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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. HOUSE AND CONTENTS BURNT.

    A house in Fitzroy-street, owned by Mrs. F. W. Heard, and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. Williams, was, with its contents, burnt to the ground. Mrs. Williams, who was in the house ...

    Article : 84 words
  3. FALLS OF SNOW.

    A message from Yass reports that the heaviest fall of snow for 33 years occurred there on Sunday. This was typical of dozens of messages received yesterday from towns on ...

    Article : 329 words
  4. HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS.

    A SCENE AT MEDLOW BATH AFTER THE WEEK-END'S HEAVY SNOWFALLS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  5. THE LONDON SEASON.

    The London season[?] They are magic words hiding a hundred delightful experiences during those weeks between May and August in this greatest of all metropolises. With the ...

    Article : 791 words
  6. FLOOD WARNINGS.

    Warnings against possible floods in the Clarence, Bellinger, Nambucca, Macleay, Hastings, Manning, Lower Hunter, Hawkesbury, and Shoalhaven rivers were issued yesterday ...

    Article : 242 words
  7. THE BRIDGE.

    Replying to a deputation yesterday, Mr. Bruxner said that if 'buses were allowed to use the harbour bridge the traffic would be converged into a ...

    Article : 1,171 words
  8. LOAN AUTHORISED.

    A poll of ratepayers within the [?] improvement area was taken on the question whether the council should borrow £20,000, and approval was given by an ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. ESCAPEE RFCAPTURED.

    Len Robinson, who escaped from Garah on Thursday, was recaptured by Constable Johnson, of Boomi, yesterday morning. He was found near Daydawn, about six miles from ...

    Article : 44 words
  10. OLD WOMAN SEVERELY BURNT.

    Mrs. C. McKenzie, aged 80 years, was severely burned at her home at Nullamanna on Saturday morning. While asleep in a chair in front of a fire, she fell and her clothes caught ...

    Article : 52 words
  11. SHOP DESTROYED BY FIRE.

    A women's dress shop, occupied by Mrs. J. Vauxall, and situated in Lang-street, Kurri Kurri, was destroyed by fire this evening. The local fire brigade saved two adjoining shops, ...

    Article : 87 words
  12. FUTURE OF TARIFF.

    The Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Gullett), in an address to the Chamber of Manufactures to-day, said that it was practically impossible to conceive an absolute halt ...

    Article : 332 words
  13. LOSS OF MEMORY.

    For ten days a man has been in Goulburn Hospital unable to say who he is or how he got there. To-day he was able to say his name was Cyril Mott, a single man, and ...

    Article : 862 words
  14. STRANDED LYGNERN.

    Realistic salvage scenes were provided at the week-end, when steam and petrol driven pumps were set in motion on the stranded Swedish freighter Lygnern outside Fremantle ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. MR. E. J. M. WATTS.

    Mr. Ebenezer John Moore Watts, formerly headmaster of Cleveland-street Intermediate High School, died in a private hospital at Turramurra on Sunday, aged 72 years, after ...

    Article : 252 words
  16. WATERSIDE LABOUR.

    The Waterside Workers' Federation has been unable to reach any agreement with the shipowners concerning the number of volunteers to be employed at the various ports at ...

    Article : 342 words
  17. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    A tragic motor accident occurred about 1 o'clock yesterday morning, two persons being killed and one injured. William Arthur Ward, Mrs. Cecelia Leist, ...

    Article : 167 words
  18. GAS SUPPLIES.

    The Gas Emergency Board met yesterday, and decided that the use of gas should be restricted between 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. to-day, to-morrow, Thursday, and Friday. ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. 8000 ROSE TREES.

    When the aim of the Parks Superintendent (Mr. H. Moore) is achieved, New Farm Park will contain 8000 rose trees, which will be the finest collection of high-class roses to be ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. LOAN FLOTATIONS.

    Sir James Connolly, a director of the great English financial company, Corporation and General Securities, Ltd., who has come to Australia in connection with the affairs of his ...

    Article : 486 words
  21. LOCO. ENGINEMEN.

    The Federal conference of the Federated Unions of Locomotive Enginemen decided to-day not to affiliate with the Australasian Council of Trade Unions on the ground that ...

    Article : 149 words
  22. INCENDIARISM.

    The incendiarist who has recently been troubling Christchurch last night almost succeeded in bringing off his most daring attempt to date, when a petrol pump installation in ...

    Article : 185 words
  23. DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

    As the result of bullet wounds received in a shooting affray last Wednesday, Mrs. Mabel Zoeller died yesterday afternoon. Richard Arnold, who was also involved in the shooting, ...

    Article : 65 words
  24. MR. G. McGIRR.

    Mr. G. McGirr, a former deputy-Premier and Minister for Health, announced last night that he was considering a return to public life, and would probably be a candidate for the ...

    Article : 45 words
  25. TRADE DEPRESSION.

