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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. James Ralston, sen, has died at the age of 80 years. He opened the South Greta colliery, and recently was engaged in prospecting. He had been associated with ...

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  3. ROAD MATERIALS.

    Strong protests were voiced at the A.W.U. convention in Hobart to-day against the extensive use of imported road-making material, to the detriment of Australian industries. ...

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  4. SHIELD CRICKET.

    Rain interfered with to-day's play in the last Sheffield Shield match of the season, between Victoria and Queensland, in the Exhibition Ground. Queensland was 84 runs ...

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  5. BOROTRA AGAIN.

    Jean Borotra, the versatile French champion, appeared in a new role at the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Ground, Rushcutter Bay, yesterday, when, partnered by Miss Akhurst, ...

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  6. "RUINER MAN."

    "If the captain of the Greycliffe had been observing me as closely as I was observing him, you would not be standing here getting rich quick, Mr. Manning, and I would not be ...

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  7. RAILWAY WASHAWAYS.

    The Bourke mail train will reach Sydney slightly behind scheduled time this morning, owing to delays caused by washaways on the western line. Information received at ...

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  8. GOOD RAIN.

    During the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday, rain fell over the whole of the State with the exception of western Riverina and a large portion of the western district. Heavy ...

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  9. LATE MR. D. McKEE

    As announced in our late edition yesterday, Mr. David McKee Wright, one of the most talented of recent Australian poets and a journalist of many and diverse abilities, died ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  10. FOUND DROWNED.

    Mr. James Henry Johnston, of vermont, Pitt Town, a native and lifelong resident of the Hawkesbury district, was found drowned in the Hawkesbury River, near Pitt Town ...

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  11. A MILESTONE.

    This ceremony marks another milestone reached and passed in our march of progress." said the Minister for Customs (Mr. Pratten) yesterday when he officially opened the ...

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  12. MOTOR CAR OVERTURNS.

    Mr. Ainslie Mills, nephew of Mr. Nellson Mills, managing director of Uardry station, was alone driving a light car on the station on Saturday when something went wrong ...

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  13. STORMS IN THE COUNTRY.

    Several heavy storms have been experienced in the Armidale district during the past few days, At Saumarcz Station on Saturday night, one and a half inches were registered in 20 ...

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  14. ALBURY'S EDUCATION NEEDS.

    On Saturday afternoon the new school established at North Albury for infants was declared open by Mr. John Ross, M.L.A. Provision for this school was renderel ...

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  15. THE GOAT WAR.

    Shades of Gilbert[?] How he would have revelled in the abundance of material that exists in the goat war that has burst over Sydney to keep her sportsmen in a simmer of ...

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  16. NOISE SCREEN.

    For a number of years Mr. E. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd., has studied the problem of shutting out city noises from a room without ...

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  17. YOUTHS ARRESTED.

    The excessive heat of yesterday afternoon was indirectly responsible for the arrest at Hornsby of five youths who, it is alleged, attempted to travel on the railways from ...

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  18. EAGLE HAWK.

    The Larkin Aircraft Supply Company's aeroplane "Love Bird" was requisitioned as an ambulance to convey Mr. Tony Mills from Hay to a private hospital in Melbourne a ...

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  19. INSPECTION BY AEROPLANE.

    Messrs. F. E. Shillabeer and A. G. Wales, directors of the Victorian Constructions Proprietary, Ltd., have arrived here in an aeroplane, on route for Oodnadatta to inspect ...

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  20. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    One man was killed and two passengers were injured as a result of a motor car accident, which occurred on the Trungley-road. two miles from Temora, last night. Harold ...

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  21. ABSENCE OF TECHNICAL CLASSES.

    A communication to the Greater Wagga League states that the Minister for Education favours a proposal to use the Rural School buildings for the purpose of ...

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  22. GENEVA.

    The A.W.U. convention this afternon discusesd the question of accepting the invitation of the Prime Minister to nominate three delegates from whom the selection would be made ...

