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  2. QUEENSLAND POLITICS.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--A scene occurred in the Legislative Assembly to-day arising out of a bill to allow the selectors of land in the Tully sugar mill area to ...

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  3. "STOPPING" A PROSECUTION.

    The assertion that Mr. Blarney, Commissioner of Police, had ordered that a prosecution should not be gone on with was made in St. Kilda court yesterday, ...

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  4. INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION.

    SYDNEY, Friday. -- Though the press was not admitted at a deputation from trade union secretaries to the Minister of Works (Mr. Baddeley) to-day, it is ...

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  5. STATE POLITICS.

    At yesterday a meeting of the central council of the Country party the nomination of Mr. A. L. N. Walter as a Country party candidate for the Federal ...

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  6. THE DUTY ON TEA.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Australian tea merchants can thank Captain A. C. C. Kroef, of the steamer Nieuw Zeeland and the owners of that vessel for saving them ...

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  7. UNEMPLOYMENT.

    Practically all organisations engaged in relief work in the city area were represented at a meeting called by the Lord Mayor at the Town Hall recently. On ...

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  8. SON CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--A vigorous attack on Sergeant Walsh by Mr. Windeyer K.C., was the feature at the second trial to-day of Cecil Farnsworth Charles, 52 ...

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  9. THE MISSING AIRMAN.

    Anxiety is increasing for the safety of Pilot E. H. Coote, who is lost in uninhabited country 250 miles north of Alice Springs, and to-day three Air Force Moth ...

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  10. CAULFIELD ELECTION.

    Nominations for the Caulfield sent will close at noon on Tuesday next. The poll will take place on Saturday, 22nd inst. New rolls, containing the names ...

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  11. DISASTER WILL FOLLOW.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Replying to-night to Mr. Baddeley's extensive promises to unionists, Mr. C. M. McDonald, president of the Employers' Federation, said that if ...

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  12. SHALE OIL INDUSTRY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--It is claimed by Mr. J. Storonth, a well-known engineer, that a new retort for extracting oil from shale will revolutionise the oil industry in ...

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  13. UNEMPLOYED "ON STRIKE." COUNTRY CHILDREN'S GIFTS.

    There was considerable excitement outside Richmond town hall yesterday, when hundreds of unemployed assembled in Bridge-road and made a demonstration RUPANYUP, Friday.--The Rupanyup State school, which has adopted the Queensberry-street (Carlton) school to relieve necessitous cases, has responded ...

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  14. INGRATITUDE AND IMPUDENCE.

    Before Mr. J. W. K. Freeman, P.M., in the City Court yesterday, Frank Bryan, 33 years, laborer, was charged with having used insulting words in a public place. ...

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  15. MR. O. A. MENDELSOHN'S CAMPAIGN.

    Stating that he stood for honest, fearless, progressive government and for a new spirit of business-like Parliamentary enterprise and procedure, Mr. O. A. ...

    Article : 275 words
  16. ROTHBURY RIOTS.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--All fines and penalties imposed on persons during the riots at Rothbury colliery during the beginning of the year are to be remitted, according ...

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  17. AVIATOR HAS SUPPLY OF FOOD AND WATER.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. E. Bailey, secretary of the Gold Exploration Company, stated to-day that his company was doing everything possible to expedite the search ...

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  18. SYDNEY'S LORD MAYOR.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--At the next meeting of the city council Labor aldermen will move that legislation be introduced to permit of the Lord Mayor being elected by ...

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  19. SYDNEY HOLD-UP.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The police are confident that the two armed men who held up a motor bus at Waverley early this morning are identical with bandits who ...

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  20. SHOPPING IN SMITH-ST.

    In an endeavor to promote the sale of Australian-made goods, and at the same time to extend the popularity of Smith-street (Fitzroy and Collingwood) as a ...

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  21. Labor Candidates Expelled.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--The A.L.P. execu[?]ive to-night expelled Messrs. E. Fairburn and E. Tuckwell, for opposing the endorsed candidate, Mr. J. S. Garden, in the ...

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  22. GARDEN REACHES SYDNEY

    SYDNEY, Friday.--His nose sun blistered and punctual to the minute, Oscar Garden, the latest voyager from England to Australia by air, stepped from his ...

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  23. WAGE REDUCTIONS.

    That strong resentment existed amongst locomotive running men in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria at the action of the Railway Commissioners in those ...

    Article : 266 words
  24. Robbery from Grocer's Store.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Two men held up Barrett Brothers' grocer's store at Ashfield to-night, and rifled the till, which contained £15. One of the men presented ...

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  25. PRISONERS SENTENCED.

    A feature of the sentences in the Court of General Sessions on Thursday was the number of young men dealt with for factory, shop or house breaking. ...

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  26. THE VALUE OF PROTECTION.

    The value of protection to foster local and attract new industries was illustrated by Mr. S. Kay, Sydney representative of several English firms, who has just ...

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  27. MR. J. MURRAY'S CANDIDATURE.

    Mr. J. Murray, who is claiming the support of Liberal electors, addressed a meeting of supporters at Caulfield town hall last night. Cr. H. Lord presided. ...

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  28. PORT IMPROVEMENTS.

    A party, consisting of the Minister of Public Works (Mr. Jones), the Minister of Education (Mr. Lemmon), Mr. Holland, M.L.A.; the chairman of the ...

    Article : 210 words
  29. Benevolent Societies' Appeal.

    The central committee of Victorian benevolent societies has received a communication from Mr. Kiernan, M.L.C., Minister in charge of unemployment ...

