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  2. HUT OF HUMAN HEADS

    The discovery of a but full of human heads in a secret hiding-place of the Ovimbundu trihe in Portuguese West Africa was graphically described by ...

    Article : 2,127 words
  3. Toll Bridges

    According to reports. The Spit bridge has been paid for and the fell should cease at once. The Minister for Public Works (Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw) ...

    Article : 299 words
  4. Bravery of Old Man

    A gang of men armed with swords and spears, who raided the house of a rich landowner, Hari Charan Sarkar, in Baslrhat, Bengal, at midnight, ...

    Article : 127 words
  5. Pitcairn Island

    The stream of travellers bound-both on business, and pleasure grows at on increasing rate, and those, whoso lawful occasions may bring them to see ...

    Article : 852 words
  6. Wheat Production

    Officials of the wheat pool and grain trade to-day labelled as a canards so far as they are concerned, the report from Ottawa that representations to ...

    Article : 295 words
  7. THE DIAMOND INDUSTRY

    There are many historical monuments and art treasures in the famous old city on the Scheldt (says a writer in an oversells exchange). But it is ...

    Article : 1,754 words
  8. Music and Elocution

    The Trinity College of Music has appointed the following visiting examiners for 1930:--MUSIC. ...

    Article : 71 words
  9. Wool Season

    In a review of the prospect for next year's Wool season, following the heavy rains in the pastoral areas in Queensland and other States, Mr. H. ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. Rugby League Football

    At a meeting of the executive of the Carlton Rugby League Club, attention was drawn to the fact that certain players had attended an ...

    Article : 120 words
  11. Four for One Split

    President Beatty announced to-day that an application would be made during the coming session of the Dominion Parliament for permission ...

    Article : 58 words
  12. English Dress Suit

    That a dress-suit from one of the best London tailors gave an American boy additional status at the American University was claimed in case at ...

    Article : 422 words
  13. Curing Leprosy

    Dr. H. A. Erickson, a San Francisco doctor who has been in charge of the Seventh Day Adventist Mission Hospital in Nyassaland for some time, ...

    Article : 469 words
  14. Dangerous Driving

    Many cricketers were present in the Marlborough Street Police Court when Mrs. A. P. F. Chapman, wife of the Test Match team captain, and sister ...

    Article : 325 words
  15. PROHIBITION BY EDUCATION

    "Prohibition by education--not by legislation--is required in Australia said Mrs. Percy Russell, president of the Australian Temperance ...

    Article : 390 words
  16. Travel League

    On the motion of Dr. Earle Page, M.P., seconded by Mr. J. A. Mannix, Councillor Taylor, of Gosford, was elected president of the Travel ...

    Article : 281 words
  17. Debts of Viscountess

    Viscount Falkland formally announces that he is not responsible for his wife's debts. On December 10 last Viscount Falkland ...

    Article : 111 words
  18. Droving by Radio

    If experiments to be carried out on the cattle run of the Wyndham meat-works are successful, radio is going to revolutionise the droving business. ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. SOLDIER SETTLERS

    A few years ago the soldier settlers in the Stanthorpe district formed a co-operative company to establish a tomato canning and sauce factory at ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. NEW CALENDAR

    George Eastman, chairman of the National Committee on Calendar simplification in a statement received at Washington from his office in ...

    Article : 341 words
  21. MINING IN MALAYA

    For many years past, the Federated Malay States have been the largest producers of tin ore in the world (says "Engineering"). The mines were, at ...

    Article : 230 words
  22. FOR 100 YEARS

    Westminster Abbey clock has been maligned. Charges of lengthy stoppage and incorrect and even eccentric ...

    Article : 289 words
  23. FLOOD OF RUSSIAN MATCHES

    The public is protesting against the flood of Russian Soviet matches pouring into Victoria (British Columbia). ...

    Article : 27 words
  24. Rediscount Rate

    The Federal Reserve Bank has reduced the rediscount rate from 4½ per cent to 4 per cent and the Cleveland rate has been reduced from 5 per cent ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY

    Arrested on a charge of having passed spurious florins to shopkeepers at Wiliamstown, a man who was being taken handcuffed to the city lockup ...

    Article : 51 words
  26. SUIT FOR 22-STONE MAN COSTS 7s. 6d.

    The story of a suit of clothes made for 7s. 6d. to fit a 22-stone mail wart told by Judge Sir Alfred Tobin at Westminster County Court recently ...

    Article : 168 words
  27. MOTOR ACCIDENT

    When a motor car crashed into a telegraph standard on the Strathfieldsaye Road, near Bendigo, three men were injured. They were: William ...

    Article : 63 words
  28. GIANT AMERICAN

    John Anson, 8 feet 9½ inches in height, from Hollywood, and Charlle Zimmy, who has no legs, and who holds the record for the swim across the ...

    Article : 59 words
  29. MOTOR CYCLING AT EIGHTY.

    Although Mr. John Orme, of "Wickford, Essex, is now in his eightieth year, his principal hobby is motor cycling. ...

    Article : 54 words
  30. LEGALLY DECLARED DEAD

    Percy Scott Legatt, who left for New Zealand in 1922, has been legally declared dead. ...

    Article : 25 words
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