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  2. OTIRA TUNNEL.

    Joyous ceremonies at Otira yesterday marked the completion of Arthur's Pass tunnel, one of the great engineering triumphs of the world. The tunnel, which is five ...

    Article : 163 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS. ANTICIPATING ACCIDENTS.

    The municipal council has decided to take out a publie risk policy for £1000 to cover its liability in any accidents that may occur in the pavilion in the People's Park, where ...

    Article : 62 words
  4. ADRIFT OFF HEADS.

    Through their engine failing, two fishermen in a motor launch outside Sydney Heads yesterday passed through a perilous time in the rough sea running. ...

    Article : 213 words
  5. SOLDIER SETTLERS.

    At a deputation of Chipping Norton settlers, reference was made by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Wearne) to the Ministry's new policy towards the returned soldiers' poultry farming ...

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  6. ANOTHER MARTIN-PLACE PROPOSAL.

    Mr. Roberts, in making the proposal, says:—"With such a fine street as Phillip-street available to carry-part of the traffic from Queen's-square, where there will be a railway station, to Martin-place ns extended, it is thought that the narrowing of the extension between Phillip-street and Macquarie-street would be justified, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. MARITIME LABOUR.

    A shipping anthority points out that the periodical increase in the pay of all classes of maritime labour has added very considerably to the running costs of shipping ...

    Article : 667 words
  8. SCIENTISTS' VISIT.

    "If is absolutely essential in a young country like Australia, if it is to be developed on the boat lines for its wealth, that a complete geological survey should be made as ...

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  9. WAGGA HOSPITAL.

    The committee of Wagga District Hospital has approved of the trustees of the children's ward fund paying to the Health Department a sum of £3633, which represents (with £200 ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. WESTERN COAL TRADE.

    Continued activity is manifested in the western coal trade, and the supply of ordinary trucks has been equal to requirements. Unfortunately, the hopper supply has been so ...

    Article : 120 words
  11. WAR MEMORIAL.

    Archbishop Wright, when laying the foundation-stone of a school church at Lane Cove on Saturday, referred to the anniversary of the declaration of war. ...

    Article : 258 words
  12. CANBERRA.

    A strike has occurred among a section of the men employed on road work at Canberra, a gang of 28 having "downed took" as a protest against the dismissal of a drayman, ...

    Article : 289 words
  13. A VICAR'S GRIEVANCE.

    At the annual vestry meeting the vicar, the Rev. A. G. Moore, stated that it was the disloyal element which always hindered the work of the Church. One of the difliculties of a ...

    Article : 1,168 words
  14. TAX-COLLECTING.

    For the creation of one collecting authority for income tax in New South Wales, the agreement recently arrived at with the Commonwealth has been signed by the Premier ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. IRON CHIEF.

    The steamer Iron Chief, from Newcastle to Northern Queensland ports, with a cargo of steel rails, called in at Pinkenba and the master reported that at 6.40 p.m. on August ...

    Article : 88 words
  16. BUTTER FACTORIES.

    Group settlement in the south-west is reaching the stage at which the provision of butter and milk fnctories will become a subject of urgent consideration. The Premier says that ...

    Article : 111 words
  17. COOGEE MYSTERY.

    It was learned last night that Dr. Palmer, Government Medical Officer, would not until the middle of next week complete his examination of the bones which, together with ...

    Article : 132 words
  18. PLAYS.

    "The standard of plays submitted to the Australian public can compare very favourably with the majority of London productions," said Mr. Alfred Frith, who returned ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. MEMOPTAL TABLET.

    A marble memorial tablet was unveiled yesterday afternoon by General Granville Ryrie in the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church. Waverley. ...

    Article : 278 words
  20. A SCHOLAR HONOURED.

    His Excellency the Governor, president of the Ben Fuller Trust, has been informed that the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., has conferred the degree of Ph.D. "summa cum ...

    Article : 149 words
  21. HEAVY SNOWFALLS:

    Four inches of snow covered the ground this morning, and further slight falls have occurred during the day. The top of Mount Conoblas is covered with several feet of snow, and the ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY.

    A test case of interest to traders in the New South Wales Railway and Tramway Co-operative Society was heard before Mr. Arnott, S.M., in the Parramatta Small Debts ...

    Article : 145 words
  23. POLICE RAID.

    Exciting and amusing incidents occurred during a raid made by a paity of plainclothes police on a house in Easey-street, Collingwood, on Saturday afternoon. For ...

    Article : 180 words
  24. LATE COMMERCIAL.

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  25. ROSS SEA.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Massey), in the House of Representatives, referring to the proclamation regarding Ross Sea and adjacent islands, said he understood that ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. FIEES ON CANEFIELDS

    Several cane fires have been reported at Mulgrave, the total damage being estimated at 7000 tons, valued at between £16,000 and £17,000. In one paddock the police found a ...

    Article : 75 words
  27. INDEX.

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  28. EVOLUTION SOCIETY.

    As a result of a meeting held in the Royal Society's rooms on Friday night a branch of the Evolution Society, founded in London by Lord Clifford, who visited Sydney some months ...

