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  2. UPPER HOUSE.

    When the Legislative Council case was resumed yesterday before the State Full Court, Dr. Evatt, K.C. (for the State Ministry), continued his ...

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  3. THE LOAN.

    "I am pleased to be in a position to inform honourable members that the complete success of the conversion loan is now definitely assured," said the Acting Prime ...

    Article : 577 words
  4. DISASTROUS FIRES.

    Damage estimated at £40,000 was done by disastrous fires, believed to be the work of incendiaries, which broke out at five different points in Hobart early this morning. ...

    Article : 300 words
  5. STATE LOTTERY.

    The State Lottery Bill provides that the State Treasurer shall create a special deposits account, to be opened at the Treasury, in which all moneys received shall be paid. ...

    Article : 479 words
  6. BASIC WAGE.

    Extraordinary and by no means edifying exchanges characterised proceedings in the basic wage application before the Full Court of the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr. C. Crofts, ...

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  7. MR. O. C. BEALE

    Mr. Octavius C. Beale, managing director of Beale and Co., Ltd., piano manufacturers, one of the best-known business men in the State, was killed ...

    Article : 854 words
  8. SOVIET SLAVES.

    How three Russian prisoners, after enduring fearful hardships in Soviet timber camps, escaped by saving up some of their meagre rations and crawling into a small space among ...

    Article : 263 words
  9. REBELLION.

    A strict censorship is being exercised in Spain over messages sent abroad. Messages from the Portuguese and French border towns seem to ...

    Article : 648 words
  10. RELATIONS WITH SOVIET.

    Replying to questions relating to the Moscow conspiracy trial, the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Henderson) informed the House of Commons that, after further representations to the Soviet ...

    Article : 155 words
  11. RATIONS

    The Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) told a deputation from the Woonona Co-operative Society yesterday that the Government was in such a difficult position that the ...

    Article : 484 words
  12. "RED FLAG."

    There was a remarkable and unfortunate incident at the end of the ceremony of unveiling, at Greta Church of England Cemetery to-day, [?] monument over the grave of Norman ...

    Article : 630 words
  13. WATER MAIN BURSTS.

    Severe dislocation of traffic both in the streets and on the underground railways and serious damage to business property, besides interruption of telephone and electric light ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT

    The journal and letters of Dr. Arnold were secured for the Mitchell Library at Sotheby's sale. The journal, which extends from August, 1810, to December, 1815, contains ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. THE HURRICANE.

    The search for the missing mission teacher, Mr. F. Lang, and his seven students from Bucasala, believed to be victims of the recent hurricane, has been continued. ...

    Article : 423 words
  16. ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT.

    The newspapers welcome the success of the Australian loan. They express the opinion that it will have a reassuring effect in London, and they pay a tribute to Mr. Lyons. ...

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  17. WHEAT PRODUCTION.

    It was stated to-day by the chairman of the Federal Farm Board (Mr. Legge) that the board's programme to place wheat production on a purely domestic basis, thereby doing away ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. UNIONISTS.

    The Premier (Mr Lang), in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, announced that legislation providing for preference for unionists throughout New South Wales would be ...

    Article : 516 words
  19. FEDERAL CAPITAL.

    The opinion that Canberra had failed was expressed in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. Crouch (Vic.), who gave notice of his intention to move at the first suitable ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. ABDUL HAMID'S HEIRS.

    A message from Constantinople says that the Turko-British Tribunal has finally rejected the claim of the heirs of Abdul Hamid for £16,000,000 compensation for ...

    Article : 42 words
  21. MR. A. J. MACPHERSON

    Reports that Mr. A. J. Macpherson, who was defeated in the recent A.L.P. executive elections, was at present organising the opposition of the northern miners to Mr. Lang's wage tax ...

    Article : 193 words
  22. TRADE PREFERENCE.

    The Parliamentary Committee of the Empire Industries Association representing ninetenths of the Conservative members of the House of Commons, has passed a resolution ...

    Article : 165 words
  23. BRITISH DYESTUFFS ACT.

    The House of Lords this evening, on the motion of Lord Hailsham, passed by 87 votes to 14 the resolution to include the Dyestuffs Act in the schedule of the Expiring Laws ...

    Article : 177 words
  24. WINNING BETS.

    An announcement was made on behalf of the State Ministry yesterday that the new taxation of 10 per cent on winning bets would operate from Saturday next. ...

    Article : 325 words
  25. HARBOUR BRIDGE.

    A proposal that the Government should introduce a toll on the Harbour Bridge when it is completed for traffic was made to the Minister for Works (Mr. Davidson) yesterday. ...

    Article : 113 words
  26. SUGAR CONFERENCE.

    A message from Brussels states that the International sugar conference has been suspended owing to the withdrawal of the German representatives, who objected to the ...

    Article : 72 words
  27. GIFT TO MINERS.

    Surprised at the inconsistency of the weight of the coal skips, the officials in charge of the scales at Muswellbrook colliery made an investigation and found the manager's pet ...

    Article : 118 words
  28. ARMED ROBBERY.

    At about 3 o'clock this afternoon, a young man balled up the paymaster and ran away with a bag containing the fortnightly pay (£275), which was about to be distributed ...

    Article : 200 words
  29. THE CHURCH AND ART.

    The "Osservatore Romano" publishes a report of a conversation with Mr. Scullin in which he expressed pleasure at the number of Australian students at the Roman Catholic ...

    Article : 221 words
  30. M. POINCARE.

    M. Poincare is seriously ill at Paris. His medical attendant is remaining with him all night. ...

    Article : 24 words
  31. UNEMPLOYED MEN.

    About 50 unemployed men who are travelling through the Federal capital territory tonight asked the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Blakeley) to provide them with work for ...

    Article : 103 words
  32. INFANT'S DEATH.

    Hearing her two-year old son crying, Mrs. Thomas Atkins rushed into the room and found that he had climbed on to a chair and reached down a tin of caustic soda from a shelf. The ...

    Article : 87 words
  33. FAMOUS WOMAN SWIMMER

    Mercedes Gleltze, the famous English distance swimmer, arrived at Wellington to-day from London with a view to swimming across Cook Strait. ...

    Article : 76 words
  34. PIECEWORK.

    Unemployed men here refuse to accept work provided under a £500 main roads grant on the conditions specified by the Wentworth Council. They demand day labour and not ...

    Article : 66 words
  35. BRITAIN'S WAR DEBT.

    In the House of Commons the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) said that the sum paid to the United States war debt account to date exceeded ...

    Article : 58 words
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