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  2. A.L.P.

    The principal feature of the opening session of the special conference of the Australian Labour party last night was a vigorous address by the Premier, Mr. Lang. He said ...

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  3. PEACE TERMS

    There have been important developments in the coal strike arising out of a cecision of the minors' delegate conference yesterday, to empower the executive of the Miners' ...

    Article : 742 words
  4. ARMISTICE DAY.

    King George, standing in front of the Cenotaph in Whitehall, with the Princes behind him and British Ministers and domiaion Statesmen, all bareheaded, gathered round, ...

    Article : 416 words
  5. EMPIRE AFFAIRS.

    With a desire that the Imperial Conference should be concluded on November 25, all committees have been summoned for to-morrow, to give the finishing touches to their reports ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. MR. McTIERNAN'S REPORT.

    The Attorney-General (Mr. McTiernan), who visited London to discuss the constitutional position arising from the differences between the Ministry and the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair), has forwarded to the Premier (Mr. Lang) his report on the result of his ...

    Article : 152 words
  7. NEW BRITAIN.

    Passengers who arrived in Sydney by the steamer Montoro brought further details of the murder of the four Australian gold prospectors in New Britain. ...

    Article : 673 words
  8. REGULATION.

    There were further developments yesterday in the regulation strike launched by the fitters employed at the Enfield railway sheds as a protest against the alleged failure of the ...

    Article : 195 words
  9. THE CRICKETERS.

    Long before the Aorangi berthed at Darling Harbour last night, a great crowd had gathered on the wharf to welcome home the Australian cricketers. Although the vessel had ...

    Article : 578 words
  10. REPORT REVIEWED.

    Mr. McTlenan states that he had a preliminary conversation with Mr. Amery on May. 13, and two further interviews on June 3 and 15. In answer to an inquiry, Mr. ...

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  11. PLEA FOR GOODWILL

    An eloquent plea for co-operation by English-speaking peoples in the solution of world problems was made by the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Bruce), in delivering ...

    Article : 623 words
  12. UNITED STATES.

    The United States honoured its war dead to-day by suspending business activity for two minutes at 11 o'clock. Traffic stopped in the great cities throughont the country, ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. DISTURBED CHINA.

    Nanking, the first Yangtse port. General Sun Chuan-fang's base, and the connecting link of the Pekin-Shanghal. railway, is momentarily expected to fall into the hands of ...

    Article : 240 words
  14. "FORESTALLERS."

    The question of the right of forestailers to occupy stands at the Municipal markets is again arousing attention amongst Sydney vegetable buyers and growers. The ...

    Article : 312 words
  15. BUSH FIRES.

    Bush fires are still reported in the Lismore district. At Stony Chute considerable areas of grass have been destroyed, and houses have been threatened. The Public school and ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. BRIBERY CHARGES.

    Commenting on the report of the Parliamentary select committee into the bribary charges, the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bavin, last night said:— "The finding of the ...

    Article : 332 words
  17. POTATO FAMINE.

    Following on the shortage of green vegetables which has prevailed for a considerable time, a serious scarcity of potatoes is threatened. Prime old season's Tasmanian ...

    Article : 283 words
  18. NOBEL PRIZES.

    The Nobel prizes for 1925, the distribution of which was deferred, have been awarded as follow:—Literature, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw; Physics, divided between Professor J. Franck, ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

    What is the object of the meeting of Tewflk Rushdl Bey, Turkish Foreign Minister, and M. Ticherin, the Soviet Commissar for Foreign A[?]rs? The Diplomatic Correspondent of the ...

    Article : 87 words
  20. ENGLAND.

    Mr. A. S. Hoskins, a director of Hoskins' Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., and Mr. George S. Nock, of Nock and Kirby, Ltd., who returned to Sydney yesterday, both told similar stories ...

    Article : 220 words
  21. NEW GUINEA PROPERTIES.

    The only tender received here for New Guinea properties is that of the Melanesia Company, Ltd., of which Sir Harry Brittain, M.P., Sir Robert Anderson, of Sydney, and Mr. ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. EMPIRE FILMS.

    Viscount Burnham presided at a meeting at the Royal Colonial Institute, when an Empire film scheme, sponsored by Senator Guthrie, of Victoria, was discussed. A ...

    Article : 196 words
  23. MONS MEMORIAL.

    The British memorial to the million British dead has been unveiled in the Cathedral of St. Waudru, at Mons, near the spot Where the "Old Contemptibles" first withstood the ...

    Article : 75 words
  24. TIMBER STACKERS.

    A serious extension of the Port Adelaide timber stackers' strike is threatened. At a combined meeting of the Port Adolaide and Adelaide Trades and Labour disputes ...

    Article : 150 words
  25. OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY.

    Sir Rebert Anderson said last night that the Melanesia Company had been formed with the object of acquiring plantations in the mandated territery of New Guinea and developing them. ...

    Article : 192 words
  26. FIRE BRIGADES.

    "The anti-Labour daily papers came out this morning with the once quite familiar headline 'defeat of the Government, but it wesn't really the detent of the Government ...

    Article : 157 words
  27. CANADIAN WHEAT.

    The Bureau of Statistics estimates the total wheat yield of the Dominion at 405,814,000 bushels, or 6,000,000 bushels less than last year. ...

    Article : 34 words
  28. PICTURE THEATRES.

    Details of an important and far-reaching merger of motion picture interests were made available here to-day by the general manager (Mr. M. G. Sloman). of the new company. ...

    Article : 283 words
  29. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A startling Parliamentary paper discloses that £1,000,000 is required to carry out necessary repairs to the Houses of Parliament during the next twelve years. Twenty-five per ...

    Article : 253 words
  30. BRITISH BROADCASTING.

    A White Paper explaining the transfer of the British Broadcasting Company's affairs to a new corporation announces that the company will be bought out for £620,000. The salaries ...

    Article : 190 words
  31. LABOUR CAUCUS.

    The Labour caucus had another long sitting yesterday. when the chief business for discussion was the amending Railway Bill. At the close of the sitting the official report stated: ...

    Article : 214 words
  32. STRATHCONA ESTATE.

    [?] ved that the largest estate left by a woman in the history of the Empire is that of the late Lady Strathcona. The estate si officially certiffied to have a gross value of ...

    Article : 146 words
  33. EARTHQUAKES.

    Several earthquake shocks were experienced in the Waikato district to-day. The most severe was at Morrinsville, wh[?] there were 10 shocks at intervals during the ...

    Article : 97 words
  34. MAN POISONED.

    A sensaifonal development in the Port Broughton poisoning mystery occurred to-day. Gladys Evans, the 17-year-old wife of the victim of the affair. Stanicy B. Evans, [?] ...

    Article : 109 words
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