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  2. STRENGTH TRIAL.

    In maritime circles in Sydney it is considered that a general Industrial dispute is threatening as the dutoome of the attitude of the Seamen's Union ...

    Article : 295 words
  3. LOST FORTUNE.

    The court was crowded when the case was resumed in which Mrs. Muriel Waterhouse, as executrix of her late husband's will is suing Sir Da[?]d Wilson-Barker, ...

    Article : 508 words
  4. TARIFF POLICY.

    In view of her surplus production Australia has to drop happy-go-lucky methods and adopt an ordinary system of marketing, declared the ...

    Article : 961 words
  5. A FRIGHTFUL TORNADO.

    A devastating tornado yesterday swept Missouri, Kentucky, and Southern Illinois, doing the chief damage in the lastmentioned State. The casualties were estimated at midnight on Wednesday at 3329— ...

    Article : 62 words
  6. ILL-FATED TOKIO.

    Tokio, which had made gopd, headway in reconstruction after the disastrous earthquake of September, 1923, this afternoon was the scene of three conflagrations, one of which, in the neighbourhood of the ...

    Article : 181 words
  7. NEW CRUISERS.

    The Federal Ministry virtually has decided that the proposed two new 10,000-ton cruisers for the Australian Navy must be built in Great Britain. ...

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  8. TOWN LITERALLY SWEPT AWAY.

    The wind storm was unprecedented in fury, boing comparable only to the tornado of 1896, which killed 500 persons in the City of St. Louis. Already it has been determined that many hundreds of persons have been killed in single towns. The worst sufferer was Murphysboro, an Illinols town of 11,000 inhabitants, ...

    Article : 517 words
  9. GAMBLING.

    In an address to the members of St. James' branch of the H.A.C.B. Society, Coorparoo, last evening, the Rev. J. O'Leary, P.P., alluded to Archbishop ...

    Article : 412 words
  10. WOMAN'S DEATH.

    Alfred Bracknell (56) was charged before Mr. Justice Burnside, at the Criminal Court at Albury, with having wilfully murdered his wife, aged 57, at Denmark, ...

    Article : 540 words
  11. SOCIETY MORALITY.

    On resuming the hearing of evidence to-day in the case in which Mrs. Dorothy Dennistoun is suing her former husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Onslow ...

    Article : 570 words
  12. MISHAP TO LINER.

    The P. and O. liner Maloja was advertised to leave the Outer Harbour on her voyage to London at 5 p.m. to-day, but when, proceeding to the entrance of ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. EMPIRE MIGRATION.

    Official British circles believe that the migration agreement will be signed before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery's) departure for Iraq ...

    Article : 56 words
  14. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.

    Madams Tussaud's famous "waxwork", show caught fire this evening, the flames reaching a great height. The building was nearly burnt out in ...

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  15. GOLD STANDARD.

    Considerable financial and political discussion has taken place on the gold standard question. The Federation of British Industries memorialised the Chancellor of ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. CITY DESTROYED.

    Radio advices from Trujillo, the third city of Peru, declare that the city has been completely destroyed by inundations following torrential rains. ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. VISIT BY MR. AMERY.

    The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery) has decided definitely to visit Australia and New Zealand in the autumn. Mr. Amery, ...

    Article : 183 words
  18. A CONCESSION.

    An additional area of 550 acres in the Silent Grove region, Mackay district, has been assigned by the Central Sugar Cane Prices Board to the Racecourse Mill for ...

    Article : 241 words
  19. TOOWOOMBA SEAT.

    Mr. T. J. Lonsdale, a former Labour organiser, to-day stated, that Mr. M. P. Alke, of Toowoomba, whose nomination for the Toowoomba Labour plebiscite was ...

    Article : 76 words
  20. QUEENSLANDER CHOSEN.

    It was learned to-day that the selection of the Employees' Delegate to the International Labour Conference, to be held in Geneva in May, has resulted in Mr. G. ...

    Article : 297 words
  21. CITY PROPERTY.

    A number of appeals against the valuations of Queen-street properties by the Brisbane City Council, through the City Valuer (Mr. W. N. Ludwig), were listed ...

    Article : 335 words
  22. PARTIAL RECOVERY.

    Wheat cargoes are irregular and nominal. River Plate wheat picked up 1/6 per quarter on American opening recovery. Parcels are modorately active at ...

    Article : 82 words
  23. MORE GOLD FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The International Accept[?]ce Bank has shipped 500,000 dollars of gold (about £100,000 worth) for Australia. ...

    Article : 24 words
  24. BIG DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE.

    Mr. P. Collier (Premier of Western Australia) was to-day the guest at a luncheon given by the Empire Parliamentary association, which yesterday held ...

    Article : 269 words
  25. "AN ITALIAN MALTA."

    There was an extraordinary outburst on the part of Fascist militia on board an Italian steamer which arrived this morning, en route to ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. ANTI-SOCIALIST UNITY.

    A meeting of anti-Socialist supporters of Mr. James Tolmie's candidature for Toowoomba was held to-night at the Alexandra Cafe, Mr. T. R. Roberts, ...

    Article : 249 words
  27. CHICAGO MARKET.

    Wheat, May delivery, is at 162 cents (about 6/9) per bushel, and for July 143 cents (about 5/11½). and for September 135 cents (about 5/7½), ...

    Article : 34 words
  28. SINGAPORE BASE.

    Several members of the House of Commons have tabled questions regarding the proposed floating dock at Singapore. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. W. C. ...

    Article : 51 words
  29. TRADE WITH GERMANY.

    The House of Commons passed without a division the second reading of the ExEnemy Aliens Disabilities Removal Bill, designed to give effect to the ...

    Article : 195 words
  30. SEWAGE NUISANCE.

    Serious complaint has been made lately by residents of the Pinkenba district of a stench which has arisen from the sewage works at Luggage Point. It is ...

    Article : 136 words
  31. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

    In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. John Beckett asked whether any kind of understanding existed between the American and British naval authorities and ...

    Article : 129 words
  32. POLICE DEFIED.

    In the Licensing Court to-day, before Mr. W. Rillie, Patrick Breen, licensce of the Federal Hotel, was charged with having refused to admit the police on ...

    Article : 105 words
  33. THE PRESENT SLUMP.

    The Empire Settlement Act estimates emphasise the present slump in migration to Australia. It shows that the amount provided towards land schemes in ...

    Article : 71 words
  34. HUT BURIED.

    A terrible tragedy has occured in the canton of Argovie. The sides of a gravel pit collapsed, burying the hut of a family named Schmied. The mother and six ...

    Article : 61 words
  35. GENEVA PROTOCOL.

    The "Daily Express" declares that the Cabinet has decided to send a cablegram to the Dominions asking permission to publish the replies to the Cabinet's ...

    Article : 50 words
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