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  30. IN MELBOURNE ON MONDAY.

    Vacuum Oil Co. gave a dinner to Mr. Oscar Garden in Sydney last night, at which Mr. E. Taylor, vice-president of the Aero Club, Mr. W. Schmidt (New ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. Williamstown Works.

    The Minister of Public Works has cleared up some misunderstanding which existed on the part of Williamstown council in relation to unemployment relief ...

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  32. WILLIAMSTOWN TALKIES.

    A recommendation by a committee of Williamstown council that instead of a locally-constructed "talkie" machine, which was recently placed in the ...

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  33. NATIONAL WEEK OF PRAYER.

    The call issued by the Council of Churches for the observance throughout the Commonwealth of a week of national prayer, commencing on Sunday, 23rd ...

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  34. N.S.W. RAILWAY ENGINEERS.

    Judgment was delivered by the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. E. H. Coneybeer) in the Arbitration Court yesterday on the application by the Amalgamated ...

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  35. CAPTAIN MATTHEWS IN SYDNEY.

    Captain F. R. Matthews arrived at the Mascot aerodrome, Sydney, at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. He was piloted by Flying Officer Owen in the Shell company's Gipsy ...

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  36. AUTHORISED COLLECTORS WITH SEALED BOXES.

    A committee appointed by the unemployed in the North riding of Moorabbin shire asks that only authorised collectors with sealed boxes be given subscriptions. ...

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  37. FRIDAY NIGHT SHOPPING.

    HORSHAM, Friday.--The proposed alteration to the Factories Act to prohibit the opening of shops on Friday nights was referred to at the borough council ...

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  38. KINGSFORD SMITH AND LORD MAYOR.

    In a chat that lasted move than half an hour, Air Commodore Kingsford Smith and the Lord Mayor (Cr. H. D. Luxton) revived war-time memories when the famous ...

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  39. TO-NIGHT'S MEETING.

    The following meeting is advertised for tonight:-- Cr. H. D. Luxton, comer Booran-road and Bundeera-road, 7.30. ...

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  40. LORD MAYOR'S FUND.

    Additional contributions received yesterday to the Lord Mayor's Appeal on behalf of our metropolitan hospitals and charities increased the progress total to ...

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  41. PTOMAINE POISONING.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Nine persons, six of one family and three visitors, were seized with ptomaine poisoning at the breakfast table to-day. The victims were John ...

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  42. A SYMPATHETIC MAGISTRATE.

    Charged in Richmond court yesterday with having been in possession of 327 opossum skins, valued at £40. Ernest Clifton and Henry Westcott pleaded that ...

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  43. LATE SHOPPING NIGHT.

    Sir,--As a visitor from West Australia that has suffered (not enjoyed) the curtailment of the late night, I wish to emphatically deny Mr. Webber's assertion ...

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  44. EXHIBITION OF KINGSFORD SMITH'S OUTFIT.

    The public interest in the famous Australian airman Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith, is demonstrated by the crowds which gather at the Bourke-street ...

    Article : 127 words
  45. WARBURTON WATER TRUST.

    The Warburton Water Works Trust, at a special meeting yesterday, voted £400 off its loan account to the Treasury. This was a voluntary vote, taken in the hope ...

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  46. ANOTHER NEW INDUSTRY.

    A test of two of the latest machines manufactured by the Pyrene Co. Ltd., fire engineers, England, was made in a deserted quarry on the outskirts of ...

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  47. INSURANCE IN QUEENSLAND.

    BRISBANE, Friday.--The unemployed insurance receipts for the year ended 30th June totalled £490,567. Disbursements amounted to £517,780, which left ...

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  48. MAN ATTACKED IN GARDENS

    While walking through Fitzroy Gardens on his way home from the city about 12.15 a.m. yesterday, Albert Roy James Shugg, manager, of Highett-street, Richmond, ...

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  49. RAID ON "TWO-UP SCHOOL."

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Breaking into an alleged "two-up school" in Riley-street, Surry Hills, to-night, the police arrested over 90 men. Charges of engaging in an ...

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  50. TWO FIRES IN SYDNEY.

    SYDNEY, Friday.--Within a quarter of a milo of each other, two fires broke out at Botany to-night, in the Salvation Army home and the old Sir Joseph Banks ...

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  51. FINE AND WARM.

    According to the Weather Bureau the weather during the week end will remain fine and warm, with cool winds. Only light scattered showers were ...

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  52. BUSH FIRE AT FRANKSTON.

    FRANKSTON, Friday.--At 7.30 p.m. to-day the Frankston Fire Brigade was summoned to a bush fire which was raging in East Frankston, in the vicinity of the ...

    Article : 122 words
  53. HOUSEBREAKER AT ELWOOD.

    By breaking a pane of glass and manipulating the lock of the front door, a thief gained entry to the home of Mrs. Cohen, Marine-parade, Elwood, between ...

    Article : 73 words
  54. FACTORIES ACT AMENDMENTS.

    A report relative to the proposed amendments of the Factories and Shops Act was submitted at the last meeting of the Trades Hall Council. The ...

    Article : 77 words
  55. Advertising

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  56. Advertising

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  57. POONCARIE OUTBREAK.

    BROKEN HILL, Friday.--The outbreak of disease at Pooncarie is reported to be well in hand, although the death of a 23-year-old female aboriginal occurred to-day, ...

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  58. Public Service Band Recital.

    The Public Service Military Band will give a recital of specially selected items at the Botanic Gardens to-morrow afternoon. The collection will be for the Homoeopathic Hospital. ...

    Article : 31 words
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