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  2. SUGAR AGREEMENT.

    By a writ issued out of the High Court, Charles Frederick Borradale Anderson, engineer, of Kew, some time ago sought to restrain the Commonwealth "from signing or ...

    Article : 160 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS. DESTRUCTION OF FISH.

    Complaints have been made regarding persons using explosives to destroy fish in the Murrumbidgee River. In one instance, after the firing of six shots of gelignite, hundreds ...

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  4. BALLOT PAPERS.

    At the court of petty sessions yesterday, two residents were convicted on charges of having attested signatures on ballot papers when the papers had not been signed in their ...

    Article : 302 words
  5. OIL FROM FRUIT.

    Giving evidence yesterday before the Tariff Board, which is inquiring into the excise duty on spirit for perfumes Ernest Edward Herrod, secretary of the Fruitgrowers' ...

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  6. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    Percy A. Pavey, of the Caulfield Rifle Club, further enhanced his reputation at the annual matches of the Victorian Rifle Association to-day by brilliantly winning his fourth King's ...

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  7. PETITION TO KING

    The New Guard petition to the King, praying for the dissolution of the New South Wales Parliament, was presented to the Governor (Sir Philip Game) yesterday. ...

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  8. MR. E. HILMER SMITH.

    SAVINGS BANK SUPERINTENDENT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. FEDERAL SESSION. MR. SCULLIN'S APPEAL

    The leader of the Opposition (Mr. Scullin) moved the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day to discuss the unemployment position. He suggested that the ...

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  10. TRESPASS ON RAILWAY LANDS.

    James Mitchell, 30, Sidney Dowling, 1[?], Richard Lynch, 33, Augustus Galmes, 20, John Reeves, 42, Frederick Bates, l8, and John Henderson, l8, were each fined £2, in default ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. BAN ON SUNDAY FOOTBALL.

    Bathurst Council, at a special meeting, decided not to allow Sunday football on its grounds. This reverses a former decision to take a vote of the ratepayers on the subject. ...

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  12. WORK CEASES ON BRIDGE.

    Work on the Prince Alfred bridge was suspended yesterday evening, and the employees were given instant notice. It was stated that no timber was available. The townspeople are ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. BOWRAL WATER SUPPLY.

    Mr. Mark Morton, M.L.A., has forwarded to the Bowral Municipal Council a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Treasury intimating that the question of the reduction of the ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. CAR OVERTURNS TWICE.

    Three well-known residents of Albury had an extraordinary escape from severe injury near Violet Town, Victoria, yesterday, when a motor car, in which they were travelling, ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. UNPAID WAGES.

    John Yerakitis proceeded against John Princas in the industrial Court for the recovery of £113/6/6 for unpaid wages, underpaid wages, and overtime. Both claimant and ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. ENGLISH CRICKET. Wisden's Chosen Five.

    Wisden's five cricketers for the year in England are the Nawab of Pataudi Jim Langridge Verity, Bowes, and Dempster, who is described as the best batsmen New Zealand ...

    Article : 360 words
  17. ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH.

    Seventy-five years ago to-day—March 12, 1857—St. Michael's Church of England, Flinders-street, Surry Hills, was consecrated by the late Bishop Barker. The foundation-stone ...

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  18. STORMY MEETING.

    At a stormy meeting yesterday, 400 shareholders and suppliers of the Casino Co-operative Dairy Society adopted the directors' and auditors' reports covering operations for the ...

    Article : 225 words
  19. COTTAGE DESTROYED.

    A six-roomed weatherboard cottage, owned and occupied by Mr. John McGrath, an attendant at the mental hospital, was destroyed by fire this evening. The brigade was ...

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  20. CASUALTIES.

    Thelma Elliott, 6, of 29 Roberts-avenue, Camperdown, was alighting from a tram at the Reservoir-street stopping-place, Surry Hills, when the tram moved, and she fell ...

    Article : 154 words
  21. UNEMPLOYED PATIENTS.

    In a report to the board of the Lithgow Hospital, the secretary (Mr. W. A. Carroll) said that 62 per cent, of the patients who were treated during February were totally ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. THE SUBURBS.

    At the last meeting of the Blaxland-road and District Progress Association, at Ryde, it was unanimously decided to form a working bee for the cutting of paspalum on the ...

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  23. HOTEL LICENSEE FINED.

    Theresa Clarke, licensee of the Royal Hotel, was fined £2, with £8 costs, for being the licensee of premises on which persons were found in prohibited hours. Mr. W. A. Cole ...

    Article : 128 words
  24. ITINERANT SINGER.

    Eric Malpas, of Melbourne, who is cycling around the world, and paying his expenses by writing verse and singing in the street, had a fierce encounter with three constables in ...

    Article : 146 words
  25. MR. DAVIES AT WELLINGTON.

    The Minister for Education (Mr. Davies) paid a visit to the local school this morning. He was welcomed by the Mayor and aldermen and members of the Parents and Citizens' ...

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  26. RARE MARSUPIAL.

    Caloprymnus campestris, which is one of the rarest of all marsupials, and has not been taken for nearly 100 years, has been rediscovered on the Diamentina by Mr. H. H. ...

    Article : 213 words
  27. MURCHISON TRIAL.

    The trial of John Thomas Smith, alias "Snowy" Rowles, 26, on a charge of having on May l8, 1930, murdered Leslie George Brown, 27, a married man, also known as ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. MR. CAMPBELL'S STATEMENTS.

    The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) issued a statement yesterday afternoon denying certain portions of a speech made by Mr. Eric Campbell, leader of the New Guard, at ...

