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  2. RAIN LIKELY.

    A change from a fine weather control to conditions favouring general rain was rpported at the Weather Bureau last night to be taking place over New South Wales ...

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  3. SIR DANIEL LEVY.

    To mark the completion of 28 years' continuous representation in Parliament, and also the knighthood recently conferred upon him by his Majesty the King, the Speaker of ...

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  4. DISMISSALS.

    A deputation of returned soldiers, headed by the president of the R.S.L. (Mr. R. Hutchinson), protested to the Minister for Defence (Sir William Glasgow) yesterday against the ...

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  5. MIGRATION WORK.

    A statement that the New Settlers' League was deliberately Interfering with the migration work of the Anzac Fellowship for Women was made by Dr. Mary Booth, in her address ...

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  6. AUSTRALIAN DEBT.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) replied today to a statement made in Sydney by the president of the Stockowners' Association of New South Wales, Mr. Charles Binnie, ...

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  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    John and Thomas Peters, brothers, were sentenced to three months each in Bathurst Gaol for having broken, entered, and stolen from Macquarie View Hotel. Michael Reedy ...

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  8. MEMBERS OF HOSPITALS COMMISSION.

    MR. R. J. LOVE (CHAIRMAN). MR. WILLIAM EPPS. MRS. R. R. S. MACKINNON DR. A. E. COLVIN. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. HUNDREDTH CONVICTION

    James Albert Larkins, 53, was convicted for the hundredth time at Wagga Police Court, when he was charged with having behaved in an offensive manner. Larkins pleaded not ...

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  10. ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF SKINS.

    Geoffrey Kenneth McKeon was fined £3 at Tamworth Police Court for having in his possession the skins of a kangaroo and a swamp wallaby. He said he was a tourist, ...

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  11. LINESMEN INJURED.

    When Frederick Linfield, telephone linesman, was working in a posthole on the Nemingha road, using a bar to move a rock, his companion accidentally struck him on the ...

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  12. NORTH AUSTRALIA.

    If the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Abbott) acceded to all the requests made to him by deputations during his recent tour of Central and North Australia, he would involve ...

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  13. FEDERAL DEFICIT.

    The leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour party (Mr. Scullin) said to-day that the Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) had sought to explain away his deficit by the excuse that ...

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  14. MEMORIALS DEDICATED.

    The Canobias Methodist Church was crowded to overflowing on Sunday, when a service was held to dedicate memorials placed in the building to the memory of two ...

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  15. CLERKS' MEETING.

    The general meeting of the Federated Clerks' Union, held in camera at Empire House last night, for the purpose of considering the financial position of the union, ended in ...

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  16. BUSES IN CITY.

    The Acting-Premier (Mr. Buttenshaw) said yesterday that Ministers had discussed complaints that a line of buses was being operated between Circular Quay and Broadway. It ...

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  17. ORANGE BY-ELECTION.

    Out of more than 2500 voters on the roll, only 702 exercised their franchise on Saturday, when an election took place to fill the vacancy in the municipal council caused by ...

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  18. NAVIGATION ACT.

    When the inquiry into the effect on Australian shipping of the Navigation Act was resumed by the Tariff Board to-day, the case for Tasmania was stated by Mr. C. B. Black, ...

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  19. HOUSEBREAKERS.

    The latest victim of the housebreakers who have been active in almost every suburb is Detective-sergeant Wickham, whose home was robbed on Monday night. ...

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  20. UNION ATTITUDE.

    The tendency of workers to approach the Arbitration Court on the introduction of machinery to bring about greater output was commented on by Mr. President Dwyer ...

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  21. DRUNKEN DRIVERS.

    Lockie McLeod Plant and Thomas James Pagett were each fined £10, in default one month's hard labour, for driving cars while under the influence of liquor. Plant's license ...

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  22. TRADE WITH INDIA.

    Mr. H. P. Bagaria, manager of the jute department of Birla Bros., Ltd., of Calcutta, who is visiting Sydney, expressed the opinion yesterday that it would be worth their while ...

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  23. LODE OF TIN ORE.

    In a report to the Mines Department, Messrs. F. Thompson and P. Moller, who have been prospecting in the Holleton district, near Glenelg Hills, stated that they ...

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  24. Fiscal Union.

    The "Evening Standard" says:—"We have no great enthusiasm for the principle of mere preference to the dominions. We don't want one scale of duties for foreign imports and a ...

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  25. PIANO AS GIFT.

    Mr. Fred Gibson, of Collingwood-street, Drummoyne, has presented the local Public school with a very fine piano. This valuable gift is much appreciated by pupils and ...

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  26. YOUTH KNOCKED DOWN.

    A motorist increased his speed and quickly disappeared after knocking down a youth and seriously injuring him in Parsamatta-road, near Johnston-street, Petersham, at dusk ...

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  27. BRILLIANT STUDENT.

    Mr. J. C. Jaeger, B.Sc, a Sydney graduate, has won a senior mathematics scholarship at Cambridge University. Mr. Jaeger, who is the son of Mr. C. Jaeger, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  28. STOLE BETTING TICKET.

    At the Goulburn Police Court George Angers was fined £2, in default 14 days' hard labour, for stealing a ticket at the local races. Just as the bookmaker was about to pay, someone ...

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  29. THE TALKIES.

    The management of the Rose Bay Wintergarden Theatre, where the Raycophone "talkie" apparatus has been installed, has announced that five of the chief distributors ...

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  30. MINISTER IN LONDON.

    The Government has appointed Mr. Tewater, an advocate, who was defeated for Pretoria Central at the recent elections, High Commissioner in London. When interviewed, ...

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  31. A NARROW ESCAPE.

    Mr. C. Jeffcoat, chief engineer of Coalcliff Collieries, while motoring home from Scarborough on Friday night, saw a huge rock weighing several tons falling in front of him ...

