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  2. STATE PARLIAMENT OPENED.

    The fourth session of the present State Parliament was opened without pomp or ceremony. The opening was performed by commis-sion only. Excitement was caused in the Legislative Assembly by the intrusion of a claimant to Mr. Kay's seat in the North Shore electorate, ...

    Article : 334 words
  3. CIVIC COALMINE.

    Though the purchase of the Balmain coalmine is not officially before the City Council or the electricity committee, arrangements have been made by the Lord Mayor ...

    Article : 478 words
  4. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

    The Auditor-General, "whose annual report was tabled in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, in dealing with public accounts, states that last year's deficit was caused "by the ...

    Article : 551 words
  5. THE COAL STRIKE.

    Apparently the Government and minors are at last determinedly seeking a way out of the coal deadlock. The minors" letter to Mr. Baldwin yesterday, was accompanied by a ...

    Article : 446 words
  6. AIR DISASTER.

    The long-heralded attempt of Captain Rene Fonck, a French airman, to fly in a three-engined Sikorsky 'plane, with three companions, from New York to Paris, started ...

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  7. DEATH ROLL.

    News comes from Miami that on Tuesday there were estimated to be 400 dead, 5000 injured, and 50 missing through the hurricane, Which devastated 60 miles of the east coast ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. ALAN COBHAM.

    To-day we flow successfully through varying monsoonal conditions from Calcutta to Allahabad.6OO miles, arriving there at 2 o'clock, in heavy rain. ...

    Article : 298 words
  9. THE STRICKEN STATE.

    Florida is at once the oldest and the newest part of America. Miami, perhaps the greates city in the State and one of the most remarkable in America, had enjoyed a phenomenally ...

    Article : 215 words
  10. CHINA.

    Reports from all sources reveal unprecedented national unrest. The country from end to end is engulfed in the greatest maelstrom of warfare for several decades, with the future ...

    Article : 494 words
  11. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    The Budget Commission of the League of Nations bad a brake put on its progress through a plethora of new votes, by Sir Joseph Cooks Insistence that there should be closer ...

    Article : 339 words
  12. BETTING TAX.

    The latest effect of the betting tax regulation demanding the registration of all bookbakers is a Stock Exchange order prohibiting any member or clerk from betting within ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. EQUITY FUNDS.

    Referring to the defalcations in the office of the Master in Equity, the Auditor-General, in his annual report, stated:—"An audit of the accounts of the office of the Master in ...

    Article : 365 words
  14. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

    proceedings in the Legislative Assembly opened after the formal reading of the Governor's proclamation with the announcement of the vacation of the sents of Mr. A. D. Kay, ...

    Article : 3,161 words
  15. EMPIRE AFFAIRS.

    The Empire Parliamentary Delegation and the State Legislature this morning continued their conference, which was commenced last night. The proceedings were in camera, ...

    Article : 416 words
  16. FLOODS IN INDIA.

    Abnormal rainfall—22 inches in three days— is causing flood conditions in Central and Eastern India. Bridges on the mail line from Calcutta to Bombay have been washed away ...

    Article : 78 words
  17. ISLAND TRADE.

    The Minister for Home and Torritories (Sir William Glasgow) announced yesterday that the Parliamentary Joint Committee of Public Accounts had been requested by the ...

    Article : 169 words
  18. SPORT ABROAD.

    On the mid-Surrey Club's Course the £1040 "News of the World" professional golf tournament, regarded as the "professional matchplay championship," was begun to-day by 64 ...

    Article : 364 words
  19. A WORLD SCOURGE.

    Strong hope that concentrated world-wide study would result in establishing the causes of cancer was expressed by a distinguished specialist at an international symposium of ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. RECONCILIATION.

    It is officially stated at Paris that the Government of France is unanimous regarding the utility of pursuing the France-German conversations, and that the Government will ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. SEWER ENDANGERED

    A report was submitted to the Water Board yesterday showing that serious damage was being caused to the western main outfall Sewer by the discharge of chemical matter ...

    Article : 352 words
  22. DISASTROUS FIRES.

    The country towns of Gatton and Maleny suffered severely as a result of fires early this morning. In each case four buildings weru destroyed. ...

    Article : 169 words
  23. WHEAT TRANSACTIONS.

    It was announced at the Co-operative Wholesale Society's meeting to-day that last year's wheat pool experiment, under which 15,000,000 bushels were handled and financed, would be ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. MR. OSCAR ASCHE.

    At the public examination of Oscar Asche, [?]er and theatrical manager, in the London Bankruptcy Court, liabilities were disclosed of £44,311, and a deficiency of £27,018. ...

    Article : 236 words
  25. ALLEGED LAXITY.

    The administration of the Child Welfare Department is criticised by the Auditor-General in his roport, which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. ...

    Article : 376 words
  26. SURGEON'S MISTAKE.

    How a surgeon left a pair of 6-inchh forceps in a woman's abdomen after an operation in 1923 was disclosed to-day during an inquest on Florence Tapp, aged 47 years. Her ...

    Article : 238 words
  27. PICNIC HOLIDAY.

    The Water Board employees spend their picnic holiday in a manner other than that for which it is granted. The board will seriously consider the advisability of having a variation ...

    Article : 142 words
  28. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    To-day 277 nominee migrants sailed by the Esperance Bay for Australia. Victoria's quota of 113 includes 21 "Little Brothers" and 33 minors, selected by the "Morning ...

    Article : 251 words
  29. STRANDED COOMA.

    The attempt to refloat the Cooma has been abandoned. The tages Coringa and Forceful are returning. This decision followed the failure to free ...

    Article : 93 words
  30. THE ROYAL BETROTHAL.

    The King of the Belgians in announcing to his subjects the betiothal of his son and their, Prince Leopold to Princess Astrid of Sweden says:—"The bride-elect is a girl of great ...

    Article : 145 words
  31. BROADCASTING.

    It was stated to-day as likely that the party cousisting of representatives of 3LO Broadcasting Station (Melbourne), Amalgamated Wireless, Australasia, Limited, and the ...

    Article : 87 words
  32. SENSATIONAL STORY DENIED

    The chief of the Metropolitan police officially denics a Japanese newspaper's story of an attempted assassination of the Crown Prince of Sweden during a luncheon at the ...

    Article : 109 words
  33. CHILD KILLED.

    When the motor cycle on which she was riding overturned at Gladesville on Tuesday night, Mavis Marsh, aged 3 years, of Gladesville, received a fracture of the skull. Taken ...

    Article : 68 words
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