The following telegram was despatched yesterday to the Premier of Western Australia (Sir James Mitchell), at Cauberra, by president of the National Party ...
Article : 58 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 11.—In an endeavour to formulate a united policy to meet the financial and economic position of the Commonwealth and to mend breaches in ...
Article : 495 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. ll.—On his return to Melbourne to-day from the Premiers' Conference at Canberra, the Prime Minister (Mr. Senllin) said:—"I have ...
Article : 395 wordsCANBERRA, Feb. 11.—A lull is following the political storm of the past few days. The most interesting development to-day was a statement by the Premier ...
Article : 678 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—Speaking at the Canada Club, the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas) deplored the tendency to exploit the troubles ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—The Australian naval, military and air force liaison officers at Australia House are to be retired. Service circles have for long been ...
Article : 372 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Australian stocks were mostly marked down further to-day, with wide margins. Dealings in anything like large blocks was impossible, but ...
Article : 326 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 11.—The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman Jackson) has called a public meeting for Monday to protest against the proposal made at the Premiers' ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Australian Agents-General are at present disinclined to comment on the proposal for the abolition of their positions and amalgamation of ...
Article : 260 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Questioned in the House of Commons on the negotiations between the Irak Petroleum Company and the Irak Government concerning the ...
Article : 208 wordsSINGAPORE, Feb. 11.—"I have never seen so many sharks at one time; they were all around and under the raft, waiting for one of the men to die and be thrown ...
Article : 166 wordsRIGA, Feb. 10.—The Soviet is organising special factory police and firemen, who will be armed with rifles, ostensibly to protect industrial enterprises against ...
Article : 115 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Demonstrations by the unemployed throughout the country to-day brought police interference in several cities, including Boston and Oakland. ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—In the House of Commons to-day the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas), in answer to questions, said that out of ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—In the House of Commons to-day the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas) informed Mr. G. Mander (Lab.) that it ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11.—Inquiries by the Australian Press Association tend to confirm the rumours from Australia that the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) is ...
Article : 372 wordsWELLINGTON, Feb. 11.—The death roll at Napier as a result of the devastating earthquake of last week is now 133, including 23 bodies which have not been ...
Article : 356 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 11.—Another severe earthquake was recorded by the seismograph at the Riverview Observatory yesterday. It was estimated that the shock ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Subscriptions to the British earthquake fund now total £9,415. They include £1,000 from Lord and Lady Wakefield, £105 from the Ancient Order ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—"Punch" publishes a dignified cartoon by Mr. Bernard Partridge entitled "An Empire's Lamentation." It depicts Britannia beside a half-mast ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Feb. 9.—In a telegram to the King, President Hindenburg has expressed sincere condolences on the New Zealand earthquake disaster, and assured his ...
Article : 62 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 11.—The hearing was continued to-day of the appeal by the English, Scottish and Australian Bank against the judgment against it in favour ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 11.—Messrs. Blake and Riggall, solicitors, acting for Miss Ada Reeve, theatrical artist, have issued a Supreme Court writ against Harry Rickards ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—In a cablegram to the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. J. H. Thomas), the Governor-General of New Zealand (Lord Bledisloe) states ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Government Astronomer (Mr. H. B. Curlewis) said yesterday that on developing the seismograph sheet in the morning the record of a severe ...
Article : 388 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 10.—Raising their arms in the Fascist salute and shouting "Hail" three times the entire 107 Hitlerite Deputies made a spectacular exit from the ...
Article : 275 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 11.—Robert James McMahon (35), who was charged with the murder of Mena Griffiths at Ormond (Victoria) in November, will probably be ...
Article : 180 wordsTOKIO, Feb. 10.—When the French steamer Porthos (12,692 tons) was leaving Kobe on the homeward journey on Monday evening it collided in a snowstorm ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Greenhall, wife of Charles Edward Greenhall (53), who committed suicide at his farm near Moorine Rock, in December after having ...
Article : 235 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 11.—Thirty members of the crew of the Enton, which struck the Amadu reef, New Caledonia, on January 28, arrived in Sydney by the La Perouse ...
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Advertising : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 11.—Shearers from the South passed through Charleville on their way to Auburnvale station to-day, under police escort. A dispirited demonstration ...
Article : 76 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 11.—The Chinese vessel Hsin Ningtai was daringly attacked by pirates when a few miles from Shanghai en route for Haimen. The pirates boarded ...
Article : 105 wordsMONTLHERY (France), Feb. 10.—Driving a Email motor car at Montlhery to-day. Mr. G. E. T. Eyston averaged 97.07 miles an hour over five kilometres ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—After having been feted on successive nights by enthusiastic Americans, Captain Malcolm Campbell left Daytona to-day for Washington, where. ...
Article : 108 wordsSOUTHERN CROSS, Feb. 11.—There is indignation at Bullfinch through frequent stoppages of the water supply, which, residents and fanners complain are due to ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—At the suggestion of Major Astor, who presided at the Empire Press Union's twenty-first annual meeting, it was agreed to telegraph to the New ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsCALCUTTA, Feb. 11.—A crowd numbered in thousands and including a distinguished assemblage of officials and ruling princes witnessed the first public ...
Article : 527 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 11.—An impassioned defence of his action in recommending the recall of Mr. Theodore to his former place as Treasurer in the Federal Ministry ...
Article : 492 wordsCHICAGO, Feb. 10.—A picturesque campaign is being conducted for the Mayoralty in Chicago. The two principal candidates— the present Mayor ("Big Bill" ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—In the House of Commons to-day the Agricultural Marketing Bill, which is to authorise boards to organise and to regulate the marketing of ...
Article : 111 wordsPARIS, Feb. 11.—Contrary to the efforts made elsewhere to put down betting outride racecourses the Parisian authorities have chosen the entrance halla of city ...
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Advertising : 16 wordsIt was announced yesterday that the Aero Club had dismissed a protest lodged by J. J. Thorpe against his disqualification in the West Australian Aerial Derby, ...
Article : 89 wordsDARWIN, Feb. 11.—Three of the men who were arrested on January 28, following a fierce melee between police and Communists (who had encamped under a ...
Article : 269 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—With the object of lowering the record for a flight from London to Cape Town, Mr. T. Rose left the Croydon aerodrome in moonlight at 5.30 ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Feb. 10.—John Gasken (31), the second of the two convicts who escaped from Dartmoor last Friday, was recaptured near Laira Junction (near ...
Article : 182 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 11.—Overseas exports from New South Wales for January were valued at £2,123,416, compared with £2,878,176 for December and £2,442,191 ...
Article : 32 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 11.—Mr. G. U. Nathan, representing British settlers, continued to-day, before the Royal Commission inquiring into the disabilities of ...
Article : 421 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 11.—Five police patrol men and two civilians were injured, two of them seriously, when a police wireless patrol car collided with a sedan motor ...
Article : 232 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Lumber and wood pulp from four localities in Russia, have been barred from entrance to the United States by the Treasury, unless the ...
Article : 42 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 11.—It is officially estimated that the revenue of the tramways in the ten days ended on Sunday last dropped £34,636, compared with the ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Feb. 11—The Liverpool Shipowners' Association has approved a report strongly condemning the heavy dues in the Suez Canal as a handicap to British ...
Article : 47 wordsYORK, Feb. 11.—A motor car owned by William Walter Fleay, farmer, of Oakover, Gilgering, struck a tree on the York-Perth-road, about eight miles from York, ...
Article : 143 wordsThe death occurred in the Fremantle Hospital yesterday afternoon of Daniel Fegan (60), Early on the morning of February 2 the deceased was walking along ...
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