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  32. SULKY ACCIDENT.

    As Mr. and Mrs. T. Glover and their infant child were driving along Dry Dock-road this morning in a sulky, the reins broke and the horse ran off the roadway. Fearing an ...

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  33. THIEVES BURN CAR

    Early yesterday morning an expensive sedan car was found burning fiercely at the bottom of a gully near Prince's Highway, La Perouse. Inquiries showed that it was the property of ...

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  34. BUSINESS MEN.

    Referring to the suggestion of Sir Gilbert Vyle, chairman of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce, to hold an Imperial business conference before the next Imperial ...

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  35. ARRESTS IN ROUMANIA.

    A message from Berlin states that a plot to kidnap the leaders of the Roumanian Parliament, seize the Government offices, and replace the boy King Michael with a military ...

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  36. RAILWAY BORDER CHARGES.

    In reply to a request of the Albury Chamber of Commerce that the railway border charges be abolished, the secretary of the New South Wales Railway Department has replied that ...

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  37. ALLEGED DRUNKEN DRIVER.

    When a motor car collided with a telegraph pole in O'Sullivan-road, Rose Bay, and was badly damaged, last night, the police arrested the driver and charged him with having driven ...

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  38. BEGGAR'S HOARD.

    When a policeman at Gisborne took into custody a woman who had been begging from door to door, she entered a fervent protest against being regarded as a vagrant, and ...

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  39. INDEX.

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  40. PRINCE OPENS BOOTH MEMORIAL.

    Five thousand Salvationists witnessed Prince George open the Booth Memorial Training College at Denmark Hill, consisting of 12 houses, in which 350 men and 250 women ...

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  41. INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

    Practical suggestions for closer co-ordination and harmony between employers and employees were made by Mr. R. B. Madgwick, lecturer in economics at Sydney University, ...

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  42. OLD COUPLE'S DEATH.

    Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Peate, of Killara, died recently, within 10 days of one another Mrs. Peate was in her 82nd year, and her husband was two years older. Almost a year ago, ...

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  43. FATAL ACCIDENT.

    Harry Davies, 46, manager of Moolpas station, died to-day from injuries received while cranking a motor truck while it was in gear. The funeral will take place at ...

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  44. SALE OF ORANGES.

    Speaking at a meeting of farmers and graziers to-day about what he called the lack of good business methods in the Raliway Department, Mr. H. S. Secomb said that the ...

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  45. ALBURY POLICE COURT CASES.

    At the Albury Police Court, James Frederick Hines pleaded guilty to a charge of having failed to keep his slaughter-house clean and was fined £10. William George ...

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  46. DAME JANET CAMPBELL.

    Queen Mary received Dame Janet Campbell, who is to advise Australia on the welfare of women and children. The Queen expressed gratification that the Australian ...

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  47. DARWIN TO SYDNEY.

    Mr. Felix Holmes, the well-known Northern Territory squatter, reached Sydney yesterday by the Brisbane Limited Express. About a week ago Mr. Holmes became seriously ill at ...

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  48. MAINTENANCE AREAS.

    A resolution was carried at a meeting or the Kentucky sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night, protesting against officials of the head office of the State branch ...

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  49. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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  50. TIMBER WORKERS.

    The dispute by which more than 200 men employed by the State sawmills in the metropolitan area have been thrown idle has not been settled. The men claim that, although ...

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  51. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Speaking at the annual meeting of the British Empire cancer campaign, at which the Duke of York presided, Dr. W. Sampson Handley, who recently returned from an Empire ...

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  52. 44-HOUR WEEK.

    Notice was given in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon by Mr. Holland (Lab.) that he would ask leave to Introduce a bill to establish a 44-hour working week in ...

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  53. ELECTRIC BATTERY.

    Following the finding of an electric battery at the meeting of the Hobart Trotting Club at Ascot on June 29, the steward of the club held an inquiry extending over four days. ...

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  54. THEFT OF ELECTRICITY.

    Frederick White, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, was to-day fined £10, with £2/14/6 costs, and ordered to pay £1/8/3 compensation, on a charge of having stolen ...

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  55. DISASTROUS COLLISION.

    The British submarines, 112 (top) and H47, which collided near St. David's Head, Pembrokeshire, in St. George's Channel, yesterday. The H47 sank with 20 of her crew. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  56. GIRLS FATALLY INJURED IN FALLS.

    The daughter of Mr. Stan Smith, of Leech's Gully, aged 10 years, fell at school at Leech's Gully, and died during the week-end from an abscess on the brain. ...

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  57. SUNDAY SPORT.

    At the quarterly review meeting of the Methodist churches of the western district, held at Dubbo last night, Sabbath desecration and the growth of Sunday sport in all ...

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  58. TO-DAY.

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  59. JOCKEY'S DEATH.

    At the magisterial inquiry into the death of the Jockey, James Rylatt, who died from Injuries received while riding at Kedron Park, William Jacob and Ernest Martin, horse ...

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  60. VALUABLES RECOVERED.

    The handbag which Mrs. Ernest Hillier dropped over the side of the A. M. S. Sonoma as the vessel was leaving Circular Quay for San Francisco on Monday afteinoon was ...

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  61. CONTROL OF FIREARMS.

    The Premier (Mr. Butler) stated to-day that the Government was considering the introduction of legislation for greater control of persons carrying firearms The recent use ...

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  62. MAN FOUND DEAD.

    Benjamin Winch, aged 60 years, who had lived in a hut off Orange Grove-road. Liverpool, was found lying dead near the hut yesterday. A bullet had penetrated the brain, ...

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  63. LATE SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE.—Arr: July 9, Gazana, from Calcutta Dep July 9. Mil[?] for eastern States. ...

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