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  2. COUNTRY NEWS. GUYRA-DORRIGO RAILWAY.

    The Railway Commissioneis undertook to commence the conduction of the Guyra-Derrigo railway on August 1, and true to their word a commencement has been made. Eighty ...

    Article : 70 words
  3. PREFERENCE. Railway Construction.

    On the application of the Commissioner for Railways, the Board of Trade on Saturday varied the clause in railway construction giving preference to members of the A.W.U., ...

    Article : 293 words
  4. ELEVEN KILLED. Motoring Accidents.

    Week-end motoring accidents are taking an ever-increasing toll of human life, and the grim record of Saturday and Sunday was one of the worst that has ever been reported in ...

    Article : 89 words
  5. RAIN AT JAMBOREE. Camp Fire Scenes.

    The correspondent of the Australian Press Association at the Boy Scout Jamboree at Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, says that a heavy downpour of rain fell throughout the night, ...

    Article : 224 words
  6. ARMED THIEVES.

    Within an hour on Saturday night a man, armed with a revolver, held up six persons in Ascot Vale and Moonee Ponds. Other cases of street robberies occurred at ...

    Article : 750 words
  7. OBSERVANCE OF WAR ANNIVERSARY.

    THE RETURNED SOLDIERS' LEAGUE PLACED A WREATH ON THE CENOTAPH YESTERDAY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 15 words
  8. PIONEER OF WOLLONGONG DIES.

    The death occurred at Wollongong list night of Alexander Lang, at the age of 84 years. He came to Wollongong over 50 years ago, and for some considerable time worked in mines. ...

    Article : 1,619 words
  9. TWO MEN KILLED.

    Two men were killed outright and four others had remarkable escapes from death, when a motor lorry crashed over a cliff on the main Northern-road, near Wiseman's Ferry, ...

    Article : 313 words
  10. PRINCE'S INSPECTION.

    The Prince of Wales spent last night in camp at the jamboree. He was astir very early this morning, and visited the camps of Scouts of various nations. His Royal Highness ...

    Article : 696 words
  11. WATERSIDE WORKERS.

    Aggrieved because they claimed that a measure of preference was being given by the shipowners in employing volunteers on the wharves, the members of the Port Phillip ...

    Article : 234 words
  12. TRADE EMISSARIES.

    The annual dinner of the Commercial Travellers' Association was held on Saturday night. The Chief City Commissioner (Mr. ...

    Article : 736 words
  13. "ANTI-WAR."

    The culminating demonstration in what the Communists call "War Week, July-August," began yesterday afternoon in Eddy-avenue, near the Central Railway Station, where a ...

    Article : 471 words
  14. SHOT FIRED.

    A man who was caught in the act of robbing the coin receptacle of a telephone bureau at Clovelly early on Saturday morning was chased for some distance by two constables. ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. MAN AND WOMAN KILLED.

    Roy Jarvis, 21 years, of Petersham, and Miss Iris McNeill, 26 years, telephonist, of Sydney, were killed, and Miss Jessie Rutledge, 23 years, telephonist, of Syd[?]ey, was injured, ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. FOOTBALLER DIES.

    When playing for the Coburg amateur football team at Carlton on Saturday, Robert Neil Harvey, aged 20 years, of Coburg, received fatal injuries. He jumped for a mark, and ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. BALACLAVA BY-ELECTION.

    National candidate for the vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. W. A. Watt, M.P., Federal member for Balaclava (Vic.). He was returned by a large majority at Saturday's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  18. DOUBLE FATALITY.

    While William Sinclair was driving his wife end two children and brother-in-law (Stanley Taylor) to Barraba on Saturday night the car turned over three or four times. Both ...

    Article : 75 words
  19. SOLDIERS' LAND.

    The Liverpool Returned Soldiers' League asked the Liverpool Council at its last meeting to assist the league in a protest to the Minister for Lands against allowing the sale ...

    Article : 207 words
  20. ROMA OIL BORE.

    A Roma message says that the flow of gas from the Roma Oil Corporation No. 1 well is steadily increasing. The volume to-day was about 1,300,000 cubic feet per day. ...

    Article : 77 words
  21. MAN CRUSHED UNDER 'BUS.

    When he attempted to board a moving 'bus in New South Head-road, near Edgecliff Post-office, late on Saturday afternoon, Leslie Motto, 26, of Wattle-street, Ultimo, was killed ...

