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  2. MR. JUSTICE HARVEY.

    Mr. Justice Harvey, Chief Judge in Equity, has been nominated by the Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Street) as Royal Commissioner to conduct the Inquiry into tho administration ...

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  3. DUKE'S NOTABLE APPEAL.

    The enthusiasm which has marked the visit to Brisbane of the Duke and Duchess of York was repeated yesterday, when a great display by school children was a feature of the programme. In replty to all official welcome, the Duke of York made notable ...

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  4. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    At Tokio it appears to be thought that the raid on the Soviet Embassy at Pekin was a direct demonstration of war by Marshal Chang Tso-lin against Russia. It is also stated that Russian troops are on the border of Manchuria. ...

    Article : 195 words
  5. TELEVISION.

    The first public demonstration of television (visibio radio) was given at the laboratory of tho Bell Telophone Co. to-day, when a group of 50 people saw and heard Mr. Hoover, the ...

    Article : 294 words
  6. THE BEAM.

    The inauguration of the beam service between Australia and Britain was accomplished yesterday in a satisfactory manner. The transmission and reception at both ends ...

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  7. REHEARSAL TEST.

    No fault could be found with this afternoon's first Press trial of the beam wireless service to Australia. It worked splendidly within the safe limit of 100 words per minute. ...

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  8. CHILDREN'S PAGEANT.

    There was a magnificent pageant of childhood at the Exhibition Grounds to-day for tho bcnollt of tho Royal visitors, who, at the close of the proceedings, were paid a splendid ...

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  9. RED RULES,

    The Premier (Mr. Lang) yestorday defined his attitude towards the Red rules, which have been set down for consideration at the forthcoming Easter conference. ...

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  10. MESSAGE TO THE KING.

    The Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven) has sent the following messngo by boam wireless to his Majesty the King: "On behalf of the people of Australia, ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. DEFENCE OF FOREIGNERS.

    Asked by Mr. J. M. Kenworthy (Lab.) in the House of Commons to-day whether he was satisfied with the force avallable at Tientsin and Pekin, the Secretary of State ...

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  12. "UNDISCIPLINED LOYALTY."

    That the extraordinary ebullition of enthusiasm with which tho papulaeo of Brisbane has received tho Dnke and Duehess from the moment of their arrival, has made ...

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  13. CONVERSION.

    The Commonwealth conversion loan of £11,711,000, carrying 5 per cent. Interest and issued at 98, has been underwritten. [Commonwealth debt to the amount of ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. FIGHTING AT SHANGHAI.

    Simultaneously with the departure of Chiang Kai-shek for Nanking, guerillas again became active last night. At midnight they sniped and wounded a Japanese marine. Alarm was ...

    Article : 314 words
  15. GREETINGS.

    At the Invitation of the Australian Press Association, for Its first message by beam, Viscount Burnham sends the following Empire Press Union greetings:—"I rejoice at being ...

    Article : 82 words
  16. THE RAID AT PEKIN.

    Apparently Marshal Chang Tso-lin has deelared war against the Soviet Government. Voluminous special reports from correspondents at Pekin announce that the raid on the ...

    Article : 375 words
  17. OTHER MESSAGES.

    "To the Governor-General of the Commonwealth ot Australia:- "In this the first message sent on the opening of the new wireless service between ...

    Article : 607 words
  18. BABY RESCUED.

    A baby, aged 18 months, who was alone in a burning two-story building in Great Northroad, Fivedock, for several minutes yesterday afternoon, was rescued by a local ...

    Article : 209 words
  19. THE PROSPECTUS.

    The prospectus invites holders of 5½ per cent, stock maturing on June 1 to convert their holdings into an equal amount ot 5 per cent. stock maturing in 1945-75, ...

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  20. LOCAL LOAN.

    It is the intontlon ot the Commonwealth Treasurer (Dr. Page) to raise, shortly, a new loan for the redemption of the 6 per cent, war gratuity loan of approximately £6,600,000, ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. AMERICAN LABOUR.

    The Commonwealth industrial mission spent to-day inspecting the huge plant of the General Electric Company, which hero employs 17,000 bands. The complete total of all the ...

    Article : 277 words
  22. THE BARRIER REEF.

    For the purpose ot more closely studying the biological reasons for the ebullition of life causing the Great Barrier Reef, Mr. F. A. Potts, lecturer in zoology at Cambridge ...

    Article : 134 words
  23. OFFICIAL WELCOME.

    Queensland's address of welcome, read by the Acting Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith), expressed grateful appreciation of their Highnesses' visit. It also contained an expression ...

    Article : 82 words
  24. POSTAL ROBBERIES.

    Wholesale robbery of letters in the Randwick district was disclosed in a case at the Quartor Sessions, Darlinghurst, yesterday. Leonard Charles Vickery, 17½ years, and Joseph ...

