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  2. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Mr. Hugh Niven, conductor of the Brunswick Municipal Band, has been appointed adjudicator at the band festival to be held at Mittagong on March 16 and 17, 1929. Dr. C. A. ...

    Article : 69 words
  3. THE PLAY.

    There were the same pleasant weather conditions which had prevailed for the previous two days' play when the game was resumed yesterday morning. A cool easterly breeze ...

    Article : 1,891 words
  4. STATE SESSION.

    Further consideration was given to the Estimates for the financial year ended June 30, 1329, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. Throughout the sitting obstructive tactics ...

    Article : 1,748 words
  5. LOAN ESTIMATES.

    The Assistant Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) in the Legislative Assembly last night, presented the Loan Estimates, for an amount of £13,491,417, for works and services as ...

    Article : 226 words
  6. TRAM DERAILED AT RUSHCUTTER BAY LAST NIGHT.

    THE CAR LEFT THE RAILS IN NEW SOUTH HEAD-ROAD, NEAR BEACH-ROAD. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  7. BRIBERY CHARGE.

    The case in which Michael Fitzglbbons is charged with having attempted to influence a Minister of the Crown by means of a bribe, adjourned from last week, came up for ...

    Article : 1,426 words
  8. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST MAN.

    On a charge of having committed an indecent assault on a girl, aged 6 years and 10 months, at Cessnock on December 13. John Arthur McDonald at the Cessnock Police Court ...

    Article : 54 words
  9. NEW HOSPITAL FOR WAGGA.

    A commencement has been made of the erection of the first section of Lewisham Hospital, on Foxborough Hill, Wagga. Complete plans provide for buildings costing £250,000. ...

    Article : 68 words
  10. VALUELESS CHEQUE.

    A long record of previous convictions, dating from 1907 to 1920, including fraudulent approprration, false pretences, bigamy, embezzlement, wife and child desertion, was produced ...

    Article : 126 words
  11. PROHIBITION.

    In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Mann (Nat.) moved the second reading of the Licensing Act Amendment Bill, which sceks to postpone the quinquennial prohibition ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. SILOS ON FIRE.

    Two silos on Winderradeen Station caught fire on Sunday afternoon, and are still burning. About 500 tons of ensllnge has been destroyed, and it is expected that it will be ...

    Article : 77 words
  13. SHEFFIELD SHIELD.

    Fewer than 90 minutes was long enough to end the Sheffield Shield match between Victoria and Queensland to-day. Victoria won by 50 runs. ...

    Article : 360 words
  14. EXECUTOR ARRESTED.

    Thomas Atkinson, who had been appointed executor and trustee of the will of Susan Bowen, a married woman, of Sydney, who died in December, 1922, appeared before Mr. ...

    Article : 233 words
  15. BABY FOUND DROWNED.

    A little boy, two and a half years old, who was being adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of Mount View-avenue, Hazelbrook, was missed from their home on Tuesday for a few ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. ILLEGAL BETTING.

    As the result of a betting raid on Saturday Francis Hermann and Joseph Hermann were charged at the police court with being the keepers of a common gaming house. Each ...

    Article : 77 words
  17. TAXATION COMMISSIONER.

    as secretary and Deputy-Commissioner of Taxation. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  18. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED.

    Norma Fay Bancroft, aged 21, daughter of Mr. Henry Bancroft, of Sportsman Creek, was playing in the kitchen with a kitten. A kettle of boiling water on the stove upset, ...

    Article : 56 words
  19. ALLEGED BLACKMAIL.

    David Davis, 43, was charged to-day with having accused Owen Bowen Parry with having maliciously set fire to a shop at Moree, with intent thereby to extort and gain money ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    In the Legislative Council, the Deputy-President (Mr. O'Conor) announced that the following hills had been assented to:—Income Tax (Management) Bill, Swine Compensation ...

    Article : 337 words
  21. THE TEACHERS.

    A proposal to establish a State bureau of research into educational problems was warmly supported at the conference of the Teachers' Federation yesterday. ...

    Article : 461 words
  22. QUARTER SESSIONS.

    At the Grafton Quarter' Sessions before Judge Mocatta, George Barnier, of Conldale, was charged with having committed an assault upon Annie Elizabeth Lowe, at ...

    Article : 48 words
  23. ABERDARE COLLIERY.

    Aberdare Central Colliery resumed work is yesterday, after an idleness of two weeks due to slackness of trade. ...

    Article : 26 words
  24. MUNICIPAL BATHS AT ALBURY.

    Although the new municipal baths on the Sports Ground, erected at a cost of £3000, are not yet out of the hands of the contractors, they will be made available for use ...

    Article : 53 words
  25. STATE TRADING.

    The Legislative Council rejected the State Trading Concerns Bill on the second reading of the measure, which provided for the State Government and Westralian Farmers, Limited, ...

    Article : 52 words
  26. COFFINS OPENED.

    The sensational discovery that a vault in the Eastern Cemetery at Geelong had been entered and two of the 15 coffins it contained had been opened, has been made by Mr. H. ...

    Article : 132 words
  27. INJURED AFTER DISCHARGE FROM HOSPITAL.

    Thomas Carroll, of Kergunyah, has met with a series of misfortunes. Up till a week age he had been an inmate of the Albury Hospital for 10 months, suffering from compound ...

    Article : 74 words
  28. PRESS COMMENT.

    Amid the justified rejoicings at England's record innings at Sydney, Australia's illluck finds a prominent place. Mr. P. F. Warner, writing in the Morning Post," says ...

    Article : 274 words
  29. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 190 words
  30. DOCTOR ASSISTS HOSPITAL.

    At a meeting of the committee of the district hospital a letter was received from the medical officer (Dr. Mackenzie) stating that, in view of the poor finances of the hospital, ...

    Article : 74 words
  31. REV. ADIN PARSONS.

    The Rev. Adin Parsons, the oldest minister in point of service in the Methodist Church in New South Wales, died at his son's residence, 160 Bondi-road, Bondi, yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 254 words
  32. DAMAGE TO WAR MEMORIAL.

    At the police court Leslie Williams, electrician, was charged with having broken the flood lights at the Goulburn war memorial. The magistrate said that there was insufficient ...

    Article : 44 words
  33. CLARENCE RIVER COUNTY COUNCIL.

    At a meeting of the Clarence River County Council the chairman (Mr. G. Fitzgerald) said that the year's revenue was expected to reach £23,750, and the expensss £21,750, leaving a ...

    Article : 351 words
  34. BOYS' BRIGADE.

    Boys, two hundred of them, with bright faces, and all members of the Pyrmont branch of the Boys' Brigade, swept in a happy, laughing stream to their headquarters in Fig-street ...

    Article : 390 words
  35. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 words
  36. MORAL PERVERTS.

    On passing a sentence at the Grafton Quarter Sessions of nine months imprisonment on James Henry Thompson, 58, guilty of an assault on a six-year-old girl Judge Mocatta ...

    Article : 109 words
  37. RELIEF WORK.

    The City Commissioners have set aside £1000 to provide relief work for the unemployed [?]uring the Christmas season. The Chief Commissioner said yesterday that ...

    Article : 106 words
  38. SOLICITOR REBUKED.

    An unusual scene was enacted in the Parramatta District Court yesterday during a civil action—a claim for money alleged to be due under a contract for the building of a ...

    Article : 185 words
  39. MAKURA'S TASK.

    On the last stage of her passage from San Francisco the Union Royal Mall steamer Makura is attempting a record run across the Tasman. ...

    Article : 116 words
  40. MOTOR VEHICLES.

    The growth of motor registration in New South Wales is indicated by figures that have been supplied to the Main Roads Board by the Traffic Police. ...

    Article : 75 words
  41. TO-DAY.

    Her Majesty's Theatre: "The Vagabond King," 7.50. Theatre Royal: "Mis' Nell o' New Orleans," 8. Criterion Theatre: "The Pasty." 8. St. James Theatre: "Gond News," 8. ...

    Article : 135 words
  42. RUGBY LEAGUE.

    The general committee of the New South Wales Rugby League decided last night to support the Newcastle League in its opposition to night football and to refuse an ...

    Article : 65 words
  43. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT'S BUILDING.

    The Government yesterday accepted a tender for the construction of the new building for the Agricultural Department, at a cost of £157,000. ...

    Article : 51 words
  44. BARBERS' LICENSES.

    The City Commissioners decided yesterday to insert in the proposed new by-laws governing barbers' and hairdressers' shops a clause providing for the licensing of barbers carrying on ...

    Article : 45 words
  45. LATE SHIPPING.

    Canberra, s, from Brisbane. ...

    Article : 12 words
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