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  2. N.Z. EARTHQUAKE.

    The worst earthquake in the history or New Zealand shook the North Island yesterday morning. Appalling loss of life and immense damage to property was caused. Though it was impossible at Wellington early this morning to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. TRAINS COLLIDE.

    Although the engine crews and two passengers had narrow escapes, no injury attended a head-on collision between two trains at Pinjarra early yesterday ...

    Article : 981 words
  4. MISERY IN AMERICA.

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Speaking in the Senate to-day, Senator Caraway (Democrat, Arkansas) asserted that 1,000 persons a day were dying of starvation ...

    Article : 366 words
  5. ELECTORAL REFORM.

    LONDON, Feb. 2.—In the House of Commons to-day, the Home Secretary (Mr. J. R. Clynes) moved the second reading of the Representation of the People Bill for ...

    Article : 345 words
  6. CABINET CHANGES.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 3.—If the plans of the Left Wing in the Federal Parliamenatry Labour Party materialise, Tasmania will be left without representation in the ...

    Article : 139 words
  7. INDIAN RIOTING.

    CALCUTTA, Feb. 2.—Fierce rioting occurred at Bewal, a Hindu Sikh village 40 miles from Rawal Pindi, this morning, as a result of a Moslem school-teacher's ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. NEW POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

    MELBOURNE, Feb. 3.—Regret that he was relinquishing the portfolio of Minister for Defence and pleasure at his prospective association with the Postal Department ...

    Article : 130 words
  9. MURDER OF COLONEL SIMPSON.

    CALCUTTA, Feb. 2.—Dinesh Gupta, a young Bengali, was sentenced to death by a special tribunal this afternoon for the murder of Lieutenant-Colonel ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. 240 MILES AN HOUR.

    DAYTONA BEACH (Florida), Feb. 2.—In a practice run in his special car Blue-bird to-day, Captain Malcolm Campbell, the British racing motorist, attained an ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. THE RUINED TOWNS.

    Napier, the capita] of Hawke's Bay Province, in the North Island of New Zealand, was constituted a borough iu 1874. Its population was estimated on ...

    Article : 554 words
  12. FOREST FIRES.

    Hazy atmospheric conditions and clouds of smoke rising on the face of the Darling Ranges have supplied Perth residents with evidence of extensive bush fires during ...

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  13. SPECTACULAR CRASH.

    LONDON, Feb. 2.—Luck and skill combined to avert disaster to-day, when an Avro biplane piloted by Richard Bush, of Merton Park, with Stanley Rodwell, of ...

    Article : 352 words
  14. PARKES BY-ELECTION.

    LONDON, Feb. 3.—The "Morning Post's" city editor writes: "The extent of British interest in Australia at present was shown by the anxiety with which the ...

    Article : 124 words
  15. EFFECTS OF CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, Feb. 2.—Answering questions in the House of Commons to-day, the Secretary for India (Mr. Wedgwood Benn) said that it was ...

    Article : 171 words
  16. MR. SCULLIN'S SYMPATHY.

    CANBERRA, Feb. 3.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) beard of the earthquake to-night while listening to wireless broadcasting. "It in an appalling disaster," he ...

    Article : 67 words
  17. REPUBLICAN STRIFE.

    BOGOTA (Colombia), Feb. 2.—At least 27 persons were killed and 21 wounded on Sunday last during the Colombia Congress elections. According to unconfirmed ...

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  18. AT PERTH OBSERVATORY.

    The violence of the earthquake is shown at Perth Observatory, where the boom of the seismograph instrument made the widest and most prolonged maximum ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. EXCHANGE BURDEN.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 3.—It was stated in Ministerial circles to-day that because of the increase in the rate of overseas exchange, the State's interest bill on loans ...

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  20. EARLIER DISASTERS.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 3.—On June 17, 1929, there was an earthquake in New Zealand which was the most severe and prolonged of any experienced during the ...

    Article : 984 words
  21. Effect on Remittances to England.

    LONDON, Feb. 3.—The newspapers in their financial columns discuss and explain the effects of Australian bank dividends being paid to British shareholders at the ...

    Article : 139 words
  22. BRITISH UNEMPLOYED.

    LONODN, Feb. 2.—In the House of Commons, to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) announced that the Royal Commission on unemployment Insurance ...

    Article : 176 words
  23. BURMA RISING.

    CALCUTTA, Feb. 2.—Over 300 rebels were killed, 130 wounded and 1,250 captured in the rising in Burma, Sir Joseph Crerar, Home member in the Legislative ...

    Article : 115 words
  24. FIRE ON MALOJA.

    LONDON, Feb. 2.—A slight fire occurred on Sunday morning in the No. 7 lower hold of the orlop of the Maloja, which contains a cargo of wheat, wool. ...

    Article : 91 words
  25. UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS.

    Unusual interest has been exhibited by University people in the forthcoming elections for four vacancies in the University Senate. No fewer than 11 candidates have ...

    Article : 201 words
  26. MISS ENGLAND II.

    LONDON, Feb. 2.—Sir Charles Wakefield field has decided to enter the speed boat Miss England II for the International Trophy which will be contested at Detroit ...

    Article : 163 words
  27. SYDNEY SEISMOGRAPH RECORD.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 3.—The seismograph at the Riverview (Sydney) Observatory recorded the New Zealand earthquake. The first vibrations showed at 8.51 o'clock this ...

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  28. GERMAN POLITICS.

    BERLIN, Feb. 2.—A motion submitted by the Nazis National Socialists) that Germany should withdraw from the Learns of Nations two years hence was defeated ...

    Article : 69 words
  29. Y.A.L SYMPATHY.

    The following cablegram was despatched yesterday to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Forbes) by the honorary director of the Young Australia League ...

    Article : 54 words
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