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  2. WAR DEFERRED.

    A basis of agreement for further attempts to compose Italian and Abyssinian differences without resort to war was reached at Geneva shortly before midnight on Saturday. The agreement followed numerous meetings during the day between the ...

    Article : 186 words
  3. HOUSE WRECKED.

    A bomb completely wrecked the home of Mr. Richard William Hall in Garden-street, Daceyville, shortly before 11 o' clock last night. ...

    Article : 871 words
  4. TERRIFIC GALES.

    Blizzards, snowstorms, and hailstorms swept the south-eastern and central part of the State during the week-end, and blinding duststorms occurred in the inland areas. Terrific gales, approaching cyclones, lashed the coast. A large party of skiers, bound for Kosciusko, were forced to walk nearly ...

    Article : 353 words
  5. WHEAT.

    A proposal to establish a compulsory wheat pool will be considered at to-morrow's Cablnet meeting. The wheatgrowers organisations have ...

    Article : 199 words
  6. POLAND.

    Poland at noon to-day, closed her frontier to all imports from Danzig as a retort to the action of the President of the Danzig Senate (Herr Arthur Greiser). who was given ...

    Article : 210 words
  7. JOB CONTROL.

    The passenger steamer Zealandia, which was to have sailed for Hobart on Saturday morning, was held up owing to a dispute about the stokehold crew, ...

    Article : 371 words
  8. MAN DISAPPEARS.

    Following police inquiries into the disappearance of Ora Howard Mills, 52, timbergetter, from the Boonah district about six weeks ago, Reginald Felix Scott, 22, ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. FLIGHT OVER POLE.

    M. Levansky, a Soviet airman, who left Moscow in an attempt to fly non-stop to San Francisco, via the North Polar region, returned to Leningrad owing to a defect in ...

    Article : 202 words
  10. POINTS IN AGREEMENT.

    The agreement provides for a resumption of the work of arbitration by the Conciliation Commission reinforced by the addition of a fifth arbitrator to examine, the Wal Wal and ...

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  11. SCHOOLBOY CHAMPION

    Gosford High School has a remarkable athlete. Lester Hough, who won the seven senior championships at the school's recent sports meeting. Hough, who is 16 years 11 ...

    Article : 84 words
  12. CRICKET BAN.s

    Surprise was expressed in cricketing circles in Melbourne at the action of Mr. J. S. Hutcheon, one of the Queensland members of the Board of Control, in making an ...

    Article : 306 words
  13. SOUTH SEAS WEATHER.

    Bitterly cold and squally winds prevailed generally at Sydney during the week-end. and attained almost gale force. Temperatures fell, and the minimum yesterday was 4.4.8 ...

    Article : 91 words
  14. TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE.

    Members of the Millions Club party to Kosciusko had a terrifying experience on Saturday morning, when they had to abandon their cars and walk through a blinding ...

    Article : 1,128 words
  15. BUSHFIRES.

    In spite of the cold weather nearly 70 glass and bush fires occuned in the suburbs during the week-end and hundreds of firemen attended them. ...

    Article : 190 words
  16. RELIEF SCHEME

    A project deseribed as the most elaborate State art programme ever undertaken by any Government will soon be launched as part of the Federal re-employment drive. ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. 'PLANE IN GALE.

    The New England Airways 'plane which flew from Brisbane to Sydney on Saturday was so buffeted by the gale that, between Lismore and Port Macquarie, squalls at times shot the big ...

    Article : 306 words
  18. MARITIME UNREST.

    A conference of maritime union leaders and employers' representatives, called by the Department of Labour, in an effort to adjust their differences and avert a general ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. BIG BOY'S ENTRY.

    Much public criticism has been aroused by the fact that Big Boy was a non-starter in the Brush Hurdle Race at Canterbury Park on Saturday. ...

    Article : 330 words
  20. QUEENSLAND OUTBREAK.

    A flerce bushfire which broke out on a hill I near the township of Burleigh late on Saturday afternoon was fanned to alarming proportions by a westerly wind. ...

    Article : 184 words
  21. SNOW ON BARRINGTON TOPS

    Snow fell continuously at Barrington Tops to-day, and the plateau wascovered to a depth of more than 18 inches this evening. The Newcastle district had a bitterly cold ...

    Article : 79 words
  22. SNOW AT GLEN INNES.