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  23. LANDING GROUND FOR PLANES.

    The Commonwealth Air Board has written stating that it has no funds tor establishing a landing ground for aeroplanes here, and suggests that the municipal council or some ...

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  24. BRILLIANT PUPIL.

    Murree Allen, of the Fort-street Boys' High School, gained first-class honours in Latin, Greek, and mathematics at the Leaving Certificate examination, with first place in Greek. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  25. THREE HURT IN CAR SMASH.

    A motor car driven by Mr. Richard Tuckwell, with whom were his father, Mr. W. J. Tuckwell, two brothers and an uncle, Mr. J. H. Tuckwell, overturned at Breakfast ...

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  26. COFF'S HARBOUR BURGLARY.

    The North Coast Company's office was broken into this morning, and the safe taken away in a wheelbarrow to the beach, where it was forced open. A substantial sum of ...

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  27. RIVAL ROUTES.

    Mr. Walmsley, M.L.A., in a letter to the Lane Cove Council regarding the St. Leonards-Eastwood Railway, states that the Cabinet has definitely approved of a junction ...

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  28. A COMPLEX WORLD.

    Speaking last evening at a dinner tendered him by the laymen of the council of Milton Grammar School, the first headmaster of the school (Mr. John Cameron, M.A.) compared ...

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  29. WAGGA WATER SUPPLY.

    A serious position has developed in connection with the water supply. So great has been the expansion of the town in the last few years that the requirements for domestic ...

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  30. CRASH INTO EMBANKMENT.

    While travelling down the Toll Bar road on Toowoomba Range in a car Mr. and Mrs. Jack Elliott, of Bourke (N.S.W.), had a remarkable escape from injury. When descending a ...

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  31. PARKES P. and A. ASSOCIATION.

    The ballot for the election of the committee of the Parkes P. and A. Association for the coming year resulted in the return of the following candidates.—W. I. Bassett, Richard ...

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  32. A DOCTOR'S DUTY.

    The failure of a medical man to attend punctually at the Coroner's Court at Canterbury yesterday caused him to be reprimanded by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. ...

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  33. RUSH FOR WORK.

    Definite indication of the effect of the introduction of a new system of dealing with applicants for employment at Bunnerong was afforded yesterday, when a crowd of men ...

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  34. YOUNG MAN KILLED.

    A motor cycle and sidecar, carrying four young men, got out of control at Ferntree Gully last night, and collided with a tree. Clive Smith, aged 20 years, of Milton-street ...

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  35. LATE COMMERCIAL.

    To-day's sales included:—Commonwealth bonds. 5¼ per cent. (1933), £100/10/; 5¼ per cent. (1936). £100/3/9; 6 per cent. (1930, Dec.), £101/15/; Anthony Hordern, ord., 23/; Nestles, pref., 21/5½; Peters Arctic ...

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  36. RAILWAY FETTLER KILLED.

    Frank Denny, a railway fettler, was thrown from a motor lorry at North Yass and killed. The driver of the lorry pulled off the road to avoid colliding with a motor cycle, and in ...

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  37. VICTIM DIES OF INJURIES.

    Mrs. Elsie Gates, aged 37 years, of Laverton who with her husband was knocked down by a passing car at Chelsea yesterday while examining a tyre on their motor car, died in ...

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  38. LAST CRUISE.

    The H.M.A.S. Melbourne finished coaling yesterday in preparation for her departure to Portsmouth on Thursday. She is at present anchored off No. 1 buoy, Farm Cove. ...

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  39. RAILWAY WORKER [?]URED.

    Whilst splitting posts at Macquarie Pass [?] the Moss Vale-Port Kembla railway line, J. Reidy had the ball of his eye Pierced by a chip which fiew from a wedge he was striking with ...

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  40. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 words
  41. BROADCASTING.

