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  2. SOUTHERN CROSS INQUIRY

    SYDNEY, June 12.—The Air Inquiry Committee sat again to-day in Sydney to take additional evidence. The principal witness was William Angus Todd, a young ...

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  3. BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

    WASHINGTON, June 12.—The United States Government, it is declared in high official circles, is ready to welcome the plan that the Prime Minister of Great ...

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  4. COAL CRISIS.

    SYDNEY, June 12.—Members of the New South Wales Council of the Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, at a special meeting to-night, decided to ...

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  5. THE KING.

    LONDON, June 11.—An Order-in-Council has been issued indicating that the King's medical advisers find that his Majesty is again able to fulfil many duties ...

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  6. BOND STORES FIRE.

    SYDNEY, June 12.—Millions of feet of kinematograph film were destroyed in a spectacular fire in the Medcalf bonded and free stores in Hickson-road. Dawes Point, ...

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  7. BRITISH POLITICS.

    LONDON, June 11.—The list of junior Ministerial appointments was issued this evening. Doctor Dalton becomes Parliamentary ...

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  8. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    LONDON, June 11.—There are already indications that the next meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva will be of absorbing interest. The ...

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  9. THE McKENNA DUTIES.

    LONDON, June 11.—Sir Herbert Austin, speaking at a meeting of the company to-day, said:-"I am confident that when the McKenna duties are considered in the ...

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  10. WATERSIDE WORKERS.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—Bitter complaints of the present position on the waterfront were made at a meeting of members of the Melbourne Wharf ...

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  11. CANADIAN TRADE.

    OTTAWA, June 11.—In the course of a speech criticising the Government's attitude in regard to the United States tariff the leader of the Conservative Party (Mr. ...

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  12. AVIATION.

    BRUSSELS, June 11.—Professor Picard, of the Brussels University, has been given £12,000 to enable him to construct a balloon capable of rising to a height of ...

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  13. THE SCHEME SUPPORTED.

    LONDON, June 12.—"There, seems every reason to believe," says "The Times" in an editorial, that Mr. MacDonald has taken over from Mr.Baldwin the latter's ...

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  14. A FREMANTLE MEETING.

    The chairman of the Board of Reference under the waterside workers' award (Mr. Frank Walsh) announced yesterday that the date of the stop-work meeting asked ...

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  15. FLIGHT TO NEW YORK.

    REYKJAVIK (Iceland), June 11.—The Swedish airmen, Captain Ahrenberg, Lieutenant Floden, and M. Ljungland, resumed their fight to New York via Greenland. ...

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  16. HOTEL BURNED DOWN.

    BRISBANE, June 12.—Three lodgers escaped with only the clothes they wore, and one had to slip down a verandah cost for safety when the Grand Hotel at ...

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  17. ANOTHER CONFERENCE PLAN.

    SYDNEY, June 12.—The Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman Wheeler) made a proposal to-day that as the Coal Commission has expressed willingness to assist the ...

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  18. ALSATIAN DOGS.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—Following the prohibition by the Federal Ministry of the importation of Alsatian dogs, State Ministers for Agriculture agreed at their ...

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  19. MOIR AND OWEN'S 'PLANE.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—Sir Keith Smith, the Australian representative of Vickers, Ltd., has decided that the Vickers Vellore biplane used by Captain Moir and ...

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  20. NATIONAL ANTHEM.

    LONDON, June 11.—The President of the Irish Free State (Mr. W. T. Cosgrave) made a statement to-day that the Governor-General (Mr. McNeill) is refusing to ...

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  21. VICTORIAN AFFAIRS.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—In a comprehensive, statement the Premier (Sir William McPherson) at Hawthorn to-night reviewed the acts of the Ministry since ...

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  22. INDIAN TRAIN WRECK.

    CALCUTTA,. June 11.—As the result of a landslide, following a monsoon and floods, a train on the Assam-Bengal railway was overturned and hurled down an ...

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  23. Audiences at Entertainments.

    On the motion of Mr. E. S. Watt, the executive of the Returned Soldiers' League last night decided to communicate again with the proprietors of the principal ...

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  24. THE BALANCE OF POWER.

    LONDON, June 11.—Indicating the attitude of the Liberal Party to the, MacDonald Government, Sir Herbert Samuel (chairman of the Party organisation) in ...

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  25. TOURIST REVENUE.

    OTTAWA, June 11.—Tourist traffic brought 250,501,000 dollars into Canada in 1928, according to the estimate of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics-an ...

