CANBERRA, Aug. 10.—The return of the Commonwealth consolidated revenue fund for July, which was issued to-day, showed that the excess of expenditure over ...
Article : 502 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 10.—The recommendation of the Australian Loan Council on Saturday that Treasury bills to the amount of £500,000 be issued to ...
Article : 151 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 10.—Fierce street fighting between, police and Communists, in which at least 12 persons were killed and many injured, followed the plebiscite in ...
Article : 616 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. J. Lindsay), who is in control of the investigations being made by the Government into the possibility of giving the bulk handling ...
Article : 139 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 10.—The Commonwealth Bank Board having agreed to make available £500,000 to relieve the critical financial position in New South Wales, the ...
Article : 841 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 10.—With promises of support and co-operation made by the banks and large financial institutions, the campaign for the voluntary conversion of ...
Article : 337 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Mr. Patrick Saul, who was Air Commodore Kingsford Smith's navigator, in the flight from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1930; arrived from ...
Article : 108 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 10.—Following several weeks of rain, the mighty Yangtse River is in flood and the entire city of Hankow, one of the biggest in China, ...
Article : 258 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—Air Commodore Kingsford Smith said to-day that although he wag considering the possibilities, of a flight from Australia to England in seven ...
Article : 44 wordsAt a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Friday night to consider the bulk handling scheme formulated by Westralian Farmers. Ltd., Air. H. D. ...
Article : 2,612 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—The State Treasury was notified to-day by the Commonwealth Bank Board that at the request of the Loan Council the Commonwealth Bank ...
Article : 146 wordsKALGOORLIE, Aug. 10.—Commenting to-day on the decision of the men employed on the Kurrawang woodline who were concerned in the dispute with the West ...
Article : 334 wordsLONDON, August 9.—Only the skilful handling by the pilot (Captain Dinsmore) of the Imperial Airways liner Hannibal, when the forced landing was made near ...
Article : 304 wordsIt was decided at a special meeting of the Perth Hospital Board yesterday to convert £4,500 worth of Commonwealth bonds into the new loan. The bonds ...
Article : 36 wordsThousands of pounds are contributed annually by West Australians to lotteries conducted outside the State. The local sale of tickets for Eastern States' lotteries has ...
Article : 948 wordsBREST (France), Aug. 9.—Divers of the salvage ship Artiglio have reached the roof of the Egypt's strong-room, the way to which had been cleared by blasting. ...
Article : 137 wordsHAVANA, Aug. 9.—A revolutionary plot was foiled by the arrest to-day of 17 Opposition Party leaders, and the confiscation of the rebels' arsenal, after a rifle ...
Article : 66 wordsTROMSOE (Norway), Aug. 9.—A steamer bearing the reception committee, with scores of fishing boats and motor boats going out to escort the submarine ...
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—The City Coroner (Mr. May) to-day inquired into the death at Surrey Hills of Emma Philbrook (51), who was found dead at her home on April ...
Article : 203 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Week-end air crashes caused 11 deaths in the United States. Four passengers and two pilots were killed at Cincinnati (Ohio), when ...
Article : 115 wordsKALGOORLIE, Aug. 10.—George Ronald Macdonald (39), single, of Hannan-street, died in the Kalgoorlie Hospital about 5 p.m. to-day from injuries received ...
Article : 138 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 10.—The 56th annual show of the Queensland Royal Agricultural Society was opened to-day. There were excellent exhibits in all sections and ...
Article : 215 wordsPARIS, Aug. 10.—France may not compete for the Schneider trophy. The Minister for Air (M. Demesnil), after returning from the testing station to-day, said that ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—A racehorse named Simba, recently imported from New Zealand, was mentioned in three cases, which same before the Central Summons Court ...
Article : 325 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 10.—India's problems are ary important from an Australian point of view, because there is a considerable movement there towards ...
Article : 248 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 10.—Details of the new schedule of reductions of public service salaries and wages have been completed by the State Ministry, and the ...
Article : 230 wordsWhile working on the motorship Triton yesterday, Mr. James Heston, of South-street, Fremantle, received injuries to his foot caused by a falling bain of paper. He ...
Article : 42 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 10.—White a constable was holding a handcuffed prisoner in Flinders-street early this morning a taxi-cub driver, who had been asked to ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. Arthur Soabrook (61), pie-seller, of Wellington-street. Perth, was pushing his barrow across William-street, near Brisbane-street, late last night when he was ...
Article : 71 wordsAt a meeting of the Perth City Council yesterday, over which the Lord Mayor (Sir William Lathlain, M.L.C.) presided, it was agreed to change the name of ...
Article : 437 wordsWhen a pea-rifle he was examinig yesterday afternoon was discharged Mr. Leslie Edward Cowell (20) received a bullet wound in the fleshy part of his left arm. ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—Two men sinking post holes at Rylstone recently struck a shale vein. A State Mines Department test gave such a satisfactory result that the ...
Article : 106 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 10.—The Administrator of New Guinea (General Wisdom) has notified the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) by radio that he has been advised by the ...
Article : 90 wordsAccording to a report made to the Criminal Investigation Branch, Perth, yesterday morning, £83/17/4 in cash and cheques was stolen earlier in the day from a house ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—Mr. J. A. Mollison, who broke Mr. C. W. A. Scott's record flight from Australia to England, met Mr. Scott at an informal tea party at ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—The secretary of the Labour Council (Mr. J. S.Garden) wil ask the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) to-morrow for permission to ...
Article : 100 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 9.—An investigation reveals that several yards of rails were torn up in the wrecking by an explosive of the Basle-Berlin express this morning ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—The State Cabinet to-day decided to make an allowance of £150 to Dr. Chisholm Ross, mental specialist, whose pay was suspended by the ...
Article : 103 wordsTOODYAY, Aug. 10.—According to a report from the Toodyay Hospital to-day, all the children injured in last Thursday's tragic collision between a train and a ...
Article : 128 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.—A pitiful tragedy was disclosed to-day, when the bodies of Mrs. Florine Williams, widow of the noted actor, Earle Williams, her ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—Sustenance bread was again distributed smoothly in the metropolitan area to-day. Following the cancellation of the contract with Shaders ...
Article : 100 wordsTwo fatal, 36 serious and 197 minor accidents in traffic in the metropolitan area, resulting in the death of two people and injuries to 44, were reported to the police ...
Article : 188 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 10.—A special appeal was made recently by the trustees of the Kent Town Methodist Church, to reduce the debt of £200. The result was that ...
Article : 79 wordsPARIS, Aug. 9.—Worshippers in the Armenian Church in the Champs Elysees fled in terror to-day when a fanatic emptied a revolver right and left. The priest ...
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