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  2. GLOUCESTER.

    The Premier (Mr. Stevens), in opening the Gloucester by-election campaign to-night, outlined the public works policy of the Government. ...

    Article : 1,611 words
  3. GIRL ROBBED

    A girl was robbed of £30 in notes, s, cheque, and a money order, in the branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, at the corner of Pitt and Bathurst streets, ...

    Article : 156 words
  4. FLAMES OF WAR.

    "To-day the right hand is on the sword and patriotism has lost its reason throughout the world," declared Mr. Lloyd George, M.P., in his presidential address at the Welsh ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. FERRY DISASTER.

    Three women passengers were drowned when the Newcastle-Stockton ferry steamer Bluebell sank late last evening a minute after its collision with the freighter Waraneen. The bodies of Mrs. Annie Kerr, 60, of Douglas-street, Stockton, and her ...

    Article : 1,848 words
  6. SILVER.

    President Roosevelt issued an Executive order to-day providing for the nationalisation of silver at 50.01 cents an ounce, under the provisions of the ...

    Article : 883 words
  7. EMPIRE GAMES.

    The Australian lightweight wrestling champion, R. E. Garrard, of Victoria, won the final of the lightweight wrestling contest at the Empire Games ...

    Article : 659 words
  8. SUDDEN STORM.

    Many people were caught unawares by a sudden hail storm yesterday afternoon, and were pelted unmercifully before they reached shelter. Women screamed as the sharp ...

    Article : 239 words
  9. BOLTING HORSE.

    A North Sydney resident, showing initiative and courage, saved a woman and her two children from being run down by a bolting horse during the height of the storm at ...

    Article : 214 words
  10. AVIATION.

    The British airmen, Captain Leonard Reid and Captain James Ayling, who took off from Wasaga Beach, on the shores of Lake Ontario, at 5 o'clock yesterday morning for Bagdad, in ...

    Article : 454 words
  11. £400 OBTAINED.

    Allegations were made in the Court of General Sessions to-day that an accused man had pretended to be a Mr. Parsons, a well-known barrister, and now a Judge in South Australia, ...

    Article : 250 words
  12. ISABEL CREW.

    Vivid stories of the trials experienced by the crew of the auxiliary schooner Isabel on the 45 days' voyage from Sydney to Suva were told by members who returned to Sydney ...

    Article : 238 words
  13. UNION COMPANY

    If the necessary safeguards can be obtained, the Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., will be prepared to place an order in Great Britain for a large and modern passenger steamer, ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

    The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says: "At Green Bay (Wisconsin) to-day, on the eve of his return here after a six weeks' absence. President Roosevelt said ...

    Article : 290 words
  15. WRITS SIGNED

    Writs for the forthcoming elections for the House of Representatives, which will be issued next week, were signed to-day by the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Perkins) in historic ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. MINERS' MONEY.

    Complaints were made at a meeting of the central council of the Miners' Federation yesterday that the Lang Labour party had ignored the request of the miners for the repayment ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. GERMANY.

    Opposition pastors made bitter charges against the Reichbishon (Dr. Mueller) and the "Nazified" Church Government, at a congress convened by Dr. Mueller, in order to ...

    Article : 385 words
  18. FIVE DAYS IN SHAFT.

    After having been five days down a disused mining shaft in the Tennant's Creek area, into which he had fallen, James Withers, an old prospector, was found by his mates, ...

    Article : 187 words
  19. THEFTS FROM SHOPS.

    Many robberies of rolls of silk and other materials from shops have been reported to the police. Detective-sergeant McCarthy and Detectives Hughes, Wilson, and Donohue, of ...

    Article : 180 words
  20. COTTON TARIFF.

    The Lancashire cotton industry is perturbed about the Australian tariffs, practically the first indication of which was the receipt of cable messages cancelling important orders. ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. TRUCK DERAILED.

    A truck on a blue metal train was derailed about half a mile on the Kiama side of the Minnamurra River yesterday afternoon. The train, which was loaded with metal from the ...

    Article : 212 words
  22. CRIME IN SOLOMONS.

    Information has been received in Sydney from the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Murchison Fletcher) that legislation will be introduced shortly in the ...

    Article : 237 words
  23. WHEAT TRADE.

    When the Wheat Advisory Committee meets on August 14 it will be confronted with a totally changed situation. An expert, interviewed by a representative ...

    Article : 98 words
  24. RIOTS IN SHANGHAI.

    In Shanghai's International Settlement 10,000 public hire rickshaws almost entirely disappeared from the streets to-day to the accompaniment of riots and acts of sabotage, ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. DOG'S MISTAKE.

    When Stanley Johnson, of Austral, left the Liverpool saleyards yesterday he found a strange cattle dog sitting on guard among the parcels in Johnson's spring cart. For nearly ...

    Article : 143 words
  26. WOOL CONFERENCE.

    A joint conference between the Australian Wool-growers' Council and the National Council of Wool-selling Brokers of Australia was held at the Wool Exchange, Melbourne, ...

    Article : 249 words
  27. CONTRACTS.

    A decision affecting the validity of the arbitration clause in contracts was given by Judge Barton during the hearing of a case at Parramatta District Court yesterday. ...

    Article : 213 words
  28. DOUBLE-DECK BUSES

    The Transport Commission has decided to replace a large number of the motor buses now in use with a new modern type of doubledeck buses. ...

    Article : 185 words
  29. AUSTRIA.

    The Austrian Chancellor (Dr. Schuschnigg) will go to Budapest by air to-day to interview the Prime Minister (Herr G[?]emboes). It is hoped that his visit will result in an ...

    Article : 157 words
  30. ELECTROCUTED.

    Anna Antonio, 29, mother of three children, and two accomplices whom she hired to kill her husband, in order to obtain 5300 dollars life insurance, were electrocuted to-night. ...

    Article : 126 words
  31. STATE LOTTERY.

    The first four prizes in the 215th State lottery were drawn in the Australian Hall yesterday morning by Mr. Norman Cooke, manager of the Distillers' Agency, Ltd., ...

    Article : 102 words
  32. MANCHUKUO.

    The Federation of British Industries is sending an industrial mission to Manchukuo, under the chairmanship of Lord Barnby, and including Sir Charles Seligman (director of ...

    Article : 101 words
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