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  2. REFORT UNCONFIRMED.

    Pilot Woods arrived at Derby to-day from Wyndham, via Drysdale, where he received word that the Drysdale Mission had news of the Southern ...

    Article : 83 words
  3. HARBOUR BRIDGE.

    The ironworkers and their assistants employed oa the Sydney Harbour Bridge again went on strike yesterday, and the whole of the steel construction work is again at a ...

    Article : 515 words
  4. BOMBED.

    The outrage in the Indian Assembly, when two bombs were thrown, causing injury to five persons, took place just as Mr. Vithalbdal Patel. President of the Assem ...

    Article : 614 words
  5. BRITISH PARTIES.

    The most gigantic election campaign in British history has opened More than 25,000 political meetings will be held in the country before the end of April. Then comes the ...

    Article : 256 words
  6. THE FLOODS.

    Since the devastating, floods at the weekend, the water has receded considerably, but although the North Esk River is practically normal, there is still three feet of water on ...

    Article : 540 words
  7. KETCH SINKS.

    Sailing into heavy sens against a strong westerly wind, the fishing ketch Myrtle, of 40 tons register, sprang a leak and sank in Bass Strait, ten miles of Cape Paterson, at ...

    Article : 199 words
  8. THE CONFERENCE.

    When the Coal Conference resumed yesterday, under the chairmanship of Sir Wallace Bruce, the general president of the Miners' Federation (Mr D. Rees) appealed to the ...

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  9. THE CENOTAPH.

    Recent references to the completion of the Cenotaph have focussed attention on the part played by Dr. J. J. C. Bradfield in its conception, design, and erection. ...

    Article : 484 words
  10. STUD SHEEP.

    Delegates attending the conference of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales yesterday rejected by 51 to 42 voles a resolution asking the Federal Government to ...

    Article : 450 words
  11. NINTH DAY.

    Yesterday was the ninth day since the last message was received from the Southern Cross saying that a forced landing was about to be made in "rotten country" in the Kimberley ...

    Article : 660 words
  12. THE KING.

    The King passed a good day. The weather remained line and sunny at Bognor, and his Majesty spent the whole morning in the grounds of Craigwell House. For over two ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. AMERICAN TARIFF.

    The British Ambassador this afternoon presented to the State Department a memorandum outlining Australians' attitude towards the contemplated revision of the United ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. THE NORTH-WEST.

    Sir James Connolly, formerly Agent-General for Western Australia, said that the difficulties of the search for the missing Southern Cross showed the folly of the policy ...

    Article : 332 words
  15. VICIOUS ATTACK.

    Following on an assault made upon him at the Wombat Hotel shortly after 6 o'clock last evening, Constable Beat drew his revolver and, after firing one shot wide in an ...

    Article : 306 words
  16. APPEAL FOR HELP.

    The Chief Civic Commissioner (Mr. Garlick) yesterday received a cablegram jointly signed by the Mayors of Hobart and Launceston. The cablegram, which had been delayed ...

    Article : 325 words
  17. DISPENSER'S ERROR.

    How the accidental transposition of a decimal point caused the death of three brothers. suffering from ringworm, was revealed at the Wembley Coroner's inquiry. The ...

    Article : 121 words
  18. MIGRATION.

    Arrivals of migrants during Februnry exceeded the recorded departures by only 238 persons, the figures for the month being 6931 arrivals and 6693 departures. ...

    Article : 187 words
  19. A NEW WING.

    A remarkable piece of constructional work was carried out at Vickers' Weybridge works in the completion of an entirely new undorwing for the 'plane, in which Moir and Owen ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. COAL SUPPLIES.

    Thp world in 1927 used for power purposes 400,000,000 tons less coal than in 1913, states a report from the World Power Conference of last year. ...

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  21. ITALIAN ROBBED.

    Augustine Rizzo, an italian, of Woolloomooloo, gave £197/10/ for a small bottle of paton[?] headache tablets on Monday. Explaining the transaction Rizzo ...

    Article : 645 words
  22. DAYLIGHT ATTACK.

    An attack was made on a timber worker by a strike picket at Globe yesterday evening. The loyalist was boarding a tram, when the striker ran up, and wielding a sandbag ...

    Article : 324 words
  23. FEDERAL AID.

    In the absence of the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) in Sydney, no official statement regarding special Commonwealth assistance to relieve distress in Tasmania is obtainable. ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. CANBERRA'S SEARCH.

    During the progress of the search by the Canberra aeroplane yesterday Captain Holden, the pilot, was able to keep in touch by radio with Mr. Eagar, representative of the machine ...

    Article : 170 words
  25. DRAWING EXHIBITION.

    Awards of the Roya. Prawing Society's fortieth exhibition at the Guildhall include the premier distinction gold star to Ida Holland, although she is over the school age. She is a ...

    Article : 143 words
  26. COCAINE SEIZED.

    Radio played an important part in one of the biggest hauls of cocaine made on the Ganges, A Calcutta port tug, in response to a wireless message from the China liner Talma, made a ...

    Article : 97 words
  27. FIRE AT BRANXTON.

    The township of Branxton suffered the most disastrous fire in its history early this morning. The Commercial Hotel and two shops adjoining were burned to the ground, and ...

    Article : 159 words
  28. HOSPITALS TAX.

    The Premier (Mr. Bavin) yesterday spoke strongly against the principle of taxation for the support of public hospitals. Addreasing the annual meeting of the Royal ...

    Article : 325 words
  29. MORE MACHINES.

    Major Brearley, managing director of Westralian Airways, Limited, said to-day that he had received permission from the Federal Government to suspend temporarily the ...

    Article : 483 words
  30. DELEGATION TO RUSSIA.

    In the visit of British business men to Moscow, "Pertinex," writing in the "Echo de Paris," sees a trap into which he hopes the visitors will not fall. He asks why the visit ...

    Article : 117 words
  31. BOY MURDERERS.

    The atrocious murder of an octogenarian. Madame Barry, was re-enacted in the old woman's cottage at Vau Cresson. When the self-contessed murderers, Louis Hell[?], 16, and ...

    Article : 142 words
  32. CANCER CAMPAIGN.

    Accoraing to the Commonwealth Minister for Health (Sir Neville Howse), who presided yesterday at a meeting of the Federal Advisory Cancer Committee, reports presented to the ...

    Article : 200 words
  33. GERMAN POLITICS.

    The formation of a coalition Cabinet at Berlin is believed to be assured. Following agreement among the parties averting fresh taxation by reduction of the budget deficit, ...

    Article : 163 words
  34. ANGRY COMMUNIST.

    An assault on the organising secretary of the Australian Labour party, Mr. A. J. Macpherson, at Newtown Bridge during the weekend provided an unexpected sequel to the ...

    Article : 138 words
  35. COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS.

    For the second time only in its history the British Post Office is about to issue commemorative postage stamps. To commemorate Postal Union convention, which ...

    Article : 140 words
  36. POLICE CHIEF.

    The Cabinet will appoint the successor to Mr. Mitchell as Commissioner of Police before the Premier leaves for England next week. Superintendent Spyer seems to be the most ...

    Article : 75 words
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