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  2. THE SEAMEN. MACKARRA IDLE.

    The dispute between the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and the Seamen's Union was advanced another stage yesterday, when, the steamer Saros (Howard ...

    Article : 414 words
  3. CITY RAILWAY.

    The Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Buttenshaw), although favourably impressed with the latest scheme to construct a superimposed roadway upon the City Railway at ...

    Article : 489 words
  4. TRANS-TASMAN.

    Action is being taken by the federal Ministry, with the object of preventing the proposed flight from Sydney to Nsw Zealand, because it is believed that the machine which ...

    Article : 542 words
  5. BEAM TELEPHONY.

    The oossibilities of 1928 include wireless telephony to Australia. The date depends upon the result of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co.'s experiments, the apparatus for ...

    Article : 184 words
  6. MYSTERY 'PLANES.

    Mr. Percy, the Broome pearler, who was responsible for the report that two seaplanes were seen off the north-west coast of Australia on November 29, puts forward the view ...

    Article : 264 words
  7. SNOW AND ICE. Frozen England.

    The latest weather forecast affords hone that milder conditions will relieve the plight of Inhabftants of towns and villages which are still snowbound, and in many of which real ...

    Article : 633 words
  8. GREYCLIFFE DISASTER. TAHITI'S ENGINEERS CRITICISED.

    Further criticism of the evidence of the Tahiti's engineers before the Court of Marine Inquiry concerning the Greycliffe disaster was given yesterday by a British naval expert. He asserted that they were not entitled to be engineers on a ship like the Tahiti, carrying passengers, ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. EXPERT GROSS-EXAMINED.

    Mr. Justice Campbell presided at the Inquiry, and was assisted by Captains Lindbergh and Joliffe as assessors. John Augustine Thompson, naval expert. ...

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  10. WORLD PEACE.

    Viscount Cecil, president of the League of Nations Union, has requested the Australian Press Association to transmit a NewYear message to Australia. This is his ...

    Article : 163 words
  11. MORETON BAY.

    The Australian Commonwealth line steamer Moreton Bay is to be laid up as a result of the dispute with the stewards. Mr. G. H. Kneen, a director of the line ...

    Article : 396 words
  12. 52 SEAMEN IN COURT.

    Owing to a complaint that the food given to them on the British steamer Tairoa, now lying at the Crane. Wharf, was not fit for human consumption, 52 seamen on that vessel ...

    Article : 257 words
  13. M. POINCARE.

    The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" says:—I understand that a sensational political development is pending. M. Poincare is going to his country home in Lorraine ...

    Article : 153 words
  14. MITCHELL LIBRARY.

    Many of the books and documents that,come into the possession of the Mitchell Library have curious histories. Recently the trustees of the institution acquired the plans and ...

    Article : 787 words
  15. VICIOUS ASSAULT.

    Police were searching yesterday for the assailants of Claude Riley, a tram conductor, of Boyce-road, Maroubra, who was found unconscious on the roadway beside the ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. PACKS OF WOLVES.

    Raids of wild beasts maddened by hunger have increased the winter terrors of Poland Packs of wolves have killed many peasants. Two women were devoured near ...

    Article : 72 words
  17. ITALIAN POLICY.

    With significant unanimity the Italian Press [?] demanding a revision of League of Nations' [?]dates Presumbly this is being done as [?] means of drawing attention to the need of ...

    Article : 181 words
  18. WAVE LENGTHS.

    Amplifying a recent statement regarding the wave lengths of broadcasting stations, the Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) said yesterday that an important aspect of the matter ...

    Article : 305 words
  19. BRAVE CONSTABLE.

    Information has been received by the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Marr) of the accidental shooting of Constable A. R Clapp in the Northern Territory on December ...

    Article : 285 words
  20. HICKMAN'S CRIMES.

    William Hickman, who recently confessed to the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker, daughter of a [?] Angeles banker, to-day confessed to the murder of Ivan Toms. ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. "STOLEN" DOCUMENT.

    There was consternation at the Town Hall yesterday. The Lord Mayor discovered that a document had bee[?] stolen from an office file. And, what was worse, the stolen ...

    Article : 248 words
  22. MR. SNOWDEN'S RESIGNATION.

    Mr. Francis Johnson, secretary of the Independent Labour party, has sent a letter to Mr. Snowden, regretting the latter's decision, to resign from the party. The letter ...

    Article : 162 words
  23. CANADA'S TRADE.

    Canada's total trade for 1927 is estimated at apporoximately 2,380,000,000 dollars. This repesents an advance of 17,000,000 dollars compared with 1926. ...

    Article : 61 words
  24. SEIZED BY OCTOPUS.

    A girl, 14 years of age, who was bathing at North Shore, was attacked by an octopus, which dragged her under the water in the grip of its tentacles. ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. YEAR'S FIRES.

    Figures made available yesterday by the secretary of the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales (Mr. H. M. Webb) disclose that 1927 was not so disastrous a year ...

    Article : 410 words
  26. DIVORCE.

    Arcording to an estimate of the Registrar in Divorce the number of petitions issued in matrimonial jurisdiction in New South Wales during the year was 1740. compared with 1710 ...

    Article : 85 words
  27. PICTURES AT THE LOUVRE.

    The authorities at the Louvre, having recently submitted the famous "Mona Lisa" to [?] ray and ultra-violet tests, now announces that these conclusively prove that the picture ...

    Article : 122 words
  28. LAWLESSNESS IN CHINA.

    The holidays were marred by a renewal of the crime wave, foreigners and Chinese being the victims. Last night, a pitched bottle took place outside the international ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. AVIATION.

    Much interest is being taken by Australian airmen in the new slotted wings device for preventing stalling—the most prevalent cause of disasters in the air. ...

    Article : 222 words
  30. TIN HARES.

    The licenses for mechanical hare coursing on other than licensed racecourses cease from to-day. The Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) said ...

    Article : 212 words
  31. MAIL ROBBERY.

    When the mail from Lake Brown, in the wheat belt, reached the G.P.O. in Perth on December 21, it was found that a bag had been split open, and that an innes case, which ...

    Article : 112 words
  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The new battleship Rodney left Plymouth to-day for 24 hours steaming trials in the Channel. (Official Wireless.) Sir Alfred Mond is raising a fund of £20,000 ...

    Article : 203 words
  33. FORGED ANTIQUES.

    After Weeks of intense excitement, caused by the discovery of mysterious tablets buried at Giozel, in international commission issued a report that the tablets were buried ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. BRITAIN'S UNEMPLOYED.

    The Ministry of Labour announces that on December 9, the total number of unemployed in Great Britain was 1,099,900. This was 25,333 fewer the[?] the week before, and 49,811 ...

    Article : 57 words
  35. SCHOOLBOYS' TOUR.

    Forty-three public school boys have started on a tour of South Africa under the auspices of the Empire Tour Committee. Lord Eustace Pevey in farewelling the party, expressed the ...

    Article : 97 words
  36. RADIUM AND CANCER.

    The "Lancet" says:—Radium will in [?] few years be recognised as the most effective form of treatment [?] certain forms of cancer Sergery [?] alow to admit this. ...

    Article : 90 words
  37. O. F. KELSON, LTD.

    The Auckland "Sun" publishes a statement that a British syndicate has acquired the business of O. F. Nelson, Ltd., of Samoa. It is stated that the price is believed to be ...

    Article : 53 words
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