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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    when Samuel Bischel, 60, was convicted in the Bathurst Police Court of stealin" £6 the property of Mary Cowham, Police Inspector Ireland told the magistrate that Bischel had ...

    Article : 70 words
  3. TAXI-CAB CRIME.

    The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark), at Burwood Court yesterday returned a verdict of wilful murder against a person unknown after an inquest ...

    Article : 322 words
  4. LABOUR UNITY.

    Decisions at the special conference of the Australian Labour party, to be held in Melbourne on January 25, will have far-reaching effects on the fortunes of the party ...

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  5. FACULTY OF MEDICINE.

    PROFESSOR H. R. DEW. Professor Dew, Bosch professor of surgery, has been elected Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and a Fellow of the Senate of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  6. THE JUDGE.

    In the year of Waterloo, the first Judge in Australia abandoned ermine and returned to England. This was Geoffrey Hart Bent, who had reigned alone in New Holland for the ...

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  7. LAND TRANSFER.

    Mr. P. F. Loughlin, ex-M.L.A., at yesterday's sitting of the Lands Transactions Royal Commission, suggested that the Commissioner (Judge White) should publicly Invite the leader ...

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  8. STUDENTS' RIOT.

    Ten persons were killed, and 15 were injured, when police, using the fiats of their swords, charged 5000 students who were demonstrating against Japanese aggression in ...

    Article : 206 words
  9. NAVAL CONFERENCE.

    With a view to expediting the work of the Naval Conference, a meeting of the heads of delegations was held this afternoon at the request of the Japanese delegation, to discuss, ...

    Article : 309 words
  10. JERILDERIE POLICE COURT.

    At the police court, before Mr. Wells, P.M., John King Hawthorn, manager of Kooba Station for F. W. Hughes Pty., Ltd., was proceeded against under the Stock Diseases Act, ...

    Article : 209 words
  11. NEIGHBOURS' GENEROUS ACTION

    Ne[?]gboours ana friends of Mr. Brian McKeon, a well-known Mandurama farmer, who is critically ill in St. Vincents Hospital, Sydney, formed a working bee on his property ...

    Article : 102 words
  12. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

    The Minister for League Affairs (Mr. Eden), replying to a question in the House of Commons on matters affecting Egypt, [?]aid that the United Front had communicated to the British ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. AUSTRALIAN TARIFF.

    A "simple creed" to govern Australia's commercial relations with Britain was enunciated by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) last night, at the annual dinner of ...

    Article : 540 words
  14. CASUALTIES.

    While William Dodd, 47, a railway employee, of Russell-street, Oatley Bay, was working at Eveleigh workshops yesterday, he had the fingers of his right hand severed when ...

    Article : 144 words
  15. INSANE WORKMAN

    Charles Lyman, aged 44, apparently brooded over his discharge from a gang on Federal relief work until it drove him insane. Armed with a high-powered rifle and a revolver, and ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. MUDGEE WATER SUPPLY.

    The electrical engineer reported to the Mayor yesterday that water was being consumed at the rate of 280,000 gallons a day, and that it was impossible to keep up the level ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. RESCUED FROM DROWNING.

    Lawton Bowe, a life saver, at Main Beac[?], near Burleigh, rescued L. Gataker, of Clayfield, and another man from drowning, when an ebb tide and a north-easterly sweep took ...

    Article : 41 words
  18. PRESIDENT MASARYK.

    To-day's newspapers warmly praise the public services of President Masaryk, of Czechoslovakia, on his retirement. There are many references to his sojourn in England ...

    Article : 172 words
  19. SHOE CONSIGNMENT LOOTED.

    When a raliway truckload of boots end shoes arrived at Young, it was discovered the cardboard cartons had been broken and the contents scattered over the truck. A ...

    Article : 64 words
  20. HOLIDAYS' AIR SERVICE.

    During the Christmas and New Year holidays, Australian Transcontinental Airways, Ltd., propose to conduct an air service between Sydney and Adelaide. Two 10-seater Fokker ...

    Article : 55 words
  21. FILM ACTRESS

    Miss Thelma Todd, the screen comedienne, who was the victim of an extortion plot which allegedly had made her live in terror of her life for the last nine months, was to-day ...

    Article : 206 words
  22. CLARENCE RIVER COUNTY COUNCIL.

    Reviewing the year's work at a meeting of the Clarence River County Council to-day the chairman (Mr. G. W. Fitzgerald) stated that it would be necessary duilng 1936 to in ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details are published on page 28, column 7. ...

    Article : 17 words
  24. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 239 words
  25. GRAFTON'S RECORD IN BUILDING.

    Building operations in Grafton during 1935 were a record, the total value being £101,576, compared with £40,270 last year and £71,255 in 1926, the previous best year in the history ...

