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  2. BUSHFIRES.

    Bushfires and grassfires have wrought great havoc in the west and in Riverina, and in some places are still burning fiercely. Great areas of pastoral country have been ...

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  3. ELECTIONS.

    The counting of primary votes in New South Wales has been completed, and Darling is now the only seat in doubt. Delay has been experienced owing to the ...

    Article : 259 words
  4. RETIRING.

    Yesterday was the last day of the seven years' term as Assistant Railway Commissioners of Messrs, O. W. Brain and A. D. J. Forster. They were ...

    Article : 333 words
  5. ROYAL NAVY.

    Economies in the Royal Navy will be so drastically applied next year that the usual combined exercises of the Mediterranean and Atlantic fleets will be abandoned for the first ...

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  6. REPARATIONS. CONFERENCE OF NATIONS

    It is officially announced that the conference of nations, suggested by the British Government to consider the vital question of reparation payments, ...

    Article : 501 words
  7. PATRIOTIC GIFTS

    Heavy instalments of income tax, totalling about £200,000,000, are due for payment next month, and the authorities express confidence that the money will be forthcoming before the ...

    Article : 279 words
  8. NEW FEDERAL MINISTRY. Portfolios Allotted.

    Owing to the difficulty of getting into touch with members of the United Australia party, who are scattered over the Commonwealth and on the high seas, Mr. Lyons, although he spent the whole of yesterday and part of to-day in endeavouring to communicate with them by telephone, telegraph, and ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. DISTRESS IN GERMANY.

    The "Daily Herald's" Berlin correspondent says that 20,000,000 Germans are dragging out a miserable existence on the relief provided by the remaining two-thirds of the population. ...

    Article : 158 words
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  11. STATE LOTTERY.

    Miss Dorothy Brunton, the popular musical comedy artist, drew the principal prizes from the barrel when the 28th State lottery was drawn at Her Majesty's Theatre yesterday. ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. OUTBREAK OF FIRE

    Firemen at Northcote were awakened from [?]s morning to fight a fire [?] station and to rescue the wife of the station officer (Mr. W. Eaton), who was ...

    Article : 147 words
  13. MR. LYONS ATTACKED

    Mr. J. A. J. Hunter, Country party member for Maranoa, attacked Mr. Lyons on his arrival here to-day. Mr. Lyons, he said, had missed the opportunity of a lifetime, and the ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. UNEMPLOYED IN U.S.A.

    Mr. Edward McGrady, of the American Federation of Labour, when advocating Federal relief for unemployed told the Senate Committee that American salary and wage earners, ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. NEW YEAR'S EVE.

    Nineteen thirty-one bade the world farewell last night with bowed head, and 1932 stepped forward with all the confidence and joie de vivre of unconquered youth. ...

    Article : 538 words
  16. NEW YEAR HONOURS.

    The award of the following New Year Honours to South Australians was announced to-day:— K.B.E.: Mr. W. J. Young, C.B.E., managing ...

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  17. BOMBS IN MAIL.

    An apparent elaborate anti-Fascist plot to kill prominent Italian financiers, editors, and diplomats throughout the eastern parts of the United States was exposed, with murderous ...

    Article : 144 words
  18. MR. STANLEY LANE-POOLE.

    The death has occurred of Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole, the historian and archaeologist. [Mr. Lane-Poole was Professor of Arabic at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1898 to 1904. He ...

    Article : 207 words
  19. THE TARIFF.

    Newcastle manufacturers to-day expressed great satisfaction at the refusal of Mr. Lyons to concede the portfolio of Customs to the United Country party. ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. MANCHURIA.

    The Chinese continued to-day the evacuation of Chinchow. The Japanese, pushing forward on two fronts, have entered the railway junction city of Kowpangtze, 50 miles ...

    Article : 283 words
  21. INDIA.

    The Viceroy (Lord Willingdon) uttered a stern warning to Congress in a speech at the annual dinner of the European Association here last night. ...

    Article : 243 words
  22. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN VIEW.

    Commenting on Mr. Lyons' statement that the new Ministry would be a national Ministry, and in no sense a coalition Ministry, Senator Carroll (C.P.) said that Mr. Lyons ...

    Article : 151 words
  23. DR. PAGE'S DECISION.

    The secretary of the Primary Producers' Association (Mr. H. J. Prater) to-day supported Dr. Page's action in refusing a portfolio under Mr. Lyons. He said: "The ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. AIR MAILS.

    Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith flatly denies stories that he intends to accept an appointment in England. "I have not the faintest desire to leave Australia," he said. ...

    Article : 115 words
  25. HEAT WAVE

    A strong southerly change shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday saved Sydney, temporarily, at least, from the heat wave which has been operating over inland areas for nearly a ...

    Article : 380 words
  26. SERIOUS CHARGES

    Three men who were arrested by detectives at East Melbourne yesterday were charged at the City Court to-day with complicity in daring robberies which took place between ...

    Article : 344 words
  27. TRUCK OVERTURNS

    A railway truck carrying a section of a bridge overturned at Emu Plains railway station shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday morning, delaying traffic on the western line for a ...

    Article : 150 words
  28. FORMER GERMAN FLEET.

    A firm which has spent eight years salvaging the ex-German fleet from the bottom of Scapa Flow, the Scottish naval base, is ceasing operations. ...

    Article : 101 words
  29. MR. CHURCHILL.

    Mr. Winston Churchill has recovered from the injuries he received a fortnight ago, when he was knocked down by a taxi-cab. He received Press representatives, and discussed the world's ...

    Article : 173 words
  30. ACTOR'S DEATH.

    A message from Hollywood states that Mr. Tyrone Power died suddenly at the Hollywood Athletic Club to-day. He retired last night, apparently in excellent health. He rose ...

    Article : 202 words
  31. FAIRFAX

    Fairfax intends to leave for England shortly, to play for Accrington, notwithstanding the refusal of the Board of Control to release him from his contract. Fairfax made ...

    Article : 122 words
  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Secretary for Home Affairs (Sir Herbert Samuel, who has been spending part of the Parliamentary recess at Torquay (Devon), set out by motor car to visit Dartmoor Prison, ...

    Article : 213 words
  33. ARMED THIEF

    Entering a general store at Daradgee, near Innisfail, last night, an armed thief fired at Mr. C. Fava, the proprietor, fatally wounding him. ...

    Article : 194 words
  34. £800 STOLEN.

    A registered mail bag, consigned by rail from Perth to Perenjori was tampered with some time between Monday night and Tuesday morning and £800 in notes was stolen. ...

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  35. MR. C. P. SCOTT ILL.

    Mr. C. P. Scott, governing director of the Manchester Guardian," who is lying seriously [?] at his Manchester home, was reported to [?]e weaker to-day. ...

    Article : 169 words
  36. OVERSEA INTEREST.

    It was announced yesterday on behalf of the New South Wales Government that an amount totalling £1,750,000 had been paid into the Commonwealth Bank on behalf of ...

    Article : 116 words
  37. AGUA CALIENTE.

    A message from San Diego states that Mr. Crofton, secretary of Agua Caliente Jockey Club, has confirmed the reports that all of the Agua Caliente stakes, including the ...

    Article : 106 words
  38. CRUSHED BY CAR.

    Councillor Griffeth, President of the Shire of Mornington and managing director of the Two Bays Nurseries, was found dead this afternoon in unusual circumstances. ...

    Article : 96 words
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