    Article : 449 words
  25. SECOND STATE LOAN

    The group of banks forming the Bquitable Trust group will underwrite the secom 25,000.000 dollar loan for the New South Wales Government. It is understood that the loai ...

    Article : 189 words
  26. ALLEGED INTIMIDATION.

    At the A.L.P. executive meeting last night, Mr. L. Devitt alleged that organised gangs were visiting meetings of leagues convened by the executive for the purpose of causing ...

    Article : 157 words
  27. THE DUKE'S REPLY.

    The Duke replied as follows: "On bohalf of the Duchess and myself, I thank you sincerely. To us, also, it is a matter of deep regret that in the limited time at our ...

    Article : 478 words
  28. KING'S MESSAGE.

    His Excellency the Governor yesterday recaived a cablegram in the following tarm[?] from His Majesty the King, through the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs:- ...

    Article : 115 words
  29. MEAT CONTRACTS.

    The War office is inviting tenders for the supply of 6070 tons of frozen beef and 380 tons of frozon mutton, for delivery in Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, partly during the six ...

    Article : 99 words
  30. RENOWN BAND.

    The laut performance of the special band from H.M.B. Henown is to be given at Taronga Park on Sunday afternoon, beginning at 3 o'clock. ...

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  31. MR. SEALE'S SUPPORTERS CONFIDENT.

    Supporters of Mr. W. H. Seale are confident that the conference of the party, which opens at the Trades Hall on Friday next, will result in the defeat of the opposing A.W.U. ...

    Article : 293 words
  32. ARMAMENTS.

    After a long debato, the Preparatory Dlaarmament Commission at Geneva accepted Vlscount Cectl'a resolution that each State should communicate to the Loaguo of Nations, in a ...

    Article : 116 words
  33. BRITISH MIGRATION.

    "It is a humiliating slur to suggest that British women are useful in the dominions only as domestics," said Miss Wileman, founder of the Empire League for Oversea ...

    Article : 158 words
  34. STARVING MAN.

    Sydney Williams, a seaman, 26 years of age, told a story of having stolen hecause he was, starving. He received a sentonce yesterday of 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour ...

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  35. LABOUR ALDERMEN.

    Labour atdormcu of the Lithgow council are standing firmly against tho motion of consure passed on them by the Lithgow branch of the A.L.P. for refusing to grant concessions ...

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  36. TRADE UNION BILL.

    The metropolitan division ot the National Union of Conservative Associations has carried a resolution welcoming the Trade Union Disputes Bill, particularly the political levy ...

    Article : 158 words
  37. PAPER MANUFACTURERS.

    John Fairfax and Sons, Ltd., yesterday received tho following: "By first boam wlroless message to Australia, Dixon's Paper Mills, of Grimsby, send ...

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  38. GALLIPOLI OFFICER.

    The death occurred to-day of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Owen, commander Of the 3rd Battalion, A.I.F., during the Gallipoli campaign. [?]Lioutentant-Colonel Owen waa a son of the ...

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  39. THE TRAFFIC.

    When transmission by the beam wireless service to Great Britain was commenced at 4 o'clock this afternoon, messages totalling about 3000 words were waiting in Melbourne ...

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  40. COLLISION.

    When an Eastern Suburbs ambulance car was rushing to the Sydney Hospital late yesterday afternoon, carrying a mau who had been found shot on the cliffs at Watson's ...

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  41. COLONEL SHOT DEAD.

    Colonel J. Fitzgerald, commanding the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey regiment at Gibraltar, to-day paid his usual afternoon visit to the orderly room, accompanied by ...

    Article : 174 words
  42. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    King George and Quean Mary have ncceptei a set of New Zealand Government publlcity department photographs of the Duke of York's visit to the Dominion. ...

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  43. SHOP ROBBED.

    A thief who entered Wlgnoy's jeweller's shop in Sydnoy-road, Manly, on Thursday evening, cut the wires of a burglar alarm beforo forcing the back door of the shop, ...

    Article : 105 words
  44. MISSING NOBLEMAN.

    The young Swedish nobleman. Goran Falkouberg a count in his own right and the inheritor of an Income of nearly £5000 a year, for whom the Swedish Consul-General was ...

    Article : 95 words
  45. MOTOR 'BUS FARES.

    The order issued recently, bringing motor bus fares and cbarges under the price-flxing regulations, was not necessarily aimed at metropolitan vehicles, but the action was ...

    Article : 100 words
  46. CAPITAL OFFENCE.

    At the Grafton Circuit Court last night, Mr. Justice James passod sentence of death on Herbert Henry Ditton, aged 22, who was found guilty of a capital offence upon a ...

    Article : 68 words
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