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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    There was a large attendance of parishioners at the function celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Leura Methodist Church. The chairman (Rev. E. W. Hyde) referred to the ...

    Article : 137 words
  3. EIGHTY YEARS AGO.

    It must be a fascinating thing to grow up with a city; to watch the big white sails of the old freighters grow fewer and fewer in the harbour and the little white sails of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 817 words
  4. BUDGET DEBATE.

    Resuming the Budget debate in the House of Commons, Sir Gervois Rentoul moved to reject the proposed increased standard in the rate of income tax. ...

    Article : 471 words
  5. WIDESPREAD RAIN

    The likelihood of a continuance of heavy rain on the coast has raised fears of floods on the lower reaches of rivers north from the Clarence and south of Moruya. Flood ...

    Article : 549 words
  6. PREFERENCE.

    Trenchant criticism of the Ministry's action in abandoning the policy of absolute preference to returned soldiers was heard in both Houses of the Federal Parliament this ...

    Article : 1,908 words
  7. CHECK ON RIOTERS.

    General Smuts made a solemn protest in Parliament to-night against the third reading of the Riotous Assemblies Bill, in which the Government proposes to ignore the law ...

    Article : 289 words
  8. MUNGANA.

    The Inquiry by a Royal Commission into certain matters relating to the sale of the Mungana mining leases to the Queensland Government was further advanced to-day. The ...

    Article : 1,694 words
  9. THE UNEMPLOYED.

    Replying to Mr. Lazzarini (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives to-day, the Minister for Defence (Mr. Green) said that he had received many requests that military camps ...

    Article : 559 words
  10. MUDGEE QUARTER SESSIONS.

    At the Quarter Sessions held in Mudgee, Judge Thomson presiding, Jean Chalker was charged with unlawfully abandoning an infant aged 14 days at Wallerawang. Accused pleaded ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. TWO MEN ACQUITTED.

    At the Criminal Court sittings Ernest James Starr was acquitted on a charge of committing a serious offence against a married woman who was travelling with her sister in a ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. COLONIAL OFFICE.

    The creation of a single colonial service is recommended in the report of a committee which has been considering appointments in the Colonial Office and colonial services. The ...

    Article : 348 words
  13. EX-SERVICE, MEN'S PROTEST.

    The State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League decided at its last meeting to stand behind other branches of the league in resisting the attempts of the Federal Government ...

    Article : 219 words
  14. NOXIOUS WEED PROSECUTION FAILS.

    At the police court yesterday, before Mr. Parker, P.M., McCrone and Son and Fuddard and Sons, of Mirrool, were proceeded against by the Coolamon Shire Council for not ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. UNITED STATES.

    President Hoover, addressing the United States Chamber of Commerce, said that the country had passed through the worst great economic crisis, but it would recover. He ...

    Article : 181 words
  16. GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF FAITH.

    Commenting on the decision of the Federal Government to change the policy of preference to returned soldiers, the president of the Employers' Federation (Mr. W. T. Rofe) said ...

    Article : 212 words
  17. HAY QUARTER SESSIONS.

    Hay Quarter Sessions were held before his Honor Judge Coyle. William John Haywood and William Gray, two young men, were charged with stealing a ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. V.A.T.C. SECRETARY.

    Since the resignation of Mr. T. Tabart from the position of secretary to the Victorian Amateur Turf Club a requisition has been prepared asking for a special meeting of members ...

    Article : 178 words
  19. MR. DRUMMOND'S VISIT.

    The Minister for Education (Mr. D. Drummond), accompanied by Mr. A. D. Reid and Mr. H. Main, Ms.L.A., met representatives of the local council to discuss the resumption ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. AVIATION.

    Captain Saving proposes to fly a tourist seaplane to Australia at the end of May. His programme gives 13 days from Rome to Darwin. His stages will be Castelrosso, ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. SAFE ROBBERIES.

    Three safes in different parts of the city and suburbs were visited by cracksmen on Thursday night, but very little money repaid their efforts. ...

    Article : 229 words
  22. SHORTER SKIRTS.

    The National Cotton Week, to begin on May 5, and to include efforts throughout Britain to improve the home cotton market, when 10,000 shop windows will exhibit cotton ...

    Article : 256 words
  23. MR. G. W. HOLLAND'S VIEWS.

    A bitter attack was made on the Federal Government to-day by the State president of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League (Mr. G. W. Holland) for its action in regard ...

    Article : 184 words
  24. CHARGE OF STEALING HAY.

    John Owen appeared at the local court on a charge of stealing five sheaves of hay, the property of the Whitney Pastoral Co. Sergeant Love said that he fired a shot, and ...

