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  2. QUEENSLAND CYCLONE.

    BRISBANE, Monday.--It was not realised until after a cyclone had passed over the peninsula what a lucky escape from disaster Cooktown and Port Douglas had. ...

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  3. THE FUTURE OF INDIA.

    Speaking at a Labor party meeting yesterday Earl Russell, Under-Secretary for India, referred to the situation in India. ...

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  4. THE AMUSEMENTS TAX.

    Sir George Tallis, who has returned from Sydney, yesterday made further comments on the effects of the imposition of the entertainments tax by the State ...

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  5. A SEAPLANE DISASTER.

    A distressing seaplane fatality--the first fatal seaplane accident with which the Royal Australian Air Force has been associated--occurred late yesterday afternoon, ...

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  6. "MAD-HATTER SCHEMES."

    Mr. Lansbury, First Commissioner of Works, thinks the Empire economic policies-- Empire free trade-- now being expounded by Lords Beaverbrook and ...

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  7. SOVIET'S NEW CALENDAR.

    The Soviet proposes to adopt a new calendar. A committee charged with the job of fitting a five-day week into a calendar of ...

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  8. THE ROYAL WEDDING.

    Crowds of cheering Italians welcomed the Crown Prince's bride elect, Princess Marie Jose, who arrived in Rome with her parents, the King and Queen of the ...

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  9. CAPTAIN GROSVENOR.

    Captain High Grosvenor, aide-de-camp to Sir Alexander H[?]re Ruthven, Governor of South Australia, last year flew around Australia. Altogether he covered 8000 ...

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  10. THE PRINCE AT SEA.

    The Kenilworth Castle, in which the Prince of Wales is travelling to South Africa, encountered a heavy gale in the Bay of Biscay to-day. The wind, which ...

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  11. TENNIS GIANTS MEET.

    In the final of the Christmas covered courts tournament in Paris Borotra beat Tilden, 6--4, 6--2, 4--6, 6--1. Commenting on the match in the "Daily ...

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  12. PAISLEY DISASTER.

    The remains of the last twelve victims of the Paisley cinema disaster were buried to-day. The majority of the children were interred in the avenue at the ...

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  13. BEAVERBROOK AS PRIME MINISTER.

    In the course of a speech at a dinner to the members of his editorial staffs Lord Rothermere, the London newspaper proprietor, alluded to Great Britain's ...

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  14. THE PROJECTED ENGLISH FLIGHT.

    It was announced in December of last year that Captain Grosvenor, with Flight-Lieutenant Briggs as relief pilot, intended to make an attempt to lower the present ...

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  15. ABOUT PEOPLE.

    An official intimation has been received by the Prime Minister from the High Commissioner in London that the Dominion Commissioners will henceforth ...

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  16. THE REAL SUMMER

    Very tardily the real summer has come at last. Following on a week end of perfect weather the wind yesterday morning veered towards the north, and soon ...

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  17. KING AND PRESIDENT.

    In an exchange of New Year greetings King George and President Hoover expressed the hope that 1930 would see the advancement of the cause of naval ...

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  18. NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

    H.M.S. Glorious, the British navy's ninth aircraft carrier, a vessel with a speed of 31 knots, will be commissioned at Devonport on Tuesday. ...

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  19. LINDRUM SERVED WITH A SUMMONS.

    The Glasgow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:-- "At the close of his match with Smith on Saturday Lindrum, while congratulating ...

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  20. ANOTHER AVIATION ACCIDENT.

    While flying from Point Cook to Laverton on Sunday afternoon, Flying Officer Leo Joseph Ryan, of No. 1 Flying Squadron, R.A.A.F., Laverton, collided with a ...

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  21. AERIAL DEFENCE.

    According to the aviation correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" an all-round increase in speed for R.A.F. machines will result from the re-equipment ...

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  22. CONFISCATED GERMAN PROPERTY.

    The Australian and New Zealand delegates to the Reparations Conference have commenced negotiations with the Germans in regard to German property in ...

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  23. GOLF.

