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  2. FAIR RENTS.

    The State Cabinet had a further discussion yesterday on the proposed bill to amend the Fair Rents Act. Ministers agreed tentatively to a proposal that the improved capital value ...

    Article : 225 words
  3. A VISIT.

    Though aeroplanes and dirigibles are fairly familiar to esquimoes, South Sea Islanders, Thibetans, and the frost-bitten inhabitants of the Falklands and of Cape Tchelyuskin, north ...

    Article : 968 words
  4. COAL PRICES.

    "Nothing can solve the acuteness of the position existing on the northern coalfields except the willing co-operation of the miners. the owners. and the transport companies. and ...

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  5. SIR NEVILLE HOWSE.

    The Minister for Home and Territories (Sir Neville Howse) had a narrow escape from serious injury on Wednesday night, when a taxi-cab in which he was riding came into ...

    Article : 195 words
  6. FEAR OF WAR.

    Reports from Warsaw state that alarmine telegrams are being received from various points along the Polish-Lithuanian border recording further "incidents." ...

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  7. PEARCE'S EASY WIN.

    Yesterday saw the first Australian winning success in a heat at the pames, the sculler, H. R. Pearce, of Sydney, defeating a German opponent. All the Australians have failed in track and field events. ...

    Article : 1,186 words
  8. STATE REVENUE.

    The Premier and Treasurer (Mr. Bavin said yesterday that the State revenue returns for the first month of the new financial year showed a welcome improvement in the state ...

    Article : 401 words
  9. YUGO-SLAVIA.

    While the Yugo-Slavian Parliament is sitting at Belgrade under the new Premier (M. Koroshetz) a rival parliament, composed of 90 Creatian and other deputies, has assembled ...

    Article : 67 words
  10. MITCHAM ASSAULT.

    A charge against Edward Augustus Sampson, orchardist, of Mitcham, of having inflicted grievoup bodily harm on Ernest Ambrose Kleinert, on July 24. was to-day reduced to ...

    Article : 246 words
  11. CRIME WAVE.

    When a circular from the Abercromble Shire Council urging the enforcement of the law with regard to capital punishment and the use of the lash in regard to criminal offences ...

    Article : 259 words
  12. TYPHOON IN JAPAN.

    A typhoon, the most severe for 18 years, has been raging for three days over the districts surrounding Tokio. The rivers are overflowing Embankments and tunnels are ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. REPATRIATION.

    "I have not been recreant to my trust and I don't rare twopence whatever you think, said, or thought," said Sir Neville Howse when addressing a meeting of the ...

    Article : 347 words
  14. NEWSPRINT.

    Experiments made on behalf of the New Zealand Government at the United States forest products laboratory at Madison (Wisconsin) reveal that New Zealand hardwoods ...

    Article : 154 words
  15. RELIEF WORKS.

    An important point is involved in a claim which yesterday engaged the attention of the Chief Industrial Magistrate (Mr. E. A. Prior). The matter at issue is whether ...

    Article : 280 words
  16. ANTI—TOXIN.

    Replying to statements that no anti-toxin for tetanus was available in the town when a young man died from lockjaw in Forbes a few days ago, the matron of the public ...

    Article : 158 words
  17. GIANT FLYING BOAT.

    Members of the House of Commons and their friends gathered on the terrace at Westmins[?] to watch the meeting of the giant flying-boat Calcutta, designed for the ...

    Article : 62 words
  18. MERGER.

    It was announced from the Prime Minister's Department to-day that the report of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference had been considered by the Imperial Government ...

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  19. YESTERDAY'S EVENTS.

    World's and Australian record, 7m 23s; Olympic, 7m 46s. Holder, J. Beresford (Great Britain). Heat H. R. Pearce (Australia) beat Flinsch (Germany) by 12 lengths. Time. 7m 55 4-5s. ...

    Article : 146 words
  20. FORGED NOTES CASE.

    "What's wrong with this sentence," asked the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine) in the Court of Criminal Appeal to-day, when Stefan Karnslewlez, who had been sentenced to 10 ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. HOUSEBREAKERS.

