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TULLAMORE MINE.
According to a statement tendered in the Supreme Court yesterday. Walter Francis Medcalf told Detective-sergeant Alford that the Tullamore mine, which was acquired by ...
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GALE IN NEW ZEALAND
A south-west gale which is sweeping Canterbury to-night caused the steamer Gabriella to break from her mornings at Akarcoa wharf. She drifted dangerously near ...
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COUNTRY NEWS.
Rabbit trappers are pursuing their quest with greater activity than for many years owing to the satisfactory prices obtainable for midwinter skins. At Tumbarumba the weekly ...
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MARTIAL LAW.
The Barcelona correspondent of "The Times" says that, squads of cavalry patrol the streets following the declaration of a state of war in Barcelona city and province, as a ...
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FLOODS IN JAPAN.
Further heavy rain has fallen in Chikugo province, and the river has risen 23 feet, endangering the refugees on higher ground. The death roll is 85 in Tokyo, where 292 ...
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BARONET KILLED.
Sir Alexander Thomas Cockburn-Campbell baronet, was killed by a train at Bassendean, near Perth, this morning. He walked from behind one train at the crossing and was ...
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OBITUARY.
The funeral of Mr. William Henry Freeman, a veteran bandsman, took place yesterday at the Waverley Cemetery. On the formation of the 2nd New South Wales Regiment. ...
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CITY SOLICITOR.
The City Council yesterday appointed Mr. T. S. Holden, M.L.C., as a City Solicitor, those voting in favour of him being the eight Labour aldermen and Aldermen McMahon ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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FIRE DESTROYS HOMESTEAD.
The homestead of Mr. J. Connors, Rosedale, eight miles from Tingha, was destroyed by fire. The flames ignited grass, and spread into Kelso the property of Mr. Donald Stewart. ...
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ARCHDEACON DAVIES.
Nearly 2000 persons attended the memorial service in St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday, which preceded the funeral of the Venerable Archdeacon David John Davies, principal of ...
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WIRELESS RECORD.
The "Daily Telegraph" says:—"A world's record for overland communication by ultrashort waves, whose theoretical range is only 25 to 30 miles, has been established by Mr. ...
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PROPOSED SMELTING WORKS.
The Mavor (Alderman Ashley) and other representatives of teh municipal council intend being present at a conference in Bathurst on July 4 of the Prospecting Miners' ...
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MASKED THIEF.
A large body of detectives has been assigned to investigate the shooting of Allan Clarke by an armed and masked man at North Strathfield railway station on Saturday night. ...
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FLYING BOAT AT MACLEAN.
The R.A.A.F. flying boat which is under the command of Squadron-leader Hempel, and is making a survey of the coastline, landed on the river at Maclean yesterday afternoon ...
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IRISH FREE STATE.
In a speech at Limerick, Mrd. de Valera described the King as a "foreign King," saying: "I do so because if the people were free they would not choose him." ...
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FILM PRODUCTION.
Hoyts Theatres, Ltd., has decided to enter the ranks of Australian film producers, and although details have not yet been completed, it is stated that the company proposes to make ...
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NEW SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
Mr. A. E. Budd, M.L.A., has been advised that the Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) has accepted a tender for the construction of a domestic science and manual ...
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'PLANE STRIKES TREE.
Charles Stumar, 40, cameraman, and Harrison Wiley, 35, art director, both of Universal Studios, were killed instantly to-day when their aeroplane crashed into a tree ...
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STATE BUSES.
A minimum fare of /5 will be charged on Watson's Bay-Central railway station motor buses departing from the Central station at 5.15, 5.35, and 5.55 p.m. on Mondays to ...
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SITE OF FIRST GOLD RUSH.
The Town Clerk (Mr. F. J. Mulholland), who is secretary of the Ophir Memorial Reserve, which includes the site of the first discovery of payable gold in Austrlia, has been ...
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DARWIN IN DARKNESS.
Darwin's electric light supply has been cut off to-night, and the town is in darkness because the two town council employees at the power-house have struck for increased wages. ...
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HERR HITLERS DOUBLE.
The use of a double by Herr Hitler as a precaution against assassination attempts was revealed at Munich, accroding to the "Daily Telegraph." The double is said to be the ...
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DERAILMENT DURING SHUNTING.
During shunting operations in Dubbo railway yards on Saturday night, four vehicles were detailed. A repair van and two sheep vans fouled the points, and took another road, ...
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MOTOR COACH IN FLAMES.
Fourteen persons were incinerated and eight were injured near Casa Blanca (Morocco) when they were trapped in a motor coach, the driver of which swerved while travelling ...
