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  2. NATIONAL FEDERATION.

    In polite language, but firm tones, the vice-president of the Federal Executive Council (Senator Pearce) and the State Attorney-General (Mr. Eggleston) argued ...

    Article : 2,209 words
  3. STATE ELECTIONS.

    It is probable that a bill making voting at State elections compulsory will be introduced into the State Parliament this session. The Cabinet will reach a decision ...

    Article : 314 words
  4. TWO AIRMEN KILLED

    The long heralded attempt of a nonstop flight from New York to Paris of Captain [?] Fonck, a famous French airman, who distinguished himself during the ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  5. WEST INDIES HURRICANE.

    At Miami (Florida) it was estimated on Tuesday that 400 had been killed and 5,000 injured in this city by the hurricane, Fifty people are still missing. The hurricane ...

    Article : 721 words
  6. ROUND THE SHOW.

    According to Congreve, who is accepted as an authority, "hell has no fury like a woman scorned," but neither earth nor hell bus any fury that can approach the ...

    Article : 1,781 words
  7. COBHAM IN INDIA.

    Mr. Alan Cobham and his engineers, Mr. Capel and Sergeant Ward arrived here from Allahabad at 20 minutes to 11 o'clock this morning, and at a quarter-past ...

    Article : 461 words
  8. ANIMAL PESTS.

    Losses amounting to millions of pounds sterling every year are caused to the Commonwealth by various animal pests and diseases. This statement was made ...

    Article : 623 words
  9. PARLIAMENTARY SENSATION.

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The fourth session of the present State Parliament was opened to-day without pomp or ceremony. The opening was performed by commission. ...

    Article : 1,065 words
  10. SUNDAY TRAINS.

    Proposals which have been advanced lately fo the running of special Sunday trains on the Geelong line with a posibility of services being extended later to ...

    Article : 593 words
  11. TURMOIL IN CHINA.

    Through the efforts of the Hankow and Wuchang Chambers of Commerce it is reported that 13 foreign women and girls who are besieged in Wuchange will be ...

    Article : 716 words
  12. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    Speaking in the Budget Commission Sir Joseph Cook (Australia) insisted that there should be closer control of the finances with a view to the stabilisation of the ...

    Article : 405 words
  13. OSCAR ASCHE.

    Mr. Oscar Asche, the well-known actor manager, during public examination in the London Bankruptey Court, stated that his liabilities were £44,311, and that the ...

    Article : 279 words
  14. TOWN HALL LIGHTING.

    A report on proposals for the installation of ornamental lighting equipment in the new Melbourne Town Hall will be submitted to the City Council at its meeting ...

    Article : 240 words
  15. New Australians.

    On the Esperance Bay 277 nominee migrants sailed for Australia. The contingent includes 113 for Victoria, with 24 "little brothers" and 33 miners under the ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. ENGLISH BETTING TAX.

    Bookmakers in Britain have decided to meet the 2[?] per cent. racecourse betting tax by charging backers 2 per cent. on winning bets and winning stakes ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. Causes of Cancer.

    Strong hope that the concentrated worldwide study now occurring would result in establishing the causes of caner was expressed by a distinguished cancer ...

    Article : 244 words
  18. Wheat Pools.

    It was announced at the Co-operative Wholesale Society's meeting that last year's wheat pool experiment, under which 15,000,000 bushels of wheat had been ...

    Article : 70 words
  19. FORCEPS IN PATIENT.

    How a surgeon left a pair of 6in. forceps in a woman's intestines after an operation in 1923 was disclosed at an inquest at Westminster on Florence Tapp, aged 47, ...

    Article : 272 words
  20. EVIDENCE OF DRUNKENNESS.

    The chief commissioner of police (Brigadier-General Blamey), commenting yesterday on a suggestion that provision should be made for the making of tests by skilled ...

    Article : 187 words
  21. CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

    An army order states that recruits will henceforth be served with a safety-razor instead of the old long-handled razor. Battle in Mexico. ...

    Article : 262 words
  22. FRANCE AND GERMANY.

    It is officially announced that the Poincaire Ministry is unanimous regarding the utility of pursuing the Franco-German conversations initiated near Geneva last week ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. HOT SEPTEMBER DAY.

    Rising temperatures and hot weather suggest the rapid approach of summer. For a week the State has experienced unbroken fine weather, with the exception that late ...

    Article : 164 words
  24. Disarmament Conference.

    The Third Commission passed a resolution that a general disarmament conference shall be held before September, 1927. Mr. M. G. Haymen, general manager of ...

    Article : 135 words
  25. Swedish Prince in Japan.

    The chief of the Tokio metropolitan police has issued a denial of a sensational Japanese newspaper story that the Crown Prince of Sweden, during a luncheon at the ...

    Article : 116 words
  26. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 122 words
  27. BATHER IN DIFFICULTIES.

    While bathing at South St. Kilda yesterday afternoon, Charles Vincent, aged about 30 years, of the Irrigation Farm, Werribee, got into difficulties. He was noticed by ...

    Article : 89 words
  28. SUFFERED WITH ITCHY PIMPLES.

    "I suffered with pimples and [?] on my face and shoulders. First the blackheads came and formed into pimples, which were very itchy and caused me to [?] ...

    Article : 112 words
  29. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 79 words
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