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  2. MR. BRUCE'S POLICY SPEECH "There is Only One Issue."

    In his policy speech at Dandenong (Vic.) last night, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) emphasised that there was only one issue in the forthcoming election—the question of industrial arbitration. Mr. Bruce did not refer to any other topic, because, as he pointed ...

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  3. PRICE OF WOOL.

    That the reduction in the world price of wool and wheat has created a very serious position in Australia was the substance of a warning uttered by Sir Norman Kater, a ...

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  4. THE RAILWAYS.

    The State Cabinet discussed yesterday the position of the State Railways. Ministers expressed regret that the Commissioners had found it necessary, in consequence of the ...

    Article : 365 words
  5. THE KING'S HEALTH.

    It is learned that the King has made such excellent progress towards complete recovery that preparations are being made for a day's shooting for him at Sandringham, provided ...

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  6. CANDIDATES SELECTED. Messrs. Hughes and Marks Rejected.

    The executive of the National Association of New South Wales yesterday endorsed as candidates all the sitting National members, with the exception of Mr. William M. Hughes and Mr. Walter Marks, whose nominations were declared "informal." ...

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  7. GREAT FIRE. In California.

    A report from Ventura, California, says that hundreds of men with trucks over a 50-mile front are endeavouring to stem a line of fire sweeping down ...

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  8. AMERICAN TARIFFS.

    The Australian Trade Commissioner in the United States (Mr. H. E. Brookes) to-day officially approved the Australian trade warning concerning the United States tariff ...

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  9. FAMILY MURDERED.

    "Gentlemen of the jury, perform your duty. I demand the death penalty for my boy," said a rugged woodcutter at the trial of two lads charged at the village of Digne (Provence) ...

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  10. WATER PIPES.

    Owing to the adoption of new methods of construction, it is expected that further price reductions will be made in the Water Board's orders for all classes of steel and cast-iron ...

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  11. SITTING MEMBERS APPROVED.

    With the exception of North Sydney and Wentworth the Nationalist party has endorsed the candidature of all its sitting members in this State. A similar procedure has ...

    Article : 285 words
  12. WENTWORTH.

    The small hall belonging to the Nationalist party of the Wentworth electorate at Waverley was crowded to the doors at the Electoral Conference, which was held last night. When ...

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  13. PARAFFIN TANK ABLAZE.

    Hull's new oilport, Hedon, where all the big storages are concentrated, was the scene of a terrific fire following an explosion in the Anglo-American Oil Company's 500,000 ...

    Article : 184 words
  14. STABBING AFFRAY.

    The stabbing of a man at East Sydney last night is believed by the police to be an interlude in an underworld feud. The injured man defied the police when they sought ...

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  15. MR. BRUCE'S SPEECH.

    "There is one issue and one only involved in this election," said Mr. Bruce. "That issue has been defined in Parliament both by the Government and the Opposition. This ...

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  16. LAWN TENNIS.

    Not mentioning Australians, because they were "out of the hunt in 1929," Mr. Wallis Myers, writing in the "Daily Telegraph," ranks the ten best tennis players as follow: Cochet, ...

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  17. BURGLAR ALARM.

    A raid made by a gang of daring thieves on three business houses at Rockdale was frustrated when one of their number accidentally touched off a large burglar alarm. ...

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  18. POPE AND MUSSOLINI.

    The correspondent of the British United Press at Rome says that the position between Signor Mussolini and the Pope has become more tender as a result of recent speeches by ...

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  19. MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD.

    The British Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) will leave Washington for Canada on October 15. He will be the guest of the Government of Canada at an official dinner, at ...

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  20. MESSRS. HUGHES AND MARKS.

    "Neither Mr. Hughes nor Mr. Marks has submitted his nomination for selection as a Nationalist candidate in the form required by the constitution. Neither of these gentlemen ...

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  21. COAL FROM ENGLAND.

    The general manager of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company (Mr. F. W. H. Wheadon) said to-day that the company had good stocks of coal on hand. About 20,000 tons ...

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  22. THE OPTIONAL CLAUSE.

    The representative of the Australian Press Association at Geneva says that the whole of the Empire delegations, except the Irish Free State, will ceremonially sign the optional ...

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  23. VOLCANO IN ERUPTION.

