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  2. FOURTH DAY OF ROYAL SHOW.

    The attendance at the Royal Show yesterday exceeded that of the corresponding day last year, although the weather during part of the day was threatening and some showers fell. Although the day was one of alternating ...

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  3. THE GOVERNOR.

    The leader of the Opposition (Mr. Bavin) yesterday repeated the charge that the Premier (Mr. Lang) had attempted to mislead the Governor by implying that the last batch ...

    Article : 328 words
  4. DERAILMENT.

    The engine of a steam tram, while travelling at a high speed down a decline at Ramsgate, between Kogarah and Sans Souci, yesterday morning, ...

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  5. BRITISH FINANCE.

    The Exchequer returns for the fiscal year ended to-night show that the revenue totalled £812,000,000, and the expenditure chargeable against revenue £826,000,000. ...

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  6. MR. T. WALSH.

    The members of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union last night decided to suspend the general president (Mr. Walsh) from his official position and membership of the union, ...

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  7. THE EMPIRE.

    In the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. Amery), dealing with the recommendations of the Imperial Economic Committee announced ...

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  8. AUSTRALIAN TEAM.

    The Australian cricketers are to be welcomed on the evening of April 2[?] at a gala performance at the Alhambra Theatre, which will be entirely decorated with Australia's ...

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  9. CANADIAN TRADE.

    "If it never works out any worse than it has so far. I hope that it will go on for ever," said the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Motherwell), referring to the trade ...

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  10. EXPLOSIVE MISSILE.

    The hearing was continued at Bow-street Police Court to-day of the charge against Hugh Daley, 24, hotel porter, of throwing an explosive missile with intent to do ...

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  11. HEAVY RAINS.

    The rain area expanded during the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday, and falls were reported over most of the eastern half of New South Wales, excepting in the south. ...

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  12. AUSTRALIAN FLOUR.

    In the Legislative Assembly, during a Budget statement, the Minister for Finance announced that the Government proposed to remove the existing dumping duty on ...

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  13. COPYRIGHT MUSIC.

    The demand made by the Performing Rights Association on municipal and shire councils throughout the State to register their public halls with the association in ...

    Article : 301 words
  14. STRONG INDICTMENT.

    A Government commission, appointed to inquire into the tainting of eggs exported from South Africa, involving the loss of £80,000, has issued a startling indictment ...

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  15. RING EVENTS.

    The judge—Mr. Silas Harding, of Ipswich, Queensland—had an unenviable task in deciding the McHrath 11-stone open hunting contest. Of the 40 entrants, 30 competed, and ...

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  16. ELECTRICITY.

    Alderman Green, representing the City Council on the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board is reported to have stated at a meeting of the board that the ...

    Article : 268 words
  17. AVIATION.

    Piloting a naval aeroplane, Lieutenant Bryan landed on an aircraft carrier at Malta, but the aeroplane fell over the side of the vessel and sank. Neither the body of the ...

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  18. CALL FOR HELP.

    A distress call was picked up to-day from the British freighter Laleham about 600 miles south-east of Halifax. The message said that the steamer was nearly on ...

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  19. NIGHT SESSION.

    The ring events again occasioned much interest in the evening, although the attendance, owing to the drizzling rain, was not by any [?] large. ...

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  20. ARCTIC FLIGHT.

    News comes from Fairbanks (Alaska) that, in the aeroplane "Alaskan," carrying Captain G. H. Wilkins, the Australian explorer, and Lieutenant Carl Eielsen, departed this ...

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  21. PRINCESS VICTORIA.

    After visiting Princess Victoria this morning the King cancelled his Easter visit to Windsor. To-night's bulletin states that the condition of the Princess is unchanged. ...

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  22. A.L.P.

    One of the most bitter factional fights in the history of the Labour movement will be waged at the A.L.P. Conference, which commences at 10 o'clock thin morning. At the ...

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  23. FRENCH FINANCE.

    The French Chamber of Deputies this morning adopted the Finance Bill in its entirety by 236 votes to 159, after passing a clause imposing an 8 per cent. tax on coffee and a ...

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  24. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    There was an all-night sitting of the House of Commons on the Economy Bill, on which Mr. Churchill's budget plans depend. The united Oppositions maintained a determined ...

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  25. SUEZ CANAL DUES.

    It is reported at Rome that the Italian Government has been approached to reimburse the Suez Canal dues on certain Italian steamers trading to Australia. Continuance of the ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. THE ATTENDANCE.

    Despite the threatening weather yesterday, the attendance was greater than that of the corresponding day last year. Yesterday an aggregate of 53,[?] persons, and last year ...

    Article : 102 words
  27. WHARF MEN.

    No settlement was reached at the compulsory conference between the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and the Waterside Workers' Federation to-day. It ...

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  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The petty-officers and men of H.M.A.S. Melbourne were the guests of the Admiralty at dinner to-day, subsequently attending a naval boxing tournament. ...

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  29. MUSSOLINI.

    Aboard a warship, escorted by two destroyers, four dreadnoughts, four cruisers, and four submarines, Signor Mussolini will sail from Ostia or Gaeta on April 7 to inspect ...

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  30. COALMINERS.

    It was reported in Lithgow this morning that the Lithgow Coal Association had declined to grant the application of the miners for an increase in the bowing rate of coal and ...

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  31. MARIE NARELLE.

    After an absence of 15 years, Miss Marie Narelle, the s[?] singer, who resides at Long Island, New York, is visiting Wagga, where she received her early ...

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  32. STATE FINANCES.

    The State revenue for March totalled £3,003,720, a decrease of £295,763 compared with March, 1925. For the nine months of the financial year ...

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  33. FIRE AND MURDER.

    Sensational developments arose out of a fire which destroyed a mansion owned by the brothers Joseph and Peter McDonnell in the Coolock district, County Dublin. They ...

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  34. EXPELLED.

    The Constantinople correspondent of the "Times" has been expelled from Turkey by the Commissar for Natlonal Defence, who alleges that the correspondent has been ...

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  35. LAND VALUES.

    The Danish Parliament has passed a bill imposing the Australian System of local taxation on land values, this applying to both town and country lands. The bill reduces ...

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  36. PATHOLOGIST'S DEATH.

    Dr. Ronald Alston, aged 22, a brilliant pathologist, was competing for the Mead and Bi[?]stowe medals for pathology at St. Thomas's Hospital, in the course of which he had to ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. POSTAL REVENUE.

    There was an increase in the postal revenue of the Commonwealth for the last month of £103,329, compared with March, 1925. For the nine months of the financial year the ...

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  38. ALLEGED ARSON.

    Ernest Hayward Scott, Hugh James MacGr[?]gor, and George Victor Ball, directors of the firm of E. [?] Scott, Pty., Ltd., motor body builders, of South Melbourne, were to-day ...

    Article : 137 words
  39. ZINC CONCENTRATES.

    Replying to Mr. H. C. Woodcock in the House of Commons to-day, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade (Sir Burton Chadwick) repeated the answer he ...

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  40. RUN OVER BY TRAIN.

    A double fatality occurred at Prosperpine at 5.40 this morning. Mrs. Brookes and her grandchild were run over by the Townsville-Brisbane mail train and killed. It appeared ...

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  41. MILK CARTERS.

    A few weeks ago the milk carters became dissatisfied with their hours of work, and threatened to strike unless their demands were conceded. ...

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  42. SOUTH AFRICAN BUDGET.

    The Minister for Finance, in his Budget speech, announced that there was a surplus of £5[?],000 last year. The expenditure for the current year was £26,954,000, showing a ...

    Article : 54 words
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