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  2. FINANCES.

    For the past two days the Federal Cabinet sub-committee has been in consultation with Treasury officials in an effort to devise means for balancing the Budget this financial year. ...

    Article : 696 words
  3. FALL IN PRICES.

    The Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. C. H. Wickens) said to-day that all the indications, except the effect of the sales tax, which was unknown, were in the direction of a continued ...

    Article : 180 words
  4. RAILWAYS CASE.

    After a day of strenuous argument, the Full Court of the Arbitration Court decided to-day that it would hear applications by the Railway Commissioners of Victoria, New South ...

    Article : 1,206 words
  5. STATE DEBTS.

    The State Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) gave an interesting review of the financial position of the State when speaking at the annual dinner of the Master Printers' Association ...

    Article : 928 words
  6. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    The number of unemployed in Great Britain on September 8 was 2,139,571, an increase for the week of 79,127. The increase has occurred mainly in the ...

    Article : 360 words
  7. 'PLANE CRASHES.

    Hundreds of people witnessed a terrible aeroplane accident at Mascot yesterday. Mr. Dave Smith, a brilliant young airman, was flung from a Tiger Moth machine, the ...

    Article : 1,294 words
  8. INDIA.

    The Government of India in its weekly survey of the situation in India says: "The general trend of public opinion outside Congress circles, regarding the breakdown of the ...

    Article : 517 words
  9. GERMANY.

    Addressing the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva the German Foreign Minister (Dr. Curtius) expressed disappointment at the ...

    Article : 406 words
  10. CRICKET CONTROL.

    Matters of great interest to cricketers will be dealt with at the annual meeting of the Board of Control to be held in Sydney to-day, and at the interstate conference to-morrow ...

    Article : 407 words
  11. FOREIGN OFFICE KEYS.

    The representative of the Australian Press Association at Geneva learns on good authority that a burglary in the room of Mr. Noel Baker, M. P., Parliamentary Private Secretary to the ...

    Article : 279 words
  12. CANADIAN TARIFF.

    Duties on butter under the new tariff announced in Parliament to-day by the Prime Minister (Mr. Bennett) are 8 cents a pound under British preference, 12 cents intermediate, ...

    Article : 510 words
  13. THE AMERICA'S CUP.

    The third race in the America's Cup series— 15 miles to windward and return—started under ideal conditions with a 12-knot breeze kicking up the sea. ...

    Article : 418 words
  14. "KING OF KILLERS."

    "Old Tom," the king of the far-famed pack of Twofold Bay killers, and the last of his tribe, is no more. For over 100 years he and others of the pack, at one time numbering as ...

    Article : 282 words
  15. CANCER.

    A cure for cancer may be expected before long, according to Lord Moynihan, president of the British Medical Association who yesterday formally opened the Banting Research ...

    Article : 168 words
  16. FALSE PROSPERITY.

    "Australia is entirely solvent Let there be no mistake about that. The word 'bankrupt' is recklessly used, but we are not bankrupt, and nothing like it. What we are suffering ...

    Article : 673 words
  17. ARMED MEN.

    Two armed bandits attempted to rob the attendant at the King's Petrol Service Station in Chalmers-street, city, at revolver point late last night, and deliberately shot him ...

    Article : 322 words
  18. AVIATION.

    "Matthews—there and back," was the entry made in the Croydon register by Mr. F J. Matthews, who left England yesterday on a flight to Australia. His ...

    Article : 176 words
  19. BISHOP OF PRETORIA.

    The Bishop of Pretoria, the Rt. Rev. Neville Stuart Talbot, was this evening chosen by the Newcastle Diocesan Council as successor to the late Dr. G. M. Long, as Bishop ...

    Article : 239 words
  20. MR. SCULLIN.

    "Australia will soon go back to the flourishing position she used to be in," said the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), in an interview with the Australian Press ...

    Article : 186 words
  21. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    The Imperial Conference will be opened at noon on September 30 at 10 Downing-street the Prime Minister (Mr MacDonaid) presiding Subsequently the leaders of delegations ...

    Article : 211 words
  22. PUBLIC APOLOGY.

    Referring to allegations made yesterday by a member of a deputation of the State executive of the Queensland Prohibition League which waited on the Home Secretary (Mr. ...

    Article : 206 words
  23. WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

    Reports from London of the possibility of conversations on the wireless telephone being overheard were confirmed to-day by the Director of Postal Services (Mr. H. P. Brown). ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

    According to a cable message received by the Shell Co. in Sydney yesterday Messrs. N. A. Murray and C. E. Pickthorne will leave England on September 19, on a flight to ...

    Article : 75 words
  25. SALES TAX.

    So many exemptions have been granted from the operation of the sales tax, that it is doubtful whether it will yield anything like the £5,000,000 estimated in the Budget. ...

    Article : 144 words
  26. CONTRACT BRIDGE.

    The Anglo-American contract bridge matches commenced at Almack's Club on Monday. The American team was Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson, Mr. Theodore Lightner, ...

    Article : 117 words
  27. HELPLESS SHIP.

    The motor-ship Sheaf Holme put into Sydney yesterday morning for repairs after having drifted helplessly about the Pacific for 14 days owing to engine trouble. ...

    Article : 133 words
  28. HOBBS AND SUTCLIFFE.

    The famous English batsmen, J. B. Hobbs and H. Sutcliffe, will accompany the Maharajah Kumar of Vizlnnngram to India to-morrow. The Maharajah is a keen cricketer, ...

    Article : 94 words
  29. FRENCH WHEAT YIELD.

    A message from Paris says that a serious decline in the wheat yield is feared, and experts are of the opinion that it may be necessary for Prance to import 35,000,000 quintals ...

    Article : 84 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN BANKS.

    The "Financial Times" says "Financial circles regard the initiation of a scheme for pooling the Australian banks' funds in London, estimated at £40,000,000, as one of the most ...

    Article : 79 words
  31. ABOUT £700 MISSING.

    It was reported by the president (Mr. Cooper) at yesterday's meeting of the Water Board, that defalcations had been discovered in the board's Wollongong office amounting to ...

    Article : 65 words
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