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  2. FEDERAL BUDGET. Surplus, £2,635,597.

    The Federal Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page) delivered his Budget speech in the House of Representatives at Canberra yesterday. The surplus for the year 1926-27 amounted to £2,635,597. The estimated revenue for the financial year 1927-28 ...

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  3. TRAGIC SCENE.

    There was a tragic scene in Federal Parliament to-day when the Clerk of the House, Mr. John Robert McGregor, collapesd while the House was sitting. He died subsequently in ...

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  4. AVIATION. Schneider Cup.

    After calculations lasting several hours, the experts checking the time in yesterday's race for the Schneider Cup at The Lido, Venice, discovered miner errors in the estimated ...

    Article : 681 words
  5. MR. AMERY.

    Upon the undoubted success of the mission of the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. L. S. Amery) in South Africa, official circles in London are building high hopes for ...

    Article : 288 words
  6. FEDERAL SESSION.

    Members spent some time this afternoon questioning Ministers on a variety of matters, and it was not until a late hour that Dr. Page was able to commence his Budget speech, ...

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  7. COMMONWEALTH SHIPS.

    Holding that the expectations of the Federal Parliament had not been realised, and that the results of the trading of the Commonwealth line of steamers had demonstrated the unreliability of forecasts and estimates in the shipping business, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts, in a ...

    Article : 1,707 words
  8. NEW ORIENT LINER.

    The Orient Line's steamer Orford, of 20,000 tons, was launched to-day at the yards of Vickers, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness. A bottle of Australian wine was sprinkled on her bows ...

    Article : 391 words
  9. THE SPEECH.

    "On July 11 last," said the Treasurer, "an approximate statement of the consolidated revenue fund for the year 1926-27 disclosed a surplus of £2,623,686 in the year's ...

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  10. CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD

    After the discovery of the dead body of a police constable named Gutteridge on a road in Essex this morning, a young man named Andrew Baker surrendered to the police. ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. MOTOR CAR'S SPEED.

    At the Montlhery track (Paris) a Voisin car—a new type, with an eight-cylinder [?]-valve engine—covered 2740 miles in 24 hours, averaging 114 miles an hour. it then ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. CHINESE TROOPS.

    The advance of Northern troops south continues unresisted. Foreign observers at Pukow anticipate that Northern soldiers will reoccupy that city within a couple of days. ...

    Article : 96 words
  13. HIGH-PRICED LAND.

    A proposal was submitted to the finance committee of the City Council yesterday for the use of resumed land at Dowling-street, Woolloomooloo, for workers' homes, but ...

    Article : 312 words
  14. COCKATOO.

    Having completed an investigation into the affairs of the Cockatoo Island (New South Wales) Dockyard, the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts, in a report ...

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  15. AMERICAN CAPTAIN.

    The British Government is telegraphing for a full report of the finding of a United States Federal grand Jury, which, according to reports from New York, refused to indict one ...

    Article : 141 words
  16. SEVERE SENTENCES.

    Severe sentences have been passed on French Communists for inciting French troops to riot. A Deputy named Duclos was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined 3000 francs on ...

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  17. FEDERAL POWERS.

    The Commonwealth Solicitor-General (Sir Robert Garran) gave further evidence to-day before the Royal Commission on the Federal Constitution. ...

    Article : 304 words
  18. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Senior British Trade Commissioner in Australia (Mr. R. W. Dalton) is making an official tour of the industrial districts of the United Kingdom, to make inquiries into trade ...

    Article : 324 words
  19. R.A.F. OFFICER.

    The resource and courage of FlightLieutenant Staton, of the Royal Air Force, saved an airmnn who crashed at Southampton. A Fairey seaplane, with two men ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. MOULDERS' STRIKE.

    Beyond a slight extension of the trouble there were no developments to-day concering the strike of pipe moulders at seven metropolitan eng[?] establishments. ...

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  21. EDUCATION.

    A deputation, representing the Public school teachers, waited on the Minister for Education (Mr. Davies) yesterday, and suggested that the Education Department should be ...

    Article : 67 words
  22. JAPANESE ELECTIONS.

    The results of the pre[?]tural council elections indicate that Government supporters did not secure a decisive win. The Opposition Party claims a victory, but Government ...

    Article : 82 words
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