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  2. HARDY'S FUNERAL.

    LONDON, Jan. 16.—Thomas Hardy, the creator of "Tees of the d'Urbervilles," joined the immortals in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, amid a demonstration ...

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  3. ASYLUM TRAGEDY.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 17.—Cecil Norman Crouch, an imbecile, aged 38 years, was strangled at the Rydalmere Mental Hospital, near Parramatta, early on Monday ...

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  4. CHILD MURDER.

    NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—A message from Flint (Michigan) states that an elderly man has confessed to having killed Dorothy Schneider, a five-year-old girl, the ...

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  5. MARCH OF SCIENCE.

    HOBART, Jan. 17.—The nineteenth congress of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science was continued today in weather that was again hot and ...

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  6. BARON RICHTHOFEN.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 17.—Sir. C. B. Popkin, postmaster at Tyalgum and formerly a sergeant in the 24th machine gun company, claims that it was he who shot down ...

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  7. INFLUX OF ALIENS.

    The Premier (Mr. P. Collier) stated yesterday that the State Government viewed with growing seriousness the position that had been created by the continued influx ...

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  8. GREYCLIFFE DISASTER.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 17.—The tenth day of the inquest upon the Greycliffe-Tahiti collision in Sydney Harbour on November 3 was entered upon this morning before the City ...

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  9. TIMBER SUPPLIES.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 17.—A spirited, plea for afforestation was made by the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Marr) in an address to-day at a luncheon ...

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  10. AMERICAN NAVY.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Admiral Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, informed the House of Representatives and the Naval Affairs Committee that the five ...

    Article : 242 words
  11. RADIO V. CABLES.

    LONDON, Jan. 16.—The wireless and cables conference was opened today. The chairman (Sir John Gilmour) welcomed the delegates and announced the terms of ...

    Article : 95 words
  12. BIG WORKS.

    Twenty years ago the sphere of operations of the Perth City Council was very limited. To-day, with a population in the metropolitan area, of 184,000, the City ...

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  13. SERVICE IN ABBEY.

    LONDON, Jan. 17—Mr. Arnold Bennett, in a letter to the "Daily Express," condemns the arrangement by which the distribution of admission tickets to the Poet's ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. RUSSIAN OPPOSITION.

    LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Moscow correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" has again succeeded in forwarding a message giving interesting details with regard to ...

    Article : 262 words
  15. GREAT WOMAN PREACHER.

    Miss Chave Collison, M.A., the advance agent for Miss Maude Royden, addressed members of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia, and representatives of ...

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  16. COAL MINE RIOT.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 17.—Riotous scenes occurred at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery, near Weston, this morning, when employees assembled to commence work. The ...

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  17. MURRAY VALLEY.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 17.—The report of the Development and Migration Commission dealing with the dried fruit industry was considered by the Federal Cabinet, ...

    Article : 271 words
  18. ROYALTY REPRESENTED.

    LONDON, Jan. 17.—At the service in Westminster Abbey, Lord Herschell represented the King; Sir Walter Peacock, the Prince of Wales: and Mr. P. K. Hodgson ...

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  19. JEWELLERY STOLEN.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 7.—While the only salesman in the shop was serving a woman some yards away, a thief opened a glass door in the shop of W. Roberts. Pty., Ltd., ...

    Article : 378 words
  20. AVIATION.

    PARIS, Jan. 16.—The International Union of Aviators has awarded Colonel Lindbergh, the trans-Atlantic airman, the men's international trophy for 1927. with ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. IN SEARCH OF WORK.

    PARIS, Jan. 16.—The Moscow correspondent of the "Paris Matin" states that the 4,000 "Red" officers recently dismissed by the Commissioner of War (M. ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. 'PLANES FOR SOVIET

    LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Warsaw correspondent of the Central News Agency states that it is reported from Moscow that the Soviet Government has purchased ...

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  23. ALLEGED TREASON.

    LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Attorney General, prosecuting at the Old Bailey at the trial of James Macartney and Jan Hansen, a German, who were presented on ...

    Article : 428 words
  24. BRITISH NAVY.

    LONDON, Jan. 16.—"Substantial reductions in the Admiralty Staff can be made without impairing the Navy's efficiency," declares the Select Committee on Naval ...

