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  2. AMNESTY PLANNED

    Signor Mussolini intends to celebrate the annexation of Abyssinia with a great political amnesty, for over 1000 political prisoners in the penal settlement on the ...

    Article : 280 words
  3. SENATOR BORAH

    Political observers consider that the Governor of Kansas (Mr. Alfred M. Landon) is almost certain to be selected as the Republican candidate for the ...

    Article : 224 words
  4. RELEASE ON BOND

    Eric Bowman Tapley, a fisherman, of Dutton Bay, who had been acquitted on a charge of having murdered Carl Lind, admitted in the Criminal Court to-day that, ...

    Article : 196 words
  5. State Session TRANSPORT BILL

    The Government Railways and Transport (Amendment) Bill was further considered in Committee in the Legislative Assembly to-day. ...

    Article : 1,000 words
  6. SCHOOL FORESTS

    With the primary purpose of inculcating in the minds of school children the value of forests, the Government has brought down a bill for the creation of school ...

    Article : 286 words
  7. TWO REVERSES

    The Government suffered two reverses in quick succession in the Senate to-night on the tariff. Senators in each case voted 17 to 13 to request the Government ...

    Article : 830 words
  8. CHARGE DENIED

    When the Royal Commission on starting-price betting was resumed to-day, Sergeant Shipway said he had warned starting-price bookmakers at Port Macquarie ...

    Article : 227 words
  9. Federal Session ALL-NIGHT SITTING

    In an all-night sitting the House of Representatives passed through all stages a bill to provide £100,000 annually for 10 years to assist public authorities in ...

    Article : 1,057 words
  10. FEDERAL GRANT

    A proposal by the various States that the Commonwealth Government should make a special grant of £2,000,000 to assist technical education is to be ...

    Article : 152 words
  11. STAMP DUTY

    The High Court to-day decided that when property changes hands three times stamp duty is payable on each occasion. Property known as Kalili, in the ...

    Article : 160 words
  12. HAWAIIAN DEFENCE

    An interesting development of American naval-plans is contained in the announcement that the Navy Department is ready to start the construction of a ...

    Article : 206 words
  13. DROP LEAGUE

    Declaring that the question was urgent, the Leader of the Canadian Commonwealth Party (Mr. J. S. Woodsworth), asked in the House of Commons to-day ...

    Article : 131 words
  14. BILL DEFEATED

    What is interpreted as the end of all efforts to secure direct monetary inflation, at least in the present session of Congress, occurred to-day with the defeat by ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. ASLEEP AT WHEEL

    The necessity for drivers of heavy vehicles, such as 'buses and motor-lorries, having sufficient sleep, was mentioned by the President of the Industrial ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. THREE FOR TRIAL

    Arising out of the death of Francis John Geelan, 41, at Croydon, on Anzac Day, Harold Brown, George Brown, and Harry Searle were committed for trial on a ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. TRIAL BY PEERS

    A bill for the abolition of the privilege of trial by Peers for members of the Peerage, passed its third reading in the House of Lords this afternoon. ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. HELPED AUSTRALIA

    In a speech at a luncheon given by the Australian Association of British Manufacturers, the Australian Attorney-General (Mr. R. G. Menzies) said he hoped the ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. SOVEREIGNTY OVER ISLANDS

    In reply to questions in the House of Commons, the Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. J. H. Thomas) said he was not in a position to make a statement on the ...

    Article : 103 words
  20. SUNBATHING

    "Many healthy people in England would benefit if they sunbathed rationally," said Sir Henry Gauvain, the eminent in and surgeon, in an address to the ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. MURDERED WOMAN

    Frederick Herbert Field, 32, an aircraftsman in the Royal Air Force, was to day sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. Beatrice Sutton, early on the morning of ...

    Article : 111 words
  22. OVERSEAS TRADE

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 words
  23. POLICE STATIONS

    The closing of police stations in the country was brought under the notice of the Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) in the Legislative Assembly to-day. The ...

    Article : 239 words
  24. LINER QUEEN MARY

    A synagogue on the liner Queen Mary was to-day consecrated by Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire (Very Rev. J. H. ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. LIFE IMPRISONMENT

    Thomas Robinson, 29, who to-day pleaded "Guilty" on a charge of having kidnapped Mrs. Stoll, 26, was immediately sentenced to life imprisonment at ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. JAPAN AND WOOL

    Replying to a question in the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister (Mr. M. J. Savage) denied that any proposals had been made to the Government for any ...

    Article : 139 words
  27. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    London, May 13.—The Duke of Connaught arrived in London yesterday from Bournemouth. This morning the King walked across from St. James's Palace to ...

    Article : 58 words
  28. ATE POISONED CAKES

    Fifteen adults and 27 pupils are dead, and 1810 others are suffering from poisoning after having eaten gift cakes at a sports meeting of a Hamamatsu school. ...

    Article : 45 words
  29. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

    The Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Bill was further considered in Committee in the Legislative Council. Mr. J. M. Concannon sought to amend ...

    Article : 84 words
  30. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA

    Harold Fenn and a friend, Colin Sullivan, will shortly leave Deal, hugging the coasts for the entire distance of 35,000 miles, in an attempt to reach ...

    Article : 82 words
  31. Vice-admiral Rose Ill

    London, May 13.—The Admiralty announces that owing to illness Vice-Admiral F. F. Rose, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, is returning to England. On ...

    Article : 56 words
  32. War Graves Commission

    London, May 13.—A meeting of the War Graves Commission to-day confirmed the appointment of Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Hart, formerly Administrator of ...

    Article : 68 words
  33. STILL INCREASING

    Statistics compiled by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, in cooperation with the Retail Traders' Association Research Bureau, show that the ...

    Article : 91 words
  34. QUESTIONS

    Further consideration is to be given to a proposal to re-establish the Parliamentary Works Committee, though Cabinet at present is not in favour of the idea, ...

    Article : 235 words
  35. ASSEMBLY QUESTIONS

    In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Mair (U.A.P., Albury) asked the Minister for Forests (Mr. R. S. Vincent) whether it was correct, as published in the Press, ...

    Article : 581 words
  36. ROUND-WORLD FLIGHT

    Purdue University has provided a fund of £A12,500 to enable Mrs. Amelia Earhart, the American aviatrix, to make a solo flight round the world in a specially built ...

    Article : 64 words
  37. Pacifist Joins in Debate

    London, May 13.—"Why all this trips when you are rearming to destroy the whole world?" should a young man from the gallery of the House of Commons ...

    Article : 45 words
  38. Advertising

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    Advertising : 15 words
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