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  2. FOILED. Courtney's Flight.

    Captain Fra[?]k Courtney, R.A.F., who had been waiting some weeks for a favourable opportunity left Plymouth this morning at 5.30 in a Dornier "Whale" seaplane, ...

    Article : 289 words
  3. SCIENCE CONGRESS

    In an attempt to give a picture of English men and women of the future Professor F.G. Parsons Professor of Anatomy at London University, told the annual conference at Leeds of ...

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  4. BROADCASTING. Empire Transmission.

    Commencing at 2 o'clock this morning the first radio programme to be broadcast throughout the British Empire was put on the air by Farmer's Broadcasting Service, working in ...

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  5. STATE POLITICS.

    The dissolution of the State Parliament will take place on Wednesday next and the writs for the election will be issued on September 10. ...

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  6. RED DOCTRINES.

    In Paris a stir was created by the revelation that the Soviet Ambassador, M. Rakov-sky, who is visiting Moscow, was one of the signatories to a minority manifesto urging ...

    Article : 241 words
  7. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The Council of the League of Nations, referred the Danzig municipal loan to the financial committee, and heard Dr. Stresemann on the work of the economic committee and M. ...

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  8. RAILWAY STATIONS CLOSE THE QUEENSLAND DISPUTE.

    At noon yesterday the stationmasters at all railway stations throughout Queensland locked up their offices, and the railway stations were deserted. Not a wheel moved in the whole of the railway systems after that hour. ...

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  9. GERMANY.

    "Have the German people forgotten that they lost the greatest war in history? Do you not consider it extraordinary that impoverished Germany should have the world's ...

    Article : 249 words
  10. COUNTRY CENTRES.

    Reports from large railway centres in the country show that, although the A.R.U. is endeavouring to stampede the railway men into a militant attitude by passing ...

    Article : 310 words
  11. "ACCEPT CHALLENGE."

    The Government cannot, with honour, recede from the stand it has taken. It cannot permit its functions of government to be usurped by the Australian Railways Union. It is ...

    Article : 508 words
  12. ITALIAN SHOT DEAD.

    Two revolver shots brought death and consternation into a woodworking factory at St. Peters on Saturday morning. With his hand to his heart, Carmelo Garaci, ...

    Article : 320 words
  13. HOPE ABANDONED.

    Hope has been virtually abandoned for the aeroplane "Saint Raphael," in which Loslie Hamilton, Lieut-Colonel Minchin, and Princess Lowenstein-Wertheimer, left England ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. RECEPTION IN LONDON.

    At 2.30 this morning it was announced that a cable had been received from London stating that the transmission was being well received in Britain and was being rebroadcast by [?]O ...

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  15. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.

    The message of his Excellency the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair) transmitted by land line from Government. House to the studio of 2FC. was as follows:— ...

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  16. ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS.

    "The public's indiscriminate use of ultraviolet rays must be deprecated," says Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the Health Ministry. "The best results are ...

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  17. PENDING LEGISLATION.

    The Ottawa correspondent of the "New York Times" says:—It is stated on good authority that legislation will probably be introduced into the Dominion Parliament to discourage ...

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  18. FOOD SUPPLIES.

    The Premier (Mr. McCormack) announced yesterday that, in view of the cessation of rail transport, the Government had taken timely measures concerning road transport, so ...

    Article : 411 words
  19. NEW FORD CAR.

    Dow Jones and Company, the lending financial news agency in the United States, announces details of the new Ford car. It is stated that the new car, no longer a Ford ...

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  20. OTHER FLIGHTS.

    The "Royal Windsor," which left Ontario for England on Friday, but was forced down at St. John's (Quebec), left again at 1.35 to-day, but was later compelled by bad ...

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  21. THE RIVERINA.

    The position of the stranded steamer Riverina is new more hopeful. Another sand bar has to be encountered, and when this has been passed over the ship, ...

    Article : 238 words
  22. THE PREMIER.

    The Premier's message was as follows:— "This is a happy day for the people of New South Wales. When we realise that without leaving our own country we are able to speak ...

    Article : 149 words
  23. RAILWAYS "BLACK."

    Following quickly upon the strike committee's decision to declare the railways "black" comes a resolution, carried at a mass meeting in the Domain this afternoon, called by the ...

    Article : 347 words
  24. WHEAT POOL.

    The Washington correspondent of the New York "World" says:— The Department of Agriculture announces the Administration's approval of the ...

    Article : 170 words
  25. STERLING EXCHANGE.

    The "Investors' Chronicle," commenting on the steadiness of sterling at New York, says: —There is a feeling that this will continue for some time as important support is promised ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN NOVEL.

