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  2. TERRIFIC STORMS.

    Five deaths occurred during the terrific storms which swept the central and south-eastern parts of the State during the week-end. A woman was struck by lightning; near Lithgow, a boy was drowned at Undercliffe, and another at Goulburn, and a woman and a girl were drowned ...

    Article : 116 words
  3. CRICKET TEAM

    Financial arrangements have been completed for a tour of New Zealand by an Australian cricket team. The team will be chosen by the Australian selectors, probably ...

    Article : 218 words
  4. WHIRLPOOL

    William McCarthy, the 13-year-old son of Mr. T. McCarthy, a well-known grazier, sacrificed his life in an effort to rescue two persons who had been sucked into a whirlpool ...

    Article : 693 words
  5. ATTACK BY SHARK.

    In about five feet of water and within the view of thousands of people on Queenscliff Beach, a shark attacked a bather, Colin Grant, 22, of Chalmers-street, city, yesterday afternoon, and inflicted dreadful injuries. Grant's left leg was stripped of flesh. ...

    Article : 238 words
  6. CRICKET.

    Although the cricket tests are still a long way off, all England shares the interest of Australians in the likely selection of the visiting team. There is also some speculation ...

    Article : 421 words
  7. DISARMAMENT.

    Remarkable frankness is displayed in a report accompanying the Italian naval estimates for 1934-5, which were presented to the Chamber of Deputies. ...

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  8. KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

    On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. J. Noonan, 25, of Hampton, near Lithgow, was struck by a terrific flash of lightning. She was hurled to the ground, suffering so severely from shock ...

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  9. SUDDEN SQUALL.

    More than 40 open boats were capsized in a fierce squall on Sydney Harbour on Saturday afternoon and nearly 300 men were thrown into the water. ...

    Article : 203 words
  10. SUDDEN ATTACK.

    The attack was so sudden and unexpected that many eyewitnesses were completely unnerved, and several women fainted. In his desperate efforts to swim to the shore ...

    Article : 989 words
  11. TRAGEDY IN FLAT.

    Dr. Cecil Hugh Norton, 35, and Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, 22, a nurse, were found on Saturday morning almost unconscious in a flat occupied by Miss Fitzpatrick in Chandos-street, ...

    Article : 392 words
  12. TEST IN INDIA.

    India lost opportunities on the second day of the second test match with the M.C.C. team, which began on Friday. The visitors on the first day scored 257 runs for the ...

    Article : 440 words
  13. SHARK AT BONDI.

    A shark was sighted during the carnival of the North Bondi Surf Club on Saturday, and the programme was ended abruptly. The canoe race was in progress and heavy ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. FRENCH BANK FRAUDS

    Because of the storm of indignation throughout France, which the denial by members of the Cabinet of responsibility for the collapse of the Banque de Credit Municipal ...

    Article : 440 words
  15. POLICY BILLS.

    Drafts of a number of important policy bills to be brought down at the forthcoming session of the State Parliament will be considered at a special meeting of the Cabinet ...

    Article : 605 words
  16. FIREBALL STRIKES CAFE.

    A severe storm passed over the township of Esk on Saturday at 9.30 p.m. A fireball struck J. G. Hobbs's cafe in the main street, and started a fire in the ceiling. An eyewitness ...

    Article : 87 words
  17. BRITISH LABOUR.

    "Undoubtedly the Labour party will have to overcome opposition from Buckingham Palace and other places when it comes into power," Sir Staffoid Cripps, M.P., told the annual ...

    Article : 283 words
  18. AVIATION.

    The "Morning Post" announces that negotiations, which have proceeded intermittently for some years, for co-operation between the French and British air transport companies on ...

    Article : 292 words
  19. COLLIER SHELTERING.

    Strong easterly gales and rough seas round the coast of Victoria and New South Wales and in Bass Strait disorganised coastal and oversea shipping during the week-end. The ...

    Article : 272 words
  20. WAGGA MYSTERY.

    Detectives investigating the death of Percy Smith, whose body was found in a sack in the Murrumbidgee River, expect to charge a man with muraer within the next 24 hours. ...

    Article : 357 words
  21. IRISH FREE STATE.

    A guard of honour canying the new Blue Shirt flag—a St. Patrick's cross in a blue ground—met General O'Duffy and Mr. Cosgrave when they arrived, escorted by a column ...

    Article : 330 words
  22. SERIES OF FIRES

    An attempt to burn down the dwelling of Mr. J. Chung Leong, herbalist, at Ballarat, on Saturday, was made early this morning, apparently by the person who has been ...

    Article : 216 words
  23. NOEL RYAN.

    Noel Ryan, the Manly swimmer, on Saturday won two New South Wales championships, and in one of them—the 110 yards— established the fastest time recorded for the ...

    Article : 286 words
  24. MONSTER OF LOCH NESS.

    A veterinary surgeon, Dr. Arthur Grant, states that, while riding a motor cycle alongside Loch Ness in the moonlight, he saw what he believes to be the monster whose reported ...

    Article : 109 words
  25. NEW MOTORSHIP.

    A Maori custom was revived at a function on board the new Commonwealth and Dominion motorship Port Chalmers, which is to sail on her maiden voyage to New Zealand ...

    Article : 246 words
  26. LAWN TENNIS.

    W. T. Tilden to-day ranked Henri Cochet (France) and Norman E. Brookes (Australia) as the first and second tennis players of all time. He based his conclusions on his own ...

    Article : 173 words
  27. MISS JOYCE COOPER

    Miss Joyce Cooper, the visiting English swimming champion, was a passenger in a car which came into collision with a motor cycle at the corner of Military-road and Hampden-avenue. ...

    Article : 148 words
  28. SHIPPING SUBSIDIES.

    "I am happy to go to Australia, a country in which the spirit of defeatism, at present the greatest danger to the Empire, is entirely absent," said Mr. Alexander Shaw, chairman ...

    Article : 126 words
  29. SALE OF PARDONS.

    Arising from allegations of bribery affecting the Belgian police and other officials, it is announced in Brussels that a former army chaplain, two officials of the Ministry of ...

    Article : 100 words
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