SYDNEY, Aug. 8.—The Premier (Mr. Stevens) announced in the Legislative Assembly tonight that Mr. Justice Halse Rogers had been appointed a Royal ...
Article : 1,408 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 8.—The arrival at Kashgar, in Chinese Turkestan, of the Chinese General Kung Cheng-han, with 5,000 troops, has partially restored order in ...
Article : 165 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 8.—A serious disturbance has occurred in Cutch, a native State in Western India, where a jaghirdar, or wealthy landowner, at Roha, with ...
Article : 157 wordsExplaining that he did not wish his remarks to be regarded as an argument either for secession from the Commonwealth or for the union of the States, the Minister ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 896 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—"The imposition by Australia of new duties on imported cotton materials is not a blow at Japan." said the Minister for Customs ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The spectacular advance of the price of wheat in America resulted yesterday in heavy dealings at Liverpool, where prices jumped 3¾d. a ...
Article : 526 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey, secretary of the British Cabinet, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence and Clerk of the Privy Council ...
Article : 303 wordsPARIS, Aug. 7.—The Ministry of Marine is surprised at a Japanese assertion that France desires to abrogate the Washington. Naval Trenty, and it feels that ...
Article : 163 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 8.—Mr. Elijah Houltham (70), of Auckland, has left for London to prosecute his claim to the Bailey millions, which are said to total £20,000,000 ...
Article : 222 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—The monthly employment figures issued by the Ministry of Labour show that on July 23 last there were approximately 10,136,000 insured ...
Article : 229 wordsCAIRO, Aug. 7.—Entrapped in a blazing basement, three men, two women and seven children were burnt to death when a lamp fell into a tin of benzine. ...
Article : 63 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 8.—The commotion over the new Australian cotton goods duties is cooling off somewhat, due to investigation indicating that the effects will not ...
Article : 98 wordsSINGAPORE, Aug. 8.—A great fire is raging in one of the native quarters. Thousands are homeless, and casualties are feared. ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—To mark the resumption of direct meat shipments from New Zealand to Hull, the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Sir James Parr) ...
Article : 123 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 7.—At the Baptist World Congress Dr. John Sampey, of Kentucky, made a slashing attack on the film industry. The bulk of motion pictures. ...
Article : 89 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—A letter written by William Charles Leach (38), who was found dead in his motor car four miles from Sorrento on Sunday, was ...
Article : 223 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—Plans are being made by the Australian Women's National League for young women to take an important part in the coming Federal election ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Cooper's 17 shops in Portsmouth are displaying Sunny South butter throughout Naval Week, and Cooper's and the Overseas Farmers' ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Insured for £50,000 and heavily in debt, Major Charles Rowlandson was allowed until 3 p.m. on August 3 to pay his overdue insurance ...
Article : 131 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 8.—Seventy seamen who recently refused to take five ships to sea from Greymouth were sentenced in the Magistrate's Court at ...
Article : 81 wordsFollowing the sharp improvement in overseas prices on Tuesday two merchants yesterday increased their offers for bagged wheat, offering 3/17-8 a bushel on a 4d. ...
Article : 271 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 8.—In a speech at an official luncheon at the Brisbane Exhibition today, the Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) urged that greater attention be paid ...
Article : 256 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.—The Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Jordan, Mr. Justice Halse Rogers and Mr. Justice Stephen, today dismissed with ...
Article : 179 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 8.—The sailing of nine vessels has been suspended owing to the refusal of seamen to take them out, because, it is understood, of sympathy with ...
Article : 54 wordsThat the Lyons Government would be returned with a fairly substantial majority at the forthcoming Federal elections was an opinion expressed yesterday by the ...
Article : 274 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 8.—Nationalist leaders are concerned at the report of well-known Indian doctors who examined Mr. M. K. Gandhi shortly after the ...
Article : 115 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 8.—Increases under almost all headings are shown in a statement issued by the Railways Board for the year ending March last. Net ...
