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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. NEW INDUSTRY AT HARDEN.

    The Hume Pipe Company (Australia), Ltd., has established a factory at Harden, and pipemaking will commence next week. A factory site of five acres was secured opposite ...

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  3. WHEAT FARMERS. Hold-up of Delivery.

    The Wheatgrowers' Association of New South Wales has received a telegram from the Wheatgrowers' Union of Western Australia, which has organised in its State a postponement of ...

    Article : 250 words
  4. INDIAN PEASANTS. Revolt Against New Taxes.

    A serious situation has arisen in Alwar State, Central India, where peasants in 100 villages are refusing to pay land tax to the Maharajah. The resisters, including hundreds who served ...

    Article : 244 words
  5. UPPER HOUSE.

    "Consideration of the defects of modern popular assemblies, and of the undue control exercised over members by party and class organisations, as well as of the avowed ...

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  6. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    When the House of Representatives resumes on Tuesday the Financial Relief Bill will be discussed in committee. A number of amendments, including one to permit of the ...

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  7. GLORIOUS DAY.

    It was a glorious day and the easy wicket made conditions most favourable for rungetting. It was soon evident that Jardine was to use the day solely for practice for his test ...

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  8. ARGENTINA'S FINANCES. Sir Otto Niemeyer to be Consulted.

    The Argentine Finance Minister has announced that Sir Otto Niemeyer has contracted to advise Argentina on her finances. He will visit Buenos Aires, study the financial ...

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  9. SHIELD MATCH.

    When stumps were drawn in the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and Victoria on Saturday, the home team, principally through great bowling by Grimmett ...

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  10. MOTORISTS' ESCAPE.

    Roy Pollock and Ray Pollock, of Moruya, had a remarkable escape from serious injury while travelling by car from Bodalla to Narooma. The car skidded across some gutters ...

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  11. INDIAN DELEGATES.

    About 30 of the delegates representing the Indian States and British India at the Indian Round-table Conference were received by the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace this ...

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  12. POISONED WITH CYANIDE.

    The inquest concerning the death of Herbert Leigh Walker wns held before the district coroner (Mr. A. G. Hardwick). The coroner found that Walker died at Maitland-street ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. SPECIAL TRAMS.

    Special services of trams will run to the Sydney Cricket Ground from Circular Quay and the Central Railway to-day and to-morrow, commencing at 10.15 a.m. ...

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  14. WOODFULL CAPTAIN.

    The secretary of the Australian Board of Control stated to-night that Woodfull would be Australia's captain in the test matches against the Englishmen. ...

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  15. GANGER KILLED.

    Although the Railway Department repairs to the river banks near the iron bridge at the northern end of the town have been in progress only a week, two men have already ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. TRIPLE SHOOTING TRAGEDY.

    James Collins, formerly a private in the Second Battalion, Buffs Regiment, stationed in Kent, was found guilty of murder, but was declared to be insane. ...

    Article : 75 words
  17. AUSTRALIAN FINANCES.

    The "Stock Exchange Gazette," in a long article praising the Commonwealth s budgetary and external trade achievements and also the Commonwealth Bank's shrewd ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. OLDFIELD IMPROVED.

    It was learned last night that the Australian wicket-keeper, W. A. Oldfield, who is confined to his home suffering from influenza, had shown excellent improvement. Mrs. Oldfield ...

    Article : 270 words
  19. QUEENSLAND

    The attitude of the Wheat Boord in refusing to reopen negotiations with the State Government is causing grave concern in the wheat and flour industries. ...

    Article : 175 words
  20. FALL IN STERLING.

    During the day before publication of the American Note dealing with war debts, sterling exchange in New York touched 3.20½ dollars to the pound, a fall of 48 cents. ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. COIN OF GEORGE III. PERIOD.

    An interesting gold coin is in the possession of Mr. J. T. Tebbutt, of Windsor. It belonged to a small collection of his father, the late John Tebbutt. The coin is of the period of ...

    Article : 99 words
  22. PROPOSED URBAN COMMITTEE.

    The question whether the proposed Tweed Heads Urban Committee ought to consist of three or five members was the subject of a heated debate among councillors of the Tweed ...

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  23. SCULLING CHAMPION

    After having rescued a boy wno fen into tne river Yarra at Henley on Saturday afternoon, H. Turner, of the Haberfield Club (N.S.W.), sculling champion of Australia, beat by one ...

