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  2. SOUTH-EASTERN DRAINAGE.

    On November 23, the Premier announced in the Assembly that it was the policy of the Government to appoint a commission to make a general enquiry into ...

    Article : 525 words
  3. LONELY ISLAND.

    Members of the scientific expedition which left Adelaide on January 3, for the investigation of lonely Pearson Island in the Australian Bight, ...

    Article : 1,601 words
  4. "THE CAPTAIN'S OUT."

    At Broughan Place Congregations Church on Sunday night the Rev. L. C. Parkin. M.A., took as the title of his address, "The captain's out." The subject. ...

    Article : 391 words
  5. FRONTIER FIGHTING.

    Reports concerning further air operations by Indian Government squadrons against the tribes along tine north-west frontier state that 16 machines made nine ...

    Article : 130 words
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    Advertising : 137 words
  7. AMERICA'S ARMY.

    Ignoring the pleas from the heads of the army for increased numbers, the Appropriations Committee of the Washington House of Representatives has ...

    Article : 54 words
  8. "BETTER OUT OF THE WORLD."

    Mrs. Hilda James has divorced her husband, Cecil Holmes James, who came to England with the Australian Imperial Force, and subsequently obtained a ...

    Article : 100 words
  9. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The Daily Telegraph of a recent date reports that a meeting of persona interested in the project of constructing a line of railway across the Australian ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. THE AFGHANS.

    The layout Has been completed of we new Afghan capital at Chardeh, five miles from Cabul. The construction of the Amir's palace has commenced. The ...

    Article : 116 words
  11. FEDERAL POLITICS.

    One can hardly gather from the press comments of the leading newspapers throughout Australia what is the true position of the politicians in the midst ...

    Article : 1,641 words
  12. A KING FOR PALESTINE.

    Rumour says that a King over Palestine is to be appointed, and that the emir Abdulalh, a son of the King of Hedjaz, will be chosen. Abdullah agrees ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. HYDROPLANE SUNK.

    A message from Miami, Florida, reports that a hydroplane carrying passengers and Hying between Key West, Florida, and Cuba, sank in mid-sea, and that four of ...

    Article : 135 words
  14. OVERSEAS SPORTING.

    Newman, lnman, Smith, and Falkiner, the "big four" in the billiard world, have been playing in London this week. The first outstanding meeting this season is ...

    Article : 257 words
  15. RAIDERS MASSING.

    News from Baaluchistan and Gulistan reports movements of a considerable party of Wazir raiders in the Nushki area. The railway staff at Ahedwal has been ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. FRENCH IN THE RUHR.

    The sittings of the Reparations Commission lave been unexpectedly postponed until January 31. Germany's next installment pf £25,000,000 is due on Monday. It ...

    Article : 72 words
  17. CHILD KILLED BY EXPRESS.

    SYDNEY, January 14.—Gladys Stockton (14), who lived with her parents at Liverpool, war crossing the railway line at Casula this morning when she was ...

    Article : 77 words
  18. MOTOR VEHICLE MORTGAGE AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.

    An interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum on the cumulative participating preference capital, and 10 per cent: per annum on the ordinary ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. FINE NATAL BOWLER.

    The M.C.C. v. Natal match was resumed to-day, after the postponement due to rain. The feature of the play was the bowling of Billing, who took 7 wickets ...

    Article : 301 words
  20. A SWIMMER DROWNED.

    SYDNEY, January 14.—Henry Leslie (23), motor mechanic, of Phillips Hired, Sydney, was drowned at Bondi this evening. He was swimming, and was carried ...

    Article : 32 words
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    Advertising : 331 words
  22. GREECE'S PLIGHT.

    The Chairman of the British Red Gross Society (Sir Arthur Stanley) has written to the press pointing out that Greece, owing to an invasion by 1,000,000 ...

    Article : 89 words
  23. AMERICANS SUGGEST MODIFICATION.

    The Washington correspondent of the New York World says:—A report from Paris, which stated that the French. Premier (M. Poincare) contemplated calling ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. A VISION AND A CURE.

    The pretty little Tuscan village of Lucignano, near Siena, has been the scence of a remarkable cure. A peasant woman, Pasqua Bruni, who had been ...

    Article : 324 words
  25. BOXING.

    The meeting of Carpentier and Beckett in London next May is conditional on the latter retaining the heavyweight championship against Dick Smith. ...

    Article : 115 words
  26. GENERAL CABLES.

    At the winter exhibition of the Royal Academy, Fred Leist is exhibiting three panels for the decoration of Australia House. The subjects are the wool, wheat, ...

    Article : 228 words
  27. GREAT BRITAIN'S STANDPOINT.

    The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ronald McNeill), in an address it Canterbury, said it was a serious disappointment so early in the life of the ...

    Article : 338 words
  28. RICH GOLF PRIZE.

    The well-known rubber firm of Dunlop's is offering £1,000 yearly for "the next five years for a new world's open golf championship. It has been suggested ...

    Article : 73 words
  29. GOLF

    At Oakland California, four players, Hagen and Kirkwood, and Sarazen and Hutchinson finished even in the 36-hole best ball match. The Americans maintained ...

    Article : 38 words
  30. AN UNPOPULAR ACTION.

    Play was again entered upon under a hot sun. There was much unfavourable comment owing to Taylor having introduced his leg theory yesterday, thereby ...

    Article : 98 words
  31. WORLD'S SMALLEST ANIMAL.

    The impressive Dame of the smallest animal in existence is "pleuromonas [?]." It lives in pools and oinds amid decaying vegetation. The creature is ...

    Article : 151 words
  32. "THE ACID TEST."

    M. Cone, the apostle of auto-suggestion, is described by the New York papers as having "received the acid test," when he appeared at the Nenrological Institute ...

    Article : 132 words
  33. KU KLUX KLAN.

    A message from Bastrop, Louisiana, states—Robert Dade (Mayor of Merrouge) admitted at the enquiry that formerly he was a member of the Ku Klax ...

    Article : 187 words
  34. BRITISH FOOTBALL.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 343 words
  35. METALS.

    London Metal Exchange quotations (January 12):—American electrolytic copper, 14.7 cents lb.; antimony, £29 10/ ton; molybdenum, £2 5/ unit; wolfram, ...

    Article : 55 words
  36. TREASURE TROVE.

    Buried treasure has been found in France by a New York woman. She is said to be the first person to discover important buried treasure in France since ...

    Article : 158 words
  37. GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S BITIER SPEECH.

    The German chancellor (Herr Cuno), speaking m the Reichstag, bitterly protested against the French action in recalling the payments made under the treaty. ...

    Article : 115 words
  38. INDIANS AND FRANCHISE.

    The position of Indians overseas is attracting a great deal of attention on the part, both of the Government and legislators. At the forthcoming meeting of ...

    Article : 100 words
  39. LONDON WOOL SALES.

    Dalgety &. Co., Limited, have received the following advice from their London office, dated January 12:—"Wool sales opened; attendance of buyers is good; ...

    Article : 83 words
  40. A TEXAS OUTRAGE.

    At Goose Creek, Texas, masked men seized and whipped a young widow and a male caller at her home. The Ionian has led to Houston for protection. A mass ...

    Article : 130 words
  41. THE EXCHANGE POSITION.

    The international development is, if anything, strengthening the position of sterling, whick on Friday remained steady at 4.67 dollars to the pound, after a jump ...

    Article : 79 words
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  43. ARMENIANS FOR AMERICA.

    The United States Senate's immigration committee has decided to take action authorizing the immediate entry into the United States of 2,500 Armenian, orphans. ...

    Article : 30 words
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