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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. DEATH OF ARRESTED CHINESE.

    The police made a raid on an alleged opium den at 2 o'clock this morning. Charlie Bing On, a prominent Chinese resident, who was one of the five men arrested, has since died. ...

    Article : 78 words
  3. WINTER LINGERS. Cold Weather in Coastal Districts.

    The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said last night that the cool change over all coastal districts yesterday afternoon was an unusual happening at this season, and could be ...

    Article : 208 words
  4. FOR BRAVERY.

    Miss Elaine de Chair will present the awards of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society at the 52nd annual meeting on September 30. The recipients will be:— ...

    Article : 350 words
  5. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Lectures on the means of distribution, criticisms of the capitalistic system, and accusations of attempts to lower the standard of living were interspersed between various ...

    Article : 463 words
  6. MR. BRUCE.

    Remarkable outbursts of enthusiasm punctuated a speech delivered by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) at a luncheon tendered in his honour at the Hotel Australia yesterday. ...

    Article : 2,706 words
  7. EFFICIENCY.

    The success of last year's Business Efficiency Exhibition is reflected in the great expansion witnessed at this year's exhibition, which was opened at the Town Hall yesterday. ...

    Article : 1,924 words
  8. BUYERS INSPECT NEW SEASON'S WOOL.

    At Goldsbrough, Mort's stores prior to the commencement of the sales at the Royal Exchange yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  9. CHILD SEVERELY SCALDED.

    On Saturday afternoon the three-year-old daughter of Mrs. P. Edwards fell into a copper partly filled with boiling water. The child was being bathed in a tub by her aunt, and ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. CATTLE STEALING ALLEGED.

    Wilfred Lachlan Hocking, 31, on remand from Bellingen, was committed for trial from the West Maitland Court this afternoon to the Maitland Quarter Sessions on four charges ...

    Article : 55 words
  11. TABLELANDS WATER SUPPLY.

    The Minister for Works (Mr. Buttenshaw) has informed Mr. Hugh Main, M.L.A., that the department hopes that water will be delivered in the Cootamundra distributing reservoir by ...

    Article : 50 words
  12. SNOWSTORMS IN TASMANIA.

    Heavy snowstorms affected the hydroelectric power supplies to the north, northwest, and southern parts of the State today. The Hydro-electric Department's ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. CURIOUS DISPUTE.

    An unusual scene took place in the Town Hall last night at the close of the opening session of the Business Efficiency Exhibition. Officials remonstrated with an exhibitor ...

    Article : 664 words
  14. BILLIARD-ROOM RAIDED.

    Five men were arrested when police from Sydney and Wollongong raided Mott's billiardroom, Woonona. It is alleged that the room was used for betting purposes. ...

    Article : 37 words
  15. OVERLOADING.

    In the Traffic Court yesterday Walter King was charged with having driven a motor car in Park-street on August 20 so loaded as to be likely to cause an accident. ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. TRENCHES FALL IN.

    Narrow escapes from serious injury, and perhaps suffocation, were experienced by Gordon Rosser and Norman Sayers while they were working on excavation trenches for the ...

    Article : 143 words
  17. ENGINEER SUED.

    The right of an employer to obtain compensation from an employee in respect of damage arising from negligence and careless work on the part of the employee was upheld ...

    Article : 235 words
  18. RAILWAY WORKER INJURED.

    William Smalley, of Penrith, a chargema[?] employed at the Penrith railway yards, was crushed between an engine and a post of the loco, shed at 2.5 a.m. to-day. He was taken ...

    Article : 46 words
  19. PRICES FOR LIQUOR.

    It was officially stated to-day that there would be no increase in price for locallymade beers and stouts sold across the bar counter in pints and glasses, despite the ...

    Article : 168 words
  20. DEATH OF MR. J. J. SULLIVAN.

    Mr. John Joseph Sullivan, once a wellknown grazier and owner of the Aloway Bank property, has died, aged 72 years. He was a son of the late Mr. Patrick Sullivan, a pioneer ...

    Article : 82 words
  21. BUSINESS MAN'S DEATH.

    Frank Barber, a business man, of Trevor Flats, Bondi-road, Bondi, died in St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday afternoon from a fractured skull which he received when he fell, ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. NEW CHURCH AT RICHMOND.

    A large crowd witnessed the setting of the foundation-stone of the new Methodist Church at Richmond on Saturday afternoon. The building is being erected on an ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. MR. J. BROWN.

    A proposal will be discussed at a meeting of union leaders to-morrow to lay fresh information against Mr. John Brown with the object of having him prosecuted again for ...

    Article : 165 words
  24. "MENIN GATE."

    Will Longstaff's painting, "Menin Gate," which created a good deal of interest some months ago when it was exhibited at the Aeolian Hall, is to be placed on view again ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. ESCAPE FROM LOCK-UP.

    William Bicknell, 16, and Sydney Norman Willoughby, 23, who were in the Pemberton lock-up awaiting trial on six charges of stealing, escaped. It is stated that they took with ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. SEAMEN'S UNION.

    Supporters of the general secretary, Mr. H. Brennan, scored another victory yesterday, when a special meeting of the Australian Seamen's Union rejected a proposal for the ...

    Article : 124 words
  27. GOSFORD BAND CONTEST.

    The first band contest held in Gosford was wholly successful. It was organised by ths Agricultural and Citrus Association, in cooperation with the town band, and will be an ...

