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  2. STATE CAUCUS.

    There was a prolonged debate at the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour caucus yesterday on the proposal to increase the railway rates so as to help stabilise the ...

    Article : 702 words
  3. DEPORTATIONS.

    Recently a statement was published in which it was alleged that Mr. Marr, M.P., Acting Minister for Defence, said he had made secret deportations from Australia. ...

    Article : 346 words
  4. GIANT AIRSHIP.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce), according to information from London, has made tentative arrangements for one of the giant airships being built for the Imperial service ...

    Article : 630 words
  5. GERMAN MENACE.

    "The Germans are aiming at obtaining a substantial foothold in New Guinea," said Mr. G. Braddon, representing New Guinea at the annual congress of the Returned Soldiers' ...

    Article : 388 words
  6. UNITED STATES.

    Some banter by the chairman (Mr. F. E. Powell) about the respective sizes and virtues of America and Australia gave Mr. Bruce, who was the sole guest and speaker at an American ...

    Article : 581 words
  7. PACIFIC SURVEY.

    The following wireless message, regarding the progress of the seaplane in which the Chief of the Air Staff, Group-Captain R. Williams, Flight-Lieutenant Mcintyre, and ...

    Article : 178 words
  8. CONFERENCE.

    Only the most meagre official statements on major issues continue to be made by the spokesman of the Imperial Conference, with [?] result that the prominence the London ...

    Article : 566 words
  9. THE BRUNNERS.

    Exhaustive investigations have not cleared the mystery surrounding the discovery of the dead bodies of Mr. Rosooe Brunner and Mrs. Brunner at Green Cottage, Putney. ...

    Article : 547 words
  10. FLOODS.

    Telegraphic communication with the South Isfand hns been restored. Extensive damage was done by the storm in Canterbury, where all the rivers rose rapidly. The ...

    Article : 241 words
  11. PAY OF Ms.L.C.

    At a meeting of the A.L.P. executive last night Mr. W. Padgen moved a motion objecting to the proposal to pay members of the Legislative Council for their Parliamentary ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. SINGLE SEATS.

    The announcement of Mr. E. A. Button shaw, leader of the Country party, that his party intended to contest the whole 39 seats in the country at the next elections, has ...

    Article : 313 words
  13. THE BUDGET.

    Though Mr. Lang spent the whole of Thursday in seclusion on his Budget statement, he now finds that it will be impossible for him to deliver it in the Legislative Assembly on ...

    Article : 342 words
  14. DISTURBED CHINA.

    A sudden increase of anti-foreignism in Liuyang. Hunan Province, forced the closing of the Wesleyan Mission and its evacuation by seven British missionaries, all of whom have ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. DESIRE FOR PEACE.

    "Remember the war," advised his Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven), in expressing the desire of all returned soldiers for peace, in a speech at the ...

    Article : 288 words
  16. SEIZURE OF LIQUOR.

    Federal prohibition agents to-day took charge of 250,000 gallons of whisky, which had been bondad in a warehouse at Brooklyn. It was the largest seizure of the kind ever made ...

    Article : 54 words
  17. BRITISH MINERS.

    Optimistic feeling is the result of the meeting of the miners' delegates, and important de clopments are expected to-day, when the executive with a free hand meets the Trade ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. CHILLAGOE.

    In the Legislative Assembly the Premier replied to allogations made by the leader of the Opposition concerning alleged irregularties in the operations of the State smelters ...

    Article : 585 words
  19. "ABSOLUTE FARCE."

    "I want to say, as one who has been representing employers on these so-called conciliation committees, that under the present Arbitration Act the whole thing is an absolute ...

    Article : 383 words
  20. A QUEEN'S TOUR.

    Plans for the reception of the Queen of Roumania at Seattle to-day were d'srupted by unscheduled stops at Longview and Tacoma. There is reported to have been a ...

    Article : 202 words
  21. THE BETTING TAX.

    The bookmakers again picketed Windsor Racecourse for the second day's racing. Betting is held up practically all over the country. A large body of bookmakers at ...

    Article : 137 words
  22. AGREEMENT.

