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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    While working in a quarry at Adelonc Gap, Frederick Treaccy, labourer, was practically burled by a fall of 20 tons of earth and rocks. Fortunately he was able to throw himself ...

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  3. THE STRIKES.

    The Huddart, Parker steamer Zealandia has been tied up indefinitely pending a settlement of the dispute with the crew. A final call was made for a stokehold crew ...

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  4. PRESERVATION OF MILK.

    Mr. J. S. Haddin, general manager of the Camden Park Estate, said yesterday that he had proved that fresh milk, sealed under a vacuum and chilled, would keep fresh for ...

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  5. 'PLANE ESCAPEE.

    Police squads, aided by black trackers, searched remote parts of the Darling Downs to-day for Arthur Charles Watson, 21, who escaped from the Boggo-road prison on Monday ...

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  6. WATER BOARD.

    The Water Board yesterday allocated an additional £65 000 for water and sewerage reticulation services so that building in new districts might not be hampered. ...

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  7. INDIAN TOUR.

    At a meeting of the Bengal Cricket Board it was revealed that the Maharaja of Patiala is not financing the visit of Australian cricketers to India. The Indian Board of Control ...

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  8. AERIAL SURVEY.

    Leaving Richmond aerodrome shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning, a Wapiti 'plane from the Richmond squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force entered the first stage of a ...

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  9. ABANDONED HEIFER.

    In a case in the police court in which William Charles Cooke and Louis Henry Nelson were charged with having portion of a heifer in their possession reasonably ...

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  10. TUPRA SUBDIVISIONS.

    The Western Land Board Commissioners, Messrs. E. G. Butterfield and W. F. Wilkes, have been sitting since August 1 dealing with appli cations in connection with the Tupra ...

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  11. TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE.

    Captain P. G. Taylor, acting chairman of the Trans-Tasman Air Development Co., Ltd., announced yesterday that his company had completed arrangements with a British ...

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  12. BALANCED DIET.

    Evidence was given before the Wheat Commission to day that a growth of prosperity in the community, coupled with education in matters of diet, meant less use of cereal ...

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  13. "BACK TO BOURKE WEEK."

    A representative meeting was held last evening at the Council Chambers, under the presidency of the Mayor (Alderman F. W. Permewan), to organise a "Back to Bourke Week." ...

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  14. NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSIONS.

    By direction of Judge Nield, a jury at Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day acquitted George Frederick Robey, 19, ironworker, who was charged with manslaughter. ...

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  15. RAILWAY COMMISSIONER IN WEST.

    The Acting Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Garside) received a deputation this morning from the Municipal Council in reference to the lighting of the railway yards and the ...

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  16. JAPANESE PEARLERS.

    The Minister for the North-west (Mr. Wise) said to-day that he concurred with a statement by Mr. Arthur Male, a pearler, of Broome, that the greatest menace to the ...

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  17. ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

    Although negotiations were conducted, no settlement was reached yesterday of the strike at the Commonwealth Telegraph Supplies, Ltd., Leichhardt. Proposals for a ...

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  18. MISSION HOSPITALS.

    Miss Pidcock of the Neyyoor Hospital South India in an address at the annual meeting of the New South Wales auxiliary of the London Missionary Society in the ...

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  19. OPEN SEASON FOR WALLABIES.

    The Casino Pastures Protection Board his been advised by the Chief Secretary that an open season for scrub wallabies has been declared in the parishes of Burgess, Buller, ...

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  20. SOUTH AFRICANS.

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  21. STATE MINE DISPUTE.

    At a meeting of the Lithgow and District Trades and Labour Council, a motion was adopted pledging financial support to employees of the State mine where a dispute is ...

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  22. CASUALTIES.

    W. Gardiner, about 65, a butcher, living alone above his shop in Botany-road. Mascot, was critically injured last night when he fell down a flight of stairs at his home. A neighbour ...

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  23. IMPROVEMENTS AT ZOO.

    The new "snake area" at Taronga Park Zoo is almost completed. It is a large open air space in which the reptiles will be able to move around with more freedom than ...

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  24. CASINO POLICE COURT.

    In the Police Court the Casino Pastures Protection Board proceeded against James Godfrey of Lismore, on a charge of having failed to make returns of large stock. Godfrey was ...

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  25. CANE-CUTTERS' STRIKE.

    Owing to lack of supplies of sugar cane, all the mill hands at Mourilyan have been paid off by the management. The township, except for additional police patrols, presents ...

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  26. MOTHER'S RECORD.

