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  2. THE SCHOOLS.

    Given such fine weather as was vouchsafed for the annual head-of-the-river races of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales yesterday, what a record crowd there will be on ...

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  3. STRIKE THREAT.

    The industrial situation is threatening. The compulsory conference held yesterday, to consider the ultimatum of the enginedrivers proved abortive. A stoppage at ...

    Article : 1,014 words
  4. PATRONAGE.

    Patronage at the Town Hall became operative officially yesterday, in accordance with a resolution forced through the City Council on Tuesday night by the Labour aldermen ...

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  5. RED CROSS.

    The Red Cross Society has decided to make an appeal throughout New South Wales for funds, and the State Government has set a part Friday, August 6, for the ...

    Article : 1,587 words
  6. RADIO TELEPHONY.

    In the House of Commons to-day Sir Archibald Sinclair (Con.) asked whether the Postoffice had refused to conduct wireless telephony experiments with Australia and ...

    Article : 145 words
  7. COAL TRADE.

    After several days of intensive conferences between mine owners and miners, in which the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) has been active, the mine owners intimated their ...

    Article : 399 words
  8. BRITISH BUDGET.

    In the House of Commons to-day it was "Opposition Day" in regard to the Budget. Mr. P. Snowden (Lab.) took full advantage of it to accuse the Chancellor of the ...

    Article : 646 words
  9. AUSTRALIANS. Opening Match.

    The commencement of the Australian cricketers' first match—against the Minor Countles team at Holyport, near Maidenhead—was postponed owing to rain. ...

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  10. AUSTRALIA'S POSITION.

    "The statement by Sir William Mitchell Thompson is not in accordance with facts, as, so far as I know, there is nothing whatevr to prevent experiments in wireless ...

    Article : 241 words
  11. THE SOVIET.

    The publication of the text of the treaty entered into by Germany and the Soviet has not dispelled concern in French political circles in regard to its possible effects ...

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  12. EGYPT'S STATUS.

    A message from Cairo says:—An interesting law suit has begun on behalf of Mrs Folk, widow of the American, Governor Folk, against the co-defendants, Zaghloul Pasha and ...

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  13. SIGNOR MUSSOLINI.

    In torrential rain, more than 50,000 Fascists assembled in Cathedral-square, Milan, last night, to pay homage to Signor Mussolini, who was given an enthusiastic ovation. Signor ...

    Article : 73 words
  14. SHIPPING COMPANIES.

    It is announced that the Treasury is giving the following guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act:—Shaw-Savill and Albion Company, £675,000, respecting the construction of ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. BRITISH EMPIRE.

    In an address at Toronto on Tuesday Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador in the United States, declared that the three greatest political questions for the near future were: ...

    Article : 89 words
  16. DRAFT AGREEMENT.

    Mr. W. Davies, M.L.A., stated yesterday that Hoskins, Ltd., had decided to accept the draft agreement submitted by the Premier (Mr. Lang) in respect of the proposal to ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. ANTHROPOLOGY.

    Professor A. Radcliffe-Brown, the newly-appointed Professor of Anthropology at the Sydney University, has arrived from Europe, and will be the guest of the Rockefeller ...

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  18. FLOODS IN RUSSIA.

    Reuter's correspondent at Moscow says: The Volga and its upper tributaries have overflowed their banks. The river Klazma flooded the town of Orekhovo, 45 miles east of ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. SERIES OF CRIMES.

    A sensational poisoning case was heard at Nimes (France), where Antoinette Sierrl, a middle-aged nurse, was found guilty of poisoning six people, and sentenced to death. ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    In the House of Commons to-day Sir Harry Brittain (Con.) asked: "As one dominion is restoring imperial penny postage and another internal penny postage, will the Postmaster. ...

    Article : 180 words
  21. ALLEGED ROBBERY.

    Following the receipt of a report at police headquarters late yesterday afternoon concerning the alleged theft of £260 from a country visitor in a city hotel, detectives ...

    Article : 168 words
  22. BILLIARDS.

    G. B. Shaller, of Sydney, won the seventh heat of the Empire amateur billiards championship, defeating Rutledge (South Africa) by 2000 to 1343. Shailer to-day made breaks ...

    Article : 169 words
  23. AMAZING MOTOR CAR FEAT.

    The amazing world's record speed of 172 miles an hour was achieved by the Brooklands motorist, J. Parry Thomas, on Pendine Sands, with a 400-h.p. car. The car whizzed ...

    Article : 127 words
  24. LOST IN THE BUSH.

    After having been lost for tour nights and five days in the heart of some of the densest forest country in Victoria, Henry Gale, a young trapper, was found this afternoon ...

    Article : 184 words
  25. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.

    H. R. Sinclair, the Moore Park golfer, who went to England to contest the amateur championship, made his first appearance in Britain on the North Berwick links. He played ...

    Article : 124 words
  26. ELECTORAL ROLL.

    A sensation has been caused at Cairns by what appears to be a barefaced attempt to tamper with the electoral roll on the part of a section of one of the almost ...

    Article : 197 words
  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Duchess of York, who is convalescing, was delighted at the receipt of a present from Australia House of a beautiful ornamental gift basket, filled with Australian ...

    Article : 331 words
  28. THRILLING VOYAGE.

    To be two days in a boat without food in a raging sea, with a coffin containing the body of a halt-caste, was the experience of a party conveying a corpse from Babel Island to Lady ...

    Article : 319 words
  29. EARTH'S AXIS.

    A Reuter message from San Francisco says: Captain Thomas; mathematician and Government Astronomer at Mare Island, announces the discovery of the cause of a variation of ...

    Article : 135 words
  30. VICTORIAN POLICE.

    In an official statement made to-day the secretary of the Police Association said that the senior ranks of the Victorian Police Force are seething with discontent as a result of ...

    Article : 183 words
  31. CLAIM AGAINST DOCTOR.

    In the case in which William Smart Harnett, a well-to-do farmer, was awarded £500 damages against Dr. Henry Fisher, who certified him insane in 1922, Mr. Justice Horridge, ...

    Article : 136 words
  32. POLAR EXPEDITION.

    A message from King's Bay (Spitsbergen) Says: All preparations for the arrival of the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar expedition airship the Norge, are complete. After a ...

    Article : 93 words
  33. PILOT STEAMER.

    The State Government has decided to place a contract with the Walsh Island dockyards for the construction of a pilot steamer. The cost of the vessel will be about £40,000. ...

    Article : 76 words
  34. CALCUTTA RIOTS.

    For the first time since the recrudescence of the riots the affected areas were quiet, and the situation this morning is considerably better. The total casualties since April 22 are ...

    Article : 48 words
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