CHICAGO, March 8.—Citizens, aided by the unemployed, are digging out the city after a blizzard which lasted 36 hours during the week-end and left over 13 feet of ...
Article : 230 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—A motion of no-confidence in the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) was carried by the Dalley Electoral Counsil to-night by 26 votes to 5. ...
Article : 308 wordsBELGRADE, March. 8.—Disastrous earthquakes are reported from Southern Serbia (a division of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). One report places the casualties ...
Article : 174 wordsMOSCOW, March 9.—M. Molotov, chairman of the Peoples' Commissars, reporting to the sixth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, declared that the success of ...
Article : 298 wordsCALCUTTA, March 9.—Mr. M. K. Gandhi, the Congress Party leader, addressing a mass meeting at Delhi, gave an ultimatum to the young Congress ...
Article : 406 wordsCANBEREA, March 9.—A further indication that the new State movement in New South Wales is gaining momentum is that invitations are being sent to 95 ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Federal Government has been asked by the Attorney-General (Mr. T. A. L. Davy), as a matter of urgency, to consider the passage of a small Bill through ...
Article : 862 wordsRepresenting unemployed members of trades unions, a deputation from the Trades Hall waited on the Premier (Sir James Mitchell) yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 1,950 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—With the ultimate object of lessening the coat of the Federal Public Service by a reduction of 10 per cent, in salaries, a conference was ...
Article : 229 wordsCALCUTTA, March 9.—The famous Shwe Dagon pagoda in Rangoon was badly damaged by a fire which destroyed "tazaungs" (or miniature places of ...
Article : 216 wordsBERLIN, March 8.—Professor A. S. Hagen, former attache at the German Embassy in Moscow, from which post he was withdrawn because bis candour ...
Article : 232 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—Restriction of the activities of the Federal Government and the election of representatives of the Federal Parliament on a different basis ...
Article : 189 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—Commenting on the decision of the Dalley Electroal Council, Mr. Theodore said after the meeting: "I understand that I am now under the ...
Article : 160 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—Labour hostility towards the defeated Nationalist candidate (Mr. L. T. Courtenay) was displayed at the declaration of the poll in the East ...
Article : 209 wordsTwo men had a miraculous escape from serious injury when a motor car in which they were travelling collided with another car and then plunged over a seven-feet ...
Article : 437 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—The Full Court of the Federal Arbitration Court had before it to-day an application by the Mt. Lyell and other companies for a ...
Article : 341 wordsSYDNEY, March 9,—By obtaining the co-operation of the unions in other States, the Lang faction, led by the secretary of the State Labour Council (Mr. J. S. ...
Article : 136 wordsNEW YORK, March 8.—The ease of the murder of Vivian Gordon, a woman who was found strangled in a park recently, continues to increase in interest owing, to ...
Article : 271 wordsCONSTANTINOPLE, March 9.—The Turkish Foreign Minister and the Russian Ambassador have signed a protocol, under which, neither country shall construct war ...
Article : 52 words"I have something better than stones and sticks." This remark, made by John Main (31), wood-carver, led to his being questioned by Inspector, Douglas during the ...
Article : 286 wordsA comparison of costs incurred by farmers under the Farmers' Debts Adjustment Act and the Federal Bankruptcy Act was given by a Perth accountant yesterday. ...
Article : 640 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—The New South Wales Cabinet decided to-day, that Mr. Willis, Vice-President of the Executive Council, should be appointed ...
Article : 130 wordsBRUSSELS, March 8.—Perhaps the most unusual of war memorials is that erected at Brussels to the memory of the carrier pigeons which served in the war. It was ...
Article : 172 wordsWILUNA, March 9.—A largely-attended meeting was held yesterday morning to consider the proposed reduction of 8/ weekly on the State basic wage. Mr. W. ...
Article : 119 wordsCANBERRA, Marcg 9.—"The East Sydney 'victory,'if repeated throughout every electorate in the Commonwealth, would mean a loss of more than 20 seats to the ...
Article : 400 wordsIn the Divorce Court yesterday, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert McMillen) dealt with two applications for divorce. Mary Emily Finlayson was granted a ...
Article : 520 wordsThree men were injured when a motor cycle collided with a pedestrian at the corner of Hill and Hay streets late last night. They were:— ...
Article : 194 wordsTOKIO, March 9.—An unprecedented mishap occurred during aerial manoeuvres at Tokio yesterday. A liquid chemical liberated to produce a smoke screen failed ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—Members of the Labour Women's Organising Committee passed the following resolution at their annual conference:— ...
Article : 148 wordsDUMBLEYUNG, March 9.—At 7 a.m. yesterday morning W. B. Smith, a farmer, of Dongolocking, near Dumbleyung, found his wife unconscious with a wound in ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Arthur Rouse, traveller, who is awaiting execution for having murdered an unknown man (the corpse was found beside Rouse's burning ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—Many thousands of pounds were in a safe which thieves unsuccessfully tried to open at the Commonwealth Bank, in Castlereagh-street: Sydney ...
Article : 119 wordsADELAIDE, March 9.—The Adelaide City Council to-day agreed that the salaries of permanent officers, except male officers under 21 years of age, should be ...
Article : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—The Court of Criminal, Appeal to-day upheld an appeal by James Ryan (39), formerly a police constable, of Clifton Hill, against his ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Alessrs. L. M. Murray and W. J. Pearson, both of Birmingham, set out to-day with the intention of cycling 15,000 miles to Australia, travelling ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The s.s. Buteshire (6,544) which was nearing the end of her voyage from Australia to Hull and London went aground on the Fairway Chequer ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—Mr. Ward, the successful Labour candidate in the East Sydney by-election, will leave Sydney for Canberra to-morrow. If the Prime ...
Article : 20 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—Judge Drake Brockman, in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, refused an application by the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's ...
Article : 60 wordsBERLIN, March 9.—Headed by a brass band playing revolutionary tunes, 98 Communists marched to court to-day to stand trial for having resisted the police during ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Thousands of people mobbed Mr. Charlie Chaplin to-day at the Liverpool-street railway station, where be was entraining to catch a boat, ...
Article : 68 wordsPARIS, March 8.—Following the institution of street totalisators, the Chamber of Deputies has decided to reopen the once fashionable Enghien casino, seven miles ...
Article : 58 wordsCANBERRA, March 9.—The fact that Mr. Curtin, M.H.R., of Western Australia, received only nine votes in the final ballot for Ministerial positions last week at the ...
Article : 125 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—The death sentence passed on William Schubert for murder of his daughter near Newcastle has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Acting Coroner (Mr. J. J. Lloyd, J.P.) yesterday conducted an inquest concerning the death of Charles Roeburn McRitchie (40), married a fuel hand ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Mr. Thomas Eaton Lander, expert gliding engineer, took off in a glider at Faulkner's End, Harpenden, to-day, and after he had risen to a good ...
Article : 54 wordsMELBOURNE, March 9.—Sitting, in single jurisdiction in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, Judge Beeby granted an application by the Metropolitan ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—The Court of Marine Inquiry, which for several weeks has been investigating the loss of the Nereus and her captain and mate, off Low Head. ...
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