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THIEVES IN STORK.
A. H. Smith's store at Barellan was entered by thieves early yesterday morning. A safe containing £100 was removed some distance away, but attempts to open it were ineffective. ...
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COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
As the result of an explosion in a colliery at Dhanbad (Bihar), last night, 16 men were killed and 23 injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown, ...
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'PLANE CRASHES.
A Gypsy Moth aeroplane, with which Messrs. Billson and Scott, of Adelaide, have been "barnstorming" through the country districts of Victoria, crashed in a paddock near ...
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LOTTERY DRAWING.
The principal prizes in the 276th State lottery were drawn at the Australian Hall yesterday by Colonel J. C. Selmes, of Roseville. ...
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TWEED PIONEER'S DEATH.
The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Charles Henry Skinner, aged 83, one of the pioneers of the Tweed. Born at Mudgee, he came here in 1863, and had much to do with ...
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SOUTHERN CROSS
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith said yesterday thet he would fly the Southern Cross to Canberra at a date to be decided by the Federal authorities. ...
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FLORA AND FAUNA.
The Chief Secretary's Department, has advised the Flora and Fauna Conference that, the latter's suggestions for amendment of the Birds and Animals Protection Act have been ...
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PACIFIC ISLANDS FOR SALE.
Fanning and Washington Islands in the Pacific are being offered for sale by a firm of city solicitors, according to the "News Chronicle." The housing and accommodation for ...
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SIR H. MOORE.
The death occurred last night of Sir William Harrison, Moore. Professor Emeritus of Melbourne University, a former member of the University Council, and an authority upon ...
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BOY SEVERELY BURNT.
Ronald Hayman, 7, son of the manager of the Wollondilly mine, ran into a large heap of hot ashes and coals and his feet and lega were severely burnt. He was admitted ...
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THE CALL-UP.
A call-up for-employment, is announced to-day. Details appear on page 18, column 5. ...
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OVERSUBSCRIBED.
The New Zealand conversion loan of £3,000,000, bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent. and maturing in 1952-55, was oversubscribed. The issue price of the loan was ...
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CHINESE CONSUL'S CAR.
The Chinese Consul-General (Dr. Chen) was driving his motor car in Enmore-road. Enmore, last night when, in passing a stationary vehicle, his car and a tram collided. The ...
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BY-ELECTION RESULT.
A by-election to fill three vacancies in the Bowral Municipal Council resulted:—G. Elliott, 202: J. E. Cummins, 132; C. N. Gall, 177; C. V. Chilcott, 132. ...
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INDEX.
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CHINESE REBELS CAPTURED.
A big drive has been launched against the Chinese rebels who attacked Peking on June 28. More than 70 of the rebels were surrounded ...
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NONAGENARIAN INJURED.
John Brown, 93, of Ethel-street, Burwood, was found early yesterday morning in a railway culvert near Groydon station. He was unconscious and bleeding from a head wound. ...
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MINING ACTIVITIES INCREASE.
The improved prices for silver and lead have stimulated mining activities. The Wollondilly mine is working practically at full capacity on good ore. Other large mines are ...
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AUSTRALIAN LOANS.
It is unlikely that Australia, will immediately enter the loan market in connection with the New South Wales £12,420,000 loan which must be redeemed on October 1, or for other ...
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THE UNIONS.
The Public Service Board has applied to the Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator for a variation of the postal linesmen's award. Union officials stated yesterday, that the ...
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DUST BLAMED FOR MOTOR TRAGEDY.
The District Coroner (Mr. A. B. Dundas) returned a verdict of accidental death in each case at the inquest into the deaths of Messrs. James Walker and R. L. Ridout, who were ...
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GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
Gold was quoted at £7/l/4½ an ounce fine to-day, no change from Saturday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day ...
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ASPHYXIATED IN CAR.
William Cornish, 48, insurance inspector of Yeerongpilly, was found asphyxiated in his sedan car at Mount Cootha this morning. Mounted constables from the police depot ...
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PROPOSED MOUNTAIN ROAD.
It is proposed to construct a road from Yerranderie to Mt. Werong, which would connect the western and southern highways. The newly discovered Colong Caves are on the ...
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MEAT PROBLEM.
Argentina's reply to the British proposal for a meat levy is not expected for at least a few days. It is understood that the Argentine Government is at present engaged in a heated ...
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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MAN FOUND DEAD.
Robert Richard Roper, 71, was found dead in the yard of his hut on the property of Geroge Sweetnam, at Lagoon. The police believe that death was due to natural causes. An inquest ...
