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  2. SIXTY FIRES.

    Sixty outbreaks of fire yesterday in Sydney and suburbs, following on the almost equally numerous conflagrations of the previous day, made the 48 hours one ...

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  3. FILMS ON FIRE.

    Motion picture films valued at £50,000 went up in frames to night in premises in Adelaide street occupiod by the Fox Film Corporation of Australasia, Limited. ...

    Article : 300 words
  4. COMING SHOW.

    A hive of industry is on apt description of the Royal Showgrounds at the present time. Steel, bricks, concrete, timber, and asphalt are being handled in enormous quantities by ...

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  5. GERMANY.

    News comes from Paris that Herr Heintz, president of the Separatist Government in the Bavarian Palatinate, was assassinated yesterday while dining in a ...

    Article : 141 words
  6. RINDERPEST.

    Although several experts have been engaged in endeavouring to trace the source of infection of the outbreak of rinderpost in Western Australia, they have so far been unsuccessful ...

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  7. JAPANESE FLEET.

    Just as the sun was rising this morning the three visiting Japanese warships—Asama. Yakumo, and Twate—steamed through the Rip into Port Phillip Bay, to the accompantment ...

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  8. DAVIS CUP.

    Australia's challenge for the Davis Cup has been received by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. The message requests a longer interval ...

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  9. PARLIAMENT.

    When the Speaker (Mr. J. H. Whitley) took the chair in the Commons to day in readiness to summon members to attend the. House of lords to hear the Royal assent to his ...

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  10. SEVERE STORMS.

    A remarkable blizzard has swept Southern England with the worst snowstorms since 1919. In some places the snow fell for 12 hours ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. BRITAIN'S TRADE.

    The Board of Trade figures for 1923 show that Britain's imports for the twelve months amounted to £1,098,000,000, compared with £1,003,000,000 in 1922. ...

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  12. ARNE BORG.

    Arne Borg, the Swedish swimming champion, who will be a competitor in the State championships, which commence at the Domain Baths on Saturday, and whose meeting ...

    Article : 195 words
  13. PARIS FLOODS.

    Router's correspondent in Paris onys that although the Seine is falling slowly, the outlook is not reassuring, for damper weather has returned. ...

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  14. COLLAPSE OF A ROOF.

    Thirty-two employees of a Bradford mill were buried by debris when the roof of a building in which they were working collapsed. So far, 20 of them, injured, have been extricated. ...

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  15. DENTAL ASSOCIATION.

    At the annual meeting of the Dental Association of New South Wales, held in the Royal Society's headquarters last night, the re[?] president (Mr. R. Falknor Mathews) installed ...

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  16. DEATH OF DEAN WAGE.

    The death is announced of the Very Rev. Dr. Wace, Dean of Canterbury, in hie 88th year. ...

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  17. PROHIBITION.

    On his arrive, from South East Africa to-day Mr. Johnson ("Pussyfoot") greeted the Pressmen who met him with the declaration that "I am not going to die until the whole ...

    Article : 144 words
  18. AMERICAN SENATE.

    The five weeks' deadlock in the Sentate respecting the election of a chairman of the important interstate commerce committee was broken to-day, when Senator smith, a ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. RINDERPEST.

    Routor's correspondent at Brussels says that the importation of Australian frozen meat has been prohibited on account of rinderpest. ...

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  20. WHITE AUSTRALIA.

    That the White Australia policy cannot fall to retard immigration, and the subsequent progress and development of the Commonwealth, is the opinion of Viscount Leverhulme, ...

    Article : 575 words
  21. SURFING FATALITY.

    John William Edward Shimmmon, aged 24, of the Commercial Bank, Ballina and Robert Alfred Harris, aged 25, of the Union Bank, Ballina, were drowned while bathing off the ...

    Article : 433 words
  22. STATE SESSION.

    The official division list of votes recorded by members of the Legislative Assembly during the last session has been completed by the Parliamentary staff, and was made ...

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  23. AIRMAN'S ENDURANCE.

    A message from Rome says that Sergeant Perin, an air-pilot, was found exhausted in Venice, after drifting at sea for four days in a wrecked machine. He will be ...

    Article : 86 words
  24. REBATES ON FARES.

    The Ottawa correspondent of the Montreal "Star" says:—After long negotiations, the Minister for Emigration has secured a 20 per cent. preference rate in the Atlantic ...

