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  2. POLICE INVESTIGATION.

    Some of the reports compiled at police headquarters each week for the information of members of the force are very human documents. They relate to a ...

    Article : 427 words
  3. VICTORIAN NEWS.

    While rowing with an eight-oared crew on the River Yarra near Queen's Bridge Henry Francis Baker, aged 19 years, collapsed and died. ...

    Article : 1,301 words
  4. WIDESPREAD RAINS.

    Further beneficial and widespread rains have fallen over a large area of Victoria throughout the wheat belt in the Riverina, and along the coastal and dairying districts ...

    Article : 365 words
  5. GENERAL CABLES.

    The Ministry's score of defeats now numbers 10, for during the committee stage of the Housing Bill there were two more adverse votes. The first was a Liberal ...

    Article : 122 words
  6. COUNTRY PLATFORM.

    The Federal political platform of the Country party was revised at a conference of the Australian Federal Farmers' organisation. The new platform is as follows:— ...

    Article : 1,118 words
  7. EASTBOURNE MURDER.

    Patrick Mahon, who was charged with the murder of Emily Bcilby Kaye at the Crumbles bungalow, Eastbourne, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. ...

    Article : 240 words
  8. PRICE OF BREAD.

    Receiving his first deputation from the Trades Hall, the Premier (Mr. Prendergast) gave a most sympathetic hearing to the matters placed before him. ...

    Article : 317 words
  9. ABDUCTION OF BOY CHARGED.

    Robert Scott, aged 56 years, labourer, has been committed for trial on a charge of having, during the month of May, 1923, at Yarraville, unlawfully by fraud taken away ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. STEAMER FOUNDERS.

    The steamer Matsuyama Maru (3,058 tons), which was lost on July 11 west of Goto Islands when on a voyage from Keelung (Formosa), sank with all hands ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. RAMMED AMIDSHIPS.

    The passenger steamer Boston, bound from Boston to New York, was rammed amidships during a heavy fog off Point Judith (Rhode Island) by an oil tank ...

    Article : 72 words
  12. YOUNG WOMEN ATTACKED.

    Two young women who accepted the invitation of three strange men to accompany them on a motor-car trip to Beaumaris were assaulted at a lonely spot at ...

    Article : 143 words
  13. CONSUL KILLED.

    The American consul (Major Imbrie) was killed, and Mr. D. Seymour, an American citizen, a police-officer, and six policemen were injured during an attack by a mob, ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. STRANDING OF EDINA.

    A Marine Court of Inquiry found that the charge laid against Captain Le Brun in connection with the stranding of the bay steamer Edina on the Gellibrand reef, off ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. PEOPLING THE NORTH-WEST.

    Dealing in Perth (W.A.) with the possibility of peopling the north west and north of the State, Mr. F. J. Wise, tropical agricultural expert attached to the ...

    Article : 323 words
  16. HENRY FORD, PROHIBITIONIST.

    The ardour of Mr. Henry Ford, the millionaire manufacturer of motor-cars, as a prohibitionist is now expressed in an endeavour to compel employees throughout ...

    Article : 84 words
  17. STATE FLOUR MILL FAVOURED.

    The Premier (Mr. Prendergast) told a deputation from the Housewives Association, which waited upon him in reference to the increased price of bread, that the ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. POPPIES FROM FRANCE.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that 100 women have been engaged on the Somme battlefield for the last fortnight picking thousands ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. WOMAN'S BODY IN SCRUB.

    The decomposed body of a woman was found in tea tree scrub at Chelsea (V.), on July 24, only about 200 yards from where a skull had been found a few days earlier. ...

    Article : 63 words
  20. TOILER OF THE SEA.

    Cappadona, a well-known diver in the Mediterranean, had an astonishing encounter with a stingray while repairing the Toulon-Antibes cables. The stingray has ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. MELBOURNE GAOL.

    Arrangements are being made by the Penal department for the Melbourne Gaol to be vacated on Monday. Officials and prisoners will be transferred to the new ...

    Article : 84 words
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