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  2. SHEFFIELD SHIELD. NARROW VICTORY.

    South Australia defeated New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield match by one wicket to the accompaniment of a storm of cheering which was brought into remarkable relief ...

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  3. ELECTORAL REFORM.

    A draft of the measure that will he introduced at the next session of the State Parliament, and which embodies the Government's policy in regard to electoral reform, ...

    Article : 224 words
  4. FOREIGN TENDERS.

    Foreign tenderers were opposed by several members of the Water Board at its meeting yesterday. In one case, a recommendation for the purchase of a German machine ...

    Article : 526 words
  5. AGRICULTURE.

    In the House of Commons to-day Sir Archibaid Sinclair submitted on behalf of the Liberal party a motion deploring the Government's failure to restore agriculture. ...

    Article : 396 words
  6. REPUDIATION.

    The proposed intention of the Minister for Education (Mr. Drummond) to convene a conference of country headmasters in Sydney on January 17, which evoked a protest from ...

    Article : 421 words
  7. PUBLIC WORKS.

    The Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Buttenshaw) said yesterday that in consequence of the financial position it might be necessary during the noxt financial year to ...

    Article : 242 words
  8. BRITAIN'S ARMS.

    Mr. Baldwin replied to-day to the letter submitted to him by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, Labour member for Brightside, on behalf of 128,700 British subjects, who pledged ...

    Article : 352 words
  9. HOPE FADING. Crew of the S4.

    Faint sounds were picked up by oscillators at noon to-day from the submarine S4, which sank near Cape Cod. The se[?] is still too rough to permit of ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. BRITISH INDUSTRY.

    "There is going to be peace all round." said Mr. Ben Turner, chairman of the Trade Unions Congress, at the conclusion of a special meeting to consider the employers' invitation to ...

    Article : 311 words
  11. RECORD JOURNEY.

    A remarkable feat was performed yesterday by an Albury motorist, Mr. H. J. Beith in a second-hand damaged car, which he purchased for £S0, when he lowered the record ...

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  12. RESTRAINT ORDER.

    An order was made in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day under section 20 of the Arbitration Act, to restrain a Victorian wages board. This is the first time in the ...

    Article : 395 words
  13. DISTURBED CHINA.

    A combined drive by General Feng Yuhsiaug's Nationalist troops resulting in the capture of Hsuohowfu, will probably result in Shantung changing hands at the New Year. ...

    Article : 316 words
  14. ENDURANCE FLIGHT.

    Kingsford Smith and George Pond landed at the Mills Field airport at 9.47 o'clock this morning from their endurance flight. They had kept the plane aloft until practically the last ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. COMMUNISTS.

    There is at least one section of the community who will forego the Christmas festivities in favour of work. The Communists have decided to hold their seventh annual ...

    Article : 424 words
  16. PRISONS.

    The Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) is now drafting a scheme which has for its object the reorganisation of the whole system of prison life. He proposes to appoint a farm manager ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. NEW TYPE OF PLANE.

    A new type of De Havilland aeroplane, designated the Canberra, and specially designed for Australian conditions, to the order of the MacRobertson Company, made its first [?]ight ...

    Article : 218 words
  18. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The struggle to obtain the shipping contract with the Union Government has taken a surprising turn. There had been indications that the Government had decided to ...

    Article : 244 words
  19. FIRE IN HAYSTACKS.

    During the building of a stack of hay at Marrar this morning, the engine on the elevator backfired, and R. Bowyer, who was adjusting the carburetter, was burned on the ...

    Article : 141 words
  20. FRANCE'S NAVY.

    The French Chamber of Deputies to-day authorised the laying down, between July 1 l927, and June 30, 1928, of one cruiser, six destroyers, five first-class submarines, one ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. SENATE ELECTIONS.

    Preparations are being made in Labour circles for the ballet to elect Labour candidates for the Senate, to contest the next Federal elections. ...

    Article : 170 words
  22. INGENIOUS DEVICE.

    Detectives[?] at police headquarters were amazed yesterday at the ingenulty and simplicity of a device, contrived for the concealment of goods stolen from city shops, which ...

    Article : 346 words
  23. MAN STABBED.

