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  2. PREPARING FOR ELECTIONS

    There was no change in the State political situation yesterday. With a view to preparing for the election, the Treasurer moved in the Legislative Assembly yesterday for four months' supply, totalling £14,207,235. ...

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  3. TRAMS COLLIDE.

    Fifteen persons were injured when two trams collided in Oxford-street, near the Waverley tramway depot, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The accident occurred at ...

    Article : 489 words
  4. OVERTIME STRIKE.

    There was every indication to-day of a extension in the near future of the overtime strike on the wharfs, with the distinct probability that members of a number of other ...

    Article : 238 words
  5. THE MINERS.

    "I return to find, the situation just as I expected. It is useless in shut our eyes to the fact that the miners are beat[?]n," was the comment of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald o[?] ...

    Article : 322 words
  6. THE AYRSHIRE.

    The cargo steamer Ayrshire, which caught fire near Colombo while on a voyage from Australian ports to the United Kingdom, has been destroyed. ...

    Article : 253 words
  7. NEWCASTLE STRIKE.

    The terms of settlement submitted by the Railway Commissioners to the union representatives at this morning's conference were rejected at a mass meeting of the Newcastle crane employees held at the Trades Hall to-night. ...

    Article : 656 words
  8. UNITED STATES.

    The annual report of the Secretary for Commerce (Mr. Hoover) pictures the fiscal year as unsurpassed in the history of the United States in respect of volume of production ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. STEAMERS DELAYED.

    Further delays in the sallings of vessels from Sydney have occurred through the operation of the overtime strike of the Waterside Workers' Federation. ...

    Article : 279 words
  10. ROUMANIA.

    A message from Paris says that mystery continues to surround King Ferdinand's Illiness. There is the strictest censorship in Roumauia, and the people are ignorant of the gravity ...

    Article : 306 words
  11. GRASS FIRES.

    AS the 10.30 a.m. train from Sydnoy was leaving Windsor Station for Clarendon, a large quantity of sparks were omitted from the engine along the side of the raliway tracks, ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. COAL-WORKERS.

    Because new working conditions, introduced under a revision of their award made recently by the Arbitration Court do not suit them, about 1000 members of the Australian ...

    Article : 301 words
  13. UNREST IN CHINA.

    Chinese members of the Foreign Concession Police at Hankow have Joined the strikers. Foreigners have formed a special constabulary to reinforce the Sikh branch of the police, ...

    Article : 245 words
  14. TRANSPORT.

    Economic losses resulting from the lack of uniformity in the railway gauges of the various Australian States and the need for adopting a policy of unification as soon as possible ...

    Article : 445 words
  15. SEAMEN'S POLICY.

    Members of the Sydney branch of the Australian Seamen's Union will hold a stop-work meeting this morning for the purpose of discussing, among other things, the policy they ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. EDUCATION.

    In the annual report of the Department of Education, presented to the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Minister (Mr. Mutch) pointed out that the educational system of ...

    Article : 279 words
  17. AMERICAN WHEAT.

    A message from Chicago says that wheat commission houses are beginning to feel the effects of the shrinkage in orders from the general public and professional operators, due ...

    Article : 135 words
  18. MIGRATION.

    If avid and arrogant secularism was too often tue temper of Colonial society; if the passion for money-making and appetite for frivolous self-Indulgence were even more ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. PROPOSED RAILWAY.

    The Public Works Committee has approved of the construction of the proposed railway from Guyra to Dorrigo. The line will be 89 miles in length, and the ...

    Article : 151 words
  20. LAND VALUES.

    The report of the Local Government Department for the year ended June 30, 1926, tabled by the Minister (Mr. Fitzgerald) in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, gives ...

    Article : 202 words
  21. BRITISH EMPIRE.

    The Secretary of State for the Dominion[?] (Mr. L. C. Amery), in an interview yesterday, expressed the belief that birth of the younger nations and the British ...

    Article : 128 words
  22. WORKMEN BURIED.

    Thomas Smith and Frank Morgan, employed in the construction work at the Bunnerong power-house, were buried under a quantity of sand and timber yesterday afternoon while ...

    Article : 81 words
  23. THE ALPHABET.

    Professor Godfrey Dowey, of Harvard University, addressing the English Language Congress at Philadelphia, advocated the revision of the alphabet to a system of 24 consonants, ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. CITY PROPERTY.

    Negotiations were completed yesterday, (brough the agency of Mr. I. B. Hodgson, jun., in conjunction with Mr. G. A. McGladory, for the sale of a property situated at the corner ...

    Article : 120 words
  25. WHEAT.

    The shipment of the new season's wheat from Sydney for oversea has commenced. Usually the grain is not available for shipment until about the second week in ...

    Article : 132 words
  26. BOY KILLED.

    Stewart Francis Anderson, aged 11 years, of 18 Kentville-avenue, Annandale, was playing with other boys in Johnson-street, when a motor lorry, loaded with heavy hardwood ...

    Article : 106 words
  27. MECHANIC KILLED.

    Falling a distance of 100 feet down a lif[?] well in course of construction in a Macquariestreet building yesterday afternoon, Alexander Dybling, aged 25 years, a mechanical ...

    Article : 117 words
  28. HUGE AIRSHIP SHED.

    The Air Ministry contemplates the construction of a second huge airship shed at Cardington. On building will accommodate R100, and the other a second State airship, which is ...

    Article : 112 words
  29. LIBERAL NEWSPAPERS.

    It is understood that Mr. Lloyd George made at least £1,000,000 profit for the Liberal party by the sale of the "Daily Chronicle" and other publications, which were recently acquired by ...

    Article : 86 words
  30. PENSIONER'S DEATH.

    Investigations into the death of John Tessier, a military pensioner, at his home in Francis-lane, city, on Saturday, have led the police to believe that a series of accidents ...

    Article : 245 words
  31. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

    The "Sunday Times" says that proposals under the favourable consideration of the new British Broadcasting Commission, which will assume control of wireless telephonic ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. PORT KEMBLA RAILWAY.

    The construction of the Moss Vale-Port K[?]mbla railway is likely to be commenced at an early date. Yesterday the members for the district ...

    Article : 91 words
  33. INSUFFICIENT RAILWAY FACILITIES.

    Owing to delay in operating the weighbridge at the railway here much inconven[?]ence is being caused to farmers. Thousands of bags of wheat are lying to ...

    Article : 83 words
  34. SHOP ON FIRE.

    Fire destroyed a two-story general store and dwelling occupied by Albert Noel Carpenter and his wife in Elizabeth-street, Waterloo, early yesterday. ...

    Article : 109 words
  35. FASCIST ATTACK.

    While Herr Lo[?]be, the President of the Reichstag, was addressing a Socialist demonstration of Berlin, a Fas[?]st fired a sho[?] from a passing tramear, the bullet grazing the ...

    Article : 113 words
  36. AERIAL SURVEY.

    Group Captain Williams, who is returning from an aerial survey of the Pacific, landed on the harbour at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. ...

    Article : 33 words
  37. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    A report from Helsingfors states that two Finish military planes collided at a great al[?]tude, and c[?]shed. Their four occupants were killed. ...

    Article : 51 words
  38. SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

    The first of the eight bays forming part of the southern approach to the Sydney harbour bridge was completed yesterday, and the brackets that will support the footways are ...

    Article : 55 words
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