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  2. PRAWN GAME.

    The English cricketers figured in an exciting finish again to-day. The match against Queensland was drawn, but time beat the Englishmen. Queensland's ...

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  3. S.P. BETTING.

    The suspension of 22 members of the police force, including seven sergeants, was ordered by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) yesterday after receipt by ...

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  4. KILLED BY SHARK.

    Charles Frederick Swan, 50, of Parkdale, was killed near Mordialloc, it is feared, by a grey nurse shark which bit a large hole in the boat from which ...

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  5. MINISTRY SPLIT.

    Differences in the Federal Cabinet, which have been caused by the Freer case, were widened to-day, when a number of Country party members ...

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  6. PROFIT SHARING.

    Lord Nuffield announced yesterday that he would part with shares worth £2,125,000 in the vast motor manufacturing organisation he controls to ...

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  7. COURT FREE

    The Industrial Commission has unrestricted power to grant a 40hour week for industry in New South Wales. ...

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  8. HUGE LONDON FIRE.

    Tue famous Crystal Palace, in tue south-east of London, was destroyed by fire last night. The flames leaped to a height of ...

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  9. GERMANY AND BRITAIN.

    The British Government has received assurances from Germany and Japan that the agreement between the two countries, which was signed ...

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  10. LAUNCHED IN GALE.

    The new 24,000-ton Orient liner Orcadcs was launched at Barrow-in-Furness a few minutes before noon to-day in the face of a gale. ...

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  11. CORRUPTION CHARGES.

    The Legislative Council yesterday discussed further the charges made by Mr. J. B. Martin over the recent election of Mr. E. Grayndler to the ...

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  12. "URGENT NECESSITY."

    A Labour motion on the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly that the Government should validate agreement for a 40-hour week, was beaten yesterday 46 votes to 30. ...

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  13. BANK THEFTS.

    Governor Smith, of Vermont, who is president of the Rutland Marble Savings Bank, was arrested and charged with concealment of bank thefts. ...

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  14. PREMIER'S STATEMENT.

    When Parliament met yesterday afternoon, the Premier (Mr. Stevens) presented the report of the Royal Commissioner. The report, which was of a voluminous ...

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  15. CHINA SQUADRON.

    While,the Admiralty declines to maxe a statement regarding the possibility of Darwin becoming a summer base for the China Squadron, high naval quarters indicate that such a ...

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  16. JURY DISCHARGED.

    The hearing in the Supreme Court of an action in which Samuel William Mcintosh sued Ludgate Laboratories Pty., Ltd., ended abruptly yesterday ...

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  17. COMMONWEALTH COURT

    A message from Canberra yesterday showed that the Federal authorities had interpreted the Judgment as one limiting the Commission's power, but Mr. Menzies (Federal ...

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  18. FRENCH MINISTRY

    The Premier (M. Blum) is facing a crisis as a result of a split in the ranks of the popular front. The Rightists are revolting against the tactics of Communists in regard ...

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  19. ELECTRIC LAMPS.

    A deadlock resulted at the meeting of the County Council yesterday concerning the placing of a contract for electric light lamps for street service. The ...

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  20. INFLUX OF JEWS.

    There was a dramatic scene to-day at the sesion of the Royal Commission which is iquiring into the causes of unrest in Palestine, when Earl Peel, the chairman, ...

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  21. ALDERMAN M. J. GRIFFIN'S STATEMENT.

    The president of the Local Government Association of New South Wales (Alderman M. J. Griffin) said yesterday that the decision of the Industrial Commission on the 40-hour ...

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  22. DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRY LIKELY.

    A departmental inquiry is expected as a result of the Commissioner's report. This was the course taken when an adverse verdict was given recently in a civil action ...

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  23. AMERICAN FINANCE.

    The united States Treasury announced that It would undertake a re-financlng operation, comprising 1,500,000,000 dollars (£A375,000,000) on December 15. The chief ...

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  24. TWO BOYS DROWNED.

    "Two 15-year-old boys were drowned in the Port Hacking Elver at National Park yesterday, when one got into difficulties in deep water and the other made a gallant attempt to ...

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  25. SHIPPING STRIKE.

    The Customs Collector announced the effect of the shipping strike on southern California imports. In November they totalled 1,250,000 dollars, compared with 4,912,000 dollars in ...

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  26. MOVEMENTS UNKNOWN.

    Although Union Company officials deny that Mrs. Freer sailed on the Awatea for Sydney tonight, there is a strong belief that she is aboard that vessel. ...

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  27. YAMPI SOUND.

    The concluons under which four Japanese experts and one interpreter will be admitted to the Commonwealth, under exemption fur 12 months, to grade and analyse iron ore at ...

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  28. PANTING DEPUTIES.

    The Italian deputies met yesterday for what is believed to be the last time, because of the forthcoming reconstitution of the Chamber. The principal business was the unveiling of ...

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  29. MOLLISONS FLIGHT.

    Mr. James Mollison, who, with the French aviator, Molinier, as co-pilot, is attempting a record flight to South Africa and back, reached Khartoum at 4.4t p.m. yesterday ...

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  30. MAN AND SYDNEY GIRL

    The discovery of the bodies of Miss Eugenia Zarka, 25, daughter of a Sydney hairdresser, and Mr. Jean Frich, a Swiss shoe manufacturer, in a wood near Marseilles recently ...

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  31. LIVING CARPET.

    In order to maintain the picket lines, hoslery mill, strikers at Reading (Pennsylvania) lay on the pavement in front of the platn sub-zero weather. They were not ...

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  32. LOST AIR LINER.

    Thomas Rumble, a young seaman on the tramp ship Thirlby, now in Sydney, was agreeably surprised last evening when a steward handed him a redirected package containing a ...

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  33. SURF COSTUMES.

    The Surf Life Saving Association last night appointed Messrs. R. D. Doyle, M. J. Burke. R. Dickson, K. Hunter, and S. Windon as a sub-committee to consider the question of ...

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  34. MOSLEM NATIONS.

    The Afghan Foreign Minister states that an important pact will be signed very shortly at Teheran, by Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Persia. He gave no indication of ...

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  35. ASSASSINATION PLOT

    Police wrested two men for plotting to asassinate the Premter (Mr. Hirota) for the purpose of attracting attention to agrarian troubles in the Fulushima prefecture. ...

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  36. CEMENT DUTIES.

    A deputation of members of the House of Representatives to-night asked the Minister for Customs (Mr. White) to reconsider the protection of the Australian cement industry. ...

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  37. NEW ZEALAND STORM.

    Practically the whole of New Zealand for the past two days has been swept by a southerly storm, which reached its maximum force at Wellington this morning. ...

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  38. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

    The President of the United states (Mr. Roosevelt) was welcomed at a reception, which was the largest and most jubilant Argentina has extended to anyone. Hundreds of ...

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  39. WOOL PRODUCTION.

    According to a preliminary estimate, wool production in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, and Uruguay in the 1936-37 season will aggregate about 2,065,000,0001b. ...

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