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  2. CHILD ENDOWMENT.

    The second reeding debate on the Child Endowment Bill occupied the whole of yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Bavin delivered a vigorous speech. In ...

    Article : 2,963 words
  3. NEW RAILWAY.

    After negotiations extending over more than a year, an agreement was made yesterday between the Government and Hoskin's Iron and Steel Company, Ltd., whereby under ...

    Article : 376 words
  4. PORTUGAL.

    A message received at noon from Lisbon states that the rebels surrendered at 10.20 p.m. yesterday, after 44 hours' bombardment. The Government's promptness in disarming the ...

    Article : 338 words
  5. BUSH FIRES. Three Lives Lost.

    Disastrous bush fires are now sweeping over many miles of country between King-lake and Croydon, leaving a trail of desolation and blackened ruin. ...

    Article : 649 words
  6. IDLE COLLIERIES. FEDERAL ACTION.

    Mr. G. B. Knowles, an officer of the Federal Attorney-General's Department, who intended to leave for Melbourne on Thursday night, remained in Sydney yesterday in order to ...

    Article : 227 words
  7. DISARMAMENT.

    President Coolidge has proposed to the Governments of Britain, France, Italy, and Japan that the limitation of cruisers, destroyers, and submarines should be discussed at the ...

    Article : 1,556 words
  8. BRITISH AIMS IN CHINA. Statement in Commons.

    Agreement has been reached at Hankow regarding control of the British concession. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons on Thursday, reiterated that troops were being sent to Shanghai for the protection ...

    Article : 1,658 words
  9. LOST TRADE.

    The silence of the coalowners respecting the dispute was broken yesterday by Mr. C. M. McDonald, chairman of the Northern Collieries Association, who emphasised the ...

    Article : 405 words
  10. CYCLONE. NORTH QUEENSLAND.

    Communication with the cyclone-stricken area in North Queensland is still interrupted. Messages received by the Acting Commissioner for Police to-day told of the excellent work ...

    Article : 248 words
  11. BRITISH RAILWAYS.

    The disastrous effect of the coal strike is seen in the results of the year's working of several railways. The London, Midland, and Scottish Co. was able to pay a dividend of ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. LAWN TENNIS.

    The prospect of having an Australian team at Wimbledon is at present given prominence in a paragraph by Mr. Powell Blackmore in the "Evening Standard." He says:—It would ...

    Article : 155 words
  13. OUTBREAK NEAR GOULBURN.

    Two thousand acres of grass have been destroyed already by a fire which is burning flercery on Mr. H. Bell's West Pomeroy station, 15 miles south-went of Goulburn, and is ...

    Article : 63 words
  14. DAMAGE AT CAIRNS.

    Messages from Cairns despatched through Mareeba, state that the cyclone was the most disastrous in the history of the city. It reached a velocity of nearly 100 miles an ...

    Article : 283 words
  15. CIVIC TRADING.

    Mr. H. Mackay, general manager of the City Council electricity department, has reported to the electricity committee that it has been brought to his knowledge that certain ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. MINERS' VIEW.

    "The pin-pricking methods of the managers have caused discontent among the miners," said the secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. D. J. Davies) yesterday. ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. JAPAN'S LATE EMPEROR.

    The British Government has sent the following telegram to the Japanese Government:—"On the occasion of the service of prayer and recollection in Westminster Abbey ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. CITY FIRE.

    Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire which broke, out at the rear of 410 Pitt-street, city, shortly before midnight last night. ...

    Article : 246 words
  19. CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

    A court martial sitting at Mcquinez, in Morocco, has condemned Klems, a German who acted as gunnery instructor to Abdel Krim's forces, to death and military degradation, for ...

    Article : 71 words
  20. GARAGE INQUIRY.

    The Deputy-Lord Mayor (Alderman Green), said yesterday that it was his intention to preside at the opening of the inquiry into the administration of the civic garage on Monday ...

    Article : 209 words
  21. STEEL PRODUCTION.

    A message from Paris says that the threatened rupture of the steel trust formed by French, German, Belgian, and Luxembours manufacturers has been averted by withdrawal ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. THE COMMONS.

    Mr. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Exchequer), replying to questions in the House of Commons, said that instructions recently issued restricting clearance of wines from ...

    Article : 382 words
  23. MAJOR GOODSELL.

    Major Goodsell, the champion sculler, is appearing at a theatre at Portland (Oregon). He declares that he has no idea how the story about his being kidnapped originated. He ...

    Article : 53 words
  24. STEAMERS IN HEAVY SEAS.

    Advice received in Sydney yesterday stated that the steamer Melusia, encountered heavy seas during the cyclone. Some of the deck cargo was lost, and deck fittings on the ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Professor A. J. Grant, of Leeds University, sails for New Zealand to-morrow. He is going to Canterbury College—the first Englishman to exchange chairs with a New ...

    Article : 420 words
  26. SYDNEY SOLICITOR.

    Hairy Waldemar Baum, a Sydney solicitor, who disappeared last September and who was subsequently arrested under a Sydney warrant at P[?]t Sald, returned to Sydney ...

    Article : 186 words
  27. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING.

    Recent articles in Australian newspapers advocating greater decentralisation and greater use of west coast ports have attracted attention in shipping circles in London. The ...

    Article : 150 words
  28. STREET ACCIDENT.

    While proceeding along George-street, city, to the scene of an accident shortly before 8 o'clock last night an ambulance waggon knocked down and injured a woman and her ...

    Article : 266 words
  29. FIRE ON STEAMER.

    The wooden steamer Our Elsio, well known in the North Coast timber trade, was severely damaged by fire while berthed at the wharf of the owners. A. and E. Ellis, Ltd., at ...

    Article : 304 words
  30. CAPTAIN PETER WRIGHT.

    In a letter of over 500 words addressed to Lord Gladstone, Captain Peter Wright, whose recent action for libel against his lordship failed, says:—If I had not taken up the ...

    Article : 170 words
  31. WATER SHORTAGE

    For two days the Junee Public Hospital has been without water, and numerous householders are in the same position. The municipal authorities state that water is coming ...

    Article : 144 words
  32. FOX-TROT BY WIRELESS.

    Before an interested audience in London. Jack Hylton took down by wireless telephony from New York a new fox trot, "Shepherd of the Hills," which Horatio Nicholls had ...

    Article : 118 words
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