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  • AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS. QUEENSLAND'S TRIBUTE. SEVERAL INTERESTING ADDRESSES.

    Interest in the Australian Authors' Week celebrations at the Girls' Normal School, Adelaide-street, remains unabated, and throughout yesterday there was a continuons stream of visitors, who evinced the liveliest interest in the many literary and artistic ... [Article] (130 words)
  • HENRY LAWSON. DID NOT KNOW THE BUSH. HOW HE DERIVED HIS KNOWLEDGE.

    The keynote in the admirable lecturette on Henry Lawson, which was delivered by Mr. F. Bennett, B.Sc., in comnedtion with Australian Authors' Week, ... [Article] (553 words)
  • EARLY AUSTRALIAN WRITERS.

    Mr. J. S. Hanlon presided at the afternoon session, when a lecture on "Early Australian Writers" was delivered by Professor A. C. V. Melbourne, M.A. ... [Article] (865 words)
  • QUEENSLAND AUTHORS AND COMPOSERS.

    The evening's entertainment was arranged by the Queensland, Authors' and Artists' Association. Professor J. J. Stable, M.A., presided, and there was a ... [Article] (1053 words)
  • PERSONAL

    His Honour Mr. Justice Macrossan, President of the Land Appeal Court, left yesterday by boat for Cairns. Ho was accompanied by Mrs. Macrossan. His ... [Article] (950 words)
  • FORTUNE MISSED. ACTRESS DIES IN POVERTY. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, October 17.

    Miss Grace Warner, an actress, who played with her father such roles as "Juliet," "Portia," Desdemona," and "Galatea," in Australia for three years, ... [Article] (119 words)
  • OBITUARY.

    The funeral of the late Mr. Edwin Alfred Jolliffe, who died suddenly in Sydney, while returning from a world tour, moved from the funeral parlour of ... [Article] (601 words)
  • MR. M. J. FIHELLY. DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN JOURNALIST.

    The death occured, shortly after 8 o'clock last evening, at Dalkeith Private Hospital, Eagle Junction, of Mr. M. J. Fihelly, one of the best-known ... [ILLUSTRATED] [Article] (231 words)
  • FORTUNATE ESCAPE. CABTRIDGE IN PIPE. SYDNEY, October 18.

    A telegram, from Dubbo states that George Wheatley had a fortunate escape to-day. He had just lit his pipe, and had removed it from his mouth to call a ... [Article] (60 words)
  • MELBOURNE STOCK SALES. MELBOURNE, October 18.

    ... [Detailed lists, results, guides] (171 words)
  • WARM WELCOME. IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. BRITISH MINISTER'S TOUR. ADELAIDE, October 18.

    The Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies (Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery) and Mrs. Amery had their first real taste of an Australian summer ... [Article] (415 words)
  • STRIKE THREAT. MELBOURNE TRAMWAYS. MELBOURNE, October 18

    Further developments occurred to-day concerning the threats made at a meeting of the victorian No. 2 branch of the Tramway Employees' Association on ... [Article] (276 words)
  • WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. ARRESTS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. PERTH, October 18.

    Three Frenchmen and five French women were remanded on a charge of vagrancy in the City Court to-day. It was alleged that the three young women ... [Article] (143 words)
  • GLASS WORKERS. 44-HOUR CLAIM. MELBOURNE, October 18.

    The Full Court of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, consisting of Chief Judge Dethridge, Mr. Justice Lukin, and Judge Beeby, to-day began the hearing of ... [Article] (161 words)
  • PRESIDENT COOLIDGE. SALUTE FROM BRITISH CRUISERS. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, October 18.

    The British cruisers Calcutta and Cairo, which have arrived off Washington on a five dajs' visit, gave President Coolidge, who was aboard the Presidential yacht, ... [Article] (84 words)
  • MINORITY REPORT INDUSTRIAL MISSION. COMPARISONS WITH AMERICA. SYDNEY, October 18.

    The minority report of Messrs. E. Grayadler, M.L.C., and A. M'Innes, employees' representatives on the recent Industrial Mission to America, was to-day ... [Article] (560 words)
  • BLOWFLY PEST. EFFICACY OF PARASITES.

    A Sydney telegram, published in the "Courier" yesterday, drew attention to a statement that the Bureau of Entomology in England had a laboratory where ... [Article] (226 words)
  • MAN ASPHYXIATED. DARLINGHURST DISCOVERY. SYDNEY, October 18.

    A man whose identity has not been definitely established was found in a room filled with gas from a turned on jet late this afternoon. The door and the ... [Article] (77 words)
  • PEACE IN INDUSTRY. CONFERENCE IN LONDON. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, October 18.

    A new attempt to bring peace in industry is being made by a gathering of representatives of the employers and the Labour Party, and officials of the ... [Article] (233 words)
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  • GRAVE OBSTACLE. TRADE RESTRICTIONS. CONFERENCE IN GENEVA. GENEVA, October 18.

    Delegates representing 33 States, including the United States and Egypt, who are not members of the League of Nations, as well as separate ... [Article] (414 words)
  • ATTACK ON BISHOP. CANON BULLOCK-WEBSTER'S PROTEST. LONDON, October 17.

    Camon Bullock-Webster was in bed this morning, but "not as the result of his protest." He handed to newspaper men a typescript, stating, inter alia: ... [Article] (202 words)
  • RESTRAINING UNIONS. CHECKING INTIMIDATION. (Austialian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, October 18.

    The United States Supreme Court has rendered an important decision, upholding the injunctions issued by the lower courts restraining union employees from ... [Article] (154 words)
  • Advertising

    ... [Advertising] (67 words)
  • BRITISH FINANCES. ECONOMIES IMPERATIVE. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, October 17.

    The newspapers attach, some importance, to the visits which Mr. Monta[?] Norman (Governor of the Bank [?] of England) paid to-day to the Prime ... [Article] (121 words)
  • DEGILBO SHIRE COUNCIL. BIGGENDEN, October 13.

    The monthly meeting at Degilbo" Shire Council was held on October 8, Councillor Minchenton (Chairman) presiding. The Main Roads Commissioner wrote stating ... [Article] (245 words)
  • PRICE OF TIN. CONSTANT FLUCTUATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, October 18

    In view of constant fluctuations in the price of tin, which notably in the last six weeks, has fallen from Over £300 per ton to about £200, considerable interest ... [Article] (82 words)

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