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  2. MAWSON.

    "At half past 5 o'clock this morning we arrived on" a high rock peak on Enderby Land coast. It was found to be separated by a narrow water passage from the ice ...

    Article : 431 words
  3. COASTAL CLAUSES.

    The Tariff Board, in the report presented to the Acting Minister for Customs (Mr. Forde), after an investigation of the coastal clauses of the Navigation Act, states that no ...

    Article : 617 words
  4. ABOLITION OF STATE PARLIAMENTS. Full Powers for Commonwealth.

    Resolutions advocating the abolition of State Parliaments and the transfer of the major powers to the Commonwealth were carried at the country provincial conference of the Australian party at Tamworth yesterday. ...

    Article : 133 words
  5. MINERS ENTOMBED.

    One man was killed and two injured in Aberdare colliery at Blackstone, near Ipswich, at 8 o'clock this morning, when a fall of earth entombed four men. ...

    Article : 202 words
  6. HATRY COMPANIES.

    All defendants in the Hatry trial were found guilty on the charge of forgery of securities, Hatry was sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude, Daniels to seven, Tabor three, and ...

    Article : 242 words
  7. NAVAL CONFERENCE. First Plenary Session Opened.

    The first plenary session of the Five-Power Naval Disarmament Conference opened at St. James's Palace, London, on Wednesday. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was elected chairman, and a working committee was appointed. ...

    Article : 164 words
  8. FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.,

    Details of the financial collapse of the Chicago City Corporation were disclosed today. Municipal employees, including school teachers, have six weeks' wages due to them, ...

    Article : 113 words
  9. WORK OF CONFERENCE.

    Mr. J. J. Graves, in his presidential address, said that the defeat of the Bruce Government meant that the Nationalist party would probably go out of existence. A new ...

    Article : 1,267 words
  10. INCITING TO MURDER.

    A charge against Joseph Shelley, 41, for having, at Kurri Kurri, on January 8, incited divers persons to commit murder, was heard at West Maitland Court, before Mr. D. W. ...

    Article : 936 words
  11. THE OPENING SESSION.

    For once there were more police than sightseers when the delegates to the Naval Conference arrived at St. James's Palace for the first session of the conference. Probably ...

    Article : 2,002 words
  12. SAMPAN WOUNDED.

    Members of the Mau are still in the bush Constables and naval parties continue to operate west of Apia. Sixteen arrests were made in the last two days. ...

    Article : 182 words
  13. SALVATION ARMY.

    Explaining why the late General Bramwell Booth's abortive nomination of a successor must ever remain secret, the Salvation Army's solicitor states that the utmost precaution was ...

    Article : 146 words
  14. GERMAN PROPERTY.

    "The announcement of the Federal Treasurer Mr. Theodore) that Australia would give up German property to the amount of about £2GG,500, although certainly correct ...

    Article : 505 words
  15. MIGRATION.

    The Australian Director of Immigration (Colonel Manning) declined to comment on Mr. Scullln's migration staff dismissals. "I am not informed when Sir Granville Ryrie ...

    Article : 207 words
  16. GASTROENTERITIS.

    A serious outbreak of gastro-enteritis among babies is being experienced in Sydney. A high death-rate is being recorded, and a grave warning is officially given to parents. ...

    Article : 387 words
  17. THE AMERICA'S CUP.

    The presence in Sydney of Colonel Duncan Neill, D.S.O., who is the yachting representative of Sir Thomas Lipton, has awakened interest in the races which are to ...

    Article : 526 words
  18. RATES OF INTEREST.

    The unsatisfactory position of the exchange in London, combined with gradual decreases since the beginning ol the year in the quotations on the Stock Exchange for Government ...

    Article : 234 words
  19. TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.

    Speaking on board the Mongolia at a luncheon signalising the converision of her second-class accommodation into an improved third-class, Viscount Glenapp pointed out the ...

    Article : 136 words
  20. GUILDHALL BANQUET.

    The scenes at the Guildhall banquet were worthy of the traditions of the City of London as the host of the world statesmen, though no women were present except Miss ...

    Article : 459 words
  21. NEW BASIC WAGE. Increase in Sydney.

    Figures showing the new basic wage were issued to-day by the Trades Hall Research and Information Bureau, based upon the index numbers supplied by the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 201 words
  22. BYRD'S EXPEDITION.

    Rear-Admlral Byrd's backers have requested the emergency assistance of the State Department upon receipt of news that several members of the Byrd expedition are in ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. ORSOVA REFLOATED.

    Advice was received fiom Brisbane yesterday that the Orient Royal Mall liner Orsova, which grounded in Freeman's Channel, Moreton Bay, on Thursday night, was refloated ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. A.W.U. AND-MINERS.

    In view of repeated failure in the past to reach settlement of the differences between the A.W.U. and the Labour Council of New South Wales, a statement by the general ...

    Article : 257 words
  25. TEST TEAM

    Definite information of a sucial meeting of the Board of Control to con[?]cer the selectors' request to choose.6 players to tour England is not available. ...

    Article : 188 words
  26. ENGLAND'S BIRTH RATE.

    The birth rate for England and Wales in 1929 was 16.3 per thousand—the lowest on record. The death rate was 13.4 per thousand—an ...

    Article : 122 words
  27. PEA-RIFLE TRAGEDY.

    A double shooting fatality was discovered by a mailman and a cream collector when they called at a farm at Black Dog Creek, near Rutherglen, to-day. The victims were ...

    Article : 78 words
  28. AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY WORKERS.

    The State secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. E. A. Chapman) announced yesterday that in consequence of the quarterly adjustment of the Federal basic wage members ...

    Article : 59 words
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