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  2. HEROIC YOUTH

    Douglas Patrick, 19, a Rover Sea Scout, made a heroic swim of two miles through choppy seas in Gladstone Harbour last evening to bring aid from Gatcombe Head ...

    Article : 348 words
  3. STORM STOPS TEST.

    Rain brought a dramatic close to the thrilling second test match between Australia and South Africa. When Australia required to score only 125 more runs in three hours in order to win the match to-day, a heavy thunderstorm caused play to be abandoned, the match being drawn. ...

    Article : 234 words
  4. VOLCANO BOMBED

    Military aeroplanes yesterday bombed the erupting volcano, Mauna Loa, in an effort to divert a gigantic flow of lava, which is threatening the water supply of Hilo and the town ...

    Article : 163 words
  5. MILITARY ACTION.

    Official circles at Addis Ababa assert that the Italians have nearly completed their withdrawal from Shire, westward of Aksum. Abyssinians invested Makale on three sides. ...

    Article : 689 words
  6. M. LAVAL'S VICTORY.

    The French Chamber of Deputies adopted by 304 votes to 261 votes yesterday a motion of confidence in the Government, following the debate on foreign affairs in their relation especially to the Italo-Abyssinian peace proposals drafted by the former ...

    Article : 255 words
  7. NO NEWS.

    Lack of news about the steamer Paringa, which is missing off the Victorian coast, is causing grave alarm in Melbourne. ...

    Article : 1,281 words
  8. EMPIRE BROADCASTS.

    A review of the year's work of the British Broadcasting Corporation describes the activity in the erection of new transmitting stations, and the renovation and re-equipment of studios ...

    Article : 193 words
  9. YACHTSMEN.

    Messrs. Septimus Stephens, W. Clark, and G. Clark, the Sydney yachtsmen whose auxiliary yacht, the Maluka, was wrecked on Friday on the rocks at Cape Conran, near ...

    Article : 569 words
  10. THE SCORES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 232 words
  11. BRITISH COAL.

    According to the "Daily Moil," 8000 tons of coal will be shipped from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Melbourne in January, owing to the seamen's strike in Australia, at the unusually ...

    Article : 54 words
  12. M. LAVAL'S FAITH IN THE COVENANT.

    Before M. Laval delivered his speech, which is regarded generally as the finest exposition of foreign affairs he has given during his term of office, he was bitterly attacked by ...

    Article : 1,197 words
  13. GAS COMPANY'S IMPORTS.

    The Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne, has ordered 17,000 tons of coal from overseas. The secretary of the company (Mr. R. C. ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. DASH OF McCABE.

    The promise of an exciting finish to the test was ruined when a storm broke over the Wanderers ground, preventing Australia from gaining almost certain victory. When South ...

    Article : 277 words
  15. MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD

    The Association of Unionist Graduates of the Scottish Universities agreed to nominate Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for the vacancy in the House of Commons caused bv the death ...

    Article : 248 words
  16. BRITISH EXCHEQUER.

    British Exchequer returns show that the total ordinary revenue, including self-balancing items, amounts to £423,675,470, compared With £404,064,177 at the corresponding date ...

    Article : 218 words
  17. ATTACK ON FARMER.

    Police and a large party of civilians searched throughout Saturday night in the bush around Coolum for a man who, it is alleged, attacked John E. Boneham, 45, a fruit farmer, with an ...

    Article : 182 words
  18. NOURSE'S BRILLIANCE.

    The christening of the new Wanderers turf wicket in the first test match played on it produced on Friday the greatest display of batsmanship ever given by a South African ...

    Article : 387 words
  19. CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS.

    Interviewed by Reuter's representative after the test, the South African captain (Wade) said: "It has been a wonderful game of ups and downs, both sides being on top at different ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. CRIME DETECTION.

    The use of wireless by the police is being extended from the metropolitan force to the police forces throughout the country. Several regional schemes are being ...

    Article : 150 words
  21. BLIZZARDS.

    More than 200 people have died as a result as the abnormally cold weather experienced in the United States in the last 10 days. Villages have been marooned by blizzards. ...

    Article : 155 words
  22. LIVELY SCENES DURING THE DEBATE.

    M. Chappedelaine (a Minister in the Layal Cabinet of 1931-32) tabled the following motion as M. Laval took his seat on the Government bench: "This Chamber, true to Frances ...

    Article : 882 words
  23. PLAY DESCRIBED.

    When Fingleton (20) and Mccabe (59) continued Australia's second innings with one wicket down for 85 runs, the side requiring a total of 399 to win the match, the weather ...

    Article : 897 words
  24. CAR IN CREEK.

    After crashing through the railing of a bridge across Henderson's Creek, on the Hume Highway, about 13 miles north of Goulburn, on Saturday afternoon, a sedan motor car fell ...

    Article : 313 words
  25. RIOTS IN INDIA.

    Eleven Hindus, two Moslems, and a woman were injured and taken to hospital as a result of a clash between Moslems and Hindus in the Shambazar district, Calcutta, this morning. ...

    Article : 98 words
  26. HAURAKI CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT.

    The Deputy Director of Navigation (Captain G. D. Williams) and other officers of the Navigation Department interviewed the master of the Hauraki (Captain Reed) in Sydney on ...

    Article : 140 words
  27. THE QUEEN MARY.

    There are more than 5000 men at work on the giant Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary, which Is due to leave the fitting-out basin at Clydebank on March 24. ...

    Article : 94 words
  28. MISS JEAN BATTEN

    Miss Jean Batten, flying her Transatlantic 'plane to London from Southampton, experienced engine trouble. In attempting a forced landing in a field at Midhurst (Sussex) the ...

    Article : 69 words
  29. HOLLYWOOD ACTOR

    Arrangements have been made for Charles Farrell to play a leading role in "The Flying Doctor," an Australian production. It is expected that he will reach Sydney about the ...

    Article : 60 words
  30. RESCUED FROM SURF.

    A man and a woman got into difficulties in the strong undertow at Maroubra yesterday, and were rescued in an exhausted condition. They dived into the water at the northern ...

    Article : 79 words
  31. YOUTH DROWNED.

    Daniel Inwood, 18, of River-road, Greenwich, was drowned when a canoe capsized in Woodford Bay, Lane Cove, on Saturday afternoon. Mathew Nicholson, 18, who was ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. CHINESE RAILWAY SEIZED.

    The correspondent of "The Times" at Peiping states: "General Sung Che-yuan, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar Council, seized control of the Peiplng-Mukden railway at ...

    Article : 53 words
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