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  2. LEGACY TO COLLEGE.

    An action in which the grant of probate to the will of Mrs. Susa[?]nah Lawton, of Mont Victor road, East Kew, was challenged was heard by Mr. Justice Weigall ...

    Article : 869 words
  3. PLAY IN CROQUET TOURNAMENT.

    Miss A. Crabb watching Mrs. H. B. Sanders play a difficult shot in their match at the War[?]eigh (Brighton) open croquet tournament. More than 300 entries were received for the events. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  4. GULLIES AND CASCADES.

    Sitting as an arbitrator under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1915, Judge Dethridge at the Law Courts yesterday heard evidence in a claim for £514 ...

    Article : 719 words
  5. WORLD CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY OF SHAKESPEARE.

    —(Central Press, Photo.) The flags of 63 nations were unfur[?]ed at Stratford-on-Avon as part of the Shakespeare birthday festival held at that town this year. Even Soviet Russia paid tribute to the immortal gen[?]us, and was represented at the ceremony. The photograph shows the scene in Bridge street when the flags were unfu[?]ed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 59 words
  6. INSTALLING NEW SIGNAL DEVICE.

    Next week a trial of a new automatic signalling device will be made by railways officials. The apparatus is used to control railway points and signals from a distance by employing electric current developed by passing trains. A pedal beside the railway line s[?]en in the photograph is depressed by passing trains, and operates a spring which raises a weight attached to a post near the track; the raised weight is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  7. PORT MELBOURNE FROM A NEW ANGLE.

    A photograph taken from the top of one of the 250-foot steel masts erected by the State Electricity Commission to carry power cables across the Yarra. In the background are the piers of Po[?]t Melbourne. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  8. ACQUITTED MAN DETAINED.

    Norman Bruhn, stevedore[?] of West Brunswick, was charged before Judge Wo[?]arski in General Sessions yesterday with having broken into the Moreland ...

    Article : 367 words
  9. CONSTRUCTION OF MAROONDAH DAM.

    The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works is hopeful that new reservoirs will bo in use before the end of the year. Of these the most important is the Maroondah dam, which is now almost completed. A recent photograph of the dam is reproduced ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  10. LEASE CHALLENGED.

    The validity of a leasel given by the late Mrs. Mary Ann Josephine Sabelberg, of the United Kingdom Hotelin the parish of Jika Jika, has been ...

    Article : 446 words
  11. APPEAL DISMISSED.

    The Chief Justice of Australia (Sir Adrian Knox) laid it down in the High Court yesterday that there could be no legal division of negligence. ...

    Article : 349 words
  12. KING'S BIRTHDAY AT CANTERBURY SCHOOL.

    King's Birthday was commemorated yesterday at the Canterbury State school, when a flag was presente[?] to the school by Colonel E. Pottinger and afterwards saluted by the children. In the photograph, from left. to right, are:—Councillor J. D. Howie, Colonel Pottinger, the head master (Mr. R. W. Armitage), and Mrs. F. Tubb, of the school committee. On the left are the boys of the school bugl[?] band. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  13. CORONACH, WINNER OF THE DERBY.

    Coronach, owned by Lord Woolavington (inset), won the world-famous English Derby at Epsom on Wednesday. The favourite, Colorado, finished third. The photograph reproduced was taken by W. A Rouch for the "Sporting and Dramatic News" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  14. MERCHANTS SUE FARMER.

    John Neilson and George Graham (trading as Neilson and Graham), general merchants, of Mortlake, brought an action before Mr. Justice Macfarlan, in the Second Civil Court on Wednesday, ...

    Article : 470 words
  15. FAULTY COURTROOM ACOUSTICS.

    In many of the suburban police courts the [?]oustic properties are so bad that it is difficult for the witness to be heard by the magistrates on the bench. It is equally difficult, too, for ...

    Article : 190 words
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