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  2. MR. PIDDINGTON. Royal Commission's Inquiry.

    The Piddington Royal Commission concluded its sittings yesterday, after a hearing lasting more than three weeks. The Commissioners will now consider the evidence and submissions, and will have to report their findings by Tuesday. ...

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  3. Mr. McTIERNAN.

    The A.L.P. executive recently sent out an urgent demand to Mr. McTiernan (ex-Attorney-General) to assist in the election campaign on behalf of the Premier and his supporters. ...

    Article : 196 words
  4. FEDERAL SESSION.

    A variety of grievances was voiced by members of the House of Representatives to-day when further consideration was given in committee to the Supply Bill. ...

    Article : 961 words
  5. THE POLLING.

    The general consensus of opinion in well-informed political circles at the present time is that the pact party, consisting of the Nationalist party (led by Mr. Bavin), and ...

    Article : 264 words
  6. BRITISH CARS.

    Though it is too early to obtain a definite pronouncement on the effect of the amendment of the Australian tariff on motor cars, the British trade has received the announcement ...

    Article : 262 words
  7. WIRELESS.

    The British Broadcasting Corporation has issued an interim report on experiments in Empire broadcasting. This states that a short wave transmitter is being erected at the ...

    Article : 165 words
  8. TORNADO. Sweeps St. Louis.

    The city of St. Louis to-day was almost isolated by a tornado, which destroyed nearly all trees. An area of six square miles within the city ...

    Article : 312 words
  9. MR. HAMMOND'S REPLY.

    Continuing his address, Mr. Hammond, K.C. (counsel for Mr. Piddington, K.C.), referred to charged that had been made by Mr. Curtis during the opening days of the ...

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  10. WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

    The Postmaster-General announces that on Saturday a telephone service will be inaugurated between this country and Norway. Communication will be restricted at first to calls ...

    Article : 67 words
  11. ELECTORAL ACT.

    Proposals altering the Electoral Act are contained in an amending bill read a first time in the Senate to-day. The bill, which was introduced by Senator Crawford ...

    Article : 341 words
  12. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.

    The International Radio and Telegraphic Congress opening here next week is confronted at the outset with two problems—a French contention that French should be the ...

    Article : 107 words
  13. ELECTROCUTED.

    Two men were electrocuted yesterday—one in a sewerage tunnel at Rosehill, and another at a motor assembly works at Pyrmont. The victim of the first tragedy was ...

    Article : 163 words
  14. WOOL CONFERENCE.

    An international wool conference is to open on October 5 at Reichenburg, Czecho-Slovakia, for the discussion of a system of compiling world wool statistics, the presence of fibre ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. SWIMMING IN JAPAN.

    The international swimming contests will be continued at the Tamagawa pool, outside Tokio, on Saturday, and will conclude on Sunday. ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. AVIATION.

    It has been arranged that Flight-Lieut. Webster, who won the Schneider Cup, shall return home with the other members of the British team by air. The airmen will journey ...

    Article : 280 words
  17. SIR CHARLES BATHO.

    Sir Charles Batho was to-day elected Lord Mayor of London for 1928. Sir. Charles Batho was chosen in unusual circumstances. Sir Harold Moore had a prior ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. CAR PRICES.

    "The increase in the duties payable on both assembled and unassembled chassis, as proposed in the Federal Treasurer's Budget speech, will probably lead to a slight increase ...

    Article : 133 words
  19. FRUIT MARKETING.

    Fruit traders are delighted with the rejection of the fruit control pool. Mr. Everard Ross, a director of Jones and Co. (of Tasmania) is of opinion that any other decision ...

    Article : 95 words
  20. SERVICE HOMES.

    An increase during the year in building costs is revealed in the annual report of the War Service Homes Commissioner (Mr. H. L Waters). ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. TREATMENT OF INSANITY

    Useful data have been obtained in the London County Mental Hospital by experiments in treating general paralysis of the insane by malaria-infected mosquitoes. The insects ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. MURDER OF CONSTABLE.

    Scotland Yard has made further discoveries in the search tor the murderer of Constable Gutteridge, whose body, with bullet wounds in the head, was found on an Essex road. ...

    Article : 101 words
  23. DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.

    After robbing a young woman of £212 three men drove off at a fast rate in a waiting motor car this afternoon. A traveller pursued the thieves in his car ...

    Article : 338 words
  24. BENTLEY'S LONG JOURNEY.

    Captain Bentley the South African airman, who arrived at Capetown yesterday on his flight from London in a Moth, has received many messages ot congratulation. He ...

    Article : 80 words
  25. SPANISH SECRECY.

    The usual mystery when Spanish affairs are concerned surrounds the meeting of Sir Austen Chamberlain and General De Rivera at Barcelona. The Spanish Press has been ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. JEWEL THEFT.

    A man attempted an extremely daring robbery of jewellery valued at £1000 from a display window in a recess arcade off Bourke-street, during the peak shopping period about ...

    Article : 189 words
  27. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Mr. Jack Garry, Nationalist-Country party candidate for Goulburn, speaking at Goulburn, said that the farmers were not taking the labour tbat was offering, and men had ...

    Article : 167 words
  28. 'PLANE CRASHES.

    A report from Bagdad states that Captain Koennecke, who, accompanied by Count Salms and a wireless operator, was attempting an eastward flight to America, crashed whilst ...

    Article : 43 words
  29. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The "British Legion" states that Earl Haig is sympathetically considering a visit to Australia in 1929. Discussing pillaging, the shipping ...

    Article : 596 words
  30. COOL RELATIONS.

    An interview with the German Foreign Minister (Dr. Stresemann) published in "Petit Parisien," lends colour to the suggestions of Franco-German coolness at Geneva resulting ...

    Article : 296 words
  31. 100,000 MIGRANTS.

    Sir Joseph Cook told members of the Commercial Travellers' Association, after luncheon yesterday, that he could have sent 100,000 good migrants to Australia every year ...

    Article : 354 words
  32. NEW STEAMER.

    The steamer City of Canberra, constructed to the order of the Ellerman Bucknall Steamship Co., Ltd., by William Gray and Co., Ltd., of West Hartlepool, England, was ...

    Article : 234 words
  33. ALIEN INFLUX.

    In a statement concerning what he described as the present unsatisfactory attitude of the Commonwealth Government towards the influx of aliens, the Chief Secretary (Mr. J. M. Drew) ...

    Article : 224 words
  34. PERSONAL.

    His "Excellency the Governor visited City Tattersall's Club yesterday morning, and presented a cheque for £1000, being the proceeds of a ball organised by the club in aid ...

    Article : 388 words
  35. MUSIC FROM THE AIR.

    A remarkable invention, whereby music is extracted from the air, was revealed at a demonstration at the Bechstein Hall, Berlin, attended by Professor Einstein and many ...

    Article : 204 words
  36. SHEEP TRANSPORT.

    While Mr. W. A. Russell was speaking in the Assembly yesterday he was asked how a recent experiment made by bim in the transport of sheep in the west by motor lorries had ...

    Article : 111 words
  37. SPANISH CLASSICS.

    The Melbourne Public Library has recently heen presented with a valuable collection of books by the Hispanic Society of America. These consist of more than 100 facsimile ...

    Article : 112 words
  38. EDITOR FINED £200.

    In the Supreme Court to-day, Donald McKinnou, editor of the "Northern Standard," was convicted on a charge of criminal libel, and fined £200, with costs. ...

    Article : 76 words
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