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  2. LIQUOR REFERENDUM.

    Finland, after an experience of 12 years of prohibition, has by an overwhelming majority voted in favour of a return to liquor licences. Enormous crowds cheered the ...

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  3. NEW YEAR HONOURS.

    The following New Year honours have been announced:— PRINCESS ROYAL. Princess Marry, Countess of Harewood, ...

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  4. THIRD TEST.

    The second day of the third Test match between Australia and South Africa on the Melbourne Cricket-ground yesterday was in marked contrast to Thursday. Then ...

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  5. ANTI-FASCIST PLOT.

    Almost hysterical fears have been aroused by the packages containing bombs which have been sent to leading Fascists in the United States. Another one was delivered ...

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  6. EXPLOSIVES SEIZED.

    Enough explosives to cause great loss it life and damage to ptoperty were seized by the police at a house at Footscray early yesterday morning. Shot and gunpowder, ...

    Article : 467 words
  7. SAILING-BOAT MISSING.

    Finding it impossible to bring a small sailing-boat in which they had been cruising to a sife mooring in the Port Melbourne Lagoon last night, two young men, Charles ...

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  8. MANY BUSH FIRES.

    CANBERRA, Friday. — All the very extensive reasources of the fire-fighting organisation developed by the Federal Capital Territory Administration were needed ...

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  9. BRITISH ACCOUNTS.

    The Exchequer returns for the first three quarters of the current financial year, which will end on March 31, have been issued. They reveal an excess of ...

    Article : 757 words
  10. INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

    According to a report read before the meeting of the American Association for the advancement of Science by Dr. Frederick Eberson, of the University of California, ...

    Article : 123 words
  11. BODY IN RIVER.

    With his hands tied firmly with wire to the handle-bars of a bicycle, the body of an elderly man was found floating in the Yarra near the Williamstown punt ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. ESCAPE FROM PRISON.

    ADELAIDE, Friday. — After having picked four locks and forced aside the iron bars stretched across the top of a small exercise-yard, Ernest Albert Richards, aged ...

    Article : 319 words
  13. CHICAGO PENNILESS.

    Chicago, which is already in difficulties due to the refusal of the bankers to buy tax warrants and to the draining of the civic and school board treasuries to give ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. ANOTHER HOT DAY.

    Melbourne experienced the most oppressive day of the season yesterday, Although the temperature it the Weather Bureau did not exceed 98.1 deg., the humidity was ...

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  15. Unemployed in U.S.A.

    Mr. Edward McGrady, of the American Federation of Labour, in advocating Federal relief for the unemployed, told a Senate committee that American salary and wage ...

    Article : 285 words
  16. MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION.

    SYDNEY, Friday.—A mysterious explosion occurred on a small farm at Peakburst shortly after 8 o'clock to-night. Blowing a deep hole in the ground and ...

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  17. Air Pilot's Heroism.

    Adjutnat De Frayssinet, aged 28 years, an air pilot, has been awarded the Legion of Honour for exceptional bravery. De Frayssinet, accompanied by a passenger, ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. Pope Roceives Teachers.

    A message from Rome states that the Pope received professors and school teachers from Australia. New Zealand, and Canada on Wednesday. He described their ...

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  19. Canada and New Zealand.

    At the end of the third day of the conference between representatives of canada and New Zealand, with the object of framing a trade treaty, it was unofficially ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. FELL DOWN WELL.

    ADELAIDE, Friday. — When a farmer of Crystal Brook was told that his son, aged 2½ years, had fallen down a well, 26ft. in depth, he rushed to the well and peered ...

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  21. Scuttled Battle-ships.

    The firm which has spent eight years in salvaging the former German Flect from the bottom of the Seapa Flow is ceasing operations. The firm bought the salvage ...

    Article : 202 words
  22. Rescue from Yacht.

    Alain Gerbault, who recently sailed alone around the world in a small yacht, while sailing a friend's yacht from Marseilles to Cannes met with heavy seas, which ...

    Article : 100 words
  23. CONSTABLE DERHAM.

    Plain-clothes Constable C. A. Derham left the Melbourne Hospital yesterday after having been there for five weeks. He returned to his home in Merri parade, ...

    Article : 115 words
  24. HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

    SYDNEY. Friday. —The Governer-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) was the guest of honor at the annual celebrations of the Highland Society to-day. In ...

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  25. Work on Southern Star.

    Twelve mechanics are working on the engines of Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith's aeroplane the Southern Star, at Roe's works at Hamble. The fuselage, ...

    Article : 76 words
  26. Anglo-Persian Oil.

    The Anglo-Persian Oil Co. is increasing its capital to £26,500,000 by creating an additional 2,500,000 £1 shares in order to acquire preference shares in several other ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED.

    GISBORNE, Friday.—William Alfred Ginnivan, aged 19 years of Princess street, Flemington, while riding a motor-cycle, collided with a motor-car driven by Mr. ...

    Article : 54 words
  28. Man Attends His Own Funeral.

    The exhumation of a dummy corpse in the Algiers Cementery confirmed a confession made by Louis Durand of his share in an ingenions plot to defraud an ...

    Article : 147 words
  29. Leo Wax Disqualified.

    In the Blackfriars ring the Australian Leo Wax after repeated warnings, was disqualified in the 10the round for hitting law. His opponent, Bilberry, of London, ...

    Article : 47 words
  30. Terrorism in India.

    A new phase of terrorism occured in Calcutta last night when a Bengali named Ashutosh Neogy, aged 19 years, was called from his bed by a man claiming to be a ...

    Article : 91 words
  31. Classified Advertising

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  32. FATAL FALL DOWN STAIRS.

    John 0'Meara, aged 68 years, of Nicholson street, Abbotsford, died in the Melbourne Hospital late last night from injuries that he received when he fell down a flight of ...

    Article : 40 words
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