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  2. MOTOR SMASHES.

    One hundred and ten people were killed in motor car smashes in Melbourne last year. Sydney is said to have had 82 car fatalities. ...

    Article : 144 words
  3. STRANGE SCENES AT SOVIET EMBASSY.

    M. Rakovsky, the Soviet Charge d'Affaires in Great Britain on November 7 held a reception at Chesham House, Belgravia, London, in celebration of the ...

    Article : 851 words
  4. THE MARITIME DISPUTE.

    "I have given orders to-day," said the Premier (Sir George Fuller), "that the returned soldiers should have a bureau, and we are prepared to join forces with the ...

    Article : 1,390 words
  5. A SCHOOL FOR WHISTLING.

    Once in the benighted 90's there lived a little girl who liked to whistle (writes Grace Overmyer, in the "New York Herald Tribune"). She whistled ...

    Article : 1,032 words
  6. LATEST CABLE NEWS.

    The Allied Note announcing that Cologne will not yet be evacuated has evoked a chorus of protests from the press. Dr. Marr's organ, "Germania," says the Note ...

    Article : 168 words
  7. THE DE GARIS MYSTERY.

    The body of Mr. C. J. De Garis has not yet been discovered, and the police are by no means satisfied that he was drowned. Although a search is being ...

    Article : 1,176 words
  8. THE CLAN MONROE.

    The members of the Port Adelaide Trades and Labor Council have been summoned to a special meeting of the council to he held to-night, to consider the ...

    Article : 84 words
  9. AERIAL MAILS.

    Further extensions to the existing aerial mail routes have been approved by the Federal Government, and in one case the new service is expected to begin at ...

    Article : 168 words
  10. STATE TRADING CONCERNS.

    The Auditor-General has reported favorably upon the management of the State brick works, which in 1924 sold over 40 million bricks. The accumulated ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. IDLE STEAMERS.

    It was estimated to-day that owing to the dispute thirty-eight steamers had been rendered idle in various Australian ports, with an aggregate tonnage of 130,713 gross ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. CRICKET.

    It was arranged to-day by representatives of the Victorian Cricket Association and the New South Wales Cricket Association that the postponed match between ...

    Article : 59 words
  13. TASMANIA ISOLATED,

    The Premier (Mr. Lyons), who is now holiday-making at Burnie, said to-day that the State steamer, Poolta, now tied up in Sydney, would, if necessary, be ...

    Article : 212 words
  14. AGRICULTURE AND DAIRYING.

    The commission sent by the University of Wisconsin thoroughly to examine the methods of agriculture and dairying in New Zealand has completed a ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. A STRANGE SUICIDE.

    Strange circumstances surround the death of Francis Deakin (22). single, of Station-street, Highett, who died in the Alfred Hospital last night from a gunshot ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. HOW TO [?] A FLAPPER'S AGE

    Three judges wrestled with the problem of how to tell a flapper's age, but did not arrive at any infallible system. It is of great importance to cinema ...

    Article : 341 words
  17. A STRANGE CAREER.

    Lion tamer, spy and self-styled "priest" by turn, Bertha Mra[?]k who has been arrested by the Belgian police has had an amazing career. She served the ...

    Article : 861 words
  18. A BANKRUPTS DEATH.

    There was a startling development in the Bankruptcy Court to-day, when the Registrar was informed that the body of Samuel Brown Henderson. of ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. OLD TEST[?]MENT IN MODERN ENGLISH.

    An Old Testament stripped of its picturesque metaphor and poetic phrase, and reduced to language so simple that a child can understand it, is being introduced to ...

    Article : 454 words
  20. POSITION SERIOUS AT LAUNCESTON.

    Great inconvenience and distress arc experienced through the hold-up of the Bass Strait steamer service. Fully a couple of thousand visitors from the mainland ...

    Article : 272 words
  21. TWO CARPENTERS WANTED.

    An undertaker in Melbourne from the western district advertised in a morning newspaper for two carpenters to meet him outside the Town Hall. Altogether ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE.

    To the vast majority of mortals birth an death are events that happen but once. Science has no record of the wailing infant born twice. But now there ...

    Article : 653 words
  23. A GAMBLING SALOON.

    Fines amounting to £105 were imposed by Mr. Turner, P.M., on 16 men who were caught by the police in a gambling saloon. The keeper, Bernard Simmons. ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. "AN INSULT."

    The Waterside Workers' federation was recently granted an increase of wages of a halfpenny an hour under the new Arbitration Court award. Its members now feel ...

    Article : 109 words
  25. MINING IN THE WEST.

    At St. Ives Mr. J. Martin has unearthed a 22-08. nugget whilst fossicking on alluvial ground. The largest nuggets found on this patch were Prendergast's 57 oz., ...

    Article : 105 words
  26. LONELIEST ENGLISH FARM.

    Desolately situated houses are more numerous than many peop[?] suppose, judging by the number of letters which have reached the London "Daily Chronicle" ...

    Article : 514 words
  27. AEROPLANE WITH EYES.

    A pilotless aeroplane controlled by wireless, with automatic eyes, which reports back to observers and shows on a screen everything above, below, behind, in front, ...

    Article : 508 words
  28. A BLOW FOR FREMANTLE.

    Mr. N. C. Seale, of Oversea Shipping Representatives Association, to-day stated that, owing to the wharf laborers at F[?] mantle having refused to work the Clan ...

    Article : 55 words
  29. AN ELDERLY HERO.

    Regardless of the fact that he was fully clothed and that one of his arms was almost useless on account of its being paralysed. Mr. Robert Cracknell (70). a ...

    Article : 61 words
  30. A LABOR VIEW.

    Mr. Lang (leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party) to night said it was the function of the Arbitration Court to deal with the dispute It would be the ...

    Article : 93 words
  31. CYCLING ROUND AUSTRALIA.

    A venturesome motor cyclist, A. W. Grady, of Perth, who is travelling round Australia, has reached Grafton. He left Perth on October 1. and travelled via ...

    Article : 270 words
  32. THE WOLLONGBAR TIED UP.

    A fireman failed to report for duty on the Wollongbar to-night, and the steamer, which is engaged in the north coast service, was tied up. ...

    Article : 33 words
  33. THE PICKING-UP DISPUTE.

    Owing to a shortage of two in the crew and the decision of the Melbourne branch of the Seamen's Union regarding pickingup, the Loongana was unable to sail for ...

    Article : 405 words
  34. THE BARON MACLAY.

    No development took place to-day in regard to the chartered steamer Baron Maclay. As was expected, the waterside workers deelined to offer labor for ...

    Article : 127 words
  35. UNCERTAIN.

    Stern Papa (to daughter)-"Look here, Ethel, this young man of yours comes too often. What are his intentions?" Ethel (with a smile and a shy little ...

    Article : 41 words
  36. PROOF.

    Highbrow-"The newest form of poetry is nothing but gas." Lowbrow-"Yes, [?] tell that by looking at the [?]etrs." ...

    Article : 19 words
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