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  2. BETTER TIMES.

    The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham), in a speech at the National Club luncheon yesterday, said that if the policies advocated by Messrs. Scullin and Theodore ...

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  3. HOUSING.

    A little more than a year ago real estate agents were confronted with the problem of letting houses and flats. In almost every suburb there were vacant houses or ...

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  4. TEST WICKET May be Slow and Easy.

    The wicket being prepared for the Fourth Test match on Friday suffered some slight damage from the spikes of fieldsmen to-day, but the curator, Farquhar, stated that he ...

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  5. ENGLAND'S INNINGS VICTORY. Queensland Totals Only 81 Runs.

    The English cricketers defeated Queensland by an innings and 61 runs. The home team in its second innings was dismissed for 81 runs in 100 minutes at the Brisbane Cricket Ground this afternoon, Oxceham topscoring with 17. ...

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  6. BRITAIN.

    Apart from routine matters and questions affecting home policy the British Parliament will reassemble to-morrow with the nowledge that it is faced with the most difficult task ...

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  7. REMAINS OF BOMB

    Early on Monday morning an attempt was made to blow up and burn M. Smith's bakehouse in North-street. Dalby. It was the second attempt within four months. ...

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  8. MUTINEERS. Dutch Warship.

    The Dutch battleship Zeven Provincien, which was taken to sea from Oleleh (Sumatra) by the native crew, which mutinied while the commander ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. CITY RATE.

    "In spite of rigorous pruning of estimates, I think it will be necessary to increase the city rate this year by at least /0¼ in the £," declared the Lord Mayor (Alderman Hagon) ...

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  10. WEAK DISPLAY.

    Queensland's second innings was commenced at 12.42 p.m., and in the 48 minutes before lunch four wickets fell for 33 runs'. The team which faced a first innings deficit of 142 runs. ...

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  11. TOBIN 12th MAN.

    The selectors announced to-night that B. J. Tobin would be 12th man in the Australian team to Hay England in the fourth test match to begin in Brisbane on Friday. ...

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  12. PLAYERS LEAVE FOR BRISBANE.

    The New South Wales players—D. G. Bradman, S. J. McCabe, W. J. O'Reilly, and H. S. Love—and the South Australians—V. Y. Richardson, T. Wall, and B. J. Tobin—left for ...

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  13. LORD MAYOR

    The Lord Mayor (Alderman Hagon) took a definite stand at a meeting of the City Council yesterday in regard to expending money on the improvement of city streets. Having ...

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  14. RABBIT PEST.

    A concerted State-wide drive of rabbit destruction was advocated by the Minister for Lands (Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw) yesterday "If every settler could be induced to devote ...

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  15. HEAT WAVE

    Heat wave records which have stood for 37 years for Perth were shattered to day commencing at 5.15 a.m. with the highest minimum ever recorded officially—80.6 degrees. The ...

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  16. GERMANY.

    A message from Berlin states that President von Hindenburg signed an emergency decree transferring to Herr von Papen, as Reich Commissioner for Prussia, all powers ...

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  17. DETAILS OF THE PLAY.

    When the match entered upon the third day at noon, the weather was warm and sultry, with a light north-west breeze blowing diagonally across the ground England, with eight ...

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  18. NEWNES FIELD.

    The Federal Government yesterday appointed three representatives to the committee of seven, under the chairmanship of Mr. R. W. Nelson, a Sydney accountant, who, with three ...

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  19. BLACKMAIL ALLEGED.

    A statement that information had been laid against two accused persons by the brother of one of them as the outcome of alleged blackmail, was made by Mr. T. P. MacMahon, ...

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  20. MR. HILL'S PLANS.

    It is anticipated that the Premier (Mr. Hill) will be appointed Agent-General by the Executive, Council to-morrow, [?] succession to Sir Henry Barwell, whose term expires on April ...

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  21. WALSH ISLAND.

    Mr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A. who, as Minister for Works in two Cabinets, had Walsh island under his control, said that if agreement to sell the dockyard during the war period ...

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  22. CONSUL'S VIEW.

    From the absence of official advice of the [?], the Consul-General for the Nether[?] (Mr. P. Staal) concludes that the mutiny [?] board the Zeven Provincien may be ...

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  23. MEAT QUOTA.

    The "Daily Express" says:—"Argentine meat firms are evading the quota by shipping prime Joints of 'beet as bagged meat, which ranks as offal and for which there is no quota." ...

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  24. APPEAL BOARDS.

    At yesterday's meeting of the Executive Council Mr. J. E. McCulloch, stipendiary magistrate at Wollongong, was appointed chairman of the Railway Appeals Board for ...

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  25. AUSTRALIAN TENNIS.

    W. Allison, of the American tennis team which has been touring Australia, said in an interview that the team had enjoyed themselves in Australia, and had found the ...

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  26. TRADE BALANCE.

    Notwithstanding the concern expressed in some quarters at the decreased favourable oversea trade balance, it is believed in Federal circles that not only will Australia ...

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  27. AVIATION.

    Squadron-Leader Gayford and Fight-Lieutenant Nicholetts, who left Cranwell at 7.12 o'clock yesterday morning in a Royal Air Force monoplane on a non-stop flight to ...

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  28. NEW GUARD.

    In the House ot Representatives. Mr. F. W. Schlamm (Labour) drew the attention of the Minister for Justice (Mr. Cobbe) to a statement by Mr. Eric Campbell, leader of the ...

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  29. MAIL BAG STOLEN

    A thief who took a mailbag containing 36 registered packets from the guard's van on a train at Meekatharra on Monday night while the goods shed was ablaze left behind ...

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  30. GOLD SHARES.

    On the stock market to-day the outstanding [?] was renewed activity in gold mining [?] A sharp increase in sterling rates [?] down the price of gold, and Kaffirs were ...

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  31. BURNT TO DEATH.

    Henry Richard Regan, 5 years, was burned to death in a fire which occurred at hit. fathers home at Soldiers Hill, Ballarat, early this morning. The place was almost enveloped ...

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  32. SECESSION.

    The secession referendum, for which voting is compulsory, will be held on the same day as the Legislative Assembly elections—April 8. ...

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  33. LIFE DISQUALIFICATION.

    The disqualification for three years or C. R. Powell, of Whangarel, on December 19, for improper practices in connection with the running of the horse Tetrachate, in the ...

    Article : 101 words
  34. INTEREST REDUCED

    Following the decision of the Commonwealth Bank to reduce further interest rates on fixed deposits, the trading banks took similar action to-day. Their rates are similar to those ...

    Article : 65 words
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