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  25. FRANCE'S CREDIT.

    WASHINGTON,. Jan. 16.—The Treasury officials have indicated, in connection with the lifting of the embargo against the flotation of French securities in ...

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  26. A FATAL ACCIDENT.

    Allegations that a witness was forced to sign a statement by a policeman's threat that if he did not he would be "put on the hill," were made yesterday in the ...

    Article : 469 words
  27. ACCIDENTS.

    Aubrey Fergus (15), of 8 Hooper-street, West Perth, was run over by a spring cart in Murray-street yesterday afternoon, and received treatment at the Perth Hospital ...

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  28. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION

    LONDON, Jan. 17.—It is announced that, at the request of his Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa, the King has been pleased to approve of the ...

    Article : 131 words
  29. CHEMICAL WARFARE.

    BRUSSELS, Jan. 16.—Fifty delegates attended the opening of the International Red Cross Conference to discuss the protection of civilians in the event of chemical ...

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  30. INTERNATIONAL ENTENTE.

    PARIS, Jan. 17.—At the reception today to the executive of the International ex-Service. Men's Federation, the uresident of the German section representing ...

    Article : 57 words
  31. Knocked Over by Cycle.

    A. J. Wroth (about 50) was knocked down at the corner of Hay and Clivestreets, Subiaco, yesterday morning by a motor cycle. He was taken to the Perth ...

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  32. GERMAN TRAGEDY.

    BERLIN, Jan. 16.—A Berlin blast furnace at the Voelklingen works exploded, and the molten metal caught a number of workmen. cutting off their escape ...

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  33. PUBLIC HEALTH.

    The Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. Everitt Atkinson) has submitted to the Minister for Health (Mr. S. W. Munsie) a preliminary report on his visit to ...

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  34. MINE SUBSIDENCE.

    CAPETOWN, Jan. 16.—A serious subsidence occurred at the Witwatersrand gold mine in the Connor shaft this morning. when three stations at that shaft fell ...

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  35. Woman Knocked Down.

    While, walking across Victorian-avenue, North Fremantle, last night to enter a taxi cab, Mrs. Bessie Feldt was knocked flown by a motor cycle driven by ...

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  36. TARIFF REDUCTION.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The United States Senate carried a motion favour­ing a reduction of the existing Republican tariff schedules. It adonted Senator ...

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  37. GASTRONOMIC ARTIST.

    PARIS, Jan. 16.—The inventor of the delicacy Peche Melba, the doyen of French chefs, M. Escoftier, has been promoted to the rank of an officer of the ...

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  38. FIRE CALLS.

    Shortly after 11 o'clock last night the Central Fire Brigade was called to the Commonwealth Postal Stores in Lord street, where portion of the stack of ...

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  39. MARKING OF IMPORTS.

    LONDON, Dec. 16.—During an application to the Board of Trade for the compulsory marking of imported enamelled zinc sheets under the Safeguarding of ...

    Article : 61 words
  40. BOLT INTO DEEP WATER.

    HARVEY, Jan. 16.—On Friday evening last, as Mr. A. B. Black was driving a sulky into Harvey, he turned off the road about fifty yards above the lower weir, in ...

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  41. STRUGGLE WITH BANDITS.

    PARIS, Jan. 17.—Two bareheaded and cassocked figures, wearing odd boots, snowing up in the glare of a police officer's motor car on a lonely country road, ...

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  42. REPARATIONS.

    PARIS, Jan. 17.—According to the "Paris Matin," the conversations of the Agent-General for Reparations (Mr. Parker Gilbert) relative to the calling down of ...

    Article : 74 words
  43. OIL WAR.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. l6.—The secretary for Commerce (Mr. H. C. Hoover) has declared that his department does not intend interfering in the reported dispute ...

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  44. WIRELESS BROADCASTING.

    LONDON, Jan. 16.—Several wireless amateurs in Johannesburg picked up Melbourne (3LO) clearly last night. Loud speakers were used successfully with ...

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  45. POLICE NEWS.

    John Harrison Hanna (28), contractor, was arrested at Subiaco by Constable Pight last night, and charged with having driven a motor car recklessly in Rokeby-road ...

    Article : 37 words
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