    Article : 76 words
  25. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 words
  26. FORBES HOSPITAL FINANCE.

    The scheme suggested by the chairman of the Hospitals Commission (Mr. Love) to raise funds for Forbes Hospital was not well received at a large public meeting convened ...

    Article : 217 words
  27. PAISLEY CINEMA FIRE.

    Conflicting evidence as to whether the iron trellis exit gate was locked or unlocked was given at the trial at Edinburgh to-day of Charles Dorward, manager of the Paisley ...

    Article : 90 words
  28. ACTION ENDORSED.

    A meeting of the United Trades and Labour Council to-night endorsed the action of the Federal Government in giving preference to unionists. ...

    Article : 27 words
  29. LIVELY CHASE.

    A Chinese, believed to be the proprietor of a Campbell-street cafe raided last night, led the police a lively chase before he was arrested. ...

    Article : 142 words
  30. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 words
  31. LOAN MONEY.

    Speaking to delegates to the conference of the Riverina Development League, Mr. C. Tye, representing the Public Works Department, said that up to the time of the change ...

    Article : 466 words
  32. SHANGHAI MUNICIPALITY.

    A special meeting of ratepayers called for this afternoon for the purpose of reconsidering a previously rejected motion in favour of admitting three more Chinese to membership ...

    Article : 141 words
  33. SPANISH REPUBLICANS.

    It is estimated that 10,000 people assembled at the Madrid station to greet Senor Unamuno, ex-rector of Salamanca University, who was exiled during the dictatorship. He ...

    Article : 149 words
  34. CANBERRA.

    It is expected that the debate on the motion moved by the leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Sir George Pearce) for the dis[?] allowance of the ordinance appointing the ...

    Article : 256 words
  35. REFRIGERATED SPACE.

    Referring to a report that the closing down of freezing works at Dunedoo had been caused by a slump in the rabbit export trade, following a shortage of refrigerated space on ...

    Article : 83 words
  36. COUNTERFEIT COINS.

    Many counterfeit coins of various denominations are in circulation, and, although some no doubt are the product of the several counterfeiters arrested and convicted within the ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. HUNT FOR ALLEGED WIFE MURDERER.

    A man hunt, extending over the continent, has been launched for Everett Frank Lindsay, formerly of the Australian army, who is charged with clubbing his wife to death in ...

    Article : 82 words
  38. TO-DAY.

    Town Hall: Backhaus recital, 8. Criterion Theatre: "Scandal," 8. Her Majesty's Theatre: "The Belle of New York," 2, 8. ...

    Article : 272 words
  39. COAL MINES BILL.

    The House of Lords agreed to the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill without division. The Conservatives, however, intimated their intention of amending the bill in the ...

    Article : 196 words
  40. SHOT BY BURGLAR.

    The bravery of Constable Thomas Lulham, who at Fivedock last year was shot by a burglar, was rewarded by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) yesterday. He was ...

    Article : 112 words
  41. WOUNDED WHILE FOX-SHOOTING.

    Charles Edward Radoll, 26 brickmaker, was shot in a heel and foot while fox shooting at Goonoo Goonoo this afternoon. The [?] carried by a companion exploded when he ...

    Article : 60 words
  42. JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE.

    The correspondent of the Associated Press in Tokio, says that an earthquake was felt there early this morning, but there have been no reports of casualties nor any great damage ...

    Article : 99 words
  43. MINER TERRIBLY INJURED BY GELIGNITE.

    Through an unexpected explosion of gelignite, James Muldoon, a miner, while working at the Vale of Clwydd No. 2 colliery yesterday, received frightful injuries to the face ...

    Article : 112 words
  44. 3rd MACHINE GUN BATTALION REUNION.

    The eleventh annual reunion of the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, comprising the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 23rd Companies, will be held at the Marlborough Cafe at 7.30 p.m. on Monday. ...

    Article : 36 words
  45. LEGACY FOR EUGENICS.

    Mr. Henry Twitchin, retired postoralist, of Western Australia, who left all his property t[?] the Eugenics Education Society, was a man of the greatest reserve. He was ...

    Article : 64 words
  46. CLAIM FOR £20,000 FAILS.

    The second hearing of the claim by F. J. O'Keefe, for £20,000 against the E., S., and A. Bank, for alleged wrongful dishonouring of his cheques, resulted to-night in ...

    Article : 59 words
  47. MAN KILLED AT CAMPSIE.

    The body of the man who was knocked down and killed by a motor car in Canterbury-road, Campsie, yesterday, has been identified as that of Alfred Reardon, of ...

    Article : 37 words
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