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  26. INTERSTATE SHIPPING.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—The interstate Shipping companies Lave not yet prepared to deal with the situation which may arise from a general stoppage in the coal ...

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  27. MILLIONAIRE MURDERER.

    PARIS, June 12.—Despite the jury's assertion that it was misled in interpreting the phrase "extenuating circumstances" and really intended to recommend the ...

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  28. BOMB THROWING.

    CALCUTTA, June 12.—The trial was concluded to-day of the two Indians, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta, who were charged with having thrown two ...

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  29. IMPORTATION STOPPED.

    CANBERRA, June 12.—The prohibition of the importation of Alsatian dogs into Australia will take effect from to-day, but the regulations will not affect the ...

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  30. IMPERIAL UNITY.

    LONDON, June 11.—The British Empire League gave a lunch to Mr. T. R. Bavin, the Premier of New South Wales, at St. James Square, and the ...

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  31. COAL MINERS' DEMANDS.

    LONDON, June 11.—With the expiration of district wage agreements on the coalfields at the end of this year, the Miners' Federation will, it is expected, demand a ...

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  32. LABOUR CONFERENCE.

    GENEVA, June 11.—The International Labour Conference has been asked to consider the general question, of unemployment on a report furnished two days ...

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  33. THE TALKIES.

    LONDON, June 11.—Addressing the English Speaking Union at a luncheon to-day Mr. Cosmo Hamilton, the dramatist and novelist, while admitting that the ...

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  34. WEST AUSTRALIAN SUPPLIES.

    The Secretary for Railways (Mr. J. F. Tomlinson) stated yesterday that a stoppage of the coal industry in New South Wales would have little off. ...

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  35. RADIO PROGRAMMES.

    MELBOURNE. June 12.—Melbourne will be the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Service. This announcement was made to-day by Mr. Stuart F. Doyle, ...

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  36. NEW HONORARY MINISTER.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—The Premier (Sir William McPherson) announced to-day that Mr. H. Beardmore, M.L.A., had accented an invitation to join the State ...

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  37. FARMING PROGRESS.

    MELBOURNE, June 12.—Addressing State Ministers for Agriculture at their annual conference to-day the Victorian Director of Agriculture (Dr. Cameron) said ...

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  38. CAUSES OF DEFEAT.

    LONDON, June 12.—"Was the Conservative, slogan 'Safety First' well chosen," asks Mr. Winston Churchill, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, in an article in "John ...

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  39. NEW AGENT GENERAL.

    BRISBANE, June 12.—The appointment of Mr. E. H. Macartney as Agent-General for Queensland in London was announced by the Premier (Mr. Moore), to-day. The ...

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  40. DARLINGHURST SHOOTING.

    SYDNEY, June 12.—The shooting affray at a Darlinghurst garage on April 17, in which Joseph Simons, a young Syrian, was shot dead and his cousin ...

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  41. FAMOUS PICTURES.

    LONDON, June 11.—The National Gallery has acquired two very famous pictures from private owners in Britain, namely the Wilton diptych and a Titian family ...

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  42. DIVE FOR SAFETY.

    LONDON, June 11.—Passing over Folkestone to-day, at a height of 2,000 feet, Flying Officer Turner made an amazing dive for safety from a blazing aeroplane. ...

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  43. MR. AMERY ON PUBLICITY.

    LONDON, June 11.—The failure of the Baldwin Government's advertising efforts was the topic chosen by Mr. L. S. Amery (ex-Secretary of State for Dominion ...

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  44. WAGIN FIRE STATION.

    WAGIN, June 12.—The Minister for Health (Mr. S. W. Munsie) declared open the new fire station this afternoon. The gathering included Messrs. S. Stubbs, ...

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  45. NEW YORK SENSATION.

    NEW YORK, June 11.—The police and a doctor who conducted an examination of the bodies of Miss Margaret Lawrence, an actress, and Louis Bennison, an ...

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  46. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    A stuffed Great Auk, an extinct member of a family of Arctic diving birds, was sold in Stevens's auction rooms, London, on Tuesday, for £660. Naturalists from ...

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  47. ALLEGED WIFE MURDER.

    SYDNEY, June 12.—Martin Michael Antin (42), a Russian labourer, was committed for trial at Parramatta to-day on a charge of having murdered his wife. May ...

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  48. MR. MACDONALD'S HOLIDAY.

    LONDON, June 12.—Mr. MacDonald was given a tumultuous welcome when he arrived at Lossiemouth for a brief holiday to-day. School children, who were given ...

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