    Article : 141 words
  28. PICTUREGRAM SERVICE.

    A portrait of Mr. H. P. Brown, Director of Posts and Telegraphs, received over the wire from Melbourne yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  29. FIRE AT KENSINGTON.

    A fire which started in the large factory of the British-Australasian Tobacco Co. Pty., Ltd., Raleigh Park, Kensington, late last night, was extinguished by the sprinklers installed ...

    Article : 65 words
  30. INDEX.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 words
  31. RAILWAY CONTROL.

    Mr. E. A. Chapman, secretary of the Australian Railways Union, expressed indignation yesterday at the reported statement of the ex-Premier of Queensland (Mr. ...

    Article : 146 words
  32. JURY DISAGREES.

    The jury failed to agree to-day in the trial of George Gratan, 29, boot clicker, who was charged with having on the evening of July 26, while armed with a revolver, robbed ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. TUMUT POLICE COURT.

    At the Tumut police court, for assaultin[?] Mrs. G. Morrow, wife of the licensee of the Globe Hotel, by striking her in the face, James Francis Casey was fined £7, with £6/6/ costs ...

    Article : 64 words
  34. NEW CHIEF COMMISSIONED FOR CANBERRA.

    MR. A. J. CHRISTIE. chief accountant in the PostmasterGeneral's Department, who will shortly succeed Sir John Butters as chairman of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  35. CITY FIRM'S LOSS.

    A large city motor accessory firm has reported to the police that a deficiency totalling about £1000 was discovered in its accounts at a recent audit. Clients had made payments ...

    Article : 81 words
  36. PROPOSED WHARF.

    The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby)[?] accompanied by Mr. Hedges, M.L.A., arrive[?] at Eden on Saturday afternoon. They were welcomed by the shire president (Cr. A. I. ...

    Article : 108 words
  37. PICKETING.

    At the conclusion of a meeting of the northern miners' committee of management, at Newcastle to-day, it was announced that the committee had decided to take steps to carry ...

    Article : 118 words
  38. Advertising

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    Advertising : 199 words
  39. EXCITING STRUGGLE.

    Two tramwaymen risked their lives in a desperate struggle on the edge of the Gap last night with a man who expressed his determination to throw himself into the sea. ...

    Article : 155 words
  40. WOMAN ACQUITTED.

    At the Criminal Court to-day, Ethel Vincent, 27, married, was acquitted on a charge of having unlawfully wounded Frederick Charles Grey in the Strand Cafe, Perth, on August ...

    Article : 94 words
  41. POISONED MAN SENDS FOR POLICE.

    "Ring the police and tell them to come and save me," was the message given to the proprietor of the Bushmen's Home by Joseph Hansford, who said he had taken strychnine. ...

    Article : 412 words
  42. WOLLONDILLY OIL SHALE.

    What was described as an average fair sample of shale, weighing 1cwt, from one of the leases held by the Wollondilly Shale, Coal, and Oil Syndicate, was treated at the ...

    Article : 108 words
  43. DESTRUCTIVE BOYS.

    "Here is our fingerprints," written in a round, childish fashion, was the inscription left beneath a number of fingerprints found at a Kent-street business place yesterday. ...

    Article : 177 words
  44. ACCUSED WOMAN.

    When a case in which Eileen Hannon, 20, was charged with having on August 24 maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on Charles James Jones, was called at the ...

    Article : 82 words
  45. SHOOTING TRAGEDY.

    Police who are investigating the shooting tragedy on Abingdon Downs, where Robert McDowall and his sister-in-law were found dead[?] believe that the case is one of murder ...

    Article : 124 words
  46. BLOCK 14 MINE.

    The management of Block 14 mine has asked all former employees to register on Tuesday. It is anticipated that full underground operations will be resumed on ...

    Article : 47 words
  47. ILLEGAL BETTING.

    William Clarence Barlow, 27, a tinsmith, who was said to have taken bets from men at the Old Men's Home at Parramatta, was fined £50 at the Parramatta Court yesterday, ...

    Article : 168 words
  48. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 words
  49. TWO MEN INJURED.

    Two men were injured when a car carne into collision with a motor cycle in Euston-road. Alexandria, yesterday morning. The motor cycle, ridden by John ...

    Article : 91 words
  50. EXPORT SUGAR REBATE.

    The export sugar committee, comprising Messrs A. R. Townsend. W J. Short, and O. J. Matthews (representing the Commonwealth Government, the sugar industry, and the ...

    Article : 124 words
  51. CRICKET IN CANADA.

    Arthur Mailey, who is returning to Australia from Canada by the Aorangi, says that cricket is progressing well at Toronto, where he has been instructing. ...

    Article : 77 words
  52. TUBERCULOSIS.

    A conference of health officers and others interested in the anti-tuberculosis campaign will be held in the Asse[?]bly Hall of the Education Department, commencing at 11 o'clock ...

    Article : 43 words
  53. SUTHERLAND SHIRE COUNCIL.

    Mr. H. H. Small, of Cronulla, pointed out yesterday that he had been nominated to contest a vacancy in "B" riding, in opposition to a retiring councillor. ...

    Article : 31 words
  54. FATAL FALL.

    Louis Maudin[?] 59, of Henry-avenue, Ultimo, who fainted and fell down a fight of stairs at his address yesterday, suffered a fractured skull, which proved fatal. ...

    Article : 29 words
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