    The week-end was the coldest Glen Innes has experienced this whiter Yesterday there were several showers of sleet, accompanied by a piercing cold westerly wind. This morning ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. COMMUNISM.

    The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the Comintern Congress adopted a resolution ordering new tactics in agitation abroad by the ...

    Article : 158 words
  24. GALE ON HARBOUR.

    Three men, Kenneth John Mullens, Robert Arnhein, and Richard East, all Mosman residents, were thrown into the Harbour on Saturday afternoon when their 14ft sailing skiff ...

    Article : 91 words
  25. MISSING AVIATOR.

    A party of three men looking for a skiing ground in the main Ruahing range today found Mr. Hamish Armstrong's aeroplane, but there was no sign of Mr. Armstrong, ...

    Article : 198 words
  26. PINE CREEK MINES.

    The Minister for the Tnterior (Mr, Paterson) turned miner on Saturday, working a huge compressed air drill to bore into hard gold-bearing ore 260 feet below the surface ...

    Article : 438 words
  27. THE 1906 TREATY.

    Under the 1906 treaty, which was signed by Britain, France, and Italy, these three Powers undertake to respect and endeavour to preserve the integrity of Abyssinia' to act so ...

    Article : 96 words
  28. FIRE DURING SNOWSTORM.

    A snowsiorm did not dampen the curiosity of Bathurst residents when a fire broke out in an unoccupied shop and dwelling at the corner of Piper and Bentinch streets, ...

    Article : 96 words
  29. TRADE QUOTAS.

    The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Forbes), who is returining in the Maloja from England, expressed in Adelaide to-day the belief that Britain's desire to trade freely ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. TURKISH PRINCE.

    Prince Abdul Kerim, 31, whom the police identify as a grandson of Abdul Hamid II., the last Sultan of Turkey, and a son of the Crown Prince, shot and killed himself in a ...

    Article : 113 words
  31. LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION.

    The national secretary of the Australian League of Nations Union, Mr. R. G. Watt, received a cablegram on Saturday stating that the executive of the union in London ...

    Article : 139 words
  32. WESTERLIES SWEEP TOWN.

    To-day was one of the worst in the town's history. Howlins westerly winds lashed hall, rain and snow through streets, causing inconvenience to pedestrians and drivers of vehicles. ...

    Article : 65 words
  33. TEACHERS.

    In accordance with a decision of the council of the Victorian Teachers' Union, the executive of the union will meet on Tuesday evening to consider a pioposal that, as a ...

    Article : 81 words
  34. ALLEGED FORGERY.

    A few days ago a person presented a forged Post Office withdrawal slip for £1850 at Auckland post-office. The forgery was not noticed then, and a cheque was given for the amount. ...

    Article : 90 words
  35. FOOTBALL IN SNOW.

    The match between the Western Suburbs Rugby Union team and an Orange team, at Wade Park, on Saturday, was played under extraordinary conditions. Snow fell during ...

    Article : 87 words
  36. REVOLVER BATTLE

    A police sergeant and two patrol men fought, a revolver battle with a bandit for 20 minutes at a crowded street corner yesterday, The bandit was killed. ...

    Article : 162 words
  37. ACTION AGAINST CARNERA.

    The authorities have confiscated Primo Canera's passport, which means that he will be unable to leave the country without permission, because he boxed in a way "dishonouring ...

    Article : 82 words
  38. EARTH TREMORS.

    Residents of the Kooweerup and Took[?]din districts were startled on Saturday night by two earth tremors, which occurred with alarming suddenness during a severe thunderstorm. ...

    Article : 146 words
  39. STRUCK BY TRAM.

    Two blind musicians were knocked down by a tram in Zara-street, Newcastle, last night. Sydney Anderson, 20, of Erskineville. suffered a fracture of the right leg and ...

    Article : 97 words
  40. STATION MISTRESS.

    Mrs. M. Ritchle has just retired from the railway service after 26 years as station mistress at Normanhurst. She was appointed to the position after the death of her husband, ...

    Article : 94 words
  41. RUSSIAN TROOPS

    A message from Dalyen says that, as a, precautionary measure, the Soviet is massing 160,000 troops at Irkutsk, ready to advance on the Mongolian frontier at a moment's notice. ...

    Article : 49 words
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