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  2. SECOND TEST

    Although England's opening stand was brief, the side was in a commanding position when stamps were dawn yesterday after the first day's play in the second Test match against Australia at Sydney. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. BAD TACTICS.

    SYDNEY, Dec. 18.—England have laid a patient foundation from which to force home victory not only in this match but in the rubber. The wicket behaved ...

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  4. THE DUKE OF WINDSOR.

    LONDON, Dec. 18.—Newspapers publish photographs of the Duke of Windsor in plus fours, pullover and muffler, smoking a pipe and golfing with Baroness ...

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  5. CORONATION DATE.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—The date of King George VI's coronation, May 12 next, will be proclaimed on Saturday afternoon with heraldic pageantry at St. James's ...

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  6. DECEMBER RAINS.

    Following several days of high temperatures and intense humidity, storms occurred over a widespread area of the State on Thursday. Thunderstorms were ...

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  7. ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—The "bad manners" of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. C. G. Lang) in criticising adversely ex-King Edward and his friends in a ...

    Article : 168 words
  8. ROYAL FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—For Queen Mary the journey of the Royal Family to Sandringham for Christmas, early next week, will be a sad one, for when she ...

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  9. AUSTRALIAN LOYALTY.

    CANBERRA, Dec. 18.—His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) has transmitted to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of ...

    Article : 164 words
  10. REGARD FOR HIS PEOPLE.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—Paying a tribute to ex-King Edward in a leading article, the "Newsletter," the organ of the National Labour Party, says: "It is to the enduring ...

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  11. PASTORAL RAINFALL.

    Daigety and Co., Ltd., and Elder, Smith and Co. Ltd., have received reports of rain in the pastoral areas. The following reports were dated December 17:— ...

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  12. DISTRICT REPORTS.

    In the country the rain has in a number of cases delayed harvesting operations and some crops have been damaged by hail Between Cue and Mt. Magnet ...

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  13. BENEFIT TO RAILWAYS.

    The Minister for Railways (Mr. F. C. L. Smith) said yesterday that the Railway Department had benefited from Thursday's rains in places where water ...

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  14. SHOOTING OF ESCORT.

    MELOURNE, Dec. 18.—After a retirement of nearly six hours, the jury tonight found Geoffrey Davies (32). cook, of Perry-street; Collingwood, one of the ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. PLEA FOR PRIVACY.

    NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—In a leading article the New York "Times" compares the Duke of Windsor's request that the newspapers permit him to live as a private ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. TELEGRAPHS INTERRUPTED.

    The Deputy-Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. S.R. Roberts) said yesterday that the thunderstorms in the north of the State had caused considerable ...

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  17. NEGRO REPUBLIC.

    LONDON, Dec. 18.—After a break of five years, due to slavery and inhumanity in the territory, Britain yesterday resumed diplomatic relations with the negro ...

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  18. INFECTIOUS HOSPITAL.

    A proposal that the Perth Road Board, as the second largest contributor to the new infectious diseases hospital scheme, should demand representation on the ...

    Article : 242 words
  19. FRENCH BUDGET.

    PARIS, Dec. 18.—After an all-night sitting the Chamber of Deputies. passed the Budget, which provides for a deficit of £45,000,000 sterling. ...

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  20. SHOTS IN COURT.

    BELGRADE, Dec. 17.—While giving evidence today at an inquest on his daughter, Mila Dimitriyevitch, who shot herself because she had been Jilted, the ...

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  21. THWARTING BROADCASTERS.

    SYDNEY. Dec. 18.—Spectators at the Sydney cricket ground today noticed that a large screen of hessian had been erected near the Paddington end of the ...

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  22. DISPOSAL OF THE DISCOVERY.

    LONDON. Dec. 17.—The Legislative Council of the Falkland Island is to be invited to assent to a proposal that the royal research ship Discovery, which is ...

    Article : 146 words
  23. IN ABYSSINIA.

    ROME, Dec. 18.—Itallans have occupied the British Customs House at Gambela (in Abyssinia, near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border), which controls ...

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  24. DOMESTIC REMANDED

    BRISBANE, Dec. 18.—An altercation in a city hotel on the night of Saturday, December 5, had a sequel in the Police Court today, when Alice Elizabeth Fien ...

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  25. BABY'S DEATH.

    BRISBANE, Dec. 18.—In the City Police Court today Dorothy Belmont Tyler (36), domestic, was charged with having on December 10 at Bald Hills ...

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  26. Progress of Agreement.

    An interim report on the progress of the proposed agreement between the Minister for Health, the metropolitan local authorities, and the Perth Hospital for ...

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  27. IN CASE OF AIR RAIDS.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—In the event of an air raid on London the tube tunnels will not be available as refuges for the public, the Home Office has announced. All ...

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  28. ENGLISH PRESS CONFIDENT.

    LONDON, Dec. 18.—The comments of the newspapers on the first day's play in the second Test are couched in the most confident tone. Hammond is the ...

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  29. STORMS IN BRITISH ISLES.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—With still more gales predicted for the next few days, the deathroll from shipwreck, flood and storm accidents in the violent weather which ...

    Article : 56 words
  30. CHICAGO GANG MURDER.

    CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—In a revival of the gang methods of the prohibition era three young gunmen separated Thomas Scaduto (25) from a crowd of 15 men in ...

    Article : 85 words
  31. CHINESE REVOLT.

    NANKING, Dec. 18.—The Central Government is continuing its preparations for the dispatch of a punitive expedition against the troops in North-West ...

    Article : 115 words
  32. MURDER OF OLD MAN.

    SYDNEY, Dec. 18.—Appeals by Thomas Michael Ryan and Denis Martin Ryan, brothers, who were convicted in November of the murder of Robert Alexander ...

    Article : 115 words
  33. DROWNED IN CREEK.

    SYDNEY, Dec. 18.—Harry Watson (40), a resident of Berry, who escaped from the Berry Hospital on Wednesday, was found drowned this morning in a small creek ...

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  34. HIGHER WAGES.

    LONDON, Dec. 17.—The recommendation of the Ministry of Labour for a ten per cent increase in the wages of wool operatives was adopted at a joint ...

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  35. INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES.

    WELLINGTON, Dec. 18.—Four suspected cases of infantile paralysis were admitted to the Dunedin Hospital today, making the total number of patients ...

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  36. Former Prime Minister Returning.

    GENEVA, Dec. 18.—Mr. Wang Chingwel, former Prime Minister of China, left for China today. It is reported that he has been asked to become Prime Minister ...

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  37. COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    CALCUTTA, Dec. 18.—It is feared that 150 Indians have perished as are suit of an explosion in the Bhopudih colliery in Bengal. ...

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