    Article : 198 words
  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Atlantic Shipping Conference has agreed to a six per cent, increase in first and second class fares. The heavy reduction in fares early this year failed materially to ...

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  25. MODERN MARRIAGE.

    "Celibacy is a social crime, a fraudulent misappropriation of love's trust funds, an ethical embezzlement," the Rev. W. Cleugh Black said at the Lyceum yesterday, in an ...

    Article : 384 words
  26. MAN SHOT

    A shot was fired at four men, who attempted to repossess a motor car at a house in The Boulevard, Sans Souci, on Saturday afternoon. One of the men, Horace Robinson, 21, ...

    Article : 179 words
  27. WOOLSCOUR PIRE.

    The district coroner (Mr. W. A. Cole) yesterday commenced an inquiry into the fire that destroyed the East Moree woolscour on November 12. It was stated that the fire ...

    Article : 83 words
  28. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION.

    Search for a supposed submerged continent between the Indian and African coasts, bordering the Atablan Sea, will be undertaken next year by an expedition headed by Colonel ...

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  29. PROSPECTS FOR TESTS.

    Who will win the ashes? The English viewpoint is expressed by Neville Cardus in the "Observer." He says: "The form of the English team is tantalising, but it makes for ...

    Article : 267 words
  30. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.

    A deputation from Windsor and Richmond Municipal Councils and Blacktown Shire Council approached the City Council, with a view to discussing a proposal that the City ...

    Article : 125 words
  31. MOTHERS' RIGHTS.

    At the end of the performance of Miss Preston Stanley's play, "Whose Child?" at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday night, Miss Stanley announced from the stage that the ...

    Article : 239 words
  32. WHEAT PADDOCKS

    Damage estimated at over £5000 was caused by a fire which destroyed about 1500 acres of wheat crop near Three Springs, about 175 miles north of Perth. Beginning in W. ...

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  33. STATE LOTTERY.

    It was learnt in Ministerial circles lost night that the Cabinet is not likely to assent to a special Christmas lottery. It had been suggested that tickets at £1/1/ ...

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  34. MAN'S ARM SEVERED.

    A man named Rushworthy had an arm severed in a bark cutter while cutting wattle bark at Buckenboura, about 16 miles south of Bateman's Bay, to-day. He was taken to ...

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  35. LIQUID EGGS.

    A number of experts, the Agents-General, and representatives of the Commonwealth and of the Empire Marketing Board, inspected the first arrival of Victorian vacuum-processed ...

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  36. HEAVY LOSS OF SHEEP.

    As a result of sheep straying into a paddock of wheat, Messrs. C. H. and H. C. Melbourne, of Moutain Valley, Narrabri, suffered a heavy loss. The sheep entered the paddock after ...

    Article : 77 words
  37. INDEX. NEWS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 words
  38. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    A man, his wife, and son were injured on Saturday when their motor car overturned at the corner of Shaftesbury-road and Railwayparade, Burwood, where it collided with ...

    Article : 324 words
  39. TRIAL MATCHES

    Two trial cricket matches were played at Wagga on Sunday to help the selectors to pick a team to represent Southern Districts against the English team at Wagga on December 10 ...

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  40. SOLDIERS' PRESIDENT AT WELLINGTON.

    Mr. L. A. Robb, State president of the Returned Soldiers' League, spent a day in Wellington. He visited the baths, addressed the children of the public and convent ...

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  41. POISONOUS THISTLE.

    Mr. Mooney, a dairy farmer of Loomberah, lost 14 cows out of a herd of 40. Variegated thistle is blamed for the mortality. The cows were in perfect health when turned out ...

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  42. AUSTRALIAN SENTENCED.

    An Australian, D. R. Douglas, 35, demonstrator, pleaded guilty at Middlesex Sessions to obtaining money by false pretences. He was sentenced to l8 months' imprisonment, ...

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  43. MEAT WORKS SOLD.

    With the object of extending buying operations to North Queensland, Thos Borthwick and Sons (Australasia), Ltd., frozen meat buyers, has purchased the Bowen meatworks. ...

    Article : 177 words
  44. SCOW FOUNDERS.

    The scow Echo, voyaging from Blenheim to Wellington, was caught in a series of fierce southerly squalls off Wellington Heads on Saturday night. Her rudder was put out of ...

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  45. VALUATIONS AT YOUNG.

    Reporting on the valuations made by the Valuer-General's Department, the town clerk (Mr. G. E. Cpark) stated that there was an increase in the unimproved capital value of ...

