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  2. TORRENTIAL RAIN.

    INNISFAIL, Sunday.—Rain commenced to fall on Friday night, and to-day many low-lying portions are flooded. The sugar district also ...

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  3. WELCOMING ’PLANE.

    BUNDABERG. Sunday.—The ’plane, the Bower Bird, which left Melbourne with Major J. Murray and Captain Frank Neall on board early on Friday ...

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  4. AT LONGREACH.

    LONGREACH, Sunday—Hinkler was entertained at dinner here to-night. Major McLeod said it was not generally known that Hinkler had been ...

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  5. HINKLER SAFE AND WELL.

    The tension in Bundaberg, Brisbane, Queensland, and indeed all Australia, at the news that Hinkler was missing was relieved by the news that he had arrived at Camooweal at 12.50 p.m. on Saturday. He was delayed by strong winds on Friday and landed close to a ...

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  6. TWENTY DROWNED.

    LONDON, Sunday.— The Russian training barque Tavorisch, with 100 officers and cadets aboard, arrived at Southampton with smashed bows and ...

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  7. TRAIN HELD UP.

    CHICAGO, Saturday.—Six masked robbers captured a train in a suburban district and, taking complete possession in twelve minutes, blew open the safe ...

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  8. THE CAVELL FILM.

    PARIS, Friday.—A French journalist visited Brussels to make inquiries about the Nurse Cavell film “Dawn.” He says that popular sentiment is all ...

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  9. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    GENEVA, Friday.—Interviewed by a representative of the London “Daily Chronicle” regarding the Finnish proposal for an international fund for the ...

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  10. CHEERS AT CLONCURRY.

    CLONCURRY, Sunday.—Hinkler arrived here at 9.45 this morning from Camooweal accompanied by two Qantas ’planes. On landing he was ...

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  11. THE HERO COMES !

    LONGREACH, Sunday. — Lieut. Bert Hinkler was accorded a wonderful reception on his arrival at Longreach aerodrome at four minutes ...

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  12. NARROW ESCAPE.

    LONDON, Sunday.— A thrilling story of how the Prince of Wales was nearly killed by a French shell in the Haulthurst Forest during war ...

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  13. RAILWAY REPORTS.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—The secretary to the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Merton, said this morning that, owing to the heavy rain in the Home Hill ...

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  14. QANTAS ’PLANE.

    BUNDABERG, Saturday.—Mr. Mc. Cormack announced this afternoon that he was arranging with Qantas to send an aeroplane to Longreach to ...

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  15. BRITISH EXCHANGE.

    LONDON, Saturday.—The Stock Exchange has had an exhilarating week, the outstanding feature being, as one financial writer puts it, that dealings ...

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  16. AMERICAN NAVY.

    WASHINGTON, Friday.—It is understood that President Coolidge does not believe that the 16-ship programme before the House will provide sufficient ...

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  17. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

    SYDNEY. Sunday.—At Enfield on Saturday, John Shannon, 15 was accidentally shot in the back, and was later taken to hospital, where he lies ...

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  18. WAITING CROWDS.

    BUNDABERG, Saturday.— To the anxious waiting crowds in the streets of Bundaberg the welcome but unconfirmed news cams by way of railway ...

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  19. AERIAL MAIL.

    CAPETOWN, Saturday.—An aerial mail and passenger service is to be inaugurated between Johannesburg and Durban in June. The Government is ...

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  20. THE LANDING PLACE.

    BUNDABERG, Sunday.—A telephonic communication with Lieut. Hinkler at Longreach, was secured to-night. The aviator asked where ...

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  21. TRAINS INTERRUPTED.

    CAIRNS, Sunday.—Heavy rain fell round Cairns on Saturday morning, dislocating the district railway traffic. Floods in the Mulgrave River ...

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  22. RED ANNIVERSARY.

    RIGA, Saturday.—The British Communist, Gallagher, speaking at the Red Army anniversary celebrations at Moscow, delivered a message purporting to ...

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  23. JOY BELLS.

    BUNDABERG, Saturday.—All the morning misty rain pattered down on Bundaberg roofs and reflected the gloom that had descended over the ...

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  24. FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.— Hinkler occupied a fraction over 15 days in his flight from England to Australia. He left London aerodrome at 6.45 on ...

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  25. MOTHER’S CONFIDENCE.

    BUNDABERG, Saturday. — When news of Hinkler’s safety were conveyed to his mother she said “I knew he was safe and sound. Friends came ...

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  26. MOVING TO SEA.

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—Information was conveyed to Hinkler on Saturday that the Weather Bureau had reported during the morning that a ...

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  27. WAR MANOEUVRES.

    BERLIN, Saturday.—The Amir of Afghanistan is accompanying President Hindenburg to witness the Reichswehr manoeuvres, in which the Treaty of ...

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  28. HER SON’S VOICE.

    BUNDABERG. Sunday.—A happy party assembled at the house of Ald. N. McLean, Mayor of Bundaberg, tonight, when Mrs. Hinkler had a ...

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  29. MARY AND BURNETT.

    MARYBOROUGH, Sunday.— Light rain commenced to fall early on Saturday morning and increased in strength about midday. It has now rained for ...

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  30. DOMINION TREATIES.

    VANCOUVER, Friday—A resolution “That the Western Canada National Life Stock Union and the National Dairy Council of Canada be ...

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  31. MESSAGE FROM HINKLER.

    BUNDABERG, Saturday.—The following message has been received by the Mayor direct from Hinkler: “Arrived Camooweal, after trying time, ...

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  32. TO RISE VERTICALLY.

    LONDON Saturday.—An ex-student of the military aviation school has patented a new type of aeroplane, which, it is claimed, can rise and ...

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  33. THE TOTALISATOR.

    LONDON, Saturday.—The Methodist Social Welfare Committee has passed a resolution opposing the Totalisator Bill, on the ground that it gives ...

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  34. THIRTEEN KILLED.

    FORT SLITHAR (Kansas). Friday, —Thirteen miners were killed in a coalmine explosion to day. ...

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  35. CLOSER LINK.

    Mrs. Robert Sinclair, hon. secretary of the Toowoomba branch of the Victoria League, has forwarded the following telegram to Lieutenant Hinkler. ...

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  36. SOLD AS SCRAP IRON.

    ST. GOTHARD, Saturday.— The machine gun parts which were the cause of international trouble were sold as scrap iron for £60. The ...

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  37. HINKLER STREET.

    BUNDABERG, Sunday.—The Bundaberg City Council has decided to name a street in the vicinity of the landing ground after Hinkler. ...

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  38. FATAL EXPLOSION.

    LISBON, Saturday.—Following an explosion Killing two persons, the police discovered a bomb factory at Algrave and arrested a number of ...

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  39. CURRAWINYA BORE.

    CUNNAMULLA, Saturday.—Godfrey Brothers struck a flow in another bore on Currawinya on Thursday evening, at 660ft., getting a flow of 10,000 ...

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