    The Minister for Customs (Mr. Gullett), in an address to members of the Constitutional Club to-day, said that he could not understand the mentality of the union leaders who, ...

    Article : 291 words
  26. TWO ARRESTS.

    Following the arrest by Detective Latrobe of a man at Marrickville, who was armed with a revolver, the detective early yesterday morning visited a house in MacKenzie-street, ...

    Article : 109 words
  27. INTERSTATE HOCKEY.

    Superior in all departments of the game, Western Australia routed New South Wales by nine goals to nil at Leederville Oval to-day, when the men's interstate hockey carnival was ...

    Article : 74 words
  28. MAN FINED £100.

    Robert Harrop, 39, bookmaker, was fined £100 to-day in the police court for having kept a common gaming house in South Brisbane. ...

    Article : 194 words
  29. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  30. ROUND THE WORLD.

    On their way round the world on a motor cycle and sidecar, two Hungarian engineering students, Zalton Sulkowsky and Gyula Bartha arrived at Melbourne to-day from Geelong. ...

    Article : 121 words
  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Arthur Simcock (Australia), riding a 493c.c. Sunbeam motor cycle in the German Grand Prix, at Berlin, was second in the 500 centimetres class, averaging 100.6 kilometres an ...

    Article : 397 words
  32. BURIED IN CLAY PIT.

    Harold Blackwell, 19[?] had a narrow escape from death yesterday morning, when a large quantity of clay and sand fell on him in a railway excavation work in Slade-street[?] ...

    Article : 120 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 187 words
  34. FOOD PRICES.

    Food prices in June, according to the Commonwealth Statistician, increased by 0.6 per cent., compared with May Three of the States —New South Wales, Victoria, and South ...

    Article : 113 words
  35. £40,000 DAMAGE.

    As the last employee was leaving the building this evening, a fire broke out in the warehouse of Collier and Sons, general merchants, of 177 Flinders-lane, and caused damage ...

    Article : 146 words
  36. THIEF SURPRISED.

    Awakened by the sound of crashing glass early this morning, Bernard Lipson, who Keeps a shoe store at 37 Oxord-street, city, went do[?]stairs to his shop. He felt someone ...

    Article : 82 words
  37. TIME PAYMENT.

    Drastic comment was made by Judge Curlewis on the time-payment system at the Quarter Sessions yesterday. The case concerned a labourer, who was ...

    Article : 188 words
  38. DELEGATES EXCLUDED FROM JAPAN.

    Several Trades Hall representatives called on the Acting Consul-General for Japan (Mr[?] Kishi) yesterday to request an official explanation of the refusal of the Japanese ...

    Article : 176 words
  39. ARMED MEN.

    Confronted late last night by two masked men, one of them armed with a revolver, William Diprose, a shopkeeper, of 340 Riley-street, Surry Hills, calmly ordered the ...

    Article : 70 words
  40. TURRET THEATRE.

    The management of the Turret Theatre, Milson's Point, has had again to postpone the opening performance of Clemence Dane's "Granite." This play was to have been staged ...

    Article : 105 words
  41. MURDER VERDICT.

    The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder against persons unknown in connection with the Croydon arsenic mystery, which involved the death of Vera Sidney and ...

    Article : 162 words
  42. INDIGNANT WHEAT FARMERS.

    The executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was criticised at the last meeting of the Forbes branch of the association in regard to information forwarded by ...

    Article : 153 words
  43. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 162 words
  44. LATE MRS. BOGUE LUFFMAN.

    On Friday evening next a meeting will be held at the rooms of the Lyceum Club to consider the establishment of a memorial to the late Mrs[?] Laura Bogue Luffman, who was ...

    Article : 181 words
  45. SUPERINTENDENT SPYER.

    The Police Appeals Board presided over by Judge White, yesterday heard the appeal of Superintendent Spyer, assistant metropolitan superintendent of police[?] against ...

    Article : 106 words
  46. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, CAMPSIE.

    The foundation-stone of the new Baptistry ot St. John's Church. Campsie, was laid by Mrs T[?] F[?] Holt on Saturday in the presence of a large number of Sunday-school ...

    Article : 111 words
  47. ANNOYING RAILWAY PASSENGERS

    When remonstrated with by a railway employee for annoying passengers on the North Shore line[?] Allan Travers, alias Thomas Kelly, a bricklayer, struck the man. At the North ...

    Article : 68 words
  48. HENRY LAWSON LITERARY SOCIETY.

    The Henry Lawson Literary Society announces that the annual pilgrimage to the Waverley Cemetery will be made on Septem ber 1, the seventh anniversary of Lawson's ...

    Article : 39 words
  49. FILM STAR'S SISTER.

    Among the passengers on the Maunganu[?] for Sydney is Mrs. Freda Smith, a sister of Mr. Ronald Colman, the film star. ...

    Article : 28 words
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