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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A bad motor accident occurred within half a mile of Bombala late last night at a spot known as Dead Man's Creek, because of the number of fatalities which have occurred there. ...

    Article : 93 words
  3. THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.

    Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, who was appointed yesterday to succeed Sir Isaac Isaacs, as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  4. FIERCE WIND.

    A fierce southerly wind swept the metropolitan area late yesterday afternoon. It fanned into flame a ouldering bush fire [?] Regent's Park, where about 800 acres ...

    Article : 342 words
  5. INFLATION.

    "The day must come when it will be a criminal offence for any politician to promise an antidote for our troubles and then fail in his promise," said Mr A. W. Butterell, a ...

    Article : 300 words
  6. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Addressing a meeting at Daceyville, called to consider the plight of the Daceyville Crown tenants, Alderman Alexander (Mayor of Mascot) said that if the unemployment ...

    Article : 477 words
  7. PARKES FIGHT.

    "The best friend of the Australian worker is borrowed money, and I would feel the greatest concern for the future of this country if we dried up the sources of borrowed money," said ...

    Article : 498 words
  8. NEW CRUISERS.

    Expert opinion is inclined to discount Sir William Berry's allegations that in cruisers of the Australia and Canberra type protection has been sacrificed to speed. ...

    Article : 341 words
  9. MOTOR COMPETITION.

    Following a reduction of the south-western rail services to tri-weekly, a private motor service from Hay to Narrandera, a distance of 107 miles, was established. At first it was little ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. COLLAPSED IN BARBER'S CHAIR.

    George Rees, aged 75 years, of St. Albar's-road, Schofields, walked into Conway's h[?]rdressing saloon at Riverstone, intending to have a shave. Immediately he sat in the chair, ...

    Article : 66 words
  11. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.

    Inspector Jeffrey, of Albury, has been informed that the postal agency at Kunaml, about six miles from Batlow, was broken into and £50 was reported to be missing. The ...

    Article : 42 words
  12. WESTERN COAL SHIPMENTS.

    Last year railway earnings at Lithgow totalled £287,166 as compared with £270,809 in 1929. Despatches comprised 845,716 tons of coal and 6006 tons of other materials ...

    Article : 58 words
  13. IS MR. SCULLIN LEADER?

    Mr. Archdale Parkhill, M.P., speaking in Lackey-street, Summer Hill, last night, said that it was time Mr. Scullin gave some sign of leadership to the Commonwealth, and made ...

    Article : 559 words
  14. SHARKS NUMEROUS.

    Sharks are plentiful just now in the Clarence River. Mr. A. Foreman, a Grafton fisherman, while fishing near Elizabeth Island landed eight sharks in his net. One of them, ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. BAND CONTESTS.

    A cold wind at the Sports Ground last night made conditions none too comfortable for the "B" grade session of the Band Association's contests, especially as contrasted with ...

    Article : 427 words
  16. VETERAN FIRE OFFICER.

    With a service of 51 years, Fourth-Officer Christopher Digby, now on long-service leave, will retire from the New South Wales Fire Brigades at the end of this month. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 123 words
  17. HOSPITAL APPEAL.

    I was stated at a meeting of the Church and State great hospital appeal yesterday that next month the actual collection of founds would be proceeded with. ...

    Article : 419 words
  18. CAT VERSUS SNAKE.

    Honours were divided in a combat between a venomous brown snake and a cat on the grounds of Mr. A. Friar's residence at Waterview, South Grafton. The cat was fatally ...

    Article : 69 words
  19. ROAD AND RAIL TRAIN.

    A demonstration run of a road train built by the London Midlands and Scottish Railway, to co-ordinate road and rail transport, was given to-day. The new vehicles, upon ...

    Article : 130 words
  20. LATE MR. EDWARD HIGGINS.

    The funeral of Mr. Edward Higgins, of Ewingsdale, took place at Bangalow Cemetery, Mr. Higgins was born at Tomerong, near Nowra, 71 years ago, and came to the Tweed ...

    Article : 895 words
  21. FORTY YEARS SERVICE.

    Mr. W. F. Burrow, M.I.E., Aust., late supervising engineer of metropolitan railway construction, recently retired from the Railway Department, after 40 years' service, 25 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 218 words
  22. ARBITRATION COURT

    Declaring that the Judges had been "put there to do a job, and were doing it," Mr. Theodore, M.P., last night delivered a bitter attack on the Federal Arbitration Court. He ...

