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  2. £7,500,000 LOAN. BANK'S OFFER ACCEPTED.

    The Loan Council to-day accepted an offer by the Commonwealth Bank Board to underwrite a loan of £7,500.000 at £3/17/6 per cent., to be ...

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  3. SAFER FLYING.

    Twenty-four new officers will be appointed to the Commonwealth meteorological service immediately, to give effect to the Federal Government's new ...

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  4. SOLO FLIGHT PLANNED. AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND.

    Mr. H. F. Broadbent, holder of the round-Australia air record, will leave Sydney early on Monday morning on the first stage of an attempt ...

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  5. FRONTIER WAR

    Hostile tribesmen on the northwest frontier are causing such concern to the Government that 30,000 troons are encased in the operations ...

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  6. COUNSELS' PLEA.

    It was disclosed at yesterday's sitting of the Royal Commission on the police and starting-price betting prosecutions that efforts are being made to obtain ...

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  7. MINISTERS RESIGN.

    Serious differences which arose in the Ontario Cabinet over the uncompromising stand taken by the Premier (Mr. M. F. Hepburn) in regard to the strike at ...

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  8. INTERNATIONAL CORDON ROUND SPAIN To Come Into Operation on Monday.

    The plan to establish a cordon round Spain to prevent intervention will begin to operate at midnight on Monday. The British Consul at Bilbao has informed the Foreign Office that the harbour's entrance is free of mines and the shore ...

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  9. HOW TROUBLE BEGAN.

    Colonel C. B. Howell, of Army Headquarters, Bombay, who arrived in Sydney by the Narkunda yesterday, said that the present trouble with the Fakir of Ipl, in North Waziristan, ...

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  10. GERMAN POLICY.

    In a statement made after a dinner at the home of the Prime Minister (M. van Zeeland) the German Minister for Economics (Dr. Schacht) announced ...

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  11. RUSTY SHIP'S "BLOCKADE OF BLUFF"

    The correspondent of "The Times" at Bilbao describes how the rebel battleship Espana, which was built in 1913 and now has a top speed of 14 knots, ...

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  12. GAS OUSTS STRIKERS.

    After a half-hour battle with tear gas and lead weights, more than 300 policemen and sheriff's deputies arrested 150 "sit-down" strikers, mostly women, at the works of the ...

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  13. COUNTRY PARTY

    The moderate section of the Victorian Country party won a striking victory at the conference at Geelong to-day, and paved the way to ...

    Article : 315 words
  14. KING GEORGE VI.

    "George VI., if not such an ordinary sort of fellow,' as his father described himself after the jubilee, has yet that common touch which undoubtedly will make him equally beloved," ...

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  15. DEMAND SUCCEEDS.

    A "sit-down" strike of 115 employees of the Yahr Lange Drug Co. was settled when the sole demand of the strikers was met, by the resignation of the general manager, Mr. Fred ...

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  16. EVENTS LEADING UP TO CRISIS.

    Events leading to the decision of the Spanish rebels to blockade Bilbao are described by the correspondent of "The Times" at St. Jean de Luz (France), ...

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  17. STRIKERS HOLD UP LINER.

    The liner President Roosevelt, with 217 passengers aboard, was unable to sail from New York for Europe, because of a "sit-down" strike of 65 members of the deck and engine ...

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  18. MRS. BONNEY FLIES THROUGH STORMS.

    I left Rambang for Sourabaya at 6.5 this morning, but storms were too bad, and I had to return. I left again at 11.5 a.m., and made bad time to Sourabaya, where I arrived ...

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  19. WAR TROPHIES REMOVED.

    After the King and Queen had inspected the Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, the King ordered the removal of two German guns from the east terrace of the castle to a ...

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  20. METAL TRADES.

    Following the collapse of negotiations for a settlement of the metal trade dispute, union leaders announced yesterday that they were preparing for ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. SHERIFF ACCUSED.

    Larkin Baker, a Harlan County (Kentucky) coal miner, testified efore the Civil Liberties Committee that he negotiated for five or six months in 1933 and 1934 in an attempt ...

    Article : 161 words
  22. CRANBROOK LAND. Transaction With Council.

    The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Spooner), referring to-night to the resumption of certain Cranbrook lands by the Woollahra ...

    Article : 138 words
  23. WOMAN COLLAPSES IN DOCK.

    A woman who had been convicted yesterday of having murdered her husband, was in a state of collapse when brought into the Criminal Court to-day for sentence. She was ...

    Article : 242 words
  24. REPLIES TO KING'S MESSAGE.

    Except that a tell-tale giamophone stutter showed that at least one oversea Governor-General's reply to the Kings message at the opening of the new headquarters of the ...

    Article : 155 words
  25. HEATED DEBATE IN COMMONS.

    In moving the censure motion in the House of Commons, the leader of the Opposition (Mr. C. R. Attlee) said that the Opposition regarded the ...

    Article : 867 words
  26. MONK'S SUICIDE.

    After making an obeisance before an image of Buddha at Yawnghwe (Shan States), a monk set fire to his paraffin-drenched clothing and was burnt to death. ...

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  27. AVIATION CONFERENCE.

    The acting chairman of the Loan Council (Mr. Menzies) said, after to-day's meeting of the council, that there was no significance in the decision of the Acting Minister for ...

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  28. QUEEN MARY.

    Queen Mary paid a surprise visit to the prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin to-day and had lunch with them. ...

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  29. CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT.

    The chairman of directors of Cranbrook Playing Fields, Ltd. (Mr. F. W. Allen) said last night that Mr. Spooner had required the Woollahra Council to deposit with ...

    Article : 177 words
  30. FAIRBRIDGE FARMS.

    The Australian Federal Treasurer (Mr. Casey), speaking at the annual meeting of the Fairbridge Farm Schools movement, declared that everyone in Australia realised ...

    Article : 244 words
  31. MARX BROTHERS

    A Federal Grand Jury indicted Groucho ana Chico Marx, of the film comedy team, the Marx Brothers, on a charge of violating national copyright laws, which is a ...

    Article : 81 words
  32. 40-HOUR WEEK

    The Full Court of the Arbitration Court began the hearing of the first application for a 40-hour week to-day. It was made by the Operative Stonemasons' Society of Australia. ...

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  33. DR. EARLE PAGE

    The Acting Prime Minister (Dr. Earle Page) this afternoon described as "a most stupid Invention" the suggestion that his absence from the Loan Council, sitting in ...

    Article : 137 words
  34. HEROIC RESCUE.

    A one-armed war pensioner, Percy Lillicrap, was responsible for a heroic rescue at Stanthorpe, early this morning, when he dragged an unconscious ...

    Article : 115 words
  35. MADAME DE FONTANGE.

    The Count de Chambrun, who was shot and injured by Madame de Fontange, a journalist, said to the examining magistrate yesterday that he hardly knew Madame de ...

    Article : 110 words
  36. NEWCASTLE BUTCHERS.

    The secretary of the Master Butchers' and Allied Trades' Federation of Australia (Mr. A. G. Shand) said yesterday that master butchers in Newcastle had been informed by the ...

    Article : 94 words
  37. BURIED EXPLOSIVES.

    Workmen who are widening the road on Artillery Hill, near Audley, in National Park, have unearthed 92 plugs of gelignite under the road. On Wednesday 40 plugs were found ...

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  38. HOMESICK SCHOOLBOY.

    A small boy, who tried to get money at Newcastle railway station to-day, to pay his fare to Sydney, said that everybody was kind to him at the northern boarding school which ...

    Article : 54 words
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