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MR. B. HADAWAY.
At a largely atttended service conducted by the Rev. Edgar Potter, the remains of Mr. Bertie Hadaway were interred at the Northern Suburbs Cemetery on Monday. Mr. ...
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FARMER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
While Fred Power, a young farmer, of Bo[?] Creek, was crow-shooting this morning, he accidentally shot himself. The bullet [?]trated his body near the heart. He was ...
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CASUALTIES.
Betty Ryan, 16, twin daughter of Mr. William Byan, of Kentucky, was killed on Saturday night, in a collision between a motor car driven by her father and a utility truck. The ...
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WHEELBARROW CONTESTS.
Setting out from Binda Post-office at 3.15 a.m. yesterday. Verner Pagett, 18, pushed a wheelbarrow, with Ronald Carey as the passenger, to Crookwell, a distance of 13 miles, in ...
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MR. M. McINERNEY.
Mr. Michael Joseph McInerney, who died at his residence, Queen-street, Ashfield, on Saturday, had been associated with the bastoral industry all his life, having joined ...
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ENDEMIC TYPHUS IN QUEENSLAND.
Research at the laboratory maintained by the Federal Government at Cairns has identified as endemic typhus one of the indefinite fevers which are fairly common in North ...
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INJURED BY FALL OF EARTH.
When Leslie Garling was digging a trench at an oil company's depot at Parkes this morning, he was buried to the hips by a fall of earth. His left leg was fractured and he was taken by ...
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DEATH OF ATTORNEY.
The police to-day declared that the murder of Mr. Howard Carter Dickinson, 52, a prominent New York attorney, and nephew of Chief Justice Hughes, has been solved with the ...
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TO-DAY.
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STOPPED SUMMARILY.
The delivery of a reserved judgment in the High Court to-day by Mr. Justice Dixon ended the litigation begun in November, 1933, by Benjamin John Cox, tailor, of Queen-street. ...
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STABILISATION.
Appended to the resolution passed by the International Chamber of Commerce at Paris is a list of "considerations" upon which the resolution was based. It is as follows:—(1) ...
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RAILWAYS TIMETABLE.
The new timetable, which will operate from Sunday, July 14, contains many important alterations, particularly on the Southern line, where interstate expresses will be accelerated. ...
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BOY'S DEATH FROM INJURIES.
Thomas Le Fevre, 14, son of William Henry Le Fevre, caretaker of the bridge across the Murrumbidgee River at Carrathool, died in Hay Hospital yesterday afternoon as the result of ...
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AUSTRIAN SKIER
Mr. Ernest Skardarasy, an Austrian skiing instructor, arrived from the Austrian Tyrol to-day by the Orient linei Orsova to teach ski-ing at Mt. Kosciusko for the New South ...
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FOOTBALL BARRACKER ASSAULTED.
T. New, of Warren, and a former Rugby League footballer, was assaulted when barracking for Warren footballers at Dubbo yesterday. His nose was fractured. ...
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DUCHESS OF YORK.
The Duchess of York made her first journey by air when she and the Duke of York flow from Hendon to Brussels to-day to visit, the international exhibition there and ...
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GIRL FALLS INTO FIRE.
Edna Pilcher, 3, overbalanced and fell into an open fire at her parents' home in Peterstreet yesterday. Her hands were severely burnt. ...
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UNITED STATES NAVY.
The Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald-Tribune" says:—"Unless a new treaty is negotiated with the world naval Powers the Administration contemplates the ...
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PRISON ESCAPEE
Edgar Arthur Peterson, 27, who was serving a five years' sentence of reformative detention for burglary, escaped from a prison camp in the Taupo district last Wednesday. Searching ...
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YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY.
Colin Moore Mitchinson, single, 23, a native of Perth (W.A.), and ex-treasurer of the Clem Dawe Revue Company, pleaded guilty in the police court to two charges of stealing ...
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LEASING OF HOTEL CANBERRA.
Tenders close to-day for the leasing of the Hotel Canberra and of the liquor bars at Kingston and Civic Centre, where hotels are to be erected by the successful tenderers. It is ...
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HEAT-WAVE IN FRANCE.
A heat wave in France, particularly in the south, caused hundreds of cases of sunstroke. The shade temperature at Toulon was 104 degrees and at Montpellier 108 degrees. A ...
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LATE SHIPPING.
AUCKLAND (1291 m).—Arr: July 1. Wairuna, s, from Rarotonga. Dep: Port Walkato, s, for Clarence River. ...
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SUBURBAN PICTURE THEATRES.
Programmes of Suburban Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Columns. ...
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