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  2. SCOTS' DAY.

    Scotsmen ushered in the New Year with enthusiastic revelry. No spot in the Highlands was ever more Scottish or ever more noisy than the green sward of the Sydney ...

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  3. COAL DISPUTE. Extension Threatened.

    If effect is given to the threat of the Miners' Federation, coal-miners in the western and southern districts of New South Wales and the other States of the Commonwealth will ...

    Article : 162 words
  4. NEW AIR SERVICE. Forced Landing Made.

    Misfortune attended the inauguration yesterday of the new commercial air service between Sydney and Brisbane by two planes of the Australian National Airways, Ltd. ...

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  5. SYDNEY EXPRESS.

    Two engines and a carriage were dera[?]d at Seymour to-night, when the Sydney limited express collided with the pilot engine, which was shunting in the railway yard. ...

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  6. GANDHI'S TRIUMPH.

    The Indian National Congress, in open session at Lahore, unanimously approved Gandhi's resolution demanding complete independence, and recommending a boycott ...

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  7. HONOURS LIST.

    The list of New Year honours includes new peerages, which are conferred upon the following:— Major Dudley Aman, who unsuccessfully ...

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  8. TERRIBLE CINEMA DISASTER. Sixty-nine Children Killed.

    Sixty-nine children lost their lives and 37 were injured in the worst cinema disaster in the history of Great Britain which occurred at the Glen Cinema, Paisley, six miles from Glasgow. Many children were suffocated or trampled to death in the panic ...

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  9. HOLIDAY SPIRIT.

    New Year's Day was observed in true holiday spirit at Branxton to-day. Many local miners left the town with their families for a day's outing at the various pleasure ...

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  10. SURF TRAGEDY.

    The lives of scores of bathers were endangered by a treacherous undertow at Bondi Beach yesterday. Thirty persons were rescued, and one man, Thomas Linskey, 29, ...

    Article : 436 words
  11. BRITAIN AND CHINA.

    The text is issued of a message handed to the Chinese Minister in London by Mr. Henderson, the British Foreign Secretary, on December 20 regarding the abolition of ...

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  12. AT CASINO.

    The passengers of the Southern Sky reached Casino to-night after a long day's motor journey over terrible roads. With Mr. Ulm they will leave to-morrow morning by train ...

    Article : 229 words
  13. A GLOOMY FORECAST.

    Opinion amongst moderate miners on the northern fields is now swinging to a belief that the coal dispute will last well on into the New Year. ...

    Article : 225 words
  14. LORD STONEHAVEN.

    The Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven), whose term expires in February, may be asked to continue in office for another 12 months. The move to prolong the stay of his ...

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  15. SITE OF ANCIENT CITY.

    A message from Jerusalem states that the Pontifical Biblical Institute's excavations resuited in the discovery of the site of Sodom, one of the cities of the plain mentioned in ...

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  16. BROTHERS DROWNED.

    A double drowning tragedy occurred in the Swan River, near the Causeway, last night, when two brothers—Roy Harding, l8, who had been selected as a member of the State ...

    Article : 246 words
  17. NAVAL CONFERENCE.

    The Australian Press Association finds British official quarters increasingly reluctant to discuss the French suggestion of a Mediterranean Locarno. Even should France persist ...

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  18. BRITISH FINANCE.

    The Exchequer returns for the nine months of the Budget year show revenue at £418,000,000, a decrease of £18,000,000, and expenditure £558 000,000, an increase of ...

    Article : 169 words
  19. THREAT OF STOPPAGE IN QUEENSLAND.

    The new log of claims served on the Commonwealth mine owners was endorsed at a meeting of the executive of the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union at Ipswich on ...

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  20. GUELPH TREASURE.

    The ex-Kaiser's son-in-law, Duke Ernst of Brunswick, recently decided to sell to German art dealers for £500,000 the famous collection of mediaeval works of ecclesiastical ...

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  21. THE SAMPAN AFFRAY.

    Police Constable Abraham, who was killed in the riot on Saturday, was buried on Sunday with military honours. The chief, Tamasese, who was fatally wounded while ...

    Article : 439 words
  22. UNITED STATES TRADE.

    The Department of Commerce has reported record-breaking foreign trade figures, even surpassing shipments during and immediately after the war. Both exports and imports ...

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  23. £20,000 MASTERPIECE.

    A Van Dyck masterpiece, "Concert des Anges." valued at £20,000, which was despatched a few days ago from Brussels to London, addressed to Mr. Godfry Philips, an art ...

    Article : 126 words
  24. BOY DROWNED.

    Sidney Nicholls, 16, of North stockton, was drowned in Newcastle Harbour this afternoon. The boy was giving a helping hand to a ...

    Article : 151 words
  25. LORD LLOYD.

    Yet another ex-statesman has adopted a business career. Lord Lloyd has joined the board of the International Sleeping Car Company. ...

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  26. PRINCESS MARIE JOSE.

    To the delight of all womenfolk, Prinecess Marie Jose's wedding trousseau is being exhibited in the windows of a dressmaking establishment in Brussels. ...

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  27. CHINESE NEW YEAR.

    China to-day officially joined the Western world in the observance of New Year's Day, having decreed the abolition of the ancient lunar calendar and the adoption of the ...

    Article : 139 words
  28. SHIPS IN HURRICANE.

    The Baron Dalmeny a motor ship from the Gulf of Mexico has arrived here Her log states that she was 37 days on the voyage The ship met hurricane seas 40 feet high. On ...

    Article : 141 words
  29. CARRIAGES DERAILED.

    Passengers in three carriages of an electric train, bound from the city to Hurstville, last night, had an alarming experience when the cars left the rails near Hurstville platform ...

    Article : 107 words
  30. SPANISH CABINET.

    There is a renewal of strange reports from Spain. A message from Madrid says that King Alfonso presided at a conference of Ministers, when General de Rivera submitted ...

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  31. WOMAN STEPS THROUGH GLASS.

    A visitor to Katoomba, Miss D. Patterson, of Arncliffe, was coming out of a novelty shop in the main street on Tuesday night when she mistook the window for an open ...

    Article : 63 words
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