    Article : 575 words
  23. SCHNEIDER TROPHY.

    The Secretary for the Air (Mr. Montague), in a written answer to questions in the House of Commons, said that the Government's decision not to participate in the Schneider ...

    Article : 55 words
  24. BARONESS COMMITS SUICIDE.

    The Baroness Fauiette de [?] the Chinese representative of Luxembourg iron interests, died this morning from the effects of self-administered poison. She had just ...

    Article : 90 words
  25. COMMUNISTS.

    At Balmain, a district where recent months have seen a considerable increase in unemployment and distress, Communists have been making a vigorous "drive" for converts. Some ...

    Article : 291 words
  26. LATE MR. W. URQUHART.

    Mr. William Urquhart, formerly Comptroller-General of Prisons in New South Wales, died at a private hospital yesterday. He was in his 71st year. During his 42 years in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 469 words
  27. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 312 words
  28. CANADIAN WHEAT YIELD.

    The estimate of Canada's wheat crop has increased by more than 2,000,000 bushels, as compared with the figures issued in November, according to the Bureau of Statistics. ...

    Article : 84 words
  29. LABOUR SPEAKERS.

    "The position in which Australia finds herself to-day is due to 15 years of Nationalist maladministration," said the Minister for Health (Mr. McGirr) at Haberfield last night, ...

    Article : 376 words
  30. COLLISION.

    A man was killed and another was seriously injured when a locomotive crashed into their cart on a level crossing between Rosehill and Clyde last night. ...

    Article : 208 words
  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A message from Paris states that the stonemason named Trill, who was acquitted at the Assizes on a charge of having murdeied his son, sought to resume the domination of his ...

    Article : 420 words
  32. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 words
  33. HOSPITAL CARNIVAL.

    Considerable interest has been shown in the result of the recent carnival in aid of the Western Travellers' Fund and Lithgow Hospital. ...

    Article : 123 words
  34. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    Recalling a statement on the position of the Commonwealth Bank [?]ade by the late Sir Denison Miller, in London in 1918, Mr. E. C. Riley, M.P., addressing a meeting of ...

    Article : 198 words
  35. YOUNG AMERICA.

    Tamworth, Austialla, has interested three schoolboys of Maugham. Louisiana (U.S.A.) They wrote to the postmaster at Tamworth for information concerning the town and district. ...

    Article : 111 words
  36. MURDER CHARGE.

    At the Ingham Police Court to-day Luigi Cattaneo, 39, was charged with having murdered Ignazio Gatti. Sergeant McHugh said he found the body ...

    Article : 165 words
  37. ASSAULTS ON SHOP.

    Regent-street police are investigating the strange story of a woman who stated that seveial men battered the doors of her shop in Surry Hills early yesterday morning. ...

    Article : 182 words
  38. MR. C. T. MERFIELD.

    Mr Charles James Merfield, 64, the assistant Government astronomer of Victoria, who lived in Hill-street Toorak, was killed in a motor accident near Ballarat to-day. Theodore ...

    Article : 194 words
  39. TO-DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 words
  40. MR. MARR AT HABERFIELD.

    "The question to be decided is whether our affairs are to be allowed to drift to the stage of complete disaster, or whether there is to be a revival of energy and courage in the ...

    Article : 183 words
  41. REFLOATED.

    After having been aground at Cape Maysi. Cuba, since Monday, the motorship Yomachichi of the American Pioneer line, has now been refloated, according to a cable message ...

    Article : 112 words
  42. THE HOSPITALS APPEAL.

    The Bolwarra Shire Council decided to inform the executive of the Church and State hospitals appeal that it was in favour of a State lottery to assist hospitals. The ...

    Article : 80 words
  43. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

    John Booth, 46, of Boronia-avenue, Pagewood, was killed instantly yesterday in Cityroad, Redfern. He was riding his motor cycle, and crashed into a motor lorry. ...

    Article : 33 words
  44. Y.A.L. BOYS.

    The Minister for Education visited the encampment of the Y.A.L. boys at the Showground on Thursday, and welcomed them on behalf of the Government. ...

    Article : 27 words
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