    A new conciliation agreement, providing for the prompt settlement of disputes in British shipyards, without a stoppage of work, has been signed by the representative of the ...

    Article : 43 words
  23. ROYAL TOUR.

    It was suggested by delegates to the congress of returned soldiers to-day that an escort of holders of the Victoria Cross from the various States might be formed to act ...

    Article : 71 words
  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    At the request of the Admiralty, Lord Beatty has postponed his resignation, as First Sea Lord, which was due under the age limit. Otto Schlesinger and Willy Weher, two ...

    Article : 594 words
  25. FURTHER ARRESTS.

    Colonel Macia, who organised the revolutionary plot which was unmasked by the arrests at Perpignan, has been taken prisoner in the Eastern Pyrenees. It is generally believed ...

    Article : 203 words
  26. KING'S DINNER PARTY

    To-night's dinner to the Premiers at Buckingham Palace does not rank as a State banquet. It is officially described as a dinner party. While, therefore, shorn of some of ...

    Article : 237 words
  27. BRITISH FILMS.

    Mr. C. B. Cochran, the well-known entrepreneur, speaking at a dinner to celebrate the filming of representations of the naval battles off Coronel and the Faikland Islands, ...

    Article : 263 words
  28. CANCER TREATMENT.

    The following official statement will be read with Interest:- "The University of Sydney fools that the time has now arrived for a commencement ...

    Article : 508 words
  29. JOB CONTROL.

    De[?]te steps have been taken by the Master Builders' Association to suppress job control in the building trades. The association recently advised the ...

    Article : 162 words
  30. POLICE RAID.

    For the second time within three days the police raided a "two-up school" in the loft of a stablel at the rear of a house in Riley-street, Surry Hills, about 5 p.m. yesterday. ...

    Article : 440 words
  31. OVER 2000 MILES.

    Next week the general public will he able to converse by telephone between Melbourne and Townsville, a distance of 2017 miles. The Director of Postal Services (Mr. H. P. ...

    Article : 141 words
  32. GOLD IN ANTARCTIC.

    Sir Edgeworth David, lecturing at the Royal Institution, said that he had little doubt that gold exists on a large scale in the Antarctic. It would be obtainable by following Alaskan ...

    Article : 72 words
  33. RUBBER EXPORT RIGHTS

    The Colonial Secretary has approved steps being taken in Ceylon and Malaya to impose a limit of time on the validity of rubber export rights which may be issued in ...

    Article : 186 words
  34. ADULTERATED PEPPER.

    Paris newspapers publish an amusing story of a Viennese newspaper director who published a paragraph to the effect that he bought half a pound of pepper, one-half of ...

    Article : 67 words
  35. MR. LANG'S OFFER.

    For some time past the Premier has been receiving complain[?] from members of StarrBowkett societies, that they were unable to withdrawn their moneys from the societies, as ...

    Article : 199 words
  36. POLITICAL PARTIES.

    Mr. J. C. C. Davidson, M.P., has beep appointed chairman of the Conservative party organisation in succession to Mr. F. S. Jackson, M.P., who was recently appointed ...

    Article : 81 words
  37. MEMORIAL AT MONS.

    "It should be Mons." This, it was revealed for the first time, was the quick decision of the King when several suggested places for a [?]gian memorial to British dead were placed ...

    Article : 108 words
  38. FAMILY TRAGEDY.

    An employee of W. G. Sloman, a poultry-keeper, of Levin, on going to work to-day, found Sloman, his wife, daughter aged 19 years, and son aged 13 years, in the house ...

    Article : 104 words
  39. DR. PAGE.

    Dr. Earle Page (Acting Prime Minister) arrived by aeroplane this afternoon, accompanied by Mr. V. L. C. Bagot (private secretary) and Mr. Arthur Blakeley, M.P. Mrs. Earle ...

    Article : 119 words
  40. MANDATES COMMITTEE.

    At Genova to-day the Lengue of Nations Mandates Committee discussed the questionaire problem in view of the objections raised in September. Signor Th[?]odoli, the ...

    Article : 74 words
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