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  2. EGYPTIAN POLITICS.

    CAIRO, Jan. 11.—With traditional ceremony and Oriental splendour King Fuad opened the new Egyptian Parliament this morning. The Chamber was crowded. In ...

    Article : 179 words
  3. BRITISH INDUSTRY.

    LONDON, Jan. 10.—Speaking at a meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to-day, Mr. J. H. Thomas (Lord Privy Seal and Minister in charge of the ...

    Article : 764 words
  4. THE ANTARCTIC.

    CANBERRA, Jan. 11.—The following wireless messages have been received by the Department of External Affairs from the British, Australian and New ...

    Article : 305 words
  5. PROHIBITION.

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—While the Commission on law enforcement appointed by President Hoover has made a preliminary statement, in which it is contended ...

    Article : 177 words
  6. COUNCIL BY-ELECTION.

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  7. THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Jan. 11.—It became known authoritatively in the Autumn that the British Admiralty had revised its estimate of the Empire's minimum cruiser needs ...

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  8. GERMAN REPARATIONS.

    THE HAGUE, Jan. 11.—There is reason to believe that a virtual agreement has been reached at the international conference here on the details of the Young Plan ...

    Article : 727 words
  9. COAL DISPUTE.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—Some indication of the ill-feeling held by the miners against the police was given to-night at Kurri Kurri, when stones were thrown at the ...

    Article : 437 words
  10. FIREMEN KEPT BUSY.

    Fire brigades in the metropolitan area had a busy time during the week-end, nearly 20 calls—mostly to grass fires—being attended to by the central and suburban ...

    Article : 682 words
  11. OATH OF VENGEANCE.

    BERLIN, Jan. 10.—In 1928 the Cassel police, in order to make an arrest, besieged the house of a farmer named Klaus in a neighbouring village, and captured it ...

    Article : 291 words
  12. RADIO AIDS MUSIC.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—"Wireless has done wonders in England and elsewhere, particularly in bringing up the standard of orchestral music. It has also been the ...

    Article : 228 words
  13. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—The members of the Australian Railways Union decided by a ballot not to handle coal won by miners from the State-controlled mine at ...

    Article : 261 words
  14. BOLD STOWAWAY.

    LONDON, Jan. 11.—Samuel Weir; (19), of Blantyre, Scotland, was charged at the East Ham Police Court to-day with having stowed away on the steamer ...

    Article : 211 words
  15. SHEFFIELD SHIELD.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—It was dull and cold when play was resumed in the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia at the cricket ...

    Article : 447 words
  16. FRENCH AIR TRAGEDY.

    PARIS, Jan. 10.—Two airmen at the aviation school, at Istres, observing a 20-year-old pilot in difficulties, jumped into a second aeroplane to go to his ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. DEATH OF NORMAN BROWN.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—The inquest into the death of Norman Brown, the miner who was fatally shot in the riot at Rothbury four weeks ago, will begin at the Maitland ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. AVIATION.

    LONDON, Jan, 11.—An Indian named Singh, the son of a Sikh doctor, who has been studying aviation in England for two years, left for India from the Croydon ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. WIDESPREAD SPECULATION.

    LONDON, Jan. 12.—There is considerable speculation on what exactly Mr. Thomas meant in his speech at Manchester on the financial aspect of the problem of ...

    Article : 188 words
  20. THE SHEARER INQUIRY

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Before the Senate Committee, which is investigating the naval propagandist activities of William Shearer, both at the Geneva ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. RUMOUR DENIED.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12—The Premier (Mr. Bavin) stated positively to-night that there was no foundation for the rumour that the police at Rothbury had machine ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. ROYAL WEDDING.

    ROME, Jan. 10.—Three hundred aeroplanes gave a wonderful display of aero-baties to mark the third day of the celebrations associated with the marriage of ...

    Article : 150 words
  23. LAND SPEED.

    LONDON, Jan. 10.—Mr. Kaye Don states that, he is satisfied with the preliminary tests of the new car made by the Sunbeam factory, in which he hopes ...

    Article : 115 words
  24. TELL-TALE MAGPIE.

    BUNBURY, Jan. 11.—Last night William Desmond Lord, who is being held in the Bunbury Gaol pending trial at the Bunbury Quarter Sessions for an alleged ...

    Article : 286 words
  25. "PARROT FEVER."

    NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—The health authorities are mystified by a sudden outbreak of psittacosis—"parrot fever"—cases of which have been reported ...

    Article : 108 words
  26. State Team's Departure.

    The State team, which will play matches against Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, in the capital cities of those States, left Perth on Saturday night by the Great ...

    Article : 467 words
  27. AUSTRALIA'S POLICY.

    MELBOURNE, Jan. 12.—Addressing members of the Foreign Journalists' Association on Friday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) outlined the attitude of the ...

    Article : 639 words
  28. CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHRISTMAS

    RIGA, Jan. 11.—The demonstrations against the observance of Christmas (as reckoned by the old calendar, which differs from the Gregorian calendar), which ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. Australasian Mile Record Broken.

    AUCKLAND, Jan. 12.—Norman Smith, in his 350 h.p. Rolls-Royce-engined Cadillac, The Anzac, broke the one-mile Australasian beach motor record on Saturday ...

    Article : 253 words
  30. EMPIRE FREE TRADE.

    LONDON, Jan. 10.—Lord Beaverhook (leader of the Empire Free Trade crusade) writing to the "Morning Post" says:— "You change me with bitter and ...

    Article : 121 words
  31. WEALTHY JEW'S ESTATE.

    LONDON, Jan. 12.—Only one shilling was bequeathed to his daughter, Rebecca, by a well-to-do Manchester Jew, named Haym Marco Besso, who left an estate ...

    Article : 137 words
  32. N.S.W. GOVERNOR.

    SYDNEY, Jan. 12.—In view of the departure in April of the Governor (Sir Dudley de Chair) communications have passed between the British Dominions Office ...

    Article : 122 words
  33. VIOLENT PROPAGANDA.

    TOKIO, Jan. 11.—In the midst of the general approbation of the raising of the embargo on the export of gold after many years of control, Tokio was flooded to-day ...

    Article : 77 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS

    The Pope has issued an encyclical on Christian education in which he declares that the responsibility for this education belongs to the Church as the spiritual ...

    Article : 135 words
  35. PNEUMONIC PLAGUE.

    CAPE TOWN, Jan. 11.—The entire family of a farmer at Barkly, near Kimberley, has been wiped out by pneumonic plague. A son aged 17 was the first ...

    Article : 74 words
  36. EMPIRE MANUFACTURERS.

    MONTREAL, Jan. 10.—Speaking at Hamilton (Ontario) the British High Commissioner (Sir William Clark) recommended a study of how the manufacturers of ...

    Article : 103 words
  37. CAMP BURNED.

    KALGOORLIE, Jan. 12.—About 8 o'clock on Saturday evening a fire destroyed a wooden and iron camp owned and occupied by Benus Hoepner, on ...

    Article : 65 words
  38. Dominions Office Non-committal.

    LONDON, Jan. 10.—The Dominions Office has refused to comment on a rumour from Australia that Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game, K.C.B., D.S.O., has been ...

    Article : 93 words
  39. COAL EXPORTS.

    LONDON, Jan. 11.—The first international agreement in the history of the coal mining industry has been reached between British and Polish exporters, who have ...

    Article : 62 words
  40. WORK FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIANS

    ADELAIDE, Jan. 12.—The £1,010,750 order for motor bodies given in Adelaide by the Chrysler Motors Export Corporation is regarded in manufacturing circles ...

    Article : 52 words
  41. Advertising

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