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  2. ROYAL COMMISSION.

    There was a scene in the Supreme Court yesterday, when the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Harvey) resumed the taking of evidence in connection with the City Council contracts investigation. "Liar!" shouted Diver Albert, one of the chief witnesses, during ...

    Article : 150 words
  3. BATHURST GAOL.

    Recently the governor of Bathurst Gaol (Mr. G. F. Smith) was suspended from duty by the Comptroller-General of Prisons. The Public Servies Board, as the result of ...

    Article : 498 words
  4. MARINE COOKS.

    The Marine Cooks' Union is defying the Australasian Council of Trade Unions. At a largely attended meeting in the Sydney Trades Hall yesterday afternoon the union ...

    Article : 293 words
  5. MARTIN.

    Mr. Graham Pratten, nephew of the late member for Martin (Mr. H. E. Pratten), was selected laat night as the Nationalist candidate to contest the forthcoming by-election for ...

    Article : 226 words
  6. EMPIRE.

    "Buy British goods, and boost the Empire." Empire Shopping Week commenced in earnest throughout New South Wales yesterday, and Judging by the enthusiasm with ...

    Article : 986 words
  7. FOR PEACE.

    The Secretary for State (Mr. Kellogg) will invite Canada and other British Dominions, within a few days, to participate in a league to outlaw war, which he is seeking to form. ...

    Article : 374 words
  8. PRESIDENCY.

    With an apparent victory for Governor Al. Smith at the Oregon primaries, thus adding 10 delegates to an impressive following already assured at the Democratic National ...

    Article : 774 words
  9. MR. MALING'S EVIDENCE.

    Silas Y. Maling, deputy manager of the City Council's electricity department, was further examined by Mr. Shand, K.C. (who appeared to assist the Commissioner). ...

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  10. DISAGREEMENT.

    Prohibition with compensation, the basis on which the referendum will be held in September, was the subject of a lively interlude at the annual meeting of the Prohibition ...

    Article : 434 words
  11. THE CONFERENCE.

    The Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association, the emergency committee of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions, and the committee appointed by the conference ...

    Article : 499 words
  12. BRUTAL CRIME.

    News comes from Paris that Mrs. Florence Wilson, an Englishwoman, 50 years of age, who, with her husband, recently visited Australia, was murdered on the sand dunes ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. FORGED BANK NOTES.

    Stefan Karaslowiez, a Russian process engraver; John Frederick Howarth, contractor; Benjamin Thomas, tailor; and Ralph Miller, retired farmer, were charged in the Geelong ...

    Article : 407 words
  14. MINE DISASTER.

    A message from Mather, Pennsylvania, states that in a coal mine explosion 182 men were entombed. Thirteen have been rescued alive. ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. U.S.A. NOTES.

    The United States Ambassador in China (Mr. MacMurray) has handed similar Notes to the Nationalist and Northern Governments, emphasising the serious concern with which ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. BETTING FIGURES.

    A suggestion was recently made to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) that an effective method to combat starting-price betting shops and illegal betting would be to prohibit ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. GERMAN ELECTIONS.

    In regard to the German general elwctions it is estimated that 80 per cent, of the, electors voted in Berlin. There was heavy polling elsewhere. The earliest returns indicate ...

    Article : 330 words
  18. ADELAIDE BRANCH.

    Two cooks were called for again this morning for the Adelaide Steamship Company's cargo steamer Noora, but were not engaged. The applicants wanted a temporary ...

    Article : 114 words
  19. "A VERY BAD MOVE."

    Prohibition of the publication of the starting prices of horses and the dividends would, in the opinion of Mr. James Clarke, chairman of City Tattersall's Club, immediately lay ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. EMPIRE BROADCAST.

    At the request of the Australian Press Association the L.N.E.R. Company attached a special van to to-night's Hatfield train to allow Mr. H. C. Allen to attempt to pick ...

    Article : 93 words
  21. STRIKE CLAUSE.

    At the Commonwealth Arbitration Court at Darlinghurst yesterday, Chief Judge Dethridge, in dealing with the application for a new award by the Merchant Service Guild of ...

    Article : 396 words
  22. COUNCIL OF UNIONS.

    "Members of the Australian Council of Trade Unions are only a lot of bushrangers," said Mr. J. Johnson, acting-secretary of the Australian Seamen's Union, yesterday, referring to ...

    Article : 210 words
  23. BRITISH MOTORS.

    A prominent part of the Empire Day celebrations in Sydney on Thursday will be a procession of British-made motor vehicles through the principal streets of the city, in ...

    Article : 315 words
  24. NEWSPAPERS BURNT.

    News comes from Dublin that a party of young men, unarmed and unmasked, entered Killiney Station and ordered the stationmaster and porter away. They then held up ...

    Article : 85 words
  25. DARING ROBBERY.

    Pulling up in a motor car outside a Jeweller's shop in Lydiard-street, Ballarat, shortly after 6 o'clock to-night, a thief hurled a brick at the plateglass window of the shop, ...

    Article : 159 words
  26. LAWN TENNIS.

    Davis cup contests were continued to-day. Gregory (Great Britain) defeated Granholm (Finland), 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. Playing at Amsterdam Tackals (Hungary) ...

    Article : 182 words
  27. POLAR EXPLORATION.

    A message from Oslo states that Wilkins and Elelson have arrived at Trondhjem after a triumphant voyage from Tromsoe. They were received by cheering crowds. After a ...

    Article : 150 words
  28. LEGACY OF FLOOD.

    During the recent floods in Central Queensland there was a big subsidence at the State coal mine at Baralaba, where the mine office and a number of railway coal hoppers were ...

    Article : 64 words
  29. W.A. ELECTIONS.

    In the Legislative Council election for South West Province, B. Rose (Country party) beat J. H. Close (Labour) by 2628 votes to 1734. The count is now complete. ...

    Article : 33 words
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