    Article : 424 words
  29. STORY OF AMBUSH

    A man who reported to the police on Friday, March 4, that he had been ambushed and robbed by two thieves, has made a statement, and the police now believe that no robbery took ...

    Article : 125 words
  30. LINDBERGH'S BABY.

    Henry Johnson, a seaman, who was detained at Newark, New Jersey, in connection with the Lindberg kidnapping, was formally placed under arrest to-night on a charge of violating ...

    Article : 118 words
  31. LATE LADY KATER.

    Probate has been granted to the will of Jean Gaerloch Kater, late wife of Sir Norman Kater, who died in London on December 27. The estate, sworn at £19,098, was devised ...

    Article : 43 words
  32. COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION.

    The Gunning branch of the Country Women's Association, at its ninth annual meeting, elected Mrs. J. H. Baird president, Mrs. Cecil Medway secretary, and Miss E. ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. INDEX.

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  34. THIEVES SENTENCED.

    At the Katoomba Police Court, Charles McKeown, 26, and Leonard Raymond Wilson, 20, were charged with having stolen a quantity of cutlery and other goods from ...

    Article : 90 words
  35. CHAIRMAN OF BUILDERS' EXCHANGE.

    Mr. Les Dumbrell, the newly elected chairman of the Builders Exchange. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  36. MARRIED BY PROXY.

    A young bride arrived from Malta yesterday morning by the Balranald on her way to Ingham, Queensland, where she will meet her husband, to whom the was married by ...

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  37. THE UNIONS.

    A stop-work meeting, it was said yesterday, would be held at tanneries and textile factories at Botany next week, to discuss the 10 per cent, wage reduction, the restoration ...

    Article : 352 words
  38. HOUSE OF LORDS.

    The Prince of Wales unveiled to-day in the Royal gallery of the House of Lords a memorial to members of the House and their sons who had fallen in the war. ...

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  39. AGED MAN FOUND DEAD.

    Yesterday afternoon, a visitor from Sydney, while walking below Evan's Lookout, Blackheath, came upon the body of an old man, who had apparently fallen from the top—a ...

    Article : 55 words
  40. ALLEGED BUILDING WITHOUT PERMISSION.

    The inspector of the Fairfield Council reported at the last meeting that a man had erected a two-roomed building in Sackvillestreet without the permission of the council. ...

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  41. LABOUR PARTY.

    Exception was taken at a meeting of the central executive of the Victorian Labour party to-night to the action of certain members of the Federal Labour party in the New South ...

    Article : 116 words
  42. Advertising

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  43. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Lord Stanley of Alderley, who was married on March 4, to Lady Victoria Chetwynd-Talbot daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury may extend his honeymoon, and proceed from ...

    Article : 257 words
  44. MILK SUPPLIES.

    Mr. Fred. J. Madden, secretary of the Suburban Dairymen's Association, said yesterday that the prices fixed by the Milk Board were not in any way excessive—in fact, they were ...

    Article : 351 words
  45. COMMUNISM.

    At the last meeting of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council, Councillor Dorrington declared that he refused to sit with a council which was in sympathy with Communists, and he ...

    Article : 95 words
  46. "TWO-UP" PLAYERS FINED.

    As a sequel to a raid on a "two-up school on the Morpeth-road recently, 19 men were fined £1, with 8/ costs, each, at the East Maitland Police Court to-day. ...

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  47. ENGINEERS' CONFERENCE.

    The annual conference of the Institution of Engineers was practically concluded to-day, when the final series of papers was read by Messrs. R. H. Chapman (chief engineer of ...

    Article : 75 words
  48. DRIVER'S NECK BROKEN.

    Herbert Henry Hockley, 10, of Bray's-road, Concord, Sydney, who was injured when he dived into shallow water in the Macquarie River, and later was admitted to hospital, is ...

    Article : 45 words
  49. MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 words
  50. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. C. W. A. Scott, who made a two-way flight between England and Australia last year, proposes leaving England on March 19 in an attempt to make a new aerial record ...

    Article : 108 words
  51. THE SENATE.

    Several important amendments to the standing Order involving radical changes in procedure were agreed to in the Senate to-day. when the report of the Standing Orders ...

    Article : 372 words
  52. VISITOR'S LOSS.

    Mr. J. M. Sampson, racehorse owner, who arrived from New Zealand last Tuesday by the steamer Marama lost about £400 in £10 and £20 banknotes in the city yesterday. He ...

    Article : 100 words
  53. STOWAWAYS PAY THEIR FARES.

    As the intercolonial liner Maunganui, with 431 tourists bound for Sydney to witness the opening of the Harbour Bridge, was proceeding down the harbour this afternoon, three ...

    Article : 79 words
  54. TO-DAY.

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  55. FAREWELL TO BISHOP.

    The Right Rev. J. Dwyer, Roman Catholic Bishop of Wagga, visited Albury to-day to say good-bye to Albury parishioners. There was a large gathering at St. Patrick's Hall. A ...

    Article : 75 words
  56. SOLICITOR ACQUITTED.

    The hearing was concluded to-day of the case against Andrew John Handran, 30, solicitor, who was charged with having, as trustee of moneys in the estate of Clara Josephine ...

    Article : 59 words
  57. THE NORTHERN FIRTH.

    A report reached Sydney yesterday that the freighter Northern Firth, which was w[?]ecked on Brush Island on February 21, is now practically submerged. At high tide, the report ...

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  58. WOMAN ROBBED.

    A bagsnatcher seized the handbag and purse of Selina Edwards, of Rutledge-street, Eastwood, last night, as she was walking along Shaftesbury-road, Eastwood. ...

    Article : 42 words
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