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  2. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    Details of the proposed changes in the control and administration of the Commonwealth Bank were announced by the Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page) in the House of Representatives, ...

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  3. FEDERAL CABINET.

    The formal announcement of Mr. H. E. Pratton's Appointment as Minister for Trade and Customs and Minister-in-charge of Health, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement, ...

    Article : 344 words
  4. LATE CABLE NEWS

    A Reuter message from Paris announces that at a joint meeting of Deputies and Senators this afternoon, Mr. Doumergue was elected President of France. ...

    Article : 36 words
  5. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

    Mr. Coolidge has been nominated by the Republican National Convention as the party candidate for the Presidency of the United States, to which he succeeded on the death of the late Mr. Harding. Brigadier-General Charles ...

    Article : 1,096 words
  6. FRENCH PRESIDENT.

    Reuter's correspondent in Paris states that a meeting of the Left parties of both Chambers to select a candidate for to-morrow's election of President of the Republic, resulted in ...

    Article : 259 words
  7. CITY TRAFFIC.

    So many conflicting proposals for dealing with the traffic on the city streets were made to the last meeting of the traffic conference convened by the Lord Mayor (Alderman ...

    Article : 617 words
  8. EXPLOSION.

    Three officers and 43 of the crew were killed and 20 injured when turret No. 2 on the United States' battleship Mississippi bl[?]w up during firing practice off San ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. MANCHESTER CUP.

    The race for the Manchester Cup resulted: Chosroes, 1; Marvex, 2; Puttenden, 3.—Reuter. ...

    Article : 20 words
  10. LABOUR PARTY.

    The special committee of the A.L.P. Federal executive yesterday heard further evidence regarding the ballot-box charges. Mr. T. Bartle (A.W.U.), recalled by Mr. ...

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  11. JAPANESE POLICY.

    Baron Shideharu to-day made a further statement to the foreign journalists in Tokio. He emphasised that Japan's foreign policy was based on peace, justice, and honour, by ...

    Article : 210 words
  12. EXPULSION.

    Mexico has severed relations with Great Britain by ordering the expulsion of Mr. H. A. C. Cummins. C M.G., officer in charge of the British Legation at Mexico, who is now ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. STATE LOAN.

    "The complete failure of the State Treasurer's latest London loan is a fitting climax to the Fuller Ministry's record of bungling in public finance," said Mr. Lang (leader of ...

    Article : 389 words
  14. AMERICAN AIRMEN.

    A cable message was received from Halphong at 6.20 p.m. yesterday, stating that the three American airmen, who are essaying a world flight, left Haiphong at 10 a.m. on ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. OLYMPIC GAMES.

    The special representative of the Australian Press Association [?] Paris states that the Austiallan Olympic team was accorded a reception by the French Olympic Com ...

    Article : 298 words
  16. FEDERAL PARTIES.

    An informal meeting of Country party members of the Federal Parliament was held to-day in furtherance of a desire to draw up a policy for presentation to the conference of ...

    Article : 217 words
  17. CANADIAN TRADE.

    Mr. H. J. Logan (Liberal) to-day advocated in the House of Commons the cancellation of the present trade agreement with the West Indies, and the substitution of a commercial ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. MOTOR SMASH.

    Owing, it is alleged, to the failure of the brakes of a four-seater Buick car at what is known as the Devil's Elbow, near Bacchus Marsh, at midnight on Thursday, John Robert ...

    Article : 151 words
  19. NEW GOVERNOR.

    The King has approved the appointment of Colonel William Robert Campion as Governor of Western Australia, in succession to Sir Francis Newdegate.—Reuter. ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. STOLEN JEWELS.

    Burglars have rifled the famous collection of jewels at Bath House, Piceadilly, collected at the cost of £1,000,000 by the late Sir Julius Wernher. The collection became the property ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. STRIKE ENDS.

    The "Daily Herald" states that as the result of a decision reached at a late hour last night the strike on the London underground railways has ended. ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. UNDERGROUND CABLES.

    The immediate laying of a telegraph cable between Sydney and Newcastle and Newcastle and West Maitland was rocommended by the Parliamentary Public Works Committee in a ...

    Article : 171 words
  23. AMATEUR STATUS.

    Mr. George Wightman, president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, announces the appointment of four members of a committee, who, with others of their own ...

    Article : 83 words
  24. FORTUNE AND PENURY.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," in announcing the suicide of M. Armand Deperdussin, in an obscure hotel, says that it revives memories of his meteoric ...

    Article : 157 words
  25. A MELBOURNE ROBBERY.

    Frank White, who had been found guilty of robbery in company, appeared before Judge Williams to receive sentence. The Crown case against White was that he was in company ...

    Article : 161 words
  26. SPORT ABROAD.

    Owing to the heavy rain again to-day, there was no play in the match arranged between the South Africans and Oxford University. COUNTY CRICKET. ...

    Article : 154 words
  27. FORD INTERESTS.

    The Australian Press Association is informed on excellent authority that the Ford interests have not abandoned the original plans to establish a plant in Australia. While ...

    Article : 151 words
  28. CANADA'S HARVEST.

    Reuter's correspondent at Winnipeg says: The crop from approximately 11,000,000 acres in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba will be sold this year througn co-operative pools ...

    Article : 66 words
  29. TASMANIA.

    Definite claims on behalf of Tasmania were to-day submitted to the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) and the Treasurer (Dr. Page) by the Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Lyons) and the ...

    Article : 272 words
  30. COTTON PURCHASES.

    Russia has purchased cotton in the United States to the extent of 40,000,000 dollars since the first of the year, all of it for a Russian textile syndicate.—Reuter. ...

    Article : 37 words
  31. DISTRESSED SOLDIERS.

    Distress on the part of a number of exservice men and their dependents was disclosed in reports received by the general committee of the United Appeal for Distressed ...

    Article : 186 words
  32. TEXTILE TRADES.

    At to-day's sitting of the Imperial Textile Conference at Wembley, Mr. Eldred Hitchcock submitted a paper dealing with textile exports, making special reference to trade within the ...

    Article : 200 words
  33. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The sales of the book, "Ordeal," by Dale Collins, late of Melbourne, are averaging 1000 a week. The book is regarded as one of the best sellers of the season. ...

    Article : 296 words
  34. YOUNG AUSTRALIANS' TOUR.

    The Young Australia League boys have had the heartiest of welcomes in Yorkshire. They inspected Waddington's big printing works at Leeds, and in the afternoon, despite showery ...

    Article : 146 words
  35. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN

    The "Financial Times" says:—There is no need to worry about the New South Wales loan, because experience has shown that stock has always in such cases been absorbed ...

    Article : 85 words
  36. SOUTH AFRICA.

    Mr. Wolmarans, a prominent Nationalist, who recently seceded with twelve others from the Party, caused a sensation at a big Nationalist election meeting at Losberg by ...

    Article : 150 words
  37. BARRIER MINES.

    The Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association, having obtained an increase in the wages of the main shaft winding engine[?] dirvers of 1/ a day on five mines, now want ...

    Article : 113 words
  38. AGROUND AT MANILA.

    A cable was received yesterday by the Sydney Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association reporting that the Uga Maru, formerly the Commonwealth steamer Australbrook, was ...

    Article : 135 words
  39. CITY OF SINGAPORE.

    At an inquest yesterday regarding the death of Albert Greenham, a fireman, who lost his life in the fire on the steamer City of Singapore, al Port Adelaide, on April 26, the Chief ...

    Article : 99 words
  40. WEMBLEY'S COMPETITION.

    A week of showery weather since Whitsun has upset the Exhibition boom. Yet the Exhibition is being blamed for the ills of other caterers of public amusement, notably the ...

    Article : 107 words
  41. BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN.

    Forty packages of registered mail, containing bonds and currency to the value of over 1,000,000 dollars, were stolen by bandits from a mail train, 40 miles north of Chicago. ...

    Article : 42 words
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