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  2. A. J. C. RACES.

    Five thousand sovereigns and a beautiful gold cup, valued at £200, constituted a very welcome "Easter egg" for Messrs. E. J. Gorman and T. J. Gaffney, whose brown gelding ...

    Article : 854 words
  3. THE DORRIGO DISASTER.

    A tireless search by land and sea for the 22 missing men of the lost steamer Dorrigo has proved fruitless. Hopes for their rescue are now considered slender. An overturned lifeboat has been sighted at sea, and many lifebelts have been ...

    Article : 128 words
  4. ROYAL SHOW.

    Yesterday's attendance at the Show (day and night sessions) was a record for an Easter Monday—151,000, compared with 148,000 on Easter Monday last, the previous record total. ...

    Article : 1,390 words
  5. PROHIBITION.

    The Senate Committee on Judiciary tomorrow will begin public hearing lasting a fortnight upon six measures for the repeal or modification of the Prohibition law. These ...

    Article : 228 words
  6. LABOUR PARTY.

    Mr. F. W. Jowett, who was Commissioner of Works in the MacDonald Ministry, presiding at the Independent Labour Party Conference, declared that the right to live was ...

    Article : 303 words
  7. A.L.P. CONFERENCE.

    A trial of strength which look place yesterday at the State Conference of the Australian Labour party resulted in still another decisive defeat for the Magrath-Tyrrell faction. The conference decided by 175 votes to 130 that members of the ...

    Article : 117 words
  8. CONFERENCE RESUMED.

    There wa[?] a full attendance of delegates when the conference was resumed at the Trades Hall yesterday morning. After the dramatic adjournment of the ...

    Article : 2,467 words
  9. THE FOUNDERING.

    A graphic story of the foundering of the Dorrigo on Friday morning was related to-day by the son of the master of the vessel (Captain Gray). ...

    Article : 550 words
  10. LIFEBOAT SEEN.

    A wireless message received at Pinkenba from the steamer Cape York, which, together with the Burwah, is scarching for the remainder of the shipwrecked crew of the ...

    Article : 205 words
  11. FRENCH FINANCE.

    The French Chamber of Deputies adopted by 365 votes to 145 a measure increasing the Customs duties by 30 per cent., and including the Senate's amendments Measures providing fresh ...

    Article : 232 words
  12. JUVENILE CRIME.

    Challenging the contention that there were any real grounds for a youthful crime-wave scare in the United States, the Federal Children's Bureau has issued a statement that ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. SEARCH CONTINUES.

    The Deputy-Director of Navigation reported to-night, that the coast line from Low [?] to Double Island Point had been searched for survivors of the Dorrigo. No ...

    Article : 260 words
  14. CALCUTTA RIOTS.

    As the result of-fighting in the HinduMoslem riot in Calcutta, 23 people have died and 48 have been injured up till to-da April 5. ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH.

    The death is reported from Berlin of the Industrial magnate August Thyssen, aged 85 years.—Reuter. Thyssen's death recalls an amazing German ...

    Article : 354 words
  16. WAR HORSES.

    A memorial statuctte to 375,000 of the Empire's horses who fell in war-time was dedicated at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Church. ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. THE DRESSES.

    Summer viod with winter at Randwick yesterday, for while some women braved the hot sun and wore their new winter frocks and fur-trimmod suits many of them came clad [?] ...

    Article : 1,089 words
  18. SURROUNDED BY SHARKS.

    As night closed in a school of small sharks three or four feet in length hovered round the sun deck. Rain pelted down on the two survivors as they lay huddled together under a ...

    Article : 311 words
  19. SYDNEY MAN'S ESCAPE.

    To have escaped the disaster was the good furtune of the chief steward of the Dorrigo, Mr. A. S. Dixon, of Sydney. Although a member of the Dorrigo's crow since ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. REVERSE FOR M. ZINOVIEFF.

    Reuter's correspondent at Riga states that M. Zinovieff has been deprived of the Presidency of the [?]grad Soviet, thus losing all official authority. ...

    Article : 31 words
  21. SPOILT HOLIDAY.

    There was further trouble on the Hobart water[?] to-day when 300 waterside workers, who were given to understand on Saturday that they would be re-engaged this morning, ...

    Article : 151 words
  22. NAVAL VESSELS.

    Referring to-day to a statement that the Naval Board was cognisant of the [?]light of the Dorrigo's crow on Saturday; and failed to initiate a search there, the secretary of ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. GREECE.

    As the Government has rejected the request for a week's postponement in the Presidential election, so that voting might occur throughout Greece on the same day, ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. MOTOR FATALITY.

    A motor car which was going along Elizabeth-street shortly after 2 o'clock this morning, was passing the intersection of [?] worth-avenue and Campbell-street, when it ...

    Article : 115 words
  25. COALMINES.

    In the event of aggregate meetings of the federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association being held on Tuesday, it is unlikely that the passenger trains on the South ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. MOTORISTS HOAXED.

    The biggest April fool hoax of recent years is described in the "Daily Chronicle." A thousand motorists were victimised by a giltedged printed invitation card to the opening ...

    Article : 142 words
  27. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    When attempting to pass another car going in the same direction about a mile from Panmure on Saturday night a motor car, driven by Peter Rowan, hire car proprietor, struck a ...

    Article : 70 words
  28. CHAR-A-BANC STRIKES POST.

    This afternoon, when an empty four-touchar-a-bane bolted for 50 yards in Bourke-street, finally coming to rest against a verandah post, the driver, who was in the rear of ...

    Article : 105 words
  29. HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.

    Metropolitan railway and tramway traffic yesterday showed a decrease in volume compared with the traffic on Easter Monday of last year. ...

    Article : 158 words
  30. FLYING—BOAT TESTS.

    Tests of Squadron-leader L. J. Wackott's flying-boat Widgeon are now being hole in Botany Bay. Flights of great length have not yet been attempted, but, in recent trials, the ...

    Article : 96 words
  31. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The damage at the Shadwell wool store fire, is estimated at £[?]000. Two thousand six hundred bales of wool, worth £80 each, were destroyed. ...

    Article : 342 words
  32. VAN OVERTURNS.

    A motor van containing a picnic party numbering 15, and driven by Alfred Thwaite, of Isabella-street, Parramatta, capsized whilst descending Kurrajong Hill. Kurrajong Heights. ...

    Article : 149 words
  33. BORDER RAILWAY.

    By the completion of the railway, approximately 120 miles in length, between Moama and Balranald. Riverina residents have seen fulfilled the hopes of more than a quarter of ...

    Article : 177 words
  34. CARGO THEFTS.

    The steamer Raranga, lying at Dulgaty's Wharf, was the Scene of two arrests early this morning. Police, descending its hold, found two members of its crew surrounded ...

    Article : 164 words
  35. TASMANIAN RAILWAY.

    A novel suggestion has been made by the Commissioner of Railways (Mr. C. Miscamble) for solving the problems of the State's loss on the railway system in Tasmania and the ...

    Article : 109 words
  36. OVERTIME STRIKE.

    The position with regard to the overtime strike of waterside workers at Port Adelaide was unchanged over the week-end. Several oversea vessels arrived on Saturday and ...

    Article : 91 words
  37. SLEEPERS ON RAILS.

    Three determined attempts to wreck a railway train in the vicinity of Palmerston North have been made within a month. In each case sleepers were placed crosswise on the rails. ...

    Article : 85 words
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