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  2. BRITAIN'S AIR SQUADRONS.

    In the House of Commons the estimates for the aerial defence service of Great Britain for the year 1923-26 were introduced to-day. The pro­posed expenditure is set down at £15,809,000 as compared with £15,113,000 for the present financial year, which ends on March 31. ...

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  3. FRENCH POLITICS SEETHING.

    The Paris correspondent of The Daily Herald, in explaining the political situation, says that it resembles that of the eve of the last general elections in Great ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. MARVEL OF WIRELESS.

    A remarkable experiment has been car­ried out at a Cardiff broadcasting studio, in order to test the possibility of doctors diagnosing illness by wireless. ...

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  5. VALUABLE RECORDS.

    The Public Library lias received from Sir Hugh Molesworth-St. Anbyn, Bart., of Pencarrow, Washaway, Cornwall, a valuable donation of books that are ...

    Article : 285 words
  6. LADS IN NEED.

    "From the lips of a man who was homeless came the deathless sons of Home," a song that is also sung, in the heart at least of every boy in the his family that lives at the corner of Smith street and Church terrace, Walkerville. It is a home in the real cense where what may ...

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  7. LOCAL COURTS PRACTICE.

    Numerous suggestions relating to the amendment of the Local Courts Act Consolidation Bill were mads by Mr. Hillary Boucaut before the Law Reform Commission at Parliament House on Friday. The commission comprised Mr. F. W. Birrell (acting Chairman), the Hons. T. Gluyas ...

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  8. HONOLULU'S DEFENCES.

    Gen. Mitchell (Assistant Chief of the Army Air Force) to-day gave further evi­dence before the air craft committee. He again asserted that there was an entire ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. DOUBLE-SIZED AIRSHIPS.

    In the course of the debate, the Secretary for Air (Sir Samuel Hoare) expressed the opinion that the commercial airship service was the principal object to keep ...

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  10. A RELIC OF CAPTAIN COOK.

    One of the rarest publications resulting from the voyages of Capt. Cook was a curious book, of which the full title is as follows:—"A Catalogue of the Different ...

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  11. CAILLAUX HONOURED.

    M. Gaillaux signified his return to politi­cal life last night when he spoke at a banquet given in his honour, and which was attended by 2,000 citizens, including two ...

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  12. FEW AMONG MANY.

    The Secretary for War (Mr. Weeks) having issued a statement alleging that the department possessed 1,200 serviceable "planes, the committee subpoened him to ...

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  13. SHIPPING TROUBLE.

    The Returned Soldiers' Waterside Workers' Union has formed a seamen' union to operate within the State. The object of this action, it is ...

    Article : 274 words
  14. DISASTROUS TRAM CAPSIZE

    Five persons were killed and 14 injured when a tramcar at the Corregidor Island military reservation overturned. Those killed were officers and men of the United ...

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  15. BEDFORD PARK CONSUMPTIVE HOME.

    Sir.—I wish to correct certain statement made by Drs. Rennie and Hayward. Dr. Hayward writes:—"I don't know how long the City Health Officer has spent at ...

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  16. SNOWTOWN HOLD-UP.

    The jury at the Criminal Court on Fri­day morning took only seven minutes to decide that Reginald Dennis O'Callaghau was the man who carried out the ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. WOMEN AND POLITICS.

    In deference to the opinion of tho churchwardens and the vestry of the church of which her husband is incum­bent, Mrs. John Jones, wife of the Rev. ...

    Article : 82 words
  18. PEDIGREE STOCK.

    The House of Commons to-day carried the second reading of the Importation of Pedigree Animals Bill, which was intro­duced by the Minister for Agriculture, to ...

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  19. QUEENMOOR DECLARED "BLACK."

    The Port Adelaide Trades and Labour Council on Friday evening sat until a late hour. The Seaman's Union Federation local, branch had appealed to the ...

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  20. BARRIER MINER'S WAGES

    Following the conference held recently in Melbourne between the representatives of the Broken Hill mining companies and the delegates of the Broken Hill unions ...

