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  2. FEDERAL SURPLUS.

    Subject to adjustments in the accounts, the Federal surplus for 1936-37 is likely to be between £1,000,000 and £1,250,000—some hundreds of ...

    Article : 291 words
  3. SIR CHARLES ROSENTHAL.

    Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, M.L.C., has been appointed Administrator of Norfolk Island. He will succeed Captain C. R. Pinney, who recently ...

    Article : 444 words
  4. GORDON SEAT.

    A by-election is expected to be held for the Gordon scat in the Legislative Assembly on August 7, because of the resignation of Sir Philip ...

    Article : 243 words
  5. NO OPIUM.

    Closing the inquest on Thomas Stuart Cameron, 29, and Ernest Norman Shang, 42, who were killed in the crash of a Stinson monoplane near ...

    Article : 560 words
  6. OFFER BY SOVIET.

    The Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M. Litvinoff, while reiterating the Soviet protest against the bombardment of Russian gunboats and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 212 words
  7. THE CURRENCIES.

    Markets are quiet, and the fran[?] is steady around 129 to the pound steriing. There is little sign of French capital returning to France. ...

    Article : 466 words
  8. FRANCO-BRITISH PLAN REJECTED.

    Italy and Germany have rejected the proposal that Britain and France should take complete charge of the non-intervention cordon round Spain. They have suggested that all the Powers that are interested ...

    Article : 223 words
  9. 'PLANE WHEEL FOUND.

    A claim that an aeroplane wheel found on the Burmese coast belongs to the Lockheed Altajr machine piloted by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, which ...

    Article : 300 words
  10. QUEENSLAND'S DEFICIT.

    Queensland's consolidated revenue defcit for the year ended on June 30 was £280,190—less than half the estimated deficit of £650,664, for which the Budget provided. This is the lowest ...

    Article : 127 words
  11. "ADVANTAGES" EXPLAINED.

    The German-Italian proposals are contained in a statement issued by the Italian Embassy before the Non-Intervention Committee met to consider the ...

    Article : 668 words
  12. SHOWERS LIKELY.

    The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said last night that he expected the weather to be mainly fine during the week-end, but the likelihood of showers ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. "STERILISED" GOLD.

    A proposal to redistribute gold "sterilised" in the Bank of England and in the United States was made by Mr. A. R. Gu[?]nness (Britain) at the Congress of the International ...

    Article : 57 words
  14. CONSUL-GENERAL IS HOPEFUL.

    The Consul-General for Japan in Sydney (Mr. T. Wakamatsu) said last night that at the moment he was not in a position to com ment on the crisis which had arisen. ...

    Article : 96 words
  15. ARMED THIEF.

    An armed thief, who broke into the Rose Bay North Post-office early yesterday morning, forced the postmaster, Mr. William Thompson, at revolver ...

    Article : 483 words
  16. MEN REFUSE TO WORK.

    At a combined meeting of the three Aberdare miners' lodges held to-day it was decided to cease work at the three collieries as a protest against the ...

    Article : 469 words
  17. REPLY TO STEEL MASTERS.

    The Secretary for Labour (Miss Frances Perkins) said to-day that she had seen nothing to prove that the Committee for Industrial Organisation, ...

    Article : 144 words
  18. CROWN'S RIGHT.

    The Full Court held yesterday that Ernest Harold Fletcher, who was dismissed from the police force after the presentation of the report of the Royal ...

    Article : 200 words
  19. FORCES IN FAR EAST.

    Russia has been building up her military strength in the Far East for several years. She has vast military and air force units there, b[?] her naval strength is not great. For sea ...

    Article : 312 words
  20. ROAD TRANSPORT

    The Full Court of the High Court, in a unanimous judgment yesterday, dismissed an action by the Riverina Transport Proprietary, Ltd., seeking an ...

    Article : 267 words
  21. REMOVAL OF REFUGEES.

    A further statement on the evacuation of refugees from Santander was made at question time in the House of Commons yesterday by the Under-Secretary for Foreign ...

    Article : 413 words
  22. £10,000 CONTRACT.

    Richard Tauber has signed a contract with the Columbia Broadcasting Corporation to give a series of radio and concert performances in the United States during the winter. ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. IRISH FREE STATE

    It is estimated that 1,250,000 of the 1,700,000 electors in the Irish Free State voted at the general elections to-day. No results will be available until to-morrow. ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. NO TAX APPEAL TRIBUNAL.

    Because practically all the States have refused to give the co-operation recommended by the Royal Commission on Taxation, the Federal Cabinet this afternoon decided that no ...

    Article : 189 words
  25. CHURCH LEADER ARRESTED.

    Dr. Martin Niemoeller, leader of the Confessional Movement against the Nazification of the Evangelical Church[?] has been arrested on a charge of ...

    Article : 160 words
  26. MRS. PUTNAM.

    Mrs. Earhart Putnam, the American aviatrix, is crossing the Pacific on her world flight. She was reported to-day to have covered ...

    Article : 125 words
  27. STOP PRESS.

    WIMBLEDON TENNIS. MEN'S DOUBLES—SEMI-FINALS Budge and Mako (U.S.A) beat von Ci[?]mm and Henkel (Germany), 4-6, 4-6[?] ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. POSTAL PROFITS.

    Preliminary statements of the financial operations of the Post Office for the financial year indicate that there will be a surplus of revenue over working expenses and interest ...

    Article : 189 words
  29. THE CHANGTE.

    The Australian-Oriental liner Changte, on which a smallpox case was discovered at Thursday Island, is making her way down the coast in the charge of quarantine officials. ...

    Article : 206 words
  30. MINMI WRECK.

    The City Coroner (Mr. J. A. S. Balmain) conducted inquiries yesterday into the deaths of Frederick Bolton, 39, cook, of Newcastle, and Robert Burnside, 46, fireman, who lost ...

    Article : 274 words
  31. READY FOR GAOL.

    The Very Rev. T. M. Johnstone, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, who was fined £ 100 for contempt of Court, attended the ordination of his son ...

    Article : 139 words
  32. RUST IN CROPS.

    Continued reports of rust in the wheat crops in Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, and North and South Dakota, caused a pandemonium in the Pit to-day. July futures, the first ...

    Article : 186 words
  33. STATE BASIC WAGE.

    A conference of delegates from unions whose members are employed in the County Council, the City Council, and municipal and shire council throughout the State, was held in ...

    Article : 128 words
  34. HOUSING SCHEME IN ADELAIDE.

    Under the £25,000 scheme to provide cheap homes for workers, a tender for the first two groups was let to-day. The chairman of the Housing Trust (Sir William Goodman) said ...

    Article : 104 words
  35. "PUFFING BILLY'S" LAST JOURNEY.

    To-day, "Puffing Billy," the Sans Sou[?]i-Kogurah steam tram, will make its last journey. It will be replaced by a trolly bus service, ...

    Article : 59 words
  36. ENGLISH BY-ELECTION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 words
  37. MR. CASEY.

    The Federal Treasurer, Mr. Casey, in a statement to the Australian Associated Press, said that he had had a long exchange of views on the general economic and financial position ...

    Article : 77 words
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