    Article : 99 words
  46. TEAM LED BY BRADMAN.

    The possibility of D. G. Bradman bringing a. team to New Zealand in March next was revealed by Mr. A. T. Donnelly, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council. ...

    Article : 99 words
  47. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 243 words
  48. FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

    A non-aggression pact between France and Russia has been signed. It provides for no recourse to war and the inviolability of territories, including French colonies and ...

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  49. CHILD'S PREDICAMENT.

    While chasing a cat, the 18-months-[?] son of E. Murphy, of Whitton-Iane, Harden, ran over an old well, which had been covered with two sheets of roofing iron. The, iron ...

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  50. HUGE ONIONS.

    Mr. J. George, of Newhaven, Turrawan, has succeeded in producing onions that almost rival pumpkins in size One, for instance, weighed 211b 40z, and was almost 2ft in ...

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  51. KANGAROOS.

    Two exciting incidents in which kangaroos were involved are reported from country centres, Mr. W. F. Ross, M.L.A. for Cootamundra, has ...

    Article : 190 words
  52. JUMP FROM BRIDGE.

    Daniel Hogan, 63, of 60 Stanley-street, East Sydney, was killed on Saturday morning when he jumped from the Harbour Bridge, after climbing over the railings of the footway. ...

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  53. "BACK TO ALBURY."

    For the "Back to Albury Week" about 100 members of the Country Women's Association from Wangaratta, Benalla, Yarrawonga, and Wagga visited Albury. They assembled for ...

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  54. DETECTIVES' LONG WAIT

    Detectives waited 12 hours in a house at Rozelle before arresting three men, and had to threaten to shoot two of them to stop them running away. ...

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  55. LEICHHARDT.

    At a meeting of leagues in the Leichhardt Town Hall on Saturday night, Mr. R. Storey was selected as the Federal Labour party candidate for the Leichhardt by-election. Mr. ...

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  56. SIR THOMAS WILFORD.

    When the New Zealand High Commissioner (Sir Thomas Wilford) returned to London he was interviewed by a representative of the Australian Press Association about his visit ...

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  57. GOLFER IN "SHORTS."

    Since an associate of the Canberra Golf Club appeared on the links in silk "shorts" last week, the suitability and propriety of this form of apparel has been warmly discussed ...

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  58. HARDEN'S WATER SUPPLY.

    The municipal council has signed the ag[?] ment with the Public Works Department for a supply of water from the south-western water scheme. Harden is the first town to ...

    Article : 167 words
  59. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 words
  60. D. R. JARDINE.

    The word "cricket" intruded itself but once into a broadcast address, through station 2CH, by Mr. D. R. Jardine, captain of the English team, on Saturday evening. ...

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  61. COAL CONTRACT.

    At the opening of the new sale yards at Unanderra it was stated by an official of the Railway Department that a contract had been let to a district colliery for 150,000 tons of ...

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  62. EX-TOWN CLERK.

    At the Orange Quarter Sessions, before Acting Judge Lloyd, John Joseph Cleary, ex-town clerk of Molong, was charged with estealing from the Municipality of Molong ...

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  63. CASUALTIES.

    While bathing in North Creek, at Ballina, yesterdny afternoon, Joyce Mary Mantell, aged nine years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mantell, of South Ballina, was drowned. Her ...

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  64. FATAL BRAWL.

    After a brawl at Upper Coomera Hotel, near Southport, on Saturday, when bottles are alleged to have been used, Leo James Purcell, known as John Paton, died in ...

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  65. THE AQUATIC SHOW.

    on saturday, the mounted hide of Phar Lap, a very fine example of the taxidermist's art, was placed in position in the Aquatic Show and Sports Display on the ground floor ...

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  66. THE CAPITOL.

    The Capitol Theatre, which closed its doors temporarily on Thursday night, is now being extensively reconditioned and brought into line with the most modern theatres on the ...

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  67. MR. HENRY FORD ILL.

    Mr. Henry Ford has been stricken suddenly with the first serious illness in his 69 years. He underwent an emergency operation this evening for strangulated femoral hernia. He ...

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  68. FIRE IN PAINT FACTORY.

    Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused by a fire to-night at the point factory of Chas Atkins and Son, Pty., Ltd, South Melbourne. ...

    Article : 31 words
  69. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Section on page 2 each day. ...

    Article : 23 words
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