    A mother who is living at Box Hill probably has broken all twin records in Austialia, and perhaps in the world, by giving birth recently to her third set of twin boys. ...

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  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The price of gold to-day was £7/0/5 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/9> yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. ...

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  28. CAMPAIGN AGAINST INFESTED SHEEP

    In connection with the departmental crusade against lice-infested sheep, the stock inspector (Mr. Frank Hildred) has issued a formal notice to graziers that the Stock ...

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  29. BRAILLE MUSIC.

    Mr. Gordon V. Laver in a lecture to the Australian Music Teachers Alliance on the Braille System of Music at Paling's Concert Hall last night, said that to-day Braille music ...

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  30. NORTHERN MINERS.

    The prevalence or influenza in some areas on the northern coalfields made it necessary for the northern miners' management committee to make an important ruling on seniority ...

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  31. WOMAN'S DEATH.

    At an inquest yesterday on Mrs. Elizabeth Shannon, 64, who was found dead with her head in a gas oven at her home in Great Buckingham-street, Redfern, on July 20, ...

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  32. THEFT OF WOOL.

    At the Moree Police Court to-day Mr. C. F. Denton, P.M., sentenced Alfred Norman Wethered to three months, and Herbert A. Binge to two months' imprisonment, on a ...

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  33. THE SUBURBS.

    Following the visit of the Premier to Bronte House, the Waverley Council has decided to ask the Government to acquire the property for the use of the public. The council will also ...

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  34. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is announced to-day. Details appears on page 16, column 5. ...

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  35. INDEX.

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  36. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR.

    Mr. Rex Knight, Anderson Lecturer in Psycholog" in the University of Aberdeen, gave the second of his series of lectures at the University of Sydney last night on "The ...

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  37. STEELWORKS OFFICE ON FIRE

    The Lithgow Fire Brigade used 1100 feet of hose, its total supply, in quelling an outbreak of fire last night. The fire destroyed an office of the Australian ...

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  38. MINOR INJURY

    At the conclusion of an inquest yesterday on Walter Hall, 12, of Pentland-street, Punchbowl, who died in hospital from the effects of blood poisoning, the City Coroner (Mr. ...

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  39. U.A.P. CONFERENCE.

    The U.A.P. divisional conference for Werriwa decided at the annual meeting to select a candidate to contest the seat at the next Federal elections. It was decided to invite ...

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  40. CHAMBER MUSIC.

    Last night's chamber music concert at the Conservatorium brought forward a series of attractive works from the classic repertoire together with a group of interesting ...

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  41. STUDY OF THE BRAIN.

    Professor H. Brose, of Nottingham University, in an addresss broadcast from 2BL last night, spoke of the study of the human brain, which had been made possible by the ...

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  42. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  43. MENACE OF DRUNKEN DRIVERS

    John Pearson, 19, who pleaded guilty a the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day to a charge of having driven a motor car while he was under the influence of liquor, at ...

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  44. 12 YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.

    In the Criminal court. Alfred Charles Wright, 26 labourer, of Spencer-street, West Melbourne, who was convicted two months ago of the manslaughter on March 28, of Timothy ...

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  45. BOILING TAR

    Sydney Gibson, 22, Frederick Smart, 48, and Bertram Rebond, 44, all of Subiaco, were drenched with boiling tar to-day, and are in hospital in a serious condition, suffering from ...

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  46. WOOLLEN MILLS.

    There is a possibility that Lithgow will be selected as the site of extensive woollen mills and a manufactory of woollen garments. Mr. S. J. Humphries, of the North West ...

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  47. ANTI-WAR RESOLUTION.

    The Singleton branch of the A.L.P. [?] mously carried a resolution stating that viewed with grave concern the attitude of warmongers of all countries, "who, by their ...

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  48. WELL-KNOWN GRAZIER'S DEATH.

    John Alford, a retired grazier, died at [?] town residence, after an illness of some months. A few months ago. Mi. Alford opposed of Milton, where he had lived all his ...

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  49. BOY'S FINGERNAIL

    The length and thickness of a boy's fingeinail saved him from death after a live wire had fallen from the Lithgow Council's main in Main-street West. The wire was fully ...

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  50. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

    Mr. R. M. Clark was re-elected president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce at the meeting of the council of that body yesterday. ...

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  51. THE UNIONS.

    It was announced yesterday that wharf labourers who were employd unloading cargo in the hold of the motorshlp Manunda, in which three barrels of arsenic were broken, ...

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  52. KOSCIUSKO ALPINE CLUB.

