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  2. SENATE'S CALL

    Over-riding the protests of Government senators, the Senate to-day agreed to a motion by the leader of the Opposition (Sir George Pearce) that the chairman of the board of the ...

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  3. WRECKED

    The small coastal steamer Progress broke her tail shaft in Cook Strait last night when a hard southerly gale sprang up. To-day the vessel drifted on to rocks, and broke up. ...

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  4. MAIL ROBBERY

    Banknotes fo the value of £10,000, consigned by the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney to its branch at Canberra, were stolen during transit on Thursday night. ...

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  5. STATE CAUCUS.

    The early proceedings of the State Parliamentary Labour caucus yesterday were extremely lively. It appears that from the outset the ...

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  6. EXPLOSION WRECKS LABORATORY

    A message from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) says that half of the 400 employees at the Naval Laboratory at Nictheroy are reported to have been ...

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  7. ANOTHER LANG PLAN To Raise £5,000,000

    At the Parliamentary Labour caucus meeting yesterday, the Premier (Mr. Lang) announced that Cabinet had agreed to a bill to enforce insurance companies generally to pay into the State Treasury cash guarantees. ...

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  8. BY-ELECTION. Conservative Win.

    The Ashton-under-Lyne by-election, caused by the death of Mr. A. Bellamy (Lab.), resulted in a victory for the Conservative candidate, ...

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  9. KING CAROL

    King Carol dissolved the Roumanian Parliament on its first meeting, following the formation of the new Cabinet. The Prime Minister (Professor Jorga) ...

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  10. DETAILS OF BILL.

    The guarantees are to be based on the premium incomes of the individual companies. The Premier explained to the caucus ...

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  11. LAND TAXATION.

    In the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Snowden) moved to permit the Finance Bill to embrace taxation on land values, though this would not operate ...

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  12. EARLY GENERAL ELECTION UNLIKELY.

    Sir Herbert Samuel, addressing the National Liberal Club on the Budget, which he described as a Budget of expedients, said that unless the Government failed to carry out ...

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  13. THE KING.

    The King was able to enjoy a walk in the grounds of Windsor Castle to-day for the first time since his illness. Accompanied by the Queen, he spent nearly ...

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  14. MAY DAY.

    Perhaps it was a new determination to maintain law and order; perhaps it was a sheer disinclination to do anything out of the ordinary; or perhaps it was the presence of ...

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  15. THE LONDON SEASON.

    Although the grand opera season began on Monday night, and throughout the week has been attracting fashionable audiences to Covent Garden, the event which is generally ...

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  16. EARL KITCHENER.

    Sir John Fortescue, who wrote the "History of the British Army from 1899-1929," makes a remarkable indictment of the late Earl Kitchener in an article in "Blackwood's ...

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  17. HOSPITAL APPEAL.

    Though the decision to dispense this year with the chocolate wheels and other carnival attractions in Martin-place and Customshouse-square, robbed the Hospital Saturday ...

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  18. AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

    Rear-Admiral Evans, who will return to England in two or three weeks, paid a glowing tribute to the Australian navy in the course of a farewell interview yesterday. ...

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  19. TEMORA TRAGEDY.

    A post-mortem examination of the body of John Billings, one of the victims of the Temira tragedy, disclosed a fractured skull and two bullet wounds in the head. An ...

    Article : 359 words
  20. BISHOP OF GOULBURN.

    In his monthly Bishop's letter, the Bishop of Goulburn, Dr. Radford, states that he desires to associate himself wholeheartedly with the action of the Bishops of Newcastle ...

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  21. LION CUB

    A lion cub, which, with several other wild animals, was being used for lecture and exhibition purposes at Whittier School, In Cincinnati, leaped upon Vivian Lelchner, seven ...

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  22. THE EARTHQUAKE.

    The latest estimate of the dead in "the area affected by the earthquake in Asia Minor is 536. The survivors have suffered terribly from ...

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  23. STOLEN DETONATORS.

    Following on a report from the Kempsey High School that children had been found in possession of quarry detonators, the police made an investigation, and discovered that a ...

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  24. BRITISH NAVY.

    The naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," describing the gradual conversion of the British navy from steam to internal combustion machinery, points out that when ...

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  25. MEAT STRIKE.

    There were few outward sign[?] to-day that about 450 slaughtermen and labourers employed at the different abattoirs were on strike. ...

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  26. WOMAN'S DEATH.

    Thomas Garrity, 49, a fishmonger, of Baystreet, Port Melbourne, who was arrested on Wednesday on a charge of vagrancy, was charged at the City Watch-house to-day with ...

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  27. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

    Representatives of the Independent Labour party, giving evidence before the Royal Commission, proposed that the Income taxpayer should be compelled to contribute to ...

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  28. SINGLE DISSOLUTION.

    When Mr. Scullin's attention was directed to reports from Melbourne that a section of the Labour party would prefer a dissolution of the House of Representatives only to a ...

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  29. AIR MAILS.

    Air-commodore Kingsford Smith, in the Southern Cross, left here at 12.35 o'clock for Alor Star, in the Malay States. TASMANIAN SERVICE. ...

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  30. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE.

    The "Financial News," recalling Sir Otto Nlemeyer's declaration last August that Australia had two years to put her house in order, says: "The breathing space has been ...

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  31. FAIRBAIRN AND SHENSTONE

    Messrs. Fairbairn and Shenstone left at 11 o'clock this morning for the south by 'plane. Fairbairn says that Casuarian Beach, near Darwin, was ideal for small 'planes landing ...

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  32. STREPHON II. FAILS.

    The Australian racehorse, Strephon II., was second favourite at 11 to 4 in the March Slakes, of a mile and a quarter Ho ran well for seven furlongs, and was still lending at ...

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  33. AN OLD MAN'S CHOICE.

    An old man—his age was given as 93—was called at the Central Court yesterday, and was so weak that he waa only just able to totter into court. He spoke in a weak and quivering ...

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  34. TAX ON RENTS.

    Delegates to the Labour Council have been informed by the secretary (Mr. J. S. Garden) that the Government proposes to introduce a tax of 3d in the £ on rents to provide funds ...

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  35. FLOODED RAILWAYS.

    The Aberdare Central Colliery was able to work the whole of this week, as there were sufficient coal hoppers in the colliery siding interruption by flood waters to the South ...

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  36. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

    The New York stock market showed a vigorous rally, especially toward the close when active issues throughout the list spurted up from 2 to 10 points. United States Steel ...

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  37. MAN KILLED.

    Having fallen from an electric train at the Stanmore railway station last night, Leopold Ahearn, 39, a tramway employee, of Concord West, was fatally inlured. ...

    Article : 64 words
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