    The volcano Asama, near the summer resort of Karulzawa, is in violent eruption, showering ashes on the surrounding towns over a large radius. The damage has not yet ...

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  24. TIMBER DISPUTE.

    Mr. E. G. Theodore, campaign director of the Australian Labour party, recently endeavoured without success to settle the differences between the Timber Workers' Union ...

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  25. GENEVA QUARREL.

    The defeat by Mr. Sanders, Labour M.P. for Battersea North, of Mr. Saklatvala (Communist) at the general election, was recalled during a heated debate at a meeting of the ...

    Article : 230 words
  26. SELECTIONS OUTSTANDING.

    No Nationalist candidates have yet been selected to contest Barton, Cook, Dalley, Darling, Hume, Hunter, Lang, Newcastle, Reid, and West Sydney, all of which are held by ...

    Article : 191 words
  27. CALL FOR POLICE.

    The unexpected meeting of two men who had fought together during the war in an Imperial regiment led to a convivial afternoon yesterday, and when one of the ...

    Article : 180 words
  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The total number of unemployed on September 9 was 1,949,700. This was 2550 less than the week before, and 153,227 less than the year before.—Official Wireless. ...

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  29. NORTH SYDNEY.

    After several delegates had expressed dissent and had left the meeting, the North Sydney Electoral Council of the National party, in conference with the central ...

    Article : 165 words
  30. NEW ZEALAND TAXES.

    The annual Taxing Bill discloses important modification of the Budget land tax-proposals. The point at which supertax will be imposed on the ordinary land tax is now raised ...

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  31. ROADS BOARD FUNDS.

    The City Commissioners have approached the Government with a view to obtaining exemption for the city ratepayers from the levy of one-farthing in the £1 on the assessed ...

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  32. COUNTRY PARTY.

    A meeting of the central council of the Country party (New South Wales branch) yesterday endorsed the candidature of all sitting members of the party in this State. ...

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  33. PRICE OF BUTTER.

    The statement that the people of New South Wales were being gravely penalised under the Paterson Butter Stabilisation Scheme was made in the Legislative Council last evening ...

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  34. FAMILY ENDOWMENT.

    The wages bill of the City Council, despite the reductions in staff effected by the City Commissioners, is still almost £2,000,000 a year. ...

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  35. THE CANDIDATES.

    Mr. H. R. Diamond, endorsed Nationalist candidate for East Sydney, where Mr. West was returned at the last election with a majority of 5657, is a graduate in arts of the ...

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  36. RHINE EVACUATION.

    The chief French delegate to the Rhineland Commission informed a Berlin "Tageblatt" correspondent that only a small French bodyguard would be stationed at Wiesbaden. ...

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  37. STATE STATIONS.

    There was a large attendance at the Wool Exchange yesterday, when the State stations were offered. The bidding, however, was very dull. Only one station was sold at auction, ...

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  38. PEARL SHELL.

    The report of the inspector of fisheries (Mr. J. Dick) tabled in the Assembly to-day, said that the most important feature during the year had been the discovery of a neaw ...

    Article : 87 words
  39. CITY RATES.

    The City Commissioners yesterday approved a request being made to the Government to amend the Sydney Corporation Act to provide for the striklng of the city rates on the ...

    Article : 128 words
  40. COSTLY HUMOUR.

    For what two justices termed contempt of court, Edward Rohen, 65 years, had a sentence of six weeks' hard labour doubled at Forbes police court. ...

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  41. 600 MEN IDLE.

    More than 600 employees of the State coal-mine refused to work this morning because they allege that the seniority clause observed at all other western collieries was disregarded ...

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  42. NAVAL AGREEMENT.

    Press comment on the Anglo-American naval agreement is to the effect that France has no objection to these Powers' arrangements between themselves, but will not give ...

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  43. FRIENDLY CONSTABLE.

    Plain-clothes Constable Price, of No. 2 city division, recently became purposely acquainted with a man, and for more than a week met him at intervals. The friendship ripened ...

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  44. ASHFIELD POLL.

    October 5 has been fixed by the Speaker (Sir Daniel Levy) as the date for taking the poll for the Ashfield by-election. The writ will be issued to-day. Nomination day will ...

    Article : 39 words
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