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  3. BRISBANE NOTES

    The Parliamentary mill now is in good working order. Hardly a day passes in the Assembly but one bill goes through: but as quickly as the bills disappear ...

    Article : 214 words
  4. A LONDON LETTER

    Ministers are now bethinking themselves of the session, which is resumed at the end of this month, and of its attendant problems. So far, the Government ...

    Article : 424 words
  5. REMINISCENCES

    "I mentioned in these reminiscences the general disposition to refer to public men in terms of popular expression," said Mr. David Watkins M.H.R., in ...

    Article : 1,351 words
  6. A RETIRING PEER.

    The late Lord Harewood was not a conspicuous public figure in the South. Although joined to the Royal Family by the marriage of his son to Princess Mary, he ...

    Article : 317 words
  7. GLARELESS ELECTRIC LAMPS.

    The use of a new "glareless' electric lamp is advised in order to minimise eyestrain. The so-called pearl lamp, in which the bulb is subjected to an internal ...

    Article : 309 words
  8. INDUSTRIAL PEACE BILL.

    The most important bill of the session. on the Opposition's own declaration—the Industrial Peace Bill—was presented to the House in the closing hours of the ...

    Article : 203 words
  9. A STATELY MANSION.

    Princess Mary presently will find herself mistress of Harewood House. She will be sorry to leave Goldaborough Hall. which she has made into a home after ...

    Article : 312 words
  10. PARKING SIGNS.

    Still another clash has occurred between the City Council and the police regarding the control of traffic in the city streets. Such incidents are inevitable ...

    Article : 256 words
  11. LABOUR'S FIRST CHAIRWOMAN.

    As successor to Mr. Herbert Morrison in the chairmanship of the Labour party, Miss Susan Lawrence, the first woman to attain that position, ascends with ease ...

    Article : 272 words
  12. THE WANDERING LIFE

    Germans regard vagrants as childish, people, and consequently unable to compete successfully in the world's labour markets. The duty of shepherding them ...

    Article : 422 words
  13. A NEWSPAPER INTERLUDE.

    An interesting story lies behind the failure of the morning papers in Brisbane to make any record of the dinner to the Victoria Cross winners on Armistice ...

    Article : 266 words
  14. A GATHERING OF V.C.'s.

    The British Legion's task of organising the gathering of V.C.'s for the dinner to be presided over by the Prince of Wales in London on November 9, is not so easy ...

    Article : 286 words
  15. THE KING'S PICTURES.

    A unique privilege was accorded members of the National Art Collections Fund this week, when on two successive days they were admitted to Buckingham Palace ...

    Article : 276 words
  16. CRICKET FOR WOMEN.

    Women have invaded most branches of sport. At odd times they have played games of cricket: but at present in Brisbane they are aiming at regular fixtures, ...

    Article : 162 words
  17. REMARKABLE DIARY

    An unusually vivid story of a tragedy of the Alps is contained in a diary according the last hours of Hans Lutz, a student from Innsbruck Technical ...

    Article : 143 words
  18. PRESERVING THE COUNTRYSIDE.

    The appointment of a committee by the Government to report on the desirability and practicability of national parks for Great Britain is of the utmost importance ...

    Article : 271 words
  19. QUEEN VICTORIA AS A NYMPH.

    As lovely as any of the paintings are the old tapestries in the ante-room to the State dining room. There are four exquiste Gobelin panels, each depicting a ...

    Article : 357 words
  20. PHENOMENON AT SEA

    An unusual phenomenon was seen from the White Star liner Euripides, which reached Southampton from Australia and South Africa on October 3. When the ...

    Article : 203 words
  21. POISONOUS FLOWERS

    A four-year-old girl named Iris May Common has died at Newsham, Northumberland (Eng.), through eating the-leaves and flowers of an antirrhinum plant ...

    Article : 166 words
  22. A FINE ART COLLECTION.

    Auguste Rodin's marble group, "Le Baiser," is to be sold at the dispersal of the Warren collection at Lewes House, Sussex, this month. This group, which ...

    Article : 318 words
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