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  2. PREFERENCE ENDED. SOUTH JOHNSTONE MILL.

    The Board of Trade and Arbitration, sitting at Townsville yesterday, decided to suspend the operation of the preference clause, so far as it extends to persons employed in the South ...

    Article : 484 words
  3. WALKED AWAY.

    About 3.30 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, Joseph Alexander Valentine, alias Boogah, a Hindu half-caste, who was recently sentenced to, three ...

    Article : 200 words
  4. BATTERED BY SEAS.

    With a crippled rudder, battered and rusty plates, a great, gaping rent in her starboard bow, and her starboard rail torn from the deck for a distance of twenty feet, the Norwegian steamer Proteus crept up the river between two tugs yesterday ...

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  5. FINANCE SCHEME. ACCEPTANCE LIKELY.

    It is believed that there is an excellent prospect of the financial proposals of the Commonwealth being accepted, with alterations in some details, by the States' Premiers. Every delegate ...

    Article : 815 words
  6. CROPS BENEFIT. GOOD RAIN ON DOWNS.

    Good rain, registering up to 2in., has fallen on the Downs, and will be of immense benefit to the wheat crops. Farmers around Warwick declare that ...

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  7. MILL AT WORK.

    It was learned officially to-day that the South Johnstone sugar mill commenced crushing at 10 o'clock this morning. The factory is manned by ...

    Article : 289 words
  8. WONDERFUL WELCOME. DI PINEDO'S RETURN.

    Thousands waited throughout the day to welcome Vice-Commandante di Pinedo home from his attempted Atlantic flight. After making a perfect landing, the ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. "UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES."

    His Majesty King George V. has conferred the Air Force Cross on Vice-Commandante di Pinedo. The British Ambassador to Italy, (Sir Ronald Graham), in ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. "GENEROUS, JUST, AND SOUND."

    "The Commonwealth's financial proposals, as outlined by the Prime Minister in conference yesterday, appealed to me as generous, just, and sound," said Col. ...

    Article : 170 words
  11. AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

    The Australian aviator Rooke, who is flying from London to Australia, has arrived here. ...

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  12. MULGRAVE AREA.

    The signing on of cane cutters in the Milgrave mill area for the season commenced on Thursday. The preference clause previously introduced was again in ...

    Article : 91 words
  13. HIGH SPEED 'PLANE.

    The Navy Department has announced that it is completi[?]g the construction of a 'plane capable of a speed of 300 miles an hour, and containing what is considered ...

    Article : 89 words
  14. FIERCE GALE. "WORST IN HISTORY."

    High seas pounded the North Mole, and the spray completely obscured the steel light tower, during the height of to-day's gale, which frequently ...

    Article : 409 words
  15. £1500 DAMAGES.

    A jury in the First Civil Court to-day awarded £1500 damages to James Joseph O'Connor, an ex-hotelkeeper, who claimed £3000 from Hoyts, Pty., Ltd., alleging ...

    Article : 247 words
  16. LONDON COMMENT.

    The "Financial News" commends Mr. Bruce's financial' proposals, believing that they will greatly benefit the Commonwealth if they are adopted. ...

    Article : 31 words
  17. CORRECT ENGLISH.

    A decision to inaugurate an international council to deal with problems of the English language, and to determine the facts in cases of disputed usage, was ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. ROUTE ALTERED.

    Owing to the monsoon season, Lieutenants Carr and Mackworth, who are still awaiting favourable weather, decided to slightly alter their route, and will now ...

    Article : 46 words
  19. TASMANIAN OPINION.

    General satisfaction is expressed in Hobart at the new financial proposals of the Commonwealth Government. The view almost, unanimously adopted is that the, ...

    Article : 44 words
  20. MR. ABRAHAM HERTZBERG'S VIEWS.

    By an unfortunate inadvertence, Mr. Abraham Hertzberg's name was yesterday given as "Mr. A. M. Hertzberg" in the informative comments published in ...

    Article : 42 words
  21. ALASKA—EUROPE.

    Captain Wilkins, the Arctic explorer, is planning a loue flight from Fairbanks (Alaska) to Europe, via Greenland, in the late summer. He will stop at Greenland ...

    Article : 47 words
  22. AMERICA'S DESIRE. LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS.

    The disarmament sessions of the Council of the League of Nations will open at 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon, in the famous glass [?], under the ...

    Article : 120 words
  23. WELCOME HOME.

    H.M.S. Renown will berth at Portsmouth at noon on June 27. She will be escorted by four destroyers and five big bombing 'planes. All warships in port ...

    Article : 100 words
  24. IN MINORITY.

    Mr. W. T. Co[?]grave last night issued a statement that he had no intention of forming a Government, taking up the attitude that those in opposition in the ...

    Article : 91 words
  25. AROUND AUSTRALIA.

    The George A. Bond hosiery manufacturers are sending an aeroplane around Australia, leaving Sydney next Wednesday. The object is the advancement of ...

    Article : 79 words
  26. BOY LOST IN BUSH.

    James Lederhose, aged 7, a son of Mr. Fred. Lederhose, is reported to be lost in the bush at Wattlegrove, about 14 miles from here. The lad left home at ...

    Article : 121 words
  27. FATALLY INJURED.

    Percy Kenny (41), of Given-terrace, Paddington, who was run over and severely crushed, through falling under the wheel of a lorry at Musgrave Wharf, South ...

    Article : 43 words
  28. FEELING IN JAPAN.

    The Three Power Naval conference at Geneva is the subject of editorial articles in a number of newspapers, especially the "Jiji," generally regarded as ...

    Article : 99 words
  29. SINGAPORE BASE.

    The correspondent of the Central News Agency at Geneva learns from an authoritative American source that the conference on disarmaments convened by ...

    Article : 54 words
  30. TO SEE SON'S GRAVE.

    Mrs. Craig, of New South Wales, who saved her soldier son's pension in order to pay her passage to England to see his grave, at Portsmouth, on which she ...

    Article : 51 words
  31. WORKERS ANNOYED.

    In an interview with the Secretary of the local Waterside Workers' Union (Mr. E. B. Purnell) concerning the refusal to unload the steamer Macumba, he stated the ...

    Article : 112 words
  32. RAILWAY REPORTS.

    The Railways Department was advised yesterday that three inches of rain had fallen in the Gayndah district during the previous night, and that the conditions ...

    Article : 110 words
  33. TO LOCATE PYGMIES.

    Alexander Macdonald, the explorer and geologist, who was associated with Jack London, the well-known author, in the Klondyke goldrush in 1897, after which ...

    Article : 98 words
  34. DAMAGE IN PERTH.

    One of the most severe squalls ever experienced in Perth occurred shortly after midday to-day, when the wind, which had been blowing up to 50 miles ...

    Article : 224 words
  35. FIANNA FIAL MEMBERS.

    Members of the Fianna Fia[?], who have been elected to the Dail, declare that they will never take the oath of allegiance to the Irish nation and people, but only ...

    Article : 68 words
  36. ITALY DISPLEASED.

    The Italian Government is leaving the Embassy here under the Charge d' Affaires as an expression of disapproval of the participation of the Foreign ...

    Article : 49 words
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