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  2. VOTE TO-DAY.

    To-day two questions are being submitted to the people of Australia by referendum dealing with industry and commorce and esseutial services. ...

    Article : 398 words
  3. GRAZIERS' DENIAL.

    Mr. C. G. Waddell, president of the Grazlers' Association of New South Wales, describes as "extraordinary" the statement (reported yesterday) of Judge Beeby in the ...

    Article : 667 words
  4. TO AUSTRALIA.

    "To-day our De Hav[?]land Fifty is a seaplane, and all thanks are due to willing help rendered by the officers and crew or H.M.S. Geranlum. ...

    Article : 264 words
  5. BASIC WAGE.

    Remarkable ligures regarding the effect of the addition of 3/ to the basic wage were given in the Arbitration Court to-day by Mr. Percival J. Pringle, manager of the Bendigo ...

    Article : 285 words
  6. MIGRATION.

    The approach of the Imperial Conference, coupled with recent comment by the Secretary of State for the Dominions (Mr. L. C. Amery), that Empire settlement was not ...

    Article : 327 words
  7. CANTON ARMY.

    The situation in China Has not been more critical since the revolution of 1911. The Central Government at Pekin is threatened with extermination by Bolshevik Chinese forces ...

    Article : 341 words
  8. THE LEAGUE.

    The 41st meeting of the Lengue of National Council opened at Genova to-day, the Spanish representative being absent. The Council discussed a resolution submitted ...

    Article : 376 words
  9. THE AUSTRALIANS.

    Havy mist preventing the ground from d[?] delayed resumption of the match between the Australians and an England XI at Folkestone. A start was ...

    Article : 528 words
  10. SANTA CRUZ.

    In their travels in the Santa Crus group, a scientific party from the Australian Museum examined the volcano of Tinakula, which still fumes and boils and throws up molten larva. ...

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  11. LAUNCH BURNT.

    A party of six, including the Commissioner of Police (Major Dudley), Mr. W. G. Hutchins, of Rockhampton, and Father Henseho, had a narrow escape from death on Thursday ...

    Article : 166 words
  12. WIRELESS SET.

    Sir Oliver Lodge, who, in March last, stated that after three years' secret experiments he had succeeded in doing away with the oscillation which had puzzled wireless operators ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. THE QUESTIONS.

    The questions to be submitted to the electors to-day [?] as follow:- (1) Do [?] approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution. ...

    Article : 72 words
  14. POWER GRANTED.

    After a discussion lasting all day the executive of the Miners' Federation late yesterday afternoon reached an important majority decision to recommend the delegate conference ...

    Article : 153 words
  15. AMERICA'S LIQUOR.

    Mr, B. Yellowley, prohibition di[?]ctor in the Chicago district, declares that [?] America liquor drinkers are going insanc, and have nobody to blame but themselves. ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

    Speaking at Turramurra the Minister for Trade and Customs said the referendum proposals were a logical corollary to the Government's policy as outlined by ...

    Article : 432 words
  17. RAIN IN CANADA.

    There is n week's dolay in harvesting. The highways are like irrigation ditches. There have been torrential rains in Alberta since Monday, but they are expected to cease ...

    Article : 203 words
  18. ARTHUR RICHARDSON.

    Cablegrams have referred to the possibility of Arthur Richardson, the leading all-round cricketer of South Australia, being engaged to play for the Lancashire League, and ...

    Article : 80 words
  19. AERIAL MAILS.

    Proposals for the establishment by a private company of an acrial mail and passenger service between Perth and the capitals of the Eastern States have been made to the ...

    Article : 330 words
  20. AEROPLANE CRASH.

    A privately-owned aeroplane orashod near Leatherhead (Surrey) to-day. It nose-dived after circling, nind burst into flames. There were three occupants, two of whom ...

    Article : 141 words
  21. SHEEPBREEDERS INDIGNANT.

    Sheepbreeders yesterday expressed indignation at Judge Beeby's statement. Mr. E. I. Body, the president of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association, gave an emphatic ...

    Article : 534 words
  22. THE "MIKADO."

    Criticism is expected to follow the action of the director of the Gilbert and Sullivan companies in ruthlessly scrapping the entire original designs of scenery and dressing for ...