    Two housebreakers submitted to arrest at the point of the revolver at Point Piper yesterday afternoon. The episode was the finale to a long search ...

    Article : 335 words
  22. CASINO FRAUD.

    At San Remo a colossal attempt to defraud the municipal casino, where the stakes are the highest in the world, was discovered when Joan Ferri, an engineer, of Milan, was ...

    Article : 116 words
  23. RETURNED SOLDIERS.

    Colonel H. B. Collett, president of the Returned Soldiers' League, stated at a meeting of the executive last night, that the advancement of the league was being hampered by ...

    Article : 260 words
  24. MINERS ENTOMBED.

    One European and nine natives have been entombed in thousands of tons of rock nearly 5000 feet down in the City Deep mine, following the most extensive pressure burst that ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. ARMAMENTS.

    Despatches from Geneva suggest that high hopes are entertained in League of Nations circles that the Anglo-French agreement will accelerate the summoning of a disarmament ...

    Article : 344 words
  26. CALL FOR HELP.

    Group-Captain Courtney, who left the A[?]ores yesterday in continuation of his flight from Europe to North America, was forced down 500 miles from the Azores. ...

    Article : 76 words
  27. SOUTHERN CROSS.

    Although no flight was made yesterday in the Southern Cross, the machine was taken from the hangar in order to make tests of the compass and other instruments. The ...

    Article : 103 words
  28. LEAVE GRANTED.

    Following upon the receipt of a cablegram from E. Hendren, who was chosen early this week as a member of the English team to tour Australia, two hastily convened meetings ...

    Article : 112 words
  29. MARRIAGE LAW.

    The retiring Archbishop of Canterbury made a dramatic departure from the House of Lords. Speaking "presumably for the last time ...

    Article : 102 words
  30. DIESEL ENGINES.

    When questioned to-day concerning the statement that the Sulphide Corporation was about to instal Diesel oil engines at the Central mine, the manager, Mr. W. E. Gardner, said ...

    Article : 107 words
  31. THE PEACE PACT.

    Mf. Kellogg has been discouraged by Sir Austen Chamberlain's expression of a wish that the United States might be expected actively to support an anti-war treaty in ...

    Article : 142 words
  32. THE LAWSUIT.

    Hearing was concluded, before the Chief Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice Harvey, yesterday of the application on behalf of the plaintiff in the suit of Keith Vincent Anderson against ...

    Article : 251 words
  33. STRIKE SETTLED.

    Because after 16 weeks on strike a number of employees at Lysaghts Bros., Ltd., Abbotsford, finally capitulated and went back to work unconditionally the Trades and Labour ...

    Article : 93 words
  34. ANGLICAN CHURCH.

    The Right Rev. Frederick Sumpter Guy Warman. D.D., Bishop of Chelmsford since 1924, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Temple as Bishop of Manchester. Dr. ...

    Article : 48 words
  35. MR. J. S. GARDEN.

    A further charge against Mr. J. S. Garden was referred to at the Central Police Court yesterday, but on the application of Mr. Bowie Wilson, instructed by the Crown Law ...

    Article : 134 words
  36. JACOB JOHNSON.

    Four charges of alleged intimidation of seamen, preferred against Jacob Johnson, general secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union of Australia, were mentioned in the Central, ...

    Article : 69 words
  37. ROBBED MAIL BAGS.

    Charles Albert Davenport Doel was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at the Bunbury Quarter Sessions for having stolen £20 in notes and silver white it was in ...

    Article : 74 words
  38. LARGE PROFITS.

    In the House of Commons, the Postmaster-General (Sir William Mitchell Thomson). In answer to a question. said that the gross receipts during the first full year's working ...

    Article : 65 words
  39. CITY OF YOKOHAMA.

    The extent of engine and boiler trouble on the steamer City of Yokohnma is rather serious, and it is anticipated that repairs will take some time. ...

    Article : 62 words
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