    Article : 218 words
  29. THE SUBURBS. NEW SPORTS GROUND.

    A project for utilising seven acres of Ashton Park, north of Taronga Park, now covered with scrub, for recreation purposes was considered at a special meeting held in the ...

    Article : 93 words
  30. PACIFIC CABLE.

    The now Auckland-Suva cable has been laid by the cable steamer Stephan to about 100 miles from Auckland. Two days out from Suva a heavy easterly gale with a high beam ...

    Article : 101 words
  31. CASUALTIES. FALL FROM A TRAM.

    Archibald Lube, 44, a tram conductor, of 130 Nelson-street, Annandnle, fractured a thigh and suffered abrasions to the forehead through falling from a moving tram at Globe on ...

    Article : 53 words
  32. ROMANCE AT SEA.

    Much amusement was caused by an incident which occurred at sea on the Commonwealth Government liner, Largs Bay, which reached Melbourne with immigrants from London ...

    Article : 190 words
  33. ACCIDENTAL POISONING.

    Jack Russell, 22, a stoker, of Thames-street, Balmain, who was married on Saturday morning, accidentally drank some poisonous fluid during the afternoon. He was removed to the ...

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  34. NEW SCHOOL HALL AT NEUTRAL BAY.

    "Our mottor should be, "The children for the Church and for Christ.' Our first and best hope is the winning of the children. They are the key of tho situation," said the ...

    Article : 115 words
  35. Advertising

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  36. SULKIES IN COLLISION.

    While driving home to his residence in Arnold-street, Mayfield, John Hanlon, 37, drover, and his brother, George Hanlon, 35, a labourer, met with a serious accident on the ...

    Article : 109 words
  37. CHINESE.

    The Chinese soccer team, en route from Hongkong to Sydney, reached Brisbane aboard the Yoshimo Maru on Saturday. Though some of the members of the team ...

    Article : 145 words
  38. FATHER FORREST'S CHALLENGE

    Sir,—The persistency by Father Forrest in repenting his challenge prompts me, by your favour, to a furthor word as to why I do not accept. It is in view of the futility for any ...

    Article : 378 words
  39. BROKEN HILL MINES.

    The number of men employed along the line of the lode at the end of July was 4766, or ...

    Article : 26 words
  40. COURTHOUSE FOR RYDE.

    At Ryde on Snturday Mr. T. J. Ley, Minister for Justice, laid the foundation-stone of a comthouse which is to be erected at a cost of £5500. ...

    Article : 226 words
  41. PEICE OF SUGAR.

    Replying yesterday to numerous inquiries concerning the date when the reduced prices of sugar will operate, the Prime Minister said that until the stocks carried over ...

    Article : 95 words
  42. DEATH FROM GUNSHOT.

    An inquest was held at Cleveland on the body of Thomas William Gellibrand, who was found dead with a gunshot wound on the head, and a gun by his side. Sir John Gellibrand, ...

    Article : 100 words
  43. SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE TRAFFIC CONFERENCE.

    Sir,—In your Reports of the above conference, published yesterday and to-day, you make the statement thnt the majority of the members favour widening Kent-street. ...

    Article : 253 words
  44. TO-DAY.

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  45. PORT JACKSON.

    Lady Forster has lent to the Mitchell Library during her stay in Australia a watercolour of Port Jackson in the fifties, painted by her father, Lord Henry Scott, ...

    Article : 86 words
  46. RUN DOWN BY TRAIN.

    Robert Cook, a grocer, residing in Kanowna, was driving over a crossing on the Kanownaroad yesterday, when he wns run down by a trans-Australian raliway angine, and killed. ...

    Article : 35 words
  47. VERBRUGGHEN ORCHESTRA COMPANY.

    Referring to the distribution of the funds of the guarantee company formed to subsidise the Verbrugghen Orchestra, the hon. secretary (Mr. Tresco Rowe) stated on Saturday that ...

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  48. CYPRESS PINE.

    Sir,—We have rend with interest the remarks of "Sawmiller" in your issue of the 3rd instant, but cannot agree that cypress pine will not be attncked by white ants. At ...

    Article : 124 words
  49. Y.M.C.A.

    At the Y.M.C.A. at 8 o'clock to-night, Mr. W. G. Conley, general manager of the "Sydney Morning Herald," will lecture on "The City of the Future." Ladies are invited to ...

    Article : 84 words
  50. SCHOOLMASTERS WANTED FOR NAVY.

    Alt ough there has been a general reduction in the personnel of the Royal Australian Navy, a shortage of schoolmasters exists, and the naval authorities in Sydney are inviting ...

    Article : 37 words
  51. DEATH OF CRIMEAN VETERAN.

    Daniel M'Carthy, the last known Crimean vetaran in this State, died on Thursday, aged [?]3. He served at Balaclava, Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, and possessed a medal with ...

    Article : 48 words
  52. LATE SHIPPING.

    FREMANTLE.—Arr: Aug. 4, Hatipara, from Calcutta; Ashridge, from eastern States. Aug. 5, Palermo, from United Kingdom. Dep; Hatipwa, for castern States; Gorgon, for Singapore. ...

    Article : 29 words
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