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  2. MAIL SERVICES.

    Describing the present subsidised mail services to Papua, the Mandated Territory, the Solomon Islands, and Lord Howe Island. Norfolk Island, and the ...

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  3. "WILL NOT LAST."

    Although confidence was expressed by the French Chamber of Deputies in the new Ministry by 361 votes to 164 on Thursday, it is questioned ...

    Article : 335 words
  4. ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.

    Though the Mayor of Brisbane interviewed the Home Secretary on Saturday with regard to a loan for establishing a new electric power house, the chairman of directors of the City Electric Light Co., Ltd., ...

    Article : 308 words
  5. NO REPETITION!

    It can be stated on the highest authority that Germany will not send represenatives to Geneva in September without a guarantee that there will not be a ...

    Article : 49 words
  6. 16 MEN KILLED.

    An explosion in a furnace occurred at the Woodward Iron Co.'s works on Saturday, permitting 100 tons of molten metal to escape. Sixteen men ...

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  7. CABINET RESIGNS.

    Chinese guards fired on a hostile demonstration of about 1000 students at Pekin on Friday, inflicting casualties numbering 120. The Government ...

    Article : 361 words
  8. FATAL MOTOR SMASH.

    One man was killed and two others were injured as the result of a motor truck's plunge over a bridge into a creek 15 feet below, near Petrie, about 8 o'clock on Saturday night. The victims were: ...

    Article : 252 words
  9. "TO BE EXECUTED."

    "As I fear I am to be executed on Tuesday, I think I would rather wait until I reach the seaffold," said the British Secretary of State for Foreign ...

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  10. BRAVE ACT.

    The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s liner Barrabool brought the officers and crew of the burnt steamer Paparoa into Capetown this ...

    Article : 293 words
  11. BRITAIN'S HOPES.

    The Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies (Mr. L. S. Amery), in a speech at Newton Abbot, said that to those who thought the ...

    Article : 205 words
  12. CHILD KILLED BY LORRY.

    Fatal injuries were sustained by Gwendoline Holdon (aged 8 years), whose parents reside in Sydney-street, Auburn, on Saturday, when she was run over by ...

    Article : 161 words
  13. NOTE FORGERIES.

    The trial has ended of the three Hungarians, Jankovitch, Marsovszky,, and Mankovitch, who were charged with attempting to pass forged French 1000-franc notes. ...

    Article : 495 words
  14. BEENLEIGH FATALITY.

    Mr. Fergus Holme, aged 23, owner and driver of the ill-fated car in the fatal accident near Beenleigh on Tuesday evening, was baried, in the North Tambourino ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. LABOUR ARMY.

    Captain F. Guest (Lib.), in a recent debate in the House of Commons, on unemployment, urged that the solution lay within the Empire. He has now ...

    Article : 126 words
  16. TROOPS SURROUND CANTON STRIKERS.

    Troops and police surrounded the head-quarters of the strikers in the Eastern City this morning, ostensibly to examine their books. ...

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  17. "PLAIN ALTERNATIVE."

    The breakdown at Geneva is the subject of a lengthy editorial article in the "Cape Times," which refuses to attempt to apportion the blame, but analyses the ...

    Article : 284 words
  18. DOOR STILL OPEN.

    "The decision of the Brisbane City Council peremptorily to break off negotiations with the City Electric Light Company and proceed with the erection of ...

    Article : 597 words
  19. RASH AND FOOLISH.

    On his way to Murray Bridge (S.A.), where he will take part in the meeting of the South Australian Liberal Federation on Tuesday evening, the Leader of ...

    Article : 540 words
  20. COMING ELECTIONS.

    A preliminary meeting was held on Friday night at the Greenslopes State School for the purpose of arranging for the formation of various committees to ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. LOSS OF SISTER SHIP RECALLED.

    The only passengers on the ill-fated Paparoa were four Australian seamen who were being repatriated. The disaster recalls the loss of the sister ship ...

    Article : 81 words
  22. CITY FIRES.

    A fire broke out in a room of the Federated Engine Drivers' Association on the second floor of the Trades Hall, about 10.30 o'clock last night. The fire was ...