    Article : 66 words
  22. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED.

    Leonard George Parmenter, aged 23 years, of Picton, was riding a motor cycle at Bargo on Saturday afternoon, when the machine collided head-on with a motor car. His skull ...

    Article : 62 words
  23. LATE SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE.—Arr: Aug. 3, Narkunda, from London Demodocus, from Antwerp, Dep: Aug. 3, Baron Pentland, for Fremantle: Hatarana, for eastern States; Karoola, for Fremantle; Komura, for ...

    Article : 49 words
  24. PEAR AND FORCE.

    "Industry is a workshop, vast and interlocked. A fighter in a workshop is a misfit. The bludgeon is out of date. Conflict there must always be, but the idea of conquest on ...

    Article : 577 words
  25. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    Addressing a large congregation at St. Mark's, Darling Point, last evening, Mr. B. R. Gelling, president of the League of Nations' Union, said that the late war had been ...

    Article : 454 words
  26. INDEX.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 260 words
  27. FIVE PERSONS INJURED.

    With his foot jammed under the brake pedal, and suffering frightful agony, Matthew Grannell, of Dutruc-street, Randwick, displayed wonderful fortitude when the car he ...

    Article : 300 words
  28. PLEASURE GROUND DISASTER.

    A flying boat broke loose at the pleasure ground at Southend-on-Sea while revolving at a great speed. The passengers were flung out on top of the crowd, which was ...

    Article : 81 words
  29. BOY SHOT IN LEG.

    Suffering from a bullet wound in one of his legs, a boy, 14 years, whose parents live at North Brighton, was admitted to Alfred Hospital on Saturday. He had been wounded by ...

    Article : 169 words
  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The conditon of Lord Forster, who underwent an operation to his ear, is satisfactory. Addressing pilgrims in the sacred grotto at Lourdes, Abbe Bernie dropped dead. He ...

    Article : 442 words
  31. Advertising

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    Advertising : 187 words
  32. WORLD TOURS.

    "There's no place like Australia" was the comment of Mr. E. H. Bell, a Sydney manufacturer, who has just completed a 20-months' trip around the world. He arrived in ...

    Article : 191 words
  33. SCHOONER ASHORE.

    A message from Portarlington says that in a strong northerly wind the schooner Woolomai (151 tons) was blown on to a sand-bank at Point Richards, about two miles from ...

    Article : 131 words
  34. STRUCK BY MOTOR CARS.

    Hilda Blackwell, 60 years, of Robinson-street, Chatswood, was crossing Lane Cove-road near Chatswood, yesterday afternoon, when she was knocked down by a car. Central District ...

    Article : 101 words
  35. SLUMP EXPECTED.

    A depressing view of the prospects of planters in the Dutch East Indies in the near future was taken by Mr. J. W. B. Everts, a director of the Royal Packet Navigation ...

    Article : 183 words
  36. COAL DISPUTE.

    The Cessnock and Kurri Kurri vigilance committees met at Cessnock yesterday afternoon to discuss what was contended to be the inaction of the Combined Unions' Control ...

    Article : 76 words
  37. MOTOR CYCLIST'S DEATH.

    Derek Moss, 18 years, of Girlang-avenue, Vaucluse, died in St. Vincent's Hospital last night from injuries he received earlier in the day when his motor cycle fell ...

    Article : 81 words
  38. NEW AERODROME.

    Members of the New South Wales Aero Club, at a special meeting to-morrow evening, will be asked to endorse a recommendation by the executive committee that the club's activities ...

    Article : 132 words
  39. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 words
  40. LONE VOYAGER.

    A report from Havre says that all shipping dipped its flags when M. Alain Gerbault, who recently completed a lone world cruise in his cutter, the Firecrest, received the ...

    Article : 126 words
  41. FATALITIES IN OTHER STATES.

    In a head-on collision between a motor car which he was driving and a motor van, in Ballarat-road, near Deer Park, on Saturday night, James Arthur Thomas Cook, aged 27 ...

    Article : 75 words
  42. ILLEGAL BETTING.

    A Cairns message says that the police raided a house on Friday night and arrested 24 persons. They appeared in the police court on Saturday, and the fines imposed ...

    Article : 56 words
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