    Article : 118 words
  23. STEEL CARRIAGES.

    The 100 steel railway carriages to be constructed by the Walsh Island Government Dockyard for use in the metropolitan electric railway services are to cost £4840 each, or ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Overseas Trade Department's bulletin mentions that a Manchester firm has received an order for plants for three extensive, flour mills in and around Melbourne. ...

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  25. RED DELEGATES.

    A letter has been despatched to officials of the general council of the Trades Union Congress, wich will hold its annual conference at Bournemonth next week, informing ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. SEVENTY SIX. KILLED.

    Seventy-six people were killed and 140 injured as the result of an accident on the Pekin-Sulyuan railway, when a passenger train from Kalgan was derailed on the way ...

    Article : 66 words
  27. COLLAPSE.

    Four boys fell 14 feet from the grandstand to the asphalt pavement and were injured, when the wooden panel at the side pt the stand collapsed at the Combined High Schools' ...

    Article : 300 words
  28. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

    The following statement has been issued by the president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce (Mr. James M. Dunlop), anno[?]ing that the chamber had decided to support ...

    Article : 116 words
  29. LORD STONEHAVEN.

    The aeroplans with the Governor-General and party as passongers arrived at the Carnarvon [?]rome at 11.20 o'clock this morning. The party was given a rousing ...

    Article : 299 words
  30. LAWN TENNIS.

    The South African Lawn Tennis Association's disqualification of Mdile. Lenglen has only rallied French opinion to her support, Mdile. Lenglen sails for America late in ...

    Article : 79 words
  31. BRITAIN'S HEALTH.

    The chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health (Sir George Newman) makes a striking de[?]aration on national health in his annual report. "Looking back ovor 60 years," ...

    Article : 107 words
  32. A SIMPLE ISSUE.

    Speaking at Randwick, the leader of the Opposition (Mr. T. R. Bavin) said that the referendum proposals were being put before the people as if the question was m[?]r[?]ly ...

    Article : 422 words
  33. CITY RAILWAY.

    The first section of the City Railway—that between Central Statopm and St. James-road— will be open for traffic on January 1, 1927. An official announcement to this effect was ...

    Article : 210 words
  34. POISONING CASE.

    John William Yates, aged 15 years, of william-street. Abbotsford, appeared before Mr. Justice McArthur in the Criminal Court today for sentence on a charge of having ...

    Article : 221 words
  35. SOUTH AFRICA.

    At the Transvaal Nationalist Congress Mr. Creswell, Minister for Defence, was severely eriticiacd on the ground that there were too many South African party officers employed. ...

    Article : 109 words
  36. DEFENCE.

    The annual report of the executive committee of the Australian National Defence Leaguo, which was presented at the annual meeting of the league last Wednesday, ...

    Article : 254 words
  37. CITY MARKETS.

    A wide divergence of opinion was shown at the meeting of the special comnittee of the City Council, which held a sitting yesterday, to hear evidence on the proposal that the ...

    Article : 155 words
  38. PATRONAGE.

    At the last meeting of the City Council finance committee, the Town Clerk was instructed to prepare a new scheme for the employment of unskilled labour by the ...

    Article : 191 words
  39. SWEDISH ROYALTY.

    The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden arrived at Yokohama this morning aboard the siberia Maru, and entrained for Tokio, where they will be the guests of the nation ...

    Article : 128 words
  40. RAILWAY FATALITY.

    While walking along the railway line near the Eveleigh workshops shortly aftor 11 o'clock last night, James Coleman, aged about 45 years, a bollormaker employed by the ...

    Article : 124 words
  41. NEWSPAPER PROPERTY.

    Negotiations were completed and an agreement was signed yesterday for the sale of the undertaking of the West Australian Newspaper Company, Limited. including the "West ...

    Article : 64 words
  42. MISSING GIRL.

    The mystery of the disappearance of the six-year-old girl Joan Smith is still unsolved. Mr. A. Smith, owner of Willangee Station, has decided to take 40 or 50 horsemen to establish ...

    Article : 95 words
  43. ARBITRATION.

    The Premier (Mr. Lang) addressed a large audience at Newcastle to-night. "Hoping to win your confidence in a very suspicious scheme," he asserted, "Mr. Bruce ...

    Article : 651 words
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