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  2. STATE CAUCUS.

    The Government proposes to bring down legislation to compel gas companies to reduce the price of gas to consumers. It is understood that electricity supplied by private ...

    Article : 386 words
  3. CYCLONE.

    Damage running into thousands of pounds was done by a cyclone which, accompanied by lightning, thunder, hail, and heavy rain, cut a path about a quarter of a mile wide through ...

    Article : 985 words
  4. FAMILY MISSING.

    Pol[?] are searching the River Murrumbid[?]ee, about 45 miles above Hay, for traces of W. Baskshell, about 37, and his wife and their eight-year-old son, who have been ...

    Article : 172 words
  5. THE PREMIERS

    At the invitation of the Premiers' representatives of the Commonwealth Bank and the principal trading banks attended the Premiers' Conference to-day to hear from the Prime ...

    Article : 846 words
  6. SCHNEIDER CUP.

    To-day the attention of the world will be fixed on the Solent, over which at least one of Britain's new seaplanes will speed so that the Schneider Trophy may become the ...

    Article : 237 words
  7. ECONOMY BILL.

    "If Mr. Snowden's task yesterday was difficult, what is mine to-day?,' said the Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald), moving the second reading of the Economy Bill, authorising the ...

    Article : 289 words
  8. BRITAIN'S DRASTIC BUDGET

    The supplementary Budget introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden) in the House of Commons this afternoon provides for increased taxation and drastic cuts in expenditure. By the proposals, the estimated deficit for the present financial year ...

    Article : 212 words
  9. WOMEN DEBATED.

    Before an audience of women in St. James' Hall, yesterday, two women debated the respective merits of women of to-day and of a century ago. Mrs. Emily Bennett, ...

    Article : 349 words
  10. (FROM OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE.)

    Members of Britain's "high-speed flight," who have been in training at Calshot for several weeks in preparation for the race for the Schneider Trophy, have all had interesting ...

    Article : 1,237 words
  11. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    Thunderous applause greeted Lord Cecil's declaration at the Assembly of the League of Nations that no Government, least of all the British, could tolerate for a moment the ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. CHANCELLOR'S STATEMENT.

    The floor and galleries of the House were crowded when Mr Snowden rose to perform what he described as one of the most disagreeable tasks which had ever fallen to his ...

    Article : 2,515 words
  13. BADLY WOUNDED.

    Sidney Vincent Devine, brother of James Devine, had his right arm shattered by a rifle bullet last night. He was found staggering about ...

    Article : 317 words
  14. GIANT ZEPPELIN.

    A message from Berlin states that parts of the ill-fated. R101 are being embodied in the giant new zeppelin, LZ129, which will be nearly twice the size of the present Graf ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. PHILLIP WARD.

    "My opponent is Donald Grant, well-known Domain agitator, and self-avowed Communist," said Mr R. H. Diamond, Citizens' Reform Association candidate for the Phillip Ward ...

    Article : 255 words
  16. UPPER HOUSE.

    Nothing has happen[?] in the past fortnight to alter the opinion of well-informed persons that the Dominions Secretary (Mr. Thomas) will not intervene in the New South Wales ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. PHAR LAP.

    Although Phar Lap, the great turf champion, is not engaged in any of the events at Tattersall's spring meeting at Randwick this afternoon, the public will have an opportunity ...

    Article : 268 words
  18. CONFERENCE

    With a view to discussing means of rehabilitating industry, which is daily becoming worse, the Chamber of Manufactures will ask the Premier (Mr Lang) to convene ...

    Article : 215 words
  19. LOTTERY QUEUES.

    The State Lottery Department, situated in the Savings Bank building, has been asked to vacate its premises there, and to seek other quarters, on the ground, in effect, that the ...

    Article : 189 words
  20. UNITED STATES' GOLD.

    The Federal Reserve Board announced yesterday that the United States monetary gold stock was £1,000,000,000, or nearly half the monetary gold in the world. Money in ...

    Article : 47 words
  21. SEVENTEEN ARRESTS.

    In quick succession, 17 men and women who addressed a meeting held under the auspices of the Unemployed Workers' Movement at Glebe last night were arrested by ...

    Article : 500 words
  22. NEW ZEALAND CRICKETERS.

    In the match against the New Zealand cricketers, who scored 217 in their first innings Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's Eleven yesterday declared their first innings closed with ...

    Article : 208 words
  23. WAGES TAX

    Commenting on the proposal to increase the wages tax of 1/ in £ 2/ or 2/6 in £1, he president of the Chamber of Manufactures (Mr. H. Gordon Bennett) said yesterday that ...

    Article : 184 words
  24. ARMED MEN.

    The manager of the branch of the Queensland National Bank at Marburg, near Ipswich (Mr. E. A. King) was awakened about 2.30 o'clock this morning by voices, and, on going ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. BUSHMAN'S ORDEAL.

    William Francis, a young man, had a gruelling time last night in the dense scrub near the Bellinger River Gorge. A tree which he was felling kicked back, ...

    Article : 215 words
  26. PHILADELPHIA GOLD CUP

    H. R. ("Bobby") Pearce, the Australian sculler, to-night defeated Ken Myers (Philadelphia) at Toronto by two lengths, to win the Philadelphia Gold Cup for the second ...

    Article : 45 words
  27. MOTOR FUEL.

    Messrs. Alan F. Lyon and A. Gatley Lyon, of Newcastle, claim that, in the course of experiments at Wallsend in the treatment of coal for by-products, they discovered a new ...

    Article : 229 words
  28. YUGOSLAV'S STORY.

    Jack Mernovich, a Yugoslav contractor, of Waroona, in the south-west district, told members of the Fremantle Criminal Investigation Branch this morning that he was ...

    Article : 135 words
  29. LAWN TENNIS.

    At Forest Hills to-day in the quarter-finals of the United States national tennis tournament, Lott (U.S.A.) defeated Van Ryn (U.S.A.) 5-7, 1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 6-1: Perry (Britain) defeated ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. CONFIDENCE TRICK.

    A North Auckland farmer states that recently he was robbed ot £1200 by a confidence trick worked by four men, who induced him to become interested in a fictitious ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. 1100 PER CENT.

    A statement was made at the Tariff Board to-day that on cheap imitation pearl buttons the prote[?]on is as high as 1100 per cent. The board was considering an application by the ...

    Article : 90 words
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