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  2. ISLAND TRADE.

    Whilst the fact that Australia has lost the greater portion of her once great trade with the Islands of the South Pacific is accepted generally, there is not such a uranimity of ...

    Article : 1,745 words
  3. THE PLAGUE.

    In a review of the year's work the Health Department states that the outstanding event was the discovery in September of plague-infected rats on the Sydney wharfs. After ...

    Article : 354 words
  4. IMPROVING THE GATEWAY TO THE STATE.

    SYDNEY HARBOUR TRUST'S SUCTION DREDGE TRITON, which has been engaged for some time, Just inside the Heads, in deepening and otherwise substantially improving the eastern and the western channels for the largest vessels afloat. These channels, or deep-sea roads, will finally be as nearly parallel as possible. The work already done represents a very vital, improvement to the port. The Triton is here seen at work on the western channel, its giant pipes eating up the sand, throwing it into the hoppers at the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 154 words
  5. GUN LICENSE ACT, 1920.

    From time to time in the columns of the Sydney Morning Herald there have appeared many criticisms of the Gun License Act. As this Act has now been in operation for nearly ...

    Article : 1,875 words
  6. BOY SCOUTS.

    Much activity is in evidence at the New South Wales headquarters of the Boy Scouts' Association in Margaret-street, city. The organisation of so important an event as the ...

    Article : 688 words
  7. PILOT RETIRES.

    The retirement, after many years service of Captain T. Thomson, the well-known Torres Straits and coast pilot, breaks another link in the long chain of interesting figures ...

    Article : 354 words
  8. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Sir,—It is most distressing to see memunable to find employment, while family expenses must go on to feed and clothe the household, and not a penny of income. Rent ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  9. THE TRITON'S STRANGE HAUL.

    Some of the queer things which the Triton has brought up out of the depths—an old rusty bayonet, for instance, as well as cannon balls. The cannon ball on which the bayonet is resting is as big as a man's head. The fact that these articles, among others, such as young sharks, are drawn ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 86 words
  10. HOW BUSH TREES GROW.

    In the recently-Issued annual report of the Director of Torests in Queensland (Mr. E. H. F. Swain) the following appears:- The outstanding fact of Australian ...

    Article : 748 words
  11. ILLAWARRA.

    A protest has been voiced at Wollongong against the proposal of the New South Wales commissioners for the redistribution of Federal seats to include the area as far north as ...

    Article : 600 words
  12. AUSTRALIAN BUTTER.

    MURWILLUMBAH.—Mr. W. McKeever, who recently returned from a trip abroad, said he investigated the butter market in London. He went to Tooley-street and asked why ...

    Article : 171 words
  13. DEATH OF BISHOP KELLY.

    Dr. Kelly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Geraldton, died last night at St. John of God's Hospital, Subiaco, from heart failure. He was born in Western Australia in 1857, graduated ...

    Article : 72 words
  14. NORTH SYDNEY FEDERAL ELECTORATE.

    In the scheme of reconstructed electoral divisions, recommended by the Redistribution Commissioners, the division of North Sydney has been materially altered. The new electorate of Waringah is carved out of the existing division, and what is in future to be known as the North Sydney division thrown westward, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 223 words
  15. ROBBERY IN A COLLEGE.

    Commonwealth bank notes to the value of £100, the property of Joaquim Sernandes, were stolen from St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, Lane Cove River, yesterday afternoon. ...

    Article : 33 words
  16. INDEX.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words
  17. ADVERTISEMENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 words
  18. CHRISTMAS FETES.

    About 300 diggers sat down on Friday night at a supper provided by the Warriors' Friend Campaign, in the Town Hall. The men fell in with military precision in ...

    Article : 284 words
  19. DUNTROON GRADUATES.

    In the last few years Duntroon graduates normally embarked for attachment for training abroad within two or three months of graduation from the college. In future, ...

    Article : 167 words
  20. TO-DAY.

    Her Majesty's: "The Boy," 8. Theatre Royal: "You're in Love," 8. Palace Theatre: "Scandal," 8. Criterion: "Sinbad the Sailor," 1.45, 7.45. ...

    Article : 128 words
  21. NATIONALIST SUPPORTER DISMISSED.

    Another Nationalist speaker, who had the misfortune to be employed in the State Public Service, has been selected for dismissal by the Executive Council. The official is M. D. ...

    Article : 68 words
  22. ALLEGED FATAL QUARREL.

    John O'Brien, aged 64, died in the Albury Hospital on Thursuay O'Brien was admitted to the hospital last Sunday night in a critical condition, with three of his ribs fractured, ...

    Article : 81 words
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