    Article : 211 words
  23. SPRUNG A LEAK.

    The owners of the British steamer Port Hardy, which is en route from Glasgow and Liverpool to New Zealand, via the Panama Canal, have received a ...

    Article : 56 words
  24. TYRANNIC RULE.

    It is announced officially that nine members of the Board of the Bar Association, which recently was dissolved by Order of the Government, have been ...

    Article : 160 words
  25. OXLEY ELECTORATE.

    A meeting of Oxley State electors was held on Friday night, at the rooms of the Queensland Women's Electoral League, City Buildings, the object being ...

    Article : 157 words
  26. HEALTH OFFICERS.

    Important additions to the staff of the Federal Department of Health are to be made by the appointment of a director of the division of veterinary hygiene, at a ...

    Article : 459 words
  27. RESIDENCE PRACTICALLY DESTROYED.

    A fully furnished five-roomed residence in Cambridge-street, Coorparoo, was practically totally destroyed by fire early on Saturday ...

    Article : 189 words
  28. SECRET DIPLOMACY.

    British and European diplomatic circles are completely taken back by the action of the American Administration in publishing the report of the American ...

    Article : 269 words
  29. SANDGATE.

    Mr. Duncan T. R. Watson, National candidate for Sandgate, will address the electors at an open air meeting at Jones' corner, Banyo, to-morrow night at 8 ...

    Article : 28 words
  30. EARL HAIG FUND.

    The report of Field-Marshal Earl Haig's British Legion Appeal Fund shows that £395,000 was raised by the sale of poppies last Armistice Day, an excess of £45,000 ...

    Article : 52 words
  31. BUNDABERG.

    A plebiscite to select a Labour candidate to represent the Bundaberg electorate was held on Saturday, and resulted: G. P. Barber, M.L.A., 335 votes; T. G. ...

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  32. GERMAN CONSPIRATOR'S SUICIDE.

    Arthur Schultze, the German litho-grapher, who was arrested in connection with the recent forgeries of French 1000-franc notes, which caused a scandal in ...

    Article : 54 words
  33. OLD MAN INJURED.

    Thomas Kelly, 70 years of age, was seriously injured on Friday afternoon as the result of falling from a cart between two horses which trampled on him. ...

    Article : 137 words
  34. SHOP AND DWELLING GUTTED.

    The Ithaca Fire Brigade, under Senior Fireman W. Findlay, was called at 2.30 a.m. yesterday to a fire in a shop and five-roomed dwelling in Lugg-street, ...

    Article : 157 words
  35. SURPRISE FLOTATION.

    The final instalments of 75 per cent, of the New South Wales loan of £4,000,000, issued at £98, and bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, are ...

    Article : 194 words
  36. CLINGING TO OFFICE.

    In an interview here on Saturday Mr. Theo. H. Hill, Nationalist M.L.A. for Oxley, said that it was hard to guess what would be the future of the present State ...

    Article : 190 words
  37. MUMMIFIED BODY.

    A terrible discovery was made at Nantwich, Cheshire, when the Sheriffs officers forcibly entered a house which was occupied by three sisters named Nixon. ...

    Article : 241 words
  38. EXPERTS' REPORTS.

    "There is an old saying thnt figures do not always indicate the whole truth, and I am afraid that, chiefly due to the lack of necessary engineering knowledge of ...

    Article : 1,733 words
  39. WORLD COURT.

    The Government of the United States does not object to a conference of nations discussing their reservations to the World Court, and does not understand ...

    Article : 168 words
  40. BUSH FIRES.

    The recent forest fires in Victoria left in their wake a train of havoc and disaster that will take many a long day to wipe out. The loss of bread-winners, ...

    Article : 150 words
  41. BURNING ACCIDENT.

    A serious burning accident occurred at Rosalie Plains, the property of Mr. H. Winten, early on Saturday evening, the victim being Elizabeth Bruse (56), a ...

    Article : 98 words
  42. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

    Several earthquake shocks were felt early on Friday morning. They lasted for about ten seconds. The movement of the ground was felt in the streets. No ...

    Article : 40 words
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