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  2. FIRE AT MANILLA.

    At 9 o'clock last night the shop of M. C. Mackenzie and Sons, Ltd., in Manila-street, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £50,000. The building was the most ...

    Article : 201 words
  3. AVIATION.

    Interest is increasing in the race for the Schneider Cup, to be contested by British and italian seaplanes at Lido (Venice), on Sunday. Both teams made trial flights under ...

    Article : 426 words
  4. CONSTITUTION. ROYAL COMMISSION.

    When the Royal Commission on the Federal Constitution resumed its sittings this morning, the Commonwealth Solicitor-General (SirRobert Garran) continued his evidence. ...

    Article : 1,162 words
  5. SECURITY. Geneva Proposals.

    The most important step taken by the present Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva was made to-day, when the Third Committee unanimously accepted a security ...

    Article : 493 words
  6. MR. PIDDINGTON. Extension of Commission.

    The cross-examination of Mr. Piddington before the Royal Commission by Mr. Lamb (counsel for the "Sydney Morning Herald") was concluded yesterday afternoon. Mr. Curtis (for Mr. J. W. Allen) then began his cross-examination. ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. SINGAPORE BASE.

    The House of Representatives has approved the Government's naval defence proposals, including a contribution of £1,000,000 to the Singapore base, by 51 votes to 10, Labour ...

    Article : 255 words
  8. COUNTRY PARTY.

    In an address yesterday before members of the metropolitan branch of the Country party, Mr. Bavin, leader of the National party, outlined the fundamental causes of the ...

    Article : 1,027 words
  9. CROSS-EXAMINATION.

    To Mr. Lamb, Mr. Piddington said that be had had nothing to do with drawing up the clause of the Royal Commission relating to the charge that he had usurped the functions ...

    Article : 5,519 words
  10. CHILD ENDOWMENT.

    "Please give me a confidential report on the circumstances and character of Mrs. —, who is applying for child endowment." This, said Dr. J. E. Webb, the Nationalist ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. NIGHT TROTTING.

    According to Mr. J. Barnes, president of the New South Wales Trotting Club, nothing further will be done in regard to night trotting on the Epping (Glebe) course, until ...

    Article : 350 words
  12. THE WARATAHS.

    There is a possibility that A. C. Wallace, captain of the Waratahs, will not play to-morrow against Newport, owing to a strained thigh. ...

    Article : 32 words
  13. EMPIRE AIRSHIPS.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has received from Group Captain P. F. M. Fellowes, leader of the British Air Mission, which recently visited Australia, a report on the ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. SWIMMING IN JAPAN.

    The Australian, American, and Japanese tournament swimmers met in preliminary practice at Tamagawa pool, near Tokyo. Prince Chichibu was an interested spectator ...

    Article : 95 words
  15. TARIFF QUESTIONS.

    The Second Committee of the League of Nations Assembly to-day whittled down Sweden's motion in favour of carrying out the Economic Conference's recommendations for ...

    Article : 136 words
  16. BOY SHOT.

    While George Bishop, aged 12, was gathering wild flowers at Greenmount, near Perth, two boys appeared before him, one carrying a rifle. The lad with the rifle told Bishop ...

    Article : 102 words
  17. TANNENBERG.

    The former Kaiser has telegraphed to President von Hindenburg, thanking him for his speech repudiating Germany's was guilt at the unveiling of a memorial on the scene of the ...

    Article : 115 words
  18. ITALIANS FINED.

    Fines amounting to £10 each were imposed recently on nine Italians, by the Furnishing Trades Union, for not supplying correct information regarding the wages they were ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. DUCHESS OF YORK.

    An incessant downpour caused the Duke and Duchess of York, on arriving at Glasgow to-day, to drive to the Town Hall in a closed motor car. They proceeded at a slow pace ...

    Article : 180 words
  20. PLUCKY CHINESE.

    The sight of the Chinese rushing at them with a pitchfork was sufficient to deter two men from an attempt to rob Sam Chin, Chinese market gardener, of Coburg. ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. SENTENCED FOR FRAUD.

    Joseph Aspinall, 53, of London, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment to-day, and his son James to nine months, for obtaining £16,000 from 43 persons by making false ...

    Article : 92 words
  22. SIXTY COMMUNISTS.

    "The statement reported to have been made by the Queensland Premier, Mr. McCormack, that sixty Reds motored to Brisbane from Sydney, is on a par with his other ...

    Article : 147 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The death is announced of Lord George Hamilton, in his 71st year. Lord Hamilton, who was the third son of the first Duke of Abercorn, had a distinguished political career, ...

    Article : 528 words
  24. VERDUN.

    After 11½ years, the cemetery at Verdun, in which are buried 250,000 French soldiers, who died to uphold the famous challenge. "They shall not pass," was consecrated in ...

    Article : 166 words
  25. DARWIN LUMPERS.

    Commenting on the waterside labour in Darwin, Captain S. Mortimer, of the Burns, Philp line steamer Marella, which arrived at Melbourne to-day, said that he did not know any ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. GIRDER FALLS.

    Hugh McDonald, aged 32 years, a dogman, of Bridge-street, Drummoyne, was killed shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, owing to the breaking of the hawser on which ...

    Article : 117 words
  27. RAILWAY WORKERS.

    Mr. G. Bodkin, secretary of the railway workers' section of the Australian Workers' Union, stated yesterday that he had received a telegram from a union organiser on the ...

    Article : 161 words
  28. QUEENSLAND.

    The annual report of the Unemployed Workers Insurance Commission which was presented to Parliament to-day, showed that there had been 48,980 applicants for sustenance during ...

    Article : 253 words
  29. BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT.

    According to Press telegrams from Copenhagen, Boy Scouts of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have written to the International Scout Bureau in London suggesting that the ...

    Article : 97 words
  30. MR. DUFFY'S APPOINTMENT.

    At a meeting of the Trades Hall Council to-night, the executive's approval of the appointment of the assistant secretary (Mr. M. B. Duffy) to the Royal Commission on the ...

    Article : 52 words
  31. SMUGGLED FURS.

    In a case in which it was alleged that a wealthy Melbourne business man induced women passengers on the steamer by which he was travelling to wear fur apparel ashore in ...

    Article : 216 words
  32. WATER SCARCITY.

    The price of refreshments owing to the scarcity of water has increased. Beer is 4/ a bottle, and lemouade 2/. Dr. MacGillivray stated after a visit to ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. ARTICLE ON PREMIER.

    Armidale has been inundated to-day with the periodical "Stead's Review," containing an article on the Premier (Mr. Lang). The magazine is wrapped in Government ...

    Article : 72 words
  34. IRISH POLITICAL LEADERS.

    Mr. W. J. Cosgrave and Mr. de Valera have been invited to attend a conference at Cork on Friday, under the auspices of the Cork Harbour Board, to consider the economic ...

    Article : 94 words
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