    Kirkwood, the Australian, tied with Dutra in the final of the Long Beach open championship with a score of 216 for 54 holes. ...

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  24. MOTOR BOAT SINKS.

    MILDURA, Monday.--An outboard motor boat occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Norman Stuart und Mrs. H. Harrison began to sink while passing under the ...

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  25. BOXING.

    The British Boxing Board of Control, after refusing it six times, has now granted a licence to Jeff Dickson, an American promoter, permitting him to ...

    Article : 68 words
  26. MELBOURNE BIJOU.

    SYDNEY, Monday.--Sir John Fuller stated to-night that the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, would be rebuilt and at the same time wired for talking pictures. ...

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  27. FIRE IN PERTH.

    PERTH, Monday.--To-night flames burst from a huge stack of Baltic pine stored in the buildings formerly used as the Perth produce markets, near the ...

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  28. THE CRAZE FOR SPEED.

    Kaye Don, the racing motorist, is trying out his new 4000 h.p. speed car, the Silver Bullet, at Pendine Sands (Carmarthenshire), with the view of attempting ...

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  29. BENEFITS OF PROTECTION.

    That public opinion in Great Britain was rapidly swinging over to a policy of trade protection, and that the English Labor party would find its political ...

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  30. CHIEF SECRETARY'S VIEW.

    It is the opinion of the Victorian Chief Secretary that the legitimate drama, is placed at a disadvantage compared with the pictures and talkies, and that ...

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  31. ADDRESS BY VISITING AMERICAN.

    Addressing members of the executive of the Citizens' Education Fellowship at a social evening at the home of Mrs. V. Clark, of Glendene-avenue, Kew, last ...

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  32. THE TUNG TREE.

    The Empire Marketing Board bas grunted £700 to the Kew Botanical Gardens, to enable the management to distribute seeds of the tung tree throughout ...

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  33. GRASS FIRES.

    AVOCA, Monday.--A fire broke out in the vicinity of Glenpatrick, and burned grass and timber in the foothills and in the forest country on the mountains. A ...

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  34. PALESTINE DISORDERS.

    The members of the Shaw Commission of Inquiry into the recent disorders in Palestine returned to London yesterday. The commission sat six hours a day and ...

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  35. TRAIN TOPPLES INTO CREEK

    ADELAIDE, Monday.--Early this morning nineteen tracks of a train of twenty-four loaded with ore toppled into a creek about 3 miles north-east of Outalpa, 249 ...

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  36. The Widgeon's Notable Flight.

    The Widgeon, which was well known in Australia, was built in New South Wales. Equipped with a 385 h.p. Jaguar engine, and built to the direction and supervision ...

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  37. RESTRICTING TIN OUTPUT.

    In accordance with the Tin Producers' Association's decision to restrict the output of tin, thirty dredges owned by leading Malayan companies were closed down ...

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  39. HARVESTING ACCIDENT.

    GORDON, Monday.--With a shocking gash in his forearm about seven inches long and deep, Thomas Hinchey, 67 years, farm laborer, of Dunnstown, was taken to ...

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  40. YOUTH'S DISAPPEARANCE.

    SYDNEY, Monday.--A pair of trousers, torn to ribbons, were recovered to-day at Newcastle, near where Sidney Nicolls disappeared from Stockton ferry last week. ...

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  41. FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT BRIGGS.

    Flight-Lieutenant F. A. Briggs was a Royal Air Force officer, who came to Australia in December, 1927, to take a post specially offered to him by the Royal ...

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  42. TAXATION OR COMPETITION ?

    The executive committee of the Trades Hall Council will probably discuss the position that has arisen through the decision of J. C. Williamson Ltd. to sell ...

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  43. A RAILWAY WASHAWAY.

    BROKEN HILL, Monday.--The railway line three miles out of Outalpa, which was recently washed away and subsequently repaired, broke under the weight of a ...

    Article : 64 words
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  45. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.

    SYDNEY, Monday.--At the Central police court to-day Nathan Mandelson, 69 years, a broker, was charged that between 1st July and 30th November, 1929, ...

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