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  53. TO-DAY.

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  54. CHURCH CONVENTION.

    Two special addresses were delivered at St. Andrew's Cathedral last night in connection with the Church Convention. The Rev. Dr. Micklem took as his subject "The Spirit ...

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  55. OIL SHALE DEPOSITS.

    East Maitland Municipal Council last night agreed to co-operate with Newnes Development Advancement League in urging the development of the shale deposits of New ...

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  56. VIOLONCELLO AND PIANO RECITAL.

    A violonceilo and piano recital was given by Messrs. George Ellwood and Ernest Empson at the Forum Club last night. The major pieces played were Brahms' Sonata in E minor, and ...

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  57. ADULTERATED MILK.

    Proceeded against on three charges of having sold adulterated milk, William Maloney, of 97 Annandale-street, Annandale, was fined 10/ on each charge at the Glebe Summons ...

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  58. THE OXFORD SOCIETY.

    At the third annual meeting of the Oxford Society, held in London at the Board of Education, it was decided to appoint five representatives on the council from overseas. The ...

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  59. POLICE SQUAD SENT.

    Tension between sleeper cutters mainly foreigners at a timber concession on the Albany-road. 50 miles south of Perth led to 14 police being sent this morning to ...

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  60. PENSIONER FOUND DEAD.

    Moree police to-day found the body of [?] old-age pensioner, F. Bowker, at his camp on the seven-mile reserve near Moree. Bowker had been camped alone at this site for some ...

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  61. THE P.E.N. CLUB.

    Members of the Sydney P.E.N. Club entertained Mr. Percy Grainger, the Australian pianist, and Mrs. Grainger at dinner at the Metropole Hotel last night. Mr. S. Elliott ...

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  62. TRAVEL LEAGUE.

    At the annual meeting of the Travel League of New South Wales last night, the chairman (Mr. G. R. Rainsford) said the league closed the year with the largest membership since ...

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  63. DEATH OF GRAZIERS WIFE.

    Ethel Atherton, wife of Mr. W. T. Atherton, [?] grazier, of the Longreach district, died in a private hospital at Southport to-day. Her young son, Peter, recently made a dash from ...

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  64. FAR WEST CHILDREN.

    Seven children from the Far West reached Sydney by the Broken Hill express last evening. Some were suffering from malnutrition and others from eye trouble. Two were sent ...

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  65. INCORPORATED LAW INSTITUTE.

    At the ordinary general meeting of the Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales Messrs. W. J. Baldock. D. Barron, H. J. R. Clayton, W. G. Forsyth, and C. W. Rundle ...

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  66. AGED COMPANIONS' DEATHS.

    A friendship between two aged men,[?] met in the old People's Home, ended with their deaths within 12 hours of one another. When John Brennan, 70, came to the home ...

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  67. GOLD MINERS STRIKE.

    Owing to a dispute about wages, the miners employed by the Martha Gold Mining Company (Waihi), Ltd., decided to strike. Negotiations are being continued. ...

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  68. ALEXANDRIA PARK.

    In a letter to the editor of the "Herald," a correspondent, "E.J.," says that hundreds of visitors to Alexandria Park appreciate the action of the Mayor and aldermen of ...

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  69. PROBATE OF WILL.

    Probate has been granted of the will of Mr. Edmund Cuthbert Body, formerly of Inverell, grazier, who died on May 24 at the age of 92 years. Mr. Body gave £100 each to the ...

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  70. GROSVENOR-STREET.

    The condition of the road surface in Grosvenor-street is criticised by the N.R.M.A., which is urging the City Council to remake the street at an early date. The association ...

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  71. PRIMITIVE RACES.

    In a lecture at the Australian Museum to--night, Miss Elsie Bramell will speak on primitive legal procedure. Lantern slides will be shown, illustrating the "lawful duels" of the ...

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  72. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS.

    At a meeting of the newly elected State council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Sir George Mason Allard and Messrs. R. D. Bogan, M. F. M. Johnson, ...

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  73. BABY SWALLOWS CAUSTIC SODA.

    Caining possession of a bottle [?] soda on June 23, James West, 22 months old, swallowed about a teaspoonful. He was admitted to the Base Hospital, where he died ...

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  74. HEARSES BURNT AT AUBURN.

    Two hearses and a touring car were badly damaged by fire yesterday in the garage of Motor Funerals, Ltd., in North-parade, Auburn. Fire brigades from Auburn, Parramatta, and ...

    Article : 37 words
  75. SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.

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

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