    Details of the finances of the various broadcasting companies in Australia were made available by the Postmaster-General's Department to-day. Station 3LO (Melbourne), whose ...

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  42. FRANCE v AUSTRALIA.

    One of the most important series of matches seen in Sydney for many years will commence at Rushcutter Bay on Thursday, February 16, and continue on the two following days, when ...

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  43. ESCAPEE CHARGED.

    George Robinson, who, when being taken from Albion Park races on Saturday week last to the city by detectives, made a bold bid to escape, appeared on remand at the police ...

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  44. ALBURY ROTARY CLUB.

    Rotarians who visited Albury to-day included Mr. F. Birks, of Sydney, first commissioner of the international in Australia, the president of the Hobart circle, and ...

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  45. CHURCH UNION.

    In the report of the United Preachers' Association, which was adopted at the annual meeting of the association last evening, reference was made to the outlook in regard to ...

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  46. FOOTRUNNING.

    Ten thousand people attended the opening night of the footrunning championships at the Melbourne Motordrome to-night. The programme included twelve heats of the ...

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  47. WOLLONDILLY.

    Nominations from National candidates for selection in the Wollondilly State by-election closed with the acting secretary of the National Association yesterday ...

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  48. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  49. ATTACKED BY COW.

    Mr. Victor Gibson, of Gundurimba, is a patient at a Lismore hospital suffering severe injuries through being attacked by a cow. The cow had been driven into a yard, and ...

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  50. GENERAL CHAMPAIN.

    Brigadier-General H. F. Bateman Champain, the secretary-general of the British Red Cross Society, accompanied by his wife and daughter, will arrive in Sydney by the ...

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  51. TIVOLI THEATRE.

    Syncopated tunes by a negro orchestra that enjoyed the fun as much as the audience, shuffling, stamping, and gliding dances by negroes, harmonies and crooning plantation ...

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  52. STOCK BUYER'S DEATH.

    The Lyttelton police are now satisfied that Charles James Mahau, stock buyer, whose body was found in the harbour on Saturday, was not a victim of foul play. Doctors who ...

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  53. BULLI SANITARY DEPOT.

    In a letter to the Editor of the "Herald," the secretary of the Coalcliff Progress Association (Mr. A. Larkin) enters a protest against a proposal to remove the Bulli ...

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  54. WOMEN ARRESTED.

    Three women, two of them being mother and daughter, and the third, aged about 50, a friend of the others, were arrested yesterday in Buckingham's Store, in Oxford-street, ...

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  55. VALUABLE NECKLACE LOST.

    Mrs. Clive Reid, wife of the associate of Mr. Justice Street, reported to the Detective Office yesterday that she had lost a valuable pearl necklace on Sunday, between her ...

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  56. CHINESE KILLED.

    Michael Kelly, 58, a miner, of Paxton, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, with having murdered Willie Yaep Gum on Saturday night. ...

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  57. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES.

    The February series of the wool sales in Mel[?] opened to-day with an offering of 626 [?] mitted by Goldshrough, Mort, and Co. For the best merinos, while [?] quotable change as compared with ...

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  58. TO-DAY.

    Her Majesty's Theatre: "The Girl Friend," 8. Theatre Ildyal: "The Trial of Mary Dugan," 8. Criterion: "The Letter," 8.15. St. James Theatre: "Archie," 8. ...

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  59. CAREY MEMORIAL FUND.

    Members of the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon decided to establish a fund to commemorate the public services of the late Mr. W. J. Carey, M.L.C. Money subscribed ...

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  60. OLD MAN DROWNED.

    James Henry Johnson aged 87 years, of Beaumont-street, Pitt Town, near Windsor, was found drowned in the Hawkesbury River about 11 o'clock yesterday morning. ...

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  61. MAN POISONED.

    Leslie Berry, aged 34 labourer, died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital last night from the effects of poisoning. Berry was taken from his home at Renwick-street, Redfern, a ...

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