney on the Nankin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 20 words
  13. NEWCASTLE NEWS.

    The examination of a truck of a goods train which reached the Newcastle district from Darling Harbour this morning indicated that tramps had "jumped the rattler," broached a ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. MR. L. L. FRANK.

    Mr. Lorne Le Roy Frank, manager of the machinery department of Carmichael and Co., Ltd., paper merchants, Sydney, died suddenly while playing golf on the Daceyville golf links ...

    Article : 125 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN FILMS.

    Mr. Charles Chauvel, who is at present producing. "The Mutiny of the Bounty," gave a lecture to members of the Film Society last night on "The Future of the Screen." ...

    Article : 521 words
  16. £200,000,000 LOAN.

    The annual luncheon and conference of the City Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., was held to-day. The head office board was represented by the chairman of directors (Mr. ...

    Article : 265 words
  17. THE UNIONS.

    The shop stewards of the Amalgamated Engineering Union have passed a resolution to the effect that the tariff agreement between Britain and Australia is against ...

    Article : 422 words
  18. MR. W. L. DAVIS.

    The remains of the late Mr. William Lovell Davis were cremated at Rookwood yesterday. City Tattersall's Club was represented by Mr. Jame Clarke (president), Mr. Johnston ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. £100 A FOOT

    More than £100 a foot was the record price paid for a Prince-street property, which changed hands this week. The purchaser was Mr. Richard Cartmill, of Grafton, who ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. ST. BARNABAS' DISPUTE.

    The dispute arising out of the appointment of Canon Rook to the rectorship of St. Barnabas' Chatswood, is still unsettled. Following the appointment of Canon Rook ...

    Article : 284 words
  21. SCARBOROUGH TRAGEDY.

    The Holroyd Shire Council will shortly erect a drinking fountain in a prominent part of Wentworthville to commemorate the deaths of John Stanton and James Tomlinson, the ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. MR. FRANCIS FARRELLEY.

    Mr. Patrick Francia Farrelley, principal of the firm of Farrelley Brothers, merchants and importers, of Rawsoh-place, died on Thursday at Melbourne. He became ill while on a ...

    Article : 60 words
  23. AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS

    Giving evidence yesterday morning before Mr. Justice Owen Royal Commissioner on performing rights, Mr. A. G. Stephens, author, literary adviser, composer of music, and ...

    Article : 349 words
  24. ODDFELLOWS' OFFICIALS.

    MR. W. N. MONTGOMERY, the Grand Master-elect of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows of New South Wales. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  25. THE BETTINGTONS.

    R. H. Bettington and his wife, in this season's golfing championships, have won seven major titles. Probably no other family of golfers can claim such a record. ...

    Article : 150 words
  26. ALLEGED HOUSEBREAKING.

    Three men were arrested by the Petersham police yesterday, and several charges of housebreaking were preferred against them. A series of robberies has taken place in the ...

    Article : 146 words
  27. FLOODS.

    Floods at Trafalgar have become serious, and are the worst for 10 years. Some dwellings are threatened, and the inhabitants have been compelled to leave. Some farmers ...

    Article : 53 words
  28. FOOD RELIEF.

    A deputation from the Australian Workers' Union yesterday waited upon the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Hawkins), who is also in charge of food relief, and asked that ...

    Article : 246 words
  29. CASUALTIES.

    Six persons were injured, principally by broken glass, when two motor cars collided head on in Beecroft-road. Beecroft, yesterday afternoon. ...

    Article : 484 words
  30. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BUDGET

    After an all-night sitting, which lasted till 7.40 this morning, the House of Assembly finished the debate on the Budget and passed the Appropriation Bill for £4,802,655 through ...

    Article : 61 words
  31. LATE SNOWFALLS.

    Snow fell along the Southern Highlands, and as far north as Oberon, during the cold snap, which occurred on Thursday night. In the Bathurst district, snow fell for the first ...

    Article : 103 words
  32. PENSION FRAUD.

    Ellen Frances Sheridan, widow, 68, of Burnley, also of Condobolin (N.S.W.), was charged at the Richmond Court to-day with having, between November, 1927, and January, 1932, ...

    Article : 96 words
  33. WOMAN'S DEATH

    Miss Agnes McDonald, 58, who was on her way to Melbourne to marry Dr. Langmore, to whom she had been engaged for three years, died on Thursday night on the Barrabool, ...

    Article : 78 words
  34. STATE MINE.

    It is expected that the State mine, which has not operated since September 30, will reopen on October 31. Lodge officials will confer with the management on Monday, ...

    Article : 94 words
  35. COUNCIL CLERKS.

    Alderman F. J. Spellacy, Katoomba, addressing the Local Government Clerks' Conference yesterday on "Fields for Enterprise in Local Government," suggested that before going into ...

    Article : 229 words
  36. COURT SCENE.

    There was an unusual and embarrassing occurrence in the Criminal Court, when Percival Henry Edward Runge, a well-known Adelaide chemist, who was charged with ...

    Article : 168 words
  37. ACOUSTIC RESEARCH.

    In a field at the edge of Bushy Park the craziest building in the world is approaching completion. No two walls are parallel. the ceilings are asiant, and each room is separately ...

    Article : 293 words
  38. HALF-CASTE CHILDREN.

    The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Perkins) said to-day that it had been the practice for the Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory to remove half-caste children ...

    Article : 180 words
  39. TROTTING OWNERS

    Members of the New South Wales Trotting Progress Association yesterday discussed with the Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) the bill which will reduce the number of racing ...

    Article : 84 words
  40. CHARGE OF ASSAULT

    In the Hamilton police court to-day, Reginald Lessel Pearless. 45, a civil engineer, of Hamilton, was charged with assaulting and causing grievous bodily harm to Ralph ...

    Article : 135 words
  41. NEW INDUSTRY.

    Some Newcastle people hope that Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd., will shortly decide to use the option it holds over Moscheto Island in the Lower Hunter River, and erect ...

    Article : 141 words
  42. CITY NIGHT REFUGE.

    It was disclosed at the annual meeting of the City Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen that during the year ended [?]e 30 the institution provided 317,455 free meals (an increase of ...

    Article : 115 words
  43. POLICE PROMOTIONS.

    The following appointments of commissioned officers in the police force have been gazetted:—First-class superintendent, Osborne Holmes Parker. Second-class superintendent. ...

    Article : 73 words
  44. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

    The proposals of candidates for the Nobel peace prize, which is to be distributed on December 10. 1933, must be laid before the Nobel committee of the Norwegian Parliament ...

    Article : 54 words
  45. MELBOURNE CUP TRAINS.

    To cope with the abnormal craffic usually asociated with the Melbourne Cup racing carnival, the Raliway Department announces that additional last express trains will be ...

    Article : 57 words
  46. ROPE OF PEARLS STOLEN.

    A rope of pearls, valued at £100, the property of Miss D Lincoin Jones, was stolen from her flat at Greengables, Wylde-street, Elizabeth Bay. Entrance was gained to the ...

    Article : 46 words
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