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  2. MISSION TO U.S.A.

    The Commonwealth Industrial Mission to-day inspected several Spokane industries, completing a preliminary programme which forms no part of the [?]nerary arranged ...

    Article : 471 words
  3. CITY FIRE.

    A fire, which broke out shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday, destroyed S. Wright's Coach Factory and Motor Body Works, a three-story building, at 573 Harris-street, Ultimo. ...

    Article : 519 words
  4. LIVING WAGE. Enabling Bill.

    Following the decision of the Labour caucus on Monday that the Government should instruct the Industrial Commissioner to declare a living wage for adult male employees, the ...

    Article : 2,026 words
  5. SHANGHAI.

    Although the capture of Shanghai by the Cantonese appears to have been prolonged, actually it is proceeding rapidly from the point of view of Chinese warfare. A ...

    Article : 639 words
  6. LABOUR CAUCUS.

    The action of certain Labour members who rebelled against the introduction of the Liquor Bill in Parliament formed the subject of a heated debate at a special meeting of the ...

    Article : 669 words
  7. LABOUR WOMEN.

    A deputation, representing the Labour Women's Organising Committee, was received by the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair) yesterday afternoon. His Excellency was urged ...

    Article : 525 words
  8. ALLEGED KILLING

    The Rev. E. R. B. Gribble, head of the Forrest River Mission, continued hie evidence to-day before the Royal Commissioner (Mr. G. Wood, S.M.). regarding the alleged killing ...

    Article : 868 words
  9. BRITISH ARMY. The Estimates.

    In the House of Commons to-day the Secretary of State for War (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans) introduced the Army Estimates of £1,565,000—a reduction of £135,000 ...

    Article : 538 words
  10. FEDERAL TERRITORY.

    The liquor ordinance in force at Canberra is condemned in the annual report of the Federal Capital Commission. The report states that, as no restriction was ...

    Article : 204 words
  11. THE ROYAL TOUR.

    Another of those children's demonstrations, of which their Royal Hignesses never seem to tire, began to-day's proceedings. Several thousand children assembled in front of a ...

    Article : 868 words
  12. AVIATION.

    A message from Rabat to Paris states that searching aeroplanes have found no trace of Major Borges, the Uruguayan airman whose seaplane was wrecked on the coast of ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The Council of the League of Nations met to-day at Geneva, Dr. Stresemann, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, presiding. There was a humorous incident when a ...

    Article : 385 words
  14. LABOUR SPLIT.

    Feverish preparations are being made by the rival factions in the Labour party for the annual convention of the party. While the section in control of the A.L.P. executive ...

    Article : 482 words
  15. ARMAMENTS.

    The National Defence Bill, on which a long debate was to-day concluded in the French Chamber of Deputies, converts the whole nation in emergency into a gigantic war ...

    Article : 228 words
  16. LATE SHOPPING. Bill to Abolish.

    A special meeting of the Parliamentary Labour caucus has been convened for to-day for the express purpose of discussing the details of the proposed bill to abolish the late ...

    Article : 66 words
  17. HYDE PARK.

    Mr. Norman Weekes, architect and consulting engineer, of 19 O'Connell-street, Sydney, was at the City Council last night awarded payment of £150, for the prize design for the ...

    Article : 384 words
  18. EARTHQUAKE.

    A severe earthquake was experienced at Osaka and Kobe, and was felt slightly at Tokio at 7.30 p.m. Electric power at Osaka was cut off, and ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. LEAGUE'S PROTEST.

    Mr. H. Baker, treasurer of the Trades Hall Early Closing League, said yesterday that great disappointment was felt by unionists with the Government's refusal to proceed with ...

    Article : 90 words
  20. BEAM WIRELESS.

    The Post Office and the Marconi Company are reticent concerning the official test of the Australian beam wireless system. The former declines to make a statement till the ...

    Article : 112 words
  21. DENTAL CLINIC.

    The City Council last night, by a majority vote, approved of a dental clinic being established for the use of civic employees. Alderman Walder supported the scheme. ...

    Article : 285 words
  22. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The "Daily Express" says: Dr. L. Haden Guest, M.P., who has resigned from the Labour party, will fight North Southwark as an Independent Constitutionalist, and receive ...

    Article : 419 words
  23. A MINISTER'S BOOK.

    In the House of Commons to-day Mr. C. G. Ammon (Lab.) inquired whether Mr. Baldwin would extend the prohibition on Ministers writing for the Press to the writing of books ...

    Article : 186 words
  24. LIBERTY WAR BONDS.

    The United States Treasury announces the refunding of the second Liberty Loan, involving over 3,000,000,000 dollars worth of bonds. ...

    Article : 138 words
  25. AMMONIA FUMES.

    Ammonia fumes—created by a failure in the air-conditioning plant—swept the six floors of the City North Telephone Exchange, Castle-reagh-street, yesterday. ...

    Article : 113 words
  26. DEPUTIES' DISPUTE.

    Pelaw Main colliery was the only mine that worked on the South Maitland coalfield today, principally due to the attitude of the Colliery Officials' Association in demanding ...

    Article : 94 words
  27. BELGIAN STEEL RAILS.

    The Minister for Railways (Mr. C. W. Malan) stated in the House of Assembly that a Belgian tender for steel rails for £125,000 had been accepted, the price being £5/7/ per ...

    Article : 98 words
  28. CRIME IN UNITED STATES.

    Professor Raymond Moley, of Columbia University, a noted sociologist, in addressing the Clergy Club, said: The general condition of incompetent police work and ...

    Article : 126 words
  29. CHURCH BURNT.

    A fire to-day destroyed St. Ninlan's Church of England at Prospect. According to Statements by youths in the neighbourhood, a boy was seen with a handful of lighted grass ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. CANBERRA.

    Captain Morris, organising secretary of the arrangements for the accommodation of tourists at Canberra, in a telegram from Queanbeyan yesterday, stated that no hitch had ...

    Article : 50 words
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