    Displaying several knife wounds in the chest and on the wrist, in support[?] of his story, Joseph Wirz, a boarder in a house in Arundelstreet, Glebe, told Globe police of an exciting ...

    Article : 327 words
  24. JAPAN'S PARLIAMENT.

    The last session of the present Parliament, convened for December 24, will be opened formally on December 26, and will then be adjourned over the holidays. The ...

    Article : 106 words
  25. BURNT AT SEA.

    The Union liner Niagara sent a wireless message to Honolulu stating that eleven of the crew of the schooner Doris Crane, which was destroyed by fire while on a voyage from ...

    Article : 99 words
  26. BORROWING.

    According to Sir Samuel Hordern, who has returned to Sydney after having been abroad for eight months, British financial men are displaying an amused tolerance towards ...

    Article : 145 words
  27. CHRISTMAS PARTY.

    King George's Christmas party in the Royal [?]ing school at Buckingham Palace provided avidence that crippled ex-service men had not been forgotten. Seven hundred of them ...

    Article : 139 words
  28. RICH CRUSHING.

    It is stated that for 35cwt of are taken from their recently-discovered lode at Sugarloaf Mountain, near Nethercote, and treated at the Port Kembla works, the two ...

    Article : 185 words
  29. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Australian petty officers and men serving in the Royal Navy have been given the privilege of taking the Admiralty vocational training courses, and so take up civillan employment ...

    Article : 480 words
  30. HUNT FOR MURDERER.

    The population of Los Angeles has been so aroused by the brutal murder of the 12-yearold girl, Marion Parker, by a kidnapper that the police are huving the greatest difficulty ...

    Article : 188 words
  31. ITALIAN TRIBUTE.

    The Italian Ambassador (Marchese della Toretta), on behalf of the Italian Government has presented to the British Government the [?] copy printed of the special centenary ...

    Article : 124 words
  32. DISARMAMENT.

    Mr. M. Charlton, leader of the Federal Labour party, has forwarded the following cable message to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labour party:—"On the ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. STOCKOWNERS.

    Following a visit of the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) to this district, the compulsory dipping of stock has been resumed in the Tweed quarantine areas. Two cases of ...

    Article : 144 words
  34. FRIGHTFUL INJURIES.

    James Quirk, of Cudgen, suffered shocking injuries when he was run over by a rotary hoe, an agricultural implement fitted with sharp revolving dises for cane cutting ...

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  35. ROUND AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Anderson, of Wagga, recently completed a motor trip round Australia. They left Wagga in an Austin car on August 31 for Sydney, and travelled thence to ...

    Article : 114 words
  36. BROADCASTING EXPERIMENTS.

    The British Broadcasting Corporation's listening station at Keston [?] abandoned hope of picking up [?]LO. Melbourne, but is trying to got 2BL, Sydney. Tests will be ...

    Article : 226 words
  37. WANDERING IN BUSH.

    On December 13 Mr. W. V. Purnell, a solicitor, of G[?]long, was missed from his home at Newtown. A continuous search has been made for him since, and at the ...

    Article : 127 words
  38. FROZEN EUROPE.

    The [?]itterly cold wenther continu[?]s throughout Europe. Several deaths have occurred of shepherds and tramps to England. There have been heavy snowstorms in East Scotland. ...

    Article : 152 words
  39. FALL UNDER TRAIN.

    When he attempted to board a moving train at Mount Victoria railway station. Edward Matthews, aged 64 years, slipped and fell on to the line. The train was brought to a ...

    Article : 94 words
  40. THEFTS FROM TRAIN.

    John Langley (19), cook, and Sydney Dykes (21), painter, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to the theft of property valued at £17 from a goods train travelling from ...

    Article : 85 words
  41. FIRE IN GARAGE.

    A large garage at the Hotel Manly, near the beach at Cottesloe, caught fire last night, and was demolished, together with six motor, cars and two motor cycles. ...

    Article : 74 words
  42. M.C.C. TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA.

    The M.C.C. team to-day began a two-days' match at Beno[?] against a South African XI. Scores: South African XI., 86 (Hammond six wickets for 32); M.C.C., six wickets ...

    Article : 46 words
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