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  2. SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

    The foundation-stone of the Sydney Harbour bridge was laid yesterday, with due ceremony, in the presence of the Governor, the Premier, and leading citizens of Sydney and the State. It was stated by' Sir Hugh Bell on behalf of the contractors that ...

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  3. FEDERAL LOAN.

    The Commonwealth loan of £5,400,000, raised to redeem States' loans falling due this year, was closed yesterday. This action was take because the full ...

    Article : 454 words
  4. WATERFRONT.

    An unexpected development occurred yesterday in the dispute respecting the Commonwealth Line's chartered vessel the Volumnin and the Eromanga. ...

    Article : 472 words
  5. SECURITY.

    Reuter's Paris correspondent states that the Fronen newspapers welcome the cordiality of Mr. Chamberlain's speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday, but regret that Great ...

    Article : 343 words
  6. MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILE.

    The Marriage Amendment Bill was read a second time in the Legislative Council last night by 28 votes to 27. The bill will be dealt with in Committee this afternoon, when the Government will give consideration to a suggested amendment by Mr. ...

    Article : 57 words
  7. LATE CABLE NEWS.

    The Empire Parliamentary Association has decided to offer a chair for the Speaker for the new Parliament House at Canberra. The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) ...

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  8. RAILWAY DISASTER.

    The accident to the Bordeaux-Paris express this morning near Poitiers was causod by a coupling breaking as the train reached a viaduct over the narrow and deep River Clain. ...

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  9. THE VOTING.

    Goora Black, R. J. Black, Buzacott, Boyce, Sir Joseph Carruthers, Dr. Creed, Dick, Earp, Farrar, Hordern, Hunt, Innes-Noad, Latimer, Macarthur-Onslow, Sir Alfred Meeks, Murdoch, ...

    Article : 364 words
  10. THE CEREMONY.

    Representatives of the Stan Parliament, the City Council, the municipal councils of the metropolitan area, the learned professions, the commercial and industrial organisations, ...

    Article : 1,511 words
  11. GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.

    On rising to speak the Governor was warmly received. He said that it was with the greatest pleasure and gratification that he was able to preside at the laying of the corner stone of ...

    Article : 2,133 words
  12. JAPAN.

    The tenseness of the political situation has increased. It is now reported that the session of the Diet, which, in ordinary circumstances, would have concluded to-day, will ...

    Article : 233 words
  13. LATE LORD CURZON.

    There was a stately memorial service to the late Lord Curzon at Westminster Abbey today. Every department of the national life was represented. The collin was placed on a ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. TARIFF PREFERENCE.

    Tariff matters bulk largely in the fourteenth annual report of the Australian Association of British Manufacturers and thier representatives. The most important matter dealt with ...

    Article : 281 words
  15. THE DEBATE.

    In moving the second reading, Mr. Boyce said that when he had introduced the bill before he endeavoured to deal with it as a nonsectarian measure. He had never mentioned any ...

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  16. "UNEMPLOYED."

    A unique development took place in waterside circles to-day when men who, until the present shipping rush provided them with casual wharf employment, classod themselves ...

    Article : 238 words
  17. BROADCASTING.

    In the House of Commons, Captain Ian Fraser (Conservative) asked if the House would be given the opportunity of deciding the desirability of permitting the ...

    Article : 110 words
  18. USE OF RADIUM.

    A scientific discovery of far-reaching character in the radium treatment of cancer and other diseases has been made at Middlesex Hospital. It consists of capturing ...

    Article : 139 words
  19. SIR ARTHUR COCKS.

    Sir Arthur Cocks and Lady Cocks have arrived in New York on route to London. They call on April 6. When Sir Arthur Cocks was told that it ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. OXFORD UNION.

    The Oxford Union debaters—Messrs. M. C. Hollis, J. D. Woodruffe, and Malcolm MacDonald, son of Mr. Ramsay MacDonnld-have arrived from Fiji. They debated the freetrade ...

    Article : 293 words
  21. CONTESTED TITLE.

    The House of Lords Committee of Privileges, after protracted hearings, has decided that Brigadier-General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour has established his claim to the ...

    Article : 292 words
  22. THE EPIDEMIC.

    The position in regard to the infantile paralysis epidemic is loss reassuring. Fifty-six cases have been notified during the past three days. Splendid work has been carried ...

    Article : 88 words
  23. SIR WILLIAM BIRDWOOD.

    Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, in a letter to Sir Joseph Cook, replying to the latter's congratulations on his promotion, says: "It really nice to think that my old ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. DIVORCE LAW.

    The Full Court to-day was called upon to decode whether a marriage could be dissolved on a petition founded on the allegation that respondent had deserted petitioner without ...

    Article : 286 words
  25. BRITANNIA TROPHY.

    The Royal Aero Club has awarded the Britannia trophy to Wing-Commandor S. J. Goble and Flying-Officer I. E. Mclutyro for their seaplane flight round Australia as the ...

    Article : 66 words
  26. AUSTRALIAN CADETS.

    The Australian cadets were cordially greeted at a reception in Antwerp, where the burgomaster presented them with a flag. They were entertained at lunch, and later taken to ...

    Article : 189 words
  27. SHOWERY WEATHER.

    A tropical disturbance from the west is expected to reach New South Wales by the week-end, bringing freshh rain and thunderstorms in parts of the north-eastern quarter, ...

    Article : 138 words
  28. SHIPPING SERVICE.

    Tenders for a coastal shipping service for the Northern Territory are being invited by the Home and Territories Department, the contract with the Boucaut Bay Shipping ...

    Article : 162 words
  29. PARLIAMENT.

    In the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. B. B. O'Conor was appolntod Chairman of Committees for the session. Mr. Dick moved that the Sydney Meat ...

    Article : 149 words
  30. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. J. H. Thomas, late Secretary of State for the Colonies, represen.J the colonies, protectorates, and mandated areas on the Exhibition Board. ...

    Article : 292 words
  31. BOY'S FALL.

    Neville Tate, aged 9 years, of 15 King-street, Randwick, sustained serious concussion at his home early yesterday morning when he fell a distance of about twenty feet. ...

    Article : 65 words
  32. THE DENNISTOUN CASE.

    In the King's Bench Division to-day argument opened on legal questions urislng out of the answers given by the jury to certain questions submitted by the Court in the case of ...

    Article : 113 words
  33. "T.B." DISEASE.

    An official report of a meeting of the relief board of the T. B. Sailors and Soldiers' Association, held recently at 309 George-street, states that "there were six fresh applications ...

    Article : 106 words
  34. BURRINJUCK DAM.

    Greaf indignation is felt among Bottlers along the Murrumbidgee River owing to the action of the authorities at the Burrinjuck Dam in discharging a large volume ...

    Article : 89 words
  35. ESCAPE FROM COURT.

    A prisoner escaped from the Paddington Police Court yesterday, but was re-arrested in the city, after a long chase. The court rose at 1 p.m., and the prisoner ...

    Article : 75 words
  36. DEATH AT WENTWORTHVILLE.

    Information was received by the Parramatta police last night that Jesef Kranz Winkler, aged 62 years, of Ringrose-avenue. Wentworthvile, was found dead at his home, where ...

    Article : 63 words
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