    Mrs. Dorothy Cottrell, of Ularunda Station, Morven, Queensland, several months ago sent a bundle of manuscript to the "Ladies' Home Journal," a periodical having one of the ...

    Article : 108 words
  27. LORD MAYOR'S GREETINGS.

    The Lord Mayor (Alderman Mostyn), in a personal message to the Lord Mayor of London, said:— "As Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, on ...

    Article : 158 words
  28. MARITIME MISHAPS.

    Entering the Southampton docks to embark passengers, the Federal Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Rotorua, 12,112 tons, struck a wall of tho Quay. Its sailing was delayed until ...

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  29. MAILBAG ROBBERY.

    There has been a great mailbag robbery resulting in the disappearance of £8000 in Treasury notes. Two officials of the Bourne-mouth branch of the National Provincial Bank ...

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  30. NIGHT PROWLER.

    The nurses at Casino Hospital have been frightened by a night prowler, and one refused duty in the isolation ward at night. When remonstrated with she resigned, and ...

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  31. POPULATION.

    At the World Population Conference at Geneva, Professor Gini (Italy) said that the birth-rate was a matter of State importance. The State was entitled to decide future ...

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  32. RIOTS IN INDIA.

    Serious fighting is reported to have taken place between the Sunnis and the Shiahs, two sects of Moslems belonging to the Orakzal tribe at Kalaya, north of Kohat, on the ...

    Article : 79 words
  33. SHARK-FISHING.

    Commissionaires guarded the secrets of a strange shark-fishing yacht, shortly to be seen in Australian waters, on its arrival at East India Docks from Amstordam. The success of ...

    Article : 127 words
  34. MEN SIGN ON FREELY.

    "Railwaymen in the southern and central railway divisions are freely signing the application forms for re-employment, and the service undertaking," said the Commissioner (Mr. ...

    Article : 107 words
  35. EMPIRE JOURNALISTS.

    Sir James Fairfax, chairman of the Australian section, Empire Press Union, personally delivered the following message to journalists throughout the British Empire:— ...

    Article : 254 words
  36. SHOOTING AT WARSAW.

    An applicant at the Russian Consulate at Warsaw, on being refused a passport visa, drew a knife and wounded an official. He also slashed a portrait of Lenin. Another ...

    Article : 98 words
  37. BOARD OF TRADE.

    The Board of Trade and Arbitration resumed its sitting in the Arbitration Court at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, the deliberations proceeding in camera. At 11.30 a.m. an ...

    Article : 333 words
  38. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    In a speech at Kelso. Mr. Churchill indicated that any increase of income tax or reimposition of food taxes was improbable in the next Budget. ...

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  39. OVERCOME BY GAS.

    Two brothers—Gilbert Dawes, 37, and Francis Edward Dawes, 27—were yesterday taken to Sydney Hospital, having been overcome by gas fumes at their home in ...

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  40. SUPPORT FOR STRIKERS.

    The Federal secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. R. V. Keane) said to-day that the union was endeavouring at present to confine the dispute to Queensland. ...

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  41. TRAIN WRECKED.

    An inquiry into the derailment of the Toulouse-Bordeaux express shows that the damage to the line must have been done shortly before the arrival of the express, ...

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  42. COMMUNISTS.

    A message from Budapest reports a Communist round-up throughout Hungary. Numerous arrests have been made, including 50 at Budapest. These include Ignace Kornis, ...

    Article : 74 words
  43. ALTITUDE RECORD.

    A sensation has been caused in aviation, circles in Paris by the announcement of the Aero Club of France that the claim of Callizo, a French airman, to have reached an altitude ...

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  44. EFFECTS OF THE DISPUTE.

    A message from Cairns states that about 50 passengers, who had been marooned at Townsville owing to the dislocation of traffic, reached there on Friday by ...

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  45. MAN ATTACKED.

    Cecil Bell, of Railway-parade, Erskineville, has reported to the police that while on his way home about 11 p.m. on Saturday he was met by three men. One of the men, according ...

    Article : 110 words
  46. PROMOTION OF PEACE.

    Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.P., sent the following message:— "It is my privilege to speak to you across the leagues of ocean that divide the people ...

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  47. MELBOURNE COUPLE.

    The Los Angeles police were informed to-day of the mysterious disappearance of [?]. and Mrs. G. W. Parker who last March left Melbourne with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Aughtie ...

    Article : 106 words
  48. ANARCHISTS ARRESTED.

    News from Paris says that two French anarchists, Daudel and Robert, and an Italian. Ronchini, searetary of the international Sacco-Vanzetti defence committee, have been ...

    Article : 91 words
  49. FREE STATE ELECTIONS.

    Nominations of candidates for the Dall have closed. Only th[?] candidates were returned unopposed. A telegram was received at Mr. Cosgrave's ...

    Article : 56 words
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