Article : 121 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 8.—If the hopes of Victorian wheat merchants that the price of wheat will remain about the level of 3/9¼ a bushel, reached on Tuesday, are ...
Article : 416 wordsNORTHAM, Aug. 8.—Ken P. Rae (about 25), an engineering assistant in the department of the district engineer of the Railway Department at Northam, ...
Article : 164 wordsPARIS, Aug. 7.—The sensational strike of 200 Polish miners from the Charpelle coalmine, who smashed the ventilation and lighting systems, disconnected the ...
Article : 170 wordsPARIS, Aug. 7.—It is now announced that the engagement of Mr. Joseph Schenek, president of United Artists, and Miss Merle Oberon, the Tasmanian film ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.—The Burns Philp passenger ship Montoro (4,057 tons) is ashore on the New Guinea coast 18 miles north of Finschhafen. The vessel stranded ...
Article : 118 wordsEarly this week it was announced that at the invitation of the South-West district council of the Douglas Social Credit Movement of Western Australia, Dr. ...
Article : 294 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.—A shocking tragedy was recalled today when the Trangie District Coroner (Mr. A. Gain) held an inquest into the deaths on the ...
Article : 225 wordsVIENNA, Aug. 7.—The Cabinet has now decided to accept without condition the appointment of Herr von Papen as German Minister to Austria. ...
Article : 102 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—A poignant story of a broken-hearted mother was told at the City Morgue today at an inquest into the death of Mrs. Kathleen Cope ...
Article : 162 wordsReference to the report of the Federal Grants Commission was made yesterday by the President of the Senate (Senator Lynch) and Mr. H. Gregory. M.H.R., when ...
Article : 342 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Hillsborough Castle, near Belfast, the official residence of the Duke of Abercorn (Governor of Northern Ireland) was seriously damaged by fire ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Toni Mancini, a waiter and kitchen porter, who was arrested last month and charged with the murder of Miss Vilette Kaye a ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The "Daily Telegraph" states that Mr. Eric Fogg, who has been associated with northern broadcasting, has been appointment Empire music ...
Article : 75 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—The Federal Farm Administration proposes to stop the exporting of wheat from the Pacific north-west seaboard because of the rapidly ...
Article : 58 wordsAUCKLAND. Aug. 8.—Frank Jary (48) and his wife were burnt to death in their farm homestead near Ohaupo early this morning. Their two daughters escaped. ...
Article : 35 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.—When a detonator prematurely exploded during prospecting operations between Wattle Flat and Lime-kilns, about 17 miles from Bathurst, ...
Article : 73 wordsPARIS, Aug. 7.—An official statement regarding the conflict between Moslems and Jews at Constantine (Algeria) during the week-end says that 27 persons were ...
Article : 89 wordsBUKAREST, Aug. 7.—The Government has decided to fix the internal price of wheat at 25 per cent above the world price to assist Rumanian farmers. The export of ...
Article : 52 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 8.—On the night of July 27 the 70-foot launch Derwent, owned by Mr. M. D. Davies, of Toowong, and valued at £2,000. was stolon from its ...
Article : 154 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 8.—From Wasage Beach (Ontario) at 5.12 a.m. (Eastern standard time) today James Ayling and Leonard Reid took off in the plane. The ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Dr. Leopold von Hoesch (German Ambassador to Bertain) in a broadcast address today paid a tribute to the late President von ...
Article : 78 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 8.—A Magistrate at Hamilton today ordered the Rev. Gordon Bell to return to the Anglican authorities church keys and documents in his ...
Article : 63 wordsBUDAPEST, Aug. 7.—The official estimate of the Hungarian wheat crop is 62,000,000 bushels. The harvest last year was 96,000,000 bushels. The quality of the ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Miss Joan Muh Brown, who took a women's hockey team to Australia, succeeds to a fortune of £224,000, minus £50,000 to be paid in ...
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