    Article : 119 words
  26. HUGE TAX CLAIMS

    The Federal Government made an important move in ite bitter fight against the Public Utility Holding Companies yesterday when it filed a tax lien for more than 48,000,000 ...

    Article : 154 words
  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Gold was quoted to-day at £7/1/1½ an ounce fine, no change from yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...

    Article : 249 words
  28. RURAL BANK.

    Mr. J. G. Crawford, who graduated from Sydney University with first-class honours and gained the Walter and Eliza Hall research fellowship in economics, has been appointed ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 115 words
  29. RABBITS ON RAILWAY LINE.

    The prevaience of rabbits on the railway line near Attunga was the subject of a special report at a meeting of the Tamworth P.P. Board by Inspector Clark, who said he found ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 268 words
  31. BRUNO HAUPTMANN.

    The New York "Evening Post" states that Bruno Hauptmann, in a last desperate effort to avoid the electric chair for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, confessed that he and ...

    Article : 184 words
  32. AIR SERVICES.

    The Minister for External Affairs (Senator Sir George Pearce), who passed through Adelaide to-day, commented on the plan of Imperial Airways, Ltd., which included a ...

    Article : 221 words
  33. REMOVAL OF WATER HYACINTH.

    A joint report prepared by the Gra[?]ton City Councils overseer and the engineer of the Copmanhurst Shire stated that the removal of water hyacinth from the river ...

    Article : 123 words
  34. 19 MEN FINED FOR GAMBLING.

    A sequel to a police raid on premises in Cooper-street, Cessnock, on Sunday night was the appearance of 19 men at the police court this morning, charged With being found in a ...

    Article : 118 words
  35. NAVAL HELP.

    The spontaneous co-operation of the Commonwealth Government with the British Cabinet in coping with the naval crisis in the Mediterranean is warmly praised by the ...

    Article : 407 words
  36. KIDNAPPING REPORT.

    William Patrick Connor, 18, as clerk, was committed for trial from the Casino Police Court to-day, on a charge of having effected public mischief by giving false information to ...

    Article : 104 words
  37. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 320 words
  38. DEATH OF MR. F. JENNINGS.

    The death has occurred of Frederick Jennings, 72, a native of Bathurst. He was a prominent sportsman many years ago, and achieved considerable success in the Western ...

    Article : 133 words
  39. BOGUS DOCTOR.

    Ernest Pease Freeman, who was alleged to have posed as Dr. Louis Rabinov, of Melbourne, was sentenced to four years' Imprisonment for false pretences at Birmingham. ...

    Article : 144 words
  40. QUEENSLAND HAMS

    After a Cabinet meeting to-day the Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith) announced that if the Victorian authorities continued to impose regulations discriminating against Queensland ...

    Article : 241 words
  41. SHOT BY BURGLAR.

    Henry Colliver, 30, of St. Kilda, died in the Melbourne Hospital this afternoon as a result, It is believed, of a gunshot wound inflicted on him by a burglar a year ago. ...

    Article : 198 words
  42. CAR DROPS 130 FEET.

    Three men had remarkable escapes from death or serious injury when their car ran off the mountain road to Dorrigo, about seven and a half miles from Coramba. They might ...

    Article : 114 words
  43. LARGE JEWFISH CAUGHT.

    Mr. Gibbs, of Parramatta, fishing at Killcare Beach, caught a jewfish weighing 112lb. which is the largest ever caught on this beach. He subsequently caught several ...

    Article : 35 words
  44. ELLSWORTH AND KENYAN

    According to information received by the Defence Department, hope is held by Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Polar explorer, that the missing American aviators, Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth and ...

    Article : 159 words
  45. FOG ON HARBOUR.

    A heavy fog gathered on the Parramatta River and upper reaches of the harbour early this morning. There was practically no breeze, and the fog travelled slowly towards the east, ...

    Article : 38 words
  46. BRITISH EGG TRADE.

    The Reorganisation Commission on Eggs and Poultry has reported in favour of increasing the duty on foreign eggs in shell /6 a 120, also imposing a /6 duty on Empire eggs, ...

    Article : 73 words
  47. ARMED MAN IN LANE.

    Douglas Keith Donald, engineer, of Wildestreet, Potts Point, reported to the police last night that he was walking down Oxford-street, Surry Hills, with a young woman, when a ...

    Article : 86 words
  48. SAILING ENTHUSIAST'S WISH.

    The ashes of Mr. F. J. Leader, who was a prominent 18-footer sailing enthusiast, will be scattered on the harbour on Sunday by the well-know veteran skipper, Chris, Webb[?] ...

    Article : 58 words
  49. WAVERLEY RATE INCREASED.

    The Waverley Council last night adopted its finance committee's report, which provided for an increase in the rate for 1936 from /5 to /5? in the £1. ...

    Article : 31 words
  50. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

    Programmes of suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...

    Article : 20 words
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