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  21. HAMPTON BANK TRAGEDY.

    In the Criminal Court to-day Francis Perkins (32), carpenter, who was found guilty on Wednesday of the manslaughter of William Charles Frederic Almeida ...

    Article : 178 words
  22. THE FOURTH TEST.

    Mr. Clem Hill, one of the Australian test match selectors, returned to Adelaide from Melbourne on Friday, after having witnessed the fourth test match. ...

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  23. ANOTHER FOREIGN LOAN.

    The Minister for Finance (M. Clementel) announced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day that the Government intended to conclude a foreign loan after the ...

    Article : 51 words
  24. NEW ZEALAND WATERFRONT.

    The deadlock on the waterfront, winch threatened to hold np shipping at Welling­ton, has ended suddenly. The watersiders this morning responded to a call to work ...

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  25. REALISTIC MOVIES.

    At Los Angeles a panic swept the Court, and spectators, lawyers, and officials stampeded for the doors when a film ex-hibit in the Charles Chaplin suit against ...

    Article : 89 words
  26. GEORGE BROWN.

    We have all read that during last week-end George Brown, that human gorilla— it is fad so to describe him, but he really is such—made a characteristically frantic ...

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  27. PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE.

    "Every citizen of the Philippine Islands seems to favour the establishment of an independent republic," remarked Mr. A. Saunders, of Adelaide, a missionary, who ...

    Article : 122 words
  28. WIRE OBLIGATIONS.

    A special correspondent of The Evening Standard, commenting on the Imperial deadlock in foreign policy, and also the refusal of the dominions to attend the ...

    Article : 210 words
  29. TRAFFIC IN DRUGS.

    Ten States, including Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, and Siam, have signed the Convention Protocol for the control of international traffic in drugs. ...

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  30. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY STRIKE.

    A conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants to-day considered the attitude of the late national executive in calling the ill-advised strike last ...

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  31. "ENGLAND'S ASCENDANCY AT HAND."

    Mr. S. F. Barnes, when interviewed by the Australian Press Association, said "England had all the link of the fearth test; but, despite the losing of the rubber ...

    Article : 84 words
  32. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The City Council have yielded a point in the matter of the admission of locomotives into the city. At the instance of Cr. Sracy they have resolved, by a ...

    Article : 167 words
  33. CHINESE COTTON STRIKE.

    Native polite, in conjunction with the Settlement police, broke up a meeting of strikers at the border settlement. They arrested 16 of the offenders, at which the ...

    Article : 123 words
  34. Prospects of Settlement.

    According to reports paining currency there are prospects of a settlement, and that the Murama will get away to-morrow. One theory is that arrangements will be ...

    Article : 66 words
  35. PROFITS OF SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR

    The accounts of England v. South African test cricket matches played in 1924 have been published. The South Africans will receive £3,791, and £3,881 ...

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  36. PRE-HISTORIC MEN.

    The Moscow correspondent of The London Daily Express reports that M. Bontsh and M. Osmolovsky. Russian scientists, announce the discovery in ...

    Article : 68 words
  37. VOTES FOR WOMEN.

    The Home Secretary (Sir Joynson-Hicks) gave notice in the House of Commons to-day of a motion for the rejection of a Labour private member's Bill giving ...

    Article : 124 words
  38. THE CROSSWORD CRAZE.

    Many of the minor free libraries have had to remove dictionaries from their shelves, in consequence of damage done by crossword puzzle searchers. The British ...

    Article : 68 words
  39. MONGOLIAN AGRICULTURE.

    The veteran business magnate. Baron Oknru, is planning a trip to Mongolia, early in April, for the purpose of investigating the possibility of further ...

    Article : 84 words
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  41. NEGRO MURDERED.

    The Coroner's enquiry at Albany concerning the death of an old negro orchardist named Isaiah Riley, who was shot in the back on the Penh road, on ...

    Article : 95 words
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