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  2. ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

    "I am the proudest woman in the world," declared Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, when the monoplane Friendship landed in Wales on Monday. ...

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  3. NOT LOCATED.

    The steamer Citta di Milano reports that Lieuts. Riiser Larsen and Holm this morning made another flight over the ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. PREMIERS MEET.

    When the Premiers' Conference reassembled at Parliament House to-day the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. T. Bavin) submitted a resolution, ...

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  5. 51 DEAD.

    Reports from Barranquilla state that 51 persons are missing, and are believed to have perished in an explosion which ...

    Article : 71 words
  6. JUDGE FIRM.

    The Royal Commission (Judge Scholes), who is inquiring into charges of political corruption, declared this morning that there must ...

    Article : 1,420 words
  7. MARITIME COOKS.

    As the result of published statements, attributed to the general secretary of the Marine Cooks' Union in Sydney (Mr. Tudehope), concerning the reintroduction of the roster system of ...

    Article : 286 words
  8. "BAD BLACKGUARD."

    Mr. Justice Hill, pronouncing a decree nisi in favour of Major Hill, with £3000 damages, described the Earl of Erroll (the co-respondent) as a very ...

    Article : 196 words
  9. SMOKE BOMBS FIRED.

    Owing to the mischarting of Foyn Island, navy officials express the opinion that Lieut. Riiser Larsen on Sunday missed General Nobile by at ...

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  10. THE FRIENDSHIP AT SOUTHAMPTON.

    "We are short of petrol," called out Miss Earhart, when a motor boat rushed up after the monoplane, Friendship, in which Wilfred Stultz (pilot), ...

    Article : 174 words
  11. MAKING PROGRESS.

    The operations of the relief parties are proceeding apace. The Italian seaplane has arrived at King's Bay. Major Gilbaud's seaplane, with Captain Roald ...

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  12. DEFIANT ACT.

    On the ground that it had carried non-union cooks during the strike, the Newcastle wharf labourers declared the Melbourne Steamship Co.'s steamer ...

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  13. AWAITING REPLY.

    Pending the receipt of a reply from Mr. Tudehope to the telegram sent by the secretary of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association, the ...

    Article : 94 words
  14. DRASTIC REFORM.

    Following the separation of the Church from the State on April 9, a special commission has submitted drastic proposals to reform the ...

    Article : 135 words
  15. ITALIA TOO SMALL.

    Expressing the opinion that the disaster which befell General Nobile's expedition was due to the small dimensions of the airship, Italia, Dr. ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. BACKER OF FLIGHT.

    Mrs. Guest, wife of Captain Guest, M.P., who financed the flight, motored to Burry Inlet from Southampton to congratulate Miss Earhart on being ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. VENTURE ENDS.

    A fog and a high sea detained the monoplane Friendship at Burryport for some hours this morning. The 'plane left for Southampton at 11.20 ...

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  18. MR. TUDEHOPE'S VIEW.

    A hitch occurred to-day in the reengaging of crews for the idle steamers in port, and for a time it was feared that the dispute between the Cooks' ...

    Article : 263 words
  19. PIONEER UNDERTAKING.

    Commander Byrd, commenting on Miss Earhart's flight, said: "This flight was a necessary pioneering undertaking, because it was the next step in ...

    Article : 63 words
  20. WILL BE RESCUED.

    Sir George Wilkins, speaking at a dinner tendered to him by the Royal Geographical Society, referred to the Italia expedition. He recalled that he, ...

    Article : 167 words
  21. VESTING OF PROPERTY.

    Before the Anglo-German mixed arbitral tribunal, in the Australian case, A. Hartrodt versus Henry Olsen and Company, the German ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. BAD TRIP.

    On being brought ashore the pilot, Wilfred Stultz, declared: "I am tired. We only had sufficient petrol to permit the 'plane to taxi another 10 ...

    Article : 206 words
  23. FINE OF £288.

    Evidence that when they raided an hotel at Wollongong they found rum pumping into the street gutter, down which it flowed into the hotel cellar, ...

    Article : 121 words
  24. LAST TRIBUTE.

    Leaders of the women's movement, including Mrs. Baldwin, Lady Astor, Mrs. Despard, Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, Misses Laura Knight and Flora ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. AMERICAN CONGRATULATIONS.

    President Coolidge, the Secretary of State (Mr. F. Kellogg), and other State officials have sent messages of congratulation to the aviators through ...

    Article : 36 words
  26. A HUGE LINER.

    The keel of the 60,000 tons passenger liner ordered recently by the White Star Line, and which will cost nearly ...

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  27. EAST TO WEST.

    HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundland), June 18. Deprived of the honour of being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, ...

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  28. VICTORIA PARK.

    When the legal formalities for the transfer to the Brisbane City Council of the land in Victoria Park, which was set aside for a University site, ...

    Article : 162 words
  29. FUEL SHORTAGE.

    Pilot Stultz said that the Friendship, on circling the liner America, off the coast of Ireland, dropped two notes, which fell into the sea. The captain ...

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  30. MECHANICAL HARES.

    Recently the Full Court of New South Wales decided that the chasing of a mechanical object by greyhounds did not constitute coursing within the ...

    Article : 90 words
  31. BIG SYSTEM.

    The scheme of electrification of suburban traffic on the Southern railways was carried a stage further to-day, when the change over from steam ...

    Article : 103 words
  32. SIR GEORGE WILKINS.

    The Royal Geographical Society to-day presented the Patron's Medal to Sir George Hubert Wilkins, in recognition of his Polar exploration flight. ...

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  33. COMMONWEALTH LINE.

    The cargo steamer Ferndale, which sailed for London to-day, was the last vessel to leave Sydney flying the flag of the Australian Commonwealth Line. ...

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  34. PROPOSED AIR MAIL.

    The prospect of a weekly air mail service to Daly Waters is hailed with delight. At present it frequently takes three months for an Adelaide business ...

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  35. SHY HEROINE.

    Miss Amelia Earhart is a pretty girl, with bobbed hair, and a coloured bandeau, wearing breeches and a leather jacket. She is shy, and was most ...

    Article : 221 words
  36. ROMA OIL.

    On the Brisbane Stock Exchange yesterday there was little movement in oil. Lander, after selling at 10/1½, later slightly firmed to buyers at 10/2, sellers ...

    Article : 117 words
  37. ARCTIC 'PLANE.

    The 'plane in which Sir George Wilkins and Lieut. Eilson flew over the North Pole arrived here to-day by the Norwegian-American liner Bergens[?]ord. ...

    Article : 93 words
  38. DOCTOR OF LAWS.

    Colonel Lindbergh, to-day was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Wisconsin. Colonel Lindbergh left the ...

    Article : 39 words
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