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  2. ARMED TROOPS

    The general strike began at 8 o'clock this morning, completely paralysing the metropolitan area, which has a population of more than 1,250,000. According to the best authorities, the proclamation of martial law is a question of hours. ...

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  3. MEAT TRADE.

    A financial resolution providing for payment at a rate not exceeding 5/ per live cwt and 9/4 per cwt deadweight to home producers of certain classes of ...

    Article : 313 words
  4. FORESTRY.

    In his first report to the New South Wales Government, Mr. S. Kessel, Conservator of Forests in Western Australia, who was appointed to report upon the forest resources ...

    Article : 345 words
  5. KINGSFORD SMITH.

    Sir Charles Kingaford Smith made a splendid take-off from Anderson Park, Neutral Bay, shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, in his new 'plane for the Centenery air race, the ...

    Article : 427 words
  6. WOMAN WITNESS.

    Alice Maud Dunn, who, until recently, was assistant secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales, of which the late Professor H. G. Chapman was treasurer, gave evidence in the ...

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  7. REMARKABLE INCIDENT

    An extraordinary incident, probably unprecedented in Empire administrative matters, occurred at Norfolk Island last week. Mr. J. A. Macarthur Onslow was ordered to leave the island after he had failed to pass a language test in German. ...

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  8. "SEETHING WITH DISCONTENT."

    Inquiries made yesterday concerning the compleints against the administration of Norfolk Island by Mr. J. A. Macarthur Onslow. of Camden, a son of Major-General J. W. ...

    Article : 540 words
  9. STORES LOOTED.

    It is reported from Las Angeles that 1000 National Guardsmen were mobilised at the local armoury and despatched immediately to San Francisco by train. A field artillery ...

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  10. CRASH ON ROOF.

    Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Glover were working busily in their grocery and confectionery shop in Bay-road, Waverton, yesterday morning. Nothing had occurred to disturb the normally ...

    Article : 553 words
  11. CHURCH DISCIPLINE.

    Speaking at the annual meeting of St. Martin's Church of England last night, the Rev. P. W. R. Rowlands dealt with the attitude of the clergy towards church discipline. ...

    Article : 322 words
  12. AUSTRALIANS CREDIT.

    (The "Financial News" in an editorial states: "The credit of Australia is now valued at 3[?] per cent., which is a remarkable tribute to the recuperative power of a country which two ...

    Article : 417 words
  13. THICK FOG

    After continuing throughout Monday night the dense fog which settled ovex Sydney did not completely lift until late yesterday morning. On the harbour, conditions did not return ...

    Article : 341 words
  14. SHOTS EXCHANGED.

    Shots were exchanged by a local resident and a stranger at Ebor (between Grafton and Armidale) early this morning. Awakened by the sound of an explosion, a ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. DAVIS CUP.

    G. M. Lott and L. R. Stofen will be America's doubles pair in the inter-zone final of the Davis Cup against Australia, which will begin at Wimbledon on Saturday. ...

    Article : 242 words
  16. GERMAN EXECUTIONS.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "Gradually details are leaking out of the removal of persons apparently not connected with the alleged plots which ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. SHIPPING SERVICE.

    Further details of the shipping service which W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd of Sydney, are to operate between Australia, New Guinea, and Great Britain, were given ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. MURDER CHARGE.

    The jury in the case in which Antonio Chiodo and Antonio Audino are charged with the murder of Rocco Petulla, twice failed to reach an agreement and were discharged ...

    Article : 254 words
  19. BRITISH COLONIES.

    The Secretary for the Colonies (Sir Philip Cunilffe-Lister) informed the House of Commons to-day thet the necessary action had already been teken by the majority of British ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. WIDOWER'S DEATH

    Dressed in the clothes which he had worn on his wedding day, and with his dead wife's photograph and bridal bouquet lying near him, Thomas Spiers, 30, was found dead in his ...

    Article : 240 words
  21. OPPERMAN.

    Hubert Opperman, the Australian cyclist, on his ride from Land's End to John o'Groats, 866 miles, broke the world's record for 24 hours' riding by 14½ miles, according to cable ...

    Article : 273 words
  22. TWO MEN ARRESTED.

    Detectives Aldridge and Wedlock of the Regent-street police, received a message about 9 o'clock last night that a man had been seized by a student who alleged that he was ...

    Article : 196 words
  23. DAWES LOAN.

    A breach has occurred between the Dawes Loan trustees and the German Government, which has announced that it intends to dispose as it pleases of revenues amounting to ...

    Article : 188 words
  24. BODY IN TRUNK.

    It was assumed that the two "trunk" murders might be related to each other but this has not been borne out. The first victim is still no nearer identification. ...

    Article : 225 words
  25. ASSYRIANS IN IRAQ.

    In reply to a question by Lord Hugh C[?]cil in the House of Commons to-day, the Foreign Sccietaiy (Sir John Simon) said that the responsibility for providing security and relief ...

    Article : 189 words
  26. ABORIGINES.

    Professor A. P. Elkin, in a lecture before the Anthropological Society at the Australian Museum last night, advocated the creation of a "department of native justice" as one step ...

    Article : 374 words
  27. TRAGIC MISTAKE.

    William McGlynn, 76, met a tragic death at his residence, in Cliff-terrace, Forest Lodge, on Monday night, when his wife gave him a dose of nicotine in mistake for medicine, and, ...

    Article : 213 words
  28. DRINK AT SOCIALS

    At the Kempsey Roman Catholic Church, the Rev. Father Morris delivered a scathing attack on the prevalence of liquor-drinking at social functions, particularly by young ...

    Article : 348 words
  29. PRICE-CUTTING

    Nearly 1000 members of the grocery trade, at a meeting in the King's Hall last night, decided to support a body known as the Fair Traders' Association, with the object ...

    Article : 329 words
  30. AMERICA'S DEMAND.

    In a strongly worded communication, the State Department has demanded that the German Government shall grant American holders of German bonds absolutely the same ...

    Article : 81 words
  31. SHOOTING TRAGEDY.

    A triple shooting tragedy occurred at the home of James Busby, teamster, at Amamoor, in the Gympie district, this afternoon. The victims were Olive Busby, wife of ...

    Article : 301 words
  32. MOUNTAINEERS MISSING.

    Nanga Parbat, known to the bill tribes as the "naked lady," one of the glants of the western Himalayas, is feared to have claimed a number of victims from the German mountaincering ...

    Article : 269 words
  33. WOMEN'S CRICKET.

    A team of English women cricketers will leave England for Australia on October 19. Their average age is 24, and none is under 21. Aline Brown, a sister of the Surrey ...

    Article : 205 words
  34. EMPIRE GAMES.

    The High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. Bruce) and Mrs. Bruce gave a reception to the Empire Games team at Australia House. The athletes have began practising at the ...

    Article : 156 words
  35. 79-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR

    Dr. C. H. Scott, who is 79 years of age, has qualified for the semi-final of the Scone Golf Club's championship. He is a brother of the late Dr. H. J. H. Scott, who was an ...

    Article : 104 words
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