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  25. ADVERTISING CONVENTION.

    Speaking at a banquet held to inaugurate arrangements for the meeting of the International Advertising Convention (which 6000 delegates attended in July), Sir Phillp ...

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  26. MIGRATION.

    A special correspondent of the "Dally Chronicle" says: The Oversea Settlement Delegation to Australia and New Zealand is preparing its report. It will ...

    Article : 112 words
  27. IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES.

    The Imperial War Graves Commission has estimated its expenditure for the coming year at £1,600,000, of which Australia la to contribute £95,000. The figures show a slight ...

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  28. DISASTROUS FIRE.

    A disastrous fire occurrod at Nimbin township, 20 miles north-east of Lismore, last evening. It started in Ireland produce store, and, spreading quickly, affected Egan's ...

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  29. INCOME TAXES.

    The State Theasurer (Sir Arthur Cocks) yesterday made an official inspection of the offices in which the combined Federal and State taxation activities are now being carried on. ...

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  30. PREFERENCE.

    The council of the British Empire Producers' Association has passed a resolution urging the there political parties to agree upon those recommendations of the Imperial ...

    Article : 61 words
  31. GERMAN SEAMEN.

    The strike of German seamen at Hull to enforce the Maritine. Board rate of wages, has extended to London. The National Seamen and Firemen's Union, which is ...

    Article : 130 words
  32. BETTING TAX.

    By a fairly substantial majority, a proposal that the betting tax of 6d a ticket should be passed on to "punters" was rejected at a largely attended meeting of bookmakers at ...

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  33. INVADED BY SNAKES.

    The stipendiary magistrate's residence at the corner of Kaolin und Morgan streets, has not been occupied since the departure of Mr. A. R. Purry, 12 months ago. The department ...

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  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Endeavouring to break the record for the ride from York to London, in four and a half days, performed by Tyrwhitt Drake in July, on the Arab horse Sheik, George ...

    Article : 339 words
  35. BUILDING BOOM.

    For the first time in history, Wellington reached the £1,000,000 mark in building operations last year, the value of 1408 buildings, for which permits were issued between ...

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  36. MASSACRE BY FANATICS.

    News comes from Manila that religious fanatics in the island of Buchas killed 19 Filipino constabulatory and soldiers, including two officers. The Government immediately ordered ...

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  37. COUNTRY FIRE.

    Nellson's stores were destroyed by fire, which started at 9 o'clock last night, and spread to other buildings, including the Club Hotel, several tenoments, and Mellita's ...

    Article : 55 words
  38. IDLE MINES.

    A strike occurred yesterday at the Neath Colliery because the management was forced to curtail the issue of explosives to the men till Janunry in. The cast section of Richmond ...

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  39. TANNERIES BURNT.

    A serious fire occurred at Woolaton tannerios in Christchurch, causing damage in the suedo department, engine house, and store. The loss is estimated at more than £33,000. ...

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  40. JAPANESE CREWS.

    Included amongst the passengers who arrived yesterday by the Japanese mail steamer Tango Muru were 72 Jnpanese officers and seamen. They were sent from Japan to man ...

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  41. AMERICAN POSSESSIONS.

    Dissatisfaction among the inhabitants of the united States' insular possessions took concrete form to-day, when a Filipino mission presented Congress with formal charges ...

    Article : 134 words
  42. AUSTRIA.

    An honorary consul in Australia for Austria has been appointed. In the "Commonwealth Gazette" the announcement was made that his Excellency the Governor-General had directed ...

    Article : 68 words
  43. FARMER EJECTED.

    The return of the Germnn, Johnn Cattermann, to this district and the expulsion of the tennnt by him, as previously reported, are causing great excitement is this part of the ...

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  44. SOUTH GREAT DISPUTE SETTLED.

    The difficulty at the South Greta colliery was settled at a conference between the colliery owners and officials of the Miners' Federation. Work was resumed yesterday ...

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  45. UNION BAKERY.

    It was stated yesterday that the Federal secretary (Mr. Hahn) and the New South Wales branch secretary (Mr. P. G. Halliday) were in conference with both the union ...

    Article : 63 words
  46. PORT KEMBLA.

    A step-work meeting of employees engaged in metal manufactures at Port Kembla docided to give 14 days' notice of antentien to coase work, unless a conference is agreed to ...

    Article : 53 words
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