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  2. FEDERAL PARLIAMENT.

    THE first session of the tenth Parliament of the Commonwealth was opened this afternoon by the Governor-General, Lord Stonehaven. Sir Lattleton Groom, formerly Attorney-General, was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. ...

    Article : 212 words
  3. UPPER HOUSE.

    The Government has decided that the notices for the abolition of the Legislative Council shall be given to-day. In the Legislative Assembly the ...

    Article : 828 words
  4. LAND AGENTS.

    It has been decided by the Minister for Lands to bring down a bill in the next session of Parliament to compel the registration of land agents, and also to regulate the fees to ...

    Article : 854 words
  5. THE COUNCILS.

    A deputation of 52 mayors and shirevo presidents waited on the Premier (Mr. Lang) yesterday to protest against the proposal of the Government to dissolve the present ...

    Article : 888 words
  6. BLOW AT FRANCE.

    The Budapest correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle'' says:—Confessions made by Prince Windisch-Graetz and Dr. E. Nadosey, late Chief of Police, show that an amazing ...

    Article : 274 words
  7. NEW TEXTILE.

    The recent description in the "Yorkshire Post" of the artificial wool, sniafil, which is being made by the Societe Naziona[?] Industria, Appllcaziono Viscosa, of Northern Italy, has ...

    Article : 291 words
  8. MINERS' STRIKE.

    News comes from Scranton that immediately upon learning that a meeting of anthracite operators and union leaders had broken off negotiations to end the coal strike, American ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. TETANUS.

    Dr. Roux, Director of the Pasteur institute, Paris, announced to the Academy of Sciences to-day that Dr. Ramen and Dr. Zeiller had discovered an anti-toxin giving permanent ...

    Article : 71 words
  10. BRITISH FINANCE.

    More gloomy statistics are following the publication of the adverse balance in the Board of Trade returns. It is shown that in the first nine days of 1926 the national ...

    Article : 93 words
  11. DISARMAMENT.

    A telegram from Geneva says:—Mystery attaches to reports received here from London and from Paris stating that postponement of the preparatory disarmament commission is ...

    Article : 105 words
  12. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH.

    His Excellency said: Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House Representatives, you have been called together to consider matters of ...

    Article : 3,121 words
  13. COAL INDUSTRY.

    A demand for the restoration of the eighthour day in coal mines was the chief point of the evidence submitted to the Coal Commission on behalf of the owners. ...

    Article : 368 words
  14. EMPIRE INDUSTRIES.

    In an address on "Australia's Part in Empire Industries," delivered at the Imperial Industries Club's dinner, Mr. J. L. Price (AgentGeneral for South Australia) declared ...

    Article : 137 words
  15. GERMAN ROYALTIES.

    Although he renounced his German nationality in 1914 and fought against Germany as a Russian general, Duke Kari Michael of Mecklenburg-Strelitz received in 1921 5,000,00 ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of Mr. John Lewis, who was manager of the first English Soccer team to tour Australia. Mr. Lewis had been one of the leading officials in English ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. LOAN PROGRAMME.

    The Australian Press Association learns authoritatively that the apparent conflict in statements with reference to the New South Wales loan programme is simply explained by ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. SEWER WORKERS.

    More than 700 sewer miners and truckers employed on the Water Board's underground pressure tunnel from Potts Hill to Water[?] ceased work yesterday as a protest against ...

    Article : 287 words
  19. WORLD TEACHER.

    Referring to a rumour that Krishna Murti is soon to be proclaimed a world teacher by the Theo[?]cal Society, Mrs. Besant (interviewed by Reuter's corresponde that ...

    Article : 339 words
  20. HOT SPELL.

    Fannod by hot blasts from the north-west, Sydney and its environs sweltered yesterday under trying heat, which though not reaching in intensity that experienced in December ...

    Article : 412 words
  21. FARMERS' CROPS.

    Addressing the annual session of the national council of farmers' co-coperative marketing associations to-day, the chairman, Mr. (Robert Bingham, of Louisville, said that ...

    Article : 88 words
  22. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ACT.

    The Act providing for the registration of land agents, passed at the end of the last session of the South Australian Parliament, came into force on Wednesday, January 6. ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. THE PLEDGE.

    In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Premier, in response to a request by Sir George Fuiler, gave the wording of the pledges signed by Mr. E. H. Farrar and ...

    Article : 175 words
  24. FAVOURITISM.

    Alderman Marks, at the finance committee of the City Council yesterday, alleged that during the past year there had been marked favouritism in the appointments to the City ...

    Article : 303 words
  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The "Dally Express" understands that Mr. Percy Hunter bus been appointed managet for the Pacific Gable Board in Australia, at a salary of £2000 per annum, plus an ...

    Article : 540 words
  26. ARMED MEN.

    Two young men—one armed with a reveiver and the other with a sandbag—hold up Mr. George Charles Gollan, Mayor of Auburn, [?]rly yesterday morning, and demanded his ...

    Article : 248 words
  27. CITY RAILWAY.

    The underground workers of the City Railway made representations ta the Minister for Labour and Industry yesterday, that their working hours should be reduced so that they ...

    Article : 248 words
  28. MIXED MARRIAGE.

    The Rev. Pennington Bickford, rector of St. Clement Danes, declined to murry a Roman Catholic bridgroom and a protestant bride because be doubted the legality of marrying a ...

    Article : 160 words
  29. FEDERAL AWARDS.

    There has been considerable dissatisfaction among unionists under Federl awards owing to the fear that the Forty-Four Hours Act does not apply to them. Though the ...

    Article : 207 words
  30. CAR FALLS.

    Mr. T. Hutchinson, of Milson-road, Cromorne, managing director of Hutchinson and Co., Ltd., Jamieson-street, had a narrow escape from serious injury yesterday, when his ...

    Article : 190 words
  31. A GREAT PAINTER.

    Six hundred of the late John Sargent's pictures are being exhibited at the memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy. This will be the art sensation of the year. It reveals ...

    Article : 144 words
  32. MYSTERY DISEASE.

    The mystery disease contraeted by seven members of the crew of the four-masted British burque William Mitchell, which bus baffled Melbourne quarantine doctors, has proved ...

    Article : 58 words
  33. POLICE RAID.

    Police, headed by Sergeants White and Hayes, raided premises in William-street, Darlinghurst, at a late hour last night, and arrested eight men. Of these seven were ...

    Article : 62 words
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