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  2. AN ORGY OF BORROWING.

    SYDNEY.--The State Treasurer, Sir A. Cocks, announced on Thursday, that of the £12,000,000 local loan which Falls due on 10th. August, £10,500,000 had been ...

    Article : 249 words
  3. THE BRITISH CRISIS.

    Mr. Baldwin returned to Downing- street yesterday, in view of the Cabinet, meeting to- day, when the draft of the King's speech will be considered. ...

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  4. EMPIRE EXHIBITION

    Advices were yesterday received by the Australian section of the British Empire Exhibition Commission that owing to the outbreak of rinderpest in Western ...

    Article : 497 words
  5. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    The Governor General and Lady Foystor, accompanied by Lady Patricia Blackwood and Mr. F. E. Dubs, and attended by Captain Alan Lawrence, A.D.C., wore ...

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  6. SHOTS FIRED IN FILMLAND.

    The police at Los Angeles are investigating the shooting case in which Mabel Normand's chauffeur, "Joe" Kelly, alias Greer, is alleged to have shot ...

    Article : 362 words
  7. DOUBLE DROWNING TRAGEDY.

    A pathetic double drowning fatality occurred in the Yarra at the Kew lake yesterday afternoon. A little girl was paddling near the bank of the river when ...

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  8. AIR FLIGHT TO POLE

    Adverse comment concerning the proposed polar flight of the United States airship ZR[?] has increased. There is much popular apprehension regarding the use of ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. OODNADATTA LINE.

    When tenders for the fourteen locomotives required for the Oodnadatta-Port Augusta railway have been received a selection will be made by the ...

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  10. NAVAL VISIT TO THE CAPE.

    A Significant feature of the British naval visit to South African ports was the complete silence of the Nationalist press. Although the visit engaged public ...

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  11. A SOLAR HALO.

    At midday for nearly an hour afterwards yesterday thousands of faces in the city and suburbs were turning skywards. The point of interest on this occasion was ...

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  12. ARMY OF THE RUHR.

    The French Minister of War states the army of the Ruhr will be reduced from 140,000 to 100,000 before the end of the month. ...

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  13. NEW TRADING COMPANIES.

    During last year 732 trading companies were registered at the Titles Office. These included a considerable, number of land trading companies. The number is a ...

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  14. IF LABOR FORMS CABINET.

    It is reported that Mr. Ramsay Mae- donald, who is busy at work Cabinet making, has offered the Colonial Secretaryship to Mr. Sidney Webb.--Reuter. ...

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  15. VILLERS-BRETONNEUX.

    Mr. Bruce has cabled his Government urging immediate action in regard to the erection of the Australian memorial at Villers ...

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  16. SEINE IN FLOOD.

    The river Seine has risen six metres above normal, and is still rising. It has reached the disastrous flood level of 1010. The capital is already beginning to be ...

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  17. FLEMINGTON- ROAD.

    Further details of the City Council's [?] for reconstructing some of the principal roads round tho city, an outline of which was given in "The Age" some days ...

    Article : 225 words
  18. Politics in South Africa.

    In view of the opposition in several Labor quarters to the pact, with the Nationalists, its unanimous ratification by the Labor congress caused some surprise. ...

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  19. The Rinderpest Outbreak.

    The Federal Director- General of Health announced yesterday that no fresh cases of rinderpest had been reported in Western Australia for fifteen days. It was ...

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  20. A DISTURBED HOUSEHOLD.

    An urgent telephone call on New Year's eve from the residence of Mr. E. Carr, corner North-road and St. Kilda-street, Brighton, was received by the Brighton ...

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  21. A SCHOOL MASTER'S VISION

    Addressing the secondary schools association to- day, Mr. H. G. Wells declared school masters were the most important people in the civilised community. "I ...

    Article : 149 words
  22. Priest Killed by Bandits.

    A telegram from Suiyuim states that a Belgian priest, Rev. Achille Soonen, was pilot and killed at Hokino when the town was plundered by bandits. His companion. ...

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  23. SHEEP INDUSTRY TO BE REPRESENTED.

    SYDNEY.--Referring to the prohibition on sheep at the British Exhibition, Mr. Austin Chapman, acting chairman of the Australian Commission, stated in view of ...

    Article : 93 words
  24. GENERAL CABLES.

    D. W. Carr, the Australian athlete, has been transferred to the Euripides as welfare officer. Interviewed by the Australian Press Association, he emphasised that ...

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  25. MISSING BOY AND BOAT.

    At a late hour last night no news had been received about Donald Naukerville, the 17-year-old boy who left Rye in a small yacht on Tuesday morning. The ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

    A deputation from the Telegraphic Traffic Officers and Supervisors' tion, consisting of Messrs. Berry (president) and Feely (secretary), waited on the ...

    Article : 369 words
  27. CONCERT IN LONDON.

    Much interest has been excited by the announcement that wireless amateurs at Middelbourg, in the Cape Province, and at Camp's Bay, near Capetown, picked up ...

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  28. A BOY PORTER KILLED.

    The circumstances surrounding the death of a bay porter named Michael Daniel Brawley, 16 years, were inquired into at the Morgue yesterday by the Coroner. Mr. ...

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  29. A MOSLEM EMPIRE.

    At to- day's meeting' of the All India Congress Committee, Shankat Ali made a statement on behalf of himself and Mohamed Ali, in which he denied the charge ...

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  30. HALF-HOUR BROADCASTS.

    A broadcasting company is inaugurating special weekly half-hour broadcasts. Educational subjects are selected, including musical items. The greatest authorities ...

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  31. STRANDED STEAMER PRUTH

    SYDNEY.--Latest information from the steamer Pruth, which is stranded outside Port Moresby, is to the effect that the position of the vessel is unaltered. The ...

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  32. A PERPLEXING CASE.

    When Edward Hughes was presented at the City Convt yesterday on a charge of vagrancy the prosecuting officer, Sergeant Stephens, and he was suffering from a ...

    Article : 272 words
  33. VICTORIA'S EARLY DAYS.

    Through tho generosity of Mr. W. Franklin Rawnsley, grand nephew of Lady Franklin, the trustees of the Public Library have just received two every ...

    Article : 277 words
  34. A DARING ROBBERY.

    Evidence of operations of an illicit opium dealers' syndicate appeared in a daring robbery that has just been reported. Eleven thieves bound and gagged five ...

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  35. ALLEGED PENSION FRAUDS.

    A dispute which he overheard on New year's eve caused Special Constable Fox, oi St. Kildn, to make a study of the "Government Gazette," and as a result of ...

    Article : 178 words
  36. BREAKING UP THE AUSTRALIA

    SYDNEY.--The Sorrento syndicate, which bought the H.M.A.S. Australia, began operations on Thursday, when fifteen men started at Garden Island to wire up ...

    Article : 114 words
  37. EMPIRE TRADE.

    Mr. F. L. M'Dougall, a member of the Australian fruit, delegation to Great Britain, lectured to- day at the Royal Colonial Institute concerning the necessity of ...

    Article : 109 words
  38. GOOD TYPE OF IMMIGRANT.

    Under the care of Miss A. E. M'Clan, a [?] fourteen English ex- public school girls arrived in Melbourne with the Australian Commonwealth liner ...

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  39. FOREIGN REPRESENTATION.

    There is little likelihood of an early appointment of a Canadian Minister to Washington, although the present Dominion Government has discussed the ...

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  40. Australian Opera Company.

    Dame Nellie Molba was at the Play house last night to see Rigo's Australian Opera Company performing Hamper- dinck's opera Handel and Gretel. There ...

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  41. WILLS AND ESTATES.

    Letters of administration of the estate of Geo. Henderson, late of Pound Creek, grazier, who died on 31st October last, have been applied for by the Equity Trustees Co. Ltd. The assets are ...

    Article : 68 words
  42. Tenders for Locomotives.

    SYDNEY.--A meeting of delegates oi tho combined iron trades unions will on Monday consider the action of the Federal Works department in calling for tenders ...

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  43. A DEALER IN CHEQUES.

    WAGGA.--A series of impudent fraudulent to the appearance at the Wagga police court on Thursday of Frederick Wilson on a charge of forging and ...

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  44. THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET.

    The Naval secretary, Mr. G. L. Macandie, announced yesterday that Captain Thomas E. Wardle, D.S.O., had been selected to relieve Rear-Admiral Addison in ...

    Article : 115 words
  45. COKE WORKERS' STRIKE.

    SYDNEY.'--The strike of coke workers has not yet affected the districts around Newcastle, as none of the men employed at the iron and steel works of the Broken ...

    Article : 130 words
  46. FROZEN MEAT FOR EUROPE.

    London newspapers are giving prominence to Sir Henry Jones's scheme for the sale of Australian meat on the Continent. The "Daily Telegraph" says 1300 shops ...

    Article : 93 words
  47. Trying to Sell a Bicycle.

    At Collingwood court yesterday William Boyd was charged with having had in his possession on 24th December a bicycle that was suspected of being stolen: ...

    Article : 105 words
  48. Advertising

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  49. AUSTRALIAN ZINC FOR JAPAN.

    HOBART.--The steamer Eastern is due here on Friday to load 1300 tons of zinc for Japan. She will be subjected to a close medical inspection because of the ...

    Article : 51 words
  50. Advertising

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