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  2. FEDERAL SESSION.

    In the House of Representatives to-day the debate was continued on the motton for the second rending of the bill to amend the Immigration Act, to provide additional powers to ...

    Article : 750 words
  3. MORT'S DOCK.

    Developments which occurred yesterday in regard to the dispute between the maritime bodies and the Newcastle and Hunter River ...

    Article : 590 words
  4. SHIPPING.

    In consequence of the intervention of the State Government the feeling in Ministerial and industrial circles is that the shipping dispute ...

    Article : 173 words
  5. H.M.A.S. BRISBANE.

    When the House of Representatives mot to-day the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Charlton) moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the presence of the Australian cruiser ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  6. MR. STEVENS.

    It was stated in political circles yesterday that the Government has requested the Public Service Board to make an appointment in place of ...

    Article : 188 words
  7. WIMBLEDON.

    The semi-finals of the men's singles at the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships to-day failed to attract such a huge crowd as yesterday. Women were again in the ...

    Article : 899 words
  8. SOVIET INTRIGUES.

    The Secretary of State for India (Lord Birkenhead), speaking at Loughborough on June 27, said the time had undoubtedly come when Britons should ask themselves whether ...

    Article : 343 words
  9. WORLD PEACE.

    In an address at Cambridge (Massachusetts), the President (Mr. Coolidge) counselled European nations to cuter into pacts for their mutual security, if they ...

    Article : 477 words
  10. THE ZEALANDIA.

    Further tactics by the seamen yesterday will probably result in the abandonment of the voyage of the steamer, Zealandia to Fremantle, via Melbourne and Adelaide. ...

    Article : 246 words
  11. RELEASED.

    The coastal steamer Bormagul, which was caught in the flood waters of the Moruya [?]iver on May 28 and swept over the training wall, was released yesterday ...

    Article : 351 words
  12. UNREST IN CHINA.

    The strike is unchanged, but the situation is quietening, and the number of volunteers is being reduced. The head Chinese foreman at the Shanghai ...

    Article : 327 words
  13. TROUBLE EXPECTED ON BOMBALA.

    Trouble is expected respecting the steamer Bombala, which is r[?]ng to the agency of Howard Smith, Ltd. Upon arrival at Brisbane to-day seven members of the crow gave ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. COAL INDUSTRY.

    It is stated on reliable authority that the coalowners' proposals provide for a reversion to an eight-hour day, but if the miners will not agree to extend the present ...

    Article : 200 words
  15. ADELIE LAND.

    Headed by Professor Sir D. Orme Masson, a deputation from the Australian National Research Council waited upon the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) to-day, and urged that ...

    Article : 320 words
  16. CARNIVAL ACCIDENT.

    A laughing throng of pleasure-seckers attending a carnival at Campsie last night were shocked to see the supporting structure of a platform, 20 feet high, suddenly ...

    Article : 399 words
  17. SURPLUS.

    For the financial year 1925-26 there was an excess of receipts over expenditure for the Commonwealth of £1,984,325. At the beginning of the year a surplus of ...

    Article : 495 words
  18. DR. MANNIX.

    The "Irish Tiuth," a Nationalist weekly, edited by Captain Henry Harrison, who was Parn[?]ll's private secretary, comments on Dr. Minnix's visit to Dublin in a novel and ...

    Article : 128 words
  19. THIS SENATE.

    In the Senate to-day the debate on the second reading of the Commonwealth Electoral Bill was resumed by Senntor Needham (W.A.). The measure extends the franchi[?] ...

    Article : 392 words
  20. TAUNGS SKULL.

    Sir Arthur Keith, the noted British anthropologist, writing in "Nature," declares that, after an examination of casts of the taung's skull which was discovered by Professor R. ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. DRIED FRUITS.

    Interrogated in the House of Commons as to whether the Government would consider the prohibition of the importation of dried fruits from Smyrna, in view of the ...

    Article : 125 words
  22. MANDATED TERRITORIES.

    The Mandates Commlssiou in conside[?]g the report of the Administration of Nauru was most interested to learn that a branch of the Commonwealth Bank had been ...

    Article : 153 words
  23. PRINCE OF WALES.

    The Prince of Wales spent auother interesting day in Rhodesia. He visited the ruins at Zimbabwe, and minutely inspected t[?]e temples and workings. He was most interested in ...

    Article : 140 words
  24. 40-HOUR WEEK.

    An application for a 40-hour week was made to Mr. Justice Webb in the Arbitration Court to-day by the Building Trades' Union. ...

    Article : 130 words
  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. A. G. [?] Larkin explains that the weekly service by the White Star, Blue Funnel, and the Commonwealth lines from Ghasgow and Liverpool to Australian ports has been ...

    Article : 387 words
  26. RAILWAY TRACTION.

    The history of railway traction was epitomised in a remarkable centenary pageant this afternoon on the old Stockton-Darlington line, on which Stephenson's old colliery ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. STOVE OVERTURNS.

    When an oil stove, which she was tending, overturned last night, Rachel Abbott, a widow, aged 62 years, of 76 Burton-street, Darlinghurst, was enveloped in a mass of flames. ...

    Article : 160 words
  28. GOLF.

    In the first round of the "Glasgow Horald's" 1000 guineas golf tournament at Gleneagles J. H. Kirkwood (Australia) defeated C. Corlett (Dorset) by 3 up and 2 to play. ...

    Article : 57 words
  29. COURT PRACTICE.

    Mr. Pelsley, S.M., on taking his seat at th[?] Contral Police Court yesterday, announced that he intended to revert to a practice of 1[?] years ago, and extend the law in cases which ...

    Article : 185 words
  30. DE PINEDO.

    Wing-Commander the Marchese de Pinedo, who arrived in Australia by air from Rome early last month, and who, since June 10, has been overhauling his seaplane at ...

    Article : 143 words
  31. SPORT ABROAD.

    A most unusual incident occurred in the match, Fender's X[?] v Portland Sports Club. J. W. Hitch, for the former, took the first wicket with a fast ball which struck the ...

    Article : 146 words
  32. OIL PRICES.

    The Australian Commissioner (Sir James Elder) has ascertained as the result of an investigation of oil prices that one of the loading companies is prepared to build [?]ulk ...

    Article : 103 words
  33. FLOODS.

    A sudden rise in the temperature after a heavy snowfall has caused the Canterbury rivers to flood. A large area in the Ashburton district is under water, and heavy ...

    Article : 62 words
  34. DEPORTATION.

    Noel Lyons, who failed to obey a exportation order, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. The Crown Prosecutor described Lyons as ...

    Article : 64 words
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