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  2. BOMB OUTRAGES.

    The Chief Commissioner of Police (Brigadler-General Blamey) called Superintendent Stephens, of the metropolitan police district, and Superintendent Koetsveld, who is ...

    Article : 422 words
  3. FLIGHT ACROSS TASMAN.

    Buffetted by gales and harassed by fog, the Southern Cross, piloted by Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith, landed at Richmond Aerodrome at 2.15 a.m., yesterday, after a flight of 23 hours from Blenheim (New Zealand). ...

    Article : 236 words
  4. THE STRIKE.

    Shipowners are not the least perturbed at the threats of the Victorian and Queensland branches of the Seamen's Union to withdraw the crews from interstate vessels. These are ...

    Article : 302 words
  5. TAXATION.

    The new taxation measure to be brought down in the Legislative Assembly to-morrow provides a number of now features which up to the present have not been disclosed. ...

    Article : 342 words
  6. THE ZEPPELIN.

    The Graf Zeppelin which left Frelderiehshaven on Thursday morning has made good progress on her voyage across the Atlantic. It was north of the Bermudas at 11.15 this ...

    Article : 184 words
  7. MAIL TRAIN WRECKED.

    A terrible affair occurred on the Midland-London and Scottish Railway at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning, when during a dense fog at Charfield, in Gloucestershire, a swiftly travelling mail express collided with an empty freight train. Three of the passenger ...

    Article : 82 words
  8. APPALLING SCENES.

    The disaster occurred under a bridge carrying a mad over the railway close to the station, The mail train caught an empty freight train head on with a crash which awakened ...

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  9. BRITISH LIBERALS.

    Mr. Lioyd George, the Liberal leader, speaking at the Liberal conference at Yarmouth, made an important declaration regarding the Liberal position at the general election next ...

    Article : 336 words
  10. COLLISION AT GLASGOW.

    Two men were killed and 50 people, including many women, were injured in a collision in a tunnel outside Queen-street station, Glasgow, involving a London-bound train. One of the ...

    Article : 141 words
  11. UNIONS MEET AGAIN TO-DAY.

    A meeting of the executive of the A.C.T.U. yesterday was adjourned until to-morrow, when efforts will be made to define a policy to deal with the strike. A. recommendation ...

    Article : 93 words
  12. STRUCK BY TRAIN.

    Three men, passengers in a motor car which waa hit by the engine of a goods train at the Hexham level crossing, nine miles from Newcastle, shortly after 8 o'clock to-night, ...

    Article : 248 words
  13. SCENE AT AERODROME.

    A remarkable scene was witnessed at the Richmond Aerodrome. From 5 p.m. on Saturday there was an endless stream of motor traffic through Windsor, bound for the ...

    Article : 143 words
  14. WIRELESS OPERATOR DEAF.

    Neither Mr. H. A. Litchfield, the navigator, nor Mr. T. C. Mcwilliams, the wireless operator, who was deaf when he climbed out of the machine, could be found for some time. ...

    Article : 201 words
  15. MEMORY OF COOK.

    A graphic acoount of the Captain Cook celebrations in Hawali in August is given by Sir Joseph Carruthers, who returned to Sydney on Friday, and who attended the various ...

    Article : 765 words
  16. CRIMES ACT.

    Replying to an interjector at an election meeting held in the Petersham Town Hall on Saturday night, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) declared that he was proud of the ...

    Article : 605 words
  17. THE PRESIDENCY.

    The progress of the Presidential campaign indicates Mr. Hoover's success and Governor Smith's failure. Governor Smith's religion, his Tammany affilations, the traditional and ...

    Article : 332 words
  18. TRAGIC LIFE'S END.

    The death occurred at Copenhagen to-day of the Dowager Empress of Russia, formerly Princess Dagmar, of Denmark, a sister of the late Queen Alexandra. ...

    Article : 310 words
  19. ELECTRICITY BREAKDOWN.

    At 10 p.m., when the electric flood light system broke down, plunging the whole landing-ground into darkness, anxiety was expressed by the big crowd. Considerably over ...

    Article : 365 words
  20. DIVORCE A CANKER.

    Describing divorce as a canker, eating at the very vitals of civilisation, and condemning the modern flair for sensationalism in marriage, Archbishop Matheson, Primate of ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. AN INTERVIEW.

    "Only three gallons of petrol left," were Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith's first words on landing. "We had a 40-mile-an-hour head wind ...

    Article : 190 words
  22. FORCED LANDING.

    The extraordinary antics of an aeroplane over Bowning this afternoon caused considerable excitement among residents. In making a forced landing the plane struck a drain, ...

    Article : 167 words
  23. MASSACRE AND FAMINE.

    The reported massacre in Kanau Province, which emanated from New York, through the Famine Relief Commission, is confirmed by Peking dispatches to-day, the first local ...

    Article : 99 words
  24. EMPIRE AVIATION POSSIBILITIES.

    Flight-Lieutenant Ulm showed traces of the nerve-wracking experience, though in between hand-shaking and entertainment of his numerous friends he managed to find time for ...

    Article : 240 words
  25. FIRST GLIMPSE OF AUSTRALIA.

    The 'plane was first sighted at Nobbys, Newcastle, at midnight. It was reported to be flying low in a south-westerly direction towards the Hawkesbury River, which was to ...

    Article : 263 words
  26. STEAMER KINROSS.

    Strong currents and the haze from bushfires on the coast were the cause of the stranding of the steamer Kinross on Cato Island reef, 260 miles off the Queensland Coast, last ...

    Article : 417 words
  27. FIRE ON CARGO STEAMER.

    The British cargo steamer Trojan Star, formerly La Perouse, 9000 tons, now belonging to the Blue Star line, en route from Shields, England, to British Columbia ports caught on ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. ORIGIN OF MAN.

    The Cadle Kalahari Desert Expedition returned to-day to Johannesburg. It is claimed that research confirms the hypothesis that in the Kalahari desert home sapiens first ...

    Article : 96 words
  29. SUBMARINE SUNK.

    A Greek steamer sank the French submarine Ondlne, with three officers and 40 men off Operte on the night of October 3. The French Ministry of Marine received the ...

    Article : 162 words
  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Baldwin has agreed (says the "Sunday Times") to Lord Birkenhead's immediate withdrawal from the Cabinet for the purpose of taking up commercial activities in the city. ...

    Article : 443 words
  31. WORLD'S WHEAT.

    The City Editor of the "Evening Standard" says that certainty of a world's record wheat crop is now practically assured. No longer is there anything likely to upset estimates ...

    Article : 74 words
  32. PIONEERING FLIGHTS.

    Mr. "Doc" Maidment the engineer who came from America especially to overhaul the Southern Cross for the flight across the Tasman Sea, was elated with the success of the ...

    Article : 198 words
  33. EDUCATION.

    "There is no more important instrumentality of ordered society than a good system of education," said Mr. Hughes, M.P., at the opening of additions to the Northbridge Public ...

    Article : 163 words
  34. SOUTHERN CROSS LANDS.

    At 10 minutes past 2 on Sunday morning the dull drone of the engines of the Southern Cross were heard in the north-east. Excitement was at fever pitch. Rounds of cheers were ...

    Article : 340 words
  35. POLICY OF EXCLUSION

    Addressing the British Passenger Agents' Conference, sir Henry Barwell, Agent-General for South Australia, denied the ansortion that Australia was deliberately retarding her ...

    Article : 90 words
  36. PORT STEPHENS.

    In the Legislative Assembly on Friday, Mr. Connolly asked whether Mr. Buttenshaw, before be referred to the Public Works Committee the proposal to construct a railway line ...

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  37. ILLICIT DIAMONDS.

    The Government has seized large quantities of diamonds smuggled from the Namaqualand State diggings. Five arrests followed. It is reported that the diamonds were obtained ...

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  38. "A WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT."

    Captain Geoffrey Hughes, president of the Aero Club, was one of the first to congratulate Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith on the termination of his flight. "It has been ...

    Article : 88 words
  39. SEARCH FOR OIL.

    A bore has been put down at Koorawatha to test the country for oil, and has now reached a depth of 700ft, coming to a bed of shale. This is considered to be a good sign. No ...

    Article : 61 words
  40. BY-ELECTION.

    A by-election was held in the Burnett State electorate on Saturday to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. B. H. Corser to the Federal Parliament. The latest figures ...

    Article : 109 words
  41. DR. RANDALL DAVIDSON.

    The Primate, with a view to correcting a widespread impression, especially in America, that he is resigning owing to the rejection of the now prayer book, points out that ...

    Article : 122 words
  42. CASE OF MR. HORAN.

    Official inquiries at Paris establish that Mr. Horan, the American newspaper man. who supplied the "New York American" with a secret official communication relating to the ...

    Article : 90 words
  43. RAIN LIKELY.

    On Saturday the weather was cloudy and unsettled over New South Wales. It is likely that there will be extensive rain over the State during the next 24 hours. ...

    Article : 43 words
  44. COLONEL BRINSMEAD ANXIOUS

    Lieutenant-Colonel Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, who witnessed the landing, admitted early yesterday